Girls Basketball
UMATILLA 51, ONTARIO 16 — Jayde Escamilla scored 15 points, and the Vikings ran their win streak to two games with a win over the 4A Tigers at the Columbia River Clash at Umatilla High School.
Umatilla (3-2) cruised to a 15-2 lead after the first quarter, and extended its lead to 29-7 at the half.
The points continued to pile up in the second half as the Vikings went on a 22-11 run.
Peytan Fullerton added 14 points for Umatilla, while Ruby Chavez added 13.
Carla Lopez-Navarrete led the Tigers (0-7) with eight points.
Boys Basketball
UMATILLA 65, ONTARIO 48 — The Vikings used a 23-9 run in the third quarter to pull away from the Tigers for a win at the Columbia River Clash at Umatilla High School.
Umatilla led 28-26 at the half, then got nine points from David Garcia and eight from Jayden Perches in the third for a 51-35 lead it would not give up.
Garcia led the Vikings (3-2) with 22 points and three assists, while Mike McGee had 20 points, five rebounds and three steals, and Perches 12 points and eight rebounds. Linkin Zamudio added seven rebounds, while Benny Soto had four steals.
Ryder Larson led the Tigers (3-4) with 21 points, while Eddie Ramos added 10.
Girls Wrestling
CULVER — The Heppner girls held their own against some of the biggest schools in the state, crowning three champions Saturday, Dec. 13, at the Culver Invitational.
“They did great,” Heppner coach Zac Brown said. “We were able to sit in the championship corner for three matches in a row, which was huge for our girls. We took five girls and were beating teams that had 20 girls. Super proud of them.”
Mazama won the team title with 214 points, with Sutherlin second (160.5). The Mustangs were ninth with 102 points. Irrigon was 13th (83), Umatilla 16th (59), Echo/Stanfield 19th (27), and Weston-McEwen 21st (18).
Mazama was the only other team with three champions, while Summit and Culver each had two.
The Mustangs’ string of wins started at 131-139 as Journey Cavan-Harris pinned Kyrra Griggs of Mazama in 2:45.
Cavan Harris pinned all four of her opponents over the weekend.
Sarah Estes followed at 135-142, where she needed 1:01 to pin MaryBeth Nusom or Regis in the championship match. Estes had a bye in the first round, then pinned her next two opponents to reach the finals.
Emillia Cavan-Harris wrapped up the championship parade, needing just 1 minute to pin Umatilla’s Brooklynn Sanchez at 141-147. Cavan-Harris pinned all four of her opponents at the tournament.
Also for Heppner, Sarah Munkers placed fourth in the 167-194 division. She won four of her six matches.
Irrigon crowned one champion in Roxy Solis of Irrigon, who pinned Madelyn Hendricks of Regis in 46 seconds for the 117-124 title. After a bye in the first round, Solis pinned her next three opponents.
Also for the Knights, Cinthia Madrigal placed fourth (193-235), Lilah Abercrombie was sixth (193-235), Ashley Villanueva was seventh (158-173), and Lexi Flores (126-128) and Raygan Nelson (167-194) were eighth.
Echo/Stanfield got a second-place finish from Braelyn Perry at 107-115. Perry had a technical, a decision and a pin to reach the championship match, where she was pinned by Hadee Keegan of Culver in 53 seconds.
Also for the Cougars, Jacee Greene was seven at 105-110, winning three of her five matches.
In addition to Brooklynn Sanchez’s second-place finish, Rylee Sanchez was second at 148-161. She won her first three matches by fall, then lost a 9-7 decision to Culver’s Shelby Bunting in the finals.
Ali Claustro also finished sixth at 117-124.
Weston-McEwen saw Laila Jones place seventh (193-235), while Bella Karas (141-147) and Georgianne Morris (158-173) were eighth.
Boys Wrestling
CULVER INVITATIONAL — Owen Guerra and Landon McMahon each won a title for Heppner, which finished 10th in a field of 29 teams.
“I was super happy for Owen,” Heppner coach Zac Brown said. “Before, when he would get in those high-profile matches, he’d come up a point or two short. Landon did great too. He weighed in at 226 and was wrestling up a weight. He gives up about 40 pounds.”
Guerra pinned his first four opponents, with none of the matches going past the first round. In the 190-pound title bout, he pinned Aldred Brackenbury in 4:56
Wrestling at 285, McMahon had a bye in the first round, then pinned his next four opponents in the first round. In the finals, he pinned Hayden Belcher of Rainier in 2:27.
“They are team leaders in the wrestling room, in the school and at wrestling tournaments,” Brown said of Guerra and McMahon. “They have had that camaraderie on the offensive line, defense line and from wrestling together. Even my kids who didn’t place, wrestled really well. Once we got done Friday, we had seven of our nine guys make it to the second day.”
No other Mustangs placed, but most earned points for their team.
Irrigon’s Preston Slawson placed second at 138, getting pinned by Grant Union’s Taylor Parson’s in the championship match. Lee Issel placed fifth at 132 for the Knights, while Brody Parrish was sixth at 138, and Dylan Harper-Kestler was sixth at 190.
For Stanfield, Talan Pedro finished sixth at 113.
Culver, a 2A powerhouse, won the team title with 297 points, with Crater a distant second with 182.5. Heppner was 10th (105), Irrigon 13th (100.5), Stanford 24th (30), Echo 26th (20), Weston-McEwen 27th (9) and Umatilla 28th (8).