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At left, the third-and-fourth graders’ team of Junior Jacks. At right, Alexis Flores, a Junior Jack from the fifth-and-sixth graders’ team, runs past Othello players in the season finale of the 10th year of the Grid Kids program in Quincy.

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BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA qvprsports@gmail.com Forget the incessant rain and the biting breeze. The mud on the jerseys and the smiles on the faces said it all: This was one heck of a way to spend a Saturday.

Third- and fourth-graders first, fifth- and sixth-graders later, boys and girls from Quincy matched wits and brawn with teams from Othello, in the finale of Grid Kids “Junior Jacks” team’s 10th

season.

The numbers may be down, but the children’s enthusiasm has not diminished, even after losing both ends of the doubleheader to the Tigers from Adams County.

“Everything,” answered Anthony Averill, a member of the younger team, when asked what’s so fun about playing football.

Tackling, hitting, juking, scoring touchdowns, chasing the quarterback, all got votes from the children.

“If you play flag football, there’s no tackling, and you don’t get hurt,” said Jackson Yeates, a member of the older team. “What’s the fun in that?”

Even, and this is unusual for children their ages, they approved of playing with girls, of which the younger team has two.

“They can play with us,” said Brian Evans, a member of the older team. “It’s America.”

Added teammate J.J. Mun-

nings, “Girls are better than us at almost every sport. And we could have really good running backs.”

Others weren’t as thrilled with the idea.

“I’m Josiah Schaapman and we would say ‘no girls allowed,’” if a girl wanted to play, he said.

Players on both teams want to someday play for the big Jacks, the ones that play on Friday nights. Some of them have relatives on the team, like Gavin Sahli and Tanner

Wallace For now, they mix gridiron action with boo-boo breaks and goofing around on the sidelines.

“It’s pretty entertaining,” said Ben Reyes, a parent of one of the younger team’s players. “They are still trying to learn what football is all about.”

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Mallory Roduner (10) plays the ball against Wapato on Senior Night for the Lady Jacks. The team finished a tough season that saw them go winless in league, but remained optimistic about the future.

Lady Jacks lose 3-0 to Wapato

BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA qvprsports@gmail.com The Lady Jacks put on a good first half against Wapato on Senior Night, before yielding 3-0.

The team showed improvement, but struggled to put away chances against the Wolves.

Coach Erik Nelson said he was proud of his girls.

“They always come to learn and they listen really well, and as a coach you love

that,” he said.

The team started strong in the first half, but struggled to get off the starting blocks after halftime, allowing Wapato to widen a 1-0 lead.

“What we are really going to work on for next year is to try to carry that momentum from halftime on,” Nelson said. “Really try to not let down. It’s not that they are tired or anything like that, but the other team comes out with a little more intensity, so we are going to have to match

their intensity for the whole entire game.”

Next year’s team will hopefully have the help of a budding junior-high program that in time might infuse young talent to a squad that this year loses its leading scorer, Alysha Donovan and two more seniors.

The future still looks bright.

“We hope that this next couple of groups of girls are really going to make a difference,” he said, “and have the See ‘Soccer’ on page 16.

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“It toughens ‘em up a little bit,” he said. “They are still getting used to the whole contact thing.”

Many of these players got to mud up their jerseys after playing flag football, so the pads, the helmets and the tackles are new to them. As are the hits.

“It’s exciting,” said Lisa Reyes, the mom, when asked what she felt when her son hit and got hit.

“I got three boys,” she added. “I’m used to it.”

At this age, chemistry is important on a team, and most of the players say that as fun as football is, it doesn’t beat making friends, even in a mudpit.

Especially in a mudpit.

“It’s fun to be able to come out and roll around with your friends,” said Aidan Bews, quarterback for the older team. “It doesn’t matter if you win or lose.”

Teammate Caden Cameron agreed, “It doesn’t get cold when you’re having fun.”

Then, there’s Brody Wallace, with his somewhat grim view of a friendless team.

“If we weren’t friends, we would probably start fights in the middle of the game,” he said. “Probably throw mud at each other.”

Don’t tell the players this, but they are also learning quite a bit in between oneway trips to the mud.

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“You can see the difference in him,” said Roy Martinez, dad of Sebastian Martinez, a first-year football player.

“He’s more outgoing now, motivated. Not afraid to challenge himself. That’s a good thing.”

Added Lyria Martinez, Sebastian’s stepmom, “Practices are at 5:30 (p.m.) and he’s just asking every 10 minutes, ‘What time is it? What time is it?’”

Gunnar Webb is a teammate of Martinez’ in the fifth-andsixth-graders’ team and also a gridiron first-timer.

He said “It’s harder than I thought it would be. I didn’t think we would get all muddy and cut and stuff from tackling.”

Asked if he would play again during the program’s 11th season, he said yes.

Webb is one of six first-timers in the contact-football part of the program.

One of those first-timers is the son of coach Bart Yeates.

“I didn’t want him playing at a younger age, because I didn’t think it benefited him,” the older Yeates said, adding that he enjoyed coaching his son, but that he held him from contact football for a while.

“I don’t think playing tackle football at earlier ages helps you in any way,” said Bart, who played and whose dad played. Still, the advantages now are undeniable, he added.

“He has more friends, and he has more grit,” he said.

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Quincy man wins debut as pro MMA fighter

BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA qvprsports@gmail.com It’s a symptom familiar to many hailing from Eastern Washington but competing on the west side.

“In all my fights,” Quincy mixed martial artist Edson Penado says, “I’m always the underdog.”

All six of his fights have been on the west side of the state, including the last one, in Kingston, near Bremerton.

“Coming from a small town, they don’t even know where Quincy is,” he said.

“And this fight, I sold 35 tickets, and I had 40.”

So in front of almost three dozen of his fans, Penado had his seventh fight, his first as a pro.

Having fought six times as an amateur and having turned 29 on Oct. 4, he says he felt the time is right to turn pro.

Not only did he win all his amateur fights, but the peak age of an MMA fighter is between 29 and 35, he says.

The fight in Kingston was another win for the soft-spoken Penado, who works for the irrigation district in George, and who says he feels grateful for the support of friends and coaches, particularly after the 3 1/2 hour drive (and ferry ride) to Kingston.

“My opponent who was from there had hardly anybody there,” he said.

Watching the video of his

first pro fight, Penado says he can hear his wife and coach screaming, but he could not hear them that September night.

“Once I get in there, I don’t hear nothing,” he said. “I’m just focused on the opponent.”

Now that the opponent has come and gone, Penado’s focus is on landing another fight.

Penado’s next date still hangs in the air, but he says he would like to fight at an MMA event called World Series of Fighting happening in December at the Xfinity Arena in Everett.

The goal is to reach bigger and better events, like the world-famous UFC, Ultimate Fighting Championships.

The popularity of UFC is no mystery to Penado, who has seen his brand of sport overtake boxing as the fight game of choice of American fans.

“It’s more popular because there’s more action,” he said “Instead of just standing there, there’s more involvement: You gotta use your hands, you gotta use your legs. Wrestling, judo, karate all that comes into play when you gotta win a fight.”

The multitude of skills first attracted Penado to MMA, back in what he calls his “big boy” days.

“I weighed 245 pounds,” said Penado, who normally fights at the 155-lb. category nowadays. “Training and all

that got me down to 180 and I saw that I was pretty good at it during training, and I decided to try my first fight.”

Penado’s first amateur fight was at 170 lbs. The victory gave him a confidence boost that only grew with subsequent amateur wins.

The son of Salvadoran immigrants, he puts himself through a tyrannical weight-training regime before every fight, sometimes just drinking water, in increasingly smaller amounts.

“I sacrifice a lot,” he said.

“When I am training, I get off work at 4, I go to boxing at 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. and then 7-9 p.m. I go to Brazilian jiu jitsu.

And then 5 in the morning I go to strength-and-conditioning at a Crossfit gym. Three workouts a day.”

That doesn’t include the workouts on Saturday and Sunday. Or all the food that he denies himself. Like a good Salvadoran, he misses his pupusas.

“I can’t eat them no more,” he said. “I can’t eat bread, either.”

The list goes on: Tacos, burritos, tortillas, hamburgers.

All forbidden. Instead, there’s brown rice, shrimp, fish, lean meats and chicken.

All for a fight that he doesn’t even know if it will happen yet.

“It’s frustrating,” he said. “I had to wait for this (last) fight since November. And I want

to get back in there as soon as possible.”

In the meantime, he just scored his first big sponsor, Evolve Fitness, out of Moses Lake.

“They made me a banner, made me some shirts, bought me some shorts,” Penado says. “It’s helped me out a

lot.”

He also had high praise for Marcelo De La Rosa and his gym, where Penado trains, Rhett Hill, his strength and contitioning coach, and the Seda family, his jiu jitsu coaches.

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From ‘MMA’ on page 11 girls, a 10-year-old and a 2-year-old, Penado says his oldest daughter has seen him fight in person.

And although Dad won that one, she will not be seen at an MMA event any time soon.

“She was kind of in shock,” he said. “Seeing all that and me on the ground, she was in shock and was real quiet after the fight.”

From then on, Penado’s firstborn has become a devoted fan, but from a distance, writing good-luck notes.

“My wife says I’m just a big teddy bear,” says Penado “A soft, soft guy. But once I’m in there, it’s different.”.

Indeed, MMA allows almost everything, except eye gouging or hits to the groin.

If the opponent is on the floor, Penado can kick him, just not in the head.

Violence notwithstanding, Penado has become good friends with one of his onetime opponents. Penado beat him in his third amateur fight, and since then, he has been helping Penado schedule more fights.

Being a professional MMA athlete feels like an achievement, Penado says.. He told himself years ago he would be a pro fighter and that he

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2016 would be undefeated. So far, so good.

“Thank God I haven’t been hurt or haven’t been cut or nothing,” he said. “I protect myself pretty good when I’m in there.”

Not good enough for Mom, who watched her son in the ring for the first three fights before throwing in the towel.

In MMA, the referee can only step in when he sees a fighter not protecting himself and just getting pummeled. If it looks like an arm is about to break, ref is going to let it break, Penado says, unless a fighter pats himself or the mat, the MMA’s version of saying ‘uncle.’

In the ring, Penado is a counterpuncher, who waits for his opponent to make the first move.

Good enough for Dad, who didn’t like it at first, but who has yet to miss one of his undefeated martial artist son’s fights.

“It’s kind of risky and my coaches don’t like it, they want me to go, go, go, go,” he said, describing his philosophy as respect before the fight and respect after the fight, but no respect during.

“I’m not going to show him any respect, because he’s not going to, either,” he said.

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Soccer squad keeps the faith despite a tough 2016 season

BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA qvprsports@gmail.com Rarely does a team leave a field after losing by six goals feeling like things are looking up.

Oct. 11 was one such day.

The Quincy Lady Jacks girls’ soccer team lost to Toppenish 7-1, but the loss carried several pluses for the embattled green-and-gold.

For starters, the goal by leading scorer Alysha Donovan was the first Quincy goal since the second game of the 2016 schedule, a 4-3 victory over Chelan.

What followed the comeback win over the Goats in Chelan was a string of shutout losses, which snapped thanks to Donovan’s latest tally against Toppenish.

“We keep showing improvement week to week,” said head coach Eric Nelson, the field boss of a team composed mostly of freshmen and sophomores. “We keep focusing on the fundamentals, and just getting stronger in what we do in practice.”

The team has made some changes to its game planning, upping the enthusiasm and intensity to aspects of the game that sometimes go overlooked like warmups and lineup announcements.

All in an effort to let the other team know that the Lady Jacks remain confident, Nelson said.

“I think the psychological aspect of that can make a difference in a game, to show a team that, ‘Hey, we are not afraid to step out on the field and play you.’”

Throughout the season, the team has lacked substitutes, which has allowed teams to take advantage late in the game of the Quincy players’ tired legs, Nelson said. Some girls have been inconsistent with their practices, and that has limited their playing time.

“Not having any subs, we are out there for a lot of the game having to suck it up and stick it out,” Nelson said.

“And the girls have not complained the whole entire season.”

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“Giselle Hernandez had taken a couple of knocks in a couple of games, and Gladys was quick to step in,” Nelson said. “She just showed us something that we liked. She has a strong attitude and is a solid player.”

The team’s fitness has improved, but the sturdiest part of the team is the attitude, which has remained superb despite the losses.

“These girls, they never say ‘I can’t,’” Nelson said.

“We tell them to run and they run, we tell them to play defense and they play defense.

It doesn’t matter what we tell them, they pull up their shirtsleeves and they play.”

Next up for the Lady Jacks is a game Saturday against Ellensburg on the road.

“We just gotta keep pushing ahead and keep trying to get all our stuff right on the field,” Nelson said. “And hopefully by the end of the season we will feel like we are competitive.”

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The Quincy Jacks’ football team lost a home game to a strong Ellensburg squad 56-0 Oct. 7.

The Jacks’ loss was only the first time this season that Quincy loses two in a row and the first time this season that they are shut out at home.

The loss dropped the Jacks’ league record to 2-3 and their overall mark to 2-4. The record ties the Jacks with Toppenish for sixth place.

The win lifted Ellensburg’s record to 5-0 in league, 5-1 overall and it ties Othello’s mark atop the standings of teh Central Washington Athletic Conference.

Next up for the Jacks is an away game against the Selah Vikings.

Selah’s record is 3-2 in league and 3-3- overall, good enough for fourth place in the CWAC. Kickoff is 7 p.m.

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SPORTS BRIEFS (CONT’D) Volleyball fights hard in three-set loss to Bulldogs The Lady Jacks’ volleyball team battled the Ellensburg Bulldogs hard in two of the three sets of a three-set loss last week.

“We played hard the first and third set,” Natalie Thomsen said. “The second one, we tried our best, but when they got their first couple of big runs we kind of lost ourselves and began thinking not to lose instead of play to win. Once you get scared, there’s no coming back from that.”

Stacia Sarty said the team stopped playing as a team in the second set, but in the first and third, Quincy came close to taking the wins.

“We tried our hardest tonight,” Sarty said.

The loss left the players thinking they can hang with teams like Ellensburg, Thomsen said. Ellensburg is tied for first place in the CWAC as of Oct. 12.

The second-set loss was “nothing Ellensburg did,” coach Dean Pratt said. “It was just us, breaking down. Our passing was nonexistent in the second set.”

Quincy then lost 3-2 to Prosser on the road. Next up is a game at Ephrata Thursday and a home game against Wapato Tuesday.

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BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA sports@qvpr.com And just like that, it was over.

The Columbia Basin River Dogs fell one game short of repeating as Babe Ruth 16-18-year-old World Series champions, losing to the Alabama Raw Dogs 9-2 in the finals.

The loss was both heartbreaking and encouraging for the River Dogs, who will host the World Series again in 2017.

“It sucks,” said Hunter Boyd, a pitcher who won two games for the River Dogs during the series, including the semifinal game against Pine Forge (Penn.)

“Obviously, we put more work into it, into this field, into getting it set up than they had,” Boyd said. “But they came, they played the best game, they made the least errors and that’s how you win right there.”

The loss to Alabama was Boyd’s last game as a River Dog. Losing a tourney his team helped organize was disappointing, he said.

“We tried everything we could,” Moses Lake’s Boyd said. “We just couldn’t make the plays when needed and they capitalized on us.”

On the other hand, Nick Lopez, who homered in the semifinal game against Pine Forge, said that knowing what losing in the championship game felt like might help the team next year.

“We just need to continue working hard, and I know next year we will come back

strong,” Lopez said, adding that the errors made the difference in the championship game. The River Dogs had five errors in the title game.

The team may have been a bit too nervous in the final, which led to the errors, Lopez said.

“I got an error on a bobble,” he said. “I was kind of thinking about it too much.”

Boyd agreed.

“The severity of the game, championship game,” he said.

“Everyone’s really tight, playing tight, and a routine ground ball is like the end of the world to them. That’s what we need to work on.”

Disappointment aside, it was a memorable string of games for the Ephrata-based squad.

The run to the championship game began with a 3-1 mark in the American Division of the series, capped by a 13-5 victory over Tucson, (Ariz.)

Tucson jumped to a 5-0 lead in the top of the second inning, to which the River Dogs responded with four runs in the bottom of the inning on a lone hit, a single by Joe Taylor. The River Dogs scored the other runs on errors, balks and hit batters.

The River Dogs scored four times in the bottom of the third, and five times in the bottom of the fourth.

The win earned them first place and a bye in the quarterfinals.

In the semifinals, the River Dogs relied once again on Hunter Boyd, who went the distance on the mound, giving up one run. They also had

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Columbia Basin River Dogs’ infielder Nick Lopez of Quincy, swings at a pitch during the Babe Ruth World Series in Ephrata last weekend. Lopez and the rest of the River Dogs fell in the title game to the Alabama Raw Dogs, 9-2. some strong bats, with Justin DeHoog and Lopez unleashing back-to-back homers and Cooper Larson hitting a triple.

The River Dogs took a 4-1 lead into the fourth inning.

Brewster product Joe Taylor walked with the bases loaded to add one more run, and Larson drove in two more with a double.

The River Dogs would score once more to finish the game 9-1.

The next day, the hosts, playing as the away team, fell into a hole early and the Alabama team did not let them out, jumping to an early lead

en route to a 9-2 win for the folks from the Heart of Dixie.

Kaeden Murphy, another Quincy product, went two and one-third innings on the hill, surrendering five runs. Leavenworth’s Blake Vandel replaced him and yielded three runs to a strong Alabama lineup in the third inning.

With the crowd expecting the River Dogs to put on one more rally, they strung together three singles in the top of the fourth inning.

The third single, by Glen Gosse, scored Zach Askin from third. The next batter, DeHoog, got plunked on the

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ribs and loaded the bases with no outs.

Larson plated another run with a one-out single, but the run was called back after the ball hit a baserunner.

In the fifth inning, outfielder Zach Askin drove in Joe Taylor from third on a liner to left field.

Quincy’s Lopez pitched the fifth, surrendering one last run.

“I want to say ‘‘we should have been the champions,’ but they just outplayed us that game, and I think they deserve it a little more than us right now.”

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Annual VB tournament is senior project for QHS student

BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA sports@qvpr.com Anahi Sanchez, a senior at Quincy High School, wants you to go in for the kill.

And the hit and the set and the serve and whatever else you find at a volleyball tournament.

Sanchez, 18, has adopted as her senior project the annual Rally in the Valley volleyball tourney that will occur next month during Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day. In her mind’s eye, the tournament is a success, with plenty of four-person teams gathering at Quincy High School for a day of matches.

She will be the first one to tell you, though, that to get from her vision to the reality, there’s plenty of work left to be done.

So far three teams have signed up, with the deadline set for Sept 5. Registration is $30 per team. All monies go toward the volleyball program at Quincy Junior High School, Sanchez said, in particular, new uniforms.

Players will receive a free t-shirt when they register for the tourney, she added.

The tournament is open for people ages 13 and up, she said, and the teams will be paired up as close in age as possible for the length of the tournament.

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senior project, which means that she’s not only promoting it, but running it, setting it up and looking for sponsors and donors for it.

Donations may include money, or time, “which is just as valuable,” Sanchez said, mentioning volunteering as referees as a way to volunteer time.

“I think it’s a good event to get people interested in sports,” she said.

Sanchez added that not everyone wakes up in the morning deciding they will give volleyball a try, so the tournament might be a good way to ease into that decision, by watching some games, or volunteering their time at the tournament.

“Since it’s a community event, they can see it and decide if they want to try it,” she said.

Sanchez has seen the tournament but has never participated in it, although she played volleyball in middle school.

Sanchez said she hoped to see the community’s contribution and support to the tournament, and “that people would leave wanting to come back next year,” she added.

The tourney will occur after

the annual FCAD parade. The courts will be placed in what Sanchez termed their usual locations: outside the school, near the baseball diamond, across from the FCAD car show.

A Running Start student seeking to graduate from high school and get her pre-nursing degree at the same time (June 2017), Sanchez said running a tournament on top of her classload and job has been a tough act.

“It’s been harder than I thought,” she said. “I’m doing college and I am having to balance college classes with my job as a certified nurse’s assistant.”

Asked how she managed to balance it all, she answered “I honestly don’t know. Lots of time management and lots of hard work, I guess.”

People interested in participating in the Rally in the Valley volleyball tournament may contact Sanchez directly at the high school once school starts, or pick up a flier at Quincy High School or Quincy Junior High School.

In addition, Sanchez said, she may be contacted through the tournament’s Facebook page once it’s set up.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Younger River Dogs’ team battling to advance in World Series

After losing its first two games, a victory in the third contest has kept the Columbia Basin River Dogs’ 15U team alive in the Babe Ruth World Series.

The tournament, held in North Dakota, saw the team from the Columbia Basin -Pacific Northwest Regional championsdrop its first game 2-0 to a team from Tallahassee, Fla., the Southeast Regional champions, Aug. 14.

The next day, the River Dogs lost to a team from Atlantic Shore, N.J., the Mid-Atlantic Regional champions, 3-2.

Aug. 16, the River Dogs beat the North Dakota state champions from West Fargo, N.D., 9-1.

With their record 1-2 as of this writing, the River Dogs have one more game against the New England Regional Champions, a team from Lynn, Mass. Aug. 17., which is also 1-2.

If the River Dogs beat New England they would finish group play with a 2-2 record and a secured spot in quarterfinals as the third-best team in the five-team National Pool.

If New England wins, the Basin team will drop to 1-3 and head home.

If the River Dogs win, they will play Aug. 18 against the second-best team in the American Pool, which includes the Pacific Southwest, Midwest, Ohio Valley and Southwest regional champions, plus the hosts, Williston, N.D. The winner of that game plays the National Pool’s top team in the semis Aug. 19. Winner plays for the championship Aug. 20.

To follow the young River Dogs, go to www.baberuthleague. org or check the Quincy Valley Post-Register’s Facebook page for updates.

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play as well as instruct the athletes.

“We try to cheer them on because they like cheering,” Spindola said. “We are there as a guide.”

Sawyer is one of the adult helpers for the Quincy team.

Other coaches include Alex Bushy, MicKenzie Jimerson and Courtney Wilson.

Last week, the team faced Wenatchee (3-3 tie), Ephrata (0-0 tie) and Sunnyside (0-2 loss) during its lone home date of the season.

On Saturday, the field at Jaycee Stadium split into three smaller fields, and wherever the Jacks’ played, three Quincy High School cheerleaders appeared as well, joined by the school’s mascot, a brave young man named Hunter Harrington, who stood and paced and cheered in 90-degree weather while dressed head-to-toe in a jackrabbit

EPHRATA - Quincy battled hard and left the tying run at home plate before losing to the Ephrata Tigers 4-2 in the first round of districts May 4.

The Jacks loaded the bases in the top of the sixth and cut the Tigers’ lead in half, but could not get any closer.

Ephrata jumped to an early 3-0 lead, and Quincy struggled to get its offense in a groove until the sixth inning, when they loaded the bases with one out. The Tigers chased starting Quincy pitcher Douglas Tobin after he hit a batter to load the bases.

Kaeden Murphy replaced him and the first batter he faced laced a grounder to third. The throw home went wide, the Ephrata runner scored and the bases remained loaded. Murphy bounced back to strike out the next two batters and stop the bleeding.

Down 4-0, Quincy went to work, looking for base hits.

They got two on in the top of the fifth, but did not bring anyone home.

In the bottom of the fifth Murphy had a quick onetwo-three inning. The leadoff Quincy batter in the sixth, Murphy smacked a double, followed by a single that gave the Jacks reason to hope, in particular after the runners advanced on a fielder’s choice.

The next batter, Nick Lopez, displayed good plate discipline, earning a six-pitch walk after starting down 0-2.

The walk loaded the bases for the Jacks.

Joel Villafana swung into a fielder’s choice, but the throw went wide, scoring two runs, and moving Villafana to second.

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Unified Soccer, which joins able-bodied children with children and young adults with special needs, held a seven-team tourney in Quincy last week. Pictured above, Quincy’s Roberto Mireles takes the ball upfield against the Unified Soccer team from Ephrata.

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BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA sports@qvpr.com The fields are small, the smiles are big. The benefits are huge.

Decked in school colors, boys and girls from East Wenatchee, Wenatchee, Moses Lake, Ephrata, Sunnyside, Grandview and Quincy ignored the climbing temperature and played soccer for hours at Jaycee Stadium Saturday.

The teams gathered only a handful of players per side, some able-bodied, some with special needs, but all looking very much the part of a star of “the beautiful game.”

The combination of able-bodied players and players with special needs is what gives the sport its name. Not just soccer, but Unified Soccer, a branch of the Special Olympics. They play five dates in the spring, and much like the ‘other’ soccer, they

have in-week practices (twice a week) and they have regional and state tournaments.

Regionals are next week at Othello. The top three teams

job is to enable the athletes’ success. In other words, cocoach Teresa Sawyer said, make the athletes look good.

One of the partners, Adri-

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at Regionals move on to state.

The players with special needs are called athletes.

The able-bodied children are called partners. A partner can score a goal, but only if it’s unavoidable. Otherwise, their

ana Spindola called the experience “amazing.”

Spindola and Ana Mendoza are among the partners who also play for the Quincy High School girls’ soccer team in the fall. In the spring, they

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The partners’ job may be to make the athletes look good, but as far as making them feel good, the game takes care of that.

“This is Salma’s second year,” Sawyer said of athlete Salma Vazquez. “Last year she was afraid of the ball. She is all over the field this year.”

Soccer can be an unfair sport, but Sawyer says that doesn’t trouble the Quincy players. They don’t pout, complain or get down on themselves when things go awry on the field. They just want to play and have fun.

“It’s the quality of the kids that we have,” Sawyer said of the team’s good sportsmanship. “We didn’t do anything to make them that way.”

Jonathan Vandyke is 21 and the goalkeeper for the team.

He gave up two goals against Sunnyside, and a minute after surrendering the second goal, he was already high-fiving teammates.

THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016 Moreover, the athletes and the partners have become friends. The entire team went to prom together, Sawyer said, and they have bonded with other children at school as well, she added.

“Their parents tell us that their self-esteem just grows,” Sawyer said of the athletes.

Vandyke has played for two years. Bonnie, his mother, said her son is more confident and athletic since joining the team two years ago.

Before that, he played for the school’s ‘C’ squad, so he knew the game well before he started at Unified Soccer.

He gets more playing time at Unified Soccer, his dad Dale added, while Bonnie said that Jonathan enjoys being part of a team and how his team makes him feel needed.

“And there’s also the trophies,” Jonathan said. Bonnie agreed.

“He loves the trophies,” she said.

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Nineteen-year-old athlete Jazmine Estrada is Vandyke’s teammate. Energetic and enthusiastic, when asked what she liked best about the game, she answered, ‘[when] I win.”

This is Estrada’s second year, as well, and the game has changed her for the better, her mom, Rosa said.

Jazmine is now more sociable, and has more friends.

On this day, Jazmine showed up to the game with a large contingent of relatives, including her stepfather and her sister, in addition to Rosa.

Rosa said she feels pride at seeing her daughter kick a ball around the field.

“She looks so happy,” she said in Spanish. “And if she’s happy, I’m happy.”

Judging by what the partners say, the happiness spreads like a 4-3-3 formation, touching all children, regardless of score.

“It’s fun to be with them, because they are so energetic,” Destiny Romero said.

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Quincy infielder Mark Horning waits for his pitch against Ephrata on May 4. The Jacks finished their season fifth in league.

The next batter struck out but the comeback seemed possible, especially after Quincy sat three Tigers down in order in the bottom of the inning.

In the top of the seventh, Tobin unleashed a double to left, but got stranded there.

Murphy made the last out, and could not hide his disappointment, despite a brilliant job in relief and the words of one of the coaches, “I would go to war with you anytime.”

The game was the third in a week between the Tigers and Jacks.

With both the Quincy and Ephrata baseball teams tied for fourth in the Central Washington Athletic Conference standings, the teams entered April 30’s Battle of the Basin doubleheader, fighting for the right to host a first-round district playoff game.

The visiting Tigers made the most of their opportunity, erasing a three-run sixth-inning deficit to take Game 1 by a score of 5-3 before jumping

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all over the Jackrabbits for five runs in the first inning of Game 2.

By the time Ephrata starter Logan Moss ran into trouble in the bottom of the seventh, the Tigers had built a six-run lead and hung on for an 8-5 victory to complete the sweep of their Basin rivals.

“It is always good to beat Quincy,” Ephrata coach Jason Laugen said after the doubleheader. “They were ahead in that first game, which could have gone either way but Gunnar Falstad pitched well and our bats finally came alive in the late innings.”

“Today we had two decently played nail-biters that were equally competitive, and we’re stoked to get two wins,” Laugen said. “We know that they’ll come in wanting blood on (May 4), so we have to be ready.”

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Yomara Rivera throws a Grandview runner out during a doubleheader May 7.

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Axel Medina (5) scores for Quincy against Othello at the edge of halftime. The Jacks have qualified for state.

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BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA sports@qvpr.com Quincy’s soccer team followed up a 7-2 thumping of the Othello Huskies May 7 with a hard-earned 4-3 road victory against the top-seeded Toppenish Wildcats May 10, earning a berth at State.

Next up for the Jacks on their march to Sumner -site of the state championship gameis a game at Grandview at 5 p.m. on Thursday. The winner is district champion, but both

teams advance.

Against Othello, the Jacks put on quite a show, dispatching five goals past the Huskie goalkeeper before halftime. The game looked nothing like the nailbiter between the Jacks and Huskies from two weeks ago (Quincy won 1-0). This time, Quincy took the lead four minutes into the game, with a goal by Francisco “Paco” Alejandrez.

The Jacks increased the gap four minutes later, with a tally by Kevin Rios. A minute

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The Quincy softball team remains in the playoff hunt and now needs a road sweep of Wapato and at least one Ephrata home loss against winless Toppenish Thursday to make it to the playoffs.

If both teams sweep their games, Ephrata wins the tiebreaker, having beaten the Jacks twice this season.

On May 7, the Quincy Jacks helped their own cause by pounding on the Grandview Greyhounds in a home doubleheader. The Jacks took Game 1 15-1 and Game 2 25-4.

Calissa Alvarez pitched both ends of the doubleheader, earning the two Ws. She struck out five and surrendered one hit in Game 1.

“She’s kind of our workhorse,” Quincy coach Bill Gonzales said.

Adriana Castillo, Gabby Flores and Veronica Bastidas had a double and a single each.

Game 2 was tied at 4 after an inning and a half, but in the bottom of the second, the Jacks cut loose and scored eight runs.

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Fredy Ruiz left matters 3-1 with a beautiful header, then the Jacks put the game away with two goals at the edge of the break, one by Kevin Rios and one by Axel Medina. Quincy would score twice more in the second half.

“The way we are playing, we can beat anybody in the league,” head coach Arturo Guerrero said.

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Quincy wrestler Danny Cruz in action during the Cashmere Invitational last week, wrestling the Bulldogs’ Blake Brown in one of the early rounds of the tourney. Cruz finished first in his weight class, defeating a grumpy Cle Elum wrestler in the finals.

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BY SEBASTIAN MORAGA qvprsports@gmail.com CASHMERE ­- When push came to shove, Danny Cruz kept his cool.

Having pinned his opponent in the finals of his 113-lb. category at the Cashmere Invitational Tournament, Cruz walked to the center of the mat and started removing his ankle band when all of a sudden, the mat got a lot closer.

His opponent, a Cle Elum wrestler named Joey Moen, concluded his appearance in the tournament by shoving Cruz from behind in frustration after the Quincy grappler won their match.

Cruz walked up to Moen, but before he could do anything, the Cle Elum coaches

got in the middle and excoriated their young charge for his display of sore-loserdom.

“We tell our guys, ‘act like you have been there before,’” Quincy head coach Greg Martinez said. “Whether you win or lose, we are going to be classy either way.”

The surreal end to Cruz’ match threw no shade on a sturdy performance by the Jacks, who finished third in a fabled wintertime classic of North Central Washington wrestling.

Chelan took first and Warden took second place. More than 10 teams participated in the competition. Quincy earned third despite missing three varsity wrestlers to a tournament in Idaho, the mighty Tri-State. In addition,

heavyweight Rey Rubio was still not eligible to wrestle.

“He’s working through the weight certification process,” Martinez said. “He will be eligible after Christmas.”

Cruz earned first place after pinning three of his four opponents.

Andrick Espana of Chelan lost by pin to Cruz in the first round. Blake Brown of Cashmere lost by pin in the second round. Tenoch Mondujano of Eastmont lost by tech fall 154, and Moen lost by pin in the first.

In addition to Cruz, several Quincy wrestlers shined on the mat at Ron Doane Memorial Gymnasium.

Jose Buenrostro finished second at 106 lbs., defeating Omak’s Mason Olborn by pin

in the second round, outpointing Warden’s Tony Martinez 10-7, then losing to Cascade’s Axel Martinez, 9-2.

Devon Salcedo finished third at 152 lbs. He lost to Erik Alcala 6-3 before rattling off three straight wins.

He pinned Republic-Curlew’s Tyler Haddenham in the first round, outpointed Eastmont’s Cesar Mendoza 10-3, and pinned Cashmere’s Bryson Pratt in the third round.

Eliseo Valdovinos finished third at 160, with wins over Cle Elum’s Nick Fordham in overtime and Cashmere’s Matt Powell by first-round pin. He also earned a win by forfeit and lost to Chelan’s Braden Williams 12-5.

Brian Guadarrama finished fourth at 138 lbs., defeating

Republic-Curlew’s J.J. Walker 12-6, losing to Dallas Joe of Omak by pin in the first round, beating Cashmere’s Tristan Napoles 7-2 and then losing to Mount Baker’s Jesus Torrero by pin in the first round.

Hunter Harrington finished fourth at 170 with wins over Cascade’s Josue Claros 6-4 and Mount Baker’s Matias Velasquez, 7-5; and losses to Chelan’s Sage Zinni, 12-0 and Warden’s Elijah Gonzalez, 10-2.

The tournament served as a showcase for some new names not yet seen printed in the programs at varsity matches.

“The hard part is we split up our team,” Martinez said.

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The Quincy girls’ wrestling team tied the visiting Wahluke Warriors 12-12 in a six-match showdown that included two exhibitions.

In the midst of a subdued Quincy High School gym -the matches began with the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence for Quincy’s Guerrero family- the Lady Jacks found their footing quickly, jumping to a 12-0 lead.

In the first match of the night, Quincy’s Kimberley Gonzalez wrestled Osiris Cruz at 130 lbs.

Gonzalez won by pin with 49 seconds left in the first round.

At 140 lbs. Quincy’s Sahara Smith wrestled Chloe Nelson.

Smith won by pin with 43 seconds left in the first.

At 155 lbs., Quincy’s Brenda Salgado wrestled Wahluke’s Abby Garrison. Salgado fell behind 6-2 after the first round, before rallying in the second round to tie at 6-6.

An illegal hold gave Wahluke a 7-6 lead and the Warrior wrestler would not look back.

Garrison won by pin with 15 seconds to go in the third round.

At 170 lbs., Quincy’s Aleida Orozco wrestled Wahluke’s Diana Lopez.

With 50 seconds to go in the first round, Lopez pinned Orozco and tied the score for good.

Quincy’s Vanessa Ramirez wrestled Maria Sanchez, losing by pin, and Josselinne Gonzalez wrestled Cruz, winning by pin, in the two exhibition matches.

“There was a good improvement, we saw some really good takedowns, good half-nelsons put in,” Quincy head coach William Clifton said. “At the same time, we saw some girls with more nerves than anything else, and who did not perform as well.”

This was a rare home matchup for the Lady Jacks and the home-cooking may well have made a difference, Clifton said.

“They don’t have to travel, they get to come straight from home, they are in their own crowd,” Clifton said. “The girls seem to have a little more energy for home crowds than they do for something else.”

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The team is battling the injury bug almost as much as it battles its opponents.

Between the infirmary and the holiday trips, the team is five girls down, including a last-minute scratch due to a skin condition.

Next up is the Winter Cup at Hanford, Dec. 29.

“It gives us a good four, five days of practice to get ready for that and see the improvements that we have to make,” he said.

After that comes a trip to Wahluke Jan. 5 and a mixand-match at home Jan. 9, before the Othello Girls’ Invitational, Jan. 13.

Over the holidays, the girls will brush up on the basics.

“Some of the girls picked them up right away, some of them did not,” Clifton said.

“We are just going to have to keep hammering away: Basics, basics, basics.”

The team is following the diet plan and every girl in the team is under her wrestling weight.

“We haven’t had any problems,” he said. “They are following the weight plan. I’m as surprised as they are,” Clifton said.

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Cash in, from page 11 “The good thing is, we got kids to step in and fill new roles.

One such wrestler was sophomore Guadarrama.

“His technique is coming on really well,” Martinez said. “I think he can be really someone to watch in the future. As long as we can keep him involved and interested and working hard, I’m really excited for his future.”

Other new names included Geo Garcia, who won one match, a third-round pin of Cle Elum’s Nick Fordham at 160 lbs., and Rigo Hernandez, who also won one match, an 11-7 decision over Mount Baker’s Karim Moa. Jerry Hodges won two matches, defeating Mason Andruss of Cashmere by firstround pin and Christian Gonzalez of Warden, 14-6, at 182 lbs.

Ray Robinson, Nathan Ramirez, Miguel Ramirez and Jesus Buenrostro also won matches for the Jacks.

While the bulk of the varsity squad traveled west to Cashmere, three wrestlers participated at Tri-State in Idaho.

The prestigious tournament gathered schools of all sizes, including some wrestling powerhouses like Moses Lake.

Raul Barajas, Victor Tafoya and Tanner Wallace represented the Jacks at Tri-State.

Each wrestler won one match, all finishing with an identical 1-2 record.

“It was a good learning experience for us,” Martinez said.

Under Martinez’s rules, state veterans were eligible to attend Tri-State, until last year when the rules were expanded to include those wrestlers who had made regionals and had attended a wrestling summer camp.

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Barajas made state as a freshman; Victor Tafoya and Tanner Wallace both made regionals and attended the Washington Intensive Wrestling Camp.

Next up for the Jacks was a dual meet against Cascade and East Valley-Yakima Wednesday. Results weren’t available prior to press time.

After that, the team travels to Vashon for The Rock tournament Dec. 29.

Grad tournament ahead For the second consecutive year, Quincy graduates will have a chance to show that they still have the skills that once made them shine on the wrestling mat.

Dec. 30, the Arnold Ybarra Green Grit Alumni Dual will honor the memory of Ybarra, a Quincy grad who went on to be a longtime coach and mentor for the city’s youth until he passed away earlier this year.

“Last year, it was just the Green Grit, because Arnie was still with us,” Martinez said. “This year, with Arnold passing, we want to do something for him.”

Last year, the dual helped raise money for iPads to keep stats. The wrestling program bought about three iPads with the grad tournament’s money.

People interested in signing up for a chance to wrestle need to sign up and pony up $45. No singlet-wearing required, for anyone.

Signups Dec. are 15, available on At the wrestlingOthello program’s Facep.m. Jackrabbook page, 6“Quincy Dec. 20 Country.” bit Wrestling/Cross Wahluke Alreadyv. 14 wrestlers have 6 p.m. signed up. This year, the tournament will be followed by a get-together at Time Out Pizza so the onetime warriors can catch up on old times, Martinez said.

Weigh-in is at 5 p.m. at the wrestling room at QHS.

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