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The Lady Raiders won two of the three basketball games they played over the holiday break. The first, at home against the Manson Trojans Dec. 18, was a 52-32 victory. LR took the momentum of that win into the week of practice that preceded the Eagle Holiday Classic at West Valley of Spokane Dec. 28-29. In the first game of the tournament, the Lady Raiders took on the Riverside Rams of the Northeast A League. The Rams are experiencing a down year and only scored four points in the first quarter. LR also struggled to score as the halftime score...
Raider Basketball jumped out early and controlled the game all the way through to the end. The Bridgeport Mustangs were never in the game. Lake Roosevelt jumped out in the first quarter to a 16-4 lead. The Raiders’ offense exploded in the second quarter, scoring 27 points while holding the Mustangs to just seven. At halftime, the score was LR 43, Bridgeport 11. In the third quarter, the game slowed down, and each team scored fewer than 10 points. The score at the end of the third was LR 51, Bridgeport 13. In the fourth quarter, the Mustangs and...
The Lady Raiders won with a big margin over the Bridgeport Fillies in a Dec. 16 basketball game, improving their overall win-loss record to 3-1. Lake Roosevelt took control of the game early and never let go of the lead. The final score was LR 60, Bridgeport 20. On Friday, the Lady Raiders were at home to take on the Manson Trojans, who were looking to rebound from their big loss to the Okanogan Bulldogs. The Trojans have won two games by a margin of less than five points. The Star will report details of that game, which occurred after an...
The Raiders boys basketball season started last week with a two-game win streak before losing on Saturday to the Warden Cougars. Lake Roosevelt had defeated the Hornets at Oroville on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 68-65, and two days later took down the Entiat Tigers 76-58 in front of a home crowd in Coulee Dam. With two wins, the Raiders were confident going into the game against the Cougars and showed good effort, according to Raider Head Coach Mario Adams. "Effort-wise, I thought we competed at a high...
The Lady Raiders opened their basketball season last week with two wins before losing to Warden at home on Saturday. Two of the first three games were close, with the game decided by only a few points. LR now looks to carry the early momentum into the second week of the season. At Oroville Dec. 8, the Lady Raiders held off the Hornets for a narrow win, 41-38. Then at home against the Tigers of Entiat on Thursday, the Lady Raiders won by a double-digit margin, 45-32. The Warden Cougars came to...
Lake Roosevelt wrestling competed in the first tournament of the season at Davenport Saturday, where the Raiders held their own and impressed the coaches in their first outing. "We had a good start and wrestled well for this early part of the season," Head Coach Steve Hood said. The team had one senior, one sophomore and four freshman wrestling at the tournament. "They all wrestled hard and up to their potential for this point in the season," Hood said, noting his young, light Raiders were 12-7...
LR Football finished the season with its best winning percentage since 2004 and its closest to state playoffs since 2003. With these improvements came the greatest number of Raiders at the end of the season named to all-league squads in many years. “Our football team started the year in June with one goal and two expectations,” Head Coach Geary Oliver said. “Our goal was to compete to the final buzzer in every game, and our expectations were to have fun and self-respect.” Oliver attributes the high number of all-league selections to the players...
Sean Garvin, Jocelyn Moore, and Kayley Duclos were all named to the Central Washington 2B North All League Volleyball Squads last week. Garvin was named to the first team by the league’s coaches, while Moore and Duclos earned an honorable mention. “All three girls that were nominated for all-league were consistently my stat leaders throughout the season,” Head Coach Kasey Garvin said. “I’m proud that (Sean) received a first-team honor again this year,” Coach Garvin said. “She puts in a lot of time in the off-season, and the league coache...
Two Lake Roosevelt runners were named to the Central Washington B League North Cross Country All League teams for the 2015 season. Loryn Moore was named to the girls’ second team after her second state appearance. “Loryn finished off a great season with a very strong run at state,” Head LR Coach Gary Darnold said. “The best comparison is last year to this year on the same course, and Loryn has been consistently bettering her times this season. … She did the same at state, running nearly 30 seconds faster, and placed better too, … a perfect exa...
The Okanogan Bulldogs, the defending state 2B champions, defeated the Raiders 56-0 in Okanogan in the Central Washington 2B Crossover game on Friday night. The game was a play-in for state playoffs with the number-two seed for District 5-6 on the line. This was the closest the Raiders have been to state playoffs since 2003. This was also the first matchup between the Raiders and the Bulldogs since 2011. In the first quarter, the Bulldogs jumped ahead quickly on a Morgan Poulin touchdown run....
Loryn Moore, in her second trip to state cross country, finished 37th overall with the time of 21 minutes, 48.7 seconds Saturday. Moore ran a 22-second personal record for the state race and improved her placing from last year when she took 38th. Head Coach Gary Darnold looks forward to the future as the majority of the team will be returning to build upon the experience gained this past season. In the girls' 2B race, Ocosta (Westport) is the 2015 team state champion. Liberty Bell girls took...
Raider football finished the 2015 regular season with the best winning percentage of any Raider football team since 2004, capping it off with a win over Soap Lake Friday. Last night, the Raiders played their first playoff game since 2001 as part of a tiebreaker for the third- and fourth-place spot in the Central Washington 2B South for the state playoffs this weekend. This was made possible when the Raiders defeated the Soap Lake Eagles on Oct. 30, 14-7. Lake Roosevelt had lost 34-7 to Soap Lake in September in a non-league game, and the...
Lady Raiders Volleyball finished the 2015 season in Ephrata, playing in the pigtail match of the District 5-6 Volleyball Tournament. LR came into the tournament as the number-five seed from the Central Washington 2B North and played number-four Waterville Shockers from the CW 2B South in a pigtail match to start the tournament. The loser of the match was done, while the winner played Okanogan and went to a double-elimination tournament. LR lost to the Shockers in a three game sweep. "Waterville...
Loryn Moore will compete at the state cross country meet Saturday for the second year in a row, after qualifying at the District 5-6 race at Wentachee last weekend. “Loryn Moore ran a very aggressive race, placing second and qualifying for state,” Raider Head Coach Gary Darnold said. “She was nearly a minute faster than her time on the same course last year at the same district race.” Moore crossed the finish line at 20 minutes, 53 seconds, a career personal record. Kayla St. Pierre was the other Raider girl who ran on Halloween day in Wenatch...
This summer, agrochemical, biotechnology, and seed giant Monsanto dropped their bid to acquire their Switzerland-based competitor Syngenta. Initial merger serenades were sternly rebuffed by Syngenta, and Monsanto’s interest turned into a $46.5 billion hostile takeover. Monsanto had no fear of backlash from U.S. antitrust officials. And there’s the rub, the reason a failed merger is still worthy of note and cause for concern. What level of seed industry consolidation would have to be achieved to trigger interest, let alone action, at the Dep...
Interceptions, long touchdown runs and a good air attack earned Lake Roosevelt its first football win in weeks Friday night at home against Kittitas. With the 28-12 win, the Raiders ended a three-game losing streak and put themselves in a mood for this Friday's rematch with Soap Lake. LR had moved some players around due to injury, and played a successful game that keeps them in the running for a crossover game spot. "Our kids rebounded after a difficult loss last week," Raider Head Coach Geary...
Raider Cross Country traveled to Liberty Bell Saturday for the Central Washington B North Cross Country Championship in preparation for this week's District 5-6 race at Wenatchee. Liberty Bell won both the boys' and girls' league championships. Lake Roosevelt's head coach, Gary Darnold, noted two of his runners hit career personal records while others had season PRs at the meet. "We had a strong effort with half our team PR'ing," Darnold said. "Many of our runners fought through previous...
The Lady Raiders split their volleyball matches again last week, winning on the road at Tonasket but losing at home against Brewster. At Tonasket, the Lady Raiders came back from a first-game loss to win, three games to one. “The girls played a complete game last night,” Head Coach Kasey Garvin said. “We were able to capitalize on our ‘out of system’ offense and come out the victor in long-volley play.” “Jocelyn Moore and Aiyanna Picard played strong at the net,” Garvin noted, “and Kayley Duclos added some nice shots at the service line and...
Lady Raider Volleyball split the two matches contested last week. In the first at Bridgeport Oct. 13, the Lady Raiders lost to the Fillies three games to two. Then on Thursday at home, Lake Roosevelt defeated the Manson Trojans three games to one. Against Bridgeport, the Lady Raiders won the first two games, then lost the last three, two of them by only two points. The fourth game went to extra points to decide the game. "We gave them the last three sets," Head Coach Kasey Garvin said of the...
Lake Roosevelt and White Swan played a scoreless first half before the Cougars wore down the Raiders and won 31-12 at the LR homecoming game Friday night. The loss puts LR's win-loss record at 0-3 in Central Washington 2B South play, and at 2-4 overall. "We played a competitive game against a physical team," Head Raider Coach Geary Oliver said. "Their size wore us down in the second half." At the half, the score was tied at zero. The Raider defense held the Cougars out of the endzone in the firs...
Raider cross country runners finished the regular season at Oroville last Saturday at the Oroville Invitational. In a field featuring good teams from across the region, the Raider boys finished seventh overall in team scoring. Three of the seven Raider boys running finished with a personal record time. Only two girls represented LR at Oroville. Robert George finished first for LR again, crossing the line at 19 minutes, 17 seconds for 18th overall. Jerry Palmer ran a PR time of 19:29 for second place on the Raider squad and 21st overall. Cole...
by John R. McNeil II At the first home invite in two years, the Raiders took third place in the boys' varsity race. The new Lake Roosevelt Schools complex lies at the top of what used to be the big, beginning hill of the traditional race, which couldn't be run because of the construction in 2013 and 2014 and has now been rerouted. "Both boys and girls ran up to or beyond our expectation," Head Coach Gary Darnold said. "This was our first time racing at our home course; and with it being a tough...
Lady Raider Volleyball split the matches last week, losing at Liberty Bell Tuesday, but defeating Oroville at home Thursday. At Liberty Bell the Lady Raiders struggled, losing in a three-game sweep. “We didn’t look like the same team that defeated them in the opening of the season,” Head Coach Kasey Garvin explained. “My girls have been going through a funk on the volleyball court; we’ve just not been able to dig ourselves out of it.” Coach Garvin did praise the effort of two players. “My subs, Rylee Pitner and Olivia Buttise, played the fi...
The Raiders travelled a long way to Mabton to play a team that is ranked highly in the state ,and played like it. The Mabton Vikings defeated Lake Roosevelt 65-14. “We continue to play hard,” Head Coach Geary Oliver said of his team’s performance. “Mabton is ranked sixth in the state, and for good reason.” Oliver noted a good performance from Jesse Louie. “Jesse Louie continues to run well and is one of our leading receivers,” he said. After the loss, Oliver said, he received a compliment from the Mabton coaches that he has heard in other game...
The Warden Cougars struck early and often on the Raiders Friday night, building a halftime lead that Lake Roosevelt could not overcome on their home field in Coulee Dam. At halftime, Warden led 53-6 before the Raiders managed to get past their big line a few more times. The final score was Warden 60, LR 24. "Warden is a physical team and we had trouble with their wing T offense," Raider Head Coach Geary Oliver said. "Our offense moved the ball well; we just need to get more consistent." Oliver...