Silverton won the Mid-Willamette Conference girls golf championship and took fifth at the Class 5A state championships at Trysting Tree in Corvallis. Members of the squad are Ellie Traeger, Kansas Brister, Amelia Broyhill, Brynn Kelsey and Marina Cheremnov.
Traeger, who was named player of the year in the MWC, took 22nd at state in 2023, and fifth in 2022 when the Foxes earned second. Wilsonville won the 2024 title with 680 strokes, followed by Summit (716), North Eugene (763), La Salle Prep (771) and the Foxes (815). Traeger finished 20th with a two-day score of 187.
Equestrian: Silverton finished 11th in the large team category at the Oregon High School Equestrian Teams state championships held May 9-12 at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond. Three individuals and one four-person team from the Foxes finished in the top 5 in their events and advanced to the Pacific Northwest Regional meet on June 14-16 in Moses Lake, Washington. The regional meet includes the top 5 from the Oregon and Washington state meets.
Adeline Kuenzi (fifth in saddle seat equitation), Danielle Velasco (fifth in figure 8) and Jessni Morris (fifth in individual flags) will be heading to regionals. Also participating will be the four-person team versatility combo of Velasco, Kuenzi, Wylie Blamer and Brooklyn Coulbourn-Sanchez, which took third.
Other top 10 finishes at state included Kuenzi (sixth in trail equitation), Morris (seventh in keyhole) and Charlise Sperle (tenth in pole bending).
In the high point individual rankings Kuenzi scored 24 points to finish 19th. In the timed high point rankings Morris scored 22 to take 9th, Kuenzi was credited with 26 points in the versatility high point competition to take 6th and Velasco and Kuenzi both scored 42 points to tie for 30th in team contributor.
Boys Volleyball: The first-year Foxes squad won a conference title in year one, are ranked No. 1 in Class 5A and at Our Town presstime was on the verge of participation in the state championships in Hillsboro. Coached by Benson Short, the Foxes use a nine-man rotation that consists of three seniors: outside hitter and co-captain Cohen Mulick, outside hitter Jack Winters and defensive specialist Emmett Limbird. The three juniors are outside hitter and co-captain Elisha Short, middle blocker Tristan Keopadapsy, and middle blocker Trevor Redman-Brown. The three sophomores are libero Aden Bradford, setter Nolan Horner and setter Terence Short.
Track & Field: The Silverton boys squad accumulated 28.5 points and finished ninth in the OSAA Class 5A state championships May 17-1 8 at Hayward Field in Eugene. The girls squad, meanwhile, scored 13 points and tied for 18th.
Top finishers for the boys were Elijah Willis (second, javelin) and JD Arthur (second, 800). Also scoring points for the Foxes were Tyler Pooleon (fifth, 300 hurdles, sixth long jump), David Hari (fifth, long jump) and Tristan Keopadapsy (tied for seventh, high jump).
Olivia Boyd finished third in the high jump and seventh in the 100 hurdles for the Silverton girls. Also scoring were Grayson Glivinski (fifth, javelin), Ella Lulich (seventh, discus) and the 4×100 relay team of Brooklyn Schurter, Lexi Enzenberger, Joanne Noordam and Marley Wertz, which finished fifth.Silverton’s mixed unified 4×100 relay team of Nora Morrison, Braedon Reniere, Claire Kuenzi and Dayton Hall was sixth and Kuenzi and Logan Simar were fourth and eighth, respectively, in the shot put.
Kennedy’s boys, meanwhile, scored 22 points and finished 12th in the Class 2A meet on May 16-17. Isaac Berning led the way with a second-place finish in the javelin. Jonathan Kintz was third in the 3,000, while Cole Vogel (sixth, 110 hurdles), Elijah Traeger (sixth, javelin) and Manny Ramirez (seventh, discus), also scored points for the Trojans.
Kennedy’s girls scored 17 points and finished tied for 16th. Alyse Williams took second in the long jump and Tia Allen finished third in the discus, while Yulissa Chavez Cortes took 98th in the 3,000 meters.
Girls Tennis: Silverton finished second behind eventual state champion Crescent Valley in the Mid-Willamette Conference district meet and then took ninth in the Class 5A meet. Paige Davisson and sister Ashlyn Davisson won the district championship in doubles, the first district title for the Foxes since 1998. Also moving on to state were singles player Audrey Gardner (third at districts) and the doubles team of Kaitlyn Gehring and Maggie Davisson (fourth at districts). At state Gardner won a consolation singles match, while Paige and Ashlyn Davisson, who were seeded third, advanced to the quarterfinals before falling in the consolation semifinals.
Baseball: Two-time defending Class 2A-1A champion Kennedy fell 11-6 to top-ranked Knappa on May 24 in the quarterfinals. The Trojans set a state all-classes record by winning 46 consecutive games, including the first eight of 2024. They finished 21-7.
