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Buffalo golfers end season fifth sixth at district
The Madras White Buffalos finished one spot out of state tournament berth at the Special District 1 Golf Tournament, held May 6-7 at Quail Valley Golf Course in Banks. Madras shot a team 740, falling six shots behind Tillamook’s 734. Seaside and Scappoose tied for the team title with 692. Crook County was third at 718. Molalla’s Massimo Cereghino, a junior, was the medalist going away. He shot a 150,...
Dawgs fall in finale, but beat Santiam JVs to cap season
A second-inning home run helped fuel the Central Linn Cobras to a 15-5 win over Culver Wednesday in Special District 3 softball action. The game against Central Linn was the final regular season game of a very tough season for the Bulldogs. After opening with a win against the Bend JVs, the Bulldogs lost their final 20 games. They went 0-12 in Special District 3 competition. The losses on the...
Madras baseball rides seniors for season-ending victory
As is should be, seniors carried the Madras White Buffalos to victory in their final game of the season Friday, a 9-6 victory over Gladstone on senior night. The Buffs, who endured a tough 4-11 Tri-Valley Conference season, rode the two seniors on the team, Tyler Clarkson and Noah Vibbert, to victory over the third-place Gladiators. Clarkson was 3-for-4 on the night, with a huge two-run triple and a pair...
Buff track sending experienced contingent to state
Madras is sending its 4x100 boys relay team, jumpers Andres Aguilar, Danny Easterling and Gavin Williams, plus jumper Adelynn Adams and middle distance standout Emily Picard to the state meet at Hayward Field May 17-18. As for team competition, there was none. Crook County dominated the boys and girls scores at the Tri-Valley Conference Track & Field Championships at Gladstone May 10-11. Crook County scored 247 points in the boys...
Central Oregon young rodeo athletes shine
The Tri-County Rodeo Club had a great two-day rodeo at their home competition, which was held May 3-5 at the Crook County Fairgrounds. This year's club has nearly 60 athletes, and several of them had outstanding performances in Prineville. Summer Schaffran had an outstanding performance for the cowgirls on the club, taking third on day one in barrel racing, then finishing first on day two. Schaffran was also seventh on...
MHS tennis players advance at district
Madras High School’s No. 1 boys and No. 1 girls singles players both advanced to the quarterfinals in the Special District 4 tennis tournament this past weekend. Fernando Saldana lost just one game in two matches to reach the final 8 and Mia Mitchell won her opener easy, 6-1, 6-0, then survived a battle with Crook County’s Kristianna Boyum 6-4, 4-6, 10-8 to make the final 8. The initial rounds...
Camas second team all-league for the White Buffs
Five Madras White Buffalo softball players earned Tri-Valley Conference All-League honors. Ashley Camas, a senior, made the second team as a utility player. The other four Buffs — Hailee Kathrein, Rylan Davis, Brooklin Anderson and Kiera Tortalita — earned honorable mention. Camas had a .410 batting average and led the team with 17 RBIs. She played every position in the infield this year, and played outfield and pitched. ...
Buff softball nearly upsets second-place Rangers
The White Buffalo softball squad played one of their best games of the season on senior night Thursday, May 9 but one bad defensive inning for the Buffs let Estacada slip out of town with a 7-5 win. Madras came out firing on offense, scoring three runs in the first inning. Estacada — which has won seven of their last nine games, losing only to No. 1-ranked The Dalles twice — rallied for three runs in the second to tie it at three. ...
Buffalos fall flat on the diamond
Light hitting and inability to too many errors are crushing the Madras baseball squad's chances at Tri-Valley Conference victories this week. On Monday, the Buffalos were hammered by the hot-hitting Crook County Cowboys 25-6 then on Wednesday the Buffs fell to last-place Estacada 10-4. Against the Rangers The Buffs outhit Estacada 9-8, but the Rangers...
Cowgirls pound out road win at Madras
The Crook County High School softball team went on the road Monday, May 6 and came away with an important 11-1 victory over the Madras White Buffalos. The Cowgirls were scheduled to be the home team had to go on the road because weather conditions made the Crook County field unplayable. The team scored in each of the five innings that were played, and could have scored more, but as the designated home team the game ended when the first run of the fifth inning...
Cowboys hammer Buffalos in Madras 25-6
The Crook County Cowboys rolled over the Madras White Buffalos 25-6 Monday afternoon in Madras in Tri-Valley Conference baseball action. Despite the lopsided score the Cowboys could easily have won by even more as they scored at least three runs in each of the five innings that were played before the game was called due to the 10-run rule. Crook county scored four in the first, three in the second, eight in the third, and five in both the fourth and fifth innings. ...
Culver looks to make noise at district track meet
The Culver track program doesn’t have a lot of depth, but it has power at the top. The Bulldogs will head into Saturday’s Special District 4 championships in Hermiston with two athletes that could eventually win state titles, sprinter Trent Reece and sprinter/hurdler/long jumper Renee Johnson. Reece, Johnson and several other Bulldog athletes will be gunning for berths in the state track meet with a win or second-place finish at...
Madras tennis bashes Riverhawks
The Madras boys and girls tennis squads both got victories over The Dalles Thursday, May 2. In a dual on the Madras courts, the MHS boys cruised to a 7-1 win, taking all of the singles matches and three of the four doubles matches. The girls squad traveled to The Dalles and came home with a 5-3 victory. The Buffs won three of four singles matches then split the four...
Madras Runners finish Spring Challenge program
The Madras Runners running club recently wrapped up its annual Spring Challenges. The event had four different courses it invited residents to complete, one for each week of April, and random drawings for awards were given out for each course. The winners included: Week One, White Buffalo Challenge: Adult: Jillian Badwin; Youth: Avery Utz. Week...
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