By Joe Zavala Ashland Daily Tidings As expected, a running back had a monster day in Ashland on Friday. The surprise may be who it was that ran wild. Ashland junior Jon Volz exploded for a career-high 200 yards rushing and two touchdowns and the Ashland defense limited Willamette standout Jordan Visarraga to 98 yards [...]
Don’t even try to figure out what the Ashland Grizzlies will do next week against Willamette. The Grizzlies beat Churchill on Friday, on the road. It was a huge win against a legitimate Midwestern League title contender, and it came a week after top-ranked Marist delivered a 49-0 forearm shiver to Ashland’s MWL championship hopes [...]
Pitcher Brady Thomas and third baseman Brent Hegdahl will get one more chance to represent Ashland High School at next weekend’s 6A-5A Oregon All-Star Series. The annual baseball series – one game Saturday and a doubleheader Sunday – pits the best seniors from southern Oregon against the best from up north. Thomas and Hegdahl will represent [...]
By Joe Zavala Ashland Daily Tidings In his 13 years as West Albany’s head baseball coach, Don Lien has learned to accept a hard truth about playoff baseball: the closer you get to the state championship game, the more likely chance will play a role in determining the outcome. Sometimes, he says, [...]
At first glance, Ashland-The Dalles Wahtonka certainly looks like an unfair fight. Ashland is 24-2 and No. 2 in the OSAA ratings, while TDW is 5-15 and No. 30. But look a little closer and you’ll see that The Dalles Wahtonka was forced to forfeit 10 games – six of those would have been wins [...]
Two singles players and three doubles teams will represent Ashland High in the OSAA Class 5A boys and girls state tennis tournaments, which begin today at the Portland Tennis Center (boys) and Tualatin Hills Tennis Center in Beaverton (boys). Seniors Max Burt and Laurel Sager both will play first-round matches today in the singles tourneys, [...]
By Joe Zavala Ashland Daily Tidings Defending 800-meter state champion Sam Jackson is the only Ashland High athlete who will be favored to snag an automatic berth to state when the District 1 track and field meet begins today at Summit High School in Bend. The two-day event marks the first gathering of Special District [...]
Friday was a terrible day for me. First, our milkman nearly blew a gasket when he discovered that I brought the wrong number of bottles for our weekly pickup (“Now we have to do ANOTHER lid switch”). Then, my editor brought to my attention two typos – I somehow placed a needless apostrophe into the [...]
In case you missed it, this story by Kris Henry of the Mail Tribune describes the confusing world Oregon baseball coaches live in. One season, a bat is legal, and the next it’s not. There’s a list. Better keep that list handy, lest you face South Medford, whose assistant coach works at Cascade Athletic Supply [...]
The short answer is no. Yes, I realize 11 wins in a row is impressive no matter who you’re beating. But it’s worth mentioning that the Ashland High baseball team, which improved to 17-1 with today’s sweep of Eagle Point, is probably benefiting from its unfortunate status as an unofficial independent. Technically, the Grizzlies compete [...]