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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.