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By Ben McCarty
News staff writer
June 6, 2009
The
third Hood River Valley High School Hall of Fame class includes
quite a few history makers from Hood River’s past.
The team
inductees are the 1989 Hood River Valley state champion football
team, and the 1962 HRV girls tennis team — headlined by two-time
state winning doubles pair Vicki Jubitz Jackson and JoAnn Samuel
Johnson.
The
individuals being honored are former
HRV athletic director and baseball
coach Glenn Elliott, 1994 3A basketball player of the year Mike
Samdlin, longtime HRVHS and Wy’east HS softball and ski coach
coach Roy Nellermoe; three-time state champion skier Tom Ewald
and Tri-Valley league softball player of the year Michelle
Trujillo Higa.
Jubitz
and Samuel beat fellow HRHS doubles team Pam Heinrich and Kristi
Jernstedt in the 1962 state finals, giving Hood River its first
state team title. “It just seems like another lifetime,” Jackson
said. She hopes to be reunited with Samuel at the awards banquet
in September, along with Heinrich and coach Katie Joseph Rudfelt*.
In 1989,
the Eagle football team rolled through Tri-Valley play, going
undefeated. In the state playoffs they made it the championship
game at Civic Stadium against St. Helens.
With 11
seconds left in the game and trailing by a point, coach Ed Drew
sent Jared Swyers onto the field for a field goal. Swyers
drilled and the Eagles were state champions. The team featured
six all-state players, including first teamers Mitch Sanders,
Kerry McGonigal, Les Perkins and Mike Harpe. Elliott left a
lasting legacy at HRV, serving as athletic director from
1983-2002.
He was
the school’s baseball coach until 1993, winning three state
titles along the way. He was named Mount Hood Conference and
state athletic director of the year in 2002 and recently
received the Jim Rotramel lifetime service award from the Oregon
Athletic Directors Association. He is retiring as principal at
North Marion High School in Aurora at the end of the year.
In
addition to being state 3A player of the year in 1994, Samdlin
was also the Tri-Valley player of the year on an HRVHS team that
won the Tri-Valley title and finished fourth in state. In
addition to her tri-Valley honors, Trujillo was a first-team
all-state honoree and went on to play at Oregon State, earning
second-team Pac-10 honors as a first baseman in the early 1990s.
The
awards presentation will be held during HRV’s second home
football game at the year, against Barlow, Sept. 25. On Sept. 26
there will be a golf tournament at Hood River Golf Course and a
banquet at WAAAM that evening.
*This story has been corrected from the print edition, which
incorrectly identified the girls tennis coach.
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