Gorge sports roundup for Jan. 18, 2023
Gorge sports roundup for Jan. 18, 2023
The Dalles High Riverhawks (6-3) captured their third straight girls basketball win Jan. 13, 58-49, over visiting North Marion.
Hood River Valley is seeking its initial Northwest Oregon Conference girls basketball victory and the timing may be right for a Tuesday trip to Portland’s Parkrose High.
The Columbia High Bruins girls basketball team is proving a contender in the WIAA Class 1A Trico League, after winning two games last week to move into third place in the six-team league.
The Big Sky League East Division frontrunner Sherman County High Huskies (5-1 league, 10-3 overall) notched a fourth straight girls basketball win, 46-10, over the Lyle/Wishram High Cougars (0-7 league, 0-11 overall) Jan. 14 at Lyle High School.
The South Wasco County High Redsides continue to be one of the most dominating teams in Class 1A boys basketball, winning three more Big Sky League contests last week to improve to 14-1 overall.
1A boys basketball: South Wasco County versus Condon, game photos
The Dalles High Riverhawks got a split of their final two Class 4A boys basketball nonleague games last week.
Hood River Valley’s boys basketball team was slated to continue its gauntlet through the upper echelon of the Class 5A ranks this week with Parkrose coming to town on Tuesday.
The Columbia High Bruins had a rough time last week on the hardwood floor as they dropped two straight WIAA Class 1A Trico League boys basketball games.
The Dalles High Riverhawks wrestling team, saddled by illness, injury, and academic issues, competed in the Bob Beisell Invitational meet Jan. 14 at Forest Grove High School.
Fourteen HRV Nordic team skiers competed in the team’s first race of the season on Jan. 7 at Teacup Nordic Snow Park in the Mt. Hood National Forest.
Hood River Valley’s Thorsen Welch and Emily Teets paced Gorge skiers in Saturday’s giant slalom high school ski race at Mt. Hood Meadows.
Hood River Valley continues to pace the Northwest Oregon Conference swimming standings, as the Eagles bested visiting La Salle in a dual meet Jan. 12.
The Dalles High Riverhawks boys and girls swimmers combined for nine top-five individual finishes and two event wins in the La Grande Invitational swim meet Jan. 14 in La Grande.
The Dalles High Riverhawks cheer team will compete in its next OSAA Class 4A competition Jan. 21 at Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego.
Hood River Valley’s Karol Najera and Lauraine Smith won championships, and Cassidy Hipskind and Jessica Polkinghorn of Columbia High wrestled to runner-up finishes at last weekend’s Viking girls tournament at Forest Grove.
Hood River Valley’s boys wrestling team finished fifth at the Bob Beisel Invitational on Saturday at Forest Grove High School.
