Soccer star to play on State Select team

Soccer star Geovanni Ortega, a seventh grader at Sisters Middle School, has been chosen to play on the Oregon State Select Team, an Olympic development squad.

Ortega is a forward on the F.C. Bend U13 team.

Encouraged by his coach, Bob McCool, to try out for the Select Team, Ortega was successful at the December 9 tryouts.

The Oregon State Select Team will play a game next weekend in Portland, but the big event the players are preparing for is a tournament in Las Vegas on January 24.

Several more games will be played throughout the winter. Spring will bring continued action.

Eighteen of the squad of 36 will be chosen to attend a regional camp. There, players from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Hawaii, Alaska and California will train together, with a regional team chosen at the end.

Ortega is presently raising funds to get to the Las Vegas tournament. For more information call 549-1920.