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Page 6 January 5, 2006 Spi'iyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Mixed results so far for basketball teams By Brian Mortensen S pilyay Tymoo While Junction City cooled down Madras’ high-octane of fense and handed the W hite Buffalo boys team its first loss to a 3A team this season, the White Buffalos ended the early non-conference portion of their schedule with the highest team scoring average in Class 3A and with the only triple-digit game in the state. The White Buffalos placed fourth in the eight-team Sisters Holiday Tournament last week, beating LaPine and Banks after falling, 61-53, to Junction City on the first day o f the tourna ment. Before the Christmas holiday and going into the tournament, M adras w as av era g in g 76.9 points a game and had scored 191 points in its two previous games against Bums and LaPine. The first o f those was the Buffs’ 101-63 win at Burns, in which four players had season- highs in scoring, led by Jansen Harrington’s 22 points and 13 each from Albert Adams and C arson A hern. Five players scored in double figures for M adras, and every player on the roster scored. T he key to the B u ffalo s’ high-powered offense has been their speed, constant substitu tion s and so lid th ree-p o in t shooting. Madras hit 13 three- pointers against Burns and 14 the next night in a 90-35 rout o f LaP ine. D errick M etcalf, who leads the team with a 15.1 per-game scoring average, has h it 29 this seaso n , w h ile Harrington (at 12.8) and Adams (7.4) have hit 21 each. Marcus Zacarias (9.7) has hit 19 this season. Senior Tyler Ellsbury rounds out the usual starting five with an 8.7 average. M adras’ younger and less experienced players, in the White Buffalos’ new system of five- for-five substitution that gives lots o f players plenty of play ing time in exchange for full-on effort, have seen their scoring averages rise, as well. A.J. Adams averages 4.5 a game, while Carson Ahern’s 13 points against Banks last Thurs day raised his average to 6.5. The LaPine game Dec. 22 also signaled the return o f se nior starter Jordan Say, who had originally thought to be out for the season with a broken collar bone. He scored three points in the w in and since scored 10 points in two games at the Sis ters Tournament. The White Buffalos are off until Dec. 6, when they start Tri- Valley play against Sherwood. The Bowman (7-5) went 2-1 win in the Sisters Tournament, los ing to Junction City in the cham pionship, 53-42. W ilsonville (10-3), the de fending Class 3A champion, is ranked No. 4, but lost to No. 13 LaGrande on the last night of its tournament. Like Madras, Valley Catholic is 8-4 but lost its last four games before the new year. H eading into next w eek’s schedule, G ladstone was 5-6 Healing seminar Jan. 13-14 A h e a lin g sem in ar, Crossing2Freedom , is set for Friday and Saturday, Jan. 13-14, at the Warm Springs Commu nity Center. Crossing2Freedom is a rela tionship and inner healing semi nar for men, women and teens. Goals of the seminar are: To bring focus to the issues and wounds of the past; and to teach p articip an ts the tools needed to walk in healing instead o f wounding. There will be four workshop sessio n s, h e lp in g to h eal wounded hearts and improve relationships and change lives forever. Jan Hicks w ill be traveling from Alabama to Warm Springs to present this seminar. She has an extrem ely pow erful testi mony of deliverance from drug abuse, alcohol, adultery, divorce and abusive relationships. Jan is a licensed ordained minister, international speaker, teacher and minister of prayer. The seminar begins Friday evening, Jan. 13, and continues all day on Saturday, Jan. 14. For more information con tact Sarah Frank at the Victims of Crime office, 553-2293. Young Achiever Kortney Stacona Sponsored by Les Schwab K ortney Stacona, a fourth-grader, will soon be the first student to achieve 200 p o in ts in Warm S prings E lem entary S ch oo l’s A ccelera ted Reader program. Kortney, 9, needs only fo u r points to reach the mark in the 10 days to earn the toppripe, an A c celerated Reader program sweatshirt. K ortney is in Ms. Flores’ class, and her fa vorite subject is science. She received a telescope fo r C hristm as, though it hasn ’t y et been assembled. So far, she’s enjoyed play (pending a game against Rainier last Friday), LaSalle was 5-7, and Estacada was 2-7. Girls team The Madras girls team (5-6) hoped to be healthy and re-en ergized going into Tri-Valley play, hosting 8-4 Sherwood Friday. The White Buffalo girls, al ready down to eight varsity play ers due to injury, lost another when senior Susan Ahern, their seco nd-leading scorer, w ent down to an ankle injury in their game against Scappoose at the Sisters Tournament. With seven players, the Ma dras girls finished seventh at the to u rn am en t, fa llin g to Scappoose and conference op ponent LaSalle before beating LaPine, 43-39. With offense at a premium before Ahern was injured (with the team averaging 47.3 points), the pressure was on others to pick up their scoring. Sopho m ore guard B riana Stacona, who’s averaged in double-figures in all but one gam e so far, scored 19 and 26 points in gam es a g ain st L aS alle and L aP in e at the to u rn am en t. Sop ho m ore A lyssa Selam scored 10 and eight points in those same games for Madras. Stacona averages 15.6 points a game and has hit 20 three- pointers. A hern averaged 7.3 points, but had averaged 9.8 after scoring a season-high 14 in the Buffalos’ loss to No. 1 Burns Dec. 21. A dam s averages 5.8, and Selam 5.0, but the rest o f the To p la c ,§ a notice in the Spilyay, ca ll 553-3274, or m ail to P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761. E -mail is spily ay tymoo@n>s tribes, org. N ext deadline f o r subm is sion is Friday, Jan. 13. team average^ about 13 points y a game. 1 The Tri-Valley girls league could be loaded this year, with four teams with vanning records going into this week’s confer ence play Valley Catholic ha; jumped out to an 11-1 mark, hav.ng won 10 straight games, while Gladstone is 8-2, while Wilsonville is 7-3 and Sherwood 8-4. Wtom Springs Htokot Indito ib is 2132 Wkm Springs Si nings. 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