Gorge sports update for September 7, 2022
Gorge sports update for September 7, 2022
The Dalles High Riverhawks football team had an absolutely fantastic start to its season as it won, 46-6, over the Parkrose High Broncos (0-1) Sept. 2 at Sid White Field at the Wahtonka campus.
Columbia High’s young football team made some strides forward Friday, but Goldendale had a few more weapons in its arsenal as reflected by the Timberwolves’ 25-8 win in the Klickitat County Cup.
A year ago, a very young Columbia High Bruins girls soccer team — with nine freshmen — struggled for most of the season, facing teams with more experienced players. The Bruins won one WIAA Class 1A Trico League contest and recorded just six wins by the conclusion of the 2021 season.
The Dalles High Riverhawks volleyball team is off to one of its best starts in recent years while competing in the OSAA Class 4A level.
The Dalles High Riverhawks girls soccer team had an excellent opportunity to win its season opening contest Sept. 1, but visiting Pendleton scored with less than seven minutes remaining to earn a 2-2 tie.
Hood River Valley squandered an early 1-0 lead and later had to come back with some late-match heroics to earn a 2-2 boys soccer tie Aug. 31 against visiting Gresham.
The Dufur High Rangers had a rough start to their Class 1A football season opener as they lost 66-6 to the St. Paul High Buckaroos Sept. 1 in the 20th Annual Eight-Man Classic at Dufur High School.
The new era of Class 1A six-man football, sanctioned by the OSAA for the first time, plus a new field for South Wasco County, equaled a successful start Sept. 1, when the Redsides won 33-0 over the Harper Charter Hornets in Maupin.
The window of opportunity for the Hood River Valley football team to win its season opener Friday in Redmond closed rather quickly – as in the amount of time it took Panther senior receiver Nathan Wachs to haul in two long touchdown passes. The talented Wachs finished with four TDs and led the host Panthers to a 44-8 Class 5A football win over the Eagles.
An early-season preview meet Friday at Vancouver Lake showed that the Columbia High girls cross country team is closing in on the Trico League’s elite program, Seton Catholic.
Hood River and The Dalles cross country runners met up 140 miles from the Gorge on Saturday at a large and entertaining invitational meet near the Oregon coast.
The Dufur Classic volleyball tournament resumed for the first time since 2019 after being canceled the last two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 12 teams competed in the event Sept. 1-3 at Dufur High School.
The Trout Lake boys soccer team opened its 2022 season with a 2-1 home loss Aug. 30 to Class 3A Corbett.
For the second week in a row, No. 8-ranked The Dalles High Riverhawks boys soccer team won by a lopsided margin as they steamrolled the Pendleton High Buckaroos (0-3) 8-1 Sept. 1 at Pendleton High School.
