The INDEPENDENT, November 17, 2005
Middle School
Honor Roll is
announced
The following students were
named to the Vernonia Middle
School academic Honor Roll
for the 2005-2006 first quarter.
Principal’s Honors, 4.00 –
Chris Bamburg, Tim Brown,
Kaytee Burghard, Kaitlyn Carr,
Genesis Castro, Adrienne
East, Brandon Gilbertson,
Nora Hieronimus, Alex Lende,
Jackson Miller, Souvanny
Miller, Melissa Sandstrom,
Tabitha Schivley, McKenna
Stasiak, Kacy Strand, Natalie
Wallace,
Katie
Wilson,
Bethany Workman.
High Honors, 3.50-3.99 –
Calvin Barnes, Jacob Barnes,
Bonnie Birkmaier, Rachel
Brown, Joshua Butcher, Brian-
na Carr, Holly Çavett, Karly De
Witt, Natasha Duyck, Kodi
Dyer, Katie Ellington, Andrew
Graf, Laura Hein, Calie John-
ston, Jerrid Johnston, Kayleigh
Johnston, Jacob Levenseller,
Jonathan Marks, Sarah Miller,
Tasia Pond, Justin Rainbolt,
Amy Rethwill, Parker Roach,
Preston
Roach,
Sierra
Roberts, Christian Schilling,
Sicily Scott, Daniel Shaw, Katie
Stevens, McKenzie Tarkalson,
Nicole Thompson, Levi Taylor,
Ryan Taylor, Shyla Tung-
wenuk, Dylan Vaughn, Travis
White.
Honors, 3.25-3.49 – Jacob
Alf, Joseph Benes, Kaylee
Dalebroux, Jacob Dixon, Robin
Elliott, Trever Gwin, Breonna
Maldonado, Mickell Maller,
Beth Tessitore, Mikael Walter,
Paul Whiteman.
Honorable Mention, 3.00-
3.24 – Christopher Dass,
Jayme Due, Zachery Dyer,
Chelsea Gritz, Kristina Halver-
son, Frank Hesselton Jr., Quin-
lan Johansen, Christopher
Johnston, Devin Layman, Jor-
dan McCain, Kanan Olsen,
Brandon Orth, Mason Roberts,
Austin Rumbolz, Zachary
Smith, Sean Solberg, Savan-
nah Stevens, Kaitlyn Taylor,
Emily Thompson.
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Page 11
Vernonia High School Sports Report
Cross-Country
The running season ended
on a very good note this year,
with the team sending two run-
ners to the state meet. Nicole
Frantz and Sam Thornton both
placed in the top seven at the
District Meet at Pier Park to
qualify.
At Districts, Frantz ran a
22:07 and placed fourth. Thorn-
one part of the course, “Every
time I took a step, the mud
would come up to the top of my
shoe.” Frantz finished 42 out of
115 with a time of 22:37. Her
time was three and a half min-
utes off winner Casey Stengel’s
time of 19:04.
Sam Thornton battled the
rain and a cold in his race.
“When I came onto the track [at
Football
The Loggers finished their
season with a blowout victory
over the Neah-Kah-Nie Pirates
on November 4. The Loggers,
who lost the previous week to
Warrenton, had already been
eliminated from the playoffs,
but wanted to end the season
on a win. Well, they won in a
big way, 55-0 to be exact. In a
game where they scored on
their first two possessions, the
Loggers came out running from
the start.
Running back Brent Thomp-
son had 118 yards on 18 car-
yards rushing on nine carries,
with two touchdowns. Through
the air the Loggers only passed
for 51 yards, going 3-5 with two
touchdowns. Lende went 2-4
with a touchdown pass to wide
receiver Bryan Budge, and in a
trick play, Thompson threw a 25
yard touchdown pass to Lende.
All three of the senior players
scored at least one point.
Lende passed for one touch-
down, ran for two, and had one
receiving. Budge had one re-
ceiving touchdown, and Line-
man John Howley kicked an
extra point.
ries, with two touchdowns.
Overall, Thompson had three
touchdowns, one of them a
kickoff return. Quarterback
Russell Lende also had 118
Overall,
the
Loggers
amassed 361 yards of total of-
fense, 310 of those yards rush-
ing. The team’s final record was
4-5, 3-4 in league play.
Above, on right, Nicole Frantz runs at the State meet.
Right, on left, Sam Thornton runs his race at the State meet.
ton ran a personal best by 20
seconds, 18:20, and placed
sixth. As a team, the Boys var-
sity placed fourth, and the Girls
team placed fifth.
The State meet was held
November 5 at Lane Communi-
ty College in Eugene on a very
rainy day. For most of the previ-
ous day, and the day of the
meet, it poured. Footing was a
big issue for all the runners, for
the race was entirely on grass
or bark dust. This is what
Nicole Frantz had to say about
the finish], I couldn’t kick if I
wanted to,” he said after the
race. A kick is the term for
sprinting at the end, or giving it
all you have left. Thornton fin-
ished 71 out of 115 with a time
of 19:26, over three minutes off
winner Brad Taylor’s time of
16:22. Taylor had won the pre-
vious two State titles, making
him only the second runner in
Oregon High School Sports
history to win three cross-coun-
try titles in a row.
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