Dohrmans ready to take athletics and scholarship to the next level

ANDREW CHRISTIANSEN
Reporter

     Goldendale High School will have a different look next year with the graduation of Eric and Nick Dohrman. The twins have been prominent in high school, ever since their opening day, as freshmen. Both are good athletes, and both have been active in school activities and government.
     They claim to be polar opposites, although Eric and Nick are identical twins. According to Nick, Eric is smarter, and according to Eric, Nick is stronger and faster.
     Neither one is a slouch in academics or athletics. Nick has been a pitcher since little league, and his battery mate was his brother, Eric. While they like playing on the same teams, when it came to classes, their mutual desire was to be separated.
     “We never really discussed it,” says Nick, “but we both chose to be in different classes.”
     They admittedly aren’t the closest of twins, in that they don’t dress identically and have clearly separate identities, but their mutual respect is evident.
     Nick says of Eric: “He’s a good guy, one of those guys you want to have around. Lots of fun. Not real outgoing, but once you get to know him, you don’t want to be without him.”
     Eric says Nick’s best trait is that he is passionate about what he chooses to do. He does a lot of things, but he doesn’t take on more than he can do his best at. Nick will put all he has into whatever he does.
     All sport, all team
     Among the things Nick chose to do at Goldendale were football, basketball and baseball. His list of accomplishments is impressive. As a football player, Nick was selected third team all-league running back as a sophomore, first team all-league running back as a junior, honorable mention all-state running back as a junior, second team linebacker as a junior and first team running back and second team linebacker as a senior.
     Nick was second team all-league in basketball as a sophomore and a junior, and honorable mention all-league as a senior.
     Better yet, he was a first team selection as a sophomore, junior and senior in baseball, and was player of the year as a senior. His baseball exploits will help with school, as he attends Wenatchee Valley College on a baseball scholarship.
     While he claims Eric is the smart one, Nick is also a member of the National Honor Society, member of FBLA and is the ASB vice president. He earned scholar athlete designation as a freshman.
     Eric dropped baseball when he turned 12 There’s not much of a future for left-handed catchers. He played basketball through his junior year and focused on band and track as a senior.
     Eric was a scholar athlete for winter and spring as a freshman, sophomore and junior. As an undersized shot putter, Eric was phenomenal in his senior year. He increased his shot put distance more than two feet during the year.
     “Since I am not as big as most throwers, I have to focus on technique,” says Dohrman. He explained that a change in his footing brought about the first foot increase, and it was the level of competition at the District meet, this year, that pushed him all the way to State.
     Eric says he is good at juggling a lot of things. In addition to the sports, Eric this year Eric has been juggling his college applications, play practice, band, and his responsibilities as president of FBLA and ASB. He is a member of the National Honor Society, was Drama Club president as a junior and vice president as a senior. He was also FBLA president as a junior.
     Eric’s success in academics earned him a full scholarship to Washington State University, where he plans to major in sociology and criminal justice. Thanks to completion of college classes through Columbia Gorge Community College, Eric will essentially enter WSU as a sophomore, expecting to graduate in three years. He will go on an Latter Day Saints mission following WSU and hopes to attend BYU law school.
     Polar opposites, they might be, but they arrived at similar ends for high school careers. They were fully engaged in scholastics and extracurricular activities, including school government and athletics. The 2008-09 school year will be much different without the Dohrman name among the school highlights. There is no doubt that Eric and Nick will take their unique personalities, talents and leadership to the next level at Wenatchee and Pullman.

Merger pays off for Klickitat-TLG

     
     It was clear after last season, that neither Klickitat nor Trout Lake-Glenwood would be able to contend against the likes of LaSalle, Riverside Christian, or Lyle-Wishram without some changes. The resulting merger of the two teams filled the holes quite well.
     The combined Klickitat-TLG team showed promise throughout the year, but was only fourth best going into the playoffs. Their great play in knocking off LaSalle is history now, and the team was rewarded in voting by the coaches, which placed four players on the 12 man all-opponent team. Kris Wood earned his fourth selection to the team, along with fellow pitcher, Jeromie Mason. Also named were Seth Davis and Dannon Kavanaugh. Klickitat-TLG was voted winner of the sportsmanship award.
     Lyle-Wishram’s pitching ace, Cord Cothren (9-2 with a 3.11 ERA) and slugger Mike Eiesland (.478 average with six homeruns and 31 RBI), were easy selections to the all-opponents squad. Cothren was also selected to play in the all-state feeder games, in Naches.
     Tyler Freemantle made the team for the Cougars, providing spark at bat and on the bases (.375 average and 16 stolen bases), and solid defense at catcher.
     Coach of the year honors were shared by Lyle-Wishram’s Scott Myers and LaSalle’s Rusty McEwen.

Dove qualifies for third trip to National rodeo

     Mitch Dove will make his third appearance at the National High School Rodeo following his qualifying runs in calf roping at state finals in Ellensburg, last weekend. In addition to earning the trip to Nationals in Farmington, N.M., Dove received a $1,000 scholarship from the Washington State High School Rodeo Association.
     Participants had to place in the top five in their event at the state championship in order to qualify for Nationals.
     Those placing fifth through 15th qualified for the Silver State Rodeo in Fallon, Nev. Members of the Goldendale high school rodeo club who qualified for Silver State were Bickleton’s Cody Loomis and Craig Osborne; Lacie Bradley, Kane Thiele, and Mason Chambers of Goldendale, and Centerville’s Rachel Cameron, Cole Cameron.