Sub-Districts: Two Camas Swimmers Excel

PROPSTRA AQUATIC CENTER, VANCOUVER – Young Camas swimmers Ben Teames and Shicon Wen made waves Wednesday at Sub-Districts by earning qualifying times for next week’s District Championship meet.

The Sub-Districts provide lesser-experienced or new swimmers a final opportunity to earn qualifying times in events for which they compete. In addition to Teames and Wen (1:30.09 for 100 Backstroke), several Hockinson swimmers also met District cuts. Hockinson practices with Camas, and those swimmers include: Nathan Carrsow (2:15.90 for 200 Free); Bryce Croucher (29.19 for 50 Free); Davis Escola (27.83 for 50 Free); Tommy Harshaw (27.90 for 50 Free); Kennan Aho (1:21.75 for 100 Backstroke) and Landen Gullberg (1:04.92 for 100 Free).

 

Ben Teames
Camas freshman, Ben Teames, finishes the 100 Free at Wednesday’s
Sub-Districts. He surprised himself by moving onto Districts.

 

Shicon Wen
Shicon Wen, on the starting block, also moves onto Districts after
getting a better-then-expected time at Sub-Districts.

Teames surprised himself by winning his heat in the 100 Free with a time of 1:11.92. Moments earlier he competed in the 200 IM and didn’t make the cut.

After the 100 Free he wasn’t sure his time was good enough to qualify so he cleaned up, got dressed and was later notified of his achievement.

“I didn’t think it could be done,” said Teames, who just started swimming competitively this season. “It’s a great feeling! I feel much better and I’m so much stronger than I was just a couple of months ago. I’m happy I stuck with it.”

It was a major change in attitude for the 15-year-old freshman.

In November, at one of the team practices, he lamented he even signed up for the swim team, as he watched more experienced and seasoned swimmers fly past him.

“It’s so hard,” he said back then. “It’s so much harder than it looks, and I’m so slow.”

Teames signed up for swimming to condition for track, but didn’t realize what he got himself into. The team practices twice daily through the winter months.

Leslie Dahlen, the team’s assistant coach, was there Wednesday to see Teames’ victory.

“It was the most enlightening event,” she said. “The kids really came through, and Ben really was the surprise of the night. He’s worked really hard and it all came together tonight.”

Leslie is really proud of Tommy Harshaw, as well, who dropped five seconds off his 100 Free time – down to 1:05.71.

As for Teames, he’s pleased he entered the world of swimming.

“It’s made me stronger, more competitive and I’m better conditioned,” he said. “I’m glad I did this.”

Teames and his teammates compete next Thursday at the District Championship. Several of the CHS swimmers have already qualified to compete at State the following week.

 

Hopkinson
Tommy Harshow, of Hockinson (team practices with Camas), center,
shaved five seconds off his 100 Free time.
Swim meet
Landen Gullberg, of Hockinson, moves onto
Districts after qualifying in the 100 Free. At right
is TJ Meade, of Mark Morris.

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Calwell Makes Three State Cuts in One Swim Meet

Although the Camas High School swim team lost their final meet of the regular season to Skyview on Saturday there was one big silver lining –- and that would be CHS swimmer, Kasey Calwell, who made three state qualifying times at the same meet.
Camas went into their last meet undefeated so the loss was stinging, but the team was beset by illness and had less than half their numbers.

Kasey Calwell
Kasey Calwell completes a race at a recent meet.

Calwell, a tall sophomore, who also swims for Columbia River Swim Team, was ecstatic about his performance. He earned state cuts in three events: the 500m free, 100m free and the 100m breaststroke. For the 500m free he clocked in at 4:57.60; his time for the 100m free, which was his portion of a relay, was 49.98; and for the 100m breaststroke, he timed in at 1:03.27.  Pretty amazing.

Kasey Calwell swims the breastroke.

“I felt really good about the times,” said Calwell. “I’ve never earned three state cuts in one meet. I felt strong and ready to go.”

The times earn him spots at the State meet in February. Calwell will be competing in the 200 IM, the 100 breastroke, and two relays. He’s pretty excited. And Calwell is also pleased with the CHS swim team overall.

“A lot of people have improved on the team,” he said. “I attribute that to experience and hard work.”

Calwell will next compete at District Championships, held on February 6, at Propstra Pool.

 

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Camas Wrestling Honors Seniors at Last Home Match

Camas High School Wrestling hosted Union in a tough match Wednesday night as Camas seniors were recognized for their achievements.
Varsity fell 59-12, but two seniors, Andrew Duffy and Vincente Huber, finished their home dual career with pins against Union. Junior Varsity won their match 30-28, and the girls team shut Union out 12-0.
Heach Coach Glen Hartman honored six CHS seniors for their high school achievements in the sport of wrestling. The seniors are: Andrew Duffy, Anthony Grable, Vincente Huber, Taryn Lommasson, Austin Miller, and Dakota Safford.

Talon Edmiston
Camas Sophomore Talon Edmiston, left, in period 2 of his match.

 

Camas Wrestling seniors were recognized for their achievements.
Each senior was announced separately and appeared alongside their parents.
Although Varsity had a tough night, the competition was intense.
Junior Varsity began the night at 5:30 and Varsity started at 7 pm.
The Varsity competitors were: Max Grimes (106 weight class), Skyler Munds (120 weight class), Tye Lommasson (126 weight class), Austin Miller (132 wt.), Andrew Duffy (138 wt.), Noah Shannon (145 wt.), Vicente Huber (182 wt.), Talon Edmiston (195 wt.) and Wes Gilge (285 wt.)
Wrestling
Wednesday was an intense competition.

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Meet a Win for Papermaker Swimmers

The Camas High School Boys Swim Team won their final home meet of the season Wednesday night outpacing Mountain View, as well as Hockinson, Evergreen, Heritage and Woodland Schools. The team finished the dual meet season undefeated beating Union 203-80, Mountain View 188-87, Evergreen 221-35, and Heritage 229-16. Camas now has qualified for all three relays for State plus inviduals Kasey Calwell, Lucas Ulmer and John Utas.

The CHS Papermakers got the night off to a good start with a win in the 200m Medley Relay. The four-man team consisted of Kasey Calwell, Lucas Ulmer, Jake Yraceburu and Xiaguang Yan, and earned a time of 1:55.99. They were followed by Hockinson and the other Camas relay team of Jeffery Lee, Trent Harimoto, Joey Wunderlich and Nick Langer.

Lucas
Camas Sophomore Lucas Ulmer had a good meet Wednesday.

 

Seth Albert won the 200m Freestyle with a time of 2:09. Camas swimmer Max Urbanek placed second with a time of 2:12.77.

Sophomore Kasey Calwell won the 200m Individual Medley, earning a time of 2:15.94. Jon Rodewald, of Hockinson, placed second.

Camas Co-Captain and Senior, JakeYraceburu, won the 50m Freestyle with a time of 25.93. Dylan Osborne, of Hockinson, placed second.

Camas senior, Trent Harimoto, won the 100m Butterfly with a time of 1:07.97. Lucas Ulmer placed a very close second.

In the 400m Freestyle, Papermaker Max Urbanek, a sophomore, handily won the event with a time of 4:37.93. Urbanek really enjoys the longer distance races. The Papermakers won the 200m Freestyle Relay. The team consisted of Seth Albert, Xiaguang Yan, Trent Harimoto, and Jake Yraceburu.

 

Toole
Jackson Toole, left, and Ben Teames during
a relay at Wednesday’s meet.
Ulmer also won the 100m Backstroke, clocking in at 1:03.31, and Yraceburu also won the 100m Breaststroke. The Papermaker 400m Freestyle Relay team also took first place in that event. The team consisted of Albert, Calwell, Yan and Ulmer. The boys have their last regular season meet, which is an invitational at Mark Morris, a week from Saturday. To learn more, go to camas.wednet.edu

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Struggle: Camas Hoops Has Challenges

Girls Varsity

The much-anticipated basketball games between rivals Camas High School and Union turned out heavily in the Titans’ favor last Friday, as the girls dominated the second half to earn the Class 4A Greater St. Helens League victory.

Union limited Camas to four goals in the second half, outscoring the Papermakers 38-16. Jessica Chatman finished with 18 points for the Titans (10-3, 3-0). Tuileisu Anderson had 14 points and 16 rebounds and Kendra Preuninger made four 3-pointers en route to her 14 points. Tessa Vanderpool had nine points and five assists. For Camas (6-6, 1-2), which led 15-11 after the first quarter, Rachel Rice was the top scorer with 11 points.

Paige Jackson
Paige Jackson looks to pass.
KJ
Kathryn Johnson, left, tried to get around Union.

 

KJ Ponders
Kathryn Johnson thinks about the coach’s talking points.

 

Rachel Rice
Rachel Rice passes the ball.

Boys Varsity Struggle, As Well

The Titans set an early tone against the Papermakers as their pressure defense ran past the Papermakers in a Class 4A Greater St. Helens League game. Union (9-3, 3-0) led 17-4 at the end of the first quarter and didn’t look back.
Hallead
Several members of the Camas Boys Varsity Basketball team.

Skillful Davis led a balanced Union offense with 15 points. Micah Paulson and Kyle Mercer scored 10 points apiece. Isaiah Robinson blocked four shots, and Micah Merfield and Riley Hawken each had a team-high six rebounds.

Tyler Hallead’s nine points topped the scoring for Camas (3-9, 1-2).
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Camas Wins Meet; Lucas Ulmer Meets State Cuts

VANCOUVER — The Camas High School Boys Swim Team continued their winning season on Tuesday, beating Mark Morris, 120-49 and RA Long, 135-24.

Camas sophomore Lucas Ulmer qualified his 100 butterfly & 100 backstroke for the state meet. His times were 55.11 in the fly and 56.61 in the 100 back. Other first place finishers were Seth Albert in the 200 free; Kasey Calwell in the 200 IM & 100 Breast; and Max Urbanek in the 500 free.

“I feel really good about what I did,” said Ulmer.

 

 

Ulmer
Camas sophomore, Lucas Ulmer, made
state meet qualifying times in two events
on Tuesday night at Mark Morris.

 

 

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Camas Girls Varsity Hoops Handily Beats Evergreen

The Camas High School Girls Varsity Basketball team beat Evergreen at home Tuesday, 53-35, in a game dominated by fouls and aggressive play.

Each of the Lady Papermakers wrote “CB” on their upper arms to honor Christina Bonzaelli, who passed away this week after a long battle with cancer. Christina is the mother of the girl’s teammate, Rachel Bonazelli.

Leading the way in scoring was Sierra Brown with 16.  JV and C teams also had victories.

 

Hoops
Camas player Brenna Khaw in one of many scuffles between Camas
and Evergreen on Tuesday night.

 

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Gasser: Oregon’s Winningest Baseball Coach Instructs

WASHOUGAL — Local Little League coaches and players had the opportunity on Sunday to learn baseball techniques from coach and trainer, Dave Gasser. Members of Camas and East County Little Leagues spent threes hours learning about good base running, fielding, batting stances and more from Gasser, who is the All-time winningest coach in Oregon high school baseball history. He has won the most state championships, and was recently inducted into the Oregon Baseball Hall of Fame.

He went over coaching techniques designed to help the beginner, as well as the more advanced baseball players.

“There is a big difference between awareness and an instantaneous skillful reaction,” he said.

Gasser Baseball
Baseball coach and trainer Dave Gasser instructs local Little League
coaches and players at the Washougal High School gym.


He worked with about 10 Little League players who were on-hand to follow through on instructions and techniques to improve hitting, fielding and, and base running.

“It was a really cool event,” said Jake Blair, a participant. “I learned a lot.”

To learn more about Dave, go to his website, www.coachgasserbaseball.com/coaching tips or you can join his Facebook site at facebook.com/davegasser.

The Camas Little League season 2013 season registration begins next Saturday.

Humble
Dante Humble works on his batting stance at
Dave Gasser’s Sunday clinic.





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Camas High School Sports Round Up

Both the Camas High School Boys Basketball and Wrestling teams competed Thursday night. This is a sports round up of how events happened.

Boys Basketball: Varsity defeated Skyview 54-49. Trent Johnson was the leader with 13 points. The Boys’ Junior Varsity Basketball team last night lost a tough one in overtime to Skyview.  The final score was Skyview 60, Camas 59.  Offensively the team was led by Josh Ryan with 13 points.  Other contributors were McKinley Lefore with 10 points, Jordan Anderson with 9 points, Cole Zarcone with 8 points, Andre Delosrios and Tanner Halcumb each chip in with 6 points.

The Freshman Boys’ Hoops team put together a fine comeback victory over Skyview last night to open the 4A league season. The score was 60–57.  Trailing by as many as 9 in the second half, the young Papermakers turned to their defense to turn around the score.  Loose balls, steals, and deflections were created by Blake Roy, Alex McOmie, Quentin Lebeau, Brock Fielding, among others.  Ethan Unger poured in 17 points, and Cameron Vega hit 2 clutch free throws in the final seconds in addition to his buzzer beating 3 earlier in the game.  Over winter break the boys finished their nonleague season with a 10 – 0 record and are now 11 – 0 overall.

 

Boys Basketball
The 2012 Camas High School Varsity Basketball team. They beat Skyview
Thursday night, 54-49.

 

Boys Wrestling:  The wrestling team fought hard last night against a tough Evergreen squad.  Seniors Austin Miller, Dakota Safford, and Vicente Huber all earned big wins.  Huber and sophomore Talon Edmiston both bumped up one weight class and earned victories to put the team ahead 33-30 with two matches to go.  It ended up not being quite enough as the team lost by a final score of 42-33.  The JV tied Evergreen 15-15, and the lone member of the girls’ wrestling team in action last night, Erin Tulley, lost in the second period.  The wrestlers are back in action tomorrow in Kelso and Chehalis.  
 
Thanks to Marcia Johnson, of the Camas High School Athletic Department, who provided much of this information.

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Evergreen Storm Competes at Jr. Nationals Competition

Albuquerque, NM –Two divisions (Midget and Youth) of the Evergreen Storm Premier Running Team competed Saturday at the USA Track & Field (USATF) Jr. National Champions Saturday, and ran way with some impressive results.

The nation’s young runners, from all regions, competed in this Cross Country meet to see who was the best of the best. Evergreen’s Youth team (13-14 year-olds) placed 12thoverall out of 17 teams, while the Midget team (11 and 12 year-olds) placed 10thout of 22 teams.

Individually, Emily Wilson, 12, who attends Skyridge Middle School, competed in the 3000m and placed 13thout of 263 runners, with a time of 11 minutes, 33 seconds.  She earned the distinction of being an “All-American.” Impressive. On the Youth team, Marley LeFore placed 32ndoverall out of 260 competitors.

“I felt good afterward, “ said Wilson. “I’m proud of myself for how far I’ve come. It was a good experience.”

 

NM
Emily Wilson, of Camas, earned 13th place out of 263 competitors in the 3000m
race at the USA Track & Field Jr. National Championships.

 

 
Track
Emily Wilson, 12, center, placed 13th in the nation in her age division
in the 3000m race.
 
 
Storm
Members of the Evergreen Storm Youth Team in New Mexico.

Wilson has only been running competitively for 15 months and has played soccer for years.

“It was cool to see who was the best of the best,” Wilson added.

LeFore also had a great time.

“It was an amazing experience because there were so many girls that have the same talent as me,” LeFore said. “And I got to test my talents to see how good I was. From this experience I learned that I should not underestimate myself and to worry about my race and not how others are running.”

LeFore added: “Our team ranked high because we all sacrificed and worked hard! All of the girls are like my second family!”

Evergreen Storm team member, Lauren Mahnke, said, “It was a great weekend and a great experience to run with girls from all over the country!”

The experience has inspired her to keep running. She is already sad there will be no Storm practice on Monday.

“The altitude was tough, but we ran through it,” Mahnke added.

The team practices at the Union High School track, and is coached by Mike McKinney.

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