“I’m very confident in our team this year. I think we’re going to do great, and we don’t want to make it to just playoffs — we want to win it all,” Konold says. “That’s definitely the goal for the season, but we’re going to take each week one at a time, and just always give our full effort.”
Often thought of as a salmon and steelhead river, the Columbia has also become one of the top 10 smallmouth bass rivers in the world. The Willamette River is just as productive for those looking to catch bass.
The Mavericks emerged onto the Portland baseball scene in 1973 with the departure of the Portland Beavers
A local 14-year-old is a national track and field champion after a surprising upset victory in the 1,500-meter race at the USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships held at Hayward Field earlier this summer.
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life, or so they say. Air Force veteran Jerry Howard, commissioner of the Mavericks Independent Baseball League based at the Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer, has found a novel way to combine his two lifelong passions: baseball and honoring and supporting veterans and those actively serving in our nation’s military.
They came. They sang. They conquered. That was the story as the Canby High School concert choir claimed their first state championship with a pitch-perfect performance in the OSAA Choir State Championships at Oregon State University on May 5.
Known for being a human highlight reel on the gridiron, it may surprise readers to learn that Miller’s first love was a very different sport. Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, he grew up with a passion for bicycle motocross, better known as BMX. “My parents owned up a BMX bike shop up there in Alaska,” he recalled. “So, as a kid, I was out there at, like, 3 years old, riding the track.”
Tucker is the son of former Canby Cougar baseball coach Marty Hunter and former Canby cheer coach Kim Hunter, who passed away in 2015 from ovarian cancer. Tucker graduated from CHS in 2010 and then studied at Oklahoma State University, graduating in 2014. The AGT segment featured Tucker and his All Star Cheer team, the CA Wildcats based out of the Cheer Athletics gym in his new hometown of Plano, Texas.