Junior Larissa Marini was involved with wins in three events, including a pair of district records, to highlight the final regular-season meet of the spring for the Battle Ground High School equestrian team.
Marini won the poles race with a record time of 22.062 seconds during the Washington High School Equestrian Teams District 4 meet held March 26-28 in Spanaway. She also was part of winning teams in Canadian flags, bi-rangle, and four-man drill, and placed in several other events.
The Battle Ground Canadian flags team won with a district-record of 35.228. Joining Marini on the team were Laura Todd, Maggie Campbell and Emily Lehner. The same four won the 4-person drill competition. Todd and Marini teamed to win the bi-rangle event.
See the Community Sports Scoreboard for a list of the place-winners from Battle Ground and Ridgefield from the meet. Results from Prairie were not yet reported.
Naydenov gymnasts win state titles
Four girls from Naydenov Gymnastics in Vancouver won events during the Washington Level 7-10 optional state championships, held March 20-21 in Seattle.
KayCee Gassaway won the Level 10 floor exercise with a score of 9.425. Gassaway, who will compete for Brigham Young University beginning in the fall, placed fourth all-around among Level 10 girls.
Three Naydenov gymnasts won events at Level 7.
Jordan Chiles won the all-around title in the Child A division with a 27.65 total. She won the uneven parallel bars (9.625). Karsyn Rushing was the all-around winner in the Child C division (37.375), and also won on the bars (9.525).
Alexis Bottomley won two events and placed second all around in the Junior C division. She won the vault (9.5) and the balance beam (9.275).
Four CYSF teams in Challenge semis
Four Columbia Youth Soccer Federation teams have advanced to the semifinals in the top level of the Washington Youth Soccer Challenge Cup tournament.
Three other teams are in the semifinals for the second-level of the tournament’s elimination phase. All semifinal games we be played on April 10 at the Starfire Complex in Tukwila.
Highlighting the semifinal round for the CYSF teams is a match between the Columbia Timbers Blue and the Chinook Ice-Connell in the girls under-12 Gold Division. The two CYSF clubs met a year ago in the under-11 division of the WYS Commissioner’s Cup state tournament.
Chinook Ice won that match en route to a state title.
Also alive for titles in the top level of the Challenge Cup are the Chinook Fire-Sparks (boys under 14) and F.C. Salmon Creek Juventus (boys under 12).
Teams in the Silver Division semifinals, which are for teams that did not qualify for the gold division at the conclusion of round-robin play, are the Columbia Timbers Red (girls under 11), and two F.C. Salmon Creek Nemesis teams (girls under 12, and girls under 13).
A complete list of CYSF Challenge Cup scores is in the Community Sports Scoreboard.
VLC rowers have success
Several Vancouver Lake Crew boats had strong showings on Saturday when the club hosted a five-team regatta.
David Pervere and Clayton Ward won the men’s open doubles race, and several VLC masters rowers won races. A complete list of results is in the Community Sports Scoreboard.
Skyview tops River in ping-pong event
Skyview defeated Columbia River on March 17 in a table tennis tournament between teams from each school.
Leading the Storm to victory were Chris Erkkila (first place), Nick Phillips (second place) and Peter Waters (fourth place).
Columbia River has had a table tennis club for many years and Skyview formed its club shortly after the end of the 2009 high school football season was over, said Phillips, Skyview’s captain.
Phillips said another tournament might be organized in June. He said he is hoping more Clark County high schools form table tennis clubs so that more tournaments can be scheduled.
COMMUNITY SPORTS news items may be submitted to Paul Danzer at paul.danzer@columbian.com, or 360-735-4521.
