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Announcing the All-Mid-Valley boys swimming team
There are a lot of champions among the Statesman Journal All-Mid-Valley boys swimming team. Be it multiple event district champions like West Salem senior Micah Masei or multi-talented simmers like...
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Evina Westbrook and Maggie Roth named first-team all-tournament
South Salem senior Evina Westbrook and Silverton junior Maggie Roth were named first-team all-tournament for their performances last week. Westbrook was a unanimous first-team all-6A state tournament...
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Often overlooked, Dani Harley was big in South Salem's run
South Salem's Evina Westbrook (22) goes for the basket past Grant's Khiarica Rasheed (15) and Alexis Richmond (21) during the second half of the Grant vs. South Salem girl's basketball game to...
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Announcing the preseason ALL-USA Mid-Valley baseball team
This is the American Family Insurance ALL-USA Mid-Valley preseason baseball team for the 2017 season. Mitchell Bell The senior fireballer from Cascade was 6-4 as a junior with a 1.33 ERA and 102...
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Announcing the All-Mid-Valley girls swimming team
Sprague’s Alexis Smith competes in the 100 yard freestyle during the OSAA Class 6A Swimming State Championships at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. Swimming stars come...
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Announcing the All-Mid-Valley wrestling team
The Mid-Valley is known as a hotbed of wrestling. A long tradition of wrestlers winning state championships at every level will do that. This season was typical. The OSAA Wrestling State Championships...
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Evina Westbrook named Gatorade Oregon Girls Basketball Player of Year
Evina Westbrook, a senior from South Salem, has been named the Gatorade Oregon Girls Basketball Player of the Year for the season in a row. It is the third consecutive season a girls basketball player...
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Record-setting girls basketball players have elevated Mid-Valley
This has been an unprecedented time for girls basketball teams in the Mid-Valley. Never before have there been so many teams that have won state championships and placed at the state basketball...
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Cascade junior is the athlete of the week
Kelsey Molan has often been overlooked as a basketball player. The 5-foot-10 junior guard has always played a supporting role for Cascade High School’s girls basketball team. But during last week’s...
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Dayton dominates the 3A boys basketball all-state team
2016-17 Boys Basketball 3A All-State Teams Dayton’s Zach Bernards (11) drives toward the basket past Amity’s Matthew Brodeur (33) in a West Valley League game on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, at Amity High...
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Standout boys basketball players lifted teams to unseen heights
The Santiam boys basketball team celebrate after defeating Stanfield 57-54 in the state 2A basketball championship game on Saturday in Pendleton. (Photo: E.J. Harris / Special to the Statesman...
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South Salem's Nick McWilliams is retiring from coaching
South Salem Head Coach Nick Mcwilliams cheers on his team as the Saxons defeat Sunset 55-48 in OSAA Class 6A quarterfinals on Thursday, March 9, 2017, at the Chiles Center at the University of...
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Announcing the Sports Awards winter sports finalists
These are the winter sports finalists for the 2017 Statesman Journal Sports Awards. The winners will be presented at the June 6 Statesman Journal Sports Awards at the Salem Convention Center. Wrestling...
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Evina Westbrook, Kaiden Flanigan named senior athletes of the year
Sprague’s Kaiden Flanigan and South Salem’s Evina Westbrook were named the senior basketball players of the year by the Salem Sports & Breakfast Club at its March 17 meeting. Sprague senior Kaiden...
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Will the OSAA eliminate a classification in high school sports?
WILSONVILLE – Is the system broken and in need of a great overhaul? Or is it working well and only in need of small tweaks? Oregon’s high schools have been divided into six classifications for sports...
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Maygen McGrath's performances get South Salem off to strong start
While most pitchers were only hoping of getting a few innings in, Maygen McGrath asserted herself as an early-season force. South Salem’s Maygen McGrath pitches as the Saxons defeat Sprague 7-6 in the...
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Sophia Poole and Sydney Brown are 3A state players of the year
3A Girls Basketball Co-Players of the Year: Sophia Poole (Blanchet Catholic) and Sydney Brown (Salem Academy) Blanchet’s Sophia Poole smirks as she gets up off the court against Dayton in the OSAA...
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South Salem junior Ashley Zhu is the athlete of the week
Ashley Zhu, a junior golfer at South Salem High School, stands for a photo at Creekside Golf Course in Salem on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. Cascade's Kelsey Moran (5) looks for an open teammate in a game...
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Cascade doubles team has a bond that runs deep
TURNER – Jaja Osuna Sola and Tori Lewis didn’t come together as a doubles team by accident, and their bond can never be duplicated. When they were in kindergarten, their elder siblings were in the same...
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OSAA committee recommends eliminating a class
The Classification and Districting Committee of the Oregon School Activities Association is supporting a change in Oregon’s high schools that would eliminate a classification and drop to five classes...
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