Senior Taylor Morehouse etched his name in The Dalles High track and field record book Saturday when he capped an undefeated season by winning the Class 5A boys pole vault state championship.
The Dalles High track and field team headed to the Portland-metro area Friday for different invitational meets this past weekend and the result was golden for two athletes.
The Dalles junior Zoe Dunn bounded to atop the Intermountain Conference track and field ranks in two events at Saturday’s “Need For Speed” Classic meet in Sherwood.
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.
It’s commonly known in any athletic endeavor that there’s strength in numbers. For The Dalles High Riverhawk wrestling team, that’s certainly the case this season, as they have one of the largest group of athletes participating they’ve seen in many years.
The Dalles junior Taylor Morehouse peaked at the right time in the pole vault Saturday, winning a Gorge showdown at the 5A Invitational track and field meet at Wilsonville High School.
Steven Preston, Dusty Dodge and Mauricio Carrera each posted pins, and Zak Tackett won by forfeit, but Pendleton notched seven pinfall wins, a technical fall and two forfeits to take a 59-24 victory over The Dalles in a 5A Intermountain Conference wrestling dual Wednesday in Pendleton.
At the Hood River Invitational Saturday, Dusty Dodge claimed another title, and teammates Karen Villa, Steven Preston, Taylor Morehouse and Miguel Torres all placed in the top 6 to give The Dalles 11th place with 58 points.