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.
The Dalles and Hood River Valley softball teams, which were neck-and-neck this season in the race for third place in the Intermountain Conference, had a similar finish on the all-league listings.
Hood River Valley’s girls track and field team has outdistanced itself — literally and figuratively — from the rest of the Intermountain Conference competition with the district meet looming this weekend.
Visiting Pendleton ended Hood River Valley’s unbeaten run in the Intermountain Conference baseball race, edging the Eagles, 5-4, on May 3 in eight innings. Then two days later, in a re-scheduled contest, HRV split a doubleheader on the road at Redmond.
A next-man-up mentality with its pitching rotation — as well as offensive firepower — last week propelled Hood River Valley to the top of the Intermountain Conference baseball standings.
Baseball can be a fickle game, but there are a few constants depending, perhaps, on who one talks to: Oregon baseball will occasionally be played in the rain; pitching will rise to the top; and consistency is a game changer.
Oliver Franklin Coon, John Steven Ryan, Adam Lee Troutner, Donna Ruth Burton, Steven Marc Burgett, Doreen Elizabeth Koch, Suzanne Lee Armentrout, Phyllis Farner, Roderick “Rod” Martin, Ernest Lee Stillwell, Ronald Steven Maurer, Robert “Rob” Burchill Myers, Kristopher Grant Robinson, Carrol Lee White, Thomas Helm, DeAnna May McFarland, Marsha Lee Westwick (Ivey), Jacob Wayne Smith, Laurie Ann-Marie Sellers, Jessica Diane Treadwell, Carol Clement, Garet Lee Nunnery