Polk County
Sports
SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6
Wrestling: Central, Dallas
at Lebanon, 3 p.m.
THURSDAY, JAN. 7
Boys basketball: Perry-
dale at Southwest Christian,
7 p.m.
Girls basketball: Wood-
burn at Dallas, 7 p.m. Perry-
dale at Southwest Christian,
5:30 p.m.
Men’s basketball: Seat-
tle Paciic at Western Ore-
gon, 7 p.m.
Women’s basketball:
Western Oregon at Alaska
Anchorage, 8:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 8
Boys basketball: Central
at South Albany, 7 p.m. Dal-
las at Woodburn, 7 p.m.
Crosshill Christian at Falls
City, 7 p.m. Perrydale vs. St.
John Bosco (at Perrydale), 7
p.m.
Girls basketball: South
Albany at Central, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Mountain View, 7
p.m. Crosshill Christian at
Falls City, 5:30 p.m. Perry-
dale vs. St. John Bosco (at
Perrydale), 5:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9
Men’s basketball: Saint
Martin’s at Western Oregon,
9 p.m.
Swimming: Central at
Clemens Invitational, 10:30
a.m.
Women’s basketball:
Western Oregon at Alaska
Fairbanks, 6:15 p.m.
Wrestling: Dallas hosts
Brunner Invite, 9 a.m.
MONDAY, JAN. 11
Boys basketball: Perry-
dale at Jewell, 7 p.m.
Girls basketball: Perry-
dale at Jewell, 5:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, JAN. 12
Boys basketball: Dallas
at Central, 7 p.m. Falls City
at Jewell, 7 p.m.
Girls basketball: Falls
City at Jewell, 5:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13
Girls basketball: Central
at Dallas, 7 p.m.
Wrestling: South Albany
at Central, 7 p.m. Dallas at
Woodburn, 6 p.m.
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Polk County Itemizer-Observer • January 6, 2016 10A
CENTRAL SWIMMING
Return to
form
Glade hopes
hopes to
to bounce
bounce back
back
Glade
from disappointing
disappointing start
start
from
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
INDEPENDENCE — Just
weeks into the season, Cen-
tral swimmer Daniel Glade
knew
some-
thing
had
t o
change
or his
sophomore
campaign would be wasted.
As a freshman, Glade
made quite the splash for
the Panthers’ swim team,
earning a trip to state as part
of the 200-yard medley relay
team. Glade also found suc-
cess in the 500 freestyle,
placing fifth at the Mid-
Willamette Conference Dis-
trict Championships.
This year, he lacked drive
and motivation.
“I came in kind of cocky
and thinking I was the best,”
he said.
Glade expected success in
the pool instead of focusing
on earning it.
Disappointing results
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
Perrydale pair
named all-state
2
The number of
catches San Diego
wideout Tyrell
Williams had
against on Sunday. Willi-
ams played college foot-
ball at Western Oregon.
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Swimming has always
been a part of Glade’s life,
Howey, Wolves look to salvage season
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Daniel Glade prepares for
practice on Monday.
even from his earliest mem-
ories.
He began participating in
swim team around the age
of 8. Even then, he was
drawn into the competitive
nature and proving his
doubters wrong.
“I would hear other peo-
ple say don’t let that little kid
pass you,” Glade said. “That
made me want to pass them
even more. That made me
want to get to a higher level
because I can do just as
much as that guy.”
See FORM, Page 12A
WESTERN OREGON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Schedules Subject to Change
PERRYDALE — Perrydale
seniors Taylor Price and
Kolbie Calonder earned
O S A A
Class 1A
all-state
honors
for vol-
leyball.
Price
received
i r s t
t e a m
Price
recogni-
t i o n ,
while
Calon-
d e r
earned
t h i rd
t e a m
honors.
T h e
p a i r
Calonder
helped
the Pirates advance to the
1A state quarterinals be-
fore inishing in fourth
place.
have followed so far.
“Last year, my time (in the
500 freestyle) was about 5
minutes, 30 seconds,” Glade
said. “This year, I got like
around six minutes.”
Despite just three races
under his belt during the
2015-16 season, Glade had
to rediscover the key to his
success — and quickly.
“Losing isn’t fun,” Glade
said. “I needed to think
about what I was doing at
first and what made me real-
ly want to swim in the first
place.”
LUKAS EGGEN/Itemizer-Observer
Western Oregon senior Emily Howey scores a basket
against Simon Fraser. Howey scored 14 points.
MONMOUTH — How
much does a single victory,
one against a .500 squad,
mean to a team?
For Western Oregon’s
women’s basketball team,
which defeated Simon Fras-
er 58-57 on Thursday, it can
mean quite a lot.
“They showed heart for
40 minutes,” WOU coach
Holli Howard-Carpenter
said. “I’m really proud of
the way we fought. Nobody
was going to take that win
away from us.”
The 2015-16 season has
been nothing short of a dis-
appointment. The Wolves
entered the week at 2-10
overall. This wasn’t the way
senior forward Emily Howey
envisioned her final cam-
paign going. Howey trans-
ferred to WOU prior to her
junior year from Snow Col-
lege in Colorado.
“My first time in Oregon
was when I came out here,”
Howey said. “I remember
thinking it was really pretty
and really rainy.”
Up o n m e e t i n g w i t h
coaches and players, Howey
was sold on transferring.
“The girls were all very
nice,” she said. “ They
seemed like they all wanted
to win and I wanted to win
too. I thought I could come
out and help this program.”
Howey has taken advan-
tage of an expanded role.
She scored a team-high 14
points against Simon Fraser
and ranks third in points per
game.
Howey controlled the
paint against Simon Fraser
for much of the game.
“I told myself that our
team needs to score, and I
knew I could score on those
girls,” she said. “I told myself
I could do it, and I went out
and did it.”
Howey’s increased pro-
duction hasn’t resulted in
success in finding wins.
See WOLVES, Page 12A
DALLAS BOYS BASKETBALL
Dragons ready for ‘dogfight’ during league
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — Dallas boys
basketball team’s trip to
Abby’s Holiday Tournament
at North Medford High
School showed just how
good the Dragons could be
— and how badly the team
could stumble if it’s not play-
ing its best.
Dallas ended the tourna-
ment with a 52-49 win over
Aloha, a 6A school, on Dec.
30.
The prior two games were
ones to learn from and for-
get — a 67-32 loss to North
Medford on Dec. 28 and a
70-53 setback to McKay on
Dec. 29.
“I think
we learned
we have to
play de-
fense every
night and
stretch
teams,”
Dragons
Minahan
c o a c h
Trent Schwartz said. “We
didn’t for a couple games
and we took our lumps be-
cause of it.”
Dallas enters its Mid-
Willamette Conference
opener at Woodburn on Fri-
day with a 4-5 mark, the first
of three road games to start
league play.
Schwartz’s message is
simple: be ready for a dog-
Strong finish
• Dallas went 1-2 at
Abby’s Holiday Tournament
at North Medford High
School.
• The Dragons defeated
Aloha 52-49 in the team’s
final game of the tourna-
ment.
• Senior Everett Minahan
scored 18 points and
Mitchell Laizure added 11
points to lead Dallas in scor-
ing.
Minahan also had 9 re-
bounds, 5 steals and 3 as-
sists during the victory.
fight, a message that has res-
onated with players.
See DRAGONS, Page 11A
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Jake Collins has earned a role on varsity.
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