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GOLDENDALE, WASHINGTON OCTOBER 4, 2017 -- 13 oser JARYD CL1NE SPORTS EDITOR The Goldendale girls soc- cer team has yet to pick up a win this season, but after a handful of close games and some obvious improvements from the team, the team is ready to take the next step as the second half of the South Central Athletic Conference season nears. Much as many of the kids and teachers in the three Goldendale schools, the team has been dealing with some health issues as Strep Throat continues to spread around. There were 10 girls missing at practice early this week with sickness and some nagging injuries. They were without a few girls during Saturday's 8-0 loss in Cle Elum where the team struggled early but fin- ished on a high note. They fell behind 5-0 in the opening half' but just seemed out of Sync, according to head coach Anna DeMott. After the break the team became more aggressive, taking more shots on goal and holding the War- riors to three goals in the sec- PHOTO COURTESY JOHN LONGFELLOW KEEPING CONTROL: Goldendale freshman forward Tiana Watson dribbles the ball up the field dur- ing last Thursday's 3-1 loss to the Highland Scotties. ond half. "They played a great game in the second half," DeMott said. "First half, I don't know. It just took us a while to get a fire going." Earlier in the week on Thursday, the Timberwolves were locked in a battle with SCAC rival Highland. After each team found the back of the net once each in the first half, the Wolves were held scoreless over the final half and the Scotties escaped Goldendale with a 3-1 win. Freshman Tiana Watson, who's been a scoring ma- chine so far this season, got the team on the board in the first, scoring on a penalty kick. "I told them at the end of Highland, 'We've got a win this season, it'll happen. We just need to keep working' and I think they see it and I think they can feel it and played soccer before," she they're just really excited for said. "It's nice to have some of turning over a new leaf," De- that growth already from the Mott said. youth program." It was an encouraging With the larger turnout, game for the Timberwolves a record 26 girls on this despite the loss. It was their year's team, the girls have third game the past two been pushing each other in weeks in which the game was practice vying for playing tied at some point in the sec- time. ond half. The culture around "Because we have such a the team has changed and is big turnout, it makes for a continuing to change as they different competitive envi- continue improving and bat- ronment within the team," fling. DeMott said. "They're will- "I think that they have fig- ing to work hard and it real- ured out that they're competi- ly starts that competitive tors in the league and that's fire," really exciting for them," De- Mott said. What's next DeMott also complimented The team was in action a strong youth soccer league on the road Tuesday at that has been funneling in Royal, but results weren't more and more girls into the available at press time. The high school program the past teams also will be playing a couple of years, junior varsity game shortly There are over 170 kids after the varsity game con- competing in the youth soccer cludes. program this year, 25 more Goldendale is back at home than last year, and that num- on Thursday for a 4 p.m. meet- her is expected to continue to ing with the Zillah Leopards. rise in the future. A junior varsity game also "Typically we have players will be played after the varsi- that come in and have never ty game. mberwolves hang tough early but fall to Naches JARYD CLINE However, the Timber- ing the ball to the house, but a SPORTS EDITOR wolves weren't able to move penalty on the return moved the chains on a fourth and the ball way back to Golden- Heading into,last Friday's three play at the Naches' 12 dale's 30. South Central Athletic Con- yard line, turning the ball However, a Goldendale in. ference West matchup with over to the Rangers for their terception gave it right back Naches, Goldendale head first possession, and the Rangers started to football coach Alan Hale said The road team was hit by roll. They scored three more he thought the Rangers were a brick wall on its first play touchdowns in the quarter the second best team on the after Joseph Randall and and went on top 27-0 at the west side behind the Zlllah Austin McKune dropped the half. Leopards, who had beaten the Naches ballcarrier for a The Timberwolves contin- Timberwolves the previous loss of two to set the tone ued to battle in the second week. for a fired-up Goldendale half despite the deficit. You wouldn't have known defense. Playing in his first game of it though by the Timber- After a Naches first down the year, freshman Lucas wolves played early in the on a QB run, the Goldendale Black emerged as a playmak- first quarter against the defense held firm the next few er at the running back posi- Rangers. Goldendale was able plays. On a fourth and short, tion. He gained 24 yards on to move the ball offensively, Bland sniffed out a receiver his first run of the season in and made plays on the defen- screen and dropped the run- the third, and ran hard, fast sive side as well, but Naches ner just behind the first-down and eluded a handful of Nach- was just too overwhelming line to give the ball back to the es' defenders with shifty throughout 48 minutes of its Wolves. jukes and cuts throughout the 41-0 win over the Timber- Goldendale got tricky on rest of the game. wolves, offense and picked up a Junior John David Right after Goldendale re- chunk of yards when receiv- - ....... Pomerinke's sack helped: JARYD CUNE a ~ .... force a acnes punt late m ceived the opening kickoff, se- er Justin Wells took the OPEN-FIELD RUNNING: Freshman receiver/defensive back Nick McKune bursts upfield while returning the fourth, but it was too late nior running back Cort Ladi- handoff and ran to the right akick during Friday's game against Naches. ges rumbled for 40 yards on side. Instead of running, he in the game for Goldendale to the game's second play. Me- looked to pass and hit fresh- the endzone and gave it back back down just after he re- to drive the field and put up put together another drive. ments later, sophomore quar- man Nick McKune in stride to the Rangers, who began to leased the ball that went points with under two min- Goldendale is on the road terback Corbin Bland gained for a big gain that again put fred an offensive rhythm, nowhere near a receiver. The utes in the Rrst quarter, on Friday for another SCAC 20 yards on the ground to Goldendale in Naches' terri- Randall was in the back. intentional grounding penal- Wells came up big with his West game with La Salle, with move the ball deeper into tory. field again and nearly had a ty put Naches deep in its own second interception in as kickoff set for 7 p.m. in Union Rangers territory. However, they couldn't fend sack, dragging the quarter- territo but they were able many games, nearly return- Gap. Wolves run in huge Yakima meet, home meet soon JARYD CLINE SPORTS EDITOR It's not every week that the Gold- endale cross country team com- petes at a meet with just about 1,000 less people than Goldendale's popu- lation. That was the case on Saturday as the Timberwolves competed in the 44th annual Sunfair Invitational in Yakima, which featured 36 high school teams from Oregon, Wash- ington, and Idaho, as well as over 20 different races for a full day of run- ning against the best competition around. "It's a really cool meet to bring these kids to," Goldendale head coach Juli Rising said. "There was like 2,500 kids there. A huge balloon across the starting line. It's like a running festival." Think the state cross country meet, with tents set up all around the course and hundreds of specta- tors lining the course cheering on all the runners. It was a state-like at- mosphere as well, with the best run- ners in the state across all classes. A pair of Goldendale runners also competed in the three-mile elite races, with senior Dillon Ris- ing placing sixth in the boys in 16 minutes, 8.52 seconds, and fresh- man Ellie Rising finishing 15th on the girls side in 20:45.09. Two other Goldendale runners earned medals and stood at the podium on Saturday, sophomore Corbin Riley after his 10th place (17:49.66) finish in the flight three race and junior Lucas Anderson after he came in 12th place (17:15.85) of the flight five race. Sophomore Savannah Ross was the only other girl to compete for Goldendale, finishing the three- mile flight three race in 23:54.64. Freshman Austin Williams (22:12.94 in flight one race) and sophomore Sterling Beasley (18:26.63 in flight two race) also were in Yakima run- ning with the Wolves. Royal Meet The Timberwolves competed in their first South Central Athletic Conference last Thursday in Royal City, finishing second overall on both the boys and girls side. Without top runner Dillon Ris- ing, the Timberwolf boys garnered 52 points to the Knights 43 points while the girls, led by a th'st place finish from Ellie Rising, fmished second with 37 points to the Knights 33. Rising woke last Wednesday with pain in his knee, but later found out it wasn't a serious injury. He saw a physical therapy special- ist in Hood River who lined his hip back up after Rising had pulled his pelvic bone out of line. There is still some pain, but it's not a threatening injury and he should be back to full health soon. With Rising not running for the boys, the Timberwolves had three runners finish in the top 10. Ander- son finished fourth and was the top local finisher with a time of 18:01.1 on the five kilometer course. Riley was eighth overall in 18:45, Beasley 10th in 19:11 and sophomore Mark Blunt followed right behind at llth place in 19:11.6. Williams was the final Goldendale runner to cross the line, finishing in the top half of the race at 19th in 20:16.9. For the girls in Royal, there were three Timberwolves that ran to top 10 finishes including EUie Rising's top overall finish in 20:46.4. She was the only runner on the day to finish quicker than 21 minutes. Sopho- more Abby Hedges was next for Goldendale, finishing faster than she had all season in a 5K race, plac- ing third in 22:11.4. Sophomore Jade Smith also ran her fastest 5K race so far this year in Royal also, taking sixth in 23:18.5. Sophomore Kimberly Chestnut (13th in 26:52.1), Ross (15th in 27:12.7), and junior Denice Owen (17th in 28:24.5) rounded out the Goldendale girls, who all finished inside the top 20. Up next Goldendale will be at Zillah on Thursday for another SCAC meet with the girls starting the 5K race at 4 p.m. and the boys at 4:30. Juli Rising has been busy, and will continue to have her hands full in the next week as Goldendale pre- pares for its home meet on Oct. 12 at the Goldendale Golf Course. It's the third straight year Goldendale's home meet will be held at the golf course, and there will again be a big spaghetti dinner afterwards for all the runners, coaches, and anyone else hungry after the meet. Most popular hunting seasons of the year open Oct. 14 OLYMPIA - Some of Washing-closed in Goose Management Area ton's most popular hunting sea- 2. Brant season, determined by the sons will get underway Oct. 14, midwinter waterfowl survey, is also when modern firearm deer currently closed, but may open on hunters and waterfowl hunters selected dates in January.. Scaup take to the field, season is also currently closed, but The harsh winter of 2016-17 ap- opens on Nov. 4. pears to have taken a toll on some "Washington can anticipate a elk and deer populations--especial- strong fall flight," said WDFW wa- ly in parts of eastern Washington, terfowl manager Kyle Spragens. said Jerry Nelson, Washington De- "With exceptional habitat condi- partment of Fish and Wildlife tions in WashingtOn this past (WDFW) deer and elk section man- spring, and strong numbers of birds ager. spotted during surveys in Alaska Still, hunting prospects in many and Canada, things are looking fan- areas look promising as hunts get tastic." underway this fall, he added. WDFW has already received re- "Winter conditions in recent ports of early arriving cackling, years, wildfires, fall green-up and white-fronted, and snow geese, he weather during the hunting season added. are just some of the factors that can Information on access to more influence deer numbers and distrib- than 1 million acres of private land ution," Nelson said. "That is why we can be found at the Private Lands are encouraging hunters to review Hunting Access page (www. the Hunting Prospects on WDFW's wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/hunting_.a website to find location-specific ccess/private lands). forecasts." Hunters can also fend informa- WDFW's 2017 Hunting Prospects tion on public or private lands open reports (www.wdfw.wa.gov/hunt- to hunting by visiting GoHunt, ing/prospects) include local infor- WDFWs interactive mapping pro- mation on what upcoming seasons gram (www.apps.wdfw.wa.gov/go- may hold. hunt/). Hunters will also take to the field Hunters can purchase their li- for waterfowl. Last season, nearly censes at www.fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov, 550,000 waterfowl were harvested in at any WDFW license dealer Washington. Duck, goose, coot, and (www.wdfw.wa.gov/licensing/ven- snipe seasons open Oct. 14. dors) or by calling WDFWs licens- The exceptions include dusky ing customer service number at Canada goose hunting, which is (360)902-2464. SPIKERS From Page 14 The Timberwolves, playing in a fifth set for the second time in third games, remained com- posed and collected after falling behind 7-6. They roiled off eight of the next 11 points to rally past the Spartans, much like they did a week ear- lier at home against the Rangers. It was a big day setting the ball for Plum, who added to her total as Goldendale's all-time assist leader with 53 on Tues- day night while the team had contributions from everyone. Goldendale had a great night at the service line from senior Talia Johnson, who con- nected on 20-21 serves. Gilliam (16-19) and freshman Taylor Rising (8-9) also were accurate from the line, while Mains and Junior Tori Tallman combined for nine service aces. The Timberwolves also were set up throughout the match with great passing, with 25 per- fect passes coming from sopho- more Alyssa Weis, 21 from Johnson, and 17 from Gilliam. After Mains' game-high 30 kills, Tallman (11), Gilliam (10), and Rising (6) paced the team, and sophomore Delaney Peters also had a big kill late in the first set. What's next The Timberwolves have a relatively light week this week. They played Highland on Tues- day, but results weren't yet available at press time. After Tuesday's game, they're on the road in Kittitas for a matchup with the Class 2B Coyotes. Goldendale beat Kittitas at home last year, and the Coyotes went on to win a match at last year's state tour- nament. JARYD CLINE NICE RETURN: Sophomore Alyssa Weis reaches to bump one of Granger's serves during the team's five-set win overthe Spartans on Sept. 26.