Author Archives: Joe Zavala

For as many live updates as I can tweet, follow me to twitter.com/adtsports.

Former Ashland High volleyball star Taylor Hartrick, who graduated from AHS in 2009 and attended the University of Hawaii-Hilo on a volleyball scholarship, is back in Ashland and considering joining the Southern Oregon University volleyball team. Hartrick was a ferocious middle blocker for the Grizzlies, earning the Southern Sky Conference player of the year award [...]

Rolling Stone: Best Raider ever? Lindsey Stone makes her case, picking up her third Cascade Conference player of the year award and leading the SOU women’s volleyball team back to the NAIA National Championships final site. More remarkable, Stone’s fantastic senior season came after a year-long hiatus from volleyball. Every second counts: The Ashland High [...]

So many moments, I needed to divide it into parts: Kickin’ it: Months before “The (x-country) Decision” Sam Jackson uses a spectacular 100-meter sprint at the end of the 5A 400-meter state championship race to grab the gold. His move buries four rivals and gives Jackson an epic victory at Hayward Field. Jackson’s time of 1:57.16 goes down [...]

No, the Tidings will not dedicate a sports section this week to “the best Ashland sports stories of 2010,” but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a list in my head. Wait a minute … this is a blog. Almost anything can go here. So, here’s my list, in no particular order. So close, yet: [...]

Western Washington junior forward Rory Blanche, who starred for the Ashland High Grizzlies as a senior in 2006-07, is blossoming into a dual-threat for the Vikings. Blanche has started all nine games and is averaging 12.7 points and a team-high 7.2 rebounds. That first number could go up soon since Blanche, who owns a sweet [...]

Former Ashland High guard Kelsey McKinnis is turning into quite the find for the University of Puget Sound. The sophomore sharpshooter, who graduated from AHS in 2009, was averaging a team-high 16.6 points heading into Tuesday’s game at UC Santa Cruz. She didn’t hurt her average Tuesday, scoring a team-high 18 points to help the [...]

It was just like old times at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday, where three former Ashland High Grizzlies played on the same court, though one (Allison Gida) represented Utah and played against the other two (Jamie Roupp and Josi McDermott). Gida played just four minutes against Southern Oregon, but still [...]

I do the best I can, but there never seems to be enough time and space to adequately cover Ashland sports. Especially Friday night football. Why? Not because prep football demands a little more attention than anything else I handle here at the Tidings (although it does). It’s a logistics thing, actually. Ashland football games [...]

The first official game/match/meet/whatever of the 2010-11 Ashland High school year is now in the books – Ashland’s freshman football team fell short in a comeback bid and lost its season opener to Klamath Union, 31-28, tonight at Walter A. Phillips Field. The fans had to watch from the portable bleachers near the school-side end [...]