By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– It was the day before the season. Sun was out. Soccer was being played at West Salem High School. The Titans Girls soccer team with their four seniors and their solid Junior class behind them were out doing some light scrimmaging before their season opener at Sprague Monday night…
Month: February 2021
Grateful For The Opportunity
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com PERRYDALE, Ore.– Perrydale will find a way to be ready for their first games of the year this week with St. Paul and Crosshill Christian. Losing four seniors and a fifth-player to transfer, it’s going to be an interesting look for the Pirates as they went to work Saturday afternoon in…
Bringing The Energy
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com AURORA, Ore.– Lindy Wing knows a thing or two of the game of Volleyball. Playing it. Coaching it. But now she’s taking over the program she not too long ago was a player on at her alma mater at North Marion High School. A year ago, she was an assistant under…
Back In The Gym
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com AMITY, Ore.- Friday was a longtime coming for the Warrior Volleyball athletes of Amity. First-time in the gym as a complete unit coming off weeks of six-person pods with the hopes of this day coming to fruition. It’s been a rollercoaster of sorts for first-year Head Coach Amanda Grove, who went…
Living In The Moment
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com AMITY, Ore.—Amity will be going into next week’s game against Dayton with five Seniors on their roster. The quintet of Josh Wart, Kennan Graham, George Hatch, Nick McMullen and Ashton Pappas has seen a lot of curveballs thrown their way their Senior Year with what has been going on around them. …
Cascade Football’s ‘Building’ Year
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com TURNER, Ore.– Cascade only has one Senior on their Varsity Football roster. Yes one. On their football roster as a 4A school. But as strangely unique as it is, David Kanoff is ready for the challenge and knows the Junior Class behind him in a give-and-take type of relationship. “It’s definitely…
Preparing For The Unique Season
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com STAYTON, Ore.– In 19/20 years or so of coaching, this one has been one of those unique one’s for Stayton Head Coach Chris Shields. Keeping the kids involved with workouts and scrimmages waiting to see when their season will bring. Mix in Newport, who’s county is dropping to the ‘Moderate’-risk category,…
Leon Takes Interim Head Coaching Job At Cascade
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com TURNER, Ore.– It’s a unique situation that Cascade JV Head Coach Robert Leon has found himself in a week before their first game against Sweet Home. Taking the Varsity reins on a one-year basis as Cougar Head Coach Renee Cantrell tends to personal issues during Cascade’s six-week season. Cantrell will return…
The Return
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SILVERTON, Ore.– This moment was a longtime coming for Senior Larisa Kesch coming back from a torn ACL and Meniscus as the Silverton Girls Soccer season kicked off Monday afternoon at McGinnis Field. It was at Crescent Valley on October 8 when it all came to a crashing halt for the…
Entering Year 2 In Goal
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com STAYTON, Ore.– Stayton’s Karlee Tyler was once had play goalie as an eighth-grader before moving out into the field as a midfielder her freshman year, but once Sylvia Gomez graduated following the 2017-2018 season there was a need in goal. Enter Tyler. The Eagles bridged their Oregon West Conference-Title campaign with…
North Marion’s Hammack Signs With New Mexico State University
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com AURORA, Ore.– It was the icing on the cake on the eve of her Senior Year of soccer starting. North Marion’s Mya Hammack made it official Sunday afternoon on a homemade indoor basketball court, signing her Letter of Intent to play soccer at Division-1 New Mexico State University. Signing on the…
Preparing For Her Senior Year
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com STAYTON, Ore.– Jade Beaumont remembered dropping back to the center field fence against Philomath her sophomore year on April 19, 2019 and chasing after a fly-ball against the two-time Oregon West Conference. She went up and caught it as she approached the fence and the deep part of Center Field. “Nobody…
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