BY LUKE ANDREWSSouth Medford and West Salem started the 2008 soccer playoffs on Thursday — two days before the rest of the state is scheduled to play. The earlier date came partly from the urging of West Salem, which would have had a handful of players not available for Saturday’s game because of religious conflicts. [...]
By TIM TROWER One thing we’ve done in recent years is commission freelancers to write notes packages or sidebars on Oregon and Oregon State football games to supplement game stories we get from the Associated Press. There’s mucho interest in the teams, and we don’t have the manpower to hit them ourselves and still manage [...]
By TIM TROWER Volleyball coaches Sarah Costa of South Medford and Ron Beick of North Medford spoke briefly with a reporter about what it takes to build a successful program following their rivalry match Tuesday. Beick has been there with North — it finished third at state last year and is perennially a conference title [...]
