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Erin Jones places first in Dallas duathlon
Photo courtesty of erinjonestri.com
Triathlete Erin Jones, a Hood River native and 2009 Hood River Valley High
School graduate, continues on her quest to make the Olympic qualifiers in
Brazil this summer, and helped herself out last week by taking first in the Elite
Women’s category of the International Triathlon Union’s Dallas CAMTRI
Sprint Triathlon held in Dallas, Texas, June 6, as part of the Continental Cup
series.
It was an unusual race for Jones as well as others in the event as the
triathlon — which consists of swimming, biking, and running — was changed
to a duathlon (in this case, running and biking). According to the event’s web-
site, Dallas County Health and Human Services suspended all activity on Lake
Carolyn, where the swim portion was to be held, due to an “accidental waste-
water discharge.”
Jones had some “really strong run times,” according to her father, Tony
Jones, running the first 5-kilometer leg of the race in 17 minutes, 12 seconds
and the third leg, a 2.5K run, in 8:39. She completed the second leg of the race,
a 20K bike ride, in 33:37, to finish with an overall time of 1 hour and 43 seconds
— 47 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. The overall time includes
transitions between events.
For each leg, Jones had the second-fastest time in the 5K run, first in the bike
leg, and second in the 2.5K, as well as the fourth- and third-fastest transition
times.
Jones next heads off to Hautulco, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, on June 14
to compete in an ITU World Cup event. Interested readers can follow her
progress on her website at www.erinjonestri.com.
Submitted photo
THREE-PEATS
Hood River Valley High School recently celebrated its 49 three-sport athletes, who are busy competing all school year long for the Eagles. The athletes and
their sports are as followed, listed in alphabetical order: Females: Linsey Back: Volleyball, Basketball, Softball. Mackenzie Booth: Volleyball, Swimming, Soft-
ball. Savanna Brentlinger: Soccer, Swimming , Alpine/Freestyle Ski Team. Chloe Clark: Swimming, Track, Cross Country. Kassidy Davidson: Soccer, Basketball,
Track. Claire Davies: Soccer, Alpine/Freestyle Ski Team, Track. Daisy Dolan: Nordic Ski Team, Lacrosse, Cross Country. Denali Emmons: Nordic Ski Team, Track,
Cross Country. Rose Finstad: Water Polo, Basketball, Tennis. Terri Hewitt: Nordic Ski Team, Track, Cross Country. Jestena Mattson: Volleyball, Basketball, Track.
Erin Mayer: Water Polo, Alpine/Freestyle Ski Team, Lacrosse. Katherine McElderry: Swimming, Water Polo, Lacrosse. Hannah McNerney: Volleyball, Basketball,
Softball. Lauren Orr: Water Polo, Basketball, Lacrosse. Nicolette Paulus: Soccer, Alpine/Freestyle Ski Team, Tennis. Payton Rigert: Water Polo, Wrestling, Lacrosse.
Lauren Robinson: Nordic Ski Team, Track, Cross Country. Casey Sherrerd: Water Polo, Alpine, Freestyle Ski Team, Track. Bayly Stevens: Soccer, Basketball, Track.
Avrie Van Tilburg: Soccer, Alpine/Freestyle Ski Team, Track. Kaylin Winans: Volleyball, Basketball, Softball. Lauren Winans: Volleyball, Basketball, Track.
Males: Jacob Bromham: Nordic Ski Team, Track, Cross Country. Dallas Buckley: Football, Basketball, Baseball. Gabriel Campos-Davis: Nordic Ski Team, Track,
Cross Country. Patrick Crompton: Football, Alpine/Freestyle Ski Team, Track. Muir Emmons: Nordic Ski Team, Cross Country, Baseball. Patrick Estes: Football,
Basketball, Track. Levi Geller: Football, Basketball, Lacrosse. Adam Harter: Football, Basketball, Tennis. Luke Harter: Football, Basketball, Tennis. Trenton Hough:
Football, Basketball, Baseball. Thomas Humann: Soccer, Swimming, Tennis. Dakota Kurahara: Water Polo, Basketball, Baseball. Mitchell Lamer: Water Polo,
Alpine/Freestyle Ski Team, Lacrosse. John McCaffrey: Soccer, Alpine/ Freestyle Ski Team, Lacrosse. JJ Mears: Water Polo, Basketball, Baseball. Thomas Mixon:
Soccer, Alpine/ Freestyle Ski Team, Lacrosse. Noah Noteboom: Soccer, Basketball, Track. Stanley Ocheskey: Water Polo, Swimming, Track. Carson Orr: Soccer,
Basketball, Lacrosse. Cameron Perez: Football, Wrestling, Baseball. Adrian Ramirez: Football, Wrestling, Track. Don Schilling: Water Polo, Swimming, Track. Ty-
rone Stintzi: Football, Basketball, Track. Jonah Tactay: Football, Basketball, Track. Kameron Walker: Football, Basketball, Baseball. Tanner Wells: Football, Bas-
ketball, Track. Jesse Wiley: Nordic Ski Team, Track, Cross Country.
New excessive contact rule for high school
basketball goes into effect next season
INDIANAPOLIS, IN— The rule prohibit-
ing excessive contact in high school basket-
ball has been expanded to include all ball-
handlers on the court, include post players.
This revision in Rule 10-6-12 and a new
signal for officials has been recommended
by the National Federation of State High
School Associations (NFHS) Basketball
Rules Committee. Both changes were subse-
quently approved by the NFHS Board of Di-
rectors.
Last year, the rules committee added Arti-
cle 12 to Rule 10-6 in an effort to eliminate ex-
cessive contact on ball-handlers and drib-
blers outside of the lane area. Beginning
next season, excessive contact on any ball-
handler will be a violation of the rules.
The new language states that “a player be-
comes a ball-handler when he/she receives
the ball. This would include a player in a
post position.”
The acts that constitute a foul when com-
mitted against a ball-handler are a) placing
two hands on the player, b) placing an ex-
tended arm bar on the player, c) placing and
keeping a hand on the player and d) contact-
ing the player more than once with the same
hand or alternating hands.
“The current rule covers the ball-han-
dler/dribbler situations but ignores the ac-
tion that goes on in the post area with the
hands, arm bars, etc.,” said Theresia Wynns,
NFHS director of sports and officials. “The
additional language will clarify that the ille-
gal acts should be ruled for every position on
the floor.”
The rules committee also approved a new
signal to be used after a basket is made and
when there is a stoppage in play. The signal
will be used by officials to indicate that the
team in-bounding the ball may run the base-
line. This signal would be used to restart
play when a time-out is called or an injury
occurs after a made basket.
In addition to these changes, the Basket-
ball Rules Committee approved four points
of emphasis for the 2015-16 season: post play,
rebounding, protecting the free-throw shoot-
er and NFHS mechanics and signals.
The committee noted that new informa-
tion has been added to the rules book that
addresses cleaning up post play and urged
fouls to be called when violations occur. In
addition, the committee emphasized that il-
legal tactics related to rebounding should be
called since these violations are among the
leading causes of injury in high school bas-
ketball.
Protecting the free-throw shooter is an-
other area of emphasis for next season. The
committee noted that the rule change last
year allowing a player occupying a marked
lane space to enter the lane on the release of
the ball by the free thrower calls for added
protection of the free-throw shooter.
The final point of emphasis concerns the
use of NFHS mechanics and signals.
“Communication is vital to the game of
basketball, to the officials and all others in-
volved in the game,” Wynns said. “It is es-
sential for officials to master and use only
the NFHS-approved mechanics and signals.”
A complete listing of the basketball rules
changes is available on the NFHS website at
www.nfhs.org. Click on “Activities & Sports”
at the top of the home page, and select “Bas-
ketball.”
According to the 2013-14 NFHS High
School Athletics Participation Survey, bas-
ketball is the third-most popular boys sports
nationwide with 541,054 participants and
second-most popular girls sport with 433,344
participants. In terms of school sponsor-
ship, it ranks No. 1 for both boys and girls
with 18,126 schools for boys and 17,754 for
girls.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Tennis camps start next week
Tennis camps are coming up soon, in addition to
many other camps all summer long, which can be
found online at Community Education’s web-
site www.hoodriver.k12.or.us/coe where interested
parties can sign up as well. The first youth camp is
next week, June 15-18, Monday-Thursday, from 10
a.m. to 12 p.m. It is run by, Kenzie Kerr, at the Tsu-
ruta Tennis Courts, across from the Hood River
Middle School. The first middle/high school camp is
June 22-25, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., same in-
structor and same location.
WS Backyard half marathon June 20
With all this great weather, you should be in
shape to participate in the 8th Annual White
Salmon Backyard Half Marathon. The half
marathon is June 20th with hikers starting at 8:30
a.m. and runners at 10 a.m. The event will start
and finish at Rheingarten Park, just one block NW
of downtown White Salmon. The event is free with
a suggested donation of $20 for the White Salmon
Cross Country Boosters and the CGRC Scholarship
Fund. You can register at https://ultrasignup.com.
More
information
is
also
at
www.columbiagorgerunningclub.com or check
out the event’s Facebook page: White Salmon
Backyard Half Marathon.
Families at Family Man
With school out, Families at Family Man is now
going on every Wednesday, according to the Hood
River Area Trail Stewards (Hood RATS). Bring your
kids, snacks to share, and of course, water and
come ride every Wednesday this summer starting
at 5:30 p.m.
Sports news?
Do you have a summer sports tip or news you’d
like to share? Email sports editor Ben Mitchell at
benmitchell@hoodrivernews.com or call the Hood
River News at 386-1234.
OUTDOOR
NEWS
By
BUZZ RAMSEY
June column:
Summer chinook on
the lower Columbia
I blinked with disbelief as the salmon
made a U-turn out of the net and
streaked down river faster than you can
say, “summer chinook.” Never in all my
years (which are quite a few) have I seen
a fish that large escape a landing net so
deliberately.
That scene was burned into my mem-
ory over 10 years ago and why, when
asked, I often tell fellow anglers that
summer chinook, especially a big one,
fight like no other. Realize too, that these
salmon come in many different sizes,
but on most years average 25 to 35
pounds with 40- and 50-pound monsters
caught by someone (but not me, as of
yet) each and every year.
The pre-season forecast for this year’s
run is 73,000 fish, which is how many
state fish managers expect will cross the
bar at the mouth of the Columbia River.
However, given what appears to be a bet-
ter spring chinook return that predict-
ed, some biologists think the actual run
may be larger. And while the summer
salmon run normally peaks at the Bon-
neville fish counting windows around
June 28, the run could come early this
season, given this year’s low than nor-
mal water conditions.
For many of us the opportunity to fish
for and keep a summer chinook from the
Columbia River is a dream come true.
Although summer chinook were once
the most numerous of chinook the Co-
lumbia had to offer — for example, in
the 1880’s the average annual run was 4
to 5 million wild salmon — since that
time the population dropped so low
(around 40,000 annually) anglers were
denied a season for 29 years. These fish
rebounded enough to allow sport fishing
in 2002 because a federal judge was/is
managing the river and requiring the
hydro system to release water to move
juvenile fish downriver and spill it over
the top federal dams which benefits out-
migrating smolt and the subsequent
adult return.
The summer chinook fishery near
Bonneville Dam is one where lures
fished in a stationary position are set to
ambush salmon migrating toward the
upper Columbia and Snake River sys-
tems. Last year, we caught them an-
chored not far below Bonneville Dam on
a combination of plugs and spinners.
Given that the water temperatures are
warmer during June than earlier in the
year, you will likely find these fish run-
ning deeper in the water column on av-
erage. We’ve had the best success an-
choring in depths ranging from 14 to 25
feet.
What we and many anglers use de-
pends on water speed. If the water is
medium to slow moving, salmon-size
p l u g s l i ke M a g L i p a n d F l at -
Fish/Kwikfish are what work. We often
run these on a 60-inch leader behind a
buoyant river diver or weight-dropper
line of 24 inches. Keep in mind that a 24-
inch weight-dropper line might be right
for a T-50 FlatFish while a dropper of 30
to 36 inches might be better when fish-
ing a deep-diving Mag Lip, especially in
faster currents. Some of the better pro-
ducing plug colors include Fluorescent
Red, Fire Starter, Feeder, Keeper, and the
old standby, silver/chartreuse “head.”
If the water is fast moving, we’ve en-
joyed success plunking spinners. There
is just nothing that fishes as well in fast
water as a salmon spinner. Summer chi-
nooks go for medium-size spinners like a
size 5-1/2 Mulkey. Try rigging these on a
60-inch leader and 24-inch weight-drop-
per line depending on current speed,
and hold them near bottom with 6 to 16
ounces of weight. Some of the popular
spinner colors include fluorescent red,
chartreuse/green, “dot” green, pink or
blue rainbow, and metal finishes like
copper, brass or genuine gold. Metal
blade finishes or combinations of metal
and paint work best when the sun is
bright while painted finishes work best
when the light is low or when it’s over-
cast.
Bank anglers plunk a size 4 and larger
size number 2 Spin N Glo when target-
ing these salmon and often tip the trail-
ing hook with a prawn. Some of the
more popular colors include Stop N Go
(red and chartreuse), fluorescent red,
clown, and lime green.
Boat anglers fishing farther down-
stream on the Columbia, near Kalama or
Longview, where the river current is af-
fected by ocean tides, employ anchor
and troll methods. As you might imag-
ine, anchoring is best when the tide is
outgoing and currents running while
trolling is more productive when the
current is slow due to flooding tides.
And while fish may be found along cur-
rent edges and near bottom when cur-
rents are strong, they may be found
higher in the water column when the
current slows.