April 4, 2007
TDW tracksters get mixed results against Mt. View
Eagle Indian girls beat Cougars, while T-Dub boys lose dual meet
By JODI RICH
of the Chronicle
The Dalles Wahtonka track and field coaches were thinking alike after Tuesday’s home track meet, an Intermountain Conference dual meet against visiting Mountain View of Bend.
“Coming two days after spring break, I think we did pretty good,” said distance coach Steve Thompson.
Head coach Garth Miller echoed those words — noting that the weeklong layoff from competition and regular practices doesn’t always lend itself to great performances.
And, the chilly day — with temperatures in the high 40s — didn’t lend itself to fast times.
Even so, the Eagle Indian girls track team posted a 30-point win, 87-57, while the TDW boys didn’t fare as well, losing 89-54.
Both squads won eight events, but the boys weren’t as deep as the girls’ teams in picking up the second and third places.
For the girls, junior sprinter Andrea Bailey won two individual events (100 meters, 13.2 seconds; 200, 26.7), while helping both relays to victory.
Short relay members included juniors Sarah Anthony and LaNeisha Tilton, the anchor leg, and senior Laura North. The team posted a win in 52.84 seconds.
The 4x400 winning relay members were Bailey, senior Nicole Westhafer, freshman Marie Miller and North. They beat Mt. View by more than 12 seconds, winning in 4:17.86.
Elizabeth Alaimo, a senior, also was a double winner — taking the 100 and 300 hurdle races in 16.8 and 51.6, respectively.
Tilton also earned a long jump win (14 feet, 7 inches), Miller won the 800 (2:33.83), and junior Shaina Pasi won the shot put (32-4¼).
Event winners for TDW boys included freshman sprinter Joe Bryant who earned a double victory (100, 11.9; 200 24.0), while junior Robert Atoe also doubled up (shot, 50-11.75; discus, 142-11).
Seniors Jason Yecny (triple jump, 40-5.75) and Nathan Francis (110 high hurdles, 17.6) also won, as did freshman D.J. Taphouse (400, 54.3).
Yecny and Taphouse teamed up with senior Luis Garcia and freshman Robert Tilton to close the day’s meet with a win in the 4x400 relay (3:41.8).
Also noteworthy were the boys throwing events where Atoe, Demetri Enesi and Aleluia Fanene — all juniors — swept the top three places.
Enesi took second in the shot with Fanene third, and the pair swapped places in the discus.
“This could be a special group” of track and field athletes, said coach Miller. “Again, considering we’re just coming off spring break, I think we did real well.”
Next up, The Dalles Wahtonka hosts a six-team meet Saturday, the Cherry Blossom Invitational, at the west campus.
The meet starts with field events at 11 a.m. and running events set to start at noon.
Oregon teams are Scappoose and South Wasco County with Washington teams Glenwood, Klickitat and Trout Lake.
Sherman shells South Wasco in reunion of sorts
By ALEX BOSWORTH
of The Chronicle
Sherman used a 14-run third inning to blow by South Wasco County Tuesday at Sherman, 19-0.
“We needed [the win],” Sherman first-year coach Joe Justesen said. “It was an outstanding team effort, and hopefully we can build off of it this coming weekend.”
Cody Johnson started at pitcher for South Wasco and picked up the loss.
Eliot Kaseberg got the win for Sherman, giving up three hits to go with five strikeouts in four innings. Sherman freshman James Stroud closed out the game.
In one of the lone bright spots for South Wasco, Jake Lowes retired the first three batters he faced in the bottom of the fifth before the game was called due to the 10-run mercy rule.
Sherman’s Dylan Wood batted 3-for-4, as did Kaseberg and Nolan Mobley. Mobley chipped in three RBIs for the Huskies.
“Jeremy Edson did a good job at shortstop,” Justesen said.
“I thought we’d be able to play with them,” said first-year South Wasco coach Lee Kaseberg. “The only way to [improve] is to keep playing games.”
South Wasco started three players at new positions for the game. Sherman’s Edson was playing his first game at shortstop.
Sherman plays again Saturday at Weston-McEwen. South Wasco will host Stanfield on Saturday.
“It felt like old times,” Justesen said of playing former Sherman coach Lee Kaseberg. “It was funny to see him in a South Wasco uniform.
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Sherman 11(14) 30 — 19 15 1
Eagle Indian netters squeeze by Madras
By ALEX BOSWORTH
of The Chronicle
As they have so often this season, The Dalles Wahtonka relied on a strong showing from its doubles teams to squeak past Madras Tuesday night in The Dalles.
The Eagle Indians won all four doubles matches to tie Madras 4-4, and TDW clinched the win 74-69 when games were counted.
Five games into the season, the doubles team of Emily Dick and Christina Nichol is undefeated, as is the team of Alex Iken and Jessica Kohltfarber, coach Karen Tibbets said.
The No. 1 doubles team of Chelsea Gay and Samantha Hege, paired together for the first time, survived a first-set tiebreaker before winning the second set handily to defeat Madras’s Amanda Goodsen and Samantha Blann 7-6 (2), 6-2.
In second doubles, Emily Irby and Lety Vasquez gave up just one game in defeating Paige Jorgensen and Megan Fine 6-1, 6-0.
Third doubles Dick and Nichol also won their match handily 6-0, 6-2, while fourth doubles Iken and Kohltfarber came back from a one-set disadvantage to defeat Katie Manyon and Anna Reynoso 1-6, 6-1, 6-0.
Junior varsity team member Sara Brady stepped in for an ill Cristal Finley in fourth singles, and pushed Madras’s Cat Green to three sets before falling 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
“Sara played with a lot of heart and determination,” Tibbets said. “She had a great attitude.
The White Buffaloes won the rest of the singles matches. Addie Estimo beat Elizabeth Priest 6-2, 6-4 in first singles, Sandra Stoval defeated Courtney Lehman in second singles, and Chelsea Asvury bested Carleigh Ryan 6-1, 6-2.
TDW, which improved to 3-2 on the season, plays next this Thursday at Bend.
The JV team played well on Tuesday.
In doubles, Rachel Gnall and Julie Breckterfield won their match, and TDW’s Chihiro Shihiro also contributed to a doubles win. Audrey Bell won in singles.
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