One of the Gorge’s top sprinters from White Salmon appears to be working her way into shape, a distance runner from The Dalles looks in mid-season form and the school traditionally with the largest spring sport turnout awaits its first competition.
Hood River Valley High School’s baseball team will look to contend for the conference title this year despite going 1-2 (0-2 league) in its first week with a series against Pendleton High School, coach Michael Muehlbauer said.
Playing for the first time in nearly two years, The Dalles High Riverhawk baseball team held its 2021 season opener Saturday in a nonleague matchup versus the Mountain View Cougars of Bend. The more experienced Cougars - with two seniors and eight juniors - proved to be a very formidable opponent against a young Riverhawk squad that includes 10 freshmen and no seniors. The Cougars won both games, 19-1 and 16-0, at Quinton Street Ballpark.
Under a beautiful week of weather, The Dalles’ young girls tennis team began its season with home losses to Redmond and Ridgeview by identical 7-1 scores. But there were plenty of positives starting with the Riverhawk No. 1 doubles team of Addison Little and Diana Flores Garcia, who won both their matches.
Seven Gorge area athletes were gold medalists at the April 8-11 USA Snowboard and Freeski Association Pacific Northwest Regional Championships at Mount Hood Meadows.
The evolution of 15-year-old Tora Jo Timinsky’s young golfing career has progressed from her first clubs — a pink, Barbie set — to a single-digit handicap. And, if indicators are correct, there should be more progression in her future.
