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Polk County Sports/Education Polk County Itemizer-Observer • February 24, 2016 17A PERRYDALE GIRLS BASKETBALL WESTERN OREGON ROUNDUP Perrydale earns a spot at Men’s basketball clinches Class 1A state playoffs conference championship By Lukas Eggen The Itemizer-Observer PORTLAND — It took until the final seconds, but Perrydale’s girls basketball team clinched a spot in the OSAA Class 1A state playoffs. The Pi- rates over- came a slow offen- sive start to d e f e a t Willamette V a l l e y Christian McGill 30-27 on Friday in the Casco League To u r n a - ment. “I’m ex- cited,” sen- ior Anna Mc G i l l said. “This Newton has been our one goal throughout the entire season.” Perrydale battled more than just WVC. Multiple players missed practice during the week due to ill- Playoff picture • Perrydale played Southwest Christian in the first round of the Class 1A State Playoffs Tuesday after press time. • The winner advanced to the second round of the state play- offs on Friday. • Head to www.polkio.com to find out updated results from Tuesday’s matchup. ness, including freshman starter Shylar Halverson. Two players, freshmen Alyssa Lux and Hannah Hallock, stepped into the starting lineup. “A l y s s a a n d Ha n n a h stepped up,” senior Telaney Newton said. “They both did an excellent job.” The Pirates held a 30-27 lead with five seconds left in the game and WVC could not get a potential game- tying 3-pointer off before time expired. Perrydale, which lost to Country Christian 62-19 on Saturday in the tournament title game, earned the league’s second seed at state. The Pirates hosted South- west Christian in the first round of the state playoffs Tuesday after press time. The winner advances to the second round on Friday. “We want to (succeed at state) in basketball because it’s an incredible feeling,” Telaney Newton said. For the team’s youngest players, this experience sets the Pirates up for future suc- cess once the team’s four seniors graduate, Terry New- ton said. “Fortunately for us, this is a top 10 program,” coach Terry Newton said. “Maybe not this year, but we are Per- rydale. We’ve been here. These (older) girls have been through it. Anna and Telaney, they know what to do at the end. Now, when we lose the seniors, we’ll have five or six girls who have been through this experi- ence.” Itemizer-Observer staff report ANCHORAGE — Western Oregon’s men’s basketball team clinched the Great Northwest Athletic Confer- ence title after a 64-58 win over Alaska Anchorage on Saturday. Julian Nichols scored a team-high 17 points and had seven as- s i s t s , D e v o n Alexander scored 14 points and Tan- Nichols ner Omlid added 12 points for the Wolves. WOU bounced back from an 87-78 loss to Alaska Fairbanks on Thurs- day. WOU swept Alaska Fair- banks for the first time since the 2004-05 season. The Wolves will earn a bye in the first round of the GNAC tournament. WOU closes out the regular sea- son at Montana State Billings on Thursday. The GNAC men’s basketball championships begins March 3. MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD TAKES SECOND: Western Oregon’s men’s track and ield t e a m placed sec- ond at the GNAC In- d o o r Champi- onships on Friday and Saturday. C o d y Warner in- Warner ished sec- ond in the 60- and 200-meter runs, inishing in 6.95 seconds and 21.78 seconds, respective- ly. David Ribich took second in the mile (4:10.14), Kaleb Dob- son inished second in the 60- meter hurdles (8.33 seconds) and Badane Sultessa took sec- ond in the 800 (1:55.95). Stephanie Stuckey took ifth in the women’s mile in 5:08.05 to lead the women’s team, which placed eighth in the team standings. WOU will compete at the Seattle Paciic Final Qualiier on Saturday. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL DROPS TWO: Western Ore- gon’s women’s basketball team lost a pair of conference games, falling to Northwest Nazarene 61-57 on Thursday and Central Washington 61-46 on Saturday. WOU (4-22 over- all, 3-15 GNAC) closes out its season at home against Saint Martin’s Thursday at 7 p.m. and Seattle Paciic Saturday at 2 p.m. SOFTBALL WINS FOUR AT INVITE: Western Oregon’s softball team won four of six games at the West Texas A&M Lady Buf Invite last weekend. WOU de- f e a t e d Newman 2- 0 and 4-3 Kuehl on Friday b e f o r e falling to host West Texas A&M 9-1 and 7-6 on Saturday. The Wolves closed out the In- vite with a pair of wins over Lincoln University of Missouri (12-1 and 10-1) on Sunday. Destiny Kuehl had a home run against Lincoln as the Wolves racked up 23 hits over the doubleheader. WOU opens conference play by hosting Saint Martin’s for a double- header on March 5. Pirates: Perrydale on the road against Triangle Lake LUKAS EGGEN/Itemizer-Observer Telaney Newton (20) goes for a steal as teammates watch on Friday afternoon. Continued from Page 15A Triangle Lake went 12-13 overall and 8-4 in Mountain West League play. The winner advances to the second round on Satur- day. Lowry said he expects several players to be ready to make some important contributions, including Brant Barnes, Devin Cruickshank and Keenan Bailey. “I think if we can keep focus on what we do well, then we can be success- f u l , ” L o w r y said. “I Bailey think the fourth quarter (against WVC) reminded us of that.” It wasn’t the seed they imagined, but Perrydale achieved what mattered most — extending its sea- son. “ T h e goal was to secure a playoff s p o t ,” Barnes L o w r y said. “While it would have been nice to be the No. 1 or No. 2 seed, bottom line is we are in and still play- ing.” MVCA looking for board members MONMOUTH — Mid-Valley Christian Academy is looking for more board members to help the school grow. Interested candidates, or those who wish to nominate a per- son to serve, can write a letter or drop by the school’s oice, 1483 N. 16th St., Monmouth. MVCA is hosting its ninth-annual Banquet & Auction on March 5 at Central Baptist Church. For more information, call 503-838-2818. Spring break lunch locations noted POLK COUNTY — Spring break lunches will be available at four sites in Dallas and Independence during the break, March 21-25 from noon to 1 p.m. SuperFunHappyBreakTime also will ofer free activities and books to children during the hour lunches are served. Lunches will be served in Dallas at Whitworth Elementary School, 1151 SE Miller St. and Lyle Elementary, 185 SW Levens St. In Independence, lunches will be available at Henry Hill Edu- cational Support Center, 750 S. Fifth St. and Colonia Amistad, 30 S. Gun Club Road. Mr. Dallas seeks families in need EMILY MENTZER/Itemizer-Observer Students from Kimberly Ward’s fourth-grade class at Monmouth Elementary count the day’s coin collection. THREE CLASSES, ONE GOAL Students learn about energy, raise money to light up third-world countries By Emily Mentzer The Itemizer-Observer MONMOUTH/INDEPEN- DENCE — Not everyone in the world can come home at night, flip a switch and have lights to read, do homework, or cook by. Students at Monmouth and Independence elemen- tary schools discovered the power to light the world could lay in a soccer ball. The Soccket Ball stores energy as it is played with. Users may then plug a lamp into the ball to provide three hours of light after 30 min- utes of play. “It works on a pendulum swing device inside the soc- cer ball,” Haven Wenzel, MES fourth-grader, ex- plained. “When you kick it around, it makes the pendu- lum swing, creating energy.” The service-learning proj- ect was the perfect way to wrap up the lessons de- signed by Kimberly Wa r d , B r i a n Ross and M a n d y Olsen, learn- i n g about differ- e n t types of e n e r g y, including renewable and nonrenew- able energy. “We just finished up on energy, so we decided to buy this $100 soccer ball for peo- ple because a lot of people don’t have lights,” said Kyson Dodds, MES fourth- grader. Ward, Ross and Olsen en- couraged students to think globally about energy and what they could do to help. The fact that all three classrooms decided to raise money to purchase Soc- cket balls came as a surprise, R o s s said. “ W e decided that it would be beneficial for us to take different ap- proaches to improve our chances of success,” he said. In Olsen’s class, students made homemade items to sell at a school store, open before and after school. Ross’ students wrote persua- sive essays and presented their arguments to the par- ent club to request dona- tions. Ward’s class held a penny drive that will continue through Monday. Maikyla Gorrono, IES fifth-grader, said the Soccket balls are a buy-one, get-one- free kind of thing. For every one purchased, a second one is sent to someone in a third-world country. “It gives them an equal amount of exercise and edu- cation,” she said. “If you’re doing homework during the day, you’re not getting as much exercise.” Students made mugs, duct-tape wallets, scarves and hats and raised more than $500 in a week of sales, Gorrono reported. IES fourth-grader Adrian Peterson-Garcia said he and his classmates used the power of persuasion to con- vince the parent club to do- nate to the cause. See ENERGY, Page 14A By Jolene Guzman The Itemizer-Observer DALLAS — Mr. Dallas, the annual fundraising pageant put on by Dallas High School’s leadership class, is now Mr. and Ms. Dallas. Those contestants are looking for local families or indi- viduals to benefit for the yearly display of talent and ridiculous antics. Like last year, the pageant coordinators are asking for nominations to help decide who should re- ceive assistance. In 2015, two families were selected. Both had medical expenses and the pageant raised $5,000 to split between them. Leadership class advisor Jessica Lowry said nominations should include an essay about why the individual or family needs help and potential recipients should be willing to share their story. “That way the kids know who they are raising money for and the community knows who they are donating to,” Lowry said. Nominations are due by March 2 and can be send to Lowry at Jessica.Lowry@dsd2.org. Pageant co-coordinators Emma Cromwell and Molly Peffley said “Ms. Dallas” was added to spark more interest in the competition. “We wanted to get a lot more people involved,” Cromwell said. Ten contestants have signed up to compete and have al- ready started putting together the show. Otherwise, the pageant, slated for April 9 at the high school, remains much the same, with an opening group dance, a lip sync contest, formal wear, a question and an- swer session, a talent showcase and an intermission auction. “I think this year is going to be good,” Cromwell said. In addition the pageant, a pizza fundraiser will be April 7 at Abby’s Pizza. The contestants are selling T-shirts. Coordinators are still looking for event sponsors. For more information: Jessica.Lowry@dsd2.org.
