Oregon High School Sports News

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.

The Metro League was well represented by current and former athletes at the 62nd Oregon Sports Awards hosted at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton Sunday night.

Two local athletes and a coach were honored at the Oregon Sports Awards Sunday night at Nike's Beaverton headquarters.

Megan Lam didn't care if her Sunset girls' swim team lost to Jesuit in a dual meet two weeks ago.

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.

RECAP: Senior Ashley Bolston scores 28 points in her final home game and sophomore Julissa Tago adds 21 for South Medford in the second round of the Class 6A state playoffs.

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.

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.

Four years is a lengthy period-too long if you ask Jesuit's Sean Calkins-to go without some sort of championship.

Players with ties to the Rogue Valley dominated season-ending all-conference voting in Cascade Collegiate Conference women's basketball.

It's possible that someday the question won't be where is Crosshill Christian High School, but about where the teams from the school have been.

The club also named its swimming senior athletes of the year, Perry Groves of McNary and Heather Williams of Sprague.

Portland-area high schools have begun announcing their 2014 Rose Festival princesses.

Crater senior Becca Heard is as optimistic as anyone, but even she couldn't help but admit to being taken aback by the start of Tuesday's Class 6A girls basketball state playoff opener against Forest Grove.

It wasn't that long ago that Jesuit was flying so far under the Oregon 6A girls basketball radar the Crusaders weren't any more visible than any other also-ran in the state.

The first round of Class 6A boys basketball state playoffs is interesting, in that in all but two of the 16 games, it's a first-time matchup for the 2013-14 season.