In the first game without their leading scorer, Styles DeLeon, who suffered a season-ending leg injury Dec. 30, The Dalles High Riverhawks boys basketball team won a non-league contest, 60-55, over visiting Pendleton on Jan. 4.
The Class 4A Riverhawks faced a much stronger opponent in a Jan. 7 home match-up against the Class 6A Willamette High Wolverines (6-5), who won 59-36.
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.
Playing on back-to-back nights against a very good, well-rested team proved too much for the The Dalles High Riverhawks to handle, as they lost, 65-52, to Redmond High last Thursday. The game was the Class 5A Intermountain Conference boys basketball opener for both teams.
The Dalles High Riverhawks football team was within one score of Putnam High in the fourth quarter of the season finale for both teams Friday, before the visiting Kingsmen pulled away for a 55-41 win.
In three earlier tournaments, the Columbia Gorge Goats have consistently run away from their opponents with an average margin of victory of 10.3 points for three consecutive 3-on-3 tournament championships.
This past weekend at the CTGR Native Youth 3-on-3 Tournament in Grand Ronde, the Goats added two new faces and needed an overtime session to slip past DWL by a 35-32 margin on a game-winning 3-pointer from Henry Begay.
The Dalles Middle School football players Andre Niko and Manatu Crichton-Tunai were called upon to represent the community at the second annual Oregon All-State Football Game held Saturday at Sheldon High School in Eugene.
