The Columbia Press
September 10, 2021
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Warriors have impressive Volleyball scores big win against Nestucca
45-14 win over the Loggers
By Bruce Dustin
For The Columbia Press
By Bruce Dustin
For The Columbia Press
The Warrenton Warrior
football team came away with
a 45-14 win over the visiting
Knappa Loggers last Friday
night.
Just 1 minute, 20 seconds
into the game, Hordie Bod-
den Bodden ran the ball into
the endzone for a touchdown.
He then kicked an extra
point.
A couple of minutes later,
Ethan Caldwell caught a pass
from Hordie. Ethan was lying
on his back in the end zone
with two defensive Loggers
over him, but he held on to
the ball. The extra point was
blocked. The score was 13-0.
Joshua Earls caught a pass
from Hordie and scored.
Dylan Atwood ran it in for
two extra points. It was 21-0.
With nothing on the end
of the quarter clock, Ethan
Caldwell intercepted a des-
peration pass from Knappa
and ran it in for another six
points. The extra point failed.
The score was 27-0 at the
end of the first quarter.
Warrenton scored 12 points
in the second -- touchdowns
by Dylan Atwood and Mikey
Ulness.
Dylan scored again in the
third, the Warriors’ final
point in their 45-14 win.
“I was very excited,” Ethan
said. “I knew our team was
very prepared and ready to
go. I felt good about how our
team played, but there are
some things we need to clean
up, things that will help to
put us in a better position in
the coming weeks.”
He gave credit to Dawson
Little and Damion Campbell,
two players who stood out.
“Dawson was flying around
on defense and never let his
energy fade. And Damon
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Hordie Bodden Bodden runs
with the ball for a touchdown
at the beginning of the game.
made a couple of really good
catches,” he said. “A strength
our team possesses is the
bond we have between us and
our way of picking up and
having each other’s back.”
Improvements needed: at-
tention to detail and remain-
ing energetic, he said.
“There were some nega-
tive things that happened in
the game that we could have
avoided if we had just done
the small things,” Ethan said.
“I feel very good about our
upcoming game against Hep-
pner. … They’re a good team,
but we’re a great team.”
The Warriors play at Hep-
pner Sept. 10.
The Warrenton Warriors girls’ volleyball
team thumped Nestucca’s Bobcats last week in
three straight sets, 25-21, 25-22, and 25-14.
Paige Tingstrom, a junior outside hitter on
Warrenton’s team, said she felt prepared for
the challenge.
“I knew we’d be competitive, and we were,”
Paige said. “Our strength was our hitting at the
net. Avyree Miethe was really good -- both her
hits and kills. Aaliyah Watson also had a good
night. She made some great passes.”
The team’s weakness, however, was its incon-
sistent serves.
Coach Miethe said, “Quite honestly, I see an
overall lack of consistency in the team’s play-
ing,” Coach Staci Miethe said. “We are really
up, playing fantastically, and then we have a
mental or physical lapse. We just need to op-
erate on that upper level consistently. But, you
know what? They’re a scrappy group of girls.
We’re going to have an interesting season.”
The girls were scheduled to play Yamhill-Carl-
ton on Thursday and North Clackamas Chris-
tian on Sept. 14.
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Paige Tingstrom prepares to spike the
ball in the three-set match against the
Nestucca Bobcats.
Pandemic food relief for children extended
The state of Oregon received
approval from the federal
government to expand the
Pandemic EBT program and
provide an additional $167
million in food assistance to
430,000 children.
Oregon previously was ap-
proved for $424 million.
Combined with the summer
expansion of the program,
Oregon is providing $591
million in food assistance to
children between July and
October.
P-EBT provides food bene-
fits to families whose children
were eligible for free or re-
duced-priced meals at school
or day care, but who did not
have access to these free
meals because of COVID-19
closures.
Households currently re-
ceiving P-EBT benefits will
automatically receive an ad-
ditional $389 per child in
food assistance through two
payments in September and
October.