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Polk County Sports SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17 Boys basketball: Cen- tral at Silverton, 7 p.m. Crescent Valley at Dallas, 7 p.m. THURSDAY, FEB. 18 M e n ’s b a s k e t b a l l : Western Oregon at Alaska Fairbanks, 8 p.m. Women’s basketball: Western Oregon at North- west Nazarene, 6 p.m. FRIDAY, FEB. 19 Boys basketball: Red- mond at Dallas, 7 p.m. Casco League Tournament: Perrydale vs. C.S. Lewis at Warner Paciic College, 7:30 p.m. Girls basketball: Casco League Tournament: Falls City vs. Livingstone Adven- tist, 2:15 p.m. Perrydale vs. Willamette Valley Christian at Warner Paciic College, 5:45 p.m. Softball: Western Ore- gon vs. Newman (DH) at Canyon, Texas, 11 a.m. Swimming: Dallas at 5A State Championships at Mt. Hood Aquatic Center, Gresham, 1:45 p.m. Track and ield: West- ern Oregon at GNAC Championship, all day. Wrestling: Central, Dal- las at Mid-Willamette Con- ference District Champi- onships at South Albany High School, 11 a.m. SATURDAY, FEB. 20 Boys basketball: Casco League Tournament: Perry- dale vs. Willamette Valley Christian/Country Chris- tian or Crosshill Christian at Warner Paciic College, 4 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. Girls basketball: Casco League Tournament: Perry- dale vs. Falls City/Living- stone Adventist or Country Christian at Warner Paciic College, 2:15 p.m. or 5:45 p.m. M e n ’s b a s k e t b a l l : Western Oregon at Alaska Anchorage, 3 p.m. Softball: Western Ore- gon vs. West Texas A&M (DH) at Canyon, Texas, 3 p.m. Swimming: Dallas at 5A State Championships at Mt. Hood Aquatic Center, Gresham, 1 p.m. Track and ield: West- ern Oregon at GNAC Championship, all day. Women’s basketball: Western Oregon at Central Washington, 4 p.m. Wrestling: Central, Dal- las at Mid-Willamette Con- ference District Champi- onships at South Albany High School, 11 a.m. SUNDAY, FEB. 21 Softball: Western Ore- gon vs. Lincoln (DH) at Canyon, Texas, 9 a.m. TUESDAY, FEB. 23 Girls basketball: Cen- tral at Corvallis, 7 p.m. Lebanon at Dallas, 7 p.m. Class 1A state playofs, irst round: Falls City vs. TBA, TBA. Perrydale vs TBA, TBA. Men’s basketball: Con- cordia at Western Oregon, 7 p.m. Polk County Itemizer-Observer • February 17, 2016 12A DALLAS SWIMMING Ford, Dressel earn trip to 5A state meet By Lukas Eggen The Itemizer-Observer CORVALLIS — Dallas sen- ior Elizabeth Dressel thought her season was over. Despite setting a pair of school records in the 100 butterfly (1 minute, 4.90 sec- onds) and 100 backstroke (1:04.17) at the Mid- Willamette Conference dis- trict swim meet on Saturday, Dressel didn’t think she did quite enough to earn a wild card berth to the state champi- onships. “I didn’t think I was going to make it, so I d i d n’t Ford even check the other results on Sunday,” Dressel said. “I got a mes- sage on Monday congratu- lating me for making it to state. I was really confused. I L uc k y N What: OSAA Class 5A State Swimming Championships. When: Friday preliminaries, 1:45 p.m.; Saturday finals, 1 p.m. Where: Mt. Hood Community College Aquatic Center, Gre- sham. Admission: Adults, $8; students, $5. Dallas Qualifiers: GIRLS: Jolie-Rae Ford, jr. (200 freestyle, 500 freestyle), Elizabeth Dressel, sr. (100 butterfly). butterfly) again’,” Dressel said. “Then I thought, this will be good. It gives me one last shot to do some- thing exciting.” See STATE, Page 13A CENTRAL WRESTLING Swinehart looks for title finish o . 7? By Lukas Eggen The Itemizer-Observer LUKAS EGGEN/Itemizer-Observer Dallas’ wrestling team has won six-straight district championships. The Dragons will try for seven this weekend. Dragons hope to soar to seventh-straight district title By Lukas Eggen The Itemizer-Observer Battle For State Berths DALLAS — For the past six years, the script has been the same — Dallas’ wrestling team has walked away as dis- trict champions. The Dragons are keen on having a re- peat performance at the Mid-Willamette Conference District Championships at South Albany on Fri- day and Saturday. “ We’re taking a lean team to district Chung this year,” coach Tony Olliff said. “We had a tough road this season and a few decided it was too tough to finish. But the few who made it are capable of qualifying a large number for the state tournament.” What: Mid-Willamette Conference District Wrestling Championships. When: Friday, 11 a.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. Where: South Albany High School. Who: Dallas, Central, Corvallis, Crescent Val- ley, Lebanon, Silverton, South Albany and Woodburn high schools. Admission: Adults, $6; students, $4. What’s at stake: The top four placers in each weight class qualify for the OSAA Class 5A state wrestling championships, to be held Feb. 26-27 at Vet- erans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. Among them include returning dis- trict champion Treve Earhart and sec- ond-place finishers Noah Sickles, Sammy Chung, Jeff Dunagan and Cody Janssen. Chung, a senior, has come a long way from his first days at DHS. “My freshman year I didn’t compete very much,” Chung said. “I was proba- bly like JV 4. I didn’t compete at the var- sity level. It was frustrating, but I knew I would keep working at it.” The senior continued to develop his wrestling skills, becoming more aggres- sive against his opponents. See DALLAS, Page 13A I N D E PE N D E N C E — Central senior Collin Swinehart has come close to tasting victory. As a junior he placed second at both the Mid- Willamette Conference district finals and the 5A state finals. Down to his f i n a l chance, he hopes Swinehart his sen- ior year ends with the two things that have eluded him thus far — district and state titles. — Collin and older brother Tanner always looked up to their eldest brother, Joseph. There was little doubt the pair would follow in Joseph’s athletic endeavors. Until Joseph’s sixth- grade year, it appeared that would be basketball. “(Joseph) was kind of the short, chubby kid,” Collin said, smiling. “My dad told him he might want to do something else because he didn’t really have the body structure to play basketball.” See FINISH, Page 13A WESTERN OREGON MEN’S BASKETBALL WOU ranked No. 1 in nation By Lukas Eggen happen. The veteran The Itemizer-Observer Schedules Subject to Change QUICK HITS DHS spring sports registration begins www.polkio.com State Meet DALLAS WREST LING WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24 Boys basketball: Cor- vallis at Central, 7 p.m. Dal- las at Lebanon, 7 p.m. Class 1A state playofs, irst round: Perrydale vs. TBA, TBA. — DALLAS — Registration for spring sports at Dallas High begins Thursday. For more info: www.polkio.com. thought I was done.” Dressel is not q u i t e done, ad- vancing to state in the 100 butter- Dressel fly, joining teammate Jolie-Rae Ford, who qualified in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle. “My first thought was, ‘oh no, I have to swim (the LUKAS EGGEN/ Itemizer-Observer Western Oregon’s Tanner Omlid goes up for a dunk. MONMOUTH — Western Oregon’s men’s basketball team has been on a historic run over the past two sea- sons. From winning its first conference title last year, the Wolves can now add another piece to school history — the team’s first No. 1 ranking in the national Division II men’s basketball poll. “It’s definitely cool,” sen- ior forward Andy Avgi said. “I don’t know how many people can say they’ve been ranked No. 1 at any level.” For two of WOU’s most important players, playing in Monmouth almost didn’t Co m i n g o u t o f h i g h school, Avgi wasn’t supposed to end up at Western Ore- gon. In fact, he wasn’t even planning on playing basketball. “I al- ready com- mitted to play foot- Avgi ball at Ore- gon State,” Avgi said. “I was there for like two weeks going to school there, but it wasn’t working out.” Fo r m e r c o a c h Bra d y Bergeson, then in his first www.facebook.com/pages/Polk-County-Itemizer-Observer/205062686252209 year at Western Oregon, made his move. “It was a hard decision,” Avgi said. “I didn’t want to give up basketball and I think I always knew that, but getting to play (Division I) football is hard to pass up. I knew what I wanted, though.” Avgi backed out of Ore- gon State and chose to at- tend WOU. After redshirting his first year, he saw the early building blocks of what would become the core of the Wolves. Avgi, Devon Alexander, Dezmond Du p re e - Tu r n e r, Jo rd a n Wiley and Jordan Schriber all entered the program to- gether. 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