Gorge sports for Feb. 2, 2022
Full coverage of Gorge sports, including Hood River Valley, The Dalles and Columbia high schools and 1A teams in Klickitat, Hood River, Wasco and Sherman counties.
Columbia High girls basketball team controls its playoff destiny this week, as two wins in three games should qualify the Bruins for the district playoffs.
Gorge rivals, The Dalles and Hood River Valley, two teams searching for a consistent identity in Class 5A Intermountain Conference boys basketball, will square off at 7 p.m. Thursday in The Dalles.
Following what’s known as a COVID pause in the Class 1A basketball schedule due to safety related health and protocol issues at local high schools, all Gorge area boys and girls teams will return to the gyms to resume competition for the first time in over two weeks starting Feb. 4.
The Big Sky regular season concludes Feb. 12 which will be followed by district playoffs.
Playing their first game in two weeks, The No. 19-ranked The Dalles High Riverhawks boys basketball team last week appeared to be on the verge of notching their first Class 5A Intermountain Conference win.
Columbia High’s boys basketball team faces its second successive four-game, five-day stretch this week.
Hood River, The Dalles and Columbia competed along with 21 other teams at Saturday’s Girls Classic at Hood River Valley High School.
The Oregon high school swimming state championships Feb. 18-19 will not include preliminaries one day and finals the next.
Miguel Rocha won the age 6-and-under age division of the 2022 Oregon Kids State Championships wrestling tourney this past weekend in Central Oregon.
After having several games postponed recently because of COVID-19 related health and safety protocol issues, The Dalles High Riverhawks girls basketball team was happy to be playing again when they resumed their Class 5A Intermountain Conference schedule Jan. 28.
The Dalles High Riverhawk and the Hood River Valley High Eagle ski teams competed in Mt. Hood League (MHL) races Jan. 28 and Jan. 30 at Mount Hood. The boys and girls teams combined for five top-10 finishes, highlighted by a boys first place for HRV’s Thorsen Welch on Friday in a slalom race at Timberline Pucci.
A difference in one or two possessions often means the difference in the outcome of a basketball game. Hood River Valley knows that all too well after losing two close girls contests this past week.
Intermountain Conference foes Hood River Valley and Redmond continued to serve notice that this year’s district swimming meet will prominently feature athletes from both schools. That, and the fact that based on head-to-head meetings this season, there is no clear favorite to win the title.
The Eagles and Panthers matched strokes for the second time in as many weeks Jan. 26 at a four-way meet in Madras. Redmond came out on top in both the boys (119-93) and girls (114-112) competitions. Two weeks ago in Hood River, the margin of victory was less for the Redmond boys over HRV (85-78), and the HRV girls won by a comfortable margin, 96-63.
The Dalles High Riverhawks boys and girls swim teams competed in their fourth meet of the season Jan. 29 at Redmond, where they amassed 22 top-five finishes.
Columbia High’s Sawyer Muehlbauer won the 170-pound division of Saturday’s seven-team Battle of the Bridge wrestling tournament at Seton Catholic.
