By James Day “The wrestling team started out the year with high numbers and a lot of enthusiasm,” Silverton Assistant Coach Jesse Davis told Our Town. “We have a young team with lots of potential. We are now in the part of the season that has become known as the ‘grind.’ Practice will get harder and competition will increase. The […]
By James Day The Silverton High boys basketball is ranked ninth by the OSAA in Class 5A heading into Mid-Willamette Conference play. “I feel like we’ve made a lot of progress in the last two weeks,” Coach Steve Roth told Our Town. Roth is back as the head coach for the first time since 2002 after serving as an assistant […]
By James Day Hannah Deede, the former two-sport standout at Silverton High, earned honorable mention all-Great Northwest Athletic Conference volleyball honors in her senior season at Western Oregon. The 6-2 Deede, who transferred to WOU after spending her freshman season at Gonzaga, led the Wolves in kills (224), kills per set (2.41), total points (265.5), points per set (2.85), and […]
By James Day Was Nov. 29 a bad day for the Mannion family? One might think so. The Silverton High football team, coached by John Mannion, lost 34-12 to Hermiston in the Class 5A state title game. Later that day Oregon State, quarterbacked by his son Sean Mannion, lost 47-19 to rival the University of Oregon in the annual Civil […]
By James Day Timing can be everything. The Silverton High School football team is one win away from the school’s first state title since 1991. But because of the Our Town publication schedule we were not able to publish the results of Saturday’s Class 5A title game between the Foxes and Hermiston. The Foxes won their third consecutive playoff game […]
By James Day Silverton High football just keeps rolling along. The Foxes blasted Pendleton 54-6 on Nov. 7 to move into the Class 5A quarterfinals. The 10-0 Foxes, seeded No. 2, faced No. 10 Ashland (8-2) on Friday, Nov. 14 after Our Town’s presstime. It was the fifth game this season in which a running clock was used after the […]
By James Day The Kennedy High cross country team took home the top individual honors at the Tri-River Conference district meet Oct. 23 at Bush’s Pasture Park in Salem. Junior Adrian Parra won the boys race in 16:31, tying the course record for a Kennedy runner. Meanwhile, freshman Kaylin Cantu of the Trojans won the girls race by 30 seconds […]
By James Day The Silverton High boys basketball team has a new head coach, but Foxes fans will see a familiar face on the sidelines when they open play in December. Steve Roth, a 1982 Silverton graduate and former head coach of the Foxes, has taken over for Darren Shryock. Shryock, who led Silverton to a pair of third-place finishes […]
By James Day Silverton High’s football team is off to a 3-0 start and is ranked No. 2 in the state heading into Friday’s Mid-Willamette Conference game at Crescent Valley. Sam Kuschnick has been a workhorse in the backfield, with 66 carries for 509 yards and six touchdowns. The 6-1, 205-pound senior is averaging 7.7 yards per carry. He has […]
By James Day The Silverton High School cross country teams swept the varsity team titles at Wednesday’s Silver Falls Oktoberfest Invitational, which was held on the “monster” course at Silver Falls State Park. A record 40 schools and 700 runners participated in the event, which is co-hosted by the Foxes and Kennedy. Silverton junior Maddie Fuhrman won the girls title […]
By James Day The Silverton High School football team has lost three games in the past two seasons, all of them to the eventual OSAA Class 5A state champions, and momentum seems to be riding the Foxes’ way in year five of coach John Mannion’s tenure. “I like where the program is at now,” Mannion told Our Town. “The kids […]
By James Day August is here, the fall high school teams have begun their conditioning work, and it’s time to look at what is new on the high school scene this school year. Silverton High welcomes a new teacher and baseball coach James Rise, who spent the past four years as the head coach at Austin College, a Division III […]
By James Day Joe Panuke is the new head football coach at Kennedy High. A health and physical education teacher, he has been an assistant football and baseball coach the past six years. Panuke, who served as an assistant coach at Marshfield of Coos Bay and Regis, replaces Randy Traeger, who is moving on to a new position at Willamette […]
By James Day It looks like Kennedy High School will be losing football coach Randy Traeger. But it doesn’t appear as if he will be going far. Traeger, a 1975 Kennedy graduate who has coached the Trojans for more than 25 years – including the past eight years as head coach – is close to accepting a position as an […]
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 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 three most important letters in Northwest craft brewing circles these days are I-P-A. “Anything with the word IPA in it is hot,” said Matt Van Wyk of Oakshire Brewing in Eugene. IPA, or India Pale Ale, originated in Britian in the late 18th century, with legend having it that they were brewed to be stronger and […]
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 James Day Both Silverton High School basketball teams turned in gutty, unexpected performances this season that left them one game short of advancing to play in the Elite 8 teams at Matt Knight Court in Eugene. The boys team, which lost its top six players from a squad that finished third in the 2013 Class 5A tournament, finished third […]
By James Day So what’s the most difficult challenge for Jennifer Krug, the certified athletic trainer at Silverton High School? It’s not running out of tape or ice. Or the complicated logistics of staffing a district wrestling meet during the day and returning to campus that night for a basketball game. Or the high pressure of fall, when the presence […]
By James Day The Silverton High wrestling team qualified eight wrestlers for the OSAA Class 5A championships while finishing fourth at the Feb. 21-22 Mid-Willamette Conference championships. Four Foxes finished second in their weight classes: Tristan Lanier (106); Austin Reed (113); David Horsey (170) and Cameron Clokey (285). Boston Merrifield (106), Ben Griesenauer (138) and Cody Gubbels (220) took third […]
By James Day Silverton High’s boys and girls basketball teams finished the first half of the Mid-Willamette Conference in strong standings. The Silverton boys team is 4-3 in league play and riding a three-game win streak. The Lady Foxes, meanwhile, are 5-2, after a pair of close losses to top rivals for the league title. Silverton’s boys team is 9-6 […]
By James Day The surprising Silverton High girls basketball team is off to a 4-0 start in the Mid-Willamette Conference. The Lady Foxes, in their first year under coach Tal Wold, are 8-5 overall and ranked ninth in Class 5A by the OSAA. The Foxes took a six-game winning streak into the Jan. 29 game at 4-0 Corvallis, which is […]
