Woodburn Closes Out Regular Season With Win

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com WOODBURN, Ore.–  The Woodburn Bulldogs Boys basketball team ended one of those historic-feeling seasons the way they hoped.  Closing out a regular season that saw the squad win their first league title since 2008 and capped a 16-2 Mid-Willamette Conference league season 16-2.  Pulling away from Central late in their 53-47…

Local Wrestling Round-Up And Placers

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com Here’s a little round-up of the State Wrestling Tournaments up at Veterans Memorial Coliesum in Portland with placers of all the local Salem-area kids from the last three days. Let me know if I left anyone out, I’ll add them on here if I accidentally did. 6A West Salem’s Reese Lawson…

Girls Wrestling District Round-Up

By Jeremy Mcdonald Jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com 6A/5A Special District 3Ivy McIntosh won the 115 District Title.Polly Olliff (105), Addison McGrady (120), Delila Tormis (130), Evie Olliff (155) were District Runner-ups for the Dragons, who finished third as a team. Ah Pymm McDaniel (100), Katie Smith (105), Lindsey Faulkner (115) finished third in their respective weight classes. 6A/5A…

Woodburn Outlast Central For 9-0 Start to MWC Play

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com INDEPENDENCE, Ore.–  Woodburn came prepared for this Mid-Willamette Conference game Thursday night against Central.  Sitting at 8-0 entering the contest, knowing that the Panthers were two games behind them in the standings, they tried to simulate the crowd noise, the band noise as they jumped out to a 12-4 lead in…

JuCo Round-Up: Chemeketa Basketball Splits With Mt. Hood

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com The Chemeketa Women’s Basketball team entered Wednesday’s game with seven total players when they hosted the Mt. Hood Saints in NWAC South Region play.  But despite having two subs, the Storm rolled out to an 11-point halftime lead, leading Mt. Hood 35-24. A lull in the third quarter allowed the Saints…

Chemeketa Hot Start Leads To Win

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.–  Chemeketa started their final Crossover game against Tacoma on fire, leading the Titans 35-15 going into halftime and had it top-out at 27 midway through the third quarter when they led 48-21 on the Washington-based squad Saturday afternoon at Chemeketa Community College. “Our energy and everyone being on the…

Woodburn Battles Wilsonville In WIT Final Sunday

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com WILSONVILLE, Ore.–  Woodburn rose to the occasion coming out of the gate of the 2022-23 season by reaching the Championship Game in the highly competitive Wilsonville Invitational Tournament Sunday evening.  The Bulldogs took down Hood River Valley and Bend, the latter being sixth-ranked in the first coaches polls last week, to…

Chemeketa Women’s Basketball Has Balance Going Into Season

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.–  Last season playing with Central Wyoming College had taught 2021 South Salem-grad Malyah Bolden a few lessons before she transferred back to Oregon, now playing for her hometown Chemeketa Community College this season. “Just bringing in some experience from my past college and coming home is nice,” Bolden starts. …

Mid-Willamette Conference Boys Soccer Honors

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com McKay’s Juan Llamas won Coach of the Year and the Scots Diego Garibay won Player of the Year Here’s the Complete List 1st Team Luis Camacho Sophomore McKayDavid Garcia Junior McKaySergio Ruiz Junior McKayAbdoulie Jallow Junior McKayDiego Garibay (Goalkeeper) Senior McKayJairo Perez-Santiago Senior WoodburnJose Guzman Junior WoodburnGiovanni Lopez Junior WoodburnDevin LaCasse-Tran…

Storm Soccer Takes Non-League Game 6-2 Over Centralia

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.–  The Chemeketa Women’s Soccer showed a lot of their potential against Centralia Thursday afternoon in the Storm’s non-league match at Chemeketa Community College. West Albany’s Jenna Sally helped pace the offense, setting up opportunities that Chemeketa had and led to the 6-2 result in favor of the Storm.  Woodburn’s…

West’s Defense Sets-Up Roque-Manzo’s OT Game-Winner

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com BAKER CITY, Ore.–  This ended up being one of those close, great games that you hope for.   After the last two Shriners East-West All-Star Games being decided by a large margin, this was a nail-bitter in the annual All-Star Game put on by the Shriners to benefit the Shriners Hospital Saturday…

Woodburn’s Zamora Ready For Another Year At Chemeketa

By Jeremy McDonald jeremymcdonald73@gmail.com SALEM, Ore.–  It’s been nearly three years since Woodburn’s Carla Zamora battled through injury and showed her grit in the Bulldogs first-ever State Championship back in 2019 when they defeated Marist 1-0.  Playing slightly more than 66 minutes with five saves and was awarded Player of the Game honors for Woodburn…