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5 days ago | 
democratherald.com | Les Gehrett
EUGENE — South Albany High’s Pharalynn Dickson held the lead as she rounded the last corner of the 5A girls 400-meter final Saturday at Hayward Field. But Redmond’s Georgia Koch was not ready to concede to the RedHawks’ star junior. Koch made a hard push from the inside lane, drawing nearly even at the top of the stretch. “I felt her coming up on me and I was like, ‘I gotta go. I gotta push,’” Dickson said. “It was amazing competition.
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5 days ago | 
democratherald.com | Les Gehrett
EUGENE — Philomath High senior Janice Hellesto got to take a memento home Saturday night after the OSAA state track and field championships at Hayward Field: the 4A girls championship trophy. The award will eventually end up in the school’s trophy case alongside those from the past three seasons. But for now, the prize is at the home of the athlete who did as much as any other to secure the Warriors’ spot at the top of the podium every year of her high school career.
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5 days ago | 
gazettetimes.com | Les Gehrett
EUGENE — Philomath High senior Janice Hellesto got to take a memento home Saturday night after the OSAA state track and field championships at Hayward Field: the 4A girls championship trophy. The award will eventually end up in the school’s trophy case alongside those from the past three seasons. But for now, the prize is at the home of the athlete who did as much as any other to secure the Warriors’ spot at the top of the podium every year of her high school career.
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1 week ago | 
gazettetimes.com | Les Gehrett
Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes answered a lot of questions earlier this month in an exclusive two part Q&A. But there were some questions he couldn’t answer. At least not yet. Even in those areas, though, there were hints about what the future might hold for the Beavers and the Pac-12 Conference. Here is a closer look at what we learned, and didn’t learn, in the conversation with Barnes. Is The CW here to stay?
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1 week ago | 
democratherald.com | Les Gehrett
The Roadrunners have done it again. The Linn-Benton Community College baseball team won the Northwest Athletic Conference championship for the second year in a row and the third time in the last four years. “It is unbelievable. I mean, I’m kind of at a loss for words for it,” said coach Andy Peterson, who is in his seventh year leading the program.
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1 week ago | 
democratherald.com | Les Gehrett
This wasn’t the best regular season for Mid-Willamette Conference baseball. Corvallis High won the league title but was seeded eighth in the state playoffs. Second-place West Albany was seeded 10th and third-place Dallas was seeded 13th. After the first round of the 5A state playoffs, it looks like the league might have been underestimated. The Spartans hosted No. 9 Bend on Tuesday night and struck early in a 7-4 victory. The Bulldogs went on the road and knocked off seventh-seeded Crater 5-4.
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1 week ago | 
democratherald.com | Les Gehrett
Crescent Valley High senior Richard Wang won the 5A boys singles championship Saturday. Wang defeated La Salle Prep sophomore Kaiden Harris, the top-seeded player in the tournament, 6-3, 7-6 (2) in the final. The win was a reversal of last year’s 5A final in which Harris defeated Wang in three sets. Wang went into the tournament as the No. 3 seed and knew that his path to the championship would likely require defeating both Harris and No. 2 seed Aiden Cruz, a senior from Caldera.
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2 weeks ago | 
democratherald.com | Les Gehrett
This Scio High softball season is a little bit like a mystery novel: There is a real temptation to want to skip to the back and see how the story ends. The Loggers have lost in the 3A state championship game in each of the past two seasons. Everyone in the program wants one more chance to write a different ending. “That’s kind of the goal in mind, right?” said Scio coach Jim Mask. The Loggers have put themselves in position to make another run.
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2 weeks ago | 
gazettetimes.com | Les Gehrett
The Oregon State rowing teams were getting ready for practice at their facility on the west bank of the Willamette River near downtown Corvallis last month, but the day ended up being hardly routine. Assistant coaches Shelby Larkin and Torree Hawken were preparing one of the boats the coaches use, known as a launch, when they heard a commotion on the Van Buren Bridge. They looked up and saw what looked like a man preparing to jump.
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2 weeks ago | 
gazettetimes.com | Les Gehrett
This weekend’s state tennis tournament is the end of the line for Crescent Valley High senior Richard Wang. His goal is simple. “I just want to win,” Wang said. “I think I've been playing, probably, the best that I have my whole life.”Wang goes into the state tournament as the No. 3 seed in the 5A boys singles bracket. He won the Mid-Willamette Conference district tournament and went unbeaten in league matches. He lost just two matches this season and only one against a 5A opponent.
