Alex Wallace made a run to the finals of the United States Tennis Association Pacific Northwest Junior Section Championships tennis tournament over the weekend in Beaverton, Ore., but came up short of the title.
Fourth seed Hudson Barnhart of Wenatchee, came away with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Wallace on Sunday in the final of the Boys 18s championship match at Tualatin Hills.
Wallace, the fifth seed who plays for Union High School, reached the final with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Reid deLaubenfels. The semifinal was a rematch of the WIAA Class 3A state championship match in May, which was won in three sets by deLaubenfels of Nathan Hale.
Eighth seed Kent Andreasen, the Class 4A state runner up from Skyview, reached the quarterfinals.
Wallace and Andreasen played doubles in the 18s bracket and reached the semifinals. The No. 2 seed, they lost 8-6 to runners up Matthew Overland and William Topp.
In the girls 18s singles, Union teammates Christina Le and Megan Carter both advanced to the consolation semifinals. Le finished runner-up to fifth seed Katie Edwards of Aloha, Ore., 6-3, 6-1.
Spencer Cultice of Ridgefield was the No. 2 seed in the boys 10s bracket and finished runner-up in the consolation final.
Samantha Hampton of Vancouver, the fourth seed in the girls 14s singles, advanced to the semifinals before falling to eventual champion and top seed Dasha Ivanova of Beaverton.
Andrew Newell of Vancouver and Dylan King of Portland, the third seed, came away with the boys 12s doubles title. They topped Tommy Mulflur and Noah Schachter 9-7 in the final.
Vancouver drivers fastest on the track
Travis Hilton from Vancouver won the final race in the Marsh Transmission High School Series season on Saturday at Woodburn (Ore.) dragstrip. Josh Wilson from Vancouver was the runner up. John Flett from Tillamook, Ore., clinched the points title.
Results from all of Saturday’s races at Woodburn Dragstrip are in the Community Sports Scoreboard.
• John Fordyce from Vancouver won the main race in the street stocks division during racing at River City Speedway in St. Helens, Ore., on Saturday. Stacy Fordyce won the women’s race. Complete results are in the Community Sports Scoreboard.
Hundreds run in area races
Joe Dudman of Portland won Sunday’s 12-kilometer Salmon Creek at Sunset run. The 46-year-old had a time of 44 minutes, 11 seconds to win by more than one minute.
Dan McElrath, 41, of Vancouver, was the fastest Clark County runner among the 197 who completed the 12-K race. Portlander Cathy Stores, 41, was the first woman to finish. She was 12th overall in 53:57.
Brad Pinkstaff, 56, from Rainier, Ore., was first of 198 to finish the 6-kilometer run and walk (22:58).
• Jesse McChesney, 20, of Vancouver, won the next-to-last race in the Clark County Running Club’s summer series of Wednesday fun runs. He finished a 3-mile run at Marine park on Aug. 18 in 14 minutes and 46 seconds. A total of 144 runners and walkers finished the race.
The last in the 2010 series of Wednesday runs will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, again at the Marine Park course. A post-race picnic will mark the end of the summer series.
CCRC races are free for club members. Others are charged a $2 entry fee. Details at www.ccrunning.org.
Hoops, soccer champs listed
Champions from the fifth edition of the Hoops on the River three-on-three basketball tournament are listed in the Community Sports Scoreboard.
The tournament, played Saturday and Sunday on 21 baskets at Vancouver Landing, is a fundraising event for Share. Share is a non-profit that serves hungry and homeless in Clark County.
• The Pacific FC Fire 99, a boys under-11 soccer team, won an under-12 division of the Mount Hood Challenge, a preseason tournament featuring more than 450 teams in a variety of age divisions. The tournament was played in Hillsboro and Sherwood.
Coming up …
The 29th Hood to Coast Relay footrace will take place Friday and Saturday.
The signature event is the 197-mile run from Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood to the beach at Seaside, Ore. The race course does not enter the state of Washington, though a stretch of it follows Highway 30 on the Oregon side of the Columbia River.
Many Clark County runners and walkers participate each year, and teams from area high schools have won the Portland to Coast High School Challenge.
Runners from all 50 states, and from 23 foreign countries, are registered for the race, according to race organizers. Teams leave from Mount Hood between 6:30 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. on Friday. The winning team should reach the finish line in about 17 hours, sometime after 11:20 a.m. on Saturday.
More about the race at www.hoodtocoast.com.
• The Dan Dickau Basketball Academy will host a clinic for coaches of youth and high school level basketball on Sept. 4 in Vancouver. Among the presenters scheduled to appear is former UCLA coach Jim Harrick, and members of the Gonzaga and the Boise State coaching staffs.
The event runs 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Kessid Center, 16096 SE 15th St. Cost is $85, with discounts for additional coaches from the same team.
For details, visit www.dickauacademy.com or call Luke LeCount at 360-904-5287.
• The Prairie Girls Basketball Golf Tournament will be played Sept. 18 at Lakeview Par-3 Golf Course in Vancouver. There are shotgun starts at 9 and 11 a.m. This is a fundraising event for Prairie High School girls basketball. To learn more, or to sign up, contact Al Aldridge at 360-253-8690.
The COMMUNITY SPORTS NOTEBOOK is published Tuesdays. To submit news, send e-mail to paul.danzer@columbian.com or call 360-735-4521. For a list of events and area sports organizations, see the Community Sports Calendar online at Columbian.com.
