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GOLDENDALE, WASmNGTON • SEPTEMBER 20,. 2017 -- 13
JARYD CL1NE es at the Apple Ridge setup. The var-
SPORTS EDITO sity I race was a quick, flat race. The
varsity H race is the same course as
It took a week longer than it was the South Central Athletic Confer-
supposed to, but the Goldendale ence District meet, while the Varsity
High School cross country team fi- III race was a course with more
nally was able to run in its first meet hills.
of the season. All five of the girls wan the varsi-
It has been a weird start to the ty II race, led by sophomore Abby
season for the Goldendale runners, Hedges, who finished fifth overall
whose boys finished 10th overall as a and was the top SCAC runner. Her
team at last year's state meet and time of 19 minutes, 38.8 seconds was
whose girls boast a young, talented over a minute and a half faster than
team. her time last year at districts in
Their opening meet, 13th Annual which she qualified for state.
Ellensburg Cross Country Invita- Sophomore Jade Smith finished
tional on Sept. 9, was canceled be- 17th among the 111 runners in the
cause of poor air quali but the race, finishing in21:07.3, again more
smoke cleared out enough for the than a minute and a haft faster than
team to travel to Cowiche for the last year's time at the same course.
Apple Ridge Invite. Sophomore Kimberly Chestnut,
In the week building up to the who ran last year at Stevenson, fin-
first meet, ,smoky air forced the ished just shy of 23 minutes at
team to practice inside the gym for a 22:59.2, and was followed by junior
handful of days, throwing off head Denice Owen (23:12.9) at 44th and
oach Juli Rising's practice routine, sophomore Savannah Ross (23:14.7)
: "Being inside, I had to change my in 45th place.
plan," Rising said. "You can't go out Ellie Rising sat out the race with
d run seven miles in the gym." a minor injury It is unknown if she
:.i: The team goes through vigorous will run at today's meet in Hood
practices each day and is used to a River.
For the boys, senior stud Dillon
specific routine when practicing
:butside, but being inside threw off Rising was out in front of the pack
ome of the runners, in the varsity II race, finishing in
However, Rising was pleasantly 15:31.8, more than 12 seconds faster
surprised with how her girls team than the second place finisher. Ris-
ran on Saturday, which was missing ing's time at districts last year was
Its best runner in sophomore Elite 16:07.6 on the same course. He was
ising. Four of the five girls who just one of two runners to finish in
,ran on Saturday set personal- under 16 minutes on the course on
record times at the same course Saturday
here:the district meet was held On Monday, Rising was in
:hst year. Spokane for a visit a college visit at
,, "I can't say I'm super surprised, Gonzaga University, and met with
really excited about the girls," GU head cross country coach Pat
ising said. "For them to get out Tyson, who's recognized as one of
Sere in their fn'st race after the first the top cross country coaches in the
was canceled - and everyone PR - United States. They visited for a
at's a pretty awesome deal. while, and Tyson will be watching
There were three different cours- how Rising runs throughout the re-
mainder of his senior year.
Freshman Austin Williams was
the second Goldendale runner to fin-
ish in the varsity II race, crossing
the finish line in 18:21.7, followed by
senior Ryan Kindler in 20:51.2.
Kindler however, was hindered by
an injury he sustained while the
team was practicing inside.
Goldendale No. 2 runner Lucas
Anderson ran in the hilly, varsity III
race, coming in fourth place (and
the top SCAC runner) with a 16:51.8
time. He was joined in the race by
sophomore Sterling Beasley, who
stopped the timers at 18:17.9.
Sophomore Corbin Riley cracked
the top 15 in the varsity I race, fin-
ishing at 15th in 17:27.8. Sophomore
Mark Blunt followed in 18:08.7.
The Goldendale runners return
to action today for the Hood River
"Skip Sparks" XC Festival, with
races starting at 3 p.m. Goldendale
will have two middle school boys
running a 3,000 meter race at 4 p.m.
followed by the 5,000 meter varsity
boys race at 5. The girls varsity 5,000
meter race starts at 4:30 p.m.
They have another meet on Satur-
day in Connell,. the Connell Invite,
which is a 23 high school team race
starting at 11:45 a.m. with the boys
middle school race.
Bickleton runners
The Bickleton Pirates also got in
their first running action of the sea-
son with five competing at the Apple
Ridge Invite.
Last year's state competitor
Michael Gannon, running on the
hilly varsity HI course, finished 1 lth
overall out of 83 runners in 17:30.6.
A pair of freshmen ran in the var-
sity II race, with Christian Arriaga
leading the way in 44th place with
an 18:22.2 time followed by Hayden
Andrews, who finished in 20:28.4.
JARYD CLINE
LEADING THE PACK: Gotdendale senior runner Dillon Rising runs through the
Gotdendale Golf Club during last year's home meet. Rising paced the field of 195
runners in the three-mile varsity II course on Saturday in Cowiche.
Two Pirate sophomores also ran Gannon, Arriaga, and McBride
in the varsity I fiat-course race. each set personal best times for
Ethan Andrews led the way with three-mile races with McBride's
and finished in 22:07. and Scott time almost two minutes faster than
McBride followed in 28:22.6. his only three mile race last year.
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: However, the
girls were worn out from the
previous night's game, and Friday morning's
games by the time the championship games
Started in the afternoon.
' "We could see in the beginning of the day that they
were tired," Bellamy said. "By the end of the day we
were pooped. You could just tell fatigue was setting in.
;' "Everybody was tired. Even the coaches were
ed," she added ......
:! The Wolves ended'up droppiug a tt'6 Sge *
sets to Oaksdale 25-27 and 21-25, a 140st two sets
to SCAC East schoolKiona Benton 17-25 and 17-25.
, There were 32 total teams competing in the festi-
val, with eight pools of four teams. The top team in
each pool after pool play advanced to the champi-
onship bracket. The Granger Spartans won the
Championship bracket.
The Timberwolves have a tough upcoming
week ahead of themselves.
First, they played reigning league champs Nach-
es on Tuesday at home, but results weren't available
at press time.
They're right back in action on Thursday, trav-
elling to La Salle for the Lightning's first league
home game before facing the Spartans at home on
Tuesday Sept. 25.
Super Setter
The Timberwolves honored senior Sierra Hum
before Tuesday's m tch with the Rangers alter
Plum broke the school's all-time assist record.
Plum handed out assist No. 1,647 during the
district tournament last year, passing current
assistant coach Kylee Barnes to be the new Gold-
endale High School all-time assist leader. As of
Tuesday morning, Plum has 1,890 total assists.
Plum has been on fire setting the ball so far
this season, with 60 combined assists in wins over
White Salmon and Zillah, along with 90 assists
throughout the SunDome Volleyball Festival.
Lyle-Wishram spikers
still looking for first win
JARYD CLINE
Beyerlin,
Morrison
top women
golfers
SPORTS EDITOR Nancy Beyerlin had a
two-day gross total of
The Lyle-Wishram volle 192 to emerge as the top
,~-tea~, has--had~ugh start .... golfer during,Thursday ...:~
season after losing a tough, three- and Friday's Ladies
set match to Stevenson on Sept. 8. Club Championship at Freshman Josie Ouantrel rtDcuNE
Playingin their fwst Eastern Wash- the Goldendale Golf
ington Athletic Conference game Club. SOCCER
against White Swan on Sept. 12, the Sherrye Morrison
Cougs fell in three sets 11-25, 8-25, and finished as the ladiesPage
8-25. Cougars junior Amber Tompkins net champion after her Goldendale was supposed to
served two aces, made five perfect two-day net total of 153 be on the road on Sept. 12 at Zll-
passes and also bad two kills on the on Thursday and Friday. lah, but that game was postponed
evening Senior Abby Hawkins also There are just a few and will be made up on Oct. 26.
made three perfect passes and had events left at the golf They also were set to play at
three assists for Lyle-W oram. course before it closes White Salmon on Saturday but
The Cougars also were among down for the winter, again was postponed due to poor
one of 32 teams in action last Fri- The Goldendale Highair quali The Timberwolves
day in the SunDome Volleyball Fes- School golf team is host- first game of this season was sup-
tival in Yakima. ing a fundraiser start- posed to be played Sept. 5 against
They were placed in Poolfive, along ing Saturday at noon the Bruins, but was canceled.
with Kittitas, Coupevill and La Salle. and the Members Okto- However, Goldendale will finally
However, the Cougs had a hard time berfest Triple 6 event is get to play the Bruins on Satur-
against some of the tougher volleyball Jma) CUNE the last competition be- day at noon in White Salmon.
programs in their msl /ive classes Senior Morgan Bowman fore the course closes The Timberwolves were ac-
from around the state until next season. The tion for another South Central
They dropped two sets to La Salle 7 and 258 to Coupeville. Oktoberfest is corn- Athletic Conference game against
(25-10 and 258) which is expected to The Cougs also played on Tues- prised of two-personLa Salle on Tuesday in Yakima,
compete for a district berth in the day at Mabton, but results weren't teams with six holesbut results were unavailable at
South Central Athletic Conference available at press time. They play best ball. six holespress time. They are back in ac-
and fell to Kittitas (2513 and 2513) White Salmon at home on Thurs- scrmnbled, and six holes tion again on Thursday at home
which won a match at last year's Class day before the White Swan Tourna- chapman. It starts on against the Naches Rangers with
2B state tournament. They also fell 25- ment on Saturday at 10 a.m. Oct. 14 at 9 a.m. first kick set for 4 p.m.
FOOTBALL
From Page
"Getting our quarterback to set-
tie in on his throws. Because he's a
home run hitter. He tried to go deep,
deep, deep."
Senior quarterback Jeramiah Os-
terander threw for two touchdowns
and ran for another after throwing a
handful of interceptions in the
team's first two games.
One of those touchdown passes
was a 70 yard bomb to Montoya on
the opening play of a drive in the
second quarter, and midway
through the third quarter, junior
Sam McCttllough took a handoff up
the middle and ran nearly un-
touched 75 yards into the endzone.
"Everything was clicking for us
(Monday) night," Montoya said.
It took a while for the Cougars to
get going though in the opening
quarter, facing a Goldendale defense
that was fLxated on stopping the run.
The Cougs fumbled the snap on
the game's fwst play but immediate-
ly recovered it. Montoya took the
ball on the next play and bounced
outside for 20 yards, the first of
many long, tough runs on the night.
Goldendale freshman Nick McK-
une nearly came up with an inter-
ception on a tipped pass, but the ball
just skimmed the grass before he
was able to get his hands on it. Later
on a fourth and 11 play, Colton Ward
and Austin McKune sacked Osteran-
der to force the turnover on downs
and give the Wolves the ball for the
fast time.
Junior John David Pomerinke
was making his first start under
center with s nior Alex Mains out
RUNNING WILD: Cougar sophomore Brandon
upfield during Monday's game.
with an injury. Goldendale just
couldn't get anything going offen-
sively though. They converted two
straight fourth down plays onstrong
runs from Pomerinke and :senior
Cort Ladiges, but were forced to
punt on their first two possessions.
The Cougars started their second
possession on their own 17 after a
Goldendale punt and went to work.
They had a good balanced drive of
running and passing plays before
Osterander ran it into the endzone
from five yards out.
They got the ball back and dodged
another bullet after recovering an-
other fumble. Osterander found Mc-
Cullough and senior Quincy Mc-
Goldendale got some tough run-
ning from Ladiges, who bounced off
tacklers for extra yards throughout
the night, but couldn't get anything
else cooking under the Monday
night lights.
Montoya continued to show off
his unmatched athleticism after re-
turning an interception for a touch-
down, which was called back after a
penalty, and taking a sweep 44 yards
into the endzone to cap the game's
scoring at 38-0.
"It was nice to come up here and
get our first victory," Antoine Mon-
toya said. "We figured that it was
going to be a good competition. We
had a gameplan coming in and we
just wanted to take it to them."
For the Cougars, who've played
with as few as 13 kids in a game this
year, Antoine Montoya is hoping
Monday's win can be a building
block as the team gets ready to con-
Jm DCUNE tinue Eastern Washington Athletic
Montoya, tight, breaks a tackle while Jarren leslie looks to make a block Conference games.
"It was good for us to get a win,
(the kids) know what it feels like,"
Conville wide open for two big gains terander hit him in stride for a 70 Montoya said.
and capped off the drive with a 20 yard score, putting the Cougs up 22- "We have three days for practice
yard strike to senior Reco Quintero 0 after an 11 second drive, and then we go right at Kittitas," he
that put LWK on top 14-0 after the After recovering an onside kick, added.
successful two-point conversion. Goldendale had the ball in good field The Cougars lost 12-6 to Kittitas
Ladiges was able to break off a position and moved the chains after at home last year in a game that
long return to start Goldendale in a reception by Caleb Pittman. They came down to the wire, and the
good field position, but the drive moved the ball down to the Cougars Cougs are hoping for another good
stalled and possession went back to 26, but came up short on a fourth battle on Friday.
the Cougs after a failed fourth-down down attempt. "We hope to go down there and try
attempt. Shortly after, Cairns called anoth- and give it our best," Montoya said.
On the first play of the drive with er great play With the defense honed The Timberwolves are faced with
1:41 left in the half, LWK offensive in on Montoya and Osterander, Mc- a brutal two-game stretch in the
coordinator and 2009 Goldendale Cnllough, at fullback, took the hand- next two weeks. They play at Zillah
graduate Kyle Cairns drew up one of off right up the middle and to the on Friday for the Leopards home-
his many great play calls that lined house from 75 yards out. He went coming game, before their next
Montoya out wide. He ran a fly route nearly untouched as he outsprinted home game, a 7 p.m. meeting with
straigl to the endzone, and Os- everyone to the endzone, the Naches 3ers on Sept. 29.
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