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Hood River News, Wednesday, April 8, 2015
HRV has first doubleheader
By BEN MITCHELL
News staff writer
COOPER HOLZMAN
CLEAN SWEEP
HRV boys tennis team swept Benson Polytech-
nic Monday, playing hard and through adversi-
ty, according to coach Jon Hiatt, who said he
couldn’t remember the last time HRV swept
and opponent. In singles, Scottie Ziegner won
6-0, 6-1; Cooper Holzman won 7-6(5), 6-0; Will
Ferrick won 7-6(5), 4-6, 10-4; and Cole Shep-
herd won 7-5, 7-5. In doubles, Victor Gari-
bo/Patrick Humann won 6-0, 6-2; Brandon
Campos/Miguel De la Rosa won 6-0, 6-2; Jorge
Calderon/Hugo Sandoval won 6-2 6-4; and
Jonathan Hale/Sawyer Bogard won 6-2, 6-3.
WINS
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They’re also beginning to
realiz e the impor tance
maintaining control of the
ball and locating their spots.
Breanna Weekly (two home
runs vs. Centennial) really
hit the ball well and we
scored some runs by utiliz-
ing good two-out base-run-
ning.”
Hood River fell behind 2-0
after three innings versus
Centennial, of the 6A Mount
Hood Conference. Weekly’s
solo home run in the fourth
trimmed the margin to 2-1.
HRV then came back and
knotted it 2-2 in the fifth on
an RBI single by freshman
Zoe Munn (1 for 4). Another
solo homer by Weekly (2 for
3) provided HRV with its
The Hood River Valley baseball
team’s offensive prowess saw a
resurgence during the first game
of Friday’s doubleheader down in
Bend, where the Eagles first faced
off against Ridgeview and defeat-
ed the Ravens 10-5.
However, HRV’s offense couldn’t
muster the same productivity in its
subsequent outing versus Summit,
going down 3-1, despite putting up
five hits to Summit’s four.
The 11th-ranked 5A Eagles (6-5)
ran away with the first game early
on, and held the lead for the entire
seven innings. HRV went up 3-2 in
the first inning and then pulled
away quickly, sending another five
runners home in the second while
the Ravens weren’t able to add to
their two-run score.
Catcher Adam Cameron, the
sole sophomore on the varsity ros-
ter, led the Eagles with three hits
in four at-bats and scored one run.
In fielding, Cameron also led the
team in putouts and assists, with
eight and three, respectively.
Riley Van Hoose’s two doubles
helped propel to a team-high four
RBI. HRV’s offense was spread
around nicely, with seven runners
scoring for the Eagles, including
Skyler Hunter, Dallas Buckley,
Kam Walker (2), Adam Cameron,
Kellan Duffy (2), Ryan Ward (2),
and Andrew Roberts.
On the mound, Kellan Duffy got
first lead of the game at 3-2
in the top of the sixth. It was
Weekly’s fourth homer this
year and she leads the Ea-
gles with a total of 10 RBI.
HRV extended it to 4-2 on an
RBI single by sophomore
Makena Zeller (1 for 3), dri-
ving in Kelsey Wells, who
earlier drew a walk.
Led by McNerney (one
strikeout, one walk), who
pitched the complete game
and scattered six hits, HRV
played solid defense the last
two innings to get the win.
Centennial got a hit in the
bottom of the sixth and also
one in the seventh to bring
the potential tying run to
the plate both times. The Ea-
gles executed key defensive
fielding plays to get putouts
and prevent Centennial
from scoring as they main-
tained their two-run cush-
ion.
“We’re playing good, solid
the win, pitching five innings and
sending seven Ridgeview batters
packing, while walking two and
giving up nine hits and five runs.
Chase Lariza chipped in by pitch-
ing a perfect two innings, during
which he struck out two batters.
After facing Ridgeview at 3 p.m.,
HRV turned around and squared
off against Summit for a 5:30 p.m.
game to finish the doubleheader.
The game was a defensive battle,
with neither team scoring through
the first three innings. Finally, in
the top of the fourth, HRV got on
board after Adam Cameron hit a
fly ball to center field that allowed
Ryan Ward to advance from third
base to home plate.
Unfor tunately, Summit an-
swered immediately, scoring two
runs in the bottom of the fourth
and the final run for either team in
the bottom of the sixth.
Patrick Harvey pitched the ma-
jority of the game, striking out
four, walking three, and surren-
dering three runs and four hits in
five innings and part of a sixth.
Kam Walker also pitched for HRV.
First baseman Montana Kurahara
led the team with nine putouts in
as and Skyler Hunter had a team-
high four assists.
T he varsity squad travels
Wednesday to Wilsonville for a 5
p.m. game and then will be back
home on Friday to take on Moun-
tain View at 4:30 p.m.
defense and we’re hitting
the ball pretty good and
when we do that, then good
things happen,” said Keller.
“We’re making good defen-
sive plays now when the ball
is put into play. We know
what we need to do and what
we need to work on to im-
prove. It’s just a process of
utilizing what we’ve learned
in practice and executing
that same way during the
games.”
It was definitely a good
Friday for HRV in snapping
a four-game losing streak
versus Mountain View. The
Eagles jumped ahead 2-0 in
the second and then took
control with a five-run,
fourth inning scoring out-
burst. Senior Jenni Packer
(1 for 3, RBI) ignited the
rally with a leadoff single.
Winans (2 for 3, two singles,
RBI) followed her on base
when she was hit by a pitch.
Both runners then scored on
McNerney’s double to left
field for a 4-0 Eagle lead.
HR then extended it to a 7-
0 advantage on RBI singles
by Munn (3 for 4), Jojo Karr
(2 for 3, two singles) and
Wells (3 for 4, three singles).
The Eagle offense was in
high gear as 11 batters went
to the plate and they pro-
duced a total of six hits in
the inning. The No. 22-
ranked Cougars got a run in
the fifth, making it 7-1. HRV
continued its strong offen-
sive attack and extended its
lead to 9-1 in the sixth.
Mountain View added two
in the seventh for the final
margin.
Winans had a strong per-
formance in the pitching
circle as she struck out four,
walked four and allowed
seven hits while pitching
the complete game.
ference — an encouraging, al-
beit unreliable statistic at the
moment, as it is early in the sea-
son. Luchsinger said that of
Continued from Page A7 course he’d like to see his squad
make the playoffs, after narrow-
ly missing them last year. But with a green roster, the first-
year HRV head coach — assistant coach of the team for the
past three years — is busy right now focusing on the funda-
mentals of the game.
“It’s definitely a really young team, I think we only have
two seniors on the team,” he said. “Kind of the focus right
now is building our stick skills up and working on funda-
mentals.”
Luchsinger is also working with on growing what is al-
ready “a really good group of attack men,” as well as teach-
ing them to develop their fast-paced game of transition ball,
or what Luchsinger refers to as “East Coast ball,” a nod to
Luchsinger’s stomping ground of Central New York, where
lacrosse enjoys a prominent status among high school
sports. Speed is key to Luchsinger, who said that he doesn’t
C ABLE
Photo by Ben Mitchell
COACH MATT LUCHSINGER discusses strategy with one of his
players during a game against Hermiston last week, while assistant
coach George Dolack looks on.
bother drawing up plays to ensure the ball keeps moving.
“Lacrosse is considered the fastest game on two feet,” he
said, “and I’d like to keep it
that way.”
HRV next meets in Valley
Catholic in an away game
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Horizon track teams smash school records
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Numerous school records
and the first girls team cham-
pionship in school history
were recorded by the Hori-
zon Christian School track
and field team Saturday in
Moro.
The Hawk girls won the
Sherman County Invitation-
al over 13 other teams, in-
cluding runner-up and host
Sherman. Horizon was led
by senior Hannah Kempf,
who won the 800-meter run
in her first attempt at the
event and anchored two
relay teams which set school
records. She ran the two-lap
race in 2 minutes, 44.84 sec-
onds, a school-record time.
The 4x100 relay finished
fourth and the 4x400 team
was third. Kempf was joined
on the short relay by Haley
Becnel, Kloee Brown and
Jodee Hicks. The long relay
included Kempf, Becnel Mi-
randa Roberts and Savanna
Hawk.
Paulina Finn also was a
big contributor in the girls
team title, as she won the 300
low hurdles, was second in
the triple jump and fifth in
the high jump. Teammate
Amy Requa was second in
the 1500 and fourth in the
3000, and Brown was second
in the 400.
The Horizon boys finished
second in the meet to Bickel-
ton and were led by Mason
Bloomster, who won the 100
and 200 and anchored the
Hawks’ first-place 4x100
relay. Salvador Ramirez was
Horizon’s other champion,
racing to a Class 1A state
leading time in the 1500 of
4:25. Senior Ryan Aldrich
added a second place in the
shot put, with a school-
record mark of 40 feet, 2
inches.
Distance runner Jony Nel-
son was second in the 3000
and ran a near personal best
(4:39) to finish fourth in the
1500.
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