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A8 Hood River News, Saturday, May 9, 2015 GIRLS Continued from Page A7 was perfect at the plate with a team-high four hits in as many at-bats, hitting three singles and a double, and leading the team in scoring with three runs. Sharing that honor was senior first base- man, who also led the team in scoring, led the team with three RBI, and was a perfect three for three at-bats, hit- ting two singles and a double. Other hitters for HRV in- cluded Jessie Karr (3 for 3, 3 singles), Hannah McNerney (2 for 3, single, double), Jessi- ca DeHart (1 for 3, single), Kelsey Wells (1 for 3, single), Jenni Packer (1 for 3, single), and Makena Zeller (1 for 3, single). The team totaled 16 hits and only had one error. BOYS Continued from Page A7 double by Buckley. All gar- nered one RBI each as well, excluding Van Hoose. Har- vey, Hunter, Lariza, and Buckley led the team in scor- ing with two runs each; other scoring runners included HRV’s defense was ar- guably almost as impressive as its offense, especially con- sidering that the Eagles are currently fourth in 5A in runs allowed. DeHart led the team with five putouts, as well as an assist. McNerney was on the mound through- out all five innings, sending two batters packing and giv- ing up seven hits. The win was big in anoth- er way besides just beating a rival league opponent: it put No. 20 HRV two games up on No. 24 Hermiston (1-8 CRC, 7- 15 overall), who is fighting with HRV for the final play- in spot in the CRC. HRV was scheduled to play No. 2 Pendleton on Friday and has a big game Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. against Hermiston that could determine HRV’s eligi- bility for a play-in game. LAX Continued from Page A7 Lydia McElderry and Kat McElderry in the waning minutes. The final goal of the night went to Brentlinger, who, hearing the countdown with 10 sec- onds remaining, bolted up the field and despite Cleve- land swarming her with de- fenders, Brentlinger was able to poke her stick out and slide one past the Warrior’s goalie as she fell sideways with one second left. The spectacular move re- sulted in Brentlinger sus- taining an injury that saw her carried off the field, but smiling, as her teammates and the crowd in the stands at Henderson Stadium roared their approval. Imme- diately after the match, McElderry said he believed it to be “a minor tear in her calf ” that likely wouldn’t keep her out of the playoffs. “It was pretty crazy in there,” he said of the shot. “She was guarded pretty well and saw and opening and took it high and put it into the back of the net.” Brentlinger was the team’s leading scorer, with four goals on the evening and also leading the team in ground balls, with six. Daisy Dolan led on draw controls, win- ning three. In net, frosh goalie Ella Rand had her best game of the season, making some key saves in the second half of the game that could have very easily been goals. She stopped eight of 12 shots to end the night with a 66.7 save percentage. “Ella Rand had some great saves,” McElder ry said. “She’s really kind of coming into her own.” T he Ea gles, who are ranked 15th, will face No. 18 Marist on Monday; game time was not available at press time. The two teams have not faced each other this season. Marist has a 9-3 record in the South League (9-4 overall), while HRV ended the season with a 7-5 record in the Por tland League (7-8 overall). Look for an update on the News’ web and Facebook pages when the game time is known. Walker, Kellan Duffy, Ryan Ward, and Van Hoose. After hosting the No. 15- ranked Pendleton Buckaroos Friday evening — which could wrap up the CRC title for HRV if the Buckaroos lose — the No. 10-ranked Ea- gles will travel to Hermiston (No. 26) for their final road game of the season. Photos by Deona Rigert LOCAL WRESTLERS had a good showing at the Oregon Freestyle and Greco-Roman State Championship this past weekend. In the left frame, Joanna Endow, Payton Rigert, and Sarah Sullenger display their first-place medals; in the right frame, Dylan Peterson, who took fourth in the Cadet Division of the Greco-Roman competition, grapples with an opponent. HRV wrestlers take spring championships by storm By PAYTON RIGERT News intern OUTDOOR OUTDOOR NEWS NEWS By By BUZZ BUZZ RAMSEY RAMSEY May 2015: High mountain trout Acting like a steelhead, the trout yanked our son’s rod down and headed for the other side of the lake, stopping to perform a double somersault before falling back into the water, before changing directions and heading for a sub- merged stump near shore. Wade, our younger son (now 22), held his rod high and steered the torpedo-acting fish away from the bark-covered obstacle. Wanting to arrive at our favorite mountain lake early, we’d left home just before 4 a.m. The birds were still chirping when we arrived at the Forest Service campground, launched our boat, and parked after placing a Forest Service, Discovery, and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife parking pass on the dashboard of my truck. The boat launch was empty, which surprised us considering the number of trout lurking, we knew, under the water’s glassy surface. Since the rules on Goose Lake (located on the south flank of Mt. Adams, west of Trout Lake) don’t allow gas motors, we’d taken our Willie drift boat, complete with a cooler for lunch and fish. We see some anglers fishing this mountain lake using electric-trolling-motors for propulsion but, for us, rowing is easy and a lot less fuss. We tried several fishing techniques during our morning adventure. The first was to slow troll, we’re talking dead slow, small F-5 FlatFish 50 to 60 feet behind our boat. Dark- colored plugs like a frog, black and brown, are what pro- duced best on this particular day – all tipped with a quarter- inch section pinched from a white-colored PowerBait mag- got. It’s always amazed me how fickle trout can be in regard to lure color and size on different lakes and at different times of year. Other plug colors we don’t leave home without in- clude gold and silver. This method produced for the first hour, but the trout ei- ther moved or wised up to this tactic, which forced us to try something different. It was then that we switched to casting and retrieving spinners. All fish, especially trout, can’t resist the sonic vi- bration produced by a blade spinning on a wire shaft. The other thing appealing about fishing spinners (and casting spoons for that matter) is they allow you to cover a lot of water in a short amount of time. Our best producing spinner — we’ve tried many different ones — was a black-colored Rooster Tail tipped with a half- inch section from an equally black Gulp! worm. Tipping lures with a scent-filled product works better than you might think and something we often do. If you’re new to lake fishing, keep in mind that fish may be holding near shore or the lake surface early or late in the day (or on overcast days) and will most likely move into deeper water as the light intensifies. After all, fish don’t have eyelids (or sunglasses), so the only way they can control the amount of light entering their eye is by their location. What we caught were a mixture of brown, rainbow, cut- throat and brook trout. The brook trout spawn naturally in Goose Lake and are so numerous they are mostly small, hardly ever do you catch one over 10-inches, which is what prompted the Department of Fish and Wildlife to first plant brown trout in the lake, which they do each and every year. While the majority of brown trout average 12-to-14 inches, there are much larger, trophy size, ones lurking in this lake. For example, WDFW biologist John Weinheimer tells me he has handled 6- to 7-pound fish living in Goose lake. Accord- ing to Bev Meyer, owner of the Trout Lake Grocery (509-395- 2777), the three largest brown trout brought into her store from Goose Lake have included a 15.44-pound monster taken in 1994 that measured 31.5 inches, a 16.3-pounder caught from the east end of the lake on PowerBait in 2008, and a 10.28-pounder taken in May of 2009. There are hundreds of high mountain lakes in the North- west. Many only become accessible to anglers when linger- ing winter snows finally melt off the roads and trails leading to them, but this year’s low snow pack has made for early ac- cess and a prolonged period of good fishing. Don’t pass up the thrill of catching high mountain trout. The Hood River Valley Wrestling Club competed at the Oregon Freestyle and Greco-Roman State Championship this past weekend. They weighed in Friday night and trav- eled down to Crescent Valley High School. On Saturday, the athletes competed in the Oregon Freestyle State Championships in either the Junior or Cadet divisions. Freestyle wrestling is a different style of wrestling that is not used in competition throughout the normal high school season, but the fundamentals are the same. Wrestling in the Junior division, Joseph Linebarg- er at 220lbs, placed fifth after a grueling battle, and Max Lane at 285 pounds placed sixth. In the Cadet division, Jason Shaner wrestled hard for a fourth-place finish at 132 pounds and Justin Wilson, who was the last match of the night, placed fifth at 285 pounds. The next day was the Oregon Greco-Roman State Cham- pionships. In Greco-Roman wrestling, the athletes are not allowed to touch the legs of the other opponents, which makes the matches all about arm strength and technique. SPORTS BRIEFS Veatch receives recognition in rookie season Annie Veatch received an honorable mention when the an- nouncement for the 2015 All-Northwest Conference Softball Team was made this week. Veatch, a graduate of Hood River Valley High School, currently plays Division III softball as a freshman at George Fox University. In her rookie season, play- ing in 41 of the 44 games, Veatch led the team in batting aver- age with .395 and on-base percentage with .505. She was sec- ond in slugging percentage (.593), RBI (25) and homeruns (3). Swimmers bring home hardware from Bend Invite The Hood River Valley Swim Team competed at the Bend In- vitational this past weekend at the Juniper Aquatic Center in Bend. Teams from Corvallis, Bend, Portland, Hood River, Red- mond, Sweet Home and Camas, Wash., participated in this early season long-course meet. Top scorers for the HRV Osprey in- cluded Dhani Freeland, with wins in the senior 50-meter freestyle (29.26 seconds) and in the 100 freestyle (1:02.23); Kylie Webb with a win in the senior 400 individual medley (5:35.06), and Sarah Arpag showed her strength with two third-place finishes in the 12 & under girls 100 backstroke (1:22.10) and 50 butterfly (36). Also scoring for the team was Allie Burke with 16th in the senior 400 freestyle (5:22.84), Celilo Brun with 13th in the 13 & over 200 butterfly (3:27.63), and Shea Kasenga with a 12th-place finish in the 12 & under girls 50 breaststroke (45.45). Other participants included Michelle Graves, Dacia Kasenga, Thea Smith, and Nadia Smith. Girls tennis match rescheduled Due to the rain/thunder/hail storm, Wednesday’s HRV girls tennis home match against Hermiston was rescheduled for Tuesday at 4 p.m. It will be their final home match and regular season match. Recently, the Eagles came away with a 1-3 record at a duals tournament in Bend last weekend, losing to Mt. View, Ashland, and Hermiston (3-5, 2-6, 3-5, respectively), but beating Summit’s JV team by a score of 5-3. The team also lost to The Dalles April 29 in a 3-5 decision. In the Junior Division, Max Lane placed second at 285 pounds after a day of tough matches. Cadet wrestler Angel Jones placed second at 113 pounds, finishing out a great year. Also in the Cadet Division, Jason Shaner placed fifth at 132 pounds, Dylan Peterson battled for fourth place at 138 pounds, and Justin Wilson finished in fourth place at 285 pounds. The Hood River Valley Wrestling Club women’s team also competed in the Oregon Women’s Freestyle and Greco-Roman State Championships. In the Oregon Women’s Freestyle State Championship, Sarah Sullenger at 121 pounds, Joanna Endow at 125 pounds, and Payton Rigert at 159 pounds were all named state champions. Next, in the Oregon Women’s Greco-Roman State Tourna- ment, the girls had another fantastic day. Sarah Sullenger at 121 pounds, Joanna Endow at 125 pounds, and Payton Rigert at 159 pounds were again named state champions for the Women’s Greco Roman State Tournament. Sarah Sullenger and Payton Rigert were then named Triple Crown winners for being state champions in Folk- style, Freestyle, and Greco-Roman wrestling. W i l d C o l u m b i a S a l m o n FRESH SALMON CAUGHT DAILY King Whole $10/lb. Salmon Fillet $17/lb. Steelhead Whole $7/lb. Fillet $12/lb. Alder Smoked $20/lb. NEW CEDAR SMOKER “FREE SAMPLES” 108 Hwy 35, Hood River Next to Lampoei’s in Windance parking lot. S p r i n g H o u r s D a i l y 9 a m - 7 p m 509-961-3260 We accept VISA & MC HIGH PRAIRIE May 15, 16 & 17 Fri. 9 am to 5 pm • Sat. 9 am to 5 pm • Sun. 9 am to 2 pm SPECIAL DRAWING: SAVAGE BOLT 17 HMR RIFLE Boys lax wins at Cleveland The HRV boys lacrosse are trying to keep their post-season dreams alive and helped themselves out Thursday evening with a 14-8 road win over Cleveland. Currently, the team is sitting in 25th place in the LaxPower rankings, just one spot out of the playoffs. The Eagles will have their last game of the regular sea- son May 14 at 7:30 p.m. against the formidable Central Catholic, which will be played at Milwaukie High School. HUGE YARD SALE & SILENT AUCTION! New and used Household & Garden tools, Antiques, Furniture, Plants, Crafts and much, much more! No Advance Sales or Early Birds! Athlete of the Week Savannah Brentlinger HRV girls lacrosse Savannah led HRV with four goals and six ground balls during Thursday’s 12-4 win over Cleveland. The Athlete of the Week will receive a large pizza with 2 toppings from Papa Murphy’s. Congratulations to our winner 5-09-15. : QUILT RAFFLE “High Prairie Galaxy” e created by th edlers High Prairie Ne Food Booth 8 a.m. Wake-up Menu 10 a.m. Full Menu Back by popular demand: Myrin’s Famous Bratwurst *Fire Trucks *Kids Games & Activities *Music & Fun Location: High Prairie Community Center, 701 Struck Road Directions: Hwy. 14 to Lyle, North on Centerville Hwy. (between gas station & Country Cafe). Approx 6 miles, turn down Struck Road, follow signs. FOR INFORMATION CALL: (509) 365-5099 or (509) 365-9564 1765 12th St. • Hood River • 541-386-7131 Proceeds support High Prairie’s Community Council, Community Center and Volunteer Fire District 14
