Polk County
Sports
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, OCT. 6
Boys Soccer: South Al-
bany at Central, 4 p.m. Dal-
las at Crescent Valley, 4
p.m.
Girls Soccer: Central at
South Albany, 7 p.m. Cres-
cent Valley at Dallas, 4 p.m.
Volleyball: Central at
Crescent Valley, 6 p.m.
Corvallis at Dallas, 6 p.m.
Perrydale at Falls City, 5:30
p.m. Western Oregon at
Alaska Anchorage, 8 p.m.
Women’s Soccer: West-
ern Oregon at Saint Mar-
tin’s, 2 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCT. 7
Cross-country: Western
Oregon at Ash Creek Invita-
tional No. 2, 5 p.m.
Football: Central at
Crescent Valley, 7 p.m.
Dallas at South Albany, 7
p.m. Falls City at Alsea, 7
p.m. Ione at Perrydale, 7
p.m.
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CENTRAL 21, DALLAS 20
Panthers
hold off
Dragons
SATURDAY, OCT. 8
Cross-country: Central
at Ash Creek Invitational
No. 2, 10 a.m.
Football: Simon Fraser
at Western Oregon, 1 p.m.
Volleyball: Damascus
Christian at Perrydale, 11
a.m. North Douglas at
Perrydale, 2:30 p.m. West-
ern Oregon at Alaska Fair-
banks, 8 p.m.
SUNDAY, OCT. 9
Women’s Soccer: Cen-
tral Washington at Western
Oregon, noon.
MONDAY, OCT. 10
Boys Soccer: Crescent
Valley at Central, 6 p.m.
Dallas at Corvallis, 6:15
p.m.
Girls Soccer: Central at
Crescent Valley, 4 p.m. Cor-
vallis at Dallas, 4 p.m.
Volleyball: Lebanon at
Central, 6 p.m. Dallas at
Silverton, 6 p.m.
TUESDAY, OCT. 11
Boys Soccer: Willamette
Valley Christian at Falls City,
5:30 p.m.
Volleyball: Western
Oregon at Concordia, 7
p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12
Boys Soccer: Central at
Lebanon, 4 p.m. Silverton
at Dallas, 4 p.m.
Cross-country: Central,
Dallas at Lebanon, TBA.
Girls Soccer: Lebanon
at Central, 4 p.m. Dallas at
Silverton, 6 p.m.
Volleyball: Central at
Dallas, 6 p.m. Perrydale at
Jewell, 5 p.m.
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Schedules Subject to Change
QUICK HITS
Cross Creek
men’s club results
DALLAS — Cross
Creek’s men’s club results
for Sept. 20:
Low gross/low net (Best
8 of 9)
Gross: 1 Paul Disney, 33;
2 (tie), Joe Johnson, Lee
Taylor and Bill Karjala, 34.
Net: 1, Roy Speelman,
25; 2, Wayne Baughman,
26; 3, Brian Reed, 28; 4
(tie), Rocky Kygar, Darrel
Smedstad, Don Seth and
Randy Wiley, 30.
LUKAS EGGEN/ Itemizer-Observer
Central running back Alvin Berroa attempts to stay in bounds during a run against the Dragons on Friday night.
Dallas looks to bounce Panthers escape with victory
back against Rebels
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
INDEPENDENCE — Dal-
las’ football team fell just
short of a victory on Friday
night, losing 21-20 to Cen-
tral.
“I think we hurt ourselves
a lot,” coach Tracy Jackson
said. “I think I didn’t call the
right plays a couple of times,
and I think we had some op-
portunities that didn’t go our
way.”
The Dragons missed a
field goal and extra point
tries in the first quarter and
failed on a two-point con-
version in the second.
The Dragons, leading 12-
7, also drove down to Cen-
tral’s 1-yard line, but a fum-
bled snap allowed the clock
to run out.
Running back Tanner
Earhart gained 182 yards
and a touchdown, but the
Dragons came up just short
against the
Panthers.
Don’t ex-
pect this
loss to de-
rail the
Dragons’
season.
“I think
Earhart
w e ’ l l
bounce back,” Jackson
said. “We are 4-1 for good-
ness sake. It’s not like we’re
0-5 and looking for an-
swers. I thought we did
some good things. We ran
for more than 300 yards. I
thought our backs ran the
ball really hard and made
something out of not much
sometimes.”
Dallas (1-1 Mid-
Willamette Conference)
plays at South Albany on
Friday. and the Dragons
must be ready for another
stiff challenge, Jackson
said.
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LUKAS EGGEN/ Itemizer-Observer
Andrew Reyna runs past Dallas defenders on Friday.
20 win on Homecoming
night.
“I never usually get in on
offense,” Reyna said. “I was
so excited. It’s an amazing
feeling for me.”
Quarterback Peter Men-
dazona threw for a touch-
down to Abraham, who was
injured on the play, on the
game’s first drive. Dallas re-
sponded with a pair of
t o u c h d ow n s — b u t a
missed extra point and two-
point conversion meant the
Dragons took a 12-7 lead
into the break.
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COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL
PREP FOOTBALL
WOU shows fight against WWU
Pirates
hope for
smooth
sailing
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
Registration for
Glow Run ongoing
DALLAS — Registration
is open for the Dallas Glow
Run. The run will be held
Oct. 15 at 7:15 p.m. near
Courthouse Square on
Main Street.
The 5-kilometer
run/walk will take partici-
pants on a mix of paved
and trail surfaces through
Dallas City Park.
Sign-ups are due by Fri-
day to receive a T-shirt.
Cost is $25.
A family/team discount
of $3 per participant is
available for groups of
four or more. Runners will
also receive a head lamp,
glow stick and glow paint.
Registration and packet
pickup will be available on
Oct. 14 from 4:30 to 5:30
p.m. and Oct. 15 from 6 to
7 p.m.
For more information:
www.dallasor.gov/adult-
sports. Proceeds benefit
Christmas Cheer, a non-
profit that raises money
for families in need in the
Dallas area.
INDEPENDENCE — An-
drew Reyna has never been
the player in the spotlight
for Central.
The senior running back
has spent much of his ca-
reer as a backup, but on Fri-
day, he would get his
chance.
The Panthers led Dallas
14-12 late in the third quar-
ter. Central, already without
starters Marlon Tuipulotu
(who did not dress for the
game), Isaiah Abraham and
Alvin Berroa (who both got
hurt during the game), was
threatening to score, with
the ball on the Dragons’ 10.
Reyna was ready for his
moment.
“I saw green ahead of me
and I knew I had to just run
straight ahead,” he said.
Reyna scored from 10
yards out on what proved
to be the difference maker
as Central held on for a 21-
LUKAS EGGEN/ Itemizer-Observer
Western Oregon outside hitter Amanda Short (8) goes up
for a block against Western Washington on Saturday.
MONMOUTH — West-
ern Oregon’s volleyball
team has struggled in re-
cent years.
Since going 21-6 in 2012,
the Wolves haven’t won
more than 10 matches in a
season. In 2015, WOU went
8-21 overall — 11 of those
losses came in straight sets.
The winds of change
could be beginning to blow
for the Wolves under first-
year coach Tommy Gott.
At 5-8, things may not
seem all that different, but
Western Oregon is showing
it can no longer be over-
looked. The Wolves lost to
No. 23 Western Washington
on Saturday, but took the
Vikings to five sets before
falling 25-13, 24-26, 25-18,
23-25, 15-11.
“I t h i n k t h e m a t c h
showed our relentlessness
and our ability to respond,”
Gott said. “Western Wash-
ington is a great team.
They’re ranked for a reason.”
Among those leading the
fight is senior Christie Cola-
surdo. The defensive spe-
cialist arrived at Western in
part to become a teacher —
although she’s on a differ-
ent path now.
“I changed my mind and
decided to study nutrition
and become a dietician,”
Colasurdo said. “But I love
the cam-
pus and
the team
was awe-
some and
I wanted
to be a
part of
that.”
Volley-
Colasurdo
ball has
always presented a unique
athletic challenge for Cola-
surdo — to be part of some-
thing where the sum is
greater than the parts.
“I love how you have to be
a team,” Colasurdo said.
“There’s not one person that
you can kick the ball to or
pass to who can do it all. You
need every single person. It
makes this incredible bond
that is unique to this sport.
If someone is struggling, it’s
hard because you need all
six players all the time. But
you bring each other up and
that’s the beautiful thing
about this sport.”
On a team featuring six
freshmen and six sopho-
mores, learning to play at a
high level is all part of the
growing process — one that
Colasurdo has taken an ac-
tive role in leading.
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By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
PERRYDALE — It’s been a
tale of two teams for Perry-
dale foot-
ball.
On one
hand is the
team that
defeated
S o u t h
W a s c o
County 69-
6 on Friday
Janesofsky
— and the
one that has outscored oppo-
nents 189-14 in three victo-
ries.
On the other is a team that
has been outscored 122-36 in
a pair of losses.
Which of these results rep-
resents the true Pirates?
The answers may be com-
ing soon.
The Pirates have been in
transition in 2016. Duane
Riddell took over as head
coach and that meant adjust-
ments were coming.
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