By Steve Ritchie and James Day How dominant was Kennedy in the Class 2A girls basketball tournament? One stat pretty much tells the story: The Trojans won their three games by an average of 20 points, including a 52-32 victory against Burns on March 3 at the Pendleton Convention Center. Earlier the top-ranked Trojans had dispatched Bonanza 60-35 in the […]
By James Day The Silverton High girls basketball team finished sixth in the OSAA Class 5A tournament last week at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis. The Foxes fell to Mid-Wiillamette Conference rival Corvallis 41-40 in Wednesday’s quarterfinals, downed Pendleton 54-42 on Thursday and lost Friday to Springfield 53-43 in the game for fourth place. Silverton finished 19-9 overall and tied with […]
By James Day The Silverton High School dance and drill team is always in the hunt for statewide honors. The Foxes, who won OSAA titles in 1998, 1999 and 2000, had finished in the top five for six consecutive years heading into this year’s competition at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland. March 20 they broke back through to the top, […]
By Cambria Roth With a first-year coach, Garron Lamoreau, this was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Silverton High School girls’ basketball team. Instead, the team proved it could succeed with determination, heart and unity. “These girls didn’t even worry about stats, they had such great chemistry that it never came up,” Lamoreau said. “They liked each other […]
