The Columbia High Bruins boys basketball team extended its win streak to three with a pair of non-league victories last week.
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The Dalles High Riverhawks girls basketball team faced a very tough opponent in the season opener on the road Dec. 2 at Banks High, losing 52-25 to the Braves.
Banks was ranked No. 6 with 17-8 record and advanced to the 4A state playoffs in addition to winning the Cowapa League Championship last year. Despite their move down to Class 3A this year, the Braves are still a strong squad after losing just three players to graduation and they have nine players returning from last year’s successful playoff team.
It’s very likely that this season could be similar to last year in terms of who the top Big Sky League girls basketball playoff contenders will be in 2023.
The Big Sky West Division champion Trout Lake High Mustangs and runner-up South Wasco will likely be the top squads again this season. Big Sky Champion Echo High Cougars (19-6 last year) and the Ione/Arlington High Cardinals (16-6) each have starters returning from their 1A state playoff teams.
A confident and enthusiastic The Dalles High Riverhawk squad, guided by second-year coach Darcey Hodges, started girls basketball practice Nov. 14 with the hopes and expectations it will be enjoying success on the court this season.
Top-ranked Summit of Bend scored touchdowns on its first six possessions Friday, when the host Storm toppled visiting Hood River Valley, 42-6, in the first round of the Class 5A state football playoffs.
The No. 10-ranked Dufur High Rangers (4-5) faced the team that eliminated them from the playoffs last year in an OSAA Class 1A eight-man football game Nov. 4.
The Adrian High Antelopes (8-2) beat the Rangers, 66-6, to end Dufur’s season in the first round of the state playoffs.
Appearing in the OSAA Class 1A eight-man football state playoffs for the first time since 2017, the No. 11-ranked Sherman County/Condon High Huskies (6-3) were hoping to get an upset win on the road over the No. 5 ranked Myrtle Point High Bobcats in a Nov. 5 first-round contest.
Host Summit of Bend proved itself worthy of its top ranking Friday, when the Storm toppled visiting Hood River Valley, 42-6, in the first round of the Class 5A state football playoffs.
Hood River Valley’s slim chances of qualifying for the Class 5A boys state soccer playoffs ended Oct. 27 at home, where the Eagles and Putnam played to a 1-1 tie in a Northwest Oregon Conference match.
Trout Lake’s boys soccer team lost 2-1 at Portland Christian on Oct. 24 in the first round of the 2A/1A Special District playoffs and then by the same score four days later to Grand View Christian.
