Page 2B Page 3B Marsing athletes HMS athletes break records Avalanche Sports open track season B SECTION, 16 PAGES. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2006 COMMENTARY 8-9B. CLASSIFIEDS 14B-15B. Basketball coaches tender resignations Hill departs after just fi ve months Thompson ends 3-year Marsing on the boys job at Homedale High tenure for dream job in Nampa For the second time in athletic director Dave Hart told Brian Thompson has left job after three seasons to five months, Homedale High The Owyhee Avalanche the the Marsing High School boys become girls basketball coach School is on the hunt for a boys news April 11. basketball coaching position to at Nampa’s new Columbia High basketball coach. “It’s just the time constraints chase one of his dreams. School. Brad Hill tendered his of being a first-year teacher Last week, The Owyhee “Columbia is a bigger school, resignation at last week’s school Avalanche learned that board meeting, and Trojans –– to page 4B Brad Hill Brian Thompson Thompson resigned the Huskies –– to page 4B Fruitland sweeps Homedale diamond squads Long inning Softball can’t dooms baseball catch Grizzlies The Homedale High School The youngsters took control baseball team beat up on McCall- last week as the Homedale High Donnelly on Friday, but chances School softball team won two of are the bad taste from a skirmish the three games it played. earlier in the week still was Freshman leadoff hitter Hannah lingering. Johnson went 9-for-13 and drove Three days before the Trojans in eight runs in three games for the trounced the Vandals 14-4 in fi ve Trojans, who ended the week 7-4 innings, Homedale experienced overall and 1-2 in the 3A Snake a similar fate in a 15-1 3A River Valley conference. Snake River Valley conference The starting catcher for coach drubbing at the hands of visiting Larry Corta’s team, Johnson was Fruitland. 3-for-5 with three RBIs on April “Fruitland has a lot of talented 10 when Homedale sent Nampa ballplayers on its team,” Homedale Christian to its 11th straight loss, coach Tim Fulwood said. “They’re 18-4, in fi ve innings. well-coached, and you have to go Johnson returned with three out and play your best game to RBIs and a triple on April 11, compete with them. but the Trojans couldn’t catch “Obviously, we did not play our Fruitland in an 11-8 SRV loss. best game.” Ninth-grader Kendall Rupp was And it all came crashing down Trojans cut down Vandals 3-for-3 with a triple and an RBI in Homedale High School junior catcher Josh Jolley, right, puts the tag on a McCall-Donnelly baserunner –– to page 3B during Friday’s 14-4 3A Snake River Valley conference victory. Photo by Gregg Garrett –– to page 3B Former major-leaguer teaches Marsing players the right way Mike Garman hasn’t thrown a reau Insurance clients — talked as their Farm Bureau Insurance pitch in a major-league game in the Idaho native into putting on a agent.” more than 25 years. Still, the for- clinic for that town’s youth base- Briggs said players in the 9- to mer Wilder farmer with deep roots ball players. 10-year-old bracket received in- in this area has impact when he “I had a good time,” Garman struction on pitching basics from tries to teach the youth of today the said. “The kids were polite, and Garman. About 10 of those play- right way to throw a baseball. they even thanked me.” ers also had a chance for some “I enjoy About 25 players showed up, one-on-one time with the man working with and it’s a good bet none of them who appeared in two World Series the younger knew that Garman had ever worn with the Dodgers in the 1970s. kids, trying to the uniform of the Boston Red “He is great and very patient teach them a Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Chica- with the kids, and we will have three-step de- go Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers or him back again next year for an- livery,” Gar- Montreal Expos. other clinic,” Briggs said, adding man said. “Once you’re out of the lime- that he plans to get Garman back He did just light, they can’t identify with for a clinic next year. that earlier watching you pitch,” said Gar- “I have worked with the kids and this month in man, who doesn’t actively pitch can see improvement already.” Mike Garman Owyhee excels in cow horse events Marsing, as at the workshops since having hip Garman, whose major-league Marsing’s Dan Roeser turns his horse into a cow during a reined cow Jim Briggs — a Marsing resident replacement surgery. horse event at Magic Valley Fairgrounds. Roeser is one of handful of and one of Garman’s Farm Bu- “I’m more or less known now –– to page 16B Owyhee County residents competing on the circuit. Story, Page 16B Page 2B Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Sports More Huskies track records fall Homedale athletes jam For the second time in as many Senior MJ Usabel broke her Gibson finished third in the weeks, Perry Gibson has etched own school record after clearing boys 110 high hurdles in 16.69, top three slots in Payette his name in the Marsing High 10 feet in the pole vault at the while Marsing’s boys relay squads School track and field record Payette meet. She had to settle for fared well. The 4x100 (47.7) Homedale High School track Six feet is one of the top heights books. second place in the event after a and medley (4:08) teams both and fi eld coach Thomas Thomas in the state this year. Holloway This time around, the senior jump-off. fi nished, and the 2x200 was fourth may have gotten a glimpse of was fourth at 5-10. Emry came doubled his fun, shattering for “We had our most successful in a season-best 1:38.38. what he’s looking for Saturday at back to fi nish fourth in both the the second time in as many weeks meet of the year,” Heller said of Big Don Galligan, a 6-foot-3, the John Stewart Invitational meet long jump (19-5½) and the triple his own record in the 110-meter the weekend meet. 290-pound distance runner, broke in Payette. jump (39-2½). high hurdles then knocking off Elisa Moreno swept the girls through with a personal-best 3:27 After watching his field Sophomore Terence Thomas KC Wilson’ 4-year-old pole vault sprints, winning the 100 meters in in the 800. athletes continue to outshine was second in the discus at 136-11 record. a personal-best 13.03 seconds and their counterparts competing the and third in the shot put at 42-9. Both feats came at a meet in then taking the 200 in 29.03. Rimrock track during Thursday’s meet in Teammate Daniel Valadez was New Plymouth on Thursday. Other top finishes Saturday The Raiders took part in the John New Plymouth, Thomas saw an fourth in both the shot (40-7½) Gibson won the pole vault after for Marsing included Usabel Stewart in Payette on Saturday, improved squad at the Stewart. and the discus (128-8). clearing 13 feet, 4 inches and grabbing second in the 100 high and Ellie Cantrell fi nished second “I was pleased with the efforts breaking Wilson’s 2002 mark by hurdles (17.11) and Bree Chadez in the girls 100 high hurdles in a and improvements of a lot of our New Plymouth meet one inch. fi nishing second in the high jump time of 17.11. She was fourth in athletes,” the coach said. The Homedale High School The senior sprinter turned in a at 5-4 after losing a jump-off for the long jump, too. Cheyanne Andrade won the track and field team was fourth-place time of 16.23 in the the championship. Rimrock’s 4x100 girls relay discus with a throw of 107 feet, 3 outstanding in the fi eld Thursday. hurdles, which erased his week- Chadez finished second in team grabbed a fifth-place inches and Mark Vance collected It’s on the track where the Trojans old record of 16.34. Gibson has the high jump Thursday in New showing. Lee Gray was seventh the triple jump title with an effort still need to get on track. set the Marsing record three times Plymouth. in the girls 1,600. of 41 feet, 9 inches. “I think our strengths are in the past two years. Amanda Staudenmier fi nished But a slew of other Trojans defi nitely in the fi eld events, and Gibson’s performance was third in the 400 in 1:09. Greenleaf Friends were able to bring home top three it’s showing more all the time.” part of 16 personal records for The Huskies’ girls relay teams Homedale resident Megan Fox fi nishes from Payette. In several Thomas Thomas said. “We’re the Huskies in Thursday’s meet, flourished in Payette with the finished second to Homedale’s instances, Homedale had multiple still pretty young on the track, and Marsing coach Don Heller 4x200 finishing second in 1 Cheyanne Andrade in Thursday’s placers in the top six of events. and we’re relying on fi eld events insisted that Saturday’s effort at minute, 58 seconds, and the shot put competition in New Andrade was third in the shot put, for points.