Sports
Published: 12/4/2012 8:51:27 AM
COTTAGE GROVE — One player doesn’t win or lose a game, but when your best player goes down it will have an impact. That is what St. Paul had to deal with Saturday in the Class 1A football state championship game against Camas Valley, which the Bucks lost 24-8, when Cole Weisz, the Casco League offensive and defensive player of the year, went down with an ankle injury with a little over six minutes left in the third quarter.
Published: 12/4/2012 8:55:12 AM
WOODBURN — It’s early December, and that means it’s time to get rolling into high gear with the high school basketball season.
The Woodburn Bulldogs boys basketball team has several key players returning this year, including four seniors in Martin Ray, Julian Veliz, Zack Husko and Misael Equiluea, and a pair of juniors, Rey Ruiz and Dimitry Cherimnov.
Published: 12/4/2012 8:57:44 AM
MOUNT ANGEL — Kerry and Peter Hall enter their fifth year co-coaching the Kennedy girls basketball team and this year may be their youngest team yet, but expectations are going to be the same: to return to the state playoffs again this year.
Published: 12/4/2012 9:00:49 AM
GERVAIS — The Gervais High School wrestling team is ready to embark on another season of mat action.
Head Coach Gilmer Miller said the Cougars have a number of key athletes returning — 11 in all — including two seniors who are expected to provide a high level of experience to the team this season.
Published: 12/4/2012 9:05:00 AM
WOODBURN — Hank Vredenburg returns to Woodburn this season as coach of this year’s girls basketball team, which is a very young team with a competitive spirit, he said.
Published: 12/4/2012 9:10:10 AM
AURORA — As much as Chris Parkinson hopes his team can keep turnovers to a minimum this season, there’s one the North Marion boys basketball coach can’t avoid.
Published: 12/4/2012 9:15:25 AM
AURORA — If you’re not already familiar with Lucas Randall, then perhaps you should be.
The North Marion wrestler has won three consecutive state titles, and this season he’ll be working to be the first four-time champion in program history.
Published: 12/4/2012 9:20:33 AM
WOODBURN — Just in time for the winter sports season, Woodburn High School has pinned down a new wrestling coach.
Jonathan “Dusty” Price, who is in his third year of teaching social studies at Wellness, Business and Sports School, comes to the helm of the team with many years of wrestling experience himself, having wrestled while attending Canby High School.
Published: 12/4/2012 9:24:17 AM
AURORA — North Marion lost six girls to graduation and returns just three with varsity experience. But that doesn’t dampen head coach Dennis Melcher’s spirits.
Published: 12/4/2012 9:27:18 AM
GERVAIS — Looking at the Class 3A West Valley Conference girls basketball teams as the season gets under way, Gervais Lady Cats head coach Adam Vasas said he believes Gervais has a chance to be one of the league’s best.
Published: 12/4/2012 9:31:04 AM
GERVAIS — Dan Murray wants to make sure the importance of teamwork always takes center stage this winter.
“I definitely want to win, but I have a big team aspect,” said Murray, who was recently hired as head coach of the Gervais boys basketball program.
Published: 12/4/2012 9:42:56 AM
ST. PAUL — Mike Murphy enters his 14th year at the helm of the St. Paul girls basketball program with a team loaded with talent. The Lady Bucks return 10 players from last year’s state runner-up squad and with that wealth of experience, Murphy’s expectations are high.
Published: 12/5/2012 3:03:12 PM
SALEM — The St. Paul girls basketball team fell to 0-3 last week after a 38-36 loss at Western Mennonite on Tuesday. The loss came on the back of two straight defeats to state runners-up from a year ago, Valley Catholic and Scio respectively.
Published: 12/11/2012 4:55:36 PM
SALEM — The St. Paul girls basketball team fell to 0-3 last week after a 38-36 loss at Western Mennonite on Tuesday. The loss came on the back of two straight defeats to state runners-up from a year ago, Valley Catholic and Scio respectively.
Published: 12/11/2012 4:59:49 PM
MOUNT ANGEL — It was a wire-to-wire win for the Kennedy High School boys basketball team over Gervais High School last Wednesday evening. The Trojans jumped out to a 5-0 lead over the Gervais Cougars and never trailed in the game, winning easily by a final score of 49-33.
Published: 12/11/2012 5:02:58 PM
MOUNT ANGEL — It was a classic, closely-fought basketball game that was in doubt until the final horn sounded. On the evening of Dec. 5, the Gervais Lady Cats and the Kennedy High School Trojans went back and forth for the full 32 minutes, but neither team could pull away in a battle of two evenly-matched squads.
Published: 12/11/2012 5:06:54 PM
AURORA — North Marion girls basketball coach Dennis Melcher said pressure defense will be the key to North Marion’s success this year. Against Roosevelt on Friday the team turned his philosophy into execution and came away with a 59-42 victory to improve to 1-2 on the year.
Published: 12/11/2012 5:08:40 PM
WOODBURN — The Lady Bulldogs put up a good fight Friday night at home against Forest Grove, but ended up with a last-minute 42-40 loss.
The first quarter looked promising for the Woodburn girls basketball team, outscoring the Vikings 15-9.
Published: 12/11/2012 5:13:51 PM
ST. PAUL — With just three days to practice after St. Paul’s loss in the 1A football state championship game on Dec. 1, Bucks head basketball coach Vince Drago didn’t know what to expect from his team in the season opener versus Arlington on Friday.
Published: 12/11/2012 5:18:40 PM
FOREST GROVE — The Woodburn Bulldogs boys basketball team took an early 4-0 lead on the road in Forest Grove on Friday night, but the Forest Grove Vikings, cheered on by a raucous home crowd, turned it on from there.
Published: 12/17/2012 7:52:52 PM
SALEM — The Woodburn girls basketball team put together its best game of the year Friday at Sprague High School in Salem, beating the Olympians 66-16.
Woodburn led 20-3 at the end of the first quarter and led 25-3 with 2:16 left in the second quarter before Sprague scored its first field goal of the game.
Published: 12/18/2012 2:39:18 PM
WOODBURN — Friday night’s nonleague basketball game between the Millers of Springfield and the Woodburn Bulldogs was great entertainment, but the ending was a disappointment for the home crowd in Woodburn.
Published: 12/18/2012 2:36:10 PM
NESTUCCA — The North Marion wrestling team garnered five individual titles and took first place overall Dec. 15 at the Bill Hagerty Invitational at Nestucca High School.
Published: 12/18/2012 3:47:54 PM
MOLALLA — After sleepwalking its way through the first half of its home contest versus Jewell, St. Paul snapped out of its trance in the second half and went on to victories over the Blue Jays and Country Christian this week.
Published: 12/18/2012 3:48:18 PM
MOLALLA— St. Paul boys dropped a pair of tight decisions to Casco League rivals Jewell and Country Christian this week, but despite similar score lines, Bucks coach Vince Drago felt quite differently after each game.
Published: 12/18/2012 3:51:15 PM
AURORA — The North Marion girls basketball team went 2-1 at its annual Holiday Classic last week, beating Molalla 43-35 on Saturday to earn third place.
Published: 12/19/2012 5:35:28 PM
WOODBURN — The accolades continue to pile up for the Woodburn boys soccer team. Class 5A coaches recently voted junior Michael Hobson as state player of the year and coach Carlos Horcos as state coach of the year, after both helped guide the Bulldogs to its third straight state championship.
Published: 12/21/2012 5:08:28 PM
ST. PAUL — Once again St. Paul was unable to get over the hump late in a Casco League contest and now finds itself a few feet deeper down in a sizeable early-season hole.
Published: 12/21/2012 5:08:39 PM
ST. PAUL — It’s been customary over the last several seasons for St. Paul and Perrydale to play for a district championship in their third meeting of the season.
Published: 12/26/2012 4:39:26 PM
AURORA — It was a stellar season for Edgar Salgado.
The talented North Marion boys soccer player recently received all-state honorable mention, a recognition that Huskies coach Rafael Pelaez said is rare in the program’s history.
Published: 12/21/2012 5:02:01 PM
WOODBURN — At the end of the first quarter it appeared Woodburn and West Salem were in for a dogfight. But turnovers and missed opportunities haunted the Bulldogs throughout the game and the Titans came away with a 73-56 victory Tuesday evening.
Published: 12/21/2012 5:08:49 PM
SALEM — Woodburn’s romp through Central Valley Conference schools continued last Tuesday. Four days after crushing Sprague 66-16, the Lady Bulldogs (3-3 overall) beat North Salem 63-27 Dec.
Published: 12/21/2012 5:04:54 PM
North Marion Youth Football is seeking head coaches for the 2013 season. The program is for players in grades K-8 and is open to players outside of the North Marion area.
Published: 12/31/2012 11:46:41 AM
WOODBURN — The basketball court at Woodburn High School is Doman-ated by one family: Sisters Brandi, Ashley and Kylie Doman make up nearly one-third of the girls varsity team.
Published: 12/31/2012 11:54:28 AM
GERVAIS — The Gervais High School girls basketball team made it look easy at times on Thursday night, as the Lady Cats dismantled the Gaston Greyhounds in the opening round of the Cougar Classic in Gervais.
Published: 12/31/2012 12:02:01 PM
ST. PAUL – St. Paul avoided a potential hangover coming off a loss in its previous game, a 40-35 setback against rival Perrydale, or the eight-day break that followed.
Published: 12/31/2012 12:06:46 PM
SILVERTON — The Woodburn boys basketball team came out with a stellar effort in the annual Silverton-Woodburn Classic basketball tournament, and it paid off with a solid win.
Published: 12/31/2012 12:10:45 PM
ST. PAUL — Unable to execute offensively in crunch time for the fourth consecutive game, St. Paul fell 38-32 to Condon/Wheeler on Thursday in the opening round of the Bucks’ Holiday Tournament.
Published: 12/31/2012 12:18:29 PM
ST. PAUL – The St. Paul and Kennedy boys basketball teams were both looking to finish off the Buckaroos’
holiday tournament with a win on Friday, but it was the Trojans who walked away happy after prevailing 56-49 in the consolation final at St.
