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Spilygy Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon Page 7 March 2, 20 0 6 White Buffalo boys head to state tourney B y Brian M ortensen Spilyay Tymoo - By the time this edition of the Spilyay reaches your hands, the Madras White Buffalo boys b a sk e tb a ll team m ay have reach ed N orth B end H igh School for the first round of the OSAA-U.S. Bank Class 3A State Basketball Tournament. The White Buffaloes (18-7) were slated to make the 261- mile trip to the coast to play the Bulldogs (16-9) Wednesday and try for their first trip to the Class 3A Tournament site at Gill Coli seum in Corvallis since 2003. The White Buffaloes are in the state playoffs as the No. 3 seed from the Tri-Valley League, after their 80-70 win over Val ley C ath o lic at the B u ffalo Dome Saturday. The Buffaloes hit 12 three-pointers in the first half and scored 34 points in the first period and led, 49-31, at the half. They had to hold off a late rally from the Valiants that saw their lead cut to four, 71- 67, with just over two minutes left, but managed to hold on, thanks to clutch free throw shooting and a late three-pointer from Jansen Harrington. D errick M etcalf hit six o f Madras’s 12 three-pointers had a gam e-high 18 point, w hile Marcus Zacarias had 12. In a great show of balanced scoring, Harrington and Carson Ahern each had eight points, and Tyler Ellsbury, Orrin Wallace and Jor dan Say each had seven. Their fate was all but secured w hen Sh erw o o d handed W ilsonville its second loss in News three games, a 44-43 decision in Sherwood, and climbed into first place with only two losses to its credit. Wilsonville, which then had three losses, was then tied for second in the league with M adras. W ilsonville, though, which beat the Buffalos, 93-83, in Wilsonville Feb. 14, held tie breaker edge over Madras by virtue of its season sweep. T he W h ite B u ffalo s re bounded with an 82-61 win at LaSalle Feb. 17, and a 106-64 romp over Estacada on Senior Night Feb. 24, the third time Madras surpassed the century mark this season. I f M adras w ins at N orth Bend W ednesday, it plays at Capital Conference champion Stayton Saturday. Stayton (19- 6) won a tie-breaking playoff game against North Marion to earn that league’s first seed last Thursday. The Eagles split with Sisters during Capital League play, while Madras beat Sisters by 29 points in their only meet ing in December. Stayton also went 3-1 against four Tri-Valley League opponents in December, one of the wins being a curious 56-39 win over now TVL cham pion Sherwood Dec. 13, and lost in a lo w -sco rin g gam e to Wilsonville. Should Madras win at North Bend and Stayton, it would join Class 3A’s final round of eight at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis and play Skyline Conference cham pion Hidden Valley, the No. 1 team in the state that has not lost since Dec. 9 and has not lost to an Oregon opponent all year, at 8:15 p.m. on March 9. Madras, which is at its offen sive prime, at a season-high 79.1 points per game, continues to have three players averaging in double figures, with the junior Metcalf leading with a 14.6 av erage, H arrin gto n at 12.8 a game, and Zacarias at just un der 12 a game. Led by Ellsbury, at 7.7, the Buffs have five players averag ing between five and eight points a game. The Madras girls team’s hope to return to the Class 3A play offs went up in smoke Feb. 21 when it lost at Estacada, 59-50. The Buffs, who had struggled to a 7-15 mark and 3-8 record in league play, were still tied with LaSalle for the fifth and last Tri- Valley League playoff mark. All they needed to do was beat Eastacada, a team that had been winless in league play, at 0-11, had not won since beating 2A Heppner Dec. 29 and had not beaten a 3A team since Dec. 1 (Molalla), to at least work itself into a tie-breaking playoff game the next night. LaSalle played Valley Catholic, which would have clinched at least a share of third place in the league with a win, at home. Madras struggled to stop the R angers and lo st, 59-50, as LaSalle beat Valley Catholic, 41- 36. The 59 points E stacada scored was a season-high, as the R angers, w hich averaged 36 points a game through the sea son, had scored as many as 51 only once in the season. Sophomore Briana Stacona, who ended the season as the only Buffalo averaging double fig ures, at 12.04 a game, was the only Buffalo in double figures in that game, with 13. Contrast that to four days prior, the Buffs’ home finale, when Ma dras beat LaSalle, 55-36, when Stacona scored 20 points and had two teammates, in Shirelle A dam s, w ith 12, and K rista Haugen, with 10, assisting her. However, that 55-point effort was Madras’ highest point total since its opening game of the season, when again, three play ers scored in double figures. The encouraging news for Madras is that it loses only one senior, wing Susan Ahern, the team’s last link to the 2003 Class 3A state cham pionship win. Ahern, who was the Buffs’ lead ing scorer as a sophomore in 2004, b efo re the arriv a l o f Stacona last year, struggled to an 8.5-per-game scoring average. A proven scorer and a consis tent shooter, Ahern scored in double figures only six times in the B uffs’ 23-game schedule, though two of them came in her last four games, including her 1 8-p o in t season high at Gladstone Feb. 7. Along with Stacona, the Buffs return Adams, a junior who aver aged 7.7 points a gam e, and Haugen, a sophomore who con tributed 5.7 at the post, and Jacoba Smith, who averaged 5.2 points in five games before being lost for the season due to injury. They’ll also return guards Whit ley Ruiz and Alyssa Selam, who both average 3.3 points a game. from Indian Country smoking ban applies to tribal casinos that aren’t on reserva tion land _ an issue the law does not address. The Puyallups’ main casino near East Tacoma is on reser vation land. The tribe can oper ate its other casino, at the Fife location of a former Best West ern hotel on non-tribal land, for up to six years before it must en ter a trust, said Susan Arland, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Gambling Commission. Businesses on nontribal lands are subject to the ban, but Janelle Guthrie, spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s office, said “it’s not crystal clear whether or not it would be (enforceable) on trust lands.” The federal government holds trust land for use by Indian tribes, whose own governments deter mine rules on the land. It’s also not clear whether the ban is enforceable on Indian reservations, but it’s “reasonably likely” that courts would find it isn’t, Guthrie said. Neither situ ation has been challenged in court, she said, noting that she did not know o f any pending cases. Sen. Bob Morton, R-Orient, sent a letter to state Attorney General Rob McKenna asking for clarification on a several smoking ban questions, including several related to tribal businesses. Requests for an attorney general’s opinion typically take 60 to 90 days to complete, said Jim Pharris, deputy solicitor general. In a Feb. 17 letter to the h ealth d ep artm en t, P ierce C o un ty E xecu tive Jo h n Ladenburg wrote the tribe “vol Officials press for ruling on casino application BELOIT, Wis. (AP) - City officials hope to use an upcom ing conference in Washington, D.C. as an opportunity to en courage federal action on a lo cal casino application. Beloit City Manager Larry A rft and C ouncil P residen t M arty Densch say they want the application to receive a fair hearing, but the approval pro cess has gotten bogged down by politics. The St. Croix and Bad River Band Chippewa filed the appli cation late last year, hoping the review process would take sev eral weeks. The Minnesota re gional office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs first must review the application, which then is sent to Washington for more evaluation. Chanda Joseph, a tribal op erations specialist with BIA, said the application is being looked at but she didn’t say when a de cision would be announced. “It’s still under review and it’s ongoing,” she said. Herb N elson, the bureau’s regional environmental special ist, confirmed that the environ m ental im pact study, often a substantial part of the approval process, is complete. Joseph and Nelson said BIA business is progressing as usual, even though U.S. Sen. Jo h n McCain, R-Arizona, is pushing for reform of the Indian Gam ing Regulatory Act. One component of that act stipulates that land held in trust for tribes by the federal govern ment cannot be used for gam ing unless certain conditions are met. That means the D epart ment o f the Interior and the state’s governor would have to agree that the gaming facility is in the tribe’s best interest and wouldn’t hurt the surrounding community. Gov. Jim Doyle has said he w ill m ake a decision on the B elo it ap p licatio n only if it reaches him. McCain’s bill would amend the gaming act to limit the lands eligible for gaming. It would also m andate th at ap p ro val be granted at the local as well as state and federal levels. The measure is being reviewed in a congressional committee. A rft said he d o esn ’t see McCain’s proposals as cause for concern since he thinks casino proposals already filed will be grandfathered in under the bill. W hile in Washington, Arft and Densch plan to discuss the casino application with Sens. Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl and U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison. The Beloit officials plan to attend the N ational League of Cities conference the weekend of March 11. untarily made an enormous con tribution to the economic vital ity o f our com m unities and should not now su ffer” for m oving its casino from trust land in the port to nontrust land in Fife. Rep. Norm Dicks, D- Belfair, has sponsored a bill that would im m ediately grant the F ife lan d tru st statu s, the co n g ressm an ’s spokesm an, George Behan, said. He noted that the U.S. Senate approved a companion bill last fall spon sored by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. C ounty health inspecto rs twice visited the Emerald Queen Casino in the w eek after the smoking ban took effect Dec. 8. Inspectors cited the casino for allowing people to smoke inside the building and for not posting “no smoking” signs. That put him into a match for seventh place against Emanuel Quintanilla o f Cas cade, which he won, 6-4. Begay, who received his No. 2 seed at state despite finishing second at the Tri- Valley League tournam ent the previous weekend, was a league champion as a junior in 2005. He wrestled in Aus tralia last year as part of the Down Under Games, and he was selected to play football in G reat B ritain later this month. For Madras, which had an all-tim e high 12 w restlers advance to the state meet, the weekend in Salem was a good one, with four wrestlers placing. Cameron Rosenfeld up set No. 1 seed V lad i Pedersen of Central, in the 135-pound quarterfinals and moved into the champion ship match on Sat., Feb. 18. An u n seed ed w re stle r, Rosenfeld, found himself up against Tyler Swartzlander of perennial and 2006 team champion Burns, the runner- up at 119 pounds in 2005. Swartzlander beat Rosenfeld by pin in 2 :2 9, but Rosenfeld’s runner-up finish ended up as Madras’ top fin ish o f the weekend. Corey Carillo finished third at 130 pounds, and Chris Monroe was also third, at 140. — — By Brian Mortensen SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — The Chickasaw Nation plans to revive this community’s landmark hotel, a structure that has been disassembled and reconstructed twice. The five-story Artesian Hotel was built for the 1905 World’s Fair in St. Louis, disassembled, then moved to Oklahoma and reconstructed at what then was known as Platt National Park. In 1906, the building was torn down again and moved to downtown Sulphur. Hotel patrons paid $1.50 a night for steam heat, electric lighting, a dance pavilion and the best lobby in the state at the time. “Oh, it was just a beautiful place, and it was the home away from home for a lot of different people — governors and members of Congress... people who would come here to enjoy the national park and fishing and the scenery and hot baths,” said Eldon Cleveland, a longtime citizen and member of the Arbuckle Historical Society. Fire destroyed the hotel in January 1962. Another hotel was built, but it fell into foreclosure. The Chickasaw tribe purchased the hotel land in 1972 for $139,000 and built the Chickasaw Motor Inn, which had a modern appeal but lacked the historical beauty of the origi nal Artesian. The tribe received a $210,000 grant from the Bureau o f Indian Affairs to build the motor inn. Instead o f the A rtesian’s famous bath house, tribal spokeswoman Robyn E lliott said, the new owners added office space for their growing staff. Tribal officials now view the hotel’s prox imity to the Chickasaw National Recreation Area and south ern Oklahoma’s growing tourism market as prime reasons to reopen the hotel. Inter-Industry Conference On Auto Collision Repair (l-CAR) Automotive Service Excellence (A SE) Certified Miller Ford-Nissan Collision Center 36 S.E. 6th, Madras, OR 97741 Come see us first We repair all makes and models! 24-Hour Towing Service, Rental cars available 541 - 475-6153 L e t us help n e g o tia te y o u r v e h ic le d a m a g e c la im We honor all insurance company estimates. 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Begay, who was seeded second in the 275 pound, tra ditional heavyweight, compe tition, started, after a first- round bye, with a pin over R iv ersid e sen io r R uben Medoza, in two minutes, 44 seconds. He then lost to the even tu al ru n n er-u p , N athan Hannah o f Scappoose, 2-1, Friday, Feb. 17, to fall into the consolation bracket. The best Begay could have done from that point was finish th ird , by w in n in g four matches in the consolation bracket. But while there, he earned his second pin, over Tanner Bennett of Sutherlin, in 4:22, but then lost to Levi Cooper of North Marion, pinned in 2:24. Tribe plans to revive landmark hotel Tribe, county at odds over loophole in smoking ban FIFE, Wash. (AP) _ Despite tw o citatio n s for v io la tin g W ashington’s new statew ide smoking ban, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians continues to let pa trons light up at its Emerald Queen Casino. Dr. Federico Cruz-Uribe, di rector o f the Tacom a-Pierce C ounty H ealth D epartm ent, says an agreem ent the tribe signed in 2004, allowing it to move the casino from w ater fro n t lan d in the P ort o f Tacoma to an Interstate 5 loca tion in Fife, requires that it be follow the same state and local laws as other businesses. T rib al sp o kesm an Jo h n Weymer counters the tribe is a sovereign nation , unencum bered by the smoking ban. T he d isp u te h in ges on w h eth er the voter-ap pro ved Begay shows his best at championships «
