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4A Baseball Regional: Heritage 3, Puyallup 0

Note: Because Heritage won the 1 p.m. game, the 4 p.m. game becomes the “bigger” story for the print edition. So here’s a quick recap of how the Timberwolves advanced to the elite eight. TACOMA — Simon Bos said he

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4A Baseball Regional: Skyview 3, Gonzaga Prep 1

Note: Because Skyview won the 10 a.m. game, the 4 p.m. game becomes the “bigger” story for the print edition. So here’s a quick recap of how the Storm advanced to the elite eight. TACOMA — Skyview pitcher Ian Hamilton

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Athletes of the Week Nominees 5/13

Nominees for The Columbian’s high school athlete of the week for the week of May 6-11: Chloe Bartek, Columbia River golf. She was 4-under par for her two-round score at district. She made seven birdies in the final round. She

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Prairie softball notes: Quite a debut for freshman

Bridget Guiney. Might want to remember that name. A freshman, Guiney started her varsity softball career with a home run in her first at-bat. Oh, and it happened to be in the Class 3A District 4 tournament championship game. Seriously,

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Prairie girls basketball has a new coach

Stop if you’ve heard this one before: The Prairie Falcons have hired a girls basketball coach. And for the second year in a row, they selected a coach who was working with the boys basketball program. The school announced Friday

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Athlete of the Week nominees 5/6

Nominees for The Columbian’s high school athlete of the week for the week of April 29-May 4: Akari Baba, Prairie tennis: Baba won the Class 3A District 4 singles title. She has been dominating the league all season. Akari won

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Skyview hires Hockinson basketball coach

Matt Gruhler, who coached the Hockinson boys basketball team to the Class 2A round of 16 this winter, has been hired to coach at Skyview, the school announced Friday.

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New practice rule not big deal to some area football coaches

The new rule approved by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association this week will limit summer football practices to 20, with a maximum of 10 practices in full pads with full contact. Three area coaches contacted by The Columbian said the

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Athletes of the week nominees 4/22

Nominees for The Columbian prep athlete of the week for the week of April 14-20. There were several track and field standouts, but we picked a couple from the prestigious Oregon Relays. Softball season just got started with league play,

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Softball extra: Play of day saves Camas no-hitter

Harli Hubbard threw a no-hitter Wednesday, and after the game she thanked Cailyn Grindy for her big play at third base in the fourth inning. Grindy made a diving stop on a ball that was smashed by Skyview’s Kayla Moore.

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