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Two local athletes capped their fall sports seasons at the collegiate level with selections to their respective all-conference teams.

NASELLE, Wash. — Back in 2015, the second year after the switch to eight-man football at Naselle, senior lineman Ramzi Estes delighted in quoting Mark Twain: “It’s not the size of the dog in t…

TUMWATER, Wash. — To inspire the Warriors in battle, a shield, sword and ax form their emblem.

Six teams were playing on the final day of the 2018-19 season, and — not surprisingly — the Knappa Loggers were one of the final six, finishing fifth at the state tournament.

The Astoria swim team is ready to do battle in the tough Special District 1, as the 2019-20 season gets underway.

It was a positive ending to a rough season for Knappa wrestling in 2018-19.

Players gather for the annual team photo following the annual Turkey Bowl flag football game.

The 2018-19 basketball season was fun while it lasted for the Warrenton Lady Warriors.

A league re-alignment was one of the best things that could have happened for Warrenton basketball in 2018-19.

The numbers keep going up for Warrenton wrestling. The tournament placings, the rankings, the number of wrestlers.

The Seaside Lady Gulls spent the 2018-19 season proving it’s the results that matter. And that playing in the Cowapa League can help the ol’ RPI ranking.

For the last four years, the only question in Oregon 4A boys basketball has been: Who will Seaside play in the state championship?

Oregon class 4A high school wrestling: One more sport with a state champion from the Cowapa League.

Time for some rebuilding in the water — in and around the pool — for the Seaside swim program.

Another former Logger joins the coaching ranks at Knappa High School.

Last year's 5-11 league record for the Jewell girls basketball team … was not that bad, considering the competition the Lady Jays had to deal with in their own league.

The first year without Mark Fick as the Jewell basketball coach was a rough one for the Blue Jays.

Astoria wrestling is Under New Direction, as Doug Walsh takes over the Fishermen program, replacing Nick Roberts.

The 2019-20 Astoria girls basketball program could be going places where Astoria girls basketball has never been before.

The road traveled by Astoria boys basketball over the last three years has been a rough and rocky one.

NASELLE — While head coach Jeff Eaton has been the face and voice of Comets football for as long as anyone can remember, two others play an important role in the teams’s preparation.

The Banks Braves are set to defend their 4A football state championship this weekend, when they face La Grande at Hermiston High School Saturday at 6 p.m.

NASELLE, Wash. — When school was out in Coulee City, they left the reader board unchanged all summer.

The two teams that dominated Northwest League football this season also dominated the NWL’s all-league selections, as voted on by the league’s coaches.

ABERDEEN, Wash. — Naselle’s stellar football season continued Friday with a win that advances the Comets to the state 1B semifinals for the second consecutive year.

HILLSBORO — The best description of the Heppner Mustangs?

The first annual “Battle at the Bar” 3-on-3 basketball tournament is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 8 at Warrenton High School.

Local residents Cody McKinney and Jessica Mackley recently competed at the 2019 National Physique Committee Northwest Bodybuilding Championships Nov. 9 at Little Creek Casino in Shelton, Washington.

PORTLAND — There were lots of red shirts in the stands at the Chiles Center on Sunday for a University of Portland women’s college basketball game.

HEPPNER — Heppner has played stellar defense all season, and nothing changed Saturday afternoon against Warrenton.

That’s two down, two to go for the Knappa football team.

YAKIMA, Wash. — Naselle bounced back from a first-round defeat to keep its state trophy hopes alive Thursday.

Astoria and league champion Valley Catholic led the way in all-league selections this year, with the recent announcement of the Cowapa all-League boys soccer team, as voted on by the league's …

The future looks bright for North Coast girls soccer. Astoria and Seaside placed a combined 10 players on the 2019 Cowapa all-League team, with eight of those players returning next season.

The first Cowapa League state champion of the 2019-20 school year was crowned last weekend, as Valley Catholic defeated Sweet Home in the 4A volleyball state title match, last Saturday at Fore…

The Portland Trail Blazers have a new play-by-play broadcaster this season: Travis Demers, a voice some on the coast may recognize and know quite well.

EUGENE — Knappa’s Robert Piña-Morton set the pace in Saturday’s OSAA 1A/2A state cross-country championship at Lane Community College, leading for the first 2 miles before fading to finish sec…

PASCO, Wash. — Ilwaco runner Daniel Quintana put together his own equation for the WIAA state cross-country meet Saturday: Preparation + strategy = victory.

Girls

Two football teams headed in opposite directions met Friday night at CMH Field. And those same two teams just continued going their separate ways.

With their second straight Coastal Range League volleyball championship, Warrenton’s entire starting lineup received all-league recognition, announced during the recent league playoffs.