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KLICKITAT VANDALSJan. 6 SSC 6:00/7:30Jan. 7 TLG 3:30/5:00Jan. 10 Lyle/Wishram 5:00/6:30Jan. 13 Bickleton 6:00Jan. 14 Alumni Game 5:00/6:30Jan. 20 Yakama Tribal 6:00/7:30Jan. 21 SSC 3:30/5:00Jan. 27 TLG 6:00/7:30Jan. 28 Bickleton 5:00Feb. 3 Lyle/Wishram 5:00/6:30Feb. 4 Yakama Tribal 3:30/5:00

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Jan. 6 Yakama Tribal 6:00 7:30Jan. 7 Bickleton 3:30 5:00Jan. 10 Klickitat 6:30Jan. 13 Sunnyside Christian 6:00 7:30Jan. 17 Dufur 6:00 7:30Jan. 20 TLG 6:00 7:30Jan. 21 Yakama Tribal 3:00 4:30Jan. 28 Sunnyside Christian 5:00 6:30Feb. 3 Klickitat 6:30Feb. 4 TLG 3:30 5:00Feb. 6 Bickleton 6:00 7:30Feb. 10 District TBA TBA

BICKLETON PIRATESJan. 6 TLG 6:00Jan. 7 Lyle-Wishram 3:30Jan. 9 Zillah C squad 6:00Jan. 13 Klickitat 6:00Jan. 14 LaSalle 3:30Jan. 17 Yakama Tribal 6:00Jan. 20 Sunnyside Christian 6:00Jan. 21 TLG 3:30Jan. 24 Ki-Be 5:00Jan. 28 Klickitat 5:00Jan. 31 Mabton 6:00Feb. 2 Pasco 5:30Feb. 3 Yakama Tribal 5:00Feb. 4 Sunnyside Christian 5:00Feb. 6 Lyle-Wishram 6:00

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By ANDREW CHRISTIANSENThe Sentinel

Goldendale’s girls’ basket-ball program is undergoinga transformation. Last yearwas the first year underLance DenBoer’s coachingand while it may have been alearning year for both teamand coaches, it was also theyear of defense. If one wasto characterize this year’steam in a sound bite, itmight be the year of diversi-ty in the offense.DenBoer has

the luxury of lit-tle turnover inpersonnel for histwo years. With justone graduation fromlast year’s team, mostof the girls are gettingvery familiar withD e n B o e r ’ sapproach. Hestressed defenselast year and he isstressing defensethis year. But,when asked whatit will take to godeeper into theplayoffs thisy e a r ,D e n B o e rsays “weneed morebalancedscoring.”When you

talk ofG o l d e n d a l escoring, you start with LexiCameron. The point guardcarried much of the burdenlast year and it hasn’tchanged much in the earlygoing of this year. Cameron,an all-league player lastyear, shoots more than 40percent from the outside

with a large percentage ofthose shots from beyond thethree-point arc. At pointguard she triggers theoffense and is still the “go-to” player on the team. Sheaccounted for 37 percent ofthe team scoring duringDecember, with 19.9 pointsper game and a high of 33

points againstC o l u m b i a -BurbankThe problem

this year’s teamfaces in trying tobecome morediverse in theirscoring, is thelack of size fortheir inside game.

There was diversity lastyear with Sadie Shattucksharing the load, but it isa different looking teamon the floor this year, withno dominant post player.

In fact, the teamseems to have twolooks, a small,quick team and ataller version with

inside game poten-tial. With a team built

on defense, the best fit is agroup of shorter playerswho play a smart, physicalstyle of play. That group

includes JohnaKartes, HaleyHoffman andK y l i eMontgomeryon the front

line and Andrea Keffelerhelping Cameron out atguard. They are good atusing their feet to take awaypassing lanes and cause a lotof turnovers that triggerfast breaks that account formuch of Goldendale’soffense.

Montgomery is second toCameron in shooting, partic-ularly deadly from the 12-15foot range. Keffeler can alsoplay the point, taking somepressure off Cameron.Kartes and Hoffman aredefensive standouts whoscoremost of their points offoffensive rebounds. Kartesis the team’s leadingrebounder and has been tak-ing more shots from outsidethe key as the team looks forthat diversity in scoring.When DenBoer goes to his

big look, he brings in 5-9Brooke Graff and 5-10Jessica Lewis at the sametime. It dramatically altersthe look with both playersable to match-up betteragainst taller teams and pro-vide some inside scoring.Lewis is new to the sys-

tem this year and still learn-ing the defense. She is athlet-ic and can provide insideand outside shooting thatshould become more of afactor as the season goes on.Graff is more of a post up

player while Lewis has ballhandling skills that allowher to score on baselinedrives.The other options off the

bench are experienced play-

ers Crysta Counts andTaylor Swift, both goodshooters. Counts givesGoldendale an alternative toCameron for the three-pointshot, capable of scoring

from anywhere around thearc.Swift at 5-10 is a true post


The 2012 version of theGoldendale Timberwolvesis much like last year’steam with a twist. DevonCasey and Brady Conwayare the only returning play-ers, but like last year’steam, this one is rich withseniors and dependent on astrong inside game. Thetwist comes in the insidegame. Last year it was heav-ily dependent on ReedLindhe’s muscle. This yearit is more like the twin tow-ers with Jordan Foley andMichael Folkner givingopponents a double insidescoring threat to defend.Everything is triggered

by Casey, a 5-11 senior guardwho was an all-league selec-tion last year. With Caseyrunning the offense again,it figures that the basicattack is unchanged. Caseylikes to drive the lane anddish to the big guys inside.When teams sag to shutdown the lane, Casey iscapable of shooting thethree. Quick and physicaldefenders gave Casey trou-ble last year, but Coach JayThacker says Casey’s matu-rity and off-season work has

improved his game and hehas great expectations ofthe senior.The other guard is Riley

Ross, a 5-11 sophomore whois good with the ball and is aquick defender. Ross looksto dump inside to Foley orFolkner, but will take thethree point shot if givenroom. Thacker describeshim as a real team playerwho bases his success onthe team’s success.Conway returns in a sim-

ilar role as last year, a swingplayer at 6-2 who is deadlywith baseline three-pointshots, but capable of takingit to the hoop when pres-sured.The real difference

between last year’s Wolvesand this year’s team is thetandem of Jordan Foley andMichael Folkner. The pairgive Thacker his first tall,inside game in this,Thacker’s sixth year atGoldendale.Foley is 6-4 with power to

keep from being pushed outof the lane. He is a high per-centage shooter with mostof his scoring coming frominside 10 feet.Folkner is 6-3 with more

of a slashing style of playinside with great leapingability. Folkner likes to takeit to the board, but can pullup for the short jump shot,too.While several other

league teams can put somesize on the floor,Goldendale’s duo will behard to handle as they areboth very active and play

with a lot of athleticism.This is a typical Thacker

team on the defensive sideof the ball, with a mixtureof zone and man defenses.They switch a lot and pres-sure the ball well. It is ateam that has learned toplay with their feet andavoid fouls. Casey and Rossare ball hawks and the longarms of Conway andFolkner make it hard towork the ball inside.Folkner and Foley are alsogood shot blockers.Goldendale’s bench is

much different from lastyear where Thacker essen-tially had 10 or 11 inter-changeable parts. First offthe bench this year is LucasDenney, a 6-foot junior whois a good defender and canmuscle inside or play thepoint guard position.Denney is an all-aroundathlete who Thacker says“is very intelligent and agreat teammate.”Two seniors who are also

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GOLDENDALE HIGH GIRLS: The 2011-12 Lady Timberwolves are: (front l-r) Johna Kartes,Crysta Counts, Lexi Cameron, Andrea Keffeler; (back l-r) Brooke Graff, Taylor Swift, JessicaLewis, Haley Hoffman and Kylie Montgomery.

GOLDENDALE HIGH BOYS: The 2011-12 Timberwolves are: (front l-r) Devon Casey,Riley Ross, Ethan Enstad, Kenner Milliren; (back l-r) Patrick Golding, Michael Folkner,Jordan Foley, Brady Conway and Lucas Denney.

Lady Wolves’ looking for diversity on offense

Wolves reload for another run at StateSee Lady Wolves, Page C3

Michael Folkner, second from left and LucasDenney, right are two new faces on the varsityline-up for Goldendale.

Lexi Cameron aver-aged 19.9 ppg inDecember.

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Three seniors are poisedto make 2012 a very specialyear for Goldendalewrestling. The program hasa history of good teams withseveral wrestlers qualifyingfor State in most years. Forthose who make it to State,the goal is to make it to thesecond day, as that meansyou have made it to themedal rounds. It is a hugeaccomplishment in such aphysical, individual sport.What makes this year so

special is that threewrestlers, Nolin Bare, KurtWilkins and Braydon Rossare expected to make it tothe medal round and more.Each of the three has a legit-imate expectation of becom-ing the State champion oftheir weight division. Itwould be huge for the teamto put three wrestlers intothe championship round,but it could be even betterthan that as there are fourother wrestlers who have ashot at State this year andperhaps score points thatcould give the Timberwolvesa top 10 team finish.This year’s team has 19

members, including twogirls, Karrie Call and JoelleAkins. Unfortunately, as hasbeen the case for severalyears now, there are gaps inthe line-up, especially in thelower weight divisions, mak-ing it difficult for the team toscore meet wins. There arefour wrestlers who could

compete at 170 pounds andanother three at 160. Onlyone wrestler can wrestle at aweight in dual matches, buttwo can represent a school atDistrict and beyond, whichhelps with team points atthat level.Bare is ranked at the top

of the 160 pound weight divi-sion. He has medals for sev-enth and fifth place finishesat 152 pounds from the pasttwo Mat Classic State tour-naments. An early seasonshowdown at the SunDomewith Bare’s main competi-tion from Royal, AlexMyrick, didn’t materializeas Myrick was beaten in thesemifinals. Bare went on towin the division. Bareattributes his improvementto experience and greaterstrength. He wrestles in acompact, aggressive style,giving his opponents littleopportunity to score againsthim. Bare’s goal is to finishfourth or better, but there isno reason he shouldn’t be inthe championship match atState.Wilkins is also around the

top of ranked 195 pounders.He doesn’t have any medalsto show for his two appear-ances at State, making himall the more hungry for astrong finish to his highschool career. Wilkins madeit to State as a freshman andas a sophomore. He wasexpected to be a high seed atState as a junior after easilywinning District and beingseeded number one atRegionals. A knee injury

during practice keptWilkinsout of the Regional tourna-ment. He might have fallenoff the map with some rank-ings, but he didn’t slip in therankings of people whoknew him. This year hemoves up to 195 pounds, anew division that looks likeit was created just for him.He too won at the SunDomeand is bound to set a newrecord for wins by pin atGoldendale High School.Wilkins is a legitimate can-didate for the championshipround at State.Ross, like Wilkins made it

to State in his first twoyears. As a sophomore hefinished with the fourthplace medal at 160 pounds.Injuries marred most of lastyear for Ross who still man-aged to qualify for State, butwas unable to compete dueto injured ribs and shoulder.This year he is healthy andlooking to return for a highfinish. If there is any obsta-cle in Ross’s way it could behis weight division. Rosscould make 160, but withBare there, he most likely

will be at 170. Ross has wres-tled in the 182 pound divi-sion in the early going thisyear, so he should be astrong contender at 170.The four wrestlers who

also have a good shot at get-ting to State are Kirk Giese,Wade Gaston, Kyle Wilkinsand Dean Enstad.Giese is a senior who will

wrestle at 120 pounds. Hehas always had the strengthand experience to be a con-tender, but was wrestling intoo high of a division hisfirst two years and battledinjuries last year. This is hislast shot at making it toState and he is off to astrong start and looks like agood fit at 120 pounds.Gaston was expected to

make it to State last year as asophomore. He will likelywrestle at 160, although 170is a possibility. Gaston is avery strong, technicalwrestler. He failed to make itbeyond District last year andwill wrestle somematches at182 pounds during the yearto get varsity matches.Gaston started this season

battling a shoulder injury.He looked strong, fit andfocused in his debut, a firstround pin against JuanMendoza, of Columbia-White Salmon. Gaston hasthe potential to be a Statemedal winner.Kyle Wilkins, a sopho-

more has really come on thisyear. He started last seasonas a seemingly reluctantparticipant who warmed upto the sport as the seasonwent on and was 2-2 at theDistrict tournament at 152pounds. It was a confidentand aggressive Wilkins onthe mat at the SunDome lastmonth where he scored a pinover an opponent fromWenatchee. He will wrestleat 152 again. It is a toughdivision that will be hard toget past Regionals, butWilkins is up to the chal-lenge.Enstad also came up short

at District last year, wrest-ing as a 125 pounder. Thisyear he will compete at 132pounds, which is anothertough division. Enstad puton a great show in a matchin Goldendale last month,defeating two Toppenishwrestlers. Enstad, a sopho-more also pinned aWenatchee wrestler for the

fifth place medal in theSunDome Mat Classic inDecember.The rest of the team is

very young with freshmanMiller White wrestling at160 to 170 pounds. White isinexperienced, but he looksto have a bright future atGoldendale.Sophomore Thurman

Johnson was set to makesome noise at 138 poundsthis year after a good fresh-man year, but he has beensidelined with an injury.Other sophomores include:Kahner Adams at 126pounds, Daniel French at138-145 pounds, and ZachCully at 220 pounds. All willhelp the Timberwolves com-pete in dual matches thisyear, but are probably a yearaway from being contendersat District, although Cullydid wrestle at Regionals lastyear.Call had a strong start to

the season with three pins inthe early going. Both girlshave suffered from inactivi-ty and haven’t had manyopportunities to wrestle out-side of practice. Both girlsare first year wrestlers andlikely will compete at 137pounds.

player who has good insidemoves and is a high percent-age scorer.The Lady Timberwolves

have started this seasonmuch like last, breezingthrough non-league oppo-nents and stumbling against

Zillah, LaSalle and Granger.But, their defense, which isone of the best in the league,has given them opportuni-ties to win. They lost toZillah in overtime and fellby one point to Granger.The losses put pressure

on the Wolves for a topfour finish, but with theclose nature of the games,they believe they have ashot at redemption on theroad.DenBoer expects

defense will keep them ina lot of games this year.

The diversity in theoffense has yet to emerge,but when it does, expectthis team to improve onlast year’s 5-7 leaguerecord with a chance ofmaking it to the regionalround of the playoffs.


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are Ethan Enstad and Patrick Golding. Enstad is a quick de-fender who comes in at the guard position. Golding worksmore as a forward and likes the medium range jump shot.Another sophomore on the team is Kenner Milliren who

Thacker brings into the game to add some outside scoringpower. He is quick at 5-10 and very confident in firing offthree-point shots.Perhaps an “x factor” on the bench this year is Weston

Lewis, a 6-3 senior in his first year at Goldendale. Lewis isgetting familiar with the Goldendale schemes and couldbecome a big factor on offense and defense toward the end ofthe season.Last year’s team finished the season 10-2 in league and 19-

6 overall, qualifying for the first regional playoff. They werea team that had the advantage of playing together for sever-al years. This year’s team is more of a potpourri, but theyhave the potential to go deeper into the playoffs. Thackerlikes the look of the team and says the group is still learningto play together. Thacker credits the players for beingunselfish and team oriented. “They just want to win,” saysThacker.The Timberwolves are 8-2, losing to Zillah and Granger in

games where quick guards exploited softness in the Wolves’defense, allowing drives to the hoop. Thacker says it’s a dayto day thing, trying to get better every day. It may be that theteam loses a couple of games along the way that keep themfrom title contention, but expect this team to be very goodcome playoff time as they become more familiar with eachother’s play. Another regional appearance is likely and don’tbe surprised if this team shows up at the YakimaDome inMarch.

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By BEN MITCHELLThe Enterprise

It’s been a month of upsand downs for the Colum-bia Bruins girls basketballteam, but the team is al-ready greatly im-proved from whereit was a year ago atthis time.

In December of2010, the Bruins didnot win a singlegame, although acouple of the de-feats came fromcontests that weredecided by only afew points. Thisyear, the Columbiagirls are 4-6 overallgoing into Januaryand 2-2 in the SWW1A Trico Division.

Fo r t h e m o s tpart, Columbia hasb e e n i n a l m o s tevery game so farthis season. Two ofthe Bruins’ six loss-es were quite close,including a 54-46 de-feat by the Washou-gal Panthers onDec. 2 at home and a 42-35league loss at Ilwaco onDec. 22. The Bruins had an-other close one on Dec. 13when they snuck by the

Ridgefield Spudders in a 52-49 come-from-behind win athome.

Over the first 10 games ofthe 2011-12 season, the Bru-ins averaged a respectable

45.3 points per game. Op-posing teams far-ed onlyslightly better, averaging 48ppg against Columbia.

CHS Athletic Director

and retur ning BruinsCoach Howard Kreps isgenerally pleased with theimproved girls team thatwas very close to achievinga .500 record in December.

“The season isgoing well,” Krepssays. “We are get-ting better and thatis our goal.”

However, Krepsis more than will-ing to acknowledgethat the team stillhas work to do.

“We need to han-dle the ball better,”Kreps admitted,“and we need to bemore aggressive onoffense.”

One of Kreps’goals is to develop agood ball-handlerwho can step upand play the pointguard position ef-fectively. The teamhas greatly missedL a u re l H u t h , aplayer who gradu-ated last year andwho Kreps said was

responsible for handlingthe ball “80 percent of thetime.”

This year, Kreps andBruins fans will look to se-

niors Aleigha Rude (5-foot-8, 13.8 ppg), Rebecca Cam-pos (5-6, 6.8 ppg), and TarynStruck (5-10, 7.6 ppg) to leadthe Bruins to victory.

Rude is by far the team’sleading scorer, with a laud-able 124 points in the sea-son’s first nine games. Sheis also very accurate, boast-ing 60 percent marksman-ship from the field. Addi-tionally, Rude easily leadsthe team in total rebounds(86, 9.6 rpg) and blocks (10,1.1 bpg).

Struck is the next high-

est scorer with 68 pointsand Campos, who leads theBruins in steals (18) and as-sists (19), is close behindwith 61 points.

These three players willbe backed up by fellow se-nior Kayla Wimp (5-6, 3.4ppg) and by juniors Chan-telle Hickman (5-5, 2.0 ppg),Monika Swick (5-9, 3.7 ppg),and Kristin Orr (5-8, 1.1ppg).

Additional support willbe provided by sophomoresJaleh Kermani (5-9, 8.3ppg), Kylene Olin (5-7, 1.2ppg), Cheryl Reetz (5-7, 0.8ppg) and Corrie Brending(6-0, 3.1 ppg).

Kreps says that he would

like the Bruins to be thirdor fourth in the league bythe end of the regular sea-son so that the team canhave a home playoff gamein February.

Columbia’s entire re-maining schedule consistsonly of matches againstTrico teams, so the Bruinswill have to hang tough andmake adjustments if theywant to attain their goal ofmaking the post-season.

“We must win at homeand compete on the road tobe close in the fourth quar-ter to have a chance towin,” Kreps explains. “Sofar, we have achieved thesegoals.”

By BEN MITCHELLThe Enterprise

Although the ColumbiaHigh boys basketball teamlost every game in Decem-ber by margins of 30 pointsor more, the Bruins (0-9 forDecember) aren’t about togive up or get down onthemselves either.

“They’re playing againstsome good players and theycontinue to work andhaven’t gotten down onthemselves once,” says sec-

ond-year Bruins CoachDavid Garwood. “I’m proudof them and they will bemuch better because ofthis.”

Garwood said that a ma-jority of the struggles stemfrom many of last year’splayers not returning. The2010-11 team finished 7-14.Garwood also said manyplayers on the opposingteams outsize the Bruins,which makes staying com-petitive in games even

more difficult.Still, Garwood is a little

surprised at the difficultiesthe team has experiencedin trying to find the basket.The Bruins averaged 20.5points per game for Decem-ber, while opponents scored67.3 ppg.

“I knew being a youngteam that we would havesome struggles,” Garwoodexplains, “but I didn’t thinkwe would struggle this badon the offensive end.”

However, Garwood saysthat regardless of the Bru-ins’ performances, theSWW 1A Trico Division isstacked this year and he es-timates that five of theteams are playoff con-tenders.

“To our kids’ credit,”Garwood says, “we haveplayed a lot of qualityteams who may see somepost-season play, so it’sbeen a tough schedule.”

Garwood says that theteam must continue to de-velop its skills and improvein all areas of the game tobecome more competitive,particularly eliminatingturnovers and other mis-takes. He would also like tosee his team learn to seemismatches.

“Every day we work onshooting and eventually therepetition will pay off,”Garwood explains. “Being ayoung team, I’m trying toget them to practice atgame speed, which willmake us all better.”

In order to help the teamget there, Garwood saysthat he will continue to relyon sophomores HaydenGibson (6-foot-2, 1.3 ppg),Jared Garwood (6-1, 1.4ppg), and Clayton Gross (5-9, 3.7 ppg), who have beeninstrumental in creatingscoring opportunities forColumbia.

The sophomore triumvi-rate will get help from ju-niors Kasey Bond (6-0, 3ppg), Ben Childs (5-10, 1.3ppg), and Thomas Doty (5-9,0.4 ppg). Seniors CristianOliveras (5-8, 2.8 ppg),Zachary Ingram (5-8, 2 ppg),Timothy Webster (5-11, 2.1ppg), Sebastian Mael (5-10,2.4 ppg), Andres Herrera(0.5 ppg), and Jake Kemp-ton (5-9) will also provideassistance.

The Bruins also will lookto freshman Ryan Lockman(5-10, 0.2 ppg) who has beencalled up from the juniorvarsity team to play at thevarsity level.

The remaining games inColumbia’s season are allagainst Trico teams and ifpast contests are indicatorsof future performances, theBruins may have a toughtime with the rest of theirschedule. Garwood realizesthis and seems, for now,more focused on team de-velopment than the win-loss column.

“Being young and wellundersized every game is amismatch for us,” he ex-plains. “Winning obviouslywould be great, but I wantus to become a competitiveteam and learn what ittakes to get to that level.”

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COLUMBIA HIGH GIRLS: The Bruins in 2011-12 are (front, l-r) Kristin Orr,Chantelle Hickman,Cheryl Reetz; (back) Kylene Olin, Kayla Wimp, Corrie Brend-ing, Aleigha Rude, Taryn Struck, Jaleh Kermani, Rebecca Campos and MonikaSwick. Not pictured: Bruins Coach Howard Kreps.

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CHS BOYS JAYVEE: The Junior Bruins in 2011-12 are(front, l-r) Joshua Lewis, Ryan Earls, Ryan Lockman, Tan-ner Rabinowitz, Miguel Perez-Gomez, Dawson Reynier;(back) JV Coach Adam Dahl, Zan Yang, Ian Whidden,Blake Walker, Kyler Riggleman, Jordan McClain, GabrielGuzman and Bruins Coach David Garwood.


BICKLETONBoys: 3 appearances

(Class B only); Record, 3-6;Placings (1), 7th in 1979;Last entry, 1979 (Coach:Kermit Wigen).

Girls: 5 appearances(Classes 1A/B, B and 1B);Record, 11-9; Placings (5),4th in 1978, 6th in 1977 and1979, 7th in 1981; 7th in2010; Last entry, 2010, Class1B, 7th place (Coach:Emily Barnhart).

GOLDENDALEBoys: 21 entries (Classes

B, 1A and 2A); Record, 40-36; Placings (15), 1-2nd, 2-3rd, 2-4th, 1-5th, 3-6th, 2-7th, 4-8th; Last entry, 2003,Class 1A, 6th place (Coach:Mike Carlquist).

Girls: 11 entries (Classes1A and 2A); Record, 18-18;Placings (5), 2nd in 1981and 1997, 4th in 1993, 5th in1980, 8th in 1998; Lastentry, 1998, Class 2A, 8thplace (Coach: Brian Wan-less).

GLENWOODBoys: 1 entry (Class B);

Record, 2-2; Placings (1),8th in 1992 (Coach: JoeBales).

Girls: 3 entries (ClassB); Record, 6-6; Placings(3), 6th in 1987, 7th in 1990,8th in 1989; Last entry, 1990(Coach: Joe Bales).

KLICKITATBoys: 2 entries (Classes

B and 1B); Record, 0-4;Placings, none; Last entry,2008 (Coach: Kirk Huwe).

Girls: 4 entries (Class Bonly); Record, 3-8; Plac-ings, none; Last entry, 1995(Coach: Kirk Huwe).

LYLEBoys: 4 entries (Class B

only); Record, 1-8; Plac-ings, none; Last entry, 1998

(Coach: Joe Bales).Girls: 5 entries (Class B

only); Record, 3-9; Placings(1), 3rd in 2000; Last entry,2 0 0 3 ( C o a c h : Ve rl y nSmith).

LYLEand WISHRAM

Boys: 1 entry (Class 1B);Record, 0-1; Placings, none;Last entry, 2011 (Coach:Scott Myers).

Girls: No appearances.

STEVENSONBoys: 10 entries (Classes

B and 1A); Record, 8-19;Placings, 5th in 1981; Lastentry, 2007 (Coach: Glenn

Stump).Girls: 1 entry (Class 1A);

Record, 1-2; Placings, none;Last entry, 1980 (Coach:Gary Morningstar).

TROUT LAKEBoys: 1 entry (Class B);

Record, 0-2; Placings, none;Last entry, 1997 (Coach:Bob Jolley).

Girls: No appearances.

TROUT LAKEand GLENWOOD

Boys: 1 entry (Class 1B);Record, 0-2; Placings, none;Last entry, 2010 (Coach:Dan Concienne).

Girls: 1 entry (Class 1B):

Record, 1-2; Placing, None;Last entry, 2008 (Coach:Roger Huffsmith).

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Boys: 5 entries (ClassesB and 1A); Record, 5-10;Placings (2), 7th in 1954,8th in 1982; Last entry,1982, Class 1A, 8th place(Coach: Dean Naffziger).

Girls: 9 entries (Classes1A/B and 1A); Record, 9-16;Placings (2), 5th in 1976and 1977; Last entry, 2007,

Class 1A (Coach: MikeYarnell).

WISHRAMBoys: No appearances.Girls: No appearances.

By SVERRE BAKKEThe Enterprise

Columbia High’s 2011-12wrestling team boasts 11 re-turning wrestlers and itsstrongest group of first-year wrestlers ever, accord-ing to Bruins Coach StonerBell.

Back for their senior sea-sons are 2011 state partici-pants Leo Torres and SarahGibson, as well as MasonSwick, James Pillon andFrancisco “Junior” Vil-lanueva.

Also returning are ju-niors Tai Moses, Juan“Paco” Ramos, Levi Belland Juan Mendoza, andsophomores Nathan Belland Daniel Lewis.

New to the team arefreshmen Regina Bell,Austin Morris, Luis Perezand Catalina Suarez, andjuniors Edgar Cortes,Aaron Walker and AntonPscheider.

As always, said CoachBell, the coaching staff ’sgoal is to get all wrestlers am a x i m u m n u m b e r o fmatches to help them devel-op the necessary skills thatwill enable them to reachtheir fullest potential.

“We’re already seeinggreat improvement in indi-vidual wrestling skills aswrestlers are competingbetter against opponentsthat they wrestled earlierin the season,” Bell noted,and added, “In general,we’re doing better than ex-pected when consideringour experience level. Theyall wrestle like they canwin, and so they do.”

The Bruins won’t be win-ning many dual meets thisseason because they don’thave wrestlers for all 14

weight classes but “we’llwin a few against otherteams with similar issues,”Bell said.

Leading off for the Bru-ins at 113 pounds is ReginaBell, who’s posted a 9-10record to date. “Regina iswrestling well for a first-year wrestler, especially ingirls competitions,” CoachBell noted. “She’s capablyfilling a weight class for thevarsity boys competitionsas well.”

Lewis, CHS’s entry in the120-pound weight class, isout with an injury buth o p e s t o r e t u r n t owrestling later this month.In December bouts, Lewiswent 2-5.

We i g h i n g i n at 1 2 6pounds is Morris, who hasgone 6-9 and impressed hiscoaches with strong show-ings in varsity meets.Suarez is listed at 132pounds and is practicingwith the team but has yetto wrestle a match.

Moses, a team co-captain,a n d N a t h a n B e l l a r ewrestling at 138 poundsthis year. Moses is 10-5 and“wrestling well this year,”his coach said, while Bell,who had his 2011 seasoncut short by a shoulder in-jury, has a 6-4 record so far“and should be fine for theremainder of the season.”

Columbia’s 145-poundweight class is populatedwith Gibson, Ramos, Vil-lanueva, Pscheider, andPerez (JV, 2-11). The Bru-ins’ entries at 152 are Tor-res, another co-captain,and Walker. (Pscheider andWalker are practicing butnot competing.)

Bell said Gibson (8-5record) is only competing

in girls tournaments thisseason due to the logjam at145, but he expects she willadvance to the state meetin Tacoma again — andplace again. Last year Gib-

son made history for CHSby becoming its first girl toplace in a state wrestlingtournament. She finishedeighth at 140 pounds.

Torres (8-1 record) alsomade his state debut lastseason, and Bell was antici-pating a return trip toTacoma for the fourth-yearwrestler. However, Torresis currently sidelined witha broken hand and his sea-

son may be in jeopardy.Ramos (5-10) has been

wrestling at whateverweight is open on a givenday, Bell said, and is cover-ing the 152 slot while Tor-

res is out with injury.Manning the 160 and 170

spots are Pillon, who is 4-6to date, and Mendoza,who’s won five of 11 bouts.Bell said the length of theirseasons will depend ontheir own technical devel-opment and the overallstrength of their weightclasses.

At 182 pounds, Swick isbacked up by Levi Bell (9-3

record), who’s also filled inat 195 when necessary.Swick (7-2) “is developingwell as a technical andfunk wrestler,” his coachnoted. “I expect him to do

well in the post-season.”Bell also is high on

Cortes’ post-season pros-pects. To date, Cortes hasfashioned a 10-4 record be-tween two weight classes.

“He’s doing very well fora first-year wrestler. He’dnever seen a match beforethis year,” Bell said ofCortes. “His strength andrapidly developing techni-cal abilities may take him

into the post-season at ei-ther 182 or 195.”

Looking at success froma team standpoint, Bellsaid it would be “an ex-tremely successful season”

if the Bruins qualified sixto eight wrestlers for theregional tournament inFebruary.

In the final issue, Belladded, “I would also like tosee a couple of guys makeit to state — maybe Masonand Leo, if his hand healsquickly. And, of course, weare hoping to get Sarahback to state competitionand a medal.”

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COLUMBIA HIGH WRESTLERS: The Bruins in 2011-12 are (front, l-r) manager Kalee Frazer, CatalinaSuarez, Regina Bell, manager Natasha Vermeire;(middle) Daniel Lewis, James Pillon, Tai Moses, Juan“Paco” Ramos, Sarah Gibson, Juan Mendoza, Austin

Morris, Francisco “Junior” Villanueva; (back) AssistantCoach Devry Bell, Nathan Bell, Levi Bell, Leo Torres,Mason Swick, Luis Perez, Anton Pscheider, AaronWalker and Bruins Coach Stoner Bell. Not pictured:Edgar Cortes.

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Bickleton finished thepast two seasons as Districtrunner-up and despite los-

ing Katelynn Clinton, one ofthe most dominant playersin the game, they began thisseason as a strong contenderto repeat. The reason forthat optimism was the fact

that their competition alsohad big losses to graduationand Bickleton was about tofield one of the best frontlines in the league withAymie Osborne, JamieVenema and Lindsay Brown.

Some of that optimismhas faded due to the loss ofOsborne to a knee injurythat has finished her season.Two other problems loomover the team: lack of num-bers and lack of game time.The Pirates are very thinwith just seven players. Attimes they could not put fiveplayers on the floor, forcingthem to cancel all Decembergames. Their first actionwas a make-up game winover Pasco sophomores lastweek.

The Pirates went to theKlickitat Jamboree at theend of November to play two10 minutes games with justsix players. In the first game,Amanda McBride bangedher head on the floor andsustained a concussion, put-ting her out for two weeks.In the second game, Osbornehad a freak injury to herknee and the team had to fin-ish against Goldendale withjust four players. The injurywas aggravated in practice,becoming a torn ACL which

was operated on last month.That might be enough for

lesser teams to throw in thetowel, but Coach Emily

Barnhart is made of differ-ent stuff and she even seespositives in the Decemberlayoff.

“We are extremely heart-broken over it [Osborne’sinjury] especially it beingher senior year,” saidBarnhart.” But, with gamescancelled, the Pirates aregetting plenty of hours ofpractice. “We are probablygoing to be more preparedfor our first game than anyother team in the league thisyear, as far as knowing ourplays,” said Barnhart. Thecoach grants that the play-ing time would have beenvaluable and although theyhave scrimmaged with theboys, it isn’t the same as realgame situations and dealingwith pressure defenses.

Venema and Brown arestill a force in the middle

that will pose a challenge toopponents. They are used tomixing it up inside and bothplayers run the floor likedeer.

In Venema, Bickleton hasa returning all-opponentsteam player who really cameinto her own last year. She isa strong rebounder at 5-10and can hold her own insideand put points on the boardfor the Pirates. Brown is justa freshman, but plays like aseasoned player. She standsover 5-10 and is also a shoot-er. The size, speed and ballhandling skills of Venemaand Brown also make ittough for teams to success-fully press the Pirates.

Osborne’s senior leader-ship will be sorely missed.Her spot on the floor will be


Rarely can a high schoolcoach develop a team overtwo or three years, like aprofessional team in arebuilding phase, but that ispretty much the way it is atBickleton. This season is thesecond year for the boys’team, trying to build arounda core group of players whohave been together for sever-al years. And with two slotsto State every other year,their timing couldn’t be bet-ter.

Two years ago the Piratescouldn’t win a game with ateam dependent upon eager,but out gunned freshmen.Jerry Roberts took over thecoaching job last year andbegan to build a teamaround that group of play-ers, then in their sophomoreyear. He began to teach hisapproach and measure hissuccess with the individualimprovement of those play-ers. The team missed theDistrict playoffs with a 1-9record, but their 4-14 overallrecord gave reason for opti-mism.

This year, the team is stillgelling and still young. Thecore unit of four players arenow juniors and they arejoined by four freshmen and

a sophomore transfer stu-dent. Roberts understandsthat progress will be judgedby the team’s win-lossrecord, so they have a goal ofmaking it into the Districtplayoffs this year, butRoberts’ eye is still on thelong term goal of helpingeach player reach theirpotential. They are probablyanother year from contend-ing which puts them righton schedule for a shot at oneof two berths for Regionalsin 2013. They have all thepieces they need with floorleadership from PeterClinton, outside shootingfrom Justin Roberts, sizeinside with Taylor Brownand ball hawking and medi-um range shooting fromMitchell Powers.

The transfer student, JayJay Bates, has limited organ-ized team experience, butclearly has the tools to be agood player. At 6-0 he is agood size to play guard atBickleton and has the ball-handling skills that allowhim to drive the lane andmake things happen aroundthe hoop. With Bates in theline-up, the Pirates have athree guard look to theiroffense.

Clinton doesn’t do a lot ofshooting, playing the play-maker role, but he can put

points on the board and isvery secure with the ball. Heis a smart player who hashis head in the game, provid-ing on-floor leadership. Theteam suffered a setbackwhen Clinton went downwith a concussion againstTLG last week. His return tothe line-up is uncertain.

Roberts is a guard and anall-opponents team selectionlast year. He is also goodwith the ball and is theteam’s main outside scoringthreat. He can play the pointor shooting guard positionand is a quick defender.

Powers is a swing playerwho has a knack for gettingopen with the ball and scor-ing. Powers will take thethree, but is more of a threaton the perimeter of the keyand one of the team’s betterrebounders.

At 6-4, Brown has the sizeto lead the team in rebound-ing and is a serious scoringthreat inside. Brown’sdefense will be key this yearwith a lot of height onSunnyside Christian andLyle-Wishram teams.

The four freshmen willsee plenty of floor time andcomprise the next wave inthe rebuilding program.First off the bench at postwill be Michael Underwoodat 6-2. Expect Underwood to

give a boost to Bickleton’srebounding, something thatCoach Roberts has set as agoal for this year.

Brandon Berk is first offthe bench at guard. He andthe other freshmen, JoeCardenas and Clint Straderare talented players who willplay larger roles in theoffense as the season devel-ops.

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who are known for theircross-country and trackskills.

After missing the Districtplayoffs the past two years,Bickleton should competefor a top four finish this yearagainst the tough boys’ divi-sion of the GreaterColumbia Gorge League. Ayear of progress is the goalwith the payoff year comingin 2013.


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BICKLETON HIGH GIRLS: The Bickleton High Lady Pirates are (front l-r) Amanda McBride,Annie Lindsley; (back l-r) assistant coach Selena Naught, managerYu Zhu, Sydnie O’Banion,Lindsay Brown, Jamie Venema, Aymie Osborne, Haley Goodnight, manager Sierra Luther,and head coach Emily Barnhart. Not pictured, Heather Goodnight.

BICKLETON HIGH BOYS: The 2011-12 Pirates are (l-r) assistant coach Tom Whitmore,manager Christian Mittring, Brandon Berk, Clint Strader, Justin Roberts, Mitchell Powers,Taylor Brown, Michael Underwood, Jay Jay Bates, Peter Clinton, Joe Cardenas, managerTroy Roberts, and head coach Jerry Roberts.

Pirates rebuilding, shooting for Districts in 2012

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Jamie Venema, an All-opponents team mem-ber in 2011.

taken by sophomore SyndieO’Banion. O’Banion is stilllearning the game, but she isstrong and can fill Osborne’srebounding and defensiveduties at the forward posi-tion.McBride is back, teaming

at guard with an experi-enced junior in HaleyGoodnight. McBride is asmart player who can han-dle the ball well and has agood outside shot if givenroom to shoot. She couldbecome the Pirates’ mainthreat from beyond the arc.With Osborne out, the teamwill look for more scoringfrom Goodnight at the pointguard position. She is asavvy player who can handlethe ball and plays tenaciousdefense.The only other players

available are AnnieLindsley, an inexperiencedsophomore and eighth-grad-er, Heather Goodnight,

called up when Osbornewent down. Lindsley is on afast track for learning thegame with such a thinbench. She will be an experi-enced player by playoff time.Barnhart is comfortablewith Lindsley’s progress andwill count on her to giveplayers a rest.Heather Goodnight has

the size and courage to holdher own on the inside andprovide help on the boards.She shows more confidence

than most eighth gradersplaying on a varsity team.The Pirates expect to

make it to the District play-offs again this year. If theycan keep players healthy andout of foul trouble, they haveas good of a chance as any-one to capture another tripto State. Barnhart says, “thecapability of these girls topull together as a solid fiveon the court at all times,” iswhat it takes to win.


Klickitat’s boys’ lost fiveplayers to graduation andfour more from last year’sroster are not out for bas-ketball or not in school thisyear, leaving a skeleton of ateam for the Vandals. Afterdiscussing the possibility ofhaving to forfeit leaguegames with the otherschools in the league, theVandals opted to play a jun-ior varsity schedule thisyear to avoid causing otherschools to have holes intheir schedules. It will be atough two years for theKlickitat faithful, as thingsdon’t look much better nextyear when they lose theirpost player and have fewnew players expected.Coach Phillip Watlamet

and the six players on theteam plan to go out and playtheir best and win some ballgames. They have threeexperienced players to leadthe way with Cole Walters,Tim Lambert and MitchellSanchey. More important,says Watlamet is that theplayers want to competeand “have a real good atti-tude.”Walters is a 6-3 senior

who is good enough to be anAll-opponents team con-tender if he were playingvarsity ball. He will be theclass of the field in juniorvarsity games, likely lead-ing the team and the gamein scoring and rebounding.Lambert is a 5-11 player

who shoots well around thekey and is strong enough toget his share of rebounds

on both ends of the court.Watlamet describesLambert as “an incredibleathlete with a nice shot.”Sanchey, like Lambert is

just a sophomore. He gainedsome experienced last yearand is the team’s best ballhandler and plays the pointguard position.The remaining players

are freshmen. MasonKnowland is 6-2 and givesthe Vandals domination ofthe boards when pairedwith Walters. NathanErickson and LoganFoix lack experience, butwill get plenty of playingtime that should preparethem for next year.Watlamet likes Erickson’sshot and will look to devel-op him as a three-pointthreat.Develop is the key word

for this team. The youngplayers on the team will bethe core of the team thatreturns Klickitat to a varsi-ty schedule in the future.They lose only Walters tograduation.In the meantime, the

team also has to learn toplay under control and stayin the game. “Cole under-stands that he needs to bein the game,” saysWatlamet, stressing that theteam can’t afford to haveplayers foul out. “We arepracticing man defensiveprinciples every day, but wehave to play zone in thegames to keep players freshand out of foul trouble.”The boys have had a slow

start to the season as not allopponents have junior var-sity teams. They lost 64-50

in their only Decemberaction. Walters led all scor-ers with 31 points.


There is no doubt that los-ing Samantha Brewer hurtsthe Klickitat Vandals’ scor-ing power, but it just mightmake them a better team.For the past three years, theteam has been able to look to

Brewer to score. Accordingto Coach Traci Kessinger,“the girls would just look tothrow the ball to Sam andhope she scores. Now, all thegirls know they have to pro-duce or we won’t win, andthey like that.”Lara Parsons is emerging

as the post player and scor-

ing leader. The team haswaited for Parsons toemerge from the shadows ofBrewer and become a domi-nant inside player. At 5-7,Parsons isn’t going to be thebiggest player on the court,but she is a good athlete andwith the maturity of a jun-ior, she knows how to play

inside and is putting pointson the board.It’s a young group this

year with sophomoresKyAnn and KeAndraKessinger at the guard posi-tions. Both are capable ballhandlers and each can playthe point position. KeAndrais a cool head looking to setup the offense. She led theteamwith 11 points for a winover Helix last month.Although KyAnn is just 5-

2, she knows her way aroundthe hoop and has been one ofthe team’s leading rebound-ers. She handles the ball welland is a key defender.At the forward positions

are Cassie Clack and NicolleOldfield. Clack is a strongplayer who plays taller thanher listed 5-5. She can becounted on to score fromaround the key. Oldfield, afreshman, plays like a moreexperienced player and hasthe size and instinct to be aneffective inside scorer.Coming off the bench are

sophomores CandiceTempleton and Kelci Mackand freshman TinaLambert. Templeton is talland can provide Parsonswith inside help. Lambertand Mack areguard/forward type playerswho will be called upon togive the perimeter players arest.Coach Kessinger likes

that all of the girls are shoot-

ing. The one aspect thatneeds improvement is ballcontrol. Turnovers havebeen a big problem for theVandals in four of their loss-es this year. The other areawhere Kessinger wants tosee improve is shot selec-tion. “That will come withconfidence. Right now theyare taking bad shots,” saysKessinger.Kessinger wants her

Vandals to be a runningteam with a pressuredefense. “We are in good con-dition,” says Kessinger.“The girls can do it if theycommit to it.” But, with just

eight players on the team, apressure defense might behard to maintain. TLG wonthe first meeting at Klickitat50-41 after the Vandals hadfour players foul out.Sunnyside Christian is

the class of the league thisyear and will certainly claimone of the two Regional play-off spots. Competition iswide open for the secondberth. Bickleton is dealingwith injuries while TLG,Lyle-Wishram and YakamaTribal are teams in transi-tion. Klickitat hopes experi-ence and continuity will givethe Vandals an edge.


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THE KLICKITAT HIGH BOYS: The 2010-11 Vandals are (l-r) Tim Lambert, Logan Foix,Mitchel Sanchey, Cole Walters, Nathen Erickson and Mason Knowland.

KLICKITAT HIGH GIRLS: The 2010-11 Lady Vandals are (front l-r) KeAndra Kessinger,KyAnn Kessinger, Kelsi Mack; (back row l-r) Tina Lambert, Ashley Meeks, Cassie Clack, LaraParsons and Nicolle Oldfield. Not pictured, Candice Templeton.

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Vandals and Pirates will battle inside, as above atthe Klickitat Jamboree where Ashley Meeks,Sydnie O’Banion (with the ball), Lara Parsons,Cassie Clack and Jamie Venema fought it out inthe key.


Lyle/Wishram’s varsitygirls basketball team open-ed the 2011-12 season onDec. 2 with a 49-38 victoryover King's Way in Van-cou-ver.

The Cougars, however,weren't been able to repli-cate that winning formulain their seven remainingnon-conference games inDecember, though, as newCougars Coach Rick Know-les pointed out, they werein a number of close con-tests that a more experi-enced, cohesive team proba-bly would have won.

"We're getting there. I cansee the improvement,"Knowles said of the Cou-gars learning to work andplay together as a team."Our biggest problem hasbeen that we tend to go flatat some point in each game,fall behind, and we aren'table to recover. So, we'restill working on put-tingtogether a full game andbuilding toward being amore consistent, balancedteam. But I don't thinkwe're that far away."

The Cougars in 2011-12are a young team that startsone senior, three sopho-mores and a freshman.

Taylor Freemantle, one oftwo seniors on the Cougarsthis year, is in her fourthvarsity campaign and thirdas a starter. At 5-foot-6, she'sone of the Cougars' betterrebounders (she snatched acareer-best 24 rebounds in awin over TroutLake/Glenwood last sea-son) and outside shooters.

The sophomores are 6-foot-1 post Kirstin Hylton,and guards Mandy Solo-mon (5-4) and SuzanneMcConville (5-2).

Hylton is also a return-ing starter. She gives theCougars a big presence inthe paint on defense, underthe backboards, and in thepost-up game on offense.

McConville was a starterearly last season whoshowed a lot of promisebefore injuring a knee andmissing the rest of the year.In terms of her develop-ment, Coach Knowlesnoted, his point guard is

still a freshman.The true freshman in

Lyle/Wishram’s lineup is 5-10 post Jocelyn Knowles,who made her varsity de-but as an eighth-grader inthe second half of last sea-son. In her first game as avarsity player, Knowles --the granddaughter of theCougars’ head coach --scored 13 points. She tallieda personal-best 19 in this

season’s opening tilt atKing’s Way.

Five-eight junior postplayer Dakota Doolin, sen-ior guard Shelby Casey (5-2)and sophomore guardMarissah Lacock (5-4) areamong the first players offthe bench for Coach Know-les, who's carrying as manyas 12 players on the varsityroster while also running a

junior varsity programwith the help of his assis-tant coach, Lori Smith.

Also in the mix for varsi-ty playing time this yearare 5-4 junior MercedesBeck; a pair of 5-9 sopho-more posts, Lyndsay Smithand Julie Weddle,; 5-5sophomore Krisha Guinn,and 5-3 freshman guardAyla Wells.


Lyle/Wishram's varsityboys basketball team tip-ped off its second GreaterColumbia 1B League seasonon Jan. 6 against YakamaTribal School. It was thefirst of eight league gamesfor the 2011-12 Cougars,whose previous campaignended with a first-roundloss to Cusick in theWIAA's Class 1B Boys

Hardwood Classic.In preparation for anoth-

er run at a state tourna-ment berth, Cougars CoachScott Myers' fifth Lyle/-Wishram team went 5-3 innon-league action duringDecember with wins overStevenson, Maupin, Ore.,and Dufur, Ore., and twoagainst the Hood River Val-ley junior varsity. Two ofits losses were to King'sWay of Vancouver, by three

points, and Arlington, Ore.,by 24 points. The Cougarswere scheduled to resumeplay on Jan. 4 with a non-league return game in Lyleversus the 6-2 King's WayKnights.

In league play Lyle/-Wishram will play Bickle-ton, Trout Lake/Glenwood,Sunnyside Christian andYakama Tribal two timeseach in the lead-up to theYakima Valley District

Tournament in February.(Klickitat did not field avarsity boys basketballteam this season due to in-sufficient numbers.) Myerssaid no team in the GCBcan match up five-on-fivewith Sunnyside Christianfor four quarters, but thegames among the otherfour members should becompetitive. However, withjust one berth in this year'sstate championship field,the Yakima Valley Districtwon't be as well-represent-ed as it has been in recentyears.

The odds-on favorite towin the league and the dis-trict is defending statechampion Sunnyside Chris-tian.

Despite the long oddsagainst his -- or any GCB --team upsetting SunnysideChristian at district, Myerssaid Cougars fans can bettheir team will give every-thing it has to put itself inposition to play for the dis-trict title and a return tripto the state tournament.

"We're pretty dee p,"Myers said of his 11-playervarsity roster, "and we'vegot a lot of experience.Most of these guys got a lotof playing time last year,and that's going to make adifference for us in a lot of

league games this year."The Cougars are led by

sophomore Jonathan Von-Ahn, a second-year playerwho has emerged as L/W'sprimary scoring threat.The 6-foot-2 forward scoreda career-high 21 points in awin over Maupin and had15 in the lopsided loss to Ar-lington. A junior, 6-4 ex-change student RicardoManzanedo of Spain, hasreached double figurestwice and posted a double-double of 10 points and 10rebounds against Dufur'sRangers. Both VonAhn andManzanedo will be countedon for double-digit scoring,plus rebounding and interi-o r d e f e n s e , i nLyle/Wishram's remaininggames.

Myers also hopes 6-5 se-nior Ricky Titcomb returnsto the form that made himan impact player for theCougars in the second halfof last season. If that hap-pens, Lyle/-Wishram mightbe able to hold its own in-side against SunnysideChristian's usually formi-dable front line. JuniorDustin Mutch (5-11), sopho-more John Ste-phens (5-11)and freshman Gabe Mon-t o y a ( 5 - 1 1 ) b a c k u pLyle/Wishram's front-courtstarters.

Nonetheless, Myers saidthe play of the Cougars'back-court will be the keyin any head-to-head match-ups with the Knights of thelower valley realm.

Lyle/Wishram starts ju-niors Darnell Luke andRicky Wolff at guard, but 5-10 junior Justin Mills offthe bench gets equal play-ing time. In the role ofsixth man, Mills providesan outside scoring optionwith 3-point range. His highgame so far was a career-best 20 points in theCougars' season-openingdefeat at King's Way.

Myers is fond of the 5-7Luke, who is coming alongas a penetrating pointguard who can score orpass, while the 5-11 Wolff isa lunch-bucket-type playerwho looks to get his pointsoff putbacks and steals.Jacob Armour, a 5-10 junior,and 5-9 freshman CodyC a r s e r o u n d o u tLyle/Wishram's back-courtrotation.

"We play pretty good de-fense, and we rebound theball pretty well," Myerssaid. "But we need to getmore guys involved in theoffense, be more balanced,so that’s something towatch for in our upcominggames."

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LYLE/WISHRAM GIRLS: The Cougars in 2011-12 are (front, l-r) Suzanne Mc-Conville, Marissah Lacock, Mandy Solomon, Shelby Casey, Krisha Guinn, TaylorFreemantle, Ayla Wells; (back) Cougars Coach Rick Knowles, Julie Weddle, Joc-elyn Knowles, Kirstin Hylton, Lyndsay Smith, Dakota Doolin and Asst. Coach LoriSmith. Not pictured: Mercedes Beck.

LYLE/WISHRAM BOYS: The Cougars in 2011-12 are (front, l-r) Justin Mills,Cody Carse, Jacob Armour, Darnell Luke; (back) Asst. Coach Chad Myers, Asst.Coach Mike Eiesland, Dustin Mutch, Jonathan VonAhn, Ricky Titcomb, RicardoManzanedo, Gabe Montoya, John Stephens and Cougars Coach Scott Myers.Not pictured: Ricky Wolff.

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It's difficult to not com-pare the 2011-12 TroutLake/Glenwood boys bas-ketball team to last season'sedition. Last year theMustang Eagles had 6-foot,7-inch Jacob Wells patrol-ling the paint. This seasonthey don't.

Wells transferred to Hor-izon Christian School ofHood River, Ore., whichgave Trout Lake/Glenwoodtwo of its six non-leaguelosses in December.

The Mustang Eagles gotoff to a good start undernew TLG Coach MorganColburn after losing theiropener to Horizon. Theyswept a two-game weekendseries with Lake Quinaultin Trout Lake, and pickedup a third win againstVancouver Christian.

But against better compe-tition from around theregion -- Stevenson, King'sWay of Vancouver andSherman County, Ore. --TLG went 0-4 and finishedthe opening month of theseason at 3-6. Those games,though, were just warm-ups for the real action thatgot under way last week-end.

The Mustang Eaglesbegan Greater Columbia 1BLeague play Jan. 6 at homeagainst Bickleton. In all,TLG will play eight leaguegames between Jan. 6 andFeb. 4 -- two each againstBickleton, Sunny-sideChristian, Lyle/Wish-ramand Yakama Tribal.(Klickitat is playing a jun-ior varsity schedule thisseason.)

Colburn, who is return-

ing to the bench after a five-year hiatus, expects theMustang Eagles to be com-petitive in league playbecause of their speed andathleticism.

TLG starts 5-10 seniorLucas King at point guardand 5-8 junior Jackson Na-kae on the wing. Its front-line starters are 6-4 seniorSlater Modrich, 5-10 juniorAlex King and 6-0 juniorHunter English.

Key reserves for the Mus-tang Eagles this season are6-0 freshman forward/-guard Wesley Johnston, 6-3junior post Gunnar Hooden-pyl, 6-1 junior post J.D. Yar-nell, 5-8 sophomore guardDevin Van Laar and 5-9freshman guard Jacob Cox.

Lucas King, an all-stateplayer in 2B/1B soccer thepast two years, is a dyna-moon the court. His hustle forloose balls on defense helpsTLG earn a lot of extra pos-sessions, and his ability topenetrate opposing defens-es with the dribble gives theteam a way to attack thebasket, draw in the defense,and create op-enings forother scorers.

The left-handed Nakae isone of the team's primary 3-point shooters who looks tospot up on the arc for kick-outs from a driving King orfrom the post. Nakae -- who

has scored 15 points on twooccasions this season and14 once -- can be streaky, soopposing defenses have toplay him close attentionwhen he’s floating aroundthe peri-meter on offense.

Modrich emerged lastseason as a complementaryplayer to Wells on offenseand defense. This season hehas had to take on a biggerrole at both ends of thecourt and is managing tohold his own most nights.He had 23 points and ninerebounds in TLG’s 18-pointvictory over VancouverChristian.

Alex King, like his broth-er, has a nose for the ball,which helps him sniff outsteals and second-chancescoring opportunities. InTLG’s first win of the 2011-12 campaign, King collected15 points and six steals ver-sus Lake Quinault.

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TROUT LAKE/GLENWOOD GIRLS: The Mustang Eagles in 2011-12 are (front, l-r)Beyyine Ozkan, Sammi Thompson, Lauren Hoodenpyl, Chelsea Cox, AshleySampson, Dakota Jones; (middle) Candace Ballard, Ashley Powell, Grace Anton,Maggie Baker, Caitlin Scott, Abbie Vermeire; (back) Mustang Eagles Coach SteveAllaway, Jojo Maul, Sierra Jessup, Valerie Vogt, Tamaira Huffsmith, McKinzie Wurtz,Gabrielle Van Laar, Mattie Mersereau and Assistant Coach Tana Slawson.

TROUT LAKE/GLENWOOD BOYS: The Mustang Eagles in 2011-12 are (front, l-r)Jaylin Throop, Jo Jo Throop, Devin Van Laar, Lucas King, Hunter English, JacksonNakae, Micah Melkonian, Jacob Cox; (back) Asst.Coach Ryan Webb, Alex King, GunnarHoodenpyl, Slater Modrich, J.D.Yarnell, Wesley Johnston, Skylar Sanders, Ben Vollema,ballboy Micah Colburn and TLG Coach Morgan Colburn. Not pictured: Curtis Ford.

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The sign posted on thegym door for Trout Lake/-Glenwood girls basketballpractices could read UnderConstruction.

According to first-yearTLG Coach Steve Allaway,the 2011-12 Mustang Eaglesare "a work in progress."TLG went 4-4 in non-confer-ence games in Decem-ber.The Mustang Eagles gottheir wins against LakeQuinault, Horizon Christ-ian of Hood River, Vancou-ver Christian and King'sWay of Vancouver butclosed out 2011 on a two-game losing streak.

This month TLG is turn-ing its attention to GreaterColumbia 1B League af-fairs, with its eye towardputting together a strongclosing run.

All told the MustangEagles will play 10 leaguegames -- two each againstBickleton, Klickitat, Lyle/-Wishram, Sunnyside Chris-tian School and YakamaTribal School of Toppenish-- in the lead-up to the Yak-ima Valley District Tourn-ament in February. And,with two state tournamentberths at issue this season,the intra-league competi-tion for those coveted tick-ets to Spokane should beespecially spirited.

Allaway took TLG's De-cember growing pains instride. With a varsity thatincludes four freshmen andtwo sophomores among its12 players, the MustangEagles are a young teamthat's still learning to playtogether in a system new toall of them. (Overall, 19

girls are playing basketballfor TLG this season, includ-ing one senior, LaurenHoodenpyl, and six fresh-men.)

"This is a rebuildingyear," Allaway said. "We'rereally young. I could see us,in certain games this year,actually starting four fresh-men. It's a learning processfor all the girls. The roles ofour returning players havechanged. This year they'regoing to have to step it upand do more. Otherwise,we're going to fail."

For TLG's Jan. 6 leagueopener against Bickleton,Allaway suggested he maygo with a starting lineup ofjunior guard Dakota Jones,the team's only returningstarter; sophomore guardCaitlin Scott, and threefreshmen, forward AshleySampson, post TamairaHuffsmith and guard Bey-yine Ozkan.

In reserve the MustangEagles will be counting onHoodenpyl, junior forwardValerie Vogt, junior guardChelsea Cox, sophomoreguard Maggie Baker, fresh-man Abbie Vermeire andpost players Mattie Merser-eau and Sierra Jessup toplay solid minutes in reliefof the starters. And,because TLG plans to playan up-tempo transitionalstyle, there should be plen-ty of playing time to goaround.

"With our team we'regoing to have to pressurethe ball. We can't let oppo-nents set up in the half-court and run set plays,"Allaway noted. "We don'thave a go-to player this

year, so we have to score intransition, and when wedon't score in transition, wehave to have patience andbe able to eat clock in ourhalf-court sets."

Allaway's goal is to have abalanced lineup -- with fourplayers scoring at least 10points a game in leagueplay -- that gives TLG achance to win every time ittakes the court.

"In December we wonsome games and we lostsome games," Allaway said,"but I didn't care if we did-n't win a game until Jan-uary because our main goalin non-league games was toget experience. Our goalnow is to be good at what wedo by February. And if weget good by February, wewill have the chance toadvance in the playoffsbecause there are twoberths to state this year."

Allaway considers Sun-nyside Christian -- TLG'sfourth opponent on its GCBschedule -- the favorite toclaim the league crown andthe No. 1 seed in nextmonth's district champi-onship. Nonetheless, he'slooking forward to the re-turn game at home later inthe season.

"As a first-year coach,one of my goals is to makeSunnyside Christian ner-vous about coming to TroutLake," Allaway said, "andmy personal goal for theprogram is to make Sun-nyside Christian not wantto come to Trout Lake orGlenwood."


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Bickleton’s Peter Clinton goes left vs. Mitchell Sanchey of Klickitat.

Trout Lake/Glenwood’s Gunnar Hoodenpyl (left) and Alex King box out for a rebound.

Columbia’s Rebecca Campos draws a foul driving against Goldendale.

Goldendale’s Jacob Denney puts up a shot against Lyle/Wishram.

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