Sports coverage of Gorge high school sports, including Hood River Valley, The Dalles and White Salmon, and 1A schools including South Wasco, Dufur, Lyle, Trout Lake and more.
Takedowns were the focus of a low-key, season-opening wrestling tourney at Goldendale High School last week.
Bruin Coach Mike Muehlbauer said the Dec. 1 event was designed to give experienced wrestlers a chance to mix it up against wrestlers from other schools, and inexperienced wrestlers a chance to experience an actual high school match for the first time. Well, at least some of a match.
Hood River Valley was 16th and The Dalles 19th — out of 26 scoring teams — at last weekend’s Tyrone Woods wrestling tournament at Oregon City High School.
Senior Clayton Cook’s two free throws with 12 seconds remaining clinched Hood River Valley’s, 69-64, boys basketball win Friday against visiting Mt. View of Vancouver.
The Dufur High Rangers had an impressive start to their Class 1A girls basketball season with a 51-25 home win over the Powder Valley High Badgers Dec. 4 at Dufur High School. The Rangers, guided by Coach Nathan Morris, led from start-to-finish in the non-league contest against the Badgers (0-2).
The Dalles High Riverhawks Class 5A girls basketball team played in a season-opening jamboree last week, followed by its first game – a four point loss in Salem.
Sophomore Marina Castaneda scored 13 fourth-quarter points leading Hood River Valley’s girls basketball team to its first win in nearly two years, 45-38, on Saturday against visiting Estacada.
The South Wasco County High Redsides had a great start to the Class 1A boys basketball season, recording blowout victories in back-to-back non-league road games Friday and Saturday.
