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Rare home meet celebrates Riverhawk senior wrestlers
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Rare home meet celebrates Riverhawk senior wrestlers

  • By Mike Weber For Columbia Gorge News
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Competing in their first home meet in three years, The Dalles High Riverhawk boys and girls wrestling teams celebrated senior night Dec. 15 in the four-team The Dalles Invitational. Fittingly, it was Riverhawk seniors Aiden Marx and Maise Bandel-Ramirez who had outstanding performances to highlight the event at The Dalles High School’s Kurtz Gym.

Hawk grapplers post 17 wins, 12 by pin, at Tigard Invite
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Hawk grapplers post 17 wins, 12 by pin, at Tigard Invite

  • Ray Rodriguez The Dalles Chronicle
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As the season wears on, more and more Riverhawk grapplers are loading up podium spots.

Steven Preston garnered runner-up status and improved his season record to 8-2, and the quartet of Aiden Marx, Mauricio Carrera, Taylor Morehouse and Ben Nelson locked down top-6 finishes to help The Dalles finish in a tie for eighth place at Tigard Invitational this past Saturday.

Tackling Type 1
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Tackling Type 1

  • Neita Cecil
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Connor Shortt, a 2014 grad of The Dalles-Wahtonka High School, always had his eye on some type of work in the medical field. He wasn’t sure just what it would be until May 2016, when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes after his sophomore year at Pacific University. Now he wants to be an endocrinologist, a doctor who specializes in treatment of the disease.