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M artinez girls excel at pitching By Dave McMechan Spilyay Tymoo The Chiloquin High School girls softball team, the Chiloquin Queens, had a great season this year. Two standout athletes on the squad are pitchers Spayne and Jade Martinez. The Martinez girls, who are twins, are freshmen at the high school, but already they are outstanding pitchers. The girls are the granddaughters of Urbana “Toto” Ross, and Dan Martinez, both of the Warm Springs. The other grandparents are Art Ochoa, and Kathleen and Je ff Mitchell of Chiloquin. The girls’ parents are the late Joel Martinez, and Lisa Ochoa. The Chiloquin Queens came very close to making the state softball tournament, losing the final Southern Cas cade League tournament game by one run. Making it to the league tournament was a great ac complishment in itself. A few weeks ago, at the end of the regular season, there was one spot left in the tournament, and the Queens were playing against the Honkers. This was a must-win game, with the winner heading to the league tournament and the loser go ing home. ' - ■ I Spayne Martinez was the pitcher. At one point early in the game, she had a runner 1m on third with one out. She struck out the next two batters to end the inning. Chiloquin went on to beat the John Stoops photo courtesy of the Klamath Falls Herald and News. Honkers, 11-1, qualifying for Spayne Martinez pitches for Chiloquin. the remaining spot in league cant, accomplishment for a of the games. She said both of the schoolwork, and she is tournament. the girls are great pitchers con- very proud of her grand- Last weekend they came young team. Urbana Ross, who works in sidering their young age. daughters, within a run of making the They’re also doing great in state tournament, a signifi- tribal planning, traveled to many Creating defensible space can save your home from fire By Suzy M acy Fire Prevention Tech Fire is impulsive and unpre dictable. It can find the weak link in your home’s fire protec tion design and get the upper hand because of something that has been overlooked or some other seemingly insignificant as pect. When designing your defen Page 3 May 25, 2006 Spilydy Tymoo, W ^rm Springs, Oregon sible space start with the easiest and least expensive actions. Begin your work closest to your house and move outward. Keep working on the more difficult items until you have completed your entire project. Two factors have been estab lished as the primary causes of a home’s ability to survive a wildfire. These are the home’s roof ing material and the quality of your defensible space surround ing it. Use fire-resistant materi als (class C or better) to roof your home. Don’t use wood or shake shingles as these provide no protection from fire. When your roof needs significant re pair or replacement do so with a fire-resistant roofing material such as composite shingles, metal, tile or a non-combustible shake material. Defensible space is an area around a structure where fuels and vegetation are treated, cleared or reduced to slow the spread of a wildfire towards the structure. Blackhawks win ‘Slam and Jam’ tourney The Blackhawks defeated I would like to thank the Team Oregon by the score of sponsors for this tournament: 91-80 to win the 2006 Slam and Warm Springs Forest Products Jam Tournament held at the Industries, Warm Springs Com Warm Springs Community posite Products, Erickson’s Wellness Center on May 20-21. Thriftway, C liff’s Repair and In Saturday’s round robin Auto Sales, Brightwood Corp., action, the Jailblazers defeated Carol Craig, and Warm Springs Us-Wuns by the score of 42-29, Market. Blackhawks won over Team And I would like to thank Oregon 65-46, Lapush beat Us- Our Personal Touch in Wuns 67-57, Blackhawks over Redmond, and Bear Prints in Jailblazers 63-39, Lapush beat Bend for the work they did on Us-Wuns 63-54, Team Oregon the awards. beat Jailblazers 68-57, A big thanks to the tourna Blackhawks defeated Lapush ment help, referees Jonas Keys, 103-58, and Team Oregon won Marc Henegar, Donnie Bagley, over Us-Wuns 104-60. and Otis; Gene Sampson, Jeff In Sunday’s championship Brisbois, and a couple other round Team Oregon won over people who I didn’t get their Lapush by 82-67, Blackhawks names; and also to my son over Us-Wuns 91-57, Team Francis Kentura for doing the Oregon over Jailblazers 68-57. gate for me. Thanks to Faye In the third place game Hurtado and Buffy Hurtado Jailblazers defeated Us-Wuns for doing the concessions. Good 69-64; with Us-Wuns taking luck to Team Oregon at the In fourth place. digenous Games in Denver in In the championship game it July- was the Blackhawks over Team by Sam Kentura Oregon 91-80. — Kah-Nee-Ta run results tallied The annual Kah-Nee-Ta Mini Marathon took place in early May. At the same time the grade school challenge involving grade school kids the 1-mile race and the 3-mile race. There were eleven runners competing in the 14.5-mile race from Simnasho to Kah-Nee-Ta. Of these runners Brandon Thompson was the overall winner with a time of 1:36:03, right behind him was Atcitty Begay at 1:36:06, soon after was overall female Jane Cleavenger 1:45:01. Other finishers include: Kasey Kasparovitch 1:46:53; Rusty Clemon 1:48:12; Stan Nowakowski 1:55:05; Maura Schwartz 2:05:46; Fred Clair 2:09:57; Sara Ohman 2:10:05; Brittney DeVore 2:15:47; and Rich Lohman 2:17:55. Results of the 10K are: Brett Whipple 47:36; Jason Smartlowit 54:19; Don Hillerbrand 58:16; Jana Clemons 1:00:56. Results of the 3-mile race are: Gary Sampson 13:15; David Fuentes 13:43; Larry Spino III 14:01; T Black 16:11; Ina Wainanwit 16:13; Rodney Mitchell 16:17; Bryson Spino 16:19; Tim Cleavenger 16:56; Odessa Cleavenger: 17:10; Doug Cleavenger 17:12; Mitzie Allen 17:20; Calvin Poncho 17:35; Juanita Simpson 20:16; Dave Clemens 21:12; Zena Bartz 21:48; Larissa Quinn 22:24; Syruse Crane 23:58; Leo Hellon 23:52; Moses Hellon 28:43; and Benny Heath 32:03. Results of the 1-mile are: Matthew Ault 8:27; Jermaine Sampson 9:50; Morgan Frank 9:53; Lana Shike 10:34; Cyril Frank, Jr. 11:48; Austin Rauschenburg 11:56; Dakota Berman 11:56; Jake Frank 12:00; Patrina VanPelt 14:40; Gavin Begay 14:43; J-Man The Rock Black 14:45; Brigette Whipple 15:20; Jan Kasparovitch 16:23; Delvina Heath 16:31; Shirleen Kills First 16:32; Rosebud Whipple 17:05; Annalise Whipple 17:11; Arrita Sampson 19:22; Cobi Berman 19:45; William Shike 19:53; Val Squiemphen 20:09; Bar bara Poncho 21:19; Lori Mitchell 21:19; Vickie Hellon 22:24; Debbie Stacona 25:46; Keola Rauschenburg 25:46; Jesse Krivinko 25:59; Gabe Krivinko 30:10; Cora Heath 36:27; Cayden Krivinko 36:28; and Sam Heath 36:44. See FIRE SAFETY on 14 See RUN RESULTS on 14 Congratulations Graduates! 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