Softball

The Dalles sweeps Hood River Valley 9-8 and 4-2:  The Riverhawks scored six runs of the top of the seventh inning of game one to keep their playoff hopes alive, and then held off a Hood River rally in the bottom of the seventh in game two to advance to the state Class 5A playoffs and eliminate the Eagles.  Despina Sefualemua doubled in the winning run in game one, and hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run third inning in the nightcap.

  EWAC Softball Tournament

Goldendale 11, Mabton 9:  The Timberwolves advance to a second round game with Kittitas on Friday.

  Baseball

Hood River Valley 7, The Dalles 2:  The Intermountain Conference champion Eagles scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning for the win, with Kyle Smiley’s two-run double bringing home the go-ahead runs.

Grant Union sweeps Lyle-Wishram 34-0 and 23-0

  Boys Soccer

Washington Class 1A First Round

Bridgeport 2, Columbia 0

  Boys Golf

The Dalles finished eighth at the Oregon Class 5A boys’ golf tournament at Trysting Tree in Corvallis.  Joe Codding finished in a tie for 22^nd for the Riverhawks.  Hood River Valley’s Kiernan Chown finished in a tie for 31^st.

  Girls Golf

Katelyn Vasser of The Dalles finished in 13^th at the Oregon Class 5A girls’ golf tournament at Emerald Valley in Creswell.

With the new “Postmark Rule” in Oregon, winners of a number of races in the primary election won’t be known for a few days.  Under the new rule in Oregon, any ballot postmarked by Election Day is considered on time even if it arrives at elections offices up to seven days after the election.  Wasco County Clerk Lisa Gambee says they will still do a first release of results after 8 p.m., then collect ballots from drop boxes and publish updated tallies later tonight, and then take ballots over the next seven days.  Results won’t be officially certified until mid-June.

The White Salmon City Council will hold a public hearing Wednesday evening on new water use and efficiency goals.  The proposed new goals are a two percent reduction in average gallons per equivalent resident unit per day, and distribution system leakage of under 25 percent by 2028.  The City set similar goals in 2014, but was never been able to achieve them.  Mayor Marla Keethler says it’s important for the City to be more efficient use in its of water as it grows.  The Council meets at 5:30 Wednesday in the White Salmon Fire Hall, and the meeting can be accessed remotely, go to white-salmon.net for information.  

Hood River County Commissioners talked about Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s Mt. Hood and Columbia River Gorge Recreation Enhancement and Conservation Act, noting that while they like parts of the bill, there are still details to work out before they can fully support it.  Commission Chair Mike Oates says getting into the specifics of the mapping involved is one piece, along with getting federal officers to assist with patrolling and search and rescue around Mt. Hood.  Another topic County officials want addressed is ensuring the Middle Fork Irrigation District can do necessary work on Coe Creek.  The bill is to be heard in a House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Wednesday.

People traveling along Washington Highway142 should plan extra time for travel as work to resurface the roadway gets underway.  The Washington State Department of Transportation says work will start Wednesday to resurface a nearly 33-mile section of the highway between Lyle and Goldendale, in Klickitat County.  Travelers should expect daytime delays of up to 20 minutes, Mondays through Fridays, from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., and should follow the direction of flaggers or pilot car.  Crews will work during daytime hours until all work is complete later this summer.

Baseball

Hood River Valley 7, Gresham 2:  Jordan Webber pitched four-and-a-third hitless innings while striking out ten, and Mason Spellecy drove in five runs on a single, double, and a triple.

Dufur 21, Union-Cove 0

  Softball

Southwest Washington Class 2B District Tournament

Rainier 6, Stevenson 2

  Boys Golf

The Dalles is in seventh in the team standings at the Oregon Class 5A Tournament at Trysting Tree in Corvallis.  Joe Codding is in a tie for 17^th after shooting an 81, while Keeler Lawson is in a tie for 28^th with an 86.  Hood River Valley’s Davis Kerr is tied for 34^th with an 88, and Kiernan Chown is tied for 37^th at 89.

  Girls Golf

The Dalles’ Katelynn Vassar is tied for 16^th at the Oregon Class 5A Tournament at Emerald Valley in Creswell after shooting 100.

  Boys Tennis

Goldendale’s Eli Golding and Kyden Blunt won the boys’ doubles tournament at the EWAC Regionals at Toppenish

A 51-year-old Gresham man has been arrested on charges connected to a home invasion burglary in Hood River last Tuesday.  According to the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office, Kevin Alexander McCallum was taken into custody on Thursday in Gresham with assistance from the U.S. Marshal’s Service.  The Sheriff’s Office says an 89-year-old female resident at home in the 1200 block of Tucker Road reported that a man had threatened her with a weapon and forced his way into her residence. Once inside, the bound the woman to a chair while burglarizing her residence, and left her there while burglarizing an adjacent unoccupied residence.  The victim was able to free herself after the suspect left the area.  McCallum has been lodged at NORCOR on kidnapping, burglary, coercion, and menacing charges.  

Hood River County Health Department Chief Health Officer Dr. Christopher Van Tilburg says there is a surge of COVID-19 cases locally, but how many actual cases are occurring is difficult to tell.  That’s because some people are testing positive and not reporting it, some are testing negative when they are actually positive often due to not getting a good sample for a COVID test, some have mild symptoms and don’t test, and some are asymptomatic.  Van Tilburg said in a social media video post over the weekend that COVID vaccines are working, and most hospitalizations for COVID involve people who are unvaccinated.  Hood River County is holding a COVID-19 vaccination and testing event on Friday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Mt. Hood Town Hall.

The Hood River County Library District is getting ready to take delivery on a new bookmobile in the latter part of this month or in early June.  District Director Rachael Fox says many community members were asking the library to come to where they are at, so during the pandemic the Friends of the Hood River County Library and the district raised money to purchase a large sprinter van that people can get into, and it can be stocked with 2,000 library materials.  Fox says a route schedule will be developed once the bookmobile arrives, with a primary focus on the Mid-Valley and then spreading out to the rest of the County.

If you see a lot of fishing boats with plenty of logos in The Dalles area this week, that’s because the APEX Pro Tour Spartan 580 bass fishing tournament is in the area.  Lisa Farquharson of The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce says the location of the tournament is kept secret until just a few days before the competitors’ arrival, and they have arrived in The Dalles after beng in Arlington over the weekend.  Farquharson said a community day event associated with the tournament is planned for later this week at The Dalles Dam Visitor Center.