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HRV
hosts Bend Friday at 7:30 p.m.
By Ben McCarty
News staff writer
May 14, 2008
The Hood River Valley boys lacrosse team locked up its playoff
spot with a win earlier this week. That left them with just a
little mop-up work to do with Cleveland on Thursday.
The Eagles hammered away at an overwhelmed Cleveland defense to
win a 19-1 rout in the regular season finale for a team that is
currently ranked No. 8 in the state and heads to the playoffs as
the No. 3 seed in the Columbia League.
It also gave the HRV senior group of Anthony Walden, Mark Troxel,
Jon Love, Cameron Kiyokawa, Peter Debbaut, Justin Tolentino,
Henry Hunt, Eli Camero, Ted Ostrye, Max Watson, Kyle Donahue,
Paul Wanzek, Will Kline and Alex Jubitz a nice parting gift in
their final regular season game.
“This senior group that won tonight really stepped into the
varsity team their senior year and proved themselves then,”
Jackson said. “This is a group of kids that really love
lacrosse.”
The Eagles wasted no time in dominating Cleveland, which
finished the season with one win. The Eagles jumped to an 8-0
lead after the first quarter and then scored five more by
halftime to put the game away. The seven goals that HRV got in
the second half were icing on the cake for Jackson.
“It was nice to get an easy one,” he said. “It gave us a chance
to move the ball around on offense.
Jackson has been impressed with the play of the team’s defense
down the stretch, and thinks it will serve the team well in the
playoffs.
“We’ve made some improvements on defense that should really
help,” he said. “We’ve gotten back to the basics.”
The Eagles will host the Bend Lava Bears in the first round of
the state playoffs at 7 p.m on Friday. The Lava Bears are the
No. 2 seed from the High Desert League with a 5-8 overall
record.
If they win, the Eagles will play at Tigard, the No. 1 team from
the North Valley League, on Tuesday.
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