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Former standouts to be enshrined
Eatonville High has
five new members for
Athletic Hall of Fame
The Dispatch
A footballer who played in the Rose
Bowl, two basketball players who com-
peted in national tournaments in college,
and three-sport stars in the 1920s and 1990s
will become the newest members of the
Eatonville High School Athletic Hall of
Fame.
Liz Clark (class of 2001), Tyler Kram-
brink (1999), Ivan Swanson (1926) Heidi
McGivern (1983) and Marc Miller (1993)
will be inducted this Saturday at the school
during a ceremony in conjunction with
boys and girls basketball games that will be
played that night between Eatonville and
Steilacoom.
Hall of Fame members are chosen by
a selection committee made up of current
student representatives, the school's athletic
director, coaches and principal, and other
community members.
The newest group of inductees, and third
since the Hall of Fame began, include:
• ivan,,Casey" Swanson, who is de-
eased. H Was a letterman four times in
baseball, three times in basketball and twice
in track. In baseball, he was the league bat-
ting champion and an all-conference choice
twice. In one of those seasons, he helped
lead Eatonville to a co-league championship
and a second-place finish in the county tour-
nament. He continued his baseball exploits
after graduation, playing for a Rocky Ridge
team that won the Valley League champi-
onship in 1931 and leading the league in
hitting.
Ruth Ferris, Swanson's daughter, will
accept his Hall of Fame award.
• Tyler Krambrink. A four-year letter
winner in football and track, he played on
the football squad that finished third in the
state in 1997, and he competed in two state
track meets in the high jump, long jump,
4x100 meter relay and the 100 meter. He
was also senior class president.
At the University of Washington, he
was named the football team's outstanding
defensive freshman, won player-of-the-
game honors five times, and was part of the
Huskies' Rose Bowl victory in 2001 against
Purdue.
• Heidi McGivem (Rasmussen). She
lettered for four years in volleyball, basket-
ball and track and earned all-league honors
in volleyball and basketball. As a freshman,
she was part of the team that reached the
state tournament. And in track, she capped
her senior year by winning the shot put in
the state meet with an effort of 44 feet 10
inches.
In her freshman year of playing bas-
ketball at St. Martin's College, her team
finished second in the NAIA national tour-
nament.
• Marc Miller. He played four seasons
apiece in football, basketball and baseball.
His biggest successes came in football, in
which he was part of two state champion-
ship teams, received all-league honors in
three seasons and was nominated for the As-
sociated Press All-State team as a lineman.
He went on to play four seasons of football
and earn all-conference recognition as a
linebacker at Lewis and Clark College. He
also played a year of baseball there.
• Liz Clark. She was a four-season let-
terman and the wiinner of scholar-athlete
and all-league awards, the latter including
Most Valuable Player, in volleyball, basket-
ball and fastpitch. She was an all-state selec-
tion in volleyball and basketball. Away from
sports, she was class president in her fresh-
man, sophomore, junior and senior years.
Her post-high school athletic career
included playing basketball in 2001-05 at
George Fox University; helping her team
advance to the NCAA Division III "Elite
Eight" as a senior. She later play for BG
Rentrop in Bonn, Germany in that country's
highest level of women's basketball. The
team reached the third round of the playoffs
in 2006-07.
In addition to student-athletes, Eaton-
ville's Athletic Hall of Fame is open to
community supporters of the school's sports
programs. Also eligible are former coaches
and school administrators who have been
retired for at least 10 years.
Last year's inductees were Syd Pifer
(Moore), class of 1995 and a three-sport
athlete in volleyball, basketball and track;
Kenneth Fitzer, class of 1931 (basketball
and baseball); Jim Buti, class of 1937 (bas-
ketball, baseball and track); Mike Schaub,
class of 1986 (football and basketball);
Tom Zurfluh, class of 1993 (football, soc-
cer, basketball and baseball); Jim Del Gi-
anni, class of 1954 (football, basketball and
baseball); and Dursom "Mama Cruiser"
McBride, an ardent supporter of the Cruisers.
Fitzer, Buti and McBride are deceased.
The other inductees are expected to at-
tend the ceremony, school officials said.
In 2010, the year the Hall of Fame made
its debut, the inductees were former coach
Steve Gervais (football, basketball and ten-
nis), Brandon Jumper (football, wrestling,
basketball, track and baseball), Josh Dun-
ning (football, wrestling) and basketball),
Rick Adams (cross-country and track),
and Bobby Lucht (football, basketball and
baseball).
Cruisers trying to
seal their title deal
Girls' SPSL hoops season nearing end
Eatonville's Cruisers are
in the stretch run of what
they hope will be a girls high
school basketball champi-
onship season in the South
Puget Sound League 2A.
They moved into a share
of the league lead last week
with three victories in five
days, including a victory
over White River, which had
been alone in first place and
undefeated against SPSL foes.
The Cruisers' three re-'
maining games in the regular
season started last night at
home against Franklin Pierce.
That one, which was played
after today's print edition of
The Dispatch went to press,
will be followed by a trip to
Fife this Friday before the
finale Saturday back on the
Cruisers' home court against
Steilacoom. The latter game
was rescheduled from Jan.
20 after being postponed
by the snow and ice storm.
Based on the teams'
records at the end of last
week, Eatonville seemed
poised for another three-
win week. Franklin Pierce,
Fife and Steilacoom had a
combined conference led-
ger of 8-23, with Steila-
coom winless in 10 contests.
........ Eatonville capped last
week's string of victories by
beating Washington 42-39 on
Friday and improving their
records to 10-1 in the SPSL
and 12-4 overall. The Cruisers
overcame a Washington rally
in the fourth quarter, in which
the host Patriots outscored the
Cruisers 18-8. Hailey Lath-
erow's 12 points and Jessica
Stead's 10 led Eatonville.
The signature victory of
the week was 61-57 over White
River in the Hornets' gym. It
came one day after Eatonville
downed Sumner 62-47.
Eatonville's
Jessica
Stead and
two Clover
Park players
battle on the
floor for the
ball during
an SPSL
2A girls
basketball
game won
by Stead
and her
teammates.
The victory
started a
three-win
week for the
Cruisers.
Tony Sirgedas/
The Dispatch
Eatonville in
the hunt for
post-season
A 59-33 pasting of
Washington last Friday
kept Eatonville High
School's boys basketball
team in the race for one
of the South Puget Sound
League 2A's berths in
the post-season playoffs.
Eatonville entered this
week in fourth place in
the battle for one of six
post-season berths. The
Cruisers took records of
5-6, in the league and 10-7
overall into a home game
last fffght against Frank-
lin Pierce, which will be
followed with games Fri-
day at Fife and Saturday
at home against Steila-
coom in the SPSL finale.
Guard Dalton Han-
cock led Eatonville past
Washington with 22 points.
He also led the Cruisers'
scoring with 15 points in
their 62-57 loss to White
River Jan. 24, a day after
league-leading Clover Park
whipped Eatonville 62-41.
Tylor Brown of Eatonville gets the referee to
slap the mat as he pins Reginald Xavier in their
195-pound match, helping the Cruisers beat
Franklin Pierce 54-27.
Tony Sirgedas/The Dispatch
State mat march begins
With two Cruisers pin-
ning their opponents in less
than a minute and four more
doing the same deed in less
than two minutes, Eatonville
beat Franklin Pierce 54-
27 in a South Puget
Sound League 2A wres-
fling meet last Wednesday.
The joy of team vic-
tory was short-lived, though.
Fife, winning all but three
of the matches, beat the
Cruisers 56-16 the next day
in another SPSL outing.
With the regular season
behind them, the Cruisers
now start the drive to the
state 2A tournament Feb.
17-18 at the Tacoma Dome.
To get there, they'll have
to qualify through the sub-
regional tournament this Fri-
day and Saturday at white
River High School and the
regional tourney Feb. 11.
Freddie Baumann, a
standout this season at 170
pounds, is bidding for a return
trip to the state tournament.
Another prime contender
to qualify is 138-pound
Dalton Schrader, who was
a state alternate last year.
Good chinook and sockeye runs predicted
HOOK AND FUR
By Bob Brown
It is the time of the year
when fish managers ha-
bitually take out their crystal
balls and begin forecasting
what fish runs are going to
look like during the coming
year.
As we all know pre-
dictions can be educated
guesses at best, but some
managers do their home-
work and end up with
forecasts close to actuality.
This year, Washington and
Oregon fish managers are
predicting the largest spring
chinook return since 1938. It
is expected 314,000 spring
Chinook will return to the
lower Columbia, after the
second-largest jack count
on record materialized last
spring. On the sockeye front,
managers have more good
news. They are predicting
a 462,000-sockeye return,
with 431,000 headed toward
the Okanogan River, 28,000
to the Wenatchee and 1,900
to the Snake River.
On the downside, this
year's smelt fishery expec-
tations are not good. Both
commercial and recre-
ational eulachon fisheries are
expected to remain closed
this year, although the 2012
run is favorable ( possibly
better than the past couple
of years) is still weaker than
the brief rebound years of
2001-2003.f
Last week, fish manag-
ers set fishing seasons for
spring Chinook and sturgeon
in the Columbia River, with
most of the new regulations
taking effect March 1. Until
then, both fisheries are open
on the various section of the
river under rules approved
last year. Anglers fishing
below Bonneville Dam will
be allowed to catch and keep
up to 14,500 fin-clipped Chi-
nook before the run forecast
is updated in May.
Under the new rules, the
sport fishery will be expand-
ed upriver to Beacon Rock
from March 1 through April
6. During that period, the
sport fishery will close on
Tuesdays (March 20, March
27 and April 3) to accom-
modate commercial fisher-
ies. Starting March 1, bank
anglers will also be allowed
to fish from Beacon Rock
up to the fishing boundary
below Bonneville Dam.
Above the dam, the
fishery will be open to boat
and bank anglers daily from
March 16 through May 2
between the Tower Island
power lines six miles below
the Dalles Dam and the
Washington/Oregon state
line and 17 miles upriver
from McNary Dam. Bank
anglers can also fish from
Bonneville Dam upriver to
the power lines during that
time.
Tighter catch guide-
lines will be in effect for
white sturgeon this year.
This year's catch limits in
the lower Columbia will
be 9,600 (a 38 percent
reduction from last year).
Monitoring data collected
jointly by Washington and
Oregon indicate the num-
ber of legal-size sturgeon
has declined by nearly 50
percent. The reason for the
decline has been laid upon
sea lion predation and the
drop in abundance of smelt
and lamprey that are part of
sturgeon diet.
To keep catch lim-
its within guidelines, the
sturgeon fishery will end 23
days earlier than last year in
the estuary below the Watina
power lines and start eight
days later this fall from the
power lines upriver to Bonn-
eville Dam. As in past years,
80 percent of the allowable
catch will be allotted to the
sport fishery and 20 percent
to the commerc.ial fishery.
Under new harvest rules,
recreation anglers will be
allocated 4,160 fish in the
estuary, up to 2,080 above
Wauna and between 1,768
and 2,022 in the Willamette
River. Unlike the lower
river, legal-size sturgeon
populations appear to be
growing above Bonneville
Dam, said Brad James, a
Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife biologist.
This year's harvest guide-
lines for sturgeon fisheries
above the dam haven't been
determined.
Outdoors writer Bob Brown
lives in Roy. He can be
reached at robertb1285 @
fairpoint.net
Keegan Eatonville
beat Franklin Pierce 54-27 in an SPSL 2A high school wrestling meet.
Laccie Hill scored a team-high 19 points as Eatonville topped White River
61-57 and gained a share of the lead in the SPSL 2A girls basketball standings.
"Because it
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