September 9, 2021
Washougal High runners win Portland to Coast Challenge
The Washougal High School cross country team won a major race two weeks before the start of its 2021 season.
The Washougal High School cross country team won a major race two weeks before the start of its 2021 season.
After a tumultuous 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prep sports in Camas-Washougal are off to a more normal start this fall. Following is a preview of three local teams — Washougal volleyball, Camas boys golf and Washougal cross country — that have set their aspirations high for the 2021 prep sports season:
The city of Washougal is partnering with two youth sports organizations to bring a variety of classes and camps to Washougal parks this fall.occer Shots, a Portland-based soccer…
Washougal native Levi Kitchen was awarded the Nicky Hayden American Motocross Association’s Horizon Award, presented annually to the amateur motocross racer with the most promising professional career, earlier this month.
After the Camas Heat youth basketball team defeated its opponent to win the boys 11-and-under division championship at the 2021 Oregon Hoopla 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament in Salem, Oregon, on Aug. 8, the vanquished squad’s coach approached Camas coach Jeremy Fogle and said, “We just can’t get over the ‘Camas hump.’”
With the return of full regular-season schedules, state tournaments and mask-free competition, many prep sports in Camas and Washougal will look and feel more familiar this year.
Steve Sutton wasn’t completely confident that his Camas-Washougal 15U all-star baseball team could make a deep run at the Pacific Northwest Babe Ruth 13-15 regional tournament, held July 26-31 in Kelso. Sutton knew his team was talented, of course, but he also knew that the other teams were talented as well.
Though he has not yet played in a varsity football game, Holden Bea recently earned a place among the best high school quarterbacks in the Pacific Northwest.
The Washougal National is back.
