Panther boys ready to run the court
After going all the way to the district tournament last season, the Washougal boys basketball players seem hungry to improve on what they started.
After going all the way to the district tournament last season, the Washougal boys basketball players seem hungry to improve on what they started.
When you enter the front doors at Washougal High School, you see cases filled with a variety of gold trophies calling out the achievements of the school’s many athletic teams. The one exception seems to be basketball. And that’s something the Washougal girls basketball team plans to change this year.
The 2A Washougal girls basketball team kicked off the season against the 3A Evergreen High Plainsmen with a 61-20 shellacking in the Evergreen Fieldhouse on Monday, Nov. 26.
The Panther’s star senior basketball player is now officially a University of Idaho Vandal.
After 24 years as Camas High’s head soccer coach, Roland Minder had hoped to retire from the game he loves with another state championship trophy.
In pain and stiff from a hamstring injury, Camas soccer forward Maddie Kemp still managed to help lead her sister Papermakers to victory in the team’s first two state playoff games, Nov. 8.
Camas volleyball heads to state
Swim teams from Camas and Washougal overcame some tricky hurdles this season to earn a ticket to the state swimming championships, held in Federal Way, Washington, Nov. 9 and Nov. 10.
The Camas High volleyball team, a young crew mostly led by sophomores and juniors, held strong Nov. 3, during a marathon, five-set match, to clinch a spot in the 4A state tournament.
All season, Amelia Pullen’s cross country teammates have repeatedly told anyone who asks that no one works harder in practice or in competition than the Washougal High senior.