WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2018
TODRYK
Continued from Page
“I’m really looking for-
ward to it,” Todryk said.
But won’t get far with-
out a team. Just as she
worked to bring girls to
the sport over 2,000 miles
away, the same efforts are
being made in the growing
town of Hermiston with
over 17,290 people.
“I’m hoping that me
doing so well this year
will hopefully inspire
other young ladies to do
the sport,” Todryk said,
“Then, the fact that they’ll
have the opportunity to
just wrestle girls next
year, I hope that will help
a lot of girls with their
confidence of not having
to wrestle guys at all.”
Todryk was not the only
varsity girl on the mats in
the area, though. Alissa
Hunert put together a 6-11
record at 126 pounds as a
freshman this season for
the Echo/Stanfield Cou-
gars. And down in Hep-
pner, sophomore Suzan-
neah Cason wrestled at
120 pounds with a 4-21
record for the Mustangs.
Todryk admits, though,
that the “mans-game”
mentality that is deeply
embedded in the sport can
be hard to overlook even
with the growing num-
ber of girls competing
nationwide.
“Some of it is just that
everyone still thinks it’s
a guys sport even though
it’s not,” Todryk adds. “A
lot of people look at it that
way and (think), ‘Oh, we
don’t belong on the wres-
tling mat, or we’re not
strong enough, or we’re
not athletic enough.’
“You really don’t have
to be that strong or that
athletic to be a wrestler.
Wrestling is for every-
one. You can be tall and
lanky or you can be short
like me. Wrestling is just
a sport that everyone can
do.”
That message is some-
thing Todryk wants to
share with other young
women in the commu-
nity in hopes of building a
team that can continue the
championship legacy the
Hermiston wrestling pro-
gram has built for itself
over the past decade.
“I just want to give
back now,” she said. “So
much has been put into me
that I’m pretty much set
for the future that I want
to help other young girls
and get them inspired and
hopefully continue grow-
ing the sport.”
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Two Bulldogs sign with Carroll College
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
HERMISTON — Play-
ing at the next level wasn’t
on Eric White’s mind at the
start of his senior season on
the Hermiston football team.
White was more con-
cerned with whether he
would be able to play another
quarter after sustaining an
injury in the first quarter of
the first game of the season.
During the 35-21 loss
at Union (WA) on Sept. 1,
White broke his collar bone
and wouldn’t take the field
for nearly two months.
“There were a lot of times
where I thought, ‘Wow, is
my last game really going
the be the first quarter of my
first game my senior year?’,”
White said. “But I just kept
thinking that maybe if I just
keep trying, I (can) get back
for maybe just another quar-
ter, and that’s what the goal
was to get back just to play
one more time.”
White made a big enough
impression during Herm-
iston’s playoff run, which
eventually ended with a state
championship, to garner the
attention of Carroll College.
STAFF PHOTO BY ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
Tyler Hunter (left) and Eric White (right), in attendance with
head coach David Faaeteete, sign their Letters of Intent to
continue playing football at Carroll College next year.
On Tuesday, alongside
teammate Tyler Hunter,
White signed a letter of intent
to continue playing football
in the fall as a Fighting Saint.
It’s not just the ath-
letic program and coaching
staff of the six-time NAIA
National Football Champi-
onships that attracted White.
The private Roman
Catholic liberal arts col-
lege in Helena, Montana
Roa’s buzzer-beater sends Irrigon to quarterfinals
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
IRRIGON — With 1:45
left on the game clock inside
Irrigon High’s gym, Catlin
Gabel sophomore Jett Sheng
hit a 3-pointer to knot the
score at 47 points apiece —
capping off a 11-4 run by the
visiting team.
There had been only one
other tie when the No. 9
Eagles took on the No. 8 Irri-
gon Knights in the first round
of the playoffs, and that was
in the first two minutes of
play.
The Knights stayed in
control for almost the entire
game, but head coach Davie
Salas was beginning to think
about overtime as the clock
ticked down with neither
team scoring.
Each team had just one
more chance to win in
regulation.
With 14 seconds remain-
ing, the Eagles are called for
an over-and-back to give the
Knights the ball.
Then with only 0.6 to
go and the score still tied at
47-47, Irrigon’s Adrian Roa
receives the inbound, and
as he’s falling back heaves
the ball toward the net. It
bounces off the front of the
rim, hits the backboard, again
touches the front of the rim
and then falls in to give the
Knights a three-point advan-
tage and the 50-47 victory.
“I’m pretty amazed by
coming out — there was
sixth tenths of a second left,
we just had to get a shot off
real quick,” Roa said. “If
everybody wasn’t doing
their part it would have never
happened.”
It took a team effort to
hold off the Eagles (22-6
overall, 14-2 Lewis & Clark
League) on Saturday eve-
ning. Catlin Gabel came to
town with a 6-foot-9 senior
post, Ned Williamson, and
dynamic young shooters that
had won 13 of their last 15
games.
“We saw them on video
and the young kids shot a
lot,” Salas said. “I told the
guys that eventually those
are going to fall, regardless
of whether they hit them in
the game we saw.”
In the first half, those
shots weren’t falling.
“(But) shooters keep
shooting,” Salas added, “and
(their shots) fell in the second
half and they were able to
come back, close our lead.”
At one point, before the
tie late in the fourth quarter,
Catlin Gabel came within
two possessions of Irrigon,
but threes from Lino Covar-
rubia extended the Knights’
slight lead.
Even with Roa’s buzz-
er-beater and senior Eric Car-
rillo’s game-best 14 points,
Covarrubia impressed Salas
with his effort and hustle late
in the game.
“He’s been the start-
ing point guard here for two
years and late in the games,
he’s kind of had trouble with
turnovers but today, and ver-
sus Umatilla, he was solid,”
Salas said. “He was starting
to get that confidence that
I saw within him as a soph-
omore. ... He stepped up
tonight, got to the paint, and
had some really great defen-
sive plays.”
Covarrubia
finished
behind Carrillo with 13
points, and his big defensive
stops with less than a minute
left in the game were pivotal
in Irrigon’s victory.
“I tell the kids all the time
that individually I’m not sure
how great of players we are
but together, and together I
know we can be very spe-
cial,” Salas said.
Irrigon’s postseason con-
tinues in Coos Bay on Thurs-
day with a matchup against
No. 1 De La Salle North
Catholic in the quarterfinals.
The Knights are 24-1 with
their last loss, a 58-49 defeat,
on Dec. 8 at a non-league
tournament against Horizon
Christian.
———
CGHS
11 8 17 11 — 47
IHS
17 10 13 10 — 50
CATLIN GABEL — S. Agapiev 13, R. Hoff-
man 12, J. Sheng 7, F. Langlois 5, U. McGutha
4, N. Williamson 4, J. Girard 2.
IRRIGON — E. Carrillo 14, L. Covarrubia 13,
A. Roa 6, J. Phillips 6, K. Flemming 4, D. Vera
3, A. Gomez 2, P. Holcomb 2.
3-pointers — CGHS 3, IHS 9. Free throws
— CGHS 10-13, IHS 1-2. Fouls — CGHS 6,
IHS 9.
has a nationally and region-
ally recognized pre-med and
nursing program, a field of
study White will pursue.
It also doesn’t hurt that
Hunter will be joining him,
and decision that White
admits he pushed hard for.
“It’s nice having a friend
(there),” White said. “Me
and Tyler are super close and
honestly, I was kind of the
one trying to talk him into
going. I kept telling him,
‘you know we could both go
and play there.’”
White recalled Hunter’s
response: “I know, Eric, I
know.”
Similar to White, Hunter
was unsure if he would be
continuing football after his
final year as a Bulldog.
After the 38-35 win over
Churchill to claim the OSAA
5A state title, he thought
that may be the final time he
stepped on the gridiron.
“It crossed my mind
that yeah, that was one of
the last times I’ll play foot-
ball but I didn’t want it to be
the last time,” Hunter said.
“So, I filled out quite a few
prospective student athlete
forms.”
That’s when he caught
the attention of the Car-
roll coaching staff, and after
exchanging text messages
planned a visit with White
that would seal the deal.
“I just fell in love with the
campus and the people there,
it’s a really great place,”
Hunter added.
Hunter plans on majoring
in accounting, which he’ll
then turn into a career of
being a CPA.
Heppner girls defeat
Central Linn, advance
to Class 2A state tourney
First playoff win
for Mustangs
since 2013
26 points to go with seven
rebounds all while shoot-
ing 50 percent from the floor
(7 for 14). Eighteen of Wil-
son’s points came in the sec-
ond half, 10 which came at
the free throw line.
Behind her, Morgan Cor-
rea tallied nine points, Jacee
Currin had six and Sophie
Grant had five for the home
team.
Sarah Conner led the
Cobras (18-9) with 16
points.
Heppner will now play
the No. 1 seed Kennedy (26-
1) in the state quarterfinals
on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at
Pendleton High School.
————
At Heppner, the Mus-
tangs defeated the Central
Linn Cobras 50-41 on Sat-
urday afternoon to advance
to the Class 2A state tour-
nament next week in
Pendleton.
It’s the first playoff vic-
tory since 2013 for the Mus-
tangs (16-6), and next week
will mark their first trip
back to the state tournament
since 2013 as well, when the
team compiled a 1-2 record
before being eliminated in
the consolation bracket.
In Saturday’s first round
game with the Cobras,
freshman Sydney Wilson
had an outstanding perfor-
mance with a game-high
CL
5 4 12 20 — 41
HHS
6 11 14 19 — 50
CENTRAL LINN — S. Conner 16, J.
Neal 8, C. McLaughlin 6, M. Robb 4, A.
Stutzman 4, G. Robb 3.
HEPPNER — S. Wilson 26, M. Correa
9, J. Currin 6, S. Grant 5, M. Combe 3, K.
Gray 1, J. McCullough, J. Mahoney.
3-pointers — CL 4, HHS 3. Free throws
— CL 7-14, HHS 21-31. Fouls — CL 20,
HHS 14.
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