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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Recreation hosting 22nd Cougars championships
The Twenty-Second An-
nual Warm Springs Cougars
All Indian High School Girls
and Boys Basketball Cham-
pionships are scheduled for
April 2-5.
The games will be played
at the Warm Springs Com-
munity Center gymnasium
and the old Warm Springs el-
ementary school gym. (Note:
April 2 is for locals should
there be an overabundance
of teams.)
The tournament is open to
the first eight girls teams, and
first 12 Boys teams to sub-
mit interest and entry fee.
Deadline for team entry
is set for this Friday March
20.
For more infor mation,
contact tournament director
Austin Greene at 541-553-
1953 after 5 p.m., or 541-
553-3243 at the Recreation
office.
Great season for Native Dreams
March 18, 2015
Wild Horse Races, rodeo
Friday and Saturday
The Professional Wild
Horse Racers Association
Spring Stampede is this
Friday and Saturday,
March 20-21, at the
Jefferson County Fair
Complex in March.
The event will feature
the Colt Racing Finals, and
the PWHRA sanctioned
Wild Horse races.
Other events: bull
riding, bareback, saddle
bronc, junior colt race, se-
nior colt race, business-
men cow race, and ranch
saddle bronc.
The Spring Stampede
is brought to you by In-
dian Head Casino. Action
starts at 6:30 p.m. each
day. Admission is $8 for
13-and-up; $6 for 6-12
year-olds; 5 and under
free both nights. Hosted
by the Jefferson County
Fair Board.
Colt race entries, call
Butch David at 541-325-
2253. Rough stock entries
call Robert Hagley at 541-
815-9765.
WAC Champions
Courtesy Juliane Smith.
Native Dreams (front row) assistant coach Larry Scott Sr., Leaphalena Myore, Laila Smith, Coach Edmund
Francis; (middle row) Anona Francis, Jonissa Scott, Dominique Walker, Jiana Smith-Francis, Niya Bagley,
Raelee Simmons, Cheydon Herkshan; (back row) assistant coach Trey Leonard, Sophia Suppah, coach
Ryan Simmons, and Topaz O’Reilly (not pictured assistant coach Willy Bagley).
Congratulations to the
seventh-grade girls basket-
ball team Native Dreams.
The team won the
2014-2015 Central Or-
egon Basketball Organiza-
tion League Title, going 11-
0.
They represented the
Warm Springs and Madras
communities during the bas-
ketball season from Novem-
ber 2014 to March 2015.
By winning the league
they qualified for the state
basketball championship for
seventh-grade girls.
They played in champion-
ship in Redmond March
7-8, finishing the tourna-
ment with two wins and
two losses.
Juliane Smith
Courtesy James Scott
Congratulations to Abby Scott and the New
Mexico State Aggies women’s basketball team,
Western Athletic Conference champions. In the
tournament they play Maryland on Saturday,
March 21 at 10:30 a.m.
Indian Head Casino
Employee of the Month
KNT
Water
Aerobics
Glenn Umtuch
Edmund Francis (at
right) conducts the
Kah-Nee-Ta Water
Aerobics class at the
resort pool. And
below, the famous
pool bears.
For information on
the program, contact
Community Health,
541-553-1196.
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
KNT mini-marathon in April
The 2015 Kah-Nee-Ta
Mini Marathon is coming up
in April. The Warm Springs
Recreation Department ev-
eryone to participate.
Awards will be given to
the top three finishers for
males and females in all age
categories. All who enter the
mini-marathon will be eligible
to win a door prize.
Every registered runner
will also receive a pass for
free entry into the Kah-Nee-
Ta Village Pool (valid on the
day of the race).
The race course for the
half-marathon is 14.5 miles.
Water stations will be lo-
cated at along the course.
The 10k, 5k and one-mile
fun run/walk is an out and
back race course, starting flat,
blending into up-hills, then flat
into the rolling hills until the
turn-around point.
Twelve-dollar entry in-
cludes t-shirt of your size; $8
entry without t-shirt. Day of
race prices are $15 with t-
shirt, and $10 without. Regis-
tration begins April 17, and
the race is on Saturday, April
18. For more information
contact Warm Springs Rec-
reation at 541-553-3243.
MHS boys finish sixth
The Madras High School
boys varsity basketball team
finished sixth in the Class 4A
tournament.
The Buffs almost won the
fourth-place game, but the
Cascade Cougars held on for
a 51-49 victory.
Jered Pichette almost won
the game at the final buzzer,
but his 3-point shot barely
missed.
Glenn Umtuch is a
dedicated Custodial
Lead of the Indian
Head Casino Custo-
dian Department.
The casino chose
Glenn as the February
Employee of the
Month.
He is an enthusiastic
team player, whose great
work ethics helped earn
him his Lead title.
Congratulations
Glenn!