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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
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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
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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.
HRV was scheduled to play
The Dalles Friday in Hood
River at 4:30 p.m. and wrap
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