Baseball
Royal (CA) 17, Hood River Valley 1: Royal scored 11 runs in the fourth inning to hand the Eagles a loss in the final game of their Southern California trip.
Crossroads (CA) 17, The Dalles 3
Softball
Hood River Valley 13, Canby 1: Makenzie Chambers and Aunika Yasui both went 2 for 3 with 3 runs batted in to lead the Eagles to the win in Orange County.
Santa Margarita (CA) 3, Hood River Valley 2
White Swan sweeps Lyle-Wishram 20-2 and 17-10
Baseball
The Dalles 9, Littleton (CO) 8, 9 innings: The Riverhawks win their first game of the season at the Pride Classic in Arizona.
El Toro (CA) 2, Hood River Valley 0
Columbia sweeps Castle Rock 14-4 and 6-5
Castle Rock sweeps Stevenson 10-0 and 12-0
Sherman 15, Riverside 3
Softball
Diamond Bar (CA) 8, Hood River Valley 6: The Eagles lose their first game at the Savanna Showcase. Makenzie Chambers went 3 for 4 and drove in four runs for the Eagles.
LaCenter sweeps Stevenson 15-0 and 26-0
Goldendale sweeps Wapato 9-6 and 13-10
Boys Soccer
Columbia 6, Stevenson 0
Searchers have been unable to locate a man missing and presumed drowned in Wasco County’s Pine Hollow Reservoir. The Wasco County Sheriff’s Office says two men flipped a canoe in the reservoir Sunday evening. One made it to shore, but the second man identified as 22-year-old Christopher Berry did not. Search crews used boats, sonar, dive teams, and air assets Sunday night and Monday to try to locate Berry, but he has not been located in part due to the large search area and poor visibility in the water. The active search has been suspended, and the Wasco County Sheriff’s Office asks that anyone with information on Berry or locates him to call 541-296-5454.
The Dalles City Council voted on Monday night to authorize proceeding with the next phase of the First Street/Riverfront Connection project to complete plans, specifications, and estimates, restarting a project that was put on hold in 2015. The portion that will be revived runs from Union Street to Laughlin Street, with the Council concurring with a Columbia Gateway Urban Renewal Agency not to proceed with an easterly expansion from Laughlin to Madison. The Council also agreed with refining a proposed alignment for a Mill Creek Trail connection, and working with the Northern Wasco Parks and Recreation District on writing a letter of intent for an application to the state’s recreational trails grant program. The City has over one-point-two million dollars in federal funding plus three-point-six million dollars from 2008 bond proceeds to use on the project. If the City did not proceed, it would have to return the federal dollars plus reimburse 400-thousand dollars already spent on the project.
Baseball
Hood River Valley 6, Reed (NV) 5, 8 innings: Ryan Gray singled home Grayson Losee with the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning as HRV came from behind for the win. Hood River had tied the game with four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, thanks in part to a two-run single by Caden Leiblien and a sacrifice fly by Brandon Smiley. The Eagles moved their record at the Anaheim, California Lions Tournament to 1-1, and their season record to 3-2 by snapping a two-game losing streak. Up next for the Eagles today is perennial Southern California powerhouse El Toro, which counts among its alumni Gold Glove third basemen Nolan Arenado and Matt Chapman.
Mayfield (OH) 16, The Dalles 0
Track and Field
Stevenson’s boys won by less than a point over Columbia, while CHS won the girls’ competition at a five-school meet at King’s Way Christian. Liz Fink of Trout Lake won three events, while Columbia’s Chandlor Bucklin and Margo Mayo, Stevenson’s Lincoln Krog and Isabella Spencer, and Trout Lake’s Micah Gibson won two events apiece.
The Wasco County District Attorney’s Office has concluded a police officer was justified when he used deadly force while responding to reports of a 77-year-old man in The Dalles firing weapons at a neighbor’s house. In a report released Monday afternoon, it was announced District Attorney Eric Nisley will not convene a grand jury to review the death of James Virl Young. An investigation found Young fired at The Dalles Police, Oregon State Police, and Wasco County Sheriff’s officers when they arrived at his home on East 10th Street late in the evening on March 16 and found him continuing to fire shots. Officers took cover and yelled multiple times for Young to put the rifle down, but he continued to yell at them and fired his weapon multiple times at the direction of the officers, and when one officer observed Young raising his rifle back up towards them he fired twice, fatally wounding the man. The report shows information from family members and neighbors made it apparent Young suffered from mental illness, and his actions were either caused or a result of that. A neighbor heard noises and observed Young shooting his gun at the house, and when he told Young to stop Young pointed a rifle at him, at which point the neighbor moved away from the window and called 9-1-1. Investigators later found multiple shots had been fired into the kitchen area of the neighbor’s home, and recovered from Young’s porch two rifles and multiple shell casings along with bullet fragments from various locations.
White Salmon Mayor David Poucher says he will not seek re-election this fall. Poucher is in his 12th year in the position, and said in a statement to local media that “it was time to pass the baton to another person.” Poucher said his goals when he first took office were to end the water moratorium the state had imposed on the City, stabilize and increase municipal water rights so White Salmon could grow, and increase the production of water to supply the needs of citizens. He says those were accomplished in a way that included listening to all residents. Anyone who wants to run for Mayor in White Salmon will be able to file with the Klickitat County Auditor the week of May 13.
The North Wasco County School District 21 board approved the school calendar for the 2019-20 academic year. D-21 Superintendent Candy Armstrong says it is similar to the calendar they have used this year. Classes will begin for 2019-20 on September 3 for elementary schools and September 4 for secondary schools, and end on June 12. In other business, the board selected Michael Sullivan to fill the vacancy on the panel from zone 7. Sullivan is the only filed candidate for the seat in the May 21 election.
Hood River City Councilors are being asked how many private events should be allowed to take place at Waterfront Park. A staff report shows the number of those events has been increasing each year. City Manager Rachel Fuller says the Council has a number of different options, ranging from distinguishing from for-profit and non-profit events to limiting events to certain areas of the park. Tonight’s City Council meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in Hood River City Hall. At this point municipal staff is seeking a sense of direction from the Council, and would bring back recommendations based on that input at the Council’s April 8 meeting.
Klickitat County is closing in on getting a new emergency communications tower in the Redtail area on the road to the town of Klickitat. Commissioner Rex Johnston says it took time to find the property owners to negotiate a lease and develop plans to access the optimal location for the tower, but those details have been ironed out. The County wants to add another in the Simcoe Mountains to fill in another difficult area for communications, and Johnston says they are exploring using an existing tower or purchasing property to locate a new one.
