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Polk County Itemizer-Observer • September 6, 2017 11A
PREP
VOLLEYBALL
SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6
Volleyball: Livingstone
Adventist at Falls City, 6
p.m.
Dragons
go 2-1 at
tourney
THURSDAY, SEPT. 7
Boys soccer: Central at
Barlow, 7 p.m. Dallas at Ben-
son, 6 p.m.
Girls soccer: Eagle Point
at Dallas, 4 p.m.
Volleyball: Central at
South Albany, 6 p.m. Cres-
cent Valley at Dallas, 6 p.m.
Perrydale at Jewell, 6 p.m.
Cal State San Marcos at
Western Oregon, 8 p.m.
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
FRIDAY, SEPT. 8
Cross-country: Western
Oregon at Ash Creek Invita-
tional, 5 p.m.
Football: Mountain View
at Central, 7 p.m. North Eu-
gene at Dallas, 7 p.m. Falls
City at Sherman, 7 p.m.
Lowell at Perrydale, 7 p.m.
Volleyball: Chaminade
at Western Oregon, 3 p.m.
Women’s soccer: West-
ern Oregon at Hawaii Pacif-
ic, TBA.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 9
Cross-country: Central
at Ash Creek Cross-country
Festival, noon. Dallas at
Saxon Invite, 10 a.m.
Football: Western Ore-
gon at Central Washington,
1 p.m.
Volleyball: Perrydale at
Damascus Christian, 1 p.m.
Fresno Pacific at Western
Oregon, 10:30 a.m. Cal State
East Bay at Western Oregon,
6:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 10
Women’s soccer: West-
ern Oregon at Chaminade,
TBA.
MONDAY, SEPT. 11
Volleyball: Falls City at
Siletz Valley, 6 p.m.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 12
Boys soccer: North Mari-
on at Central, 6 p.m.
Girls soccer: Central at
North Marion, 4 p.m. Red-
mond at Dallas, 4 p.m.
Volleyball: Central at
Crescent Valley, 6 p.m. Cor-
vallis at Dallas, 6 p.m.
Willamette Valley Christian
at Perrydale, 6 p.m.
—
Schedules Subject to Change
QUICK HITS
Nygaard, Fallon
earn honors
MONMOUTH — Western
Oregon baseball players
Nyles Nygaard and Koty Fal-
lon earned postseason ac-
colades while competing in
summer leagues.
Nygaard was selected
second team all-West Coast
League as a utility player.
Nygaard had 12 doubles
and 16 RBIs while playing
with the Cowlitz Black Bears.
Fallon earned second
team Great West League
honors after hitting .260
with the Portland Pickles.
In addition, WOU players
Jacob Fricke, Alex Roth and
Cam Walker received all-
WCL honorable mentions.
LUKAS EGGEN/Itemizer-Observer
Hunter Chase (29) eludes a Bend tackler during the Panthers’ 35-6 win over the Lava Bears on Friday night.
PREP FOOTBALL
Panthers roll in opener
Defense, special teams help spark Central’s victory
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
INDEPENDENCE — Sen-
ior Isaiah Abraham was itch-
ing to get on the field Friday
night.
The wide receiver/defen-
sive back
missed
much of
the 2016
season due
to injuries,
but he was
ready
to
contribute
to Central’s
Abraham
football
team.
And contribute he did.
Abraham had one receiv-
ing touchdown on offense
and two interceptions, in-
cluding one returned for a
touchdown, on defense,
helping the Panthers to a 35-
6 win over Bend on Friday
night.
“It was just great to be
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Central’s defense held Bend to six points on Friday night.
back on the field again and
play football,” Abraham
said. “We’re a brotherhood
this year. We play for each
other.”
PREP FOOTBALL
Wolves fall to 0-2
Pirates outlast
Mapleton
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
MONMOUTH — Western
Oregon women’s soccer
coach Steve Ancheta knows
WOU is a work in progress.
The Wolves opened the sea-
son by falling to Biola 3-2 in
double overtime on Thursday
and San Francisco State 3-0 on
Saturday.
“We have a young team,”
Ancheta said. “We have 11
new players added and lost
nine seniors from last year. I
thought the two opponents
we saw are very talented and
very athletic. With San Fran-
cisco State, I’m thinking they
can be a playoff team. They
have some nice talent out
there. They were great games
for us to play and it was a
learning environment for us.”
See WOLVES, Page 13A
DALLAS — Cross Creek’s
men’s club results for Aug.
29:
Two man best ball
Gross: 1, Bob Bennett-
Ted Bennett, 35; 2, Paul Dis-
ney-Bill Karjala, 36; 3, Jim
Schroeder-Bob Sprinkle, 37.
Net: 1, Ken Ross-David
White, 28; 2 (tie), Chuck
Wo o d b e c k- Pat Fa r re l l,
Wayne Baughman-Steve
Albin and Vern Smith-John
Mangini, 29; 5, Rocky Kygar-
Bill Bishop, 29.
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a 6-yard touchdown run by
Hunter Chase. Nikolai Wolfe
returned the second block
for a touchdown.
See PANTHERS, Page 13A
COLLEGE SOCCER
Cross Creek
men’s club results
The num-
ber of
points
Central,
Dallas, Falls City and Perry-
dale’s football teams com-
bined to score during the
first week of the high
school season.
The Pirates scored 52
points, the Dragons scored
40 points, the Panthers
scored 35 points and Falls
City scored 12 points. Cen-
tral, Dallas and Perrydale
recorded victories, while
the Mountaineers lost.
Central controlled the
game right from the opening
snaps, blocking punts on
each of Bend’s first two
drives. The first block set up
SALEM — Dallas’ volley-
ball team opened its sea-
son
at
the
McKay
Tournament in Salem on
Saturday.
The Dragons defeated
McKay 25-15, 25-18 and
Blanchett, 25-23, 19-25,
15-11 before falling to
Radford
(from
Hawaii),
23-25,
25-23,
15-11 in
t h e
champi-
onship
match.
Classen
“This
was our
first true
test to
see how
the girls
w e r e
going to
mesh as
a team,”
coach
Savage
Shana
Lavier
s a i d .
“They
played a
lot
of
volley-
ball, and
e v e n
though
Van Well
t h e y
were exhausted by the
time the championship
game came around, they
showed
tremendous
tenacity.”
Stats were not available,
but Lavier said several
players stepped up in a big
way.
“Emma (Classen) and
Maggie (Blair) played all
the way around all day
and were just solid and
consistent,” Lavier said.
“Tristin (Savage) had a
great tournament, not
only hitting, but was able
to frustrate a lot of teams
with her blocking. She
shut down hitters real
quick. Hailey (VanWell),
even though she is only a
sophomore, she was an
offensive threat.”
See DALLAS, Page 12A
By Lukas Eggen
The Itemizer-Observer
PERRYDALE — Almost
from the opening snap, one
thing was clear during Per-
rydale’s football game
against Mapleton.
This was going to be one
exciting game.
“It was a battle, for sure,”
senior Cooper Butler said.
“We were going blow for
blow on offense.”
The Pirates and Sailors
traded leads six times be-
fore Perrydale secured a 52-
42 victory on Thursday.
Butler
scored
three
touchdowns, including a
61-yard touchdown run in
the first quarter and a 50-
yard touchdown run in the
third quarter.
“Cooper was running
like a man possessed,”
coach Steve Mabry said.
“He’s our saving grace a
little bit. If we need 3
yards, we’re going to give
him the ball.”
See PIRATES, Page 12A
Soccer
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Western Oregon defender Kaitlin Poe attempts to ad-
vance the ball up the field on Saturday afternoon.
• Western Oregon’s soc-
cer team will play at Hawaii
Pacific on Friday and at
Chaminade on Sunday.
Game times have not been
announced.
• The Wolves open Great
Northwest Athletic Confer-
ence play at Western Wash-
ington on Sept. 16.
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Cooper Butler (3) breaks free for a run on Thursday.
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