By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com TURNER, Ore.– The Boys of Summer are back. As the weekend comes to a close Sunday, the Stayton Bandits converged on Turner City Park for one of their first practices of the summer season. 12 kids were out in the afternoon sun knocking off the cobwebs from the quarantine for the…
Month: May 2020
Hmura Reminiscences On Time With Zenith Team
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– Soccer has gave South Salem’s Allison Hmura a lot of life lessons as the Saxon Senior prepares for her next journey at Linfield. It taught her how to work in a group, problem solve and how to be a leader on-and-off the field. So as her club season, with…
Ebbs Wins Oregon Gatorade Softball Player Of The Year
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com KEIZER, Ore.– McNary’s Taylor Ebbs picked up a major award entering her Senior Season with the Celtics: Gatorade Softball Player of the Year for Oregon. The organization picks out Top 5 nominations and send out an email to the coaches letting them know they have a player on the list. The…
Overcoming Injury To College-bound Runner
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– Injuries are always scary, but broken bones are terrifying. Running has always been in South Salem Senior’s Mackenzie Caprino’s life, ever since she was five years old. Competing with Salem Track Club, running in Middle School and eventually to the High School level with the Saxons. But, as her…
South’s Olsen Signs With South Virginia University
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– As the sun sank on the late-May evening, a small gathering gathered at a house just off of Croisan Creek in South Salem to see Saxon Senior Gretchen Olsen sign her letter of intent to play basketball at Southern Virginia University starting this upcoming school year. Four years ago…
Bell Commits To Linfield
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SILVERTON, Ore.— Silverton Head Coach Lucky Rogers remembers in between Emmett Bell’s sophomore and junior seasons with the Foxes, there was a spark in the pool. Following his Junior season, Bell approached Rogers after helping the 200-yard Medley team qualify for State, asking what he needed to do to do to…
West Salem’s Arritola, Hagan Going 4-Year Level
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– Here’s an interesting fact. Pretty astounding thinking about it. West Salem’s Cameron Hagan and Blake Arritola have been playing together for 15 years, dating back to their days on the Little League sandlots living the baseball dream. They’ve played High School baseball team together with the Titans and followed…
More Than Just A Team
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com DAYTON, Ore.– It’s weird to think that this upcoming weekend would have been State Championship Weekend. For Dayton, the only thing that had stopped them seeking their sixth-straight 3A State Championship appearance and tenth since 2002 was COVID-19. But even the virus couldn’t stop the Pirates from honoring five of their…
Kennedy Honors Senior Trio
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com MT. ANGEL, Ore.– Community is family. Family is community. Kennedy had the perfect monster, the perfect set-up this season to possibly make it to the 2A/1A State Championship Game for the third-year running this Spring. A week into their journey coming on the heels of their 2A State Championship wins in…
Central’s Mendazona Gearing Up For The Next Chapter
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com INDEPENDENCE, Ore.– California baseball is a whole different animal. The teams, the players, the competition is on a whole different level down in the Golden State and Central-Grad Peter Mendazona adjusted accordingly over the last two years. Playing at Feather River College in Quincy, California, about 83 miles east of Chico,…
Maurer Looks Ahead After Tough Finish To Prep Career
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com STAYTON, Ore.– It wasn’t the year that Stayton’s Sydney Maurer was expecting. It was one of those years in which she, Alysha Sims and Emma Heuberger were expecting to build from after the Eagles reached the 4A State Playoff Opening Round for the first-time since the 2013-2014 season last Spring. For…
Making The Most Of The Opportunity
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.— We’ve heard the phrase, ‘The new normal’ the last eight, nine, ten weeks since the lockdown went into effect in Mid-March. Now the dust is settling from that time, the question is becoming what is to come of it? We’re still in recovering as the State is opening up…
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