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.
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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.
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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.

 

 

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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.

 

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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.

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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.”

 

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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.
 
 
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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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Camas High Boys Swimming Beats Kelso at First Meet

KELSO — The Camas High School Boys Swim team won its first Dual meet of the new season — Camas 123, Kelso 54.

“This is an excellent start to the season,” said Head Coach, Mike Bemis. “There were some really good swims by our team. We had some state qualifying times by several swimmers. We’re really happy.”

The 200-medley relay team of Kasey Calwell, Jake Yraceburu, Lucas Ulmer and John Utas qualified for state with a 1:43.08 time. Calwell qualified for state in the 200 IM with a time of 2:02.84.

“Kasey missed the 100 free state cut by by one-tenth of a second,” said Bemis. “He’s really close to what he did at state last season, and look how early it is.”

Ulmer Cap
Lucas Ulmer was part of the 200-medly relay team that qualified
for a state time at the Kelso meet on Tuesday.

 

Camas collected 21 district qualifying times at the meet, which included Ulmer and Utas, who were within one second of their state qualifying times in the 100 free. Yraceburu missed the state qualifying time in the 100 breaststroke by .2 of a second.

Other highlights included Seth Albert in the 500 free, who dropped 30 seconds off his performance from a year ago. 
 
“Seth’s performance really highlights how well the team did,” said Bemis.
 
Max Urbanek earned best times in the 200 free and 100 fly.
 
The next meet is this Thursday at David Douglas High School in Portland.
 
Laps
 

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“Lacamas Little League” Name in its Waning Days

 

The Lacamas Little League Board voted Monday night at Forest Home Park to officially change its name to Camas Little League. The name change will be gradually phased in during the 2013 season, and will include a signage and branding overhaul.

Several members of the board have been researching the effects and cost of the change, based on input from league parents and community members, as well as confusion about the name “Lacamas” from other leagues.

Lacamas Little League Board members felt it was time to identify the league specifically with the city of Camas. Prior to the name change to Lacamas a dozen years ago, the league was formerly called Camas-Washougal Little League. During that change, most ball players living in Washougal became members of what is now called East County Little League.

The league had been preparing to make new All-Star uniform purchases for the 2013 season, and felt this was a good time to make the transition.

 

All-Star High Five
Jeff Mansur coached the Lacamas Little League
AAA All-Star team last summer.

 

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Camas Girls Varsity Basketball Beats Mountain View

 Camas Girls Varsity Basketball (1-1) thumped Mountain View (3-2) Monday night, 59-46, in Vancouver, as the visiting Papermakers kept pressure on the Thunder, and filled the night with many timely shots.

The Papermakers led by three, 26-33, at halftime and by six entering the fourth quarter, and simply pulled away in the final minutes of the game.

Papermaker Brenna Khaw scored an impressive 27 points, while Lauren Neff scored 11; Sierra Brown, 9; McKenna Jackson, 4; Rachel Rice, 4; and Kyla Sumpter, 4.

For Mountain View, Carly Holboke scored 22 and Bailey Lindsley scored 12.

 

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Papermaker Brenna Khaw scored 27 points for Camas Monday night.

Boys Hoops

The Camas Boys didn’t fare as well against the Thunder, who erased a four-point half-time deficit. Mountain View outscored Camas 17-5 in the third quarter. Trevor Jasinsky made 11 points for the Papermakers.
Girls Basketball
Camas Senior Lauren Neff prepares to make a free throw.
Neff made 11 points for the Papermakers Monday night.
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Camas Boys Basketball Falls to Prairie 62-56 in OT

Arch-rivals Camas and Prairie battled it out Friday night in an intense game hosted by the Papermakers. It was a close game throughout and after four quarters the game was 48-48 forcing a 4-minute overtime. Several three pointers were made in OT but Prairie got the best of Camas and pulled ahead fairly quickly. Neither team led by more than six points during the intense game.

Prairie’s James Phillips led all scorers with 26 points.

Camas (1-1) earned 17 points from Brandon Nguyen and 14 from Trevor Jasinsky.

CAMAS — Trent Johnson 7; Tyler Hallad 5; Brandon Nguyen 17; Jordan Lenard 6; Grayson Anderson 1; Trevor Jasinsky 14, and Nick Lopes 6.

PRAIRIE — JaMariay McDonald 2; Reece Burnett 7; Mason Pack 5; James Phillips 26; Preston Brooks 12; Spencer Jordan 4; Maro Mendez 3; Ronnie McPherson 0.

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Trevor Jasinsky makes a free throw Friday night against
Prairie High School.

 

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