The Kennedy High baseball team won its final 7 games in the 2022 season, ending up with a state Class 2A-1A title. Last year, a veteran team that started eight seniors went 31-0 and repeated as state champions. This season a young squad with just one returning starter, Brody Kleinschmit, won its first eight games. That’s 46 in a row […]
We’re two-thirds of the way through the regular season as I write this and it has been a stunningly impressive one for our two local football teams, Silverton and Kennedy. The Foxes were 6-0 and ranked No. 3 in Class 5A heading into Thursday, Oct. 12’s Homecoming encounter with 5-1 McKay. The top-ranked Trojans are 5-1 and ranked No. 1 […]
A team of Silverton middle-schoolers has come home with a state baseball title. Silverton’s JBO Senior Federal team outlasted Beaverton 11-9 in the July 23 title game at Central High in Independence. It was the third meeting of the tournament between Silverton and Beaverton. Silverton won the first contest 12-10 on Friday, July 21, before falling 7-6 to the Beaverton […]
Kennedy High has returned to the top of the leaderboard in Oregon’s Class 2A. And the accomplishment involves elements way beyond just athletic competition. The Trojans have captured the 2022-23 OSAA Cup, the all-sports trophy that also includes academic and sportsmanship components. It’s an honor that’s dear to the heart of Kevin Moffatt, who coached the baseball team to its […]
By James Day Silverton High’s Steeley Mucken scored in 4 events on May 26-27 to lead the Foxes to a tie for 5th in the OSAA Class 5A track and field meet at Hayward Field in Eugene. Mucken won the long jump and took 5th in the 100, and 6th in the 200 and the javelin to help Silverton […]
By James Day Kennedy High’s track and field teams both finished in the top 10 at the Class 2A state meet May 19-20 at Hayward Field in Eugene. The boys squad finished ninth with 29 points and the girls team was 10th with 22.5. It was the sixth consecutive top 10 finish for the Trojans’ girls squad. “I was very […]
By James Day Silverton High student Haile Stutzman, 16, scored an impressive victory May 7 in the 5K race at the 33rd Silverton Health Fun Run. Stutzman ran 17:02, a 5:30 mile pace, and bested runner-up Eric Jeffers, 33, by 33 seconds. Stevie Hutzler, 22, finished 18th overall and was the top woman finisher in 21:02. Cohen Mulick, 10, captured […]
By James Day The campaign to put artificial turf on the football field at Silverton’s Schlador Street campus is on schedule and just six weeks away from breaking ground. The project has raised $525,000 in cash, although Foxes Athletic Director Greg Kaatz said the group still would like to raise $50,000 more. In addition to cash donations the project has […]
By James Day The awards keep on coming for the Silverton High girls basketball team. The Foxes, who finished a 28-0 season March 12 with a victory against Springfield in the OSAA Class 5A championship game, earned three spots on the all-state team. Third-year Silverton coach Tal Wold earned coach of the year honors, while senior wing Alia Parsons repeated […]
By James Day Sharpshooting basketball standout Jacob Axmaker continues to shine at the national level. Jacob, an 11-year-old at Sublimity Elementary School, shot his way to the national Elks Lodge hoop shoot championships at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. Jacob, who was representing the Silverton Elks Lodge, No. 2210, finished second in his age division at […]
By James Day It was a banner year for Silverton baseball under first-year coach James Rise. The Foxes advanced to the round of 16 in the state playoffs for the first time since 1989. Silverton, which finished 13-15 overall after a 1-8 start, hosted Ashland in the Class 5A play-in round and took a 5-4 win vs. the Grizzlies. The […]
By James Day Kennedy and Silverton participated in district track and field competition this week, with the Trojans hosting their meet Thursday and Friday at their newly remodeled facility and the Foxes competing Wednesday and Thursday at Western Oregon University. Heading into districts Kennedy athletes led the Tri-River in six events, including Taylor Brown (long jump and triple jump), Loghan […]
By James Day For Cole Chandler it came down to familiarity – and a bit of an educational pull. The Silverton High School quarterback, who led the Foxes to a 32-4 record in three years as a starter, plans to play college football at Pacific Lutheran in Tacoma, Wash. Chandler had considered Linfield, but picked PLU because his favorite target […]
By James Day The Academic All-State awards are in for spring activities, with both Kennedy and Silverton high schools placing well in multiple areas. Kennedy finished best in its class in two sports, baseball and softball. The Trojans’ baseball team, which won its fourth consecutive Tri-River Conference title, turned in a cumulative 3.69 grade point average. Kennedy’s softball team, which […]
By James Day Silverton High basketball coach Darren Shryock is moving on to a new challenge. The longtime teacher and highly successful coach is taking over as the athletic director at Stayton High School. “It has always been my long term goal to be an AD,” Shryock told Our Town. “There is a lot of time away from family with […]
By James Day The Kennedy High School girls track and field team is the best Class 2A squad in the state. The Trojans won their first OSAA track title since 1985 by scoring 83 points May 22-23 at Hayward Field in Eugene. Union finished second with 78. “Winning the first girls state championship at Kennedy in 29 years feels great,” […]
By James Day The streaking hot Kennedy High baseball team is looking like it is ready to make another deep run into the state playoffs. The Trojans, the 2012 state champions, have won 13 of their past 14 games, including 10 consecutive wins, and are ranked fourth in Class 2A-1A by the OSAA. Kennedy scored a huge victory May 5, […]
By James Day Sheyenne Brusven, Silverton High’s all-Mid-Willamette Conference goalkeeper, will be playing college soccer close to home at Corban University. Brusven signed her letter of intent on April 28. “Her body of work in the 2013-14 season was monstrous,” Foxes Coach Fred George told Our Town. Brusven set school records for most saves in a match (22), most saves […]
By James Day This could be a special season for Kennedy High track and field. The Trojans’ girls team returns athletes who scored 45 of Kennedy’s 63 team points at last season’s OSAA Class 2A meet, in which the Trojans finished second to Portland Christian. Loghan Sprauer won the high jump in a state-meet record 5’-6’, won the 200 in […]
By James Day The Kennedy High girls track and field team, led by sophomore Loghan Sprauer, turned in one of the best performances in school history May 23-24 at the OSA Class 2A State Meet at Hayward Field in Eugene. Sprauer won two events and took second in another to lead Kennedy to a second-place finish with 63 points. It […]
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, who really knows his stuff, forwarded some information on track and field exploits of area athletes, so […]
Although Homer Davenport is known by most as a world famous cartoonist who poked fun at the high and the mighty in public life, he was more than a political caricaturist.
At the start of the spring sports season, Kennedy athletic director and baseball coach Kevin Moffatt was upbeat about his team’s prospects, but, with only four seniors, he was still somewhat cautious. He knew that, to be successful, his seniors would have to provide strong leadership for the young team and his relatively inexperienced pitching staff would need to develop quickly.
