Oregon High School Sports News

It's only late March, but the defending state runner-up Clackamas Cavaliers looked prepared to go another long postseason run.

As league play gets underway in the Pacific Conference and Northwest Oregon Conference, here's a look at the Hillsboro-area teams and player that are the rise, as well as a few teams who are seeing their stock take a hit.

Tinnell walked three and struck out four to pick up the win. Sprague scratched out single runs in the fourth and sixth innings.

For all of its 3A athletic dominance in the past decade, the only championship banner missing high on Valley Catholic's gym wall other than football is baseball.

When your team has one of the most potent offenses in the state, it gives a pitcher like Connor Mattison a reason to be confident.

Gladstone High School diamondmen split in last week's Tri-Valley Conference openers with Estacada, winning a 6-5 barnburner from the Rangers in an April 9 home game, after dropping a 2-1 heartbreaker at Estacada earlier in the week.

With a record turnout of 250 athletes, coach Jeff Kelleher sees a bright, bright future ahead for Clackamas High School track and field.

Oregon City thinclads were dominant in the field events in last week's Three Rivers League dual-meet opener at Grant, as both the Pioneer boys and girls breezed to victory.

Missing their top performer, Dante Meade , Milwaukie's boys track and field team came up short in last week's Northwest Oregon Conference dual meet with Sherwood, losing 93-52.

But on Tuesday, April 15 tax day it seems necessary to add one more: a great pitching performance from the Westview baseball team .

"I feel like with us, it's truly a group effort," the head coach of Banks' decorated softball program said Monday.

Last year at the Class 6A state tournament , Metro teams finished first , second , third and seventh .

Baker overcame extremely windy conditions, including gusts in the mid-30s, to hand Burns a 9-5 nonleague baseball defeat Tuesday at the Baker Sports Complex.

The Higgins family will have its own version of a Civil War on Wednesday when Canby visits West Linn for a Three Rivers League softball game.

Prep baseball: In Portland Interscholastic League nonleague action, Benson faces Lincoln at Sckavone Stadium, and Cleveland is at Grant, 4:30 p.m. ... The Metro League slate has Jesuit at Sunset, 4:45 p.m. ... In the Class 5A Northwest Oregon Conference, St. helens visits Parkrose, 4:30 p.m. ... 4A La Salle Prep is at North Marion, 6:30 p.m. ... In ... (more)

Sunset earned its first win of the Metro League season Monday with a 2-1 victory in nine innings over the Jesuit Crusaders.

Goutham Sundaram is going for three consecutive state tennis titles. And he says he has three main weapons - mental strength, competitiveness and movement.

Benson's baseball team broke through in a big and unprecedented way last week. The Techmen became the first team to claim a Portland Interscholastic League 5A series against Wilson.

Time will tell whether it was a turning point of the season. There's no question it was the turning point of the game.

The result was game with wild swings of momentum, one where Centennial ultimately pulled out an 11-9 decision after scoring three runs in the top of the seventh inning at Concordia University.