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GOLDENDALE, WASHINGTON NOVEMBER 1, 2017 -- 13 PHOTO COURTESY JOHN LONGFELLOW FIGHTING FOR YARDS: Goldendale junior John David Pomerinke breaks a tackle and runs upfield against Granger on Oct. 13. Wolves fall on senior night J~ Cu~ SPORTS EDITOR Entering last Friday's game as the only two winless teams in the South Cdntral Athletic Con- ference, the Highland Scotties were able to rally for nine points in the second quarter and keep the Timberwolves off the score- board on senior night in Golden- dale. On a night that honored nine Goldendale seniors - Cort Ladiges, Alex Mains, Caleb Pittman, Riley James, Mitchell Bane, Colton Ward, Dylan Den- ning, Joseph Randall, and Justin Wells - the Timber- wolves had a tough time mov- ing the ball against the Scot- ties' defense. Goldendale did turn in a good defense performance, holding the air and averaged 6.3 yards the Highland offense to one per carry with 68 rushing touchdown in the second quar- yards. He found Wells for five ter. The Scotties got on the board with a safeW, and added their only touchdown a little bit later on a three-yard pass into the endzone. The Timberwolves held the Scotties to under 100 yards rushing while allowing 66 yards through the air. There also were a pair of seniors who made a big impact defensively on Friday James came up with a big interception while Ward had a quarterback sack and also recorded a team-best 11 tackles. Offensively, the team was without Mains at quarterback, but sophomore Corbin Bland Filled in with 56 yards through receptions and 44 yards, while Pittman had a 10 yard reception and freshman Nick McKune had two yards on one catch. Ladiges followed Bland with 63 rushing yards as the Wolves Fin- ished with 132 yards on the ground. The Timberwolves have one more chance this season to pick up their first win. They host a distriGt crossover game Friday at 7 p.m. at Barthlow Field against the River View Panthers. The Panthers enter Friday's game at 1-8 overall, their only win a 13-7 overtime decision against College Place on Sept. 15. PHOTO COURTESY JOHN LONGFELLOW PUSHING FORWARD: Goldendale freshman forward Izzy Lovewell dribbles the ball down the field ahead of a Highland defender on Sept. 28 in Goldendale. The Timberwolves fell 4-0 to the Scotties in Highland on Oct. 24, Timberwolves fall to Zillah, Highland to :lose out season JAaYD CLINE SPORTS EDITOR Another season has come and gone in which the Timberwolves soccer team wasn't able to record a win. Goldendale, coming off a tough three- game stretch against La Salle, Naches, and Cle Elum, finished up the season with a 4-0 loss on the road to Highland on Oct. 24 before falling 3-1 at Zillah last Thursday Although they weren't able to come away with a win in either of their last two games, Goldendale did turn in an improved effort against the Leopards. in the team's first meeting, Goldendale fell 6-1 on Oct. 5 here in town with junior Lene Riggers scoring the team's lone goal. This time around they allowed three fewer goals to their rival with senior Alyssa Simmons scoring a goal for the Timberwolves. Although the team graduates six se- niors - Mikayla Hagedorn, Addy Enyeart, Taylor Wells, Alyssa Merry, Simmons, and Arin Ontiveros - Golden- dale should be able to bounce back with a big crop of underclassmen. The 15 combined freshmen and sopho- mores and four juniors this year should only get better and no doubt be able to get the Wolves in the win column next sea- son. SPIKERS The team also will get a big boost with the return of senior setter Sierra Plum, who missed the previous Five games after spraining her ankle against La Salle on Oct. 17. Bellamy said she was very pleased with how sophomore Alyssa Weis and senior Talia Johnson performed at set- ter during Plum's absence, but having the all-league player return in time for the postseason is huge. "Just the leadership and the great setting that she brings," Bellamy said. "That's probably the best thing to hap- pen, knowing that she's back." The road to state is never an easy one, with three of the eight district teams competing for a spot. However, a win in the opening game of districts would make that road a little easier to travel on. "(Tuesday) night is a really big night," Bellamy said. "I'm excited and we're going to believe in ourselves and be positive and be energetic and just be aggressive. "We're going to come out swinging hard," she added. Only the top three teams at districts earn a berth to state, and BeUamy be- lieves that five of the teams league wide are good enough to compete at state. "You have to beat somebody," Bel- lamy said. "You just have to go make it happen." Tuesday's matchup will be the sec- ond meeting between the Wolves and Bears in as many years after Ki-Be topped Goldendale in Five sets in last year's third/fourth game to snatch the league's last bid to state. Without any really tall girls on the roster, the Bears have been able to win games despite JARYD CLINE GOOD RETURN: Sophomore Delaney Peters returns a Highland serve last Thursday while the Goldendale bench looks on. the lack of size. "They are scrappy They are good on defense," Bellamy said. "Not very big but they're athletic and they play fast and they're a solid team. "We're going to have to work hard to beat them but we do have the ability to play with them," she added. The two teams met earlier this sea- son on Sept. 15 at the SunDome Classic in Yakima, with the Bears winning both sets 25-17. That match was the last of five Goldendale played at the tournament that day after a four set win on the road at Zillah the previous night. After Tuesday's opening round games, the district tournament contin- ues on Saturday in Granger. senior quarterback Jeramiah os- COUGARS terander to junior Hunter Daw- son, putting the Cougs up 14-8 From Page 14 .... .... • , with 2:40 left in the opening quar- ter Senior lineman Elijah McCul- lough wrecked the Vikings' offen- sive line, finishing with 5.5 of the team's eight combined sacks, and the Cougs also added a pair of in- terceptions that helped shut Mabton Down. The Vikings took the opening kickoff and shredded the Cougar zone defense with some nice passing and a two-point conversion that put the home team up 8-0 after just two min- utes of play. "Seemed like right away our team was a little shocked and con- fused how quick that was," Mon- toya said in an email. 'Tkfter a quick huddle and some advice to let it go, we set up for kickoff re- turn." Thinking back to last year's game against Mabton, Montoya told his team to be prepared for the onside kick, thinking they wouldn't boot it deep to danger- ous playmaker Brandon Mon- toya. "Well I was wrong on both!" Antoine Montoya said. "Not only did they kick it deep, they kicked it to Brandon and he made them pay for it." Brandon Montoya took the kickoff 76 yards to the house and in just a matter of seconds the Cougs were on the board, trailing 8-6 after a failed two-point at- tempt. After a few traded possessions, LWK took its first lead after Mon- toya broke through for a six yard rushing touchdown followed by a two-point conversion pass from However, the Vikings struck back quickly with their passing attack, driving the field and scor- ing eight more points in just 2:01 to go on top 16-14 heading into the • second quarter. With the Vikings up on the scoreboard, the tide started to turn. "We tightened up our de- fense by switching to man-to- man and started to shut down everything the Vikings tried to do on offense," Antoine Mon- toya said. From then on it was all Cougars. They outscored the Vikings 46,0 over the second and third quarters, and at one point led 68-16 before the Vikings added another score as time expired in the fourth quarter. Brandon Montoya ran for a touchdown and two-point conver- sion to give the Cougs the lead for good at 6:04 in the second and the rout was on. Senior Reco Quintero forced a fumble which later led to an Osterander touchdown strike to junior DaSean Leslie, and the Cougs' defense later forced a safety after an intentional grounding call on Mabton in its own endzone. LWK tacked on one more touchdown before the break, scoring on an Osteran- der pass that was tipped by ju- nior Sam McCullough into the arms of senior Quincy Mc- Conville, who then took it in for a touchdown, giving the Cougars a 28-16 halftime advan- tage. Kicking off to start the third quarter, the Vikings didn't want to put the ball into Mon- toya's hands again, and squib kicked it, which didn't go the way they thought it would. Sam McCullough scooped up the kick and made a few cuts before taking it 65 yards to the end- zone. Montoya added another rush- hag touchdown from 62 yards out and Osterander later found Quin- tero for a 31 yard score through the air that put the Cougs up 60- 16. With the game well in hand, LWK swapped in some younger players and rotated players to dif- ferent positions. Sophomore Braedon Hov- inghoff picked off a pass, and Leslie, who subbed in under center, ran for a 40 yard score, and hit McConville for the two-point conversion, to cap the Cougars' scoring on the night. Osterander finished 12-21 through the air for 132 yards with three touchdowns, and added 42 yards on the ground for the Cougs. Montoya also rushed for 127 yards and three scores, adding two catches for 14 yards along with 10 tackles and a sack defensively. Leslie did damage on the ground and catching passes, rushing for 53 yards and a touch- down while also catching three passes for 30 yards and another touchdown. Sam McCullough finished with nine tackles and an inter- ception and Hovinghoff had four tackles, half a sack, and the in- terception. RUNNING From Page 14 "But then when they said Golden- dale second, the Five girls were just in shock. Their mouths were dropped," Rising said. The Goldendale girls compiled 68 team points, trailing just Zillah (41) and finishing ahead of Royal (77). The boys placement, with Ris- ing's second place finish along with amazing runs from junior Lucas An- derson and Sterling Beasley, was less suspenseful. They finished third with 76 points, a big gap between them and fourth-place Fmishing College Place (108). The Connell Eagles and Zillah Leopards tied for first with 69 points, and a tiebreaker (time of sixth runner) gave the Leopards the team title. Dillon Rising was still bothered with an iliotibial band issue that's been hampering him for the better part of the season. He still cruised to JARYD CLINE IN FRONT: Goldendale sophomore Jade Smith stays ahead of a Naches' runner during last Thursday's district meet in Cowiche. Smith finished 13th overall and helped propel the Goldendale girls into the state meet. the finish, and has slowly been im- proving in health as he gets ready to compete in his last high school cross country meet. Anderson was the second Tim- berwolf to Finish, crossing the line in 16:13.6, a personal best time by three seconds on a three-mile course and close to 38 seconds faster than when he ran on the same course on Sept. 16. After Anderson, sophomores Corbin Riley and Sterling Beasley finished back-to-back at 17 and 18 re- spectively, with a big-time personal best time from "Beastley," as it says on the back of one of his running shirts. Around the midway point of the race, Juli Rising encouraged and pushed Riley, who continued to pick up his pace en route to finishing bet- ter than he ever has. Beasley stopped the timers at 17:08.1, a per- sonal record by 38 seconds on a three-mile course. "It was cool to see," Rising said. "Everything I said he just took it to heart and you could see his face get- ting focused and determined." "It's been really fun with (Beasley) and seeing him improve," she added. Riley, one spot ahead of Beasley, finished in 17:07.7. Sophomore Mark Blunt rounded out Golden- dale's top five, taking 35th place in 18:02.6. Freshman Austin Williams, 55th in 18:55.5, and senior Ryan Kindler, 63rd in 19:37.6, also will be running with the team on Saturday at state. Teams are allowed to take nine total runners to state, seven runners and two alternates, but there are just seven Goldendale boys and five Goldendale girls. On the girls side, Ellie Rising led for the majority of the race be- fore Zillah senior Kalen Johnson (18:27) passed her late for the dis- trict title. Rising led Goldendale's super sophomores, who have a chance to be a forcein the league in the com- ing years. All Five of Goldendale's girl runners are sophomores. "I think this trip to state will be a huge experience and if I can con- vince them to keep coming out ... and if they keep training without in- juries, it's inthe bag for them to be district champs next year if they keep working like they have been," Rising said. "It's pretty exciting to see a group of just five kids, all sophomores, take second place in the district." After Rising's finish, Abby Hedges was the second Goldendale finisher and sixth overall in the field of 54 runners, finishing in 20:13.4: Jade Smith, who had missed a handful of practices and a few meets battling an illness, pushed herself to a 13th place Finish in 21:24.6, a clutch Fmish that helped punch the team's ticket to state. "For her to get up there and run in 13th place- I'm pretty sure that's what clinched the girls getting in that second spot- is that she just ran beyond her ability and her training to help the team," Rising said. Kimberly Chestnut, who ran at state last season with Stevenson, came in 25th overall in 22:20.2, and was followed by Savannah Ross, f'm- ishing at 29th in 22:51.