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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 2006)
Spilyay Tym oo Pgge 5 Novem ber 23 ç 5 Automotive andTowiny Local footballsquad goes undefeated 24- Hour Towing 24- Hour o day road service f you don't have AAA, we have applications Solving Warm Springs and Madras since 1975 Submitted photo Members of the Warm Springs and Madras football team that went undefeated in the Bend Metro Tackle Fodball League. B y L eslie Mijts Spi/yaji Tjimoo / t Football pkyers are getting even younger with the help of teams in the Send Metro Tackle Football League. Roy, Spino and Randy Haugen coached a team made tip o f foyrth, • fifth and sixth graders from W arm Springs and Madras that remained un defeated throughout the football season. Spino said they originally be gan coaching the team several years ago while watching a team frqtn Madras compete. / W e ended up helping volun teer to help out any way we could,” Spino said. “That’s how we ended up getting involved in the tackle football league.” The league is made up o f re gional teams, he said, and bro ken down with a fourth and fifth grade combined team and an other team for sixth graders. There is a weight limit, how ever, Spino said. Players over 125 pounds must play on the sixth grade team. The goal o f the league, he said, is to give players the op portunity to play football before they reach middle school where they are able to play on a team. Spino explained, “It’s a devel opmental program to teach the kids the basics o f football.” “The kids that grow through the program usually have a step up once they get to the middle school,” Spino said. “When they roll into the middle school, the middle school coaches don’t’ have to start at ground zero.” Players from Warm Springs include R obert Spino, Dylan Miller, Colton Stephens, Tristan , Smith, Rodney Mitchell, Darren Tanewash, Colton Stiffarm, who w ere u n d efeated as p a rt o f Spino’s sixth grade team. While the league doesn’t fea ture a playoff system, Spino added, teams usually play six games per season. Spino and Haugen’s team is one of two teams in the league that played an undefeated season. “Overall I think our strength this year was our offensive line,” Spino said. “We rotated in prob ably nine boys. Together they’d been playing together for two or three years. They really came together and a team and gelled.” In general, Spino said, he was p ro u d o f the team fo r the strong com m unication skills players displayed. ,.r.-“'l'he worked hard and they • learned the game,” he added. A challenge for many play ers is the aggression involved in football, Spino said. “A lot o f them, when you first bring them in the program, they’re real timid,” he explained. “They find out it’s easier to hit someone than get hit. Then they start getting more aggres sive.” For Spino, the best part of coaching the team is watching players develop. While m ost o f the players begin w ith o u t any fo o tb all knowledge, he said, he enjoys watching them learn how to play the game. “It’s just looking at the gleam in their eye. When the game is over you just see the smile, the glow on their face,” he said. Now, he said, “They have a good, basic understanding o f the game, and they all want to play football.” Sign ups for the league are in May, Spino said. While many kids are still focused on the base ball season, a lot of them miss the early sign up for football— because of that, Spino encour ages parents to watch for a sign by Westside Elementary and for an advertisement in the Pioneer. N o w is t h e t i m e t o g e t y o u r v e h ic le r e a d y f o r F a ll a n d W in t e r d r i v i n g 2 4 -H o u r T o w in g by C e r tifie d O p e ra to rs All Major & Minor Repair Import & Domestic 12-month/12,000 mile nation wide warranty. All w o rk by certified technicians. All manufacture warranty maintenance available here w ith electronic record keeping 7 5 5 S.W . H w y 9 7 , M a d ra s , O R 9 7 7 4 1 CALL 475-6663 Or stop by for an appointment W tte • All Products Prepared Fresh Daily Photos courtesy o f the Greens • Entrees Roasted Daily Casey Green (below) and his son Tysen (above) recently returned from a successful hunting trip - they came back with a big horn sheep. They bagged the animal during a three-day float trip in the John Day River Basin. • Featuring Hand Cut USDA Choice Steaks LUNCH - DINNER A ll Major Credit Cards • Senior Men« • Children's Men« • Daily Specials 237 S.W. 4th Street, Madras • 475-6632 OPEN 6 am -to ¡>m PAM T u m a lo On Hwy O re g o n 20 w est Clinic hosting training program The Warm Springs Health and Wellness is hosting a training program for the Registered Nurses that would enable them to provide women attending the clinic with a comprehensive clinical breast examination, breast self-examination training and a pap test. This training is being conducted to provide women attending the clinic additional providers for these “Well Woman” examina- 1 tions. '* The Mayo Clinic from Rochester, Minn., is providing the train- ' ing to the Registered Nurse staff on December 4-8. 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