Oregon High School Sports News

Thirty years from now, people not just in Imbler but in the entire Grande Ronde Valley and all of Oregon will be talking about "The Game."

However, while the Sunset and Jesuit girls' soccer teams couldn't quite take the 6A state championship trophy home, the individual postseason accolades for each respective squad have been abundant.

After winning the Metro League, and their second straight 6A state championship against Central Catholic, the Jesuit boys' soccer team put five players on the all-Metro League squad, including player of the year Christo Michaelson.

Already considered one of the state's best, heated rivalries, Jesuit and Central Catholic will duke it out for the second occasion this season - only this time it'll be with everything on the line.

McGee's team - which was 0-12 in the PIL 5A last season - beat visiting The Dalles-Wahtonka 48-46 Wednesday night.

Some of it, obviously, is obvious. Two powerful football teams from two powerful Catholic high schools will square off for the biggest prize in Oregon football.

Not long ago, a sixth-place finish at the state tournament would have been a tremendous result for the Banks volleyball program.

Girls basketball: It's the second day of the high school winter sports season, and Central Catholic opens play in the Southridge tournament, playing the host Skyhawks at 5:15 p.m. ... De La Salle and Jefferson begin teir seasons at Jeff, 5:45 p.m. ... At 7:15 p.m., Cleveland is at McMinnville.

The West Linn girls swim team had one of its most successful seasons in school history last year and the Lions are hoping to duplicate or perhaps even improve this year.

To win a state championship, a boys' soccer team needs a lot of talent, and a dose of good fortune, some sort of unanticipated happening to transpire somewhere along the way.

Optimism is sky-high in Gaston, where the boys basketball team is arguably deeper and more talented than the one that captured a Northwest League championship last season.

The fall sports season is barely in the rearview mirror but, ready or not, the winter slate begins tonight for several schools in the Rogue Valley.

South Medford senior Kaylee Cooper has signed a letter of intent to swim for Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, Calif.

The boys' and girls' swimming teams at Sandy took very separate journeys as they navigated the 2012-13 season.

Five area varsity teams were honored as Academic All-State by the OSAA and the Dairy Farmers of Oregon after finishing in the top 10 schools in their sport and classification.

The playoffs are a whole new season, which is a good thing for Newberg boys soccer team, because the Tigers look like a whole new team since ending the regular season with three consecutive losses.

As the final Santiam Christian kill of the 3A state championship game cascaded to the floor, completing the Crusaders' three-game title win over the Valley Catholic volleyball team, something surprisingly remarkable occurred.

In conjunction with the Oregon Sports Awards , we are asking you, the fans, to help select male and female Oregon high school athletes of the month for November in football, soccer, volleyball and cross country.

Cascade Christian football players had an extra bounce in their stride, along with bling around their necks, on Monday after claiming the Class 3A state title on Saturday in Bend.

The squad that entertained intentions of making the 6A state tournament and displayed the talent to make that dream a reality, didn't envision a first round, five-set playoff loss to Glencoe.