Gorge sports roundup for Feb. 22, 2023
Gorge sports roundup for Feb. 22, 2023
Three area teams played in OSAA Class 1A girls basketball first round state playoff games Feb. 21 with hopes of winning and advancing to Feb. …
The Columbia High Bruins came ever so close to qualifying for the state playoffs, but they fell one game short of their goal as they lost 50-44 in overtime to the Hoquiam High Grizzlies in a WIAA Class 1A girls basketball District 4 playoff game Thursday at Castle Rock High School.
The No. 23-ranked Sherman County High Huskies (10-4 Big Sky League, 17-9 overall) are enjoying their best season in five years after qualifying for the OSAA Class 1A girls basketball state playoffs.
Three Gorge-area teams had a chance to advance to the OSAA Class 1A boys basketball state playoffs last week if they won a first-round game in the Big Sky League district playoffs.
Hood River Valley’s 2022-23 girls basketball season, its first in the Northwest Oregon Conference, resumes Friday at Hillsboro, where the Eagles will try to complete a sweep of the Spartans.
The No. 9-ranked South Wasco County High Redsides (24-3) bounced back from a girls basketball semifinal Big Sky district playoff loss against Sherman and toppled Ione/Arlington in the third-place game Saturday in The Dalles.
South Wasco girls and boys basketball teams, winners of the regular season Big Sky League basketball titles, had the players of the year by a …
Facing the top-two Class 4A Tri-Valley Conference teams on the road proved to be very tough matchups for The Dalles High Riverhawks girls basketball team as they lost two straight games last week.
The Dalles High Riverhawks boys basketball team lost its third straight Class 4A Tri Valley League contest, 53-46, to the Gladstone High Gladiators on Feb. 17 on Senior Night at The Dalles High School.
The No. 17-ranked Trout Lake High Mustangs (20-5) won the Class 1A Big Sky League girls basketball district championship with a 58-39 win over the No. 23-ranked Sherman County High Huskies Feb. 18 at The Dalles High School.
Northwest Oregon Conference district meet champion Hood River Valley, buoyed by its peaking relay teams, finished sixth at last weekend’s Class 5A boys state swim meet in Beaverton.
The Dalles High Riverhawks boys and girls swim teams concluded the 2022-23 season in spectacular fashion by combining to swim to five top-four finishes in the OSAA Class 4A/3A/2A/1A swimming state championships Feb. 17-18 at the Tualatin Hills Aquatic Center in Beaverton.
A 1-2 finish by Emily Teets and Zoe Mortensen carried the Hood River Valley girls downhill ski racing team to a Mt. Hood League win last week.
Brothers Connor and Carson Farlow won district championships, Kevin Castro finished second, Mason Steffers was third, Connor Tennant fourth, and all five Hood River Valley wrestlers will compete at this weekend’s Class 5A state meet.
Columbia High junior Jessica Polkinghorn finished fifth in last weekend’s Mat Classic XXXIV – the Washington state wrestling championships – at the Tacoma Dome.
Sawyer Muehlbauer, a junior from Columbia High, wrestled his way to fifth place at last weekend’s Mat Classic XXXIV at the Tacoma Dome.
Hood River Valley’s boys basketball Class 5A state playoff fortunes depend on the outcome of the Eagles’ final two contests over the next week.
