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7/28/2010 11:47:39 AM
North Marion graduate A.J. Christensen was one of the top hitters for IPFW this past season, leading the team in hits and RBIs, while hitting .325 with nine home runs. (Photo courtesy IPFW)
Every year of baseball has been an endeavor of change for A.J. Christensen. Over the past five years, he's attended four different schools, switched from aluminum bats to wood and then back to metal, and has seen the competition level rise with every step of the way. After graduating from North Marion High School in 2007, he went on to star at Clackamas Community College for two years and has now made the leap 2,000 miles across the U.
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7/28/2010 11:37:00 AM
AURORA — It’s not about how you start; it’s about how you finish. For the second year in a row, the North Marion summer baseball team started off slowly, desperately seeking for any sort of positives that could be found in a disheartening losing streak that featured a number of lopsided losses.
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7/23/2010 3:54:47 PM
MT. ANGEL — Of all the lessons taught to the Kennedy High School football team through the Virtue First program, charity is one of the most important, said coach Randy Traeger.
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7/23/2010 3:48:31 PM
MT. ANGEL — Just a few miles down the road from Kennedy High School sits Evergreen Golf Course, where Griffin Huebsch is going on his second year as a full-time teaching professional.
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7/23/2010 3:46:25 PM
GERVAIS — Paul Henderson has made it a point to blend the tradition of Gervais High School with excitement from the younger generation. That’s why the second-year coach of the Cougar boys basketball program has developed the theme of honoring the past and inspiring the future with the second annual Gervais High School alumni basketball game, which will be held Aug.
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7/20/2010 10:05:48 AM
MT. ANGEL — With just a bare minimum in their budget for supplies and equipment, the running programs at Kennedy High School rely heavily on fundraising projects for support.
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7/20/2010 10:02:29 AM
ST. PAUL — After the busy rush that leads up to the Fourth of July, organizers of the St. Paul Rodeo can finally return to their normal lives now that the show is over, the cowboys have gone and the 75th annual event has come to a close.
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7/20/2010 9:42:56 AM
AURORA — Hitting turned out to be contagious on Tuesday night at North Marion High School. Just when things finally started to fall in North Marion’s favor, with a 13-run sixth inning, Barlow countered with an 11-run inning of its own and rode out the momentum for a 23-16 win.
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7/15/2010 1:18:51 PM
AURORA — Throughout the summer, the North Marion baseball team has faced a gauntlet of some of the toughest competition in the state. Clackamas, the defending 6A state champion, and Westview, which features two of the top returning high school players in the state, have been among the Huskies’ opponents this summer.
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7/15/2010 1:14:51 PM
WOODBURN — Tennis coach Tom Lonergan can already see the benefits of Woodburn’s summer program. Although the Bulldogs have lost two of three matches this summer, after falling 40-19 to Clackamas last week, Lonergan said the team showed a great deal of improvement over its previous loss to the same opponent.
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