Spilyqy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon March 4, 2004 Page 7 Madras boys beat Valley Catholic By Sid Miller Publisher Emeritus Madras finished in second place in the Tri-Valley League standings by defeating Valley Catholic last week. Results from the March 2 playoff game were not available at press time. The White Buffaloes blew away the Valley Catholic Valiants 76-58, led by Dominique Ilasterlings 27 points. He outscored everyone in the game. A lot of Easterling's points came from second efforts on rebounding and going back up to score. He was very instru mental getting rebounds on both sides of the court, offense as well as defense. The Buffaloes led at the in- IT t h Sid MillerSpllyay Kenin Hernandez looks for an opening against the Valians. termission 35-23 and in the third points and also had a good night quarter the Buffs poured it on rebounding, he also had two with a 31-20 scoring run to three-point baskets. Tim Kirsch open things up. added 10 points, Kenin Joey McConnell scored 1 8 Hernandez 8, Isaiah Tewee 8. Rodeo Association elects officers By Sid Miller Publisher Emeritus Warm Springs Rodeo Asso ciation President Delford Johnson called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 5. On the agenda was the elec tion of new officers for the coming rodeo season. The club members unani mously re-elected Delford Johnson for another term. Other officers elected were as follows: vice-chairman Sid Miller; Val Squiemphen, trea surer; secretary Maria Hicks, Club Advisor J.R. Smith, Carmella Scott and Ginger Smith elected to serve as public relations officers. There was no old business. The next item on the agenda was the coming rodeo season. The first one for the Warm Springs Rodeo Association (WSRA) is the Root Feast Ro deo, which is coming very soon. Stock contractors will be con tacted and scheduled for the rodeo. The other rodeo of concern is the Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo, which comes during the Treaty Days Celebration in June. The WSRA now belongs to the "Columbia River Rodeo As sociation" and not to the West ern States Rodeo Association of the past. The Columbia River Rodeo Association covers Oregon, Washington, Northern Idaho. These are several C.R.A. Rodeo's already scheduled. The travel will not be so great here in the Northwest. A big concern in any organization is fundraising events or projects. The chairman asked for ideas on how we could have fundraising events. Suggestions include a raffle of various items, a dance at Kah-Nee-Ta. For the raffle, items will be an nounced later on. Membership dues are due, and there was dis cussion of recruiting new mem bers. With everyon in agreement and with no further business, the meeting was adjourned. Girls finish strong season By Sid Miller Publisher Emeritus The Madras girls basket ball team won two of three games to close out their regu lar season schedule. They advanced to league playoff action at Gladstone last Sat urday. The White Buffaloes won an important game over the Wilsonville Wildcats 61-47 during Tri-Valley action. The loser was out for the season and Madras being the winner advanced to meet Gladstone on their home court. Madras lost at Gladstone and was eliminated from state tourna ment consideration. The White Buffaloes jumped right out to a 15-8 lead in the first quarter against Wilsonville and outscored the Wildcats 12-8 in the second quarter to go into the halftime leading 27 16. In the third quarter the White Buffs went cold for a spell as the Wildcats closed the gap to five points, 34-29 at the end of the third quarter. In the final period the Buffs got their act together once again and with three quick baskets the breath ing room was a bit better. Tara Prow led the way with . 19 paints, Elise Hawes had 11, and Susan Ahem 8. Earlier in the week Prow led the charge with 25 points to give Madras a 57-38 win over the Valiants of Valley Catholic. At the end of the first quar ter the Valiants held a one point lead 11-10. When the halftime came the White Buffaloes took command to lead 25-19. Madras outscored the Val iants 17-8 in the third quarter and to top things off they outscored the Valiants 15-11 in the final period to give them the win. the victory tied Madras with Gladstone at 8-6 in league standings. Gladstone defeated Madras two times in league play so they got home court advan tage in a Tri-Valley playoff game. Ahem scored 14 points in the victory over Valley Catho lic. In earlier Tri-Valley action Sherwood held out to win a close game over Madras, 45 42. The Buffs were 10 points down with five minutes in the game, but they made a run to cut the lead to three be fore the final buzzer sounded. Sherwood made their free throws when they needed them to keep just out of reach of the Buffaloes in the closing minutes of the game. Hawes made three three pointers and outscored every one during the game, ending up with a total of 15 points. Ahem got one three-pointer and ended the game with 13 points.Madras held a two point lead at the end of the first quarter, but Sherwood took over the lead at halftime, 25-22. Sherwood was ahead 34-27 at the end of three quarters. New regional association formed By Val Squiemphen Association secretary The Columbia River Indian Rodeo Cowboys Association has finally received written confir mation that they are their' own region. We received the letter in late January. The Board of Di rectors had a meeting and made some decisions that you need to know about. The date has been extended to April 30 for the $65 mem bership dues. Membership ap plications have been sent out to potential members and hope fully they will take advantage of the reduced price. On May 1, the membership dues will be $75. Because it is our first year, the membership dues may not go up to $85. We'll keep you updated on that. Also, everyone should con tact their event directors for any possible additions, deletions, modifications, etc., to the rulebook for their respective events. We hope to have a final ized rulebook by April 1, in time for the first rodeo in May. We are looking forward to working with everyone. If you have any questions, please contact any one on the Board of Directors. They are as follows: Alfred Smith Jr., president; Carson Badonie, vice-president; Val Squiemphen, secretary; Katie Valdez, treasurer; Katherine Goodluck, Oregon rep.; Betty Sampson, Washing ton rep; Marita Johnson, barrel racing director; Kimma Flammond, breakaway director; Luther Leith, bareback director; Roy Leith, bull riding director; Delbert Garcia, saddle bronc director; Waylon Beyer, team roping director; Lawrence The next deadline to submit letters, notices, birthday wishes, etc., to the Spilyay Tymoo is Friday, March 12. Crawler, calf roping director; vacant, steer wrestling director; Roger Fiander, Century Team roping director; Louie Gunnier, wild horse race director. We have two locals that are selling raffle tickets for the Co lumbia River Indian Rodeo Queen contest. They are Jenna Johnson and Liana Tom. See either of these girls for your chance to win some really nice raffle items, including a 2 year old Judge Cash filly, cash prizes and many other items. If you have any questions regard ing the Queen contest, please call Shannon Adams at (509) 910-5103. The first rodeo of the sea son is the Tygh Ridge Rodeo on May 8 and 9. We are awaiting word on White Swan, Warm Springs, Grand Ronde and Nespelem. We have several people working on those. We had a slow start on ev erything because of the delay in getting the written confirmation from the INFR Commission, but now that we have that, ev eryone is working together to get everything going. We hope that Indian market at Toppenish The Fortieth Annual Spilyay Indian Market will be held this month at Legends Casino, Toppenish Wash. Dates are Sat urday, March 13 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Featured events include best of show beadwork; exhibit only displays; toddler fashion show; student art; and fine arts. There will be a Hand Drum Contest, limited to first 10 en- all of the cowboys and cowgirls tries, on Sunday only. 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