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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Big changes in basketball

Skyview girls basketball coach Steve Hook has resigned after eight seasons on the bench, according to Skyview athletic director Jim Condon. Hook’s Skyview teams had back-to-back Class 4A state tournament appearances in 2007 and 2008. The Storm went 3-1 in

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Battle Ground hires football coach

Larry Peck, who grew up in a football family and has been assistant coach at Battle Ground High School, is the Tigers’ new head coach, the school’s athletic director, Karla Kalian, has announced. He replaces Eric Boswell, who stepped down

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Huge stadium for high school football — Texas style

Here’s hoping a high school football fan from Clark County wins Powerball or Mega Millions one day and can build something like this for the community. Of course, in Texas, this was voted on by the people. It’s not just

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Northwest Shootout this weekend

The Les Schwab Tires Northwest Shootout is Saturday at the Chiles Center in Portland. The game features some of the best senior basketball players from Washington against the Oregon senior all-stars. The girls game begins at 4 p.m., with the

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Union-Kelso softball box

Forgot to file the Union softball boxscore into the computer prior to deadline. Here it is. It likely will run in Friday’s edition of the newspaper. UNION 3, KELSO 2 Kelso 001 010 0—2 5 0 Union 100 020 x—3

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Union wins Elliott Cup

Belex Cheng and Jessica Barack teamed up to win the final hole, clinching the Elliott Cup for the Union Titans at Three Rivers Golf Course in Kelso. The Cup — a Ryder Cup-type competition — featured last year’s top two

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Union softball attracts quite an atmosphere

There were football players working the hot dog grill, a grill they brought themselves to place behind the stands, behind the backstop. The track and field team and the soccer team lined the outfield fence, from right field to left

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High School sports notes

As noted several times on this blog and in the paper, Southwest Washington high school softball rocks. Well, Wednesday, it really, really rocks. Kelso, ranked No. 1 in the state by the Seattle Times among Class 4A teams, will take

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State's best track times, marks

<div> Athletic.net, one of our favorite Web sites, lists the top times and marks in the state of Washington for track and field. As of Thursday night, three Clark County athletes were on top of their events. And another Southwest

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Seattle Times ranks softball, soccer

The Union Titans are No. 1 in this week’s Seattle Times softball rankings for Class 3A teams. Kelso, meanwhile, is No. 1 in the 4A rankings. Those two teams play April 14. Should be fun. Prairie, by the way, comes

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