The Columbia High Bruins girls basketball team had three games canceled recently because of winter weather conditions in the Gorge but they resumed their WIAA Class 1A non-league schedule this week.
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Columbia High School called on a familiar face to turn around its boys basketball fortunes earlier this year when it hired John Hallead to lead the program.
Hallead, a former Bruin football and baseball head coach, takes over a program that last won a game in 2019, and a Trico League game in 2017. Hallead has a staff of assistants Brady Trullinger, Tommy Nortz, and Jenny Hallead. Trullinger was a guard on Columbia’s 2017 team.
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The New Year marks a turning point for winter sports; the preseason wraps up and the regular season is on the horizon. Teams have practiced and trained for months at this point, adapting between losses and carrying momentum between wins. For the HRV girls basketball team, there’s a challenging season ahead, but still reason to hope.
Boys gaining momentum; girls off to a tough start, but promise ahead.
A record of 5-4 through the preseason may not have been ideal for the HRV boys basketball team, but it has left quite a lot to be excited for come regular season play.
For The Dalles girls’ soccer team, it is all about fresh starts. Under the new offensive and defensive schemes implemented by new head coach Oscar Nunez, varsity assistant Cheri McCall and new junior varsity coach Amy Krol, the rebuilt roster has its focus squarely on early success and a berth into the postseason.
Sherman, dufur are working out preseason kinks
South Wasco County put up 30 more shots than Portland Lutheran, but fell short on the scoreboard in a 68-64 boy’s basketball setback Friday at home to Portland Lutheran.
We have a goal for parents as pads start popping, balls are kicked and spiked, and legs churn this week, when high school athletes start their preseason drills: release your child. If you do, it will be one of the biggest gifts you could ever give your son or daughter.
