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March 4, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
ARCHER: Gomes earns arrow money selling candy
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Shooting a total of 120
arrows over a two-day peri-
od at targets 20 yards distant,
Gomes scored 511 points out
of a possible perfect score of
600.
In addition to becoming a
skilled bow hunter and having
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arrow last fall, the 13-year-old
who maintains a 3.72 GPA has
a reputation of being an entre-
preneur. Currently, Gomes
has as many as three candy
machines placed at different
locales in the county, earnings
from which are used to pur-
chase arrows.
In fact, Gomes’ history as
an entrepreneur began years
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grade, he launched a lucrative
business of selling frogs that
earned him front-page cover-
age in the Chieftain, followed
by a mandated halt to his oper-
ation one week later courtesy
of the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife. According
to ODFW, the type of frog the
6-year-old was selling was list-
ed on that agency’s threatened
list, and selling such an am-
phibian violated state statute.
Although brought to tears
by a decision he could not un-
derstand, the young entrepre-
neur regrouped by purchasing
a different, legal variety of
Courtesy photo
Winning first place along with husband Clayton in the
Husband & Wife Bowhunter Freestyle Division and placing
second in the Adult Female Bowhunter classification was
Casey Lowe. Casey, now a La Grande resident, graduated
from Enterprise High School in 2005 under her maiden name
of Casey Montgomery-Gomes.
Courtesy photo
Enterprise 7th grader Cole Gomes placed second in freestyle at the Oregon Bowhunters
State Indoor Archery Championships held Feb. 20-22 in Bend. Gomes competed in the age
12-14 classification.
frog in La Grande and re-
sumed his frog sales in Wal-
lowa County.
RIBICH: Miler
runs personal best
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the 3,000 meters in 8:36,
which was also a personal
best.
The Feb. 14 meet was
also held at Seattle’s
Dempsey Stadium.
Ribich, a freshman ma-
joring in communications,
posted a 3.36 GPA for the
fall term at WOU.
The time, which quali-
fies Ribich for future races
including runners from Di-
vision I schools, was a per-
sonal best for Ribich, and
within five seconds of the
WOU school record.
On Feb. 14, Ribich ran
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Attending and competing
in last week’s meet in Bend
along with Gomes were his
sister and her husband, Casey
and Clayton Lowe, who live in
La Grande. Clayton and Casey
both graduated in 2005, Clayton
from Joseph High School and
Casey (Montgomery-Gomes)
from Enterprise High.
Clayton, competing in the
Adult Male Bowhunter Free-
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the only perfect score of 600
during the entire three-day
state level event and won that
division.
Competing in the Husband
& Wife Bowhunter Freestyle
FULLER: CORAK: Long-time coach honored
career for two years at La learned during that stretch
WHS senior Continued from Page A9 ing
Grande Middle School as a came in 2011 when, while
In summary, for 25 years wrestling and football coach, exhibiting wrestling moves
wins state
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age 65, Corak seriously in-
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In a consolation match to
earn a third-place medal, Wil-
cox narrowly was outpointed
7-4 by Levi Vincent, of Cul-
ver. Even in that match, said
JoHi Coach Tim Kiesecker,
Wilcox was seconds away
from pinning Vincent when
the horn blew to end the
match and Wilcox’s high
school career.
Team scores:
Culver 147.5; Lowell 127;
Monroe 98; Gold Beach 74;
Crane 69; Oakridge 48; Hep-
pner 39; Burns 38.5; Central
Linn 36; Elgin 32; Knappa 27;
Myrtle Point 26; Wallowa 24;
Riddle 23; Union 22; Pine Ea-
gle 18; Grant Union 14; Chil-
oquin 14; Nestucca 14; North
Lake 9; Imbler 8; Reedsport
7; Bonanza 4; Crow 3; Neah-
Hah-Nie 3; Oakland 2; Joseph
2; Siletz Valley 1; Adrian 0;
Glendale 0; Hosanna Chris-
tian 0; Vernonia 0.
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schools of all sizes in Ore-
gon, spent 15 years as a head
high school wrestling coach,
assisted in high school wres-
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was a youth wrestling coach
for 14 years, and wrestled
himself in high school and
college.
Following coaching stints
in La Grande and at Pine Ea-
gle High School in Halfway,
Corak moved to Enterprise
in 1976, where he still lives,
and coached wrestling and
football off-and-on through
2012.
Corak, 69, says his high-
est coaching achievements
for wrestling were three third
places at season-ending state
meets, one coaching at Pine
Eagle and two at Enterprise.
Corak was also head coach
for the Enterprise High
School football team that
won the state championship
in 1984.
Enterprise did win state
wrestling titles in 1973 under
the tutelage of Corak’s pre-
decessor Mel Schuldt and in
1998 under the helm of Ron
Osterloh and Dan Moody, but
not under Corak.
After launching his coach-
in 1969 where he coached
football and inaugurated a
new wrestling program. “We
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(for wrestling) and took a
beating,” he said. And yet,
by the time Corak was lured
to Enterprise in 1976, PE’s
wrestling program was 33
wrestlers strong and rolling.
The bait that brought
Corak to Enterprise was the
opportunity to expand his vo-
cational horizons by becom-
ing Enterprise Elementary
School’s K-8 principal. Yet
that experiment lasted mere-
ly two years before Corak de-
cided it was either adminis-
tration or coaching, not both,
and, with little hesitation,
coaching was his choice.
An oddity about Corak’s
coaching career in Enterprise
was an 11-year hiatus after
retiring in 1999 to archery
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wrestling coaching success
of one of his sons, Brant,
whose teams won six succes-
sive state championships in
Lowrie, Nev., before falling
to second in 2015. Asked to
come back and coach both
wrestling and football at
EHS, Corak did so in 2010-
2012. One valuable lesson
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class, Clayton and Casey
also garnered state champion
honors, registering a score of
1,172 out of a perfect score of
1,200.
Among Adult Female
Bowhunter Freestyle compet-
itors last weekend in Bend,
Casey notched an overall
score of 572, including a per-
sonal best of 289 out of 300
on Sunday, and won second
place in that category.
Wallowa
County
Chieftain
jured a knee and retired as a
hands-on wrestling coach. He
returned to coach one more
year.
Never one to claim glory
for himself, Corak, among
others, is quick to give thanks
to Doyle Connall and Duff
Pace who performed valuable
assistant coaching during his
tenure in Enterprise. Too, he
praises administrator Larry
Christman who, he says, put
wrestling on a par with foot-
ball and basketball,
But Corak’s highest acco-
lades go to his high school
sweetheart, Carol, who be-
came his wife 49 years ago.
Like the man destined to
become her husband, Carol
always has had wrestling in
her bloodlines as a brother
became Nyssa High School’s
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champion. Always a Chuck
Corak supporter, Carol had
his teams over to the couple’s
home for taco and spaghetti
feeds every Thursday during
wrestling and football sea-
sons for 40 years.
Among many memories
most cherished by Corak
is his 1995 wrestling team
where three brothers were
front-line performers at the
same time. They were Josh
Wishart at 100 pounds, Gabe
Wishart at 126 pounds, and
Sean Wishart at 145 pounds.
Corak coached at least a
dozen individual state cham-
pions at EHS.
A graduate of Nyssa High
School, Corak earned his
bachelor’s degree from East-
ern Oregon State College in
1968 and his master’s degree
in Education from that same
school in 1973.
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emony, at a time when pos-
sibly four others also will be
honored, will be held at the
Embassy Suite Hotel, in Ti-
gard.
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