Ashland High’s Seena Frantz said she should have kicked sooner and was “still in 3,000 mode” in today’s 1,500 Class 5A girls finals. The senior distance runner finished fourth in the race, which included no real surprises. Heavy favorite Kayleigh Tyerman of Crater won easily, Kellie Foley of Crook County was second and Alyssa O’Connor [...]
Ashland High senior Seena Frantz finished fourth in the 1,500-meter run today in the 5A state track and field championships at Hayward Field in Eugene. She finished in 4:50.22, barely off her PR. Details coming.
Sam Gaviglio’s freshman season at Oregon State is quickly evolving from solid, to really good to astonishing. Here’s today’s story from the Beavers’ Web site. STANFORD, Calif. – Freshman Sam Gaviglio tossed Oregon State’s first complete-game shutout in more than three years Friday night, holding Stanford to just three hits in a 5-0 win over [...]
Ashland High senior hurdler Daniel Cowan did not qualify for the finals in either event today, finishing fifth in his 110-hurdles heat and sixth in his 300-hurdles heat at the Class 5A state championships at Hayward Field in Eugene. Cowan qualified for state by finishing second in both events in last week’s Southern Sky Conference [...]
By Joe Zavala EUGENE – Former teammate and 2008 state champion Matt Miner e-mailed Ashland High junior Wilder Schaaf prior to Friday’s state track and field meet. He had one request: break the 3,000-meter Class 5A meet record. Though that record belonged to Miner, Schaaf was happy to oblige. Burning through a final gear he [...]
Wilder Schaaf of Ashland passed Crater’s Zach Elliott in the final 50 meters to claim the 5A state championship in the 3,000-meter run. His time was 8:42.17, a personal record by more than 16 seconds. Elliott finished in 8:42.89. Check back later for details. Now, I’m off to talk to Ashland’s latest state champion.
Elliott Jantzer of Phoenix easily outpaced Trevor Berrian of North Bend to win the boys Class 4A 3,000-meter state championship in 8 minutes, 43.38 seconds. Berrian, who entered the meet with the second best qualifying time, finished in 8:48.38. Now, can Wilder Schaaf make it two big wins in a row for southern Oregon? Check [...]
I’m sitting in press row at Hayward Field, wishing I would have remembered my binoculars and waiting for Ashland’s first representative, Wilder Schaaf, to take the track. Schaaf is one of three Grizzlies here. He’ll run the 3,000 at 12:03 p.m. I’ll report as I watch and post immediately after the race. Schaaf has a [...]
I was talking with Mike Oxendine the other day. He’s the page design editor, and a fellow closet Blazer fan (during the season we would often make eye contact and simultaneously shake our heads – the universal expression for “boy, the Blazers sure sucked last night.”) After Houston eliminated Portland in the first round of [...]
Somebody who read Tuesday’s blog pointed out to me that Western Washington’s decision to drop football may open the door for an NCAA Division II football-only future at SOU. Although the possibility is still remote, that development at least gives the Raiders a chance since the NCAA is also suffering from a lack of small [...]
