Spilyjy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
December 22, 2005'
White Buffalo basketball teams
facing a year of transition
By Brian Mortenacn
".Spilyay Tymoo
: With several new players on
both teams, and with the im
minent advance to a new clas
sification with bigger schools,
the theme of this season is
transition for Madras High
School's boys and girls basket
ball teams.
. '. The boys White Buffalos ex
pected the return of wo start
ers and six players with varsity
"experience, but were then faced
'with the season-long loss of se
jiior Jordan Say, who sustained
"a broken collarbone during foot
ball season.
I'. The Madras girls return two
all-Tri-Valley League selections
In guard Briana Stacona and
Susan Ahern, along with return
ing starting post Krista Haugen,
but start the season with a new
coach, former freshman coach
Becky Burchcll (nee Dodson)
and a mostly new team.
Move to 4A conference
Both teams look to be com
petitive in their last season in the
Class 3A Tri-Valley League be
fore they move into Class 5A
next year under the newly con
figured Oregon School Activi
ties Association athletic districts.
Beginning next season, pend
ing the results of disputes con
cerning the transition around
the state, Madras would join
most of the schools in what is
now the Class 4A Intermoun
tain Conference, with each of
the three Bend schools, Summit,
Bend and Mountain View, along
with Crook County, The Dalles
Wahtonka, Hermiston and
Pendleton. Redmond would
move into Class 6A, and Hood
River Valley would join a 5A
league closer to the Portland
area.
Boys program
if The Madras boys program
have retooled its approach to
account for the small yet ath
Jetic athletes it appears to have
available in the coming season
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and with the prospect of the
school being the smallest in its
new leauuc beginning next year,
So far, it's resulted in an excit
ing approach that features shifts
of five players each playing ex
haustively aggressive on oftense
and fast and opportunistic on
offense, looking for transition
chances and putting up a lot of
three-point shots.
So far, it's worked, as, in a
non-conference schedule that's
included four 4A teams, the
White Buffalos have gone 4
3. Averaging 71 .6 points game,
the White Buffalos, going into
their Dec. 20 action at Burns,
had scored more than 80
points three times and made
better than 10 three-pointers
a game.
With its system of subbing
five players after short shifts,
nearly every player on the ros
ter gets lots of playing time but
it also puts pressure on the in
coming players to maintain the
level of play as the group be
fore it. It also creates balanced
scoring, as five White Buffalos
averaged at least eight points a
game through their first seven
contests.
Derrick Metcalf, a junior,
averages 14.2 points a game,
including two 20-point efforts
and had twice hit five three
pointers in a game. Jansen
I Iarrington, junior and a Warm
Springs tribal member, averages
12.29 playing both inside and
outside. Marcus Zacarias, a 5-9
senior guard, 9.6 points a game,
and the team's other senior,
Tyler Ellsbury, averages 8.6 a
game.
Newcomer Albert Adams has
hit a three-pointer in all but one
game, including four against
Astoria Dec. 10, and averages
8.0.
The White Buffalos have five
games during the holiday break,
with a game at Burns Dec. 20,
a home game against LaPine
Thurs., Dec. 22, and three
games at the Sisters Holiday
Tournament. The Madras boys
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open that tournament against
Junction City, a Sky-Km team
that's started nut 3-2.
Anthony Adams has aver
aged 5.0 a game as a sophomore,
while junior ('arson Ahern av
erages 5.6. Newcomers and
tribal members Bobby Thurby
and Orlando Tewee average 1.5
and 1.3 points, respectively
Girls team
As expected the Madras girls
team, which reached the second
round of the 3A state tourna
ment and one win short of mak
ing the final eight at Corvallis'
Gill Coliseum, have been led by
Stacona and Ahern.
Stacona was the only White
Buffalo scoring in double figures
going into the team's home game
against Burns, the No. 1 team
in Class 3A and defending state
champion, putting up 14.2
points per game.
Ahern averages 9.0 a game,
but her long-range shooting
made her a hero in the Buffs'
game against Molalla, as her
buzer-bcating three-pointer
from the corner gave Madras a
54-53 win.
Only one other Buff, though,
averages as much as six points
a game, quick 5-2 junior Shirellc
Adams. Post Ashley I Iaugen, a
sophomore, has put up 5.8 a
game, while guards Whitley Ruiz
and Alyssa Selam, a sophomore,
average 4.5 and 4.4 a game, re
spectively. In fact, Stacona and Ahern
have accounted for 43 percent
of the Buffalos' scoring through
their first six games. As a team,
they average 50.3 points per
game and have allowed oppo
nents 51.2.
The Buff girls' schedule mir
rors the boys, with a game at 1
3 LaPine Thursday and three
games at the Sisters Holiday
Tournament Dec. 27-29.
The Buffs open tournament
play against Sisters, which beat
Madras, 60-54, in Sisters Dec.
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