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A8 Hood River News, Saturday, May 16, 2015 SPORTS BRIEFS LAX Swim team wins sprinter meet “Our defense was excel- lent and did exactly what they needed to do: stop shots from the inside,” Luchsinger said. “However, almost all their goals came from 15 yards out. They had some really great shots; they were just throwing down shots left and right.” The team was prepared going into T hursday’s game and had no illusions about how good of a team Central Catholic was, but Luchsinger said his players Continued from Page A7 The Hood River Valley Swim Team hosted their annual Secure Stor- age Spring Sprinter on Saturday. Fifty-one local swimmers participated against 210 swimmers from around the northwest. The Osprey won the meet with 661 points, with a close second from the Redmond Aquatic Club Eels. First-time competitors for the HRVST included Maria Bishai, Claire Couvreux, Sophia Cross, Maria Garcia-Toche, Sophie Helleberg, Daisy Matias, Owen Summersett, Isabel Taylor, Lucy Taylor, and Cole Wooding. Leading scorers for the Osprey included Dhani Freeland, who won the girls 200-yard individual medley and Kylie Webb, who won the girls 100-yard backstroke event. Having at least three personal best times at the meet included Bree Albiston, Maya Arndt, Sarah Arpag, Adam Burke, Allie Burke, Amy Elliott, Lucas Elliott, Miyuki Gerald, Tove Goldring, Skyla Hollowell, Willow Hollowell, Dacia Kasenga, Shea Kasenga, Campbell Keller, Maia Montecalvo, Jamie Robinson, Nora Sandoval, Abby Tomlinson, Lillie Tomlinson, Fergus Waag, and Brinna Weiseth. Other team members who contributed to the team win in- cluded Courtney Castaneda, Marina Cataneda, Ivy Collins, Kylin Elliott, Max Graves, Michelle Graves, Cleo Koerner, Alea McCarty, Will O’Neill, Eryn Paskey, Xavier Petersen, Maria Sandoval, Catherine Suster, Jade Smith, Thea Smith, Jack Stehlik, Sky Viavoda-Kerr, and Sarah Wang. score three goals to start a game and be in contention with their opponents, only to see the other team make adjustments in the later pe- riods and come away with a win. In addition to ball con- trol, HRV was cursed by formidable shooting from Central Catholic. weren’t about to just hand the game over to the Rams. “I told the boys we could definitely play with these guys, and we could — we just didn’t have the ball to do it.” The silver lining for HRV is that if a playoff berth doesn’t end up shaking out, the Eagles will be primed for a top seeding and at least one home game — if not the top seeding — in the Cascade Cup bracket, which is a competition be- tween the top 16 teams that did not qualify for the play- offs. Post-season g ames should start the middle of next week, and the Cascade Cup should start at the same point the week after that, in keeping with last year’s schedule. Last year, HRV received a fifth seed in the Cascade Cup and after defeating Rex Put- nam, 19-0, the team lost to Canby, 10-7, in the second round. Babe Ruth opening day is Saturday Hood River Babe Ruth baseball has its opening day this Saturday, May 16. After returning from a hiatus last year, this year’s group fea- tures two teams. Festivities will include a raffle, which will feature a gas grill worth over $300 as well as other prizes. The teams will also play a doubleheader, starting at noon, with the second game expected to start at 2 p.m. or a little after. The event will happen at Collins Field (little league fields); those with questions can contact David Hough with Hood River Babe Ruth at yzhough@yahoo.com or 541-399-7045. Horizon golf ends season at districts The Horizon boys golf team’s season ended at the district champi- onships held earlier this week at Quail Valley Golf Course in Banks, where the team finished sixth out of nine. The highlight of the event for Horizon was the play of sophomore Ian Walker, whose two-day score of 178 (shooting consistently with an 89 both days) was enough to af- ford him a 13th-place finish individually and place him on the Honor- able Mention District Team. Coach Oscar Stenberg said the team showed “tremendous improvement” throughout the season, shooting in the high-400s at the beginning of the season, bringing the team score down to a 399 on Tuesday. The sole female golfer for Horizon was senior Anna Robison, who has battled rib injuries this season and fin- ished in the middle of the pack with a two-day score of 250 (121, 129). Local youth wrestlers take home titles at U.S. Open Wrestling Championships Local wrestlers Noah and Jeremiah Wachsmuth likely had some tired arms carrying home all their medals after competing in the 2015 U.S. Open Wrestling Championships held in Las Vegas, Nev., May 5-9. Noah, an eighth-grader at Hood River Middle School, took first place in the open kids/cadets freestyle competition as well as the Greco- Roman competition in the schoolboy 103- to 108-pound category, wrestling for the Cobra All-Stars wrestling club out of Portland. Noah also placed fourth in the 103- to 111-pound category in folkstyle. Ad- ditionally, Noah achieved the feat of getting the most amount of pins in the least amount of time in the freestyle completion, getting three pins in 4 minutes, 10 seconds. His brother, Jeremiah, who is a third- grader at Westside Elementary, also had a good day on the mats, tak- ing first in the Intermediate 46- to 51-pound category in the freestyle competition, second place in the Intermediate 46- to 49-pound cate- gory in the Greco-Roman competition, and fourth in the same catego- ry during the folkstyle competition. Photos by Ben Mitchell THE EAGLES’ three goals of the night came from two players: middie Bruce Ostler (left), who had one, and attack Torsenn Brown, who had two. HRV Continued from Page A7 situation occurred near the end of the inning when DeHart scored after Wells reached first on an error. Up 10-7, the Eagles were able to get a quick three outs, thanks in large part to pitcher McNerney, who struck out the final two Bulldog batters to seal the deal for HRV. McNerney pitched all seven innings, giving up six hits, seven runs (two earned), walk- ing two, and striking out three. With 14 hits, almost every player on HRV’s ros- ter had a hit, but leading the way for HRV was Munn, who had two hits, both singles, in five at-bats and had a team-high five RBI. Weekly also had a good day at the plate was Weekly, who knocked out two doubles in four at-bats and had one RBI. Locking up the final play-in spot would allow HRV to breathe a little eas- ier during its final game of the season: a league con- test with The Dalles Fri- day at 4:30 p.m. in Hood River (results not available as of press time). “It is nice to earn a spot in the post season rather than have to wait see the results,” Keller remarked. “The team set goals early in the season and we are fighting to accom- plish them. “ Once other 5A teams wrap up their games, HRV will have a better idea who it will be facing in its play-in game sometime next week. HRV will play whoever winds up as the No. 3 team in the Northwest Oregon Confer- ence, which had not been de- termined as of press time. Athlete of the Week Zoe Munn HRV softball Munn had two hits and five RBI in Tuesday’s game against Hermiston, helping HRV get the win and the last play-in spot. The Athlete of the Week will receive a large pizza with 2 toppings from Papa Murphy’s. Congratulations to our winner 5-16-15. HRV baseball misses season sweep of Hermiston After securing the CRC title with win over The Dalles last week, the Eagles were looking to win-out the rest of their league games in order to ensure home-field advantage for when the play- offs start later this month. However, the Hermiston Bulldogs (4-7 Columbia River Conference, 11-11 overall) threw a kink in that plan Tuesday afternoon, when they defeated HRV (8-3 CRC, 16-8 overall), 5-3 in Hermis- ton. As of Friday, HRV’s eighth-place ranking in 5A hadn’t changed. For a team that has aver- aged approximately eight hits and almost seven runs per game this year, the out- put from HRV’s offense was comparatively underwhelm- ing, with six hits — all of which came in the fourth and fifth innings. HRV never held the lead during the game and had trouble digging itself out of a three-run hole the team got itself in after the first in- ning. The Eagles faced a five- run deficit in the top of the fifth and was able to rally for three runs, but it wasn’t enough as each team could- n’t score for the remainder of the contest. “Her miston’s pitcher, Tyler Sexton, did a good job locating and kept us off-bal- ance for a majority of the game,” coach Erich Harjo said. “Patrick Harvey pitched well enough to win, but we came out flat at the plate and could never really catch fire. Hermiston com- peted better than us and it looked like they played with more motivation.” Harvey tossed four in- nings giving up seven hits and five runs (four earned) while walking five and strik- ing out three. Kam Walker subbed in for two innings, surrendering one hit, walk- ing one batter, and striking out three. Skyler Hunter, Walker, Ryan Ward, Chase Lariza, Riley Van Hoose, and Dallas Buckley each had a hit in the game, all of which were sin- gles. RBI came from Hunter, Ward, and Lariza; Buckley, Van Hoose, and Lariza all scored a run apiece for HRV. 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