Ray Rodriguez is sports editor of The Dalles Chronicle.
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TD Dancers step up game
Squad earns four high scores; Jess Nanez wins third overall The Dalles Dance Team dominated action this past weekend at the Portland Dance Academy Extravaganza in Gresham with four high scores.
Tribe softballers lose a 7-6 heartbreaker
Team strands tying run at second base in the seventh The Dalles Wahtonka came so close to pulling off a spirited upset of Churchill, but left the tying run stranded at second in their 7-6 state playoff setback Wednesday in Eugene.
Corvallis soaks T-Dub in playoff tilt
Eagle Indians leave 10 runners on base in season-ending 2-1 setback Even when the situation looked dire, Corvallis pitcher Luther Ellenson found a way to make the right pitch at the right time. The southpaw allowed four hits, walked five and hit two batters, but fanned 11 and stranded 10 The Dalles Wahtonka batters to lead his Spartan team to a 2-1 first-round state baseball playoff win Wednesday in rainy The Dalles.
Awaiting their crowning moments
TDW state track qualifiers prepare for big stage this weekend in Eugene From the start of the season, the expectations have been lofty for The Dalles Wahtonka track and field athlete Lio Tunai.
Dufur has two athletes compete at equestrian state meet
Megan Elam and Harley Burgener end up in 20th place
The 2013 Oregon High School Equestrian Teams State Championship meet took place this past weekend May 16-19 at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo in Redmond. There were 8 districts with over 90 schools represented in 4 team size divisions. Here are results for Dufur’s OHSET team at the state meet. Working Pairs: 20th Megan Elam & Harley Burgener
2A Blue Mountain conference names all-league team
Dufur and Sherman are well-represented in the final votes
Dufur's Cole Parke, Trever Tibbets and Josh Keyser earn first-team status; Sherman's Nick Coleman makes his name known on first squad
Adult Hoops Standings
As of Wednesday with one more week left in regular season
Final push for league championship being made by the top teams in the standings
Jumpstart events planned
Youth Track event set for June 4; Hoops camp for June 24-28
Tom Conklin has these two local events planned to get youths involved in sporting activities
Belshe wins one match at state tournament
Sherman senior advances to consolation semifinals
Sherman senior Maddie Belshe won a consolation match and advanced all the way to the semifinal bracket, but wound up losing on the second day of 4A/3A/2A/1A state tennis action at the University of Oregon campus in Eugene.
Dufur nine on the rise
Rangers are hoping to catch some lightning in a state bottle
It has been business as usual for the Dufur Ranger baseball team, as it kicks off the start of the 2013 state playoffs on the road in John Day at 4:30 p.m. tonight against No. 1-seeded Grant Union.