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October 5, 2018 T he C olumbia P ress 5 Vollerballers handily win match against Taft B y B ruCe d ustin The Columbia Press Warrenton High School’s girls volleyball team won three out of five sets against the visiting team from Taft High School. “It was a good win for us because it establishes that we will be in the playoffs,” coach Stacy Miethe said. “It was a confidence builder. We were working on our defensive po- sitioning, our defensive rota- tions, before facing the No. 1 team in our league, Willami- na, this Thursday for home- coming.” The match against Taft was 25-13, 25-17, 21-25 and 25-8. “We had 25 aces for our serving,” Miethe said. “Our serving is definitely the high- with 4 kills. It was a good night for us.” Fernanda Alvarez, a team senior, said, “We need to work on talking more and not getting too much into our heads when we fall behind. We just need to have fun. And you know what’s fun? Win- ning.” The team needs to work on defense, said senior Claire Bussert. “We need to get stronger mentally. When we get down we kind of give up, like we did in the third set Thursday,” Bussert said. “We need to play through adversity. And Bruce Dustin/The Columbia Press Fernanda Alvarez leaps high for we will.” The Warriors were to play the kill. an away match against Clats- light of our game. We were kanie on Tuesday and at also 8 for 12 in hitting attacks home Thursday. PAID POLITICAL AD YES FOR WARRENTON HAMMOND KIDS PAC, Debbie Morrow, Chair Running: Principal competes in endurance runs Continued from Page 1 ki started running as a boy and was competing in long-dis- tance events by age 13. He joined the track team, entered road races and 10-ki- lometer races and played high school basketball and base- ball. “I went with my strengths,” he said. “But even in high school, I was not grandly com- petitive.” In the 1990s, while working as a middle school science teacher, a friend gave him James Shapiro’s book, “Med- itations from the Breakdown Lane.” It inspired him to see how far he could push himself. Then he spotted an ad in Ultra Running Magazine for a run across America in the summer of ’92. His summer was free and he was motivat- ed. “I thought that would be a cool way to see the country,” he said. He completed the true “cross-country” in 64 days. In 2015, while ensconced in his administrator role in War- renton, he learned about a Scott Rokis Photography Tom Rogozinski makes his way along a trail at Lake Tahoe. Bellingham company that was organizing a trifecta of 200- mile races: Bigfoot 200 around Mount St. Helens, Tahoe 200 in California and Nevada, and Moab 200 in Utah. This is his fourth year par- ticipating in the Triple Crown. The next run is in Moab, which begins a week from today. Each race takes about 2 ½ days and requires peak condi- tioning. Sleep will be an issue and minor injuries could be- come major setbacks. Rogozinski has completed all 200-mile runs except this September’s Tahoe 200, when he developed breathing prob- lems and fluid in the lungs about 130 miles in. With aid stations 20 miles apart, he chose to stop when pneumo- nia became a real possibility. Other races, however, have left him energized. “You’d think I’d be de- stroyed physically for about a week when I come back,” he said. “Instead, it feels like I’m in a less-hurried state. … There are solutions that come to me.” And his refocused attitude makes a difference on cam- pus. “How do we manage a con- trived challenge like a race and use those principles for the imposed challenges of students,” he said. “We model for them a healthy response. We form goals. We learn to push through things. How do we help kids identify their skills, help kids figure out what their dispositions are and how they fit in in life.” Accepting New Patients! Elizabeth Erikson, DO: Warrenton Primary Care Rachel Flescher, PA-C: Astoria Primary Care Wendy Hovden, NP-C: Warrenton Primary Care All insurance providers accepted. Call today to make an appointment at one of our two convenient locations: Astoria Primary Care: 503-338-4675 Warrenton Primary Care: 503-338-4500
