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  • Rotary golf tournament on Monday
    Columiba County Rotary will hold their annual Barbara Bullis Memorial Golf Tournament on Monday, Sept. 8 at the Wildwood Golf Course. There is still time to enter the tournament, but space is limited to 31 foursomes (124 golfers). Registration is $80 per person. That includes a cart, donuts and ...

  • One points race to go at River City Speedway
    John Brewington The South County Spotlight There was just one day of racing at River City Speedway over the weekend, but with just one more counting race to go, there is a scramble for points going on. A two-day event had been planned by the Columbia County Racing Association, but rain ...

  • Cody Feakin now playing for Western Oregon
    Life can take strange turns sometimes. Scappoose High and Portland State University graduate Cody Feakin thought his college football-playing days were over. It turns out he had another year of eligibility he didn’t even know he had. On Saturday, he took the field at PGE Park against his ...

  • Tribe kicks off season with a win
    The Scappoose Indians took some big steps toward becoming a good football team on Friday, whipping Molalla in their season opener, 20-7. The Indians began with a nearly flawless drive down the field for a score, but were inconsistent for the rest of the half. They found themselves in a 7-7 tie at ...

  • St. Helens stumbles against Silverton in opener
    Turnovers can be costly to a football team, even more so when they occur in the red zone. The St. Helens Lions had that point driven home Friday night when they hosted Silverton in an endowment game, a 34-14 loss. The young Lions had a number of players getting their first varsity nod, and that ...

  • Indians’ soccer sets its sights high
    The Scappoose Indians are looking to make the state playoffs this time around. Last year, Scappoose finished fourth in the Cowapa League, won their first playoff game against Yamhill-Carlton, but then fell to Seaside in a match that would have put them in the playoffs. They hope to change that ...

  • Scappoose soccer girls will have new outlook
    Coaching the Scappoose girls’ soccer team is an opportunity to new head coach Chris Dorough. Dorough, 23, was the assistant last season but he certainly has the bona fides to do the job. He played soccer in high school at perennial powerhouse Catlin Gabel, and also all four years in college ...

  • St. Helens girls going with team concept
    New St. Helens girls’ soccer coach Diane Kadolph-Ray says it’s a team concept for the Lady Lions this season. Everyone is getting a fresh start. There were 34 girls out for the team this season, and she planned on dividing them up in varsity and jayvees late last week. Kadolph-Ray, ...

  • State playoffs goal for Lions soccer team
    They may not be the favorites to win the conference championship, but the St. Helens Lions boys’ soccer team figures to be in the upper echelon this season. Coach Rob Arnold, starting his first full year at head coach, has 12 returning varsity players this year, 10 of them starters. Arnold ...

  • Lions cross country has a good crew back
    It took longtime St. Helens cross country coach Gerry Tinkle a year to reload, but the St. Helens boys are again looking strong. After 26 years coaching cross country and track at St. Helens High, Tinkle has seen many more ups than downs with his teams. This year he may not have some of the elite ...