By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com Monroe’s Mirtha Lopez was named Player of the Year and the Dragon’s Head Coach Tony Parker. Lopez and Jefferson’s Nashea Wilson were unanimous First-Team selections for their team. Monroe finished 2A State Runner-Up and Central Linn finished sixth in 2A. Here is the full Central Valley Conference List: 1st Team: Mirtha…
Month: March 2020
2A Boys Basketball All-State Team
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com Toledo’s Conner Marchant won the highest honor in Boys basketball as Player of the Year. The Boomers Head Coach Eddie Townsend won Coach of the Year. Western Christian’s Payton Richardson and Alex Nicoli added to their accolades with first-team honors. Kennedy’s Luke Hall capped a great Senior year with a Second…
Crosshill Christian’s Bell Signs With Northwest Unviersity
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com TURNER, Ore.– Crosshill Christian Girls Basketball Head Coach Scot White had two things him and his coaching staff repeated every day at practice for their squad: “All it takes is all you have” and “Hard Work Makes Dreams Come True”. Kaylee Bell lived up to the billing, those two sayings, as…
Boys Basketball Academic All-State Teams
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com West Salem, Silverton, North Marion, several Salem-area schools in the PacWest Conference in 3A, Tri-River and Central Valley Conference’s in 2A made the Academic Top 10 List For Boys Basketball this Winter. 6A Sherwood 3.8 West Salem 3.72 Barlow 3.68 Mountain View 3.68 Lincoln 3.65 Grants Pass 3.61 Bend 3.59 Cleveland…
Most Memorable Moment Covering Sports
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com While talking to Santiam’s Colin Thurston earlier this week on Instagram, doing a feature on him and talking about that great St. Paul-Santiam game he played in his sophomore year, I couldn’t help to think about the best game I’ve covered. That Buckaroo-Wolverine game is a close second for me with…
Op-Ed: Playing Into The Summer?
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com Wednesday night it was brought to my attention on Twitter of what people in Iowa were doing during this Coronavirus. Sending out a petition to the Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) asking, begging, to let Spring sports spill over to Summer to allow kids to play out their full season…
3A Girls Basketball All-State Team
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com Clatskanie’s Shelby Blodgett won Player of the Year while the Tigers Head Coach John Blodgett won Coach of the Year honors. Here is the complete 3A State list: First team Shelby Blodgett-Clatskanie Jadyn Vermillion-Sutherlin Olivia Sprague-Clatskanie Allie Hueckman-Burns Matyson Siddoway-Vale Kiersten Haines-Sutherlin Second Team Chevelle Boyd- De La Salle North Catholic…
Playing More Soundly
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore– Hitting was South Salem Softball’s bread and butter last season, being the lead run producer entering the 6A playoffs last season, but the difficult thing for them was their defense that inhibited them overall. “Conversely we were giving up close to seven runs. We saw us being even better…
Thurston The Captain
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com MILL CITY, Ore.– Leaders and Captains find ways to get it done to help their team have a chance to win. During the third quarter of February 19’s Tri-River Conference league playoff game against Kennedy, Santiam’s Colin Thurston’s shoulder dislocated. It was the first of two dislocation’s the Wolverine Senior suffered…
Finding Ways To Honor Their Seniors
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– With four Seniors uncertain if they would play a single inning this Spring, North Salem Head Softball coach Jay Elders had an idea: Find ways to honor them somehow. Currently on their Facebook page, North Salem Vikings Varsity Softball, this week the Vikings squad will be spending a day…
Academic All-State Top 10
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com West Salem Wrestling (seventh in 6A, 3.44), Silverton (ninth in 5A, 3.13), Cascade (fourth in 4A, 3.22), Jefferson (eighth in 2A/1A, 3.31) hard work in the classroom placed them in the Academic All-State Top 10 Wrestling Teams this Winter. Here is the complete list: Academic All-State Top 10 Wrestling Teams 6A…
The Power Of Social Media In Sports
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– As many coaches, high school and college, and athletic administrators tell their student-athlete’s ‘be careful of what you do with social media. It could help or harm you down the road’. But with the time of uncertainty with Coronavirus and sporting events being postponed and/or canceled, some High School Teams…
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