Prep Gymnastics:
Stevenson swept every event, plus the all-around competition, in defeating Fort Vancouver, 156.85-120.9, in a meet at Stevenson High School.
Senior Brianna Nielsen won all four events for the Bulldogs, on her way to the all-around with a score of 35.35. She was followed by teammates Kaitlyn Richards (32.2) and Jessica Strain (31.5).
Richards edged Strain for second overall with a stronger performance in the floor exercise (8.5 to 6.9).
The two tied for second in the vault (8.6 to Nielsen's 8.75), while Strain was the runner-up in the uneven bars (7.3 to 8.6) and on the balance beam (8.7 to 9.0).
Collegiate Baseball:
Scott Hicks of Klickitat took the mound for Pacific University's season-opener against defending NCAA Division III champion Chapman College (Calif.) last Thursday in the first game of the Arizona Desert Classic in Chandler.
The Boxers' senior right-hander held the Panthers to one run through four innings, but got tagged for four runs in the fifth of an eventual 5-3 loss.
Last season, his first at the Forest Grove, Ore., school after transferring from Central Washington University, Hicks posted a 3-3 record and a 4.74 earned-run average in seven starts.
Collegiate Track & Field:
Jacob Anderson of White Salmon won the men's pole vault Feb. 6 during the first day of the McDonald's Collegiate Indoor Meet at the University of Idaho in Moscow.
The redshirt sophomore cleared the bar at 15 feet, 9 inches to win the vaulting competition by eight inches.
Anderson's former Columbia High teammate, Adam Neff, also was in action at the McDonald's invitational.
Neff, a Western Washington University freshman, placed sixth in the men's 200-meter dash on Feb. 7, completing the race on the Kibbie Dome oval in 22.82 seconds.
On the women's side, Idaho junior MaryAnn Graves, White Salmon, scored 2,906 points and came in second in the pentathlon, held Feb. 6.
Jordan Graeme, Klickitat, finished seventh in the women's high jump. The Eastern Washington University freshman's best leap of the competition was 4 feet, 9 inches.
Collegiate Softball:
White Salmon's Mallory Holtman belted a home run and a triple and drove in two runs in her Jan. 31 collegiate debut: an 8-7 win for Central Washington University over nationally-ranked Humboldt State.
CWU's freshman first baseman went 2 for 3, scored twice and made five putouts to help the Wildcats go 2-0 on day one of the Diamond Sports Best of the West Invitational Tournament in Turlock, Calif.
Holtman, batting third, eyed the first pitch and ripped a triple to left-center with one out in bottom top of the first inning to knock in CWU's first run and start a four-run rally.
She homered on a 2-1 pitch to center field to lead off the Wildcats' fifth and pull CWU within 7-5. On day two of the tournament, Feb. 1, Holtman helped Central defeat Sonoma State, 7-5, by going 2 for 4 with one run batted in.
Of Central's first five games (3 wins, 2 losses), Holtman has appeared in four and started three. She's batting .400 (4/10) and leads the Wildcats in RBIs (3), total bases (9) and putouts (21/21 chances).
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