Gorge sports roundup for Dec. 21
Gorge sports roundup for Dec. 21, 2022
Playing their first game in two weeks, The Dalles High Riverhawks (1-1) notched their first win with a 56-41 victory over the Columbia High Bruins (1-3) in a non league girls basketball game Dec. 16 at The Dalles High School’s Kurtz Gym.
Hood River Valley opened its league season in boys basketball with a 72-59 road win at Canby High on Dec. 14.
It was the Eagles’ second win in a row, having topped visiting Estacada, 66-47, two days earlier at Vannet Court. That victory was the first this season for Coach Christopher Dirks’ team, after an 0-4 start.
The Dalles High Riverhawk boys basketball team dropped its third straight non-league game, 95-59, to the No. 9-ranked Class 6A South Eugene High Axe on Dec. 16 in Eugene.
Hood River Valley’s girls basketball team began its initial season in the Northwest Oregon Conference on Dec. 14 with a loss against unbeaten Canby, 63-44.
The second-ranked Cougars were unbeaten in their first seven games — with the win over HRV their fifth in a row.
The snowy, icy weather on Dec. 9 wiped out the first attempt this season for The Dalles High Riverhawks and Hood River Valley Eagles to renew their boys and girls basketball rivalries.
The Dalles High Riverhawks boys and girls swim teams competed in two meets last week, including a Dec. 15 competition in Redmond.
Hood River Valley’s boys and girls swim teams remained unbeaten in Northwest Oregon Conference dual meet competition after defeating Centennial on Dec. 15 in Hood River.
The Class 1A No. 3-ranked South Wasco County High Redsides girls basketball team won two out of three games against Class 2A squads last week …
The Columbia High Bruins boys basketball team won two games last week to improve its record to 3-1.
Columbia High School boys and girls basketball teams will host a Little Bruins Holiday Youth Basketball Camp from Dec. 26-30.
South Wasco boys win two of three
Columbia High won one of four boys dual wrestling matches at a home tourney this past weekend in White Salmon.
Hood River Valley won six of eight wrestled matches enroute to a 63-18 Dec. 15 dual win over visiting Milwaukie High, and a few days later, Connor Farlow highlighted HRV’s performances at the weekend Liberty tourney in Hillsboro.
At Liberty, the Eagles placed 14th out of 23 teams with 109 points. Farlow continued his stellar season with a runner-up finish at 113 pounds. Farlow pinned his way through three rounds before running into junior Jeremiah Wachsmuth of Clackamas in the final. Wachsmuth was second in the 2022 Class 6A state tournament at 106 pounds and earned a first-round fall over Farlow for the Liberty title.
Hood River Valley’s Lauraine Smith finished second in her weight division at last weekend’s high school wrestling tournament at Liberty High School in Hillsboro.
As a team, the Eagle girls were 17th of 29 with 42 points.
Smith lost her only match of five, 7-1, to Cleveland High’s Isabel Herring in the 155-pound final. Smith pinned each of her other opponents enroute to a spot in the championship match.
