Tag Archives: Columbia River
Football preseason notes: Columbia River Chieftains
Additional notes from Columbia River’s preseason practices SCALING MOUNTAINS Darrell Pierce was among those hanging out at River’s practice on Wednesday. He’s the father of 1999 Columbia River grad Brett Pierce, an All-American his senior year who played tight end at Stanford and in the NFL. Darrell Pierce said his son, despite five knee surgeries, […]
August 31, 2013 12:19 am
Class 3A boys golf notes: Day 2
That was a crazy couple of days, huh Clark County golf fans? All spring, we had great weather. I believe we only suffered through two or three days of baseball or softball rainouts this year. It was the best spring for sports in at least five years. And then this. When Clark County is hosting […]
May 22, 2013 7:14 pm
Athlete of the Week nominees 4/15
Nominees for The Columbian prep athlete of the week for the week of April 6-13. By the way, last week on Twitter, I noticed one of the nominees mentioned that the voting really is just a popularity contest. Guess there is a lot of truth to that. However, we pick one athlete for five sports […]
April 15, 2013 11:37 am
Three locals make all-state basketball team
Prairie senior Cori Woodward was voted to the first team for The Associated Press’ Class 3A all-state girls basketball team. She is one of three Clark County athletes to be named to all-state teams, as voted on by sports writers and editors across the state. Skyview’s Aubrey Ward-El made the second team for the Class […]
April 1, 2013 3:24 pm
Softball extra: Skyview 7, Columbia River 6
I wasn’t there to “cover” the game exactly. I was there working on a profile, a story that will run next week. But I got to see a good battle. Skyview never trailed, but Columbia River never stopped trying to come back in this non-league, same-school-district rivalry. Skyview led 2-1 after the first, and later […]
March 28, 2013 10:24 pm
Prep Athlete of the Week nominees 3/18
Nominees for The Columbian prep athlete of the week for the week of March 8-17. (Yes, I know that’s longer than a week. The spring sports season started on Friday, March 8. We weren’t going to do an athlete of the week for a two-day period so we extended this first period. Forgive us!) CHLOE […]
March 18, 2013 9:52 am
Uni Watch: Columbia River baseball, too
OK, so I’ve seen two teams with new uniforms this season, and I blogged about them. Turns out, Columbia River has new unis, too. Perhaps I will see them one day. But the Chieftains just could not wait for me to come to them, so they sent me pics of their River Flow purple threads.
March 14, 2013 8:33 pm