By Jeremy Mcdonald Jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com The Salem Sports and Breakfast Club honored West Salem’s Lizzy Bennett and Mady Diaz, Sprague’s Liam Spencer and Salem Academy’s Jackson Oglesby as their Senior Basketball Athletes of the Year Here’s the Press Release: Senior Athletes of the Year – Boys and Girls Basketball March 17, 2023 The Salem Sports and…
Track Round-Up: Jefferson Jump-Off Meet
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com Jefferson held the Jefferson Jump-Off Saturday with the Lions, Scio, Willamette Valley Christian and Falls City having athlete’s winning events. Here’s a little rundown of the results: Boys Willamette Valley Chirstian’s Caleb Reichelt jumped six-feet in the High Jump, winning the event by eight-inches over Jefferson’s Andrew Keena (5’4″). Falls City’s Kirk…
North Marion Pulls Away In 7-1 Win Over Crook County
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com AURORA, Ore.– Third game in and the North Marion baseball team may have etched out a groove for them to build from moving forward into the 2023 season. Donning their new-school version of the old retro Huskie uniform, their defense was there with intensity. Dawson Schrenk went five innings, striking out…
Thompson, Saxons Get First Win Of Season
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– South Salem’s Rowan Thompson had been working on her pitching endurance in the offseason and it showed right out of the gate back on Wednesday against Sherwood as she went a full eight innings with 18-strikeouts against the Bowman in the tough 6-5 defeat. Two days later the Saxon…
Kennedy Holds Off Regis 5-2
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com STAYTON, Ore.– Kennedy rose to the occasion in their first test of the young season when they were facing a scrappy Regis squad Thursday afternoon on the road. Ethan Kleinschmit was dealing, picking up where he left off last Spring when he pitched four innings of no-hit baseball with 11 strikeouts,…
Stayton Wins Home Opener Behind Connally’s Complete Game
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com STAYTON, Ore.– Wyatt Connally was on a mission out of the gate in his first start back in a Stayton uniform, going to distance and striking out 13 in the Eagles home-opening win over Valley Catholic 11-2 Wednesday afternoon. Setting the pace on the bump, but credits his defense and their…
Sprague-South Salem Lacrosse Opens Season With Win
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– The Sprague-South Salem Lacrosse team survived a lull in Tuesday night’s season-opening win against Tigard. The Tigers were chipping away at an 7-2 deficit and got it to 7-4 going into the fourth quarter before the Olympians pulled themselves together and rebuilt the five goal differential in the final…
Titans Hang On For Season Opening Victory
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.– The West Salem softball team’s offense was on fire in their season-opening victory against Forest Grove Tuesday afternoon at West Salem High School in their 12-9 victory. Scoring in every inning in the game coming off of Monday’s jamboree at Lake Oswego on 14 total hits. Mia Zachary, Mya…
Dallas’ Zajac Embracing The Moment
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com WILSONVILLE, Ore.– Dallas’ Chloe Zajac enters her final season as a Dragons softball player as the lone senior on the roster, with the bulk returning from last year’s 5A State Semifinal run entering this year, knowing that it’s a bittersweet moment as the squad opened the season with the Wilsonville jamboree…
SSBC Honorees For March 10
The Salem Sports and Breakfast Club honored McNary’s Max Blanco (Wrestling),West Salem’s Tommy Slack (Boys Basketball), West Salem’s Mia Piexoto (Girls Swimming), North Salem’s Icela Sanchez Rodriguez. (Girls Wrestling) and McNary’s Josh Friesen (Boys Wrestling). The SSBC also honored West Salem’s Reese Lawson, McNary’s Ali Martinez and North Salem’s Mariko Sonis for winning State Wrestling…
Cascade Repeats As State Champions
By Jeremy Mcdonald Jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com FOREST GROVE, Ore.– It’s hard to defeat a team three times in a season, especially when the latter of the trilogy is for all the marbles in the State Championship Game. And Cascade had found a way to repeat.Philomath and Cascade knew each other all to well with their two previous…
West Salem Finishes Sixth In 6A
By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com PORTLAND, Ore.– The West Salem Girls Basketball team wasn’t going away without a fight. At one point in the second quarter, the Titans trailed Willamette 25-11, only to get back within one with 2:56 left in the third quarter. A 19-6 run that had turned a possible blowout into a whole…
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