Polk County Sports
12A Polk County Itemizer-Observer • August 31, 2016
Dallas receives fine
Violation results in fine, suspension of coach
DALLAS GIRLS SOCCER
Dragons defeat Redmond
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — Dallas will
not appeal a fine or a sus-
pension at OSAA’s Execu-
tive Board meeting on Sept.
12 for a rule of two viola-
tion.
The rule of two prohibits
coaches from instructing
more than two of their ath-
letes at a time per day dur-
ing the off-
season.
Da l l a s
Athletics Di-
re c t o r Ti m
Larson said
the infrac-
tion was the
result of lack of communica-
tion.
“The coach thought they
were doing what they were
supposed to,” Larson said.
“It was completely my
fault. I didn’t communicate
with the coach well
enough. It was not done on
purpose.”
Larson did not confirm
which coach violated the
Rule of two, but that the
coach returned.
Dallas’ fall sports teams
began official practices on
Aug. 15 and games began
last week.
REDMOND — Dallas’
girls soccer team kicked off
its 2016 season with a 7-0
win over Redmond on Sat-
urday.
Olivia Dalke scored five
goals to lead the Dragons.
Callista Kiner and Madelyn
Kennedy also added one
goal each.
Goalkeeper Ashlee Licht-
enberger helped keep Red-
m o n d
f r o m
scoring,
allowing
Dallas to
earn the
shutout.
“Com-
ing back
Dalke
for my
second year as coach, we
have a common language
now,” Dallas coach Kirk
Myrold said. “Last year we
spent a lot of time figuring
out what things were going
to mean. This year, we
don’t have those bumps
along the road. We have
smoother practice, which
leads to smoother games. It
allows us to ramp up our
intensity much sooner
than last season.”
The Dragons play at
Franklin Thursday at 7 p.m.
before hosting St. Helens
Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the
team’s first home match of
the season.
Run: City wants
a mud run in ’17
Holding Serve
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Maddy Hendrickson, left, Marissa Bowman and Jamie Shaw await a serve during a match on Friday. Falls City’s
volleyball team competed in a jamboree. The Mountaineers opened the 2016 season against Portland Waldorf
Tuesday after press time.
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“A year and half ago, (the
adult recreation committee)
began talking about why
can’t we do this stuff here in
Dallas? What’s stopping us?”
Organizations in Dallas
host a few running events
throughout the year — chief
among them may be the
Summerfest Fun Run — but
Brautigam wanted to offer
something different, and he
wants to establish the city as
a place where runners be-
yond Dallas come to take
part in events.
“After this event is suc-
cessful, we want to venture
into mud runs and warrior
dashes,” Brautigam said.
“I’m not a big runner, but
I’ve coordinated with a lot of
runners in town, and they’re
excited for these types of
things. The point is it’s not a
traditional 5K or 10K run.
We’ve got a theme behind it.
There’s a family atmosphere
and it’s a unique event to
bring people into town. We
want to create unique events
that people from Salem, Cor-
vallis, Monmouth and Inde-
pendence want to come to.”
If all goes well, Brautigam
said he hopes to see a sec-
ond running event happen
in 2017.
“After October, we head
into a lot of cold weather,”
Brautigam said. “Ideally, by
next spring or summer, we
will add a second event. We
are leaning toward a mud run,
but we need to find where we
can make enough mud with-
out getting into trouble.”
Wolves: Western yet to name its starting QB
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Sophomore running back
Malik Braxton will likely re-
ceive a bulk of the carries.
The biggest question is
who will be under center.
Redshirt junior Phillip
Fenumiai and junior col-
lege transfer Nick Duck-
worth have been locked in
a quarterback battle
through the summer — one
that had yet to be resolved
as of Monday.
“We’re waiting to see how
that pans out,” Ferguson
said. “We’re excited by what
each has shown.”
Junior linebacker Tyler
Johnson is the heart and
soul of the starting defense.
“He’s the leader on our
defense,” Ferguson said.
“His knowledge and intelli-
gence and ability to play
multiple positions is great.
He keeps our defense in
check. I’ve never had a line-
backer who has been so in
tune. Every year he surprises
me with how much knowl-
edge he has and his athletic
ability.”
He’ll be joined in the front
seven by linemen George
Swartzlender, Jeremy Moore
and Michael Kluge, who
hope to wreak havoc in the
opponent’s backfield.
WOU knows its 2016 sea-
son will be a challenging
one. From the opening
game against Division I op-
ponent Sacramento State
to its conference season to
its home finale against
Humboldt State, the Wolves
road to a conference title is
filled with potential road-
blocks.
“The biggest thing we
need to see is the level of ur-
gency and physicality and
speed that we can try to sim-
ulate on both sides of the
ball,” Ferguson said. “We are
young, but they have been
given a lot of reps and we
have players who are really
going to develop.”
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Western Oregon finished second in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in 2015.
Club: Central wants a
return of club auction
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During the 2015-16 school
year, there weren’t enough
volunteers to keep the Pan-
ther Club going.
“From my standpoint, I
didn’t do a good enough job
informing people of how im-
portant the Panther Club is,”
Hedrick said, “not only to
raise money, but to keep the
spirit and the chemistry of
the community together.”
Once the recruitment of
volunteers is finished, the
process will begin to estab-
lish goals and create plans to
achieve them.
“We need some commit-
tees to come together and
discuss what we need,”
Hedrick said. “What struc-
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tures do we need? Do we
need activity buses? In the
spring, we only really have
three extra buses and with
baseball, softball, track and
tennis, we could be at five
different venues with only
three forms of transporta-
tion. Do we need facility im-
provements? Our turf is
probably five years away
from needing work. We want
to share with them what our
goals are and hear what their
goals are.”
Money raised by the Pan-
ther Club goes into one
fund, Hedrick said. The
items considered to be the
school’s greatest needs are
paid for from the funds.
“We just want to remind
people that everything we
do, we’re paying it forward,”
Hedrick said.