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The Lakeview High School Baseball team stretched their win streak to nine on Saturday, April 20, outscoring Coquille 25-1 across the twin bill. Following Saturday’s results, the Honkers moved into a tie for second place in the Far West League, with a crucial series at Douglas coming up. Game...

Some of the best youth chess players in Oregon competed Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, at the Chess for Success State Tournament at the Expo Center in Portland. After winning the regional tournament for Coos County in February, Coquille won the honor of sending both an elementary and a middle school team to play in the team State Championships on Friday April 12th. Noah Ish-Shalom, Ari Ish-Shalom, Abigail Fanno, Ruth Scott, Maddison Fanno and alternate Jaylee Barnett were the Coquille Valley Elementary team....

Jacob Phillips of Brookhaven, Ga., and Mark Phillips Peachtree City, Ga., know what it takes to win the Championship Division of the AmateurGolf.com 2024 Two Man Links and Father & Son at Pacific Dunes at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Bandon, Ore. The 2022 and 2023 Championship Division winners finished...

Bandon/Pacific came tearing into Saturday's contest with three straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 10.7 runs) and they left with even more momentum. Everything went their way against the Colton Vikings as they made off with a 13-3 victory. Bandon/Pacific might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team's won three games by ten runs or more this season.

Bandon stamped itself as a team to watch in the upcoming Class 3A-2A-1A boys state golf tournament by winning the state preview last week. The Tigers took the team title with a score of 322 at Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell. Class 4A Marist Catholic shot a 328 and Valley Catholic had a 329. ...

It is not often you get a hole-in-one in howling, 50-mile-per-hour winds at Pacific Dunes during tournament golf. However, there is a one in 17 million chance that you will get two in a row on the same hole. Against all odds, that is exactly what happened during the second...

Varsity and Junior Varsity athletes participated in the Sky-Em Track and Field Event yesterday at Marshfield High School. In the 100 meter race Viking runners dominated with juniors Wesley Nicholls and Charles Nelson taking the top two spots. Nicholls set a personal record time of 11.52. The pair also took the top two spots respectively in the 200 meters. Senior Brayden Linton and sophomore Camden Linton took 3rd and 4th in the 800 meters. They also took first and second respectively in the 1500. Senior Talan Ross took 3rd in the 3000. Junior Korbyn Marler took second in the 110 meter hurdles with a PR of 19.34 and sophomore Kale Jensen took first in the 300 meter hurdles. The Siuslaw 4×100 relay team took first as did the 4×400 team. Maximus Reynolds took a break from baseball to throw a personal record 41’.25” for a second place finish in the shot put. Senior Hunter Pimlott took second in the discus with 109’5” Reynolds took 4th. Freshman Caleb Gray tossed the javelin for a third place finish at 133’4” Justin Allen finished second in the high jump with a pr 5’8” and Allen, Jensen and Ross took 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place in the Pole Vault. Four Siuslaw Athletes took the top spots in the long Jump in first it was Will Johnson followed by Kale Jensen, Chaz Edblom and Ray Brito-Xilot. Johnson and Jensen took the top two spots in the triple-jump. For the girls it was Maya Wells in 4th in the 400 meter and 2nd in the 800 meter. Allison Hughes, Macy McNeill and Addison McNeill the next three spots. The 1500 meter was dominated by Siuslaw taking the top 6 places with.

Coquille’s Callie Millet had a big personal best to place second in the javelin at the Oregon Relays on Friday night, the highest finish by a South Coast athlete in the event that included top athletes from several states. Millet’s throw of 135 feet, 7 inches was second to West Linn’s Hayden Williams Downing, who won with a mark of 148-4. Millet, the defending Class 3A state champion with a previous best of 125-9, also had two other throws over 130 feet at historic Hayward...

Bandon’s boys golf team won a tournament at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort last Thursday. The Tigers shot 314 to take the title in the event, which had several schools and was contested on the Old Macdonald course. Brookings-Harbors Lucas Vanderlip won medalist honors with a 73. That was two strokes better than Bandon’s Peyton Simonds. Bandon’s Carter Brown was fourth with a 77 and Coquille’s Braedon Millhouser tied for sixth...

Coos Bay Speedway had its season opener on the NASCAR dirt oval Saturday night. Main event winners were Preston Luckman (America’s Mattress Super Late Models), Wayne Butler (Sportsman Late Models), Toby McIntyre (Three Rivers Casino Street Stocks), Sam Talon (America’s Mattress Mini Outlaws), Don Briggs Sr. (Coos Bay Toyota Hornets) and Max Haga (Junior Stingers). Next up at the speedway is the season opening races on the NHRA drag strip....