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Polk County Itemizer-Observer • August 2, 2017 12A
QUICK HITS
Cross Creek
women’s club
results
DALLAS — Cross Creek
Women’s Club results for
July 24.
Nine holes: 1, Sherril
Hurt, 29; 2, Barb Largent, 30;
3 (tie), Karne Goodwin, Dar-
lene McKee, Carolyn Wall,
MJ Ferrin and Laurilee
Hatcher, 31.
Eighteen holes: 1 (tie),
Darlene McKee and Barb
Largent, 62; 3, Laurilee
Hatcher, 63.
Cross Creek
men’s club results
DALLAS — Cross Creek’s
men’s club results for July
25:
Low gross/low net
Gross: 1, Wayne Weath-
ers, 34; 2, Bob Bennett, 36; 3
(tie), Jim Schroeder and
Kevin Moen, 38; 5, Ken
Dankenbring, 39.
Net: 1 (tie), Wayne
Baughman and Al Fahlman,
29; 3 (tie), Dave Voves, Ed
Johnson, John Strader and
Lynn Hurt, 31; 7 (tie), Kevin
O’Brien, Jason Fahlman,
Derrill Weaver, Jack Duncan,
Jim Cain and John Hopkins,
34.
Kids
‘Tri’umph
over
course
Top: Venya and Nina
Kuzichev
catch
their
breath after completing
the Kids’ Triathlon on Fri-
day morning at the Dallas
Aquatic Center.
Venya, age 12, and Nina, 9,
swam 50 yards and biked
for 545 yards. Nina did a
300-yard run, while Venya
completed a 600-yard run.
Left: Brooklyn and Madi-
son Barcroft get set for the
start of the Kids’ Triathlon
on Friday morning. Brook-
lyn finished first in the 7-8-
year-old age group, while
Madison finished fifth.
For more photos from
Summerfest, see page 8A.
For more Kids’ Triathlon
photos and results, check
out www.polkio.com.
Youth tennis camp
coming Aug. 14
DALLAS — Registration
is open for a youth tennis
camp held at Dallas High
School Aug. 14-18.
Cost is $30 plus two new
cans of tennis balls.
Campers will be split into
two age groups, with first-
through fifth-grade stu-
dents from 7:30 to 8:15 a.m.
and sixth- through 12th-
graders from 8:30 to 9:15
a.m.
No experience is neces-
sary.
Mary Christensen will
serve as lead instructor.
For more information:
Mary Christensen, 503-507-
9303.
LUKAS EGGEN/Itemizer-Observer
Ribich earns
national honor
MONMOUTH — Western
Oregon’s David Ribich was
one of four student-athletes
to be named the NCAA Di-
vision II Track and Field
Male Scholar Athletes of the
Year.
Ribich, a junior, earned a
3.41 GPA and was named
the Male
Outdoor
Track
Scholar
Athlete
of the
Year.
Ribich
won the
men’s
Ribich
1,500-
meter run at the NCAA Divi-
sion II Outdoor Track and
Field Championships.
Ribich is the first athlete
from WOU to earn the
honor.
Ribich was also one of
nine Wolves to earn All-Aca-
demic Team honors. Juniors
Nicole Maurmann, Megan
Rose, Kennedy Rufener,
Amanda Short, Suzie Van
De Grift and AJ Holmberg,
and sophomores Olivia
Woods and Dustin Nading
were also all-academic se-
lections. Selections were
made by the U.S. Track and
Field and Cross Country
Coaches Association.
LUKAS EGGEN/Itemizer-Observer
Caleb Heil sprints to the finish of the Kids’ Triathlon.
LUKAS EGGEN/Itemizer-Observer
Colton Barcroft gets a final push as he begins the cycling portion of the triathlon.
Dirtbags finish second at state
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
KLAMATH FALLS — The
Demarini Dirtbags entered
the American Legion state
baseball tournament hungry
for success.
What followed was an up-
and-down journey culmi-
nating in a second-place fin-
ish, falling just short of the
state title.
The team entered the
championship round on
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Kessler
Sunday
needing to
beat Med-
ford twice
to take
home the
champi-
onship,
but lost
11-9 in 10
innings.
“Medford is just a scrap-
py team,” Dirtbags coach
Scot McDonald said. “They
hit really well. They’re four-
Dirtbags
• The Demarini Dirtbags advanced to the state champi-
onship round at the American Legion State Tournament in Kla-
math Falls.
• The Dirtbags opened the tournament with wins over
Willamette Valley and Portland, scoring a combined 37 runs
during the two games.
• The Dirtbags lost to Medford in the championship round
on Sunday.
time state champions for a
reason. They don’t make
mistakes. It’s not that we
made mistakes, but they
just clutched up and beat
us in extra innings.”
T h e
Dirtbags
opened
the tour-
nament on
July 26
with a 17-5
w i n ov e r
Albany be-
Stewart
fore earn-
ing a 20-10 win over Port-
land on Thursday.
“Our bats were on fire,”
McDonald said. “We played
and pitched really well.
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Those first two games we
had 37 runs and 50 hits. It
was like, holy cow. This is
going exactly as planned.”
The Dirtbags raced out to
a 7-0 lead over Medford on
Friday, but gave up 19 unan-
swered runs to get knocked
into the losers’ bracket and a
matchup with Eugene on
Saturday.
The Dirtbags fell behind
4-0 through four innings be-
fore rallying for a 9-5 victory.
See STATE, Page 13A
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