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Oregon's High School Sports SourceDragons Avenge Losses to Raiders and Bulldogs
Boys Basketball - Boys Basketball Recaps Written by Allan Classen Sunday, 05 February 2012 22:11 Hits: 253 Dallas beat Crescent Valley at home 46-43 Feb. 3 on the heels of a 47-44 road victory at West Albany. Both wins avenged losses to the same teams in the first round of Mid-Willamette Conference play.
In both games, Dallas built substantial leads that vanished or nearly vanished down the stretch as Dragons missed foul shots. At West Albany, they lost a 19-point third-quarter lead in part because they missed their first five foul shots of the final period. Against Crescent Valley, a nine-point lead with 4:32 remaining in the game was whittled to two points in the waning seconds as Dallas hit only four of 12 free throws in the fourth period. Central massacres Newport and Roosevelt wants respect....
Oregon High School Sports - General Written by Jake Shields Saturday, 04 February 2012 09:06 Hits: 253 What everyone thought to be the top contender in the state for a state championship, Newport proved to buckle and unravel under the more dominant pressure of Central on Friday night. In Newport, Central got down and dirty on defense and forced Newport into bad shot selection, constant turnovers, almost zero rebounding and, what those around me pointed out, was a complete unraveling of the Newport team. Central was suffocating on defense and forced Newport to do exactly what it wanted, not score (0 in 4th qtr). Then on offense it maticulously chunked away a bigger and bigger lead until they left the City of Newport with a jaw-dropping 37 point win. You read it right 37 points. Yes, 59-22. Newport failed to score in the 4th quarter. What to say other than I was wrong with Newport after what I saw last night? They fell apart when the adversity of Central and their daunting defense went into their gym and gave them all they could handle. Tanner Omlid was prolific and everyone on Newport shrinked back into his shadow. Roughriders Ready for Respect
Boys Basketball - Boys Basketball News Written by OregonPrepSports.net Friday, 03 February 2012 15:09 Hits: 1565
What is surprising, however, is that the RoughRiders have assembled their impressive 2011-12 campaign with 3 key returning starters on the sidelines. Senior Guard Bryan Archie, senior forward Juwan Feliciano and junior forward Jomarri Gable have been out of the lineup for most of the year. Despite missing these key members, the Riders have achieved success on the hardwood, losing just 3 difficult games. 5A Mountain View (currently #2 in OSAA RPI) handled them, Seaside (17-1 / OSAA #1) won a heartbreaker on a buzzer-beater, and Yamhill-Carlton squeezed out a 4-point win in the championship game of a 3-day tournament at North Marion North Medford Names Mitchell
Football - Football News Written by Jay Reese Thursday, 02 February 2012 14:09 Hits: 264 New Black Tornado Football Coach Has Local Ties
The North Medford Black Tornado is expected to formally announce shortly the hiring of Mike Mitchell, who is currently at Sandpoint High in Idaho, as their new head football coach.
The once-storied Black Tornado program has suffered 6 straight non-winning seasons, and Mitchell becomes their 5th. head coach since 2003.
Mitchell attended OSU (1965-67), and earned his Masters Degree at Idaho State, and his Doctorate of Athletic Administration at Pacific Western University.
Mitchell is in his 5th year at Sandpoint, and served as Vice Principal as well as football coach.
The Bulldogs have been to the State Playoffs in 4 of last 5 years. Sandpoint played for the State Championship last fall, losing to Blackfoot, 29-23. Mitchell has won 4 League Titles at Sandpoint, and also won a college conference title at DeAnza College.
Mitchell was at Humboldt St. in mid 90's, as the Lumberjacks' Offensive Coordiantor.
Mitchell began his coaching career in 1972 at South Albany High, and has included runs at three other Oregon high schools, Grants Pass, Hidden Valley, where his 1978 team was the AA state runner-up, and Oregon City, and three colleges, including Montana Tech, as well as Humboldt State, DeAnza College.
Congratulations to Tornado!! #2 Newport Escapes Double OT Thriller
Boys Basketball - Boys Basketball Recaps Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan) Wednesday, 01 February 2012 21:33 Hits: 2568
Turner - Second ranked Newport (15-1, 4-0)nearly saw their showdown by the sea Friday with 4A top ranked Central (15-a, 4-0) lose some luster Wednesday in Turner, as Cascade (8-10, 1-3) took the Cubs to double OT, and had the last look at a 14 footer for the win.
Newport's Drew Dinwoodie made only the second of 2 free throws with 4.8 seconds left, but Cascade's Orion Wright was unable to extend his game and career high 24 point night with one more basket, and the Cubs escaped the Cougar Den still tied with the Panthers atop the Oregon West League.
2012 Football Signings
Football - Football News Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan) Wednesday, 01 February 2012 07:00 Hits: 3522 National Letter of Intent signing day is Wednesday, Feb. 1st., and again this year, a number of Oregon athletes are going to continue their careers on the gridiron as well as in the classroom. Oregonprepsports.net has compiled a list of those who have committed, and will update the list as additional commitments are made. Cascade Survives Struggle With Stayton
Girls Basketball - Girls Basketball Recaps Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan) Friday, 27 January 2012 23:35 Hits: 2403
Turner – The season hasn’t gone quite as well as expected for defending Oregon West and 4A State girls’ basketball champion Cascade, as the Cougars accumulated 4 non-conference losses. But there weren’t many who expected eleventh ranked Cascade to struggle with struggling Stayton. The Eagles entered Cougar country for the first of the season’s “Shaff Road Showdowns” with only 5 wins to their credit, including wins over Sweet Home and Taft, both of whom are 1 win teams 2/3s of the way through the season.
First year Stayton coach Melissa Hollenbeck, herself a Stayton alum, understands that records mean nothing when the Eagles and Cougars lock up though, and anything goes. More importantly, she convinced her relatively undersized players of that too. So long as they played with relentless effort, they would have a chance.
And if they had been able to shoot free throws better, they would have had the win. After 2 and a quarter hours, and 55 fouls later, Stayton came up just short, losing 60-57 to Cascade in a bruising battle that had more physical contact than a rousing game of “Whack a Mole.”
The Eagles shot only 37% from the free throw line, and missed 5 straight in the final 2 minutes of the game, before Dlanie Coates made the second of a pair that kept it a one possession game.
The Cougars in contrast connected on 62% of their free throws, and though Sadie Trump made only the second of two with 3.6 seconds left, it did force Stayton to take a 3 pointer with their last shot. The shot never drew iron, and Cascade escaped with the bruising win, one that featured multiple technical fouls, and multiple players knocked out of the game with injuries, as well as several disqualified on personal fouls.
4A Boys Basketball: One Month Until the Playoffs...
Boys Basketball - Boys Basketball News Written by Jake Shields Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:25 Hits: 6617 Where does 4A basketball stand now? It has been a little over three weeks since our last post, and a lot of intriguing things have happened in the 4A landscape that has changed a couple of my thoughts and opinions about the impending play-ins around the state and playoffs at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis. I have had the opportunity of seeing some of the better games in the last three weeks and I have a little bit clearer picture of where teams are at in a bunch of different categories. Lets go through the OSAA top 5 as of January 23rd.
#1 Central Panthers (12-1) Central is still who we thought they were, an elite program with an elite player and not much else to show. If they can get a slim lead on a team they will milk it by going four corners and shortening the game. They play extremely intense in your face man to man. Against teams that can overmatch them on the boards and has someone to defend their only real deal player (Tanner Omlid), they are going to struggle (see Roosevelt). Teams that Central will have problems with later in the season are Newport, Seaside, Roosevelt and Newport again.
#2 Seaside Seagulls (16-1) Seaside is a HUGE surprise. Ranked #1 for a short stint the last couple of weeks, they have gone on a 15 game winning streak since losing its first game of the season. The only game Seaside lost was to #3 Newport. In a recent article by The Oregonian Seaside coach Bill Westerholm said of Newport, “They’re a team with good athletes and they’re physical. They kind of opened our eyes that we can’t go through the motions. They were so physical, getting into our offense was almost impossible.” The question that one can ask is who has Seaside played outside of Newport? They have beaten #6 Roosevelt, #7 Sisters, and #13 Philomath. They have moved into one of my Elite 8/Possible Final 4 Teams. Can they win the Cowapa? Can they beat Tillamook? Can they beat Scappoose who is starting to look better and better each week? Turner Returns To Cascade
Football - Football News Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan) Wednesday, 18 January 2012 20:24 Hits: 2979 5A Coach Of The Year's Career Comes Full Circle
If you haven't been around Oregon high school football for 35 or more years, "Cougar who was a Cougar becomes a Cougar again as Turner returns to Turner" might sound like some sort of riddle. But while possibly surprised, those of us with more Friday nights under the lights than we can count can understand the rhyme immediately.
Steve Turner, the 5A Coach of the Year, who led Mt. View past Marist and Sherwood to the 2011 OSAA 5A State Championship, is returning to where his career started, assuming the head coaching job at 4A Cascade, located in Turner.
The opportunity developed when Karl Elliott, who hired Turner for his first coaching job as an assistant at Cascade, re-retired. Elliott, who had originally retired from Cascade, only to come out of retirement 4 differnet times, including 3 years ago back with the Cougars, will leave a program in the hands of a former player or assistant for the third time.
Tuesday Tipoffs In The High Desert
Boys Basketball - Boys Basketball Recaps Written by Jay Reese Wednesday, 11 January 2012 11:52 Hits: 702
Tuesday night Hoops in the High Desert…the Cougar was a hit with kids at Mt. View on this night!
Sr. James Reid of Mt. View scored well below his season average with just 15 points, and the #2 Cougars roll on to thrash Summit, 63-36.
Mt. View rebounded strongly after suffering a loss to 4A #5 Sisters Saturday night on the Cougs home hardwood.
Mitch Modin pumped in 13 and the Cougars improve to 10-4, and visit crosstown rival Bend (8-5) Friday night.
Mt. View converted for 24 points off Storm turnovers. LSI Foretells State Tournament Prospects
Boys Basketball - Boys Basketball News Written by Allan Classen Wednesday, 04 January 2012 12:41 Hits: 3164 The Les Schwab tournament is a good vantage point from which to foresee the state 5A and 6A state tournaments.
With most of the best teams battling each other and three national powerhouse teams at Liberty High School during the holidays, the mid-December coach’s polls now look seriously out of date.
But as much as things looks new, much is the same.
Despite graduating its big stars and four starters, Jesuit is again the team to beat. They fended off two of their top rivals—Lake Oswego and Central Catholic—by the same 52-50 score and then stretched Oak Hill Academy to the limit in the championship game. Three other Oregon teams fell to the Oak Hill juggernaut by 40, 37 and 28 margins, including previously No. 1 ranked Westvew by a 80-43 score. Ehrhardt Signs with Corban
Girls Basketball - Girls Basketball News Written by OregonPrepSports.net Wednesday, 04 January 2012 12:28 Hits: 973
A 5-foot-9 guard, Ehrhardt is her school's all-time leading scorer and has been a four-year starter for Rogue River, which is part of the 3A Southern Cascade League. She has been named all-conference in each of her first three seasons, third team all state as a sophomore and honorable mention all state as a junior. SAC Championship Produces Double OT Thriller
Boys Basketball - Boys Basketball News Written by Bruce McCain Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:02 Hits: 5239
Defending 3A champ Horizon Christian defeated host Salem Academy, 60-39, in the boys 3rd place game. In the afternoon Consolation final, 3A Valley Catholic had little difficulty putting away 2A Portland Christian, 64-41. Once again, SAC athletic director and boys head coach Pete Potloff treated small school fans to a terrific opportunity to watch some of the best boys (and girls) teams from competing conferences get one final workout before league play begins in earnest next week. Valiants Roll to 1st SAC Tournament Title
Girls Basketball - Girls Basketball News Written by Bruce McCain Saturday, 31 December 2011 13:12 Hits: 2609
Host Salem Academy easily handled Horizon Christian, 61-23, in the 3rd place game. The Crusaders placed four players in double figures in the rout of the Hawks, making their first appearance in the premier small school holiday tournament. Cascade Christian thumped Western Mennonite, 49-28, to take home the Consolation title for the third time in four years. In the early morning game, Sheridan defeated Taft for 7th place. |
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The Roosevelt Roughriders of north Portland may be the most underrated team in the state at any classification. Last year's team lost in the semifinals to Phoenix (the eventual State Champions) on a heartbreaking buzzer beater. That team only had 1 senior on the entire roster. So it may not come as a surprise to see Roosevelt sporting a 14-3 record, earning them the #5 spot in this week's 4A coaches poll (and #6 in the OSAA RPI rankings).
Cubs Claim 70-69 Win Over Upset Minded Cougars
Never A Dull Moment In The Shaff Road Showdown
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Rogue River senior Alli Ehrhardt has signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball at Corban University.
SALEM - Undefeated and defending 2A champion Western Mennonite pulled out a thrilling, 71-63, double overtime victory over 3A Cascade Christian, to win the 8th Annual Salem Academy Crusader Christmas Invitational for the second straight year. The Pioneers and Challengers have met in the tournament finale’ three straight years and Friday’s game was as close as possible, before Western Mennonite used a 7-0 run to open the second overtime that sealed the victory.
SALEM – Valley Catholic broke open a 26-26 halftime score to pull away from Portland Christian, 55-41 in the championship game of the 8th Annual Crusader Christmas Invitational Tournament hosted by Salem Academy Christian. After falling to host SAC, 91-63, in the championship game last year, the Valiants finally broke through to the title behind a relentless defense that forced more Royal turnovers than points in the third period.
