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SPORTS
HRV hosts the Hood River Elks Memorial Tournament
By GABRIEL BRAVO
News staff writer
Fourteen teams convened
on Saturday for the Hood River
Elk Memorial Tournament. Bar-
low, Bend, Centennial, Cleve-
land, Forest Grove, Grant Union,
hosts Hood River Valley, Lin-
coln, Mountain View, Riverside,
Scappoose, The Dalles/ Dufur,
Thurston and Columbia High
School competed in the meet.
In the 106 class, Centennial’s
Mason Belles took first place,
Ethan Potts of Mountain View
took second, Thurston’s Braylin
Ruchti took third, HRV’s Carson
Farlow took fourth while Aus-
tino Montez of Bend took fifth.
The 113 class had Eduardo
Mathews of Thurston as first,
Carmelo Farfaglia of La Pine
as second, Centennial’s Jake
Angelovic as third, Drew Jones
of Mountain View in fourth and
Bend’s Cole Buckley in fifth
place.
ond, Tui Laithang of Centen-
nial placed third, Ben Henry of
Grant Union placed fourth and
Forest Grove’s Matix Cooklin
came in fifth.
Riverside’s Ethan Snyder took
first in the 132 class. Mountain
View’s Ryder Fassett came in
second followed by Thurston’s
Sawyer Casarez, Ray Randol of
Cleveland and James Camreta
of Mountain View.
Hood River Valley’s Chad
Muenzer added on to his clean
sheet by taking first place in
the 138 class. Hunter Harwood
of Thurston followed Muenzer,
along with Holden Korish of
Photo by Gabriel Bravo Mountain View, Logen Mat-
HOOD RIVER Valley’s Chad Muenzer grapples Bend’s Geiner thews of La Pine and Mynor
Oppenlander of Forest Grove.
Harpole Saturday morning at Vannet Court in Hood river.
In the 145 class, Patrick Brown
of Cleveland took first, Calvin
Thurston’s Kolton Malone Cleve and Elijah Southern from Royce of Thurston took second,
took first place in the 120 class Thurston.
followed by Titus Trayhorn of
followed by Dylan Mann of La
For the 126 class, Logan Barlow, Jose Orozco of La Pine
Pine, Cleveland’s Elija Fish- Slonecker of Thruston took first, and Lewis Gray of Forest Grove.
Grant Union’s Justin Hodge
ler, Centennial’s Jeremiah Van Davey Smith of Bend took sec-
got first place for the 152
class. Grant Union’s Damion
Young came in second, fol-
lowed by Centennial’s Riley
Salazar, Bend’s Grant Harpole
and Mountain View’s Sayre
Williams.
Asher Ruchti of Thurston
took first place in the 160 class.
Thurston’s Varney Doreen came
in second, Dylan Hankey of La
Pine in third, Javier Galvez of
Hood River Valley in fourth and
Steven Preston of The Dalles
in fifth.
For the 170 class Dusty Dodge
of The Dalles took the top of the
podium, while Shane Teigen of
Thurston came in second, Owen
Rice from Forest Grove placed
third, Dominick Evans from La
Pine in fourth and Maverick
Geller of Hood River Valley in
fifth.
Centennial’s Bailey Sparks
took first in the 182 class fol-
lowed by Thurston’s Vaun
Halstead, Mountain View’s Ryan
Calderon, Grant Union’s Russell
Hodge and Barlow’s Jackson
Kane.
The 195 class saw Blake Ohl-
son of Mountain View as the
winner, Gavin Rice of Forest
Grove as second, Jeffrey Falla of
Forest Grove as third, Andrew
Collins of Barlow as fourth and
Gabe Steen of Centennial as
fifth.
La Pine’s Daniel Underwood
won the 220 class. Centenni-
al’s Emanuel Gurzhuy came in
second, HRV’s Logan Jensen
came in third, HRV’s Abra-
ham Tinajero came in fourth
and Thurston’s Dylan Stephens
came in fifth.
Thurston’s Brian Jenkins took
first in the 285 followed by Drew
Lusco from Grant Union, Rory
Eck from Mountain View, Mat-
thew Jefferis from Barlow and
Art Carrillo from Centennial.
Hood River Valley heads to
The Dalles for its next meet Fri-
day, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m.
Eagle girls fight to the very end v. Trout Lake
By GABRIEL BRAVO
News staff writer
Hood River Valley’s varsity girls
basketball team battled hard but
was defeated by Tout Lake High
School 43-36 Wednesday, Jan. 22
at Vannet Court in Hood River.
HRV started the game with
patience and crisp passing in its
offense. This calm and collected
Eagle offensive strategy prevent-
ed the Mustangs from scoring for
four minutes in the first quarter.
“We were moving the ball
pretty well. We were getting good
looks inside,” Steve Noteboom,
head coach for the Eagles, said.
“We struggle shooting the ball
outside so our focus was trying
to get it in to Grace (Meyers) and
Morgan (Baker) inside. If they
couldn’t get it, then we’d move it
back out and get some shots from
the outside.”
At the end of the first quarter,
HRV was up 8-4. Trout Lake,
however, beefed up their zone
and prevented HRV from attack-
ing the rim.
Ball movement to the outside
and a little bit more patience
would have beat the Mustang’s
defensive zones, Noteboom said.
With a minute left to play in
the first half, Trout Lake tied the
game at 11.
Steve Allaway, head coach
for Trout Lake, said this year the
team has been a second half
team.
“We have a habit this year of
playing atrocious first halves,” Al-
laway said. “But we’ve done well
in the second half for the most
part this year. In the second half
we did convert a lot of lay-ins and
a lot of free throws which makes it
easier to play basketball.”
The Mustangs lost the lead
once, took it back and never gave
it up for the rest of the game.
Senior Isabella Dean and soph-
omore Wynsome Painter were
Trout Lake’s game changers,
Allaway said.
With Trout Lake slowly creep-
ing away with the lead, HRV was
still fighting and trying to win
the ball.
“Towards the end there we
were trying to foul. But even
then, we were reaching in a little
too much,” Noteboom said. “The
girls that fouled out probably had
one or two fouls where they were
reaching in and committing silly
fouls. That’s something you can’t
have when you’re in a game like
this.”
HRV players who fouled out
were juniors Karla Barajas, Molly
Routson and Baker.
Even with the loss, Noteboom
said the team completed some
goals they set before the game.
“Our focus for this game was
limiting offensive rebounds for
them and we did a nice job
of that. We hit our goal there,”
Noteboom said. “We had fewer
turnovers. Our goal was to have
fewer than 16 turnovers and we
did that today. There’s definitely
some bright spots and things to
build on.”
The Eagles travel to Redmond
Friday, Jan. 31 and play at 7:15
p.m.
Photo by Gabriel Bravo
HOOD RIVER VALLEY senior Hannayo Sato (24) keeps up with
Trout Lake sophomore Wynsome Painter (2) Wednesday night at
Vannet Court in Hood River.
Hood River Osprey swimmers compete in their first event
The Hood River January Duals
were held Sunday, Jan. 12 at the
Hood River Aquatic Center. This
was the first swim competition
for Lyla Mall, Griffin Mueller and
Madelyn Anderson.
Leading the Osprey with four
wins was Sarah Arpag in the
400-meter freestyle, 100-meter
individual medley, 200-meter
backstroke and 100-meter but-
terfly. Skyla Hollowell had two
wins. Hollowell took first in
the 200-meter freestyle and
200-meter individual medley.
Gavin Hackett grabbed first in
the 100-meter backstroke while
Michelle Graves won the 100-
meter breaststroke.
Swimmers placing in the top
10 of their age group were Finn
Cargo as third in the 200-meter
breaststroke, Matthew Couvreux
who placed second in the 25-
meter freestyle and 25-meter
butterfly and third in both the
25-meter breaststroke and 25-
meter backstroke.
Sophia Cross swam to fifth
place in the 100-meter freestyle,
sixth in the 100-meter breast-
stroke and ninth in the 200-
meter freestyle while Delaney
Hackett was second in both the
50-meter freestyle and 50-meter
backstroke.
William Frost swam to sev-
enth in the 100-meter and 200-
meter freestyle and was ninth in
the 100-meter breaststroke. Ava
Giordano was ninth in the 50-
Photo courtesy of Shelly Rawding
SWIMMERS Max Graves, Willow Hollowell, Skyla Hollowell, Sarah Arpag and Delaney Hackett at the Hood River January Duals Sun-
day, Jan. 12 at the Hood River Aquatic Center.
meter freestyke and 10th in the
50-meter butterfly.
Sophie Helleberg was third
in the 50-meter butterfly and
fourth in the 50-meter freestyle,
Willow Hollowell was second
in the 100-meter backstroke,
third in the 200-meter freestyle
and fourth in the 100-meter
butterfly.
Katie Karaszewski placed fifth
in both the 25-meter breast-
stroke and 25-meter backstroke
events. Liam King was fourth in
the 50-meter backstorke while
Marieda Kalahar was fifth in the
200-meter individual medley
and seventh in the 400-meter
freestyle.
Lauren Mack was second in
the 50-meter butterfly and third
in both the 50-meter and 100-
meter breaststroke events. Leah
Sandoval was second in the 200-
meter breaststroke and fifth in
the 50-meter backstroke.
Franciso Solberg was sixth
in the 50-meter freestyle and
10th in the 50-meter backstroke.
Emma Titus placed second in
the 100-meter breaststroke and
fifth in the 200-meter freestyle
while Reagan VanMatre was sec-
ond in the 25-meter backstroke.
Other Osprey that competed
in the meet were Aili Archbald
taking 11th in 50-meter back-
stroke, Dawson Beneventi at
21st place in 50-meter back-
stroke, Claire Couvreux in13th
place in the 50-meter back-
stroke and 50-meter butterfly,
Alyra Elliott at 12th place in
the 50-meter breaststroke, Seth
Millan talomg 11th in 100-meter
freestyle, Luke Padgett at 14th
place in the 50-meter breast-
stroke, Anthony Petros as 24th
in 50-meter backstroke, Ethan
Ready taking 15th in 50-meter
freestyle, Savannah Reeves in
16th place in the 50-meter back-
stroke, Ella Stromquist as 33rd
in the 50-meter freestyle, So-
phia Stomquist taking 34th
place in the 50-meter freestyle,
Rhylie VanMatre as 15th in the
50-meter backstroke, Clemen-
tine VanDeHey in 13th place in
the 50-meter breaststroke and
Scout Wolfe taking 11th in the
50-meter butterfly.
Coach Shelly Rawding con-
tributed to this article.
Babe Ruth Baseball registration now open
Hood River Babe Ruth Base-
ball is now registering kids
aged 13-15 for its spring season
every Sunday from 5-6 p.m.
through Feb. 16.
People can sign up at the
Hood River Valley High School
batting facilities. Registration
fee is $125.
Hood River Babe Ruth Base-
ball is also looking for coaches,
managers, umpires and gen-
eral help.
The Babe Ruth League al-
lows players aged 13-15 to
compete, offering an array of
experience and skill similar to
Little League.
For inquiries, questions or
more information, contact
David Hough at yzhough@
yahoo.com.
Photo by Ray Rodriguez
LAST YEAR’S Babe Ruth League winners, Kellogg Welding, pose after their championship game.