Ready to run: Track teams enter districts on promising note – plus Fun Run results

May 2013 Posted in School, Sports | No Comments »

By James Day Nearly 700 runners and walkers participated in Saturday’s Silverton Health Fun Run. Dan Gallogly, 45, was the top men’s finisher in the 5K event in 17:57. Silverton’s Heather Bashor, 38, was the top female finisher and 15th overall in ...

Spring standings: Track, baseball promise an exciting May

May 2013 Posted in Sports | Comments Off

By James Day Sometimes I need some help to pull this thing off every other week. This edition’s column benefited greatly from Our Town correspondent Steve Ritchie, the track and field and cross country coach at Kennedy High School in Mount Angel. Ritchie, ...

Get a move on: Silverton Health Fun Run celebrates 30th anniversary

May 2013 Posted in Sports, Your Health | Comments Off

[caption id="attachment_3425" align="alignright" width="223"] Steve Ritchie and his daughter Shea in the 1998 Silverton Hospital Fun Run[/caption] By Steve Ritchie  Silverton is a town of many celebrations. The Silverton Fine Arts Festival celebrates a variety of art forms. The Silverton Poetry Festival ...

Change at the helm: SHS announces new girls basketball coach

April 2013 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The Silverton High School girls basketball program is under new management. Foxes athletic director Greg Kaatz has announced that Tal Wold will coach Silverton starting in the 2013-14 season. Wold, a teacher at Robert Frost School, has coached the ...

Sports update: Silver Foxes’ big finish

April 2013 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The Silverton Independent Youth Athletics Silver Foxes eighth-grade girls basketball team took home a state championship March 9-10 in Bend. The Foxes won all four of their games in the invitation-only event, which was being held for the first ...

A special run: SHS boys basketball takes third in state; Gengler tops school records

March 2013 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The Silverton High boys basketball team concluded a sterling 2012-13 season March 9 by taking home its second third-place state trophy in four years. The Foxes, who finished 23-5, downed Mountain View 66-54 in the third-place game at Matthew ...

Record-making season: Hoopsters post undefeated league season

March 2013 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The Silverton High boys basketball team finished a magical regular season with a 78-41 win Feb. 22 against Lebanon. The victory wrapped up a 14-0 Mid-Willamette Conference regular season for the Foxes. Silverton, which is 20-4 and ranked ...

Virtue First: Randy Traeger coaches lifelong lessons

February 2013 Posted in Community, People, Sports | Comments Off

Editor’s Note: Kennedy High Football Coach Randy Traeger, founder of the Virtue First program, is receiving the Service to Youth Award at the Mount Angel Chamber of Commerce Community Awards banquet Feb. 25. Here, sportswriter James Day shares impressions of ...

League dominance: SHS basketball mirrors football success

February 2013 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The Silverton High boys basketball team is picking up right where the football team left off. As in undefeated in Mid-Willamette Conference play and recipient of a lofty state ranking. The football Foxes finished undefeated in league play and ...

Perfection times two: Basketball highlights

February 2013 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day It’s been quite a couple of years for girls basketball at Mark Twain Middle School. The Mark Twain eighth-grade girls basketball team finished an undefeated season Jan 17. The Vikings were 11-0 in regular-season games and 6-0 in the ...

OSAA looks at realignment: Three scenarios being considered

December 2012 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day Just like presidential elections, whether you like it or not, OSAA reclassification comes along once every four years. The goal is to realign the state’s high schools into leagues and classifications in an effort to maintain competitive balance. The classification ...

Hall of Fame: Kennedy honors excellence

December 2012 Posted in Sports | Comments Off

[caption id="attachment_2932" align="alignright" width="300"] The Mount Angel Sports Hall of Fame recipients for 2012.[/caption] By Vince Teresi Kennedy High School Athletic Director Kevin Moffatt has seen another of his dreams realized. Along with his baseball team winning the state 3A/2A/1A championship in ...

Fall sports wrap-up: Awards, stats and some follow up on college athletes

December 2012 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The Silverton High dance team competed in three events at the Dec. 1 State Categories Championship in Tualatin, which featured 36 teams. The Foxes came home with third-place finishes in two of the categories, lyrical and jazz. The ...

Tackling the trail: 2,695 mile journey starts with a decision

December 2012 Posted in People, Sports | 1 Comment »

[caption id="attachment_2797" align="alignright" width="219"] Dorothy Brown-Kwaiser at Crater Lake.[/caption] By Steve Ritchie Most people would take a photograph of the achievement or call a friend to share the news. Cousins Dorothy Brown-Kwaiser and Melissa Kwaiser-DeKalita did a handstand or a headstand to ...

Football: Stellar seasons end for SHS, JFK

December 2012 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The best football season for Silverton High in 21 years ended Nov. 23 in the Class 5A semifinals. The Foxes, who last made it to the state semis during their run to the 1991 Class 3A state title, lost ...

Foxes dominate competition: Move on to playoff quarterfinals

November 2012 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day  The Silverton High football team has a rematch with West Albany set for 7 p.m. Friday at McGinnis Field, with a berth in the OSAA Class 5A semifinals on the line. The Foxes took apart Putnam of Milwaukie 49-0 ...

District champs: Stokley in cross country, SHS in football

November 2012 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The Kennedy High school girls cross country team captured the District 2 team championship Oct. 25 at Bush’s Pasture Park in Salem. The Trojans scored 49 points, led by district champion Lauren Stokley, who won the 5K race in ...

View from the top: Keith Garlinghouse fulfills quest to summit the ‘14ers’

November 2012 Posted in People, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day [caption id="attachment_2656" align="alignright" width="300"] Keith Garlinghouse and his daughter atop Capital Peak, one of the dozens of “14ers” he’s summitted.[/caption] “When I was a teenager, quite often I would lay on the couch and thumb through a book on ...

Foxes football on a roll: Fall teams head into the final stretch

October 2012 Posted in Sports | Comments Off

By James Day [caption id="attachment_2454" align="alignright" width="300"] James Day[/caption]   This is shaping up as a special season for the Silverton High School football team. The Foxes defeated West Albany 28-21 on Sept. 28 and downed Lebanon 28-6 on Oct. 5 to move to ...

Teams on a roll: SHS football, girls soccer and JFK volleyball hard to beat

October 2012 Posted in Sports | Comments Off

By James Day They say defense wins championships. If so, this year’s Silverton High football team is in good shape. The Foxes, who made an emphatic statement Sept. 21 with a 49-0 Mid-Willamette Conference victory against Corvallis, have allowed six points in their ...

Good starts: JFK volleyball opens strong

September 2012 Posted in Columnists & Opinion, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The Kennedy High girls volleyball team is off to a strong start, with a 4-0 overall record and 2-0 Tri-River Conference mark under third-year coach Staci Sprauer. “The team is looking promising with solid players all the way around,” ...

Ready to run: Cross country season looks promising

September 2012 Posted in School, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day The Kennedy High girls cross country team is coming off a third-place finish at last fall’s OSAA Class 3A-2A-1A meet. It was the highest state finish ever for coach Steve Ritchie, now in his 15th year with the Trojans. Kennedy ...

Pesky passes: Johnny played for Silverton before moving up to Boston Red Sox

September 2012 Posted in People, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day Johnny Pesky, the legendary Boston Red Sox player with ties to the Silverton area, died Aug. 13. Pesky, whose career with the Red Sox spanned more than 60 years, passed away under hospice care at the age of ...

The Mannion file: Summer’s focus on accuracy to be put to the test

August 2012 Posted in Sports | Comments Off

By James Day Not every college student gets the summer off. Oregon State quarterback Sean Mannion, whose family lives in Silverton, spent just one night at home during the summer. Why? With the Beavers coming off an uncharacteristically poor season Mannion and his ...

Taking the field: Fall sports on the horizon

August 2012 Posted in Columnists & Opinion, Sports | Comments Off

By James Day All over Silverton and Mount Angel area high school athletes are shedding their summer lethargy and getting ready for the fall season of football, cross country, volleyball and soccer. Teams ran conditioning camps this week, with regular practices set ...
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