NEWPORT — The Newport High School girls basketball team posted back-to-back losses in its final two games of the strangest “winter” high school sports seasons in recent memory.

TOLEDO — It almost didn’t seem fair.

WILSONVILLE — While the Waldport boys basketball team found a good deal of success this season on the hardwood, the Irish also made waves in the classroom.

NEWPORT — The Newport High School boys basketball team couldn’t overcome a sluggish start Wednesday night, June 9, and dropped their seventh straight game, a 47-34 loss to Sisters in a 4A-3 Oregon West Conference contest played at Newport Middle School.

NEWPORT — League coaches recently tabbed Newport High School junior Kaden Bruns as the 4A-3 Oregon West Conference’s top hurler and backstop during this abbreviated OSAA prep baseball season.

TOLEDO — Scores were kept, which meant that technically there were winners and losers on Saturday, June 5, when student-athletes from Siuslaw High School faced off against youths from the Lincoln County 4-H Club in a trap-shooting event at the Toledo VFW gun range. However, the expressions o…

Waldport junior Zak Holsey received the Oregon School Activities Association’s boys Athlete of the Week award presented by Toyota for the week of May 24-30, the OSAA announced last weekend.

WALDPORT — It hardly seemed fair to the student-athletes poised to compete in a multi-team wrestling meet scheduled for Wednesday evening in the gym at Waldport High School, but after about an hour delay, Steve Cooper, Waldport High School athletic director, took to the microphone and told t…

NEWPORT — Not only did the Sweet Home High School boys basketball team spend a good deal of time at the free-throw line May 28 during its 61-53 defeat of Newport, the Huskies made their opportunities at the charity stripe count.

WALDPORT — A slow Wednesday evening start wasn’t about to stand in the way of the Waldport High School girls basketball team earning its second win of the season.

FLORENCE — The Newport High School boys and girls track and field teams closed out their seasons May 21-22 with some outstanding performances at the 4A state championships at Siuslaw High School.

HARRISBURG — Taft High School senior JJ French saved his best prep track and field performance for last.

STAYTON —Senior Payton Cunningham led the way last weekend as the Newport High School boys won the team title at the 4A-3 Oregon West Championships district track and field meet.

NEWPORT — The Newport High School softball team began the week on a mission. After the Cubs posted victories within the friendly confines of the Yaquina View Softball Complex over Cascade on Monday, May 10, and two days later against Philomath/Alsea, consider that mission accomplished.

WALDPORT — The Waldport High School softball team certainly wasn’t acting like it was on the wrong end of a lopsided score late in the Irish’s first game of a doubleheader on Saturday, May 8, at home against 2A/1A-SD4 foe Bandon.

GLENEDEN BEACH — It wouldn’t be easy to find better conditions for a day of competitive golf than the ones found Wednesday, May 5, during the Newport Invitational boys golf tournament at Salishan Golf Links. In particular, two Woodburn High School brothers found the warm temperatures, sunny …

TOLEDO — The Toledo High School baseball team took the field Saturday, May 1, for a home doubleheader against 2A/1A-SD 5 rival Myrtle Point/Powers with all the confidence of a team fresh off avenging its lone loss of the season, and it showed.

NEWPORT — In a news release issued Wednesday, April 28, by Kristin Bigler, Lincoln County School District communications specialist, the district announced it has opted to allow high school student-athletes to compete in an abbreviated season of full-contact indoor sports, which includes bas…

LINCOLN CITY — A dash of seasonal rains Saturday, April 24, couldn’t come between the Taft High School softball team and a doubleheader sweep at home of 3A-SD 1 foe Willamina.

Waldport High School junior Zak Holsey isn’t done making waves on the athletic fields for the Irish this school year.

NEWPORT — The comforting sounds of metal bats making contact with baseballs — those familiar “pings” of spring — returned for the first time in nearly two years last week to the diamonds at Frank V. Wade Memorial Park, when the Newport High School baseball team split an April 16 doubleheader…

EUGENE — A high school cross-country season unlike any other ended in triumph last weekend for Newport High School juniors Aliya Larsen and James Lackey.

NEWPORT — The end of the season was more than just a little bittersweet for the Newport High School volleyball team.

NEWPORT — After falling short in its two previous matches this season against Class 3A Taft, the Newport High School boys soccer team earned some redemption on Wednesday, March 31, while celebrating the team’s two seniors.