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The ‘anomaly,’ Lake Oswego’s Drew Woolworth is The Oregonian/OregonLive boys golfer of the year
Despite his relative youth, Lake Oswego sophomore Drew Woolworth has been at this long enough that he doesn’t much feel the pressure at his back. A collection of high-stakes tournaments have come and gone and the golfer has started to figure out how to play in his own bubble. He just doesn’t worry about his own results or those of his competition when he’s out on the fairway.
With Sophia Smith sidelined, Portland Thorns’ win streak comes to an end in loss to Orlando Pride
The win streak met a grueling death in the Florida heat, but there would be no “sad faces” in the aftermath for Friday night. That, Portland Thorns interim coach Rob Gale was sure of. Not with the hand they were dealt: a lineup forced to take the pitch...
Stewart's home run, McClaskey's complete game power No. 4 Jesuit to 5-0 win over No. 21 Clackamas
A big pitching performance. A really big hit. An absolutely huge victory. The Jesuit baseball team, behind a gutsy complete-game pitching performance by senior Mickey McClaskey, an energizing first-inning three-run home run by junior Carter Stewart, as well as some clutch play on both offense and defense, battled its way past a spirited Clackamas team...
Mattel debuts Portland Thorns Forward Christine Sinclair Barbie
PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland Thorn is getting a mini-me. Mattel is making a doll of Thorn and Canadian National Team star Christine Sinclair. Sinclair captained Canada’s National Team until she retired from international soccer last year. However, soccer lovers can still catch her playing a Providence Park...
Clackamas’ Lauren Han returns to the top with Oregon Class 6A girls tennis state championship win
It’s been a long road for Lauren Han. The Clackamas senior ended her sophomore season with a state championship and then had to suffer a tough loss in the finals last spring. But in her final high school match, Han found her way back to the top of the mountain as she picked up her second state title with a two-set win over Jesuit’s Carissa Gerung on Saturday at the Tualatin Hills Athletic Center in Beaverton.
In her first year competing in the high jump, Parkrose's Maya Kruger wins state
A majority of the focus on track and field for Parkrose High School junior Maya Kruger has been on hurdles. Kruger, who spent her freshman and sophomore year at Cleveland, is aiming to compete in the heptathlon moving forward though, a mix of events that includes the high jump. Coming into 2024 though, the junior had never competed in the event at an official high school meet. ...
Connor Anderson’s two-run blast lifts Sunset over Westview in Oregon Class 6A baseball state quarterfinals
The Apollos got Friday’s game off to a hot start, with an RBI double by Maddox Montoya and a big two-run home run by Connor Anderson as Sunset got ahead of Westview in a 3-0 win to advance to the Class 6A baseball state semifinals next week. Anderson was...
No. 19 Tigard softball scores three in the 7th inning to stun No. 3 Oregon City in state second round
Down to their final out of the season, the 19th-seeded Tigard softball team never lost confidence. The team’s enduring faith was rewarded on Wednesday night, May 22, as senior Ella Dardis knocked in the game-tying RBI before scoring the go-ahead run in a 4-2 upset of No. 3 Oregon City. “It’s a great feeling. Everyone’s excited, all the emotions are going,” Dardis said after the game. ...
Sam Coffey serving as Portland Thorns’ connective tissue, even in ‘overlooked’ position
Upon arriving in Portland in 2021, Sam Coffey found herself walking a bit of a tightrope. The former Penn State midfielder held with her the belief that each and every individual leads in their own, idiosyncratic, way. And that phenomenon — in its purest form — was, and still is, something she deeply values.
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