Oregon High School Sports News

After capping an emotional basketball season by leading their team to the Class 4A playoffs , Banks seniors Amy Hilger and Lauren Birr certainly earned themselves some time to relax.

The who's who of Beaverton's prep athletic landscape was on full display at the 62nd annual Oregon Sports Awards on Sunday.

After having its five-game winning streak snapped by rival Perrydale in excruciating fashion Feb. 18 in the Casco League semifinals, St. Paul had to refocus quickly for its third-place game versus C.S. Lewis Academy two days later.

RECAP: Eagle Point shoots just 14-for-61 from the field and falls behind big in the early going en route to a loss to West Albany in a Class 5A state quarterfinal game.

Much of the roster is young, but returning stars Amber Kuyl, Jaycie Endicott and Haylie Davis are three big reasons first-year coach Reeve Woodward still expects the Greyhounds to contend for another Northwest League title.

North Medford senior Ray Schireman has signed to compete in cross country and track with NCAA Division II Chico State in Chico, Calif.

In the gallery above, view images from the South Medford Panthers 46-35 win over the South Salem Saxons in the quarterfinals of the 2014 OSAA Class 6A girls basketball state tournament.

Glencoe athletic director Scott Ellis made the first public move toward filling three coaching vacancies at the school when he officially listed the football and boys soccer jobs Wednesday morning.

Lakeview High School Honkers baseball enters 2014 with new faces, a new coach, and high hopes for the upcoming season.A 16-11 record was just good enough to make the 3A OSAA playoffs last year, losing in the first round to eventual state champion Pleasant Hill, 11-4.

But hard work, perseverance, teamwork, team pride and a never-say-die attitude finally paid dividends for the seniors on Clackamas High School's boys basketball team Saturday night, as the senior-led Cavaliers topped longtime rival Lake Oswego 51-46 and realized their long-time dream of advancing to the 'big dance' in Oregon high school basketball.

The junior began the season as a little-known commodity. He ended it as the 126-pound state champion.

The West Linn wrestling team had one final goal it wanted to achieve in order to cap an all-around stellar season.

Last week's winner : Westview girls basketball earned 1,970 votes to be named The Oregonian's High School Team of the Week for Feb. 23-March 1. Crook County wrestling had a strong showing with 1,645 votes to finish second.

Patrick Mulcare touched down in Beaverton during the summer with a whole lot of fanfare, having been known as one of the fastest 200 Individual Medley and 100 backstroke swimmers in the nation.

Over a half century of fruitless, frustrating Sunset wrestling history came down on the broad shoulders of one young Kincaid Crile, in a match the Apollo fans will be talking about 10 years from now.

Newberg knew it would be difficult to match rival McMinnA ville's depth at the Pacific Conference boys district championship meet Saturday, but if its top guns could push their Grizzlies counterparts, it would bode well for the Tigers.

Facing Knappa in the Northwest League district title contest last Saturday, the Greyhounds boys basketball team opted for a different approach than it has often employed this winter: playing from the front.

When Jesuit soccer player and Loyola Marymount commit Antonio Porreco won the Gatorade Oregon Boys Soccer Player of the Year in February , the days his eyes welled up with tears as he felt his college soccer dreams slipping away seemed a distant memory.

After dropping three games to top Class 6A teams in December, South Salem spent much of the girls basketball season flying under the radar in the Central Valley Conference.

After having its five-game winning streak snapped by rival Perrydale in excruciating fashion Feb. 18 in the Casco League semifinals, St. Paul had to refocus quickly for its third-place game versus C.S. Lewis Academy two days later.