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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
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S ch oo l’s A ccelera ted
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Kortney, 9, needs only
fo u r points to reach the
mark in the 10 days to
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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
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sion is Friday, Jan. 13.
team average^ about 13 points
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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.
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