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S PORTS www.hoodrivernews.com Hood River News, Saturday, June 27, 2015 Chantelle Carter heading to Silver State International Rodeo Hood River’s Chantelle Carter is head- ing next week to the Silver State Interna- tional Rodeo in Winnemucca, Nev., for the second year in a row, where she will com- pete against some of the best riders in North America. Carter, 16, is currently heading into her junior year at Horizon Christian School, where she is an honor student. She quali- fied for the Silver State International Rodeo after receiving high marks in the Washington State High School Rodeo last month, where she qualified in the barrels, poles, and cutting events, the last of which is a timed event where a horse and rider try to separate a cow from its herd and prevent it from rejoining the group. Carter has been an active member of the Washington State High School Rodeo for the past two years, qualifying last year as a freshman for the Silver State Interna- tional Rodeo for the first time in barrels and representing Washington in the Queen contest where she received Miss Congeniality and Best of Parade. Carter competes in the Washington circuit as op- posed to the Oregon circuit because it is easier to travel to many of the rodeo events in Washington, and a lot of her rodeo friends live in Washington, ex- plained Carter’s mother, Kathy Palmieri. Riders are able to choose the state or province for which they will compete. Carter will be traveling with her rela- tives and Palmieri to the rodeo, which will be held June 30 to July 5. Palmieri will be serving as a judg e for the Queen Contest. Next, from July 12-18, Carter and her mother will be traveling to Rock Springs, Wyo., with their national direc- tor where Palmieri will be working as sec- retary in the cutting arena, at the nation- al level. SPORTS BRIEFS Swim team ends June with good marks CHANTELLE CARTER Looking back: 40 years of the Kollas-Cranmer run Memorial run continues to grow while staying true to its roots By BEN MITCHELL nizer Mary Gumm, who has served as the race’s organizer July 4, 1975: In the midst of the since the late 1990s. Nearly as many participants, phenomenon known as the “run- ning boom” that became that and likely more, are expected to decade’s athletic focus, and sever- run next Saturday in what will be the 40th anniversary al weeks after the of the first “official” passing of Oregon RACE INFO running of the event cross-country/track — nobody kept race and field legend Steve times in the few run- Time: 9 a.m. Prefontaine, a few nings of the event do z en individuals prior to 1975, Gumm g athered for a Cost: $25 for event points out, and 1975 is footrace from Odell to and 2015 shirt, $15 considered the year Hood River. with another year’s when the race began Four decades later, shirt, $10 for event in earnest. the event, now known only. The race is named as the Kollas-Cran- in memory of Joe Kol- mer Memorial Run, is Website: 4thofju- las and Jerry Cran- still going, and has be- mer: two Hood River lyrun.com come a Hood River Valley residents who County tradition, were both passionate serving as the kickoff about running and to the area’s Independence Day were both involved in organizing celebrations. Since that 1975 race, the num- the event at different points in its bers have grown from a few dozen existence. Kollas, who was born in 1909 in to a few hundred, with last year’s official tally of registered partici- Hood River, was an orchardist and pants listed as 387 runners and 118 Please see RUN, Page A8 walkers, according to race orga- News staff writer THE KOLLAS-CRANMER Memorial Run will be celebrating its 40th anniversary next week when the race starts Saturday, July 4, in Odell. Starting from top and working down: a News file photo shows the 1976 race (the earliest photo of the event we could find in our archives) going off; if you have a magnifying glass, Joe Kollas is the runner with white hair in the back of the group toward the middle of the photo. Next, a photo from last year’s event taken by Adam Lapierre, showing how large the race has gotten over the last four decades. Above right, the obituary photo of Kollas. Above far right, the obituary photo for Jerry Cranmer. A7 The Hood River Valley Swim Team had a good showing the past two weekends at Mt. Hood for the Howard Jones Age Group and Senior A/B Swim Meets. At the Age Group meet June 12-14, Sarah Arpag, age 11, led the way with seven personal best times and three top-10 finishes in the 400-meter free (5:18.87), 200 free (2:27.15) and the 100 free (1:07.18). Skyla Hollowell, age 9, achieved her first-ever state “A” qualifying time in the 50 butterfly (49.80) which allows her to compete at the Oregon Swimming State 12U Swimming Championships in Albany in July. Campbell Keller, age 12, swam to 100-percent personal best times. Michelle Graves had one best time; Amy Elliott, Jesse Elliott and Shea Kasenga each had two personal best times at the meet, and Thea Smith had two 7-second drops in the 100 butterfly (1:49.18) and 200 freestyle (3:04.63) events. At the Howard Jones Senior Meet June 19-21, high- lights included Scott Bergstrom’s third place finish in the 400 freestyle (4:09.75); Connor Webb’s sixth place 200 breaststroke (2:38.59); Kylie Webb’s sixth place 400 individual medley (5:24.55), Dhani Freeland’s eighth place finish in the 400 freestyle (4:47.23); Mariah Rawd- ing’s 10th place finish in the 1500 free (20:04.25); and Erin Nelson’s four personal best times in the 400 free, 200 IM, 200 free and 100 back- stroke. The women’s 200 free relay of Freeland, Nelson, Webb and Rawding placed ninth, and the women’s 200 medley relay of Danielle Miller, Webb, Freeland and Rawding placed fifth overall. Other swimmers competing in the meet included Celilo Brun, Allie Burke, and Nadia Smith. Erin Jones to represent Team USA at Pan Am games Triathlete Erin Jones has been se- lected as one of the three women who will represent Team USA in the triathlon event at the 2015 Pan American Games next month in Toronto. Jones, a Hood River native and 2009 graduate of Hood River Valley High School, currently travels the globe to race professionally in triathlons against some of the best athletes in the world. The triathlon events at the Pan Am Games, which will be held July 12 for the women, feature a standard Olympic-distance 1,500-meter swim, 40-kilometer bike, and 10-kilometer run course. Held every four years in the year be- fore the Olympic Games, the Pan American Games are the third largest international multi-sport Games after the Olympic Games and the Asian Games. The history of the Pan Ameri- can Games dates back to 1951 when the Games were first hosted by Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 2015 Pan American Games mark the 17th celebration of the Pan American Sports Organization event. The U.S. has hosted the event twice, in Indi- anapolis in 1987 and Chicago in 1959. Gifford Pinchot cautions hikers about lack of water Officials with the Gifford Pinchot National Forest are advising hikers to anticipate an increased lack of water in the forest due to low snowpack and drought conditions that have af- fected the Pacific Northwest this spring. When you visit the forest, be sure to bring enough water for every- one in your group, as backcountry areas where hikers traditionally found water for themselves and their animals are already dry, cautioned U.S. Forest Service Officials. “Hikers and backpackers should plan to pack plenty of water,” advised Tedd Huff- man, manager at the Mount St. He- lens National Volcanic Monu- ment. “This is especially true in areas with less shade where people and animals can get dehydrated quickly.” Oilers working on first win Photos by Kirby Neumann-Rea SUMMER SOCCER Kicking, weaving, and passing, more than 100 youngsters enjoyed Eagle Summer Soccer Camp this week at Westside Field, including Spike Peterson and Hazel Goetz (see photo at right). The two five-year-olds share a ball during a drill in which the players worked on their form by repeatedly kicking the ball into the net. Participants worked together in age groups and also got to scrimmage. HRVHS Eagle players helped teach soccer skills along with coaches Jaime Rivera and Ken Brasnahan (shown). Taking a water break, Spike and Hazel and their friend Alyra Elliott, 5, compared babysitter notes. Asked if she had played soccer before, Alyra said, “I played soccer yesterday!” The Carson Oilers had a home game Wednesday evening, and lost to Gladstone, 10-0. “The game out started out really well; we had the bases loaded a couple of times,” said coach Terry Bryant. “The game just kind of got away from us.” Bryant said the young team has been play- ing against much older players, but is getting better at both hitting the ball and pitching. The American Legion Single A team has gone 0-5 in its start this season, but will have an op- portunity to get on the board this weekend with a doubleheader at Mil- waukie, starting at 2 p.m. The Oilers are back in town Wednesday for a doubleheader against St. Helens, which starts at 4 p.m.
