The Hood River Valley Swim Team hosted their annual Secure Storage Spring Sprinter on Saturday. Fifty-one local swimmers participated against 210 swimmers from around the northwest. The Osprey won the meet with 661 points, with a close second from the Redmond Aquatic Club Eels. First-time competitors for the HRVST included Maria Bishai, Claire Couvreux, Sophia Cross, Maria Garcia-Toche, Sophie Helleberg, Daisy Matias, Owen Summersett, Isabel Taylor, Lucy Taylor, and Cole Wooding. Leading scorers for the Osprey included Dhani Freeland, who won the girls 200-yard individual medley and Kylie Webb, who won the girls 100-yard backstroke event. Having at least three personal best times at the meet included Bree Albiston, Maya Arndt, Sarah Arpag, Adam Burke, Allie Burke, Amy Elliott, Lucas Elliott, Miyuki Gerald, Tove Goldring, Skyla Hollowell, Willow Hollowell, Dacia Kasenga, Shea Kasenga, Campbell Keller, Maia Montecalvo, Jamie Robinson, Nora Sandoval, Abby Tomlinson, Lillie Tomlinson, Fergus Waag, and Brinna Weiseth. Other team members who contributed to the team win included Courtney Castaneda, Marina Cataneda, Ivy Collins, Kylin Elliott, Max Graves, Michelle Graves, Cleo Koerner, Alea McCarty, Will O’Neill, Eryn Paskey, Xavier Petersen, Maria Sandoval, Catherine Suster, Jade Smith, Thea Smith, Jack Stehlik, Sky Viavoda-Kerr, and Sarah Wang.
Babe Ruth opening day is Saturday
Hood River Babe Ruth baseball has its opening day this Saturday, May 16. After returning from a hiatus last year, this year’s group features two teams. Festivities will include a raffle, which will feature a gas grill worth over $300 as well as other prizes. The teams will also play a doubleheader, starting at noon, with the second game expected to start at 2 p.m. or a little after. The event will happen at Collins Field (little league fields); those with questions can contact David Hough with Hood River Babe Ruth at yzhough@yahoo.com or 541-399-7045.
Horizon golf ends season at districts
The Horizon boys golf team’s season ended at the district championships held earlier this week at Quail Valley Golf Course in Banks, where the team finished sixth out of nine. The highlight of the event for Horizon was the play of sophomore Ian Walker, whose two-day score of 178 (shooting consistently with an 89 both days) was enough to afford him a 13th-place finish individually and place him on the Honorable Mention District Team. Coach Oscar Stenberg said the team showed “tremendous improvement” throughout the season, shooting in the high-400s at the beginning of the season, bringing the team score down to a 399 on Tuesday. The sole female golfer for Horizon was senior Anna Robison, who has battled rib injuries this season and finished in the middle of the pack with a two-day score of 250 (121, 129).
Local youth wrestlers take home titles at U.S. Open Wrestling Championships
Local wrestlers Noah and Jeremiah Wachsmuth likely had some tired arms carrying home all their medals after competing in the 2015 U.S. Open Wrestling Championships held in Las Vegas, Nev., May 5-9. Noah, an eighth-grader at Hood River Middle School, took first place in the open kids/cadets freestyle competition as well as the Greco-Roman competition in the schoolboy 103- to 108-pound category, wrestling for the Cobra All-Stars wrestling club out of Portland. Noah also placed fourth in the 103- to 111-pound category in folkstyle. Additionally, Noah achieved the feat of getting the most amount of pins in the least amount of time in the freestyle completion, getting three pins in 4 minutes, 10 seconds. His brother, Jeremiah, who is a third-grader at Westside Elementary, also had a good day on the mats, taking first in the Intermediate 46- to 51-pound category in the freestyle competition, second place in the Intermediate 46- to 49-pound category in the Greco-Roman competition, and fourth in the same category during the folkstyle competition.
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