Swimming
Hood River Valley won the boys’ 200 yard freestyle relay by two-one-hundreths of a second over West Albany as the Eagles finished fifth in the Oregon Class 5A championships in Beaverton. The quartet of Clayton Lee, Connor McElwee, Luke Southall, and David Hecksel recorded a time of 1:29.61. Hecksel was second in the 100 backstroke and third in the 50 freestyle, and Southall sixth in the 100 freestyle. HRV was sixth in the girls’ team standings, led by Sarah Arpag finishing second in the 100 butterfly and third in the 100 backstroke. The Eagle girls earned fourth place finishes in both the 200 and 400 freestyle relays.
Wrestling
Hood River Valley will send seven wrestlers and The Dalles five to the Oregon Class 5A wrestling tournament after earning top four finishes at the Intermountain Conference championships. Dusty Dodge of The Dalles won the league title at 170 pounds. Hood River’s Carson Farlow, Chad Muenzer, and Cody Durham and The Dalles’ Taylor Moorehouse all had second place finishes.
A fifth place finish by Goldendale’s Blake Waddell was the top performance by an area wrestler at the Washington Class 1A Mat Classic in Tacoma. Columbia’s David Durham, Bowen Durkee, and Payden Webster, and Stevenson’s Logan Hoffberger and Solomon Mahoney all earned top eight finishes.
Boys Basketball
Pendleton 79, The Dalles 65
Girls Basketball
Pendleton 33, The Dalles 19
Redmond 52, Hood River Valley 38
Big Sky Conference Basketball Tournament at Madras
Girls Semi-Finals
Dufur 58, Ione 50
Echo 62, South Wasco 39
Girls Finals
Third Place: South Wasco 54, Ione 50: South Wasco will visit Country Christian in the first round of the state 1A tournament on Tuesday.
Championship: Dufur 50, Echo 44: The Rangers get a bye into round two of the state playoffs on Friday.
Boys Semi-Finals
Ione 61, Dufur 42
South Wasco 62, Condon-Wheeler 56
Boys Finals
Third Place: Dufur 70, Condon-Wheeler 47: Dufur visits Life Christian to begin the Oregon 1A tourney on Wednesday.
Championship: Ione 74, South Wasco 68: The Redsides will host Elgin in round one of the state 1A tournament on Wednesday.
Nordic Skiing
Hood River Valley’s girls were fifth and boys eighth at the Oregon Interscholastic Ski Racing Association nordic skiing championships at Mt. Bachelor. Frances Dickinson was 13th in the girls’ 5.1K freestyle and 17th in combined.
Alpine Skiing
The Columbia girls’ Madison Swanson and Hood River Valley boys’ Aidan Gonzales-Haynie have qualified in both slalom and giant slalom out of the Mt. Hood League for the state skiing championships. HRV’s Parker Dey and Columbia’s Camden Uffulman also qualified in boys’ slalom and the Eagles’ Hugh Dalbey advances in the boys’ giant slalom.