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time, but still landed him
first place on the team and
sixth overall. In the slalom,
Keillor took second, just
two-tenths of a second be-
hind the first-place finish-
er: Trevor Maxwell of West
Linn who ran a combined
two-run time 1:13.17.
But Keillor said the real
success of the team this
year has been based on its
depth and the fast times of
the second through fifth
spots on the team.
Ke i l l o r
highlighted
Claire
D av i e s,
wh o
“stepped up to place 11th
overall, and that was huge
individually.
He added that the team
a l s o s aw “ b i g p e r f o r -
mances” from Patrick
Crompton, who won the
“Ski Meister” award along
with McLean.
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sists with six, to go along
with his 10 points. The se-
nior guard was selected to
the second-team all-tourney
for his efforts over three
games.
“(Jared) had a little rough
outing in the semis against
Nixy, but he came back and
played well here (Saturday),”
Lingel said. “In fact, the
whole team played well.”
As Lingel alluded, the
good play by Davis and his
teammates in the third-place
game was the antithesis of
Horizon’s performance in
Friday’s semifinal loss to
Nixyaawii. Horizon entered
the semifinals with some mo-
mentum after a 59-44 victory
vs. Crosshill Christian in
Wednesday’s first round and
the knowledge that it already
owned two early-season wins
against the Eagles. A Thurs-
day day-off gave the Hawks
some rest; sophomore re-
serve guard Ethan Evans
took that to the extreme, get-
ting an overnight stay at
Saint Alphonsus Medical
Center after having his ap-
pendix removed.
But it was the Eagles who
were surgeon-like the next
afternoon, using their quick-
ness to disrupt the Hawk of-
fense and slice through its
defense. The upset win nixed
what many had anticipated
would be a finals showdown
between the No. 1-ranked
Hawks and No. 2 Country
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Keillor said other per-
formances of note came
from Charlie Sutherland,
Oskar Anderson, and
Nicolette Paulus.
Despite the low snow-
pack and warm tempera-
tures, Keillor commented
that the “venues were in
great shape.”
Last year, races were
held on the Stadium Ex-
p r e s s r u n s, b u t t h o s e
slopes were nearly entire-
ly bare last week and the
slalom and GS events ran
over at Shooting Star.
The conditions certain-
ly didn’t affect HRV times,
but more than that, Keil-
lor said he was pleased
about all the nice com-
ments he received about
HRV’s sportsmanship, not-
ing that it meant as much
to him as the win.
“We achieved a huge
goal; it’s satisfying,” he
Photo by Mark Crompton
said. “They’re an awesome
group of kids and I could- TROPHY TIME: Members of the HRV ski team pose with trophies and medals that brought back from
last week’s state championships at Mt. Hood Meadows.
n’t be prouder of them.”
Christian. Nixyaawii proved
an able stand-in for Horizon
in the championship, leading
much of the game before fal-
tering late in a 61-53 setback.
There was no such falter-
ing in the semifinal.
Nixyaawii never trailed, rac-
ing to 7-0 and 12-2 first-quar-
ter leads before settling on a
28-15 margin at the half. A
Nick Andersen layup cut the
Eagle advantage to 32-23 mid-
way through the third quar-
ter, but Nixyaawii closed the
period with a 12-5 run to re-
assume control.
Andersen, a senior wing,
was a bright spot for Hori-
zon. His 30-minute effort in-
cluded 13 points, 10 re-
bounds, four steals and three
blocks. More importantly,
Andersen was in charge of
guarding Nixyaawii’s burly
post Elijah Bevis, helping
hold him to 12 points and five
rebounds, both well below
his season average.
“I felt like if the team
needed me to do that, then
that was my job,” Andersen
said of his business-like ap-
proach to his assignment. “I
was told to do that by the
coaching staff – to shut him
down. He only scored seven
points (when I was guarding
him) and that’s not very good
for him.”
Bloomster (13 points, 10 re-
bounds) added a stat line
similar to Andersen’s, but
overall, Horizon couldn’t
overcome 29-percent field-
goal shooting and 23
turnovers. Nixyaawii guard
Hunter Melton had 16 of his
game-high 20 points in the
second half, added six steals
(of his team’s 17) and five as-
sists.
Lingel acknowledged the
play of Melton as a key to the
Eagles’ success, but the Hori-
zon coach chose to dwell on
how his team finished, bring-
ing home the third-place
hardware — the fifth straight
trophy for the Hawks at the
state tourney. Since 2012,
Horizon has finished fifth,
first, second, second and now
third at state.
“We were able to get the se-
niors out of the (third-place)
game and were able to con-
gratulate them, not only on a
great year this year, but on a
great four years. This is
something they will remem-
ber forever,” he said. “Over-
all it was a good win and a
good win for the program, as
well.
“This group of players
hasn’t lost very many games
in four years. They’ve helped
accomplish some big things,
that no other team in the
conference has ever accom-
plished (being a part of four
of Horizon’s five consecutive
district titles).”
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events didn’t feature many
opponents for HRV, but
FitzSimons didn’t short-
change his athletes, men-
tioning that HRV has “such
a good freestyle team, it’s a
going to be awhile before
other schools catch up to
our program.”
And though competition
can be fierce, FitzSimons
said he took pride in that
the team has been support-
ive of each other through-
out the season.
“I’m proud of that fact
that they practiced as a
team and performed as a
team and they raised the
level of each individual on
the team,” he said.
“ T h e y ’ r e s u p p o r t ive ;
they’re always cheering for
each other,” FitzSimons
added.
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