Following a Wednesday meeting, the Oregon School Activities Association stopped short of completely canceling the high school spring sports season, but if there is a chance to play, it won’t be for very long.
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As high school senior athletes are having to sit and watch their final season of sports slip away, at least one had a little something to celebrate Wednesday in Warrenton.
A winter sports season that was cut short for many still had some highlights for local area athletes at the college level.
Their season ended up short of a return trip to the state tournament, but the Warrenton girls basketball team at least picked up some good news last week, with one of their two seniors selecte…
While the state champions of Toledo swept the individual awards, the 33 members of the 2A all-state boys basketball team included two Knappa Loggers.
Every Knappa winter sports team made the top 10 list of the all-academic awards, released this week by the Oregon School Activities Association.
Like other professional, college and high school basketball players throughout the country, Maddi Utti’s junior season at Fresno State came to a premature end earlier this month.
It was the one sentence that athletes and coaches did not want to hear from the Oregon School Activities Association this week, but one which did not bring much of a surprise.
Denied a chance to compete for the state championship, the Astoria girls basketball team at least swept the Cowapa all-league awards, announced a week before the state playoffs began.
Various sources report that Jordan Poyer has agreed to a two-year contract extension with the Buffalo Bills, that will take the Astoria High School graduate through the 2022 season.
Cowapa League boys basketball had co-champions for the 20-19-20 season, and that set the tone for the all-league awards, announced last week.
Basketball players from the lower Columbia region suited up one more time as high schoolers, before many move on to the college level next season.
Four Warrenton players recently earned all-league honors on the Coastal Range all-league boys basketball team, announced at the conclusion of the league playoffs.
With the cancellation of the state dance and drill team competition, the last event of the season for the Astoria dance team Pizazz took place March 7 at Liberty High School.
Astoria High School has a future powerhouse wrestler in Will Hofmann, currently an eighth grader at Astoria Middle School.
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” — John Greenleaf Whittier
Astoria girls were set to play La Grande at Forest Grove
It’s a group that has been winning trophies their whole careers, and over the next three days these Lady Fishermen will be after their biggest catch ever.
Former Astoria volleyball coach Angee Hunt was a Hall of Fame inductee last month, as part of Thurston High School’s Class of 2020 athletic Hall of Fame.
‘Unfinished Business” is this year’s theme for the Astoria girls basketball program.
Gladstone took down a dynasty Saturday night. Or the closest thing to a dynasty in 4A boys basketball.
It was, unfortunately for the Knappa Loggers, a near repeat of last year’s state tournament results — a win over Oakland, and losses to Toledo and Columbia Christian, just in reverse order.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Naselle brought home the third-place trophy from the WIAA state basketball championships Saturday.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Ilwaco girls just didn’t get into their groove in their second game at the WIAA state championships.
PENDLETON — The stage is set, and the Knappa boys basketball program is closing in on its first state title since 2009, following a state tournament quarterfinal win Thursday afternoon.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Ilwaco girls’ quest for silverware in the WIAA state basketball championships ended Friday.
SPOKANE, Wash. — The Naselle boys stormed into the semifinals of the WIAA 1B state tournament with a come-from-behind performance that forced overtime and resulted in a 57-50 win Thursday.
SPOKANE, Wash. — The tears flowed for lone senior Jackie Steenerson as the buzzer signaled the end of her Naselle High School basketball career.
Between the first team, second team, third team, honorable mention and all-defensive team, the Knappa Loggers had four players and a coach earn individual honors this year, with the announceme…
More success for the Seaside Riptide sixth and seventh grade girls basketball teams in local tournaments last weekend.
Warrenton’s heaviest state qualifier won the biggest honor a wrestler can earn at a state tournament — a state championship.
With nearly three weeks between their last regular season game and their first playoff game, the Astoria girls basketball team managed to schedule a nonleague contest Saturday afternoon agains…
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AUBURN, Wash. — The Naselle girls basketball team is going to state, but only after some nail-biting final minutes in a loser-out playoff Friday.
Knappa's annual trip to Pendleton was really never in doubt, as the Loggers clinched their third straight trip to the state tournament following a 76-52 win over Jefferson, in a 2A boys basket…
Stayton did not get any style points, but a win’s a win, and the Eagles settled for a big victory Friday night.
For a time, the Warrenton boys basketball team was looking to shock the 3A state playoff world Saturday night at Dayton, where the Warriors were playing their first state playoff game in 10 years.
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The rosters for the 68th annual Oregon East-West Shrine Game were announced this week, with three local players included on the West squad.
Naselle’s Ethan Lindstrom has been selected to play in the Shriners’ East-West football game this summer in Yakima, Washington.
The Naselle basketball teams swept the recent Columbia Valley all-league awards, announced last week.
Seaside’s sixth grade and seventh grade girls basketball teams both won third-place in local tournaments last weekend.
The Astoria and Seaside wrestling teams qualified four athletes for the state tournament, which takes place Friday and Saturday at Portland’s Memorial Coliseum.
The North Coast swimmers had mixed results in last week’s OSAA state meet, held Friday and Saturday at the Tualatin Hills Aquatic Center.
It was “Flashback Night” Tuesday in Tillamook, where Banks and Seaside met for the second year in a row to break a tie atop the Cowapa League boys basketball standings.
The Banks Braves turned the tables on the Seaside Lady Gulls, and then some, in the last high school girls basketball game ever at Seaside High School.
Just seconds away from their third win in five days, the Warrenton Warriors came up just short Saturday night in McMinnville, where the Rainier boys basketball team rallied from a 50-46 defici…
It’s been 11 years since their last state title, but all the pieces finally seem to be falling into place for the Knappa Loggers.
The Knappa girls basketball team fell seven points short Saturday afternoon, as Faith Bible hung on for a 59-52 win over the Lady Loggers in a Northwest League playoff game at Vernonia High School.