The Dalles High volleyball team played strong offensively and defensively throughout its 2022 season-opening match Aug. 25, earning a straight set Class 4A nonleague win over Pendleton at The Dalles High School’s Kurtz Gym.
With just four seniors lost to graduation off of last year’s team, it would be easy to assume this year’s Columbia High School football squad will be all grown up this year.
After a number of changes from a year ago, The Dalles High Riverhawk football players have an optimistic outlook, which they hope will help turn things around during the 2022 season.
Hood River Valley had a near-perfect swan song against traditional “Intermountain Conference” football opponents in 2021 and a new group of foes awaits the Eagles this season in a revamped Special District 1.
Hood River Valley jump started its 2022 cross country season at Friday’s Night Meet at Wilsonville High School and a couple of senior runners led the Eagle charge.
The Dalles High cross country team opened its season Saturday with a road run along the riverfront trail, where senior Juan Diego Contreras looked in mid-season form.
It’s easy to draw a parallel between the Greek mythological character, Actaeon (pronounced “ayk-tee-uhn”), and Hood River Valley’s foray into a new soccer league, the Northwest Oregon Conference (pronounced “tough”).
The Dalles High Riverhawks boys soccer team kicked off its 2022 season at home Aug. 27 with a 7-0 win over the La Grande High Tigers in a Class 4A non-league match.
