Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
P^ge 8
February 16, 2006
Basketball squad looking to post season
By Brian M ortensen
Spilyay Tymoo
G oing into the last three
games o f the regular season, the
Madras White Buffalo boys bas­
ketball team still has a golden
opportunity to win the Tri-Val­
ley League tide, or at least lock
up a trip to the Class 3A State
Tournament without playing a
league playoff game.
The White Buffalos (15-6, 7-
2 Tri-Valley as o f Monday)
faced first-place Wilsonville,
ranked No. 5 in the last Associ­
ated Press poll, for a chance to
move into first place in the
league. Madras, Wilsonville (8-
2) and Sherwood (7-2) each
have two league losses.
Wilsonville, which beat Madras,
90-72, Jan. 17, lost its second
league game to Valley Catholic
in overtime Friday, three days
after the Madras beat the Val­
iants by five.
A fter Tuesday’s game at
Wilsonville, Madras is at 1-9
LaSalle Friday and returns home
for its regular-season finale
against 2-7 Estacada.
Madras has won five straight
games since the home loss to
W ilsonville, averaging 83.4
points per game, only once scor­
ing under 81 points.
Derek Metcalf continues to
lead the team, averaging 15.7
points a game, while Jansen
Harrington averages 12.9 and
Marcus Zacarias is the third
Bu ff in double-figures, at 10.8
points per game.
Tyler Ellsbury contributes
7.6 per game, while Carson
Ahern has picked his average
up to 7.1 per game, with the
help o f a season-high 17-point
effort against Gladstone Fri­
day.
With a three-pointer in 16
straight games, Albert Adams
averages 6.9 points a game,
while A.J. Adams is at 4.6. Or­
lando Tewee averages 2.6 a
game in limited action.
A lot is at stake for the White
Buffalos, depending on how
they do over their last two regu­
lar-season games.
The league champion doesn’t
play until March 4, against the
winner o f a game between the
third-place team from the Capi­
tal League, which may be Sis­
ters, and the Greater Oregon
League runner-up, which ap­
pears to be Baker, last year’s state
runner-up.
Second place in the Tri-Val­
ley League hosts the third-place
team from the G O L, which ap­
pears to be Riverside.
The third-place team, which
must survive a Tri-V alley
League playoff between the
winner o f the fourth and fifth-
place teams (now Valley Catho­
lic and Gladstone), travels to
either North Bend, Sutherlin, or
Coquille, whichever happens to
finish second in the Far West
League.
year, the Madras girls basketball
team still has a chance at the
postseason.
Now in sixth place in the
Tri-Valley League with a 2-7
mark, they need only finish
ahead o f 3-7 LaSalle to get to
fifth place and get into a league
playoff.
Following their home game
against Wilsonville Tuesday, the
White Buffalos host LaSalle, one
o f two teams they’ve beaten in
league action, and then end the
regular season at Estacada.
Senior Susan Ahern’s scoring
average had dropped to under
eight points a game, but four
double-figure outings in her last
five games, including a season-
high 18 in a losing effort at
Gladstone last Friday, boosted
her average to 8.9 a game.
Briana Stacona continues to
lead the White Buffalos at 11.8,
after she started the Tri-Valley
campaign at 15.5.
Shirelle Adams also has four
double-figure games in her last
five games and now averages
7.7 a game.
When Alyssa Selam scored
against Gladstone Friday, it was
her first bucket since the Jan.
17 game at Wilsonville. She av­
erages 3.3 points a game.
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Begay hopes to win his
first state tournament match
M adras’ Blaine Begay, a
Warm Springs tribal member,
will make his third trip to the
OSAA-U.S. Bank State Wrestling
meet this weekend after finish­
ing second in his weight class,
275 pounds, at the Tri-Valley
League meet in Estacada Satur­
day.
Begay, the defending league
cham pion, lo st to Ju stin
Torgeson o f Estacada, which
won the team championship, in
the 275 lb. title match Saturday.
Begay faces senior Ruben
Mendoza o f Riverside or jun­
ior Joe Cornett o f Hidden Val­
ley when action begins Thurs­
day.
Begay is looking to win his
first state-tournament match, as
he has gone 0-2 in each o f his
trips to the meet.
The meet is at The Pavilion
at the O regon State F a ir­
grounds, beginning Thursday
and continuing through Satur­
day.
Defending state champion
Brennan Olander o f North Val­
ley is the No. 1 seed.
Madras sends 12 wrestlers to
the state meet, including four
champions as it finished second
at the Tri-Valley League meet.
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