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Polk County Sports Polk County Itemizer-Observer • June 8, 2016 10A QUICK HITS County trio takes part in all-star softball game EUGENE — Dallas sen- iors Yasmine El-Hato and Makena Linn and Central senior Kylie Nash took part in the first annual Senior All-Star softball game Sun- day at the University of Oregon. The trio played for team South, which won both games of the doublehead- er. El-Hato hit a grand slam and a double. She also played first base and pitch- er. Linn recorded a double and played outfield. Nash played second base and catcher and also recorded multiple hits. Polk County track club begins WEST SALEM — The Polk County Track Club began Tuesday and will run through July 14. The club meets Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thurs- days from 3:45 to 5:45 p.m. now through June 16; from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. June 21-30 and 10 a.m. to noon from July 5-14 at West Salem High School. The camp will provide instruction for sprints, hur- dles, jumps, throwing events, distance running and pole vault. Cost is $100 and is open to students in grades 6-12. Fee includes a T-shirt and admission to NCAA Cham- pionships (limited supply). Dallas coach Bill Masei and assistant coach Ali An- dreasen will be among the coaches running the camp. For more information: Bill M asei, Bill.M asei- @dsd2.org. Cost does not include USATF registration fee, which is required for com- petition. Blue Dolphins excel at Albany ALBANY — The Blue Dolphins Swim Team com- peted at the Summer Invi- tational at the Albany Aquatics Center on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Gentry Hagedorn won the girls 200-yard freestyle (9-years old category) in 3 minutes, 19.09 seconds. Kaitlyn Landis took first in the 200 freestyle (10 years old) in 3:05.16. Landis also won the 100 freestyle in 1:25.13. Taylor Hagedorn placed first in the girls 200 individ- ual medley (11) in 3:15.23. Emma Irwin won the girls 50 breaststroke (8 and younger) in 1:34.17. Lonny Stork took first in the girls 50 backstroke (11) in 45.63 seconds. Elizabeth Dressel won the girls 400 freestyle (15 and older) in 5:27.45 and the girls 200 freestyle relay team (11 and younger) of Sydney Alamein, Taylor Hagedorn, Savannah King and Lonny Stork took first in 2:30.51. n o g Dra REGION - L L A R E V R E R-OBS 2016 ITEMIZE E YEAR H T F O R E Y A L BASEBALL P LUKAS EGGEN/ Itemizer-Observer Dallas senior pitcher Tucker Weaver threw 82 strikeouts during the 2016 baseball season. By Lukas Eggen By The Numbers The Itemizer-Observer DALLAS — It’s something that frustrates Dallas senior Tucker Weaver, perhaps more than anything else when it comes to baseball. “People think base- ball is bor- ing,” Weav- er said. “That really bothers me. They don’t see the fun side of things that we do or the competitive edge. They see someone throw six pitches and a guy finally hits it and he only goes 90 feet. There’s nobody tackling anyone and you don’t score 60 points a 1.16 82 11 Weaver’s Earned Run Average dur- ing the 2016 sea- son. The mark was the lowest for Dal- las. The number of strikeouts Weaver threw during the season. The senior gave up just four walks. The total number of earned runs Weaver allowed in 67 innings of work during the 2016 season. game. But it’s not about all the action. It’s about the passion.” Weaver’s passion for base- ball may be unmatched at Dallas High. Perhaps the only thing greater was his impact for the Dragons dur- ing the 2016 season. As the Dragons’ ace, he threw 67 innings of work, with 82 strikeouts to just eight walks with a 1.16 ERA, earning the Mid- Willamette Conference’s Pitcher of the Year award and helping Dallas advance to the first round of the state playoffs. “Tucker is a bulldog,” Dal- Feeling the burn L UKAS E GGEN Commentary There’s a belief that every competitive person has: that no matter what the sit- uation, we’ll always bet on ourselves to find a way to win. That we’ll triumph against long odds, emerge victorious and proud. And then there’s what happened on Saturday. T h e c i t y o f D a l l a s’ triathlon field games fea- tured corn hole, bocce ball and disc golf. I’ve had about as much experience playing those three games as I have in curling. And no, I don’t have a secret life as a master curler. On the bright side, that also meant I could unleash some hidden talents as a master bocce baller (?), corn holer or disc golfer. The team We The News was born and ready to domi- nate. Of course there was one thing that we couldn’t con- trol that worried me — the heat. There was a time when I would have been OK with 97-degree weather thanks to living in Las Vegas. That time has long since passed. And, like I’m sure many felt, the temperature felt roughly like the equivalent of sitting in an oven. In hell. It was hot enough that organizer David Brautigam said more than 10 teams canceled. But I wasn’t going to be intimidated by a little heat. I was ready to give the heat a roundhouse kick to the face, Chuck Nor- ris style. See BURN, Page 11A Pickleball returns on Monday DALLAS — Pickleball re- turns to the tennis courts by the Dallas Aquatic Cen- ter on Monday. Players will meet Mondays, Wednes- days and Fridays from 9 a.m. to noon through the summer. No experience necessary. LUKAS EGGEN/ Itemizer-Observer Corn hole was one of three events at the triathlon field games on Saturday. www.polkio.com las coach Scot McDonald said. “He loves baseball; he loves to compete and he comes through whenever you need him to.” His performance makes him the Itemizer-Observer’s 2016 Baseball Player of the Year. — It was Tucker’s older brother, Keaton, 2013 Dallas High graduate, who first started playing baseball at a young age. Tucker was quick to follow. “Anything he did, I did,” Weaver said. “He became a baseball fanatic, so naturally I was a baseball fanatic. We’d watch recorded VHS films of old all-star games. We played every season, every year. It was a great bonding thing for us.” From those early mo- ments, Weaver made it his goal to get to the big leagues. See PRIDE, Page 11A Weaver helped Dallas ad- vance to the state playoffs. DALLAS TRACK AND FIELD Track reaches key lifespan mark By Lukas Eggen The Itemizer-Observer DALLAS — When Dallas High School’s track surface was installed in 2004, it brought much-needed help. The track it replaced was about a decade old. The new surface, the L2000, gave the Dragons a place to run, practice and compete on. That same track is now 12 years old, causing an in- crease in injuries and nearing the time where repairs are a necessity, not a luxury, track and field coach Bill Masei said. “What we need to do is keep kids off (the track) as much as possible,” Masei said. In addition, Dallas gave its athletes Fridays off from practice to give them more time to recover from the pounding. The change in training methods was in re- sponse to an increase in injuries — especially shin splits — over the last few years. “Our trainer, Brent Darrington, said we have to figure out how to keep the kids off the track,” Masei said. “Part of it is doing more prevention and keeping them off the track to prevent the pounding.” The change had the desired effect, Masei said. Having kids run on grass as much as possible and increased rest time kept kids healthier, but it also came at the cost of training time. “From a training standpoint, it’s not an ideal situa- tion,” Masei said. “But from the health perspective, I’d rather have not as much training and be healthy for the big meets than more training and not as healthy.” The track’s condition has also affected another area – the number of home track and field meets Dallas is will- ing to host. “We only have one home meet scheduled next year right now,” Masei said. “I think that’s good from a per- spective of not having to compete on it.” See TRACK, Page 11A www.facebook.com/pages/Polk-County-Itemizer-Observer/205062686252209 www.twitter.com/PolkIOSports *$0 down, 0% A.P.R. financing for up to 36 months on purchases of new Kubota equipment (excluding VS Series) is available to qualified purchasers from participating dealers’ in-stock inventory through 6/30/2016. 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