Silverton High put on a glittering display of total soccer during its standout 2024 season, leading Class 5A in most goals scored and fewest goals allowed. The Foxes, under first-year co-coaches Don Holland and Eric Lay, ran the table in the Mid-Willamette Conference, outscoring opponents 41-0 in the 9-0 rampage. The league title was the first since 1990 for Silverton, […]
Former Silverton High athlete and current University of Oregon student Kyle Kramer is $100,000 richer after nailing a place kick on ESPN’s GameDay college football preview program. Kramer, who played football and baseball for the Foxes before graduating in 2021, earned his shot at fortune by winning a raffle. Approximately 200 tickets were handed out at 3 a.m., hours before […]
Don Holland and Eric Lay, two Silverton High graduates and longtime recreational and club-level coaches, have taken over as co-coaches of the Foxes girls squad. Silverton was 12-11-7 overall and 10-3-3 in the Mid-Willamette Conference under Renee Cantrell in the past two years, which included back-to-back Class 5A playoff appearances and a quarterfinal berth last fall. Holland and Lay, in […]
When I ran into Foxes football coach Dan Lever at the on-campus celebration for Silverton’s Class 5A girls basketball championship he told me that he was putting together “the mother of all schedules.” Well, maybe those weren’t his exact words, but the concept works. Lever and his athletic director, Andy Jones, had more wiggle room to work with this season. […]
The Dallas High softball team came into the Wednesday, April 24, showdown against host Silverton with a perfect 15-0 record and the state’s top ranking. The Dragons, state champs last year and runners-up in 2017 and 2019, only had given up 13 runs in those 15 wins. Wednesday was different. It was as if the game had been moved to […]
The craziest piece of Jamie McCarty’s five-year run as Silverton boys hoops coach from 2017 through 2022 was that he was 69-1 in Mid-Willamette Conference games, a record of consistency that is almost blinding in its brilliance. And that one 2018-19 loss in OT at Corvallis was a strange beast, perhaps a column for another day. McCarty stepped back from […]
Yes, it’s only January, but the Mid-Willamette Conference hoops season already is churning out masterpieces. Silverton took down two unbeaten teams from South Albany in a doubleheader sweep on Jan. 8, and as of presstime the Foxes were in the thick of both battles for league bragging rights. The girls are 4-0 in league and ranked No. 5. They are […]
“We just had an amazing year,” said Silverton High swimming coach Lucky Rogers. What else could he say? Rogers’ Aqua Foxes, who historically have used their huge turnouts, depth and relay strength to even up the odds against schools with a high volume of club participants, won the Mid-Willamette Conference district girls title Feb. 10-11 at Osborn Aquatic Center in […]
