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Seniors make statement

Senior Rueben Moreno (right) COOS BAY – Making it down to Coos Bay wasn’t just a team goal for the Bulldogs this season, it was the ultimate career goal for most of the seniors on this team. Kai Apo and Austin Gabriel both recounted attending…

How to Run The Race

Joan Benoit The Olympic marathon is a 26.2-mile race run on roads. The course must be relatively flat, although a certain amount of up-and-down terrain is allowed. There will be between 100-200 runners in each race. The races are located and scheduled to avoid heat…

Marathoners stretch the limits

George Herbert Leigh Mallory (1886-1924) was an English clergyman who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. Mallory and his climbing partner disappeared somewhere high on the mountain, until in 1999, when his body was discovered. Though…

Springfield / THURSTON SPORTS

Results: Feb. 25 – Mar. 4 BOYS BASKETBALL Tuesday, Feb. 25 • SHS hosted Ashland and lost 62-55. • THS lost at Willamette 74-48. Friday, Feb. 28 • SHS won at Eagle Point 61-45. • THS lost its fifth consecutive game at Crater 56-43. Monday,…

Brick fulfills preseason goals

Brielle Brick (top) wrestles Maria Diaz of Ontario on her way to a 4-1 win by decision to advance to the third-place match. Photo provided/Kalea Brick Brielle Brick started this season with one goal: Qualify for state. Only a sophomore, Brick did just that and…

Champion bowlers

Photo provided/Chris Safer Thurston High School girls who bowled with the Cottage Grove Lady Lions – a cooperative sponsorship girls’ bowling team that won the state championships on Feb. 22-23 in Salem. From left: junior Kari Kindrick, sophomore Josie Bridges and freshman Avary Lott. See…

Week in Review/The Week Ahead

WEEK IN REVIEW BOYS BASKETBALL Creswell 49, Sutherlin 42 The skinny: Fans wore red in support of CHS in a first-round playoff game. CHS trailed by three at halftime. Creswell’s senior-led team began the second half with eight unanswered points. Sutherlin still led by two…