NORTH BEND — The baseball players from Marshfield and North Bend haven’t seen anybody in the other dugout except their traditional rivals this fall, and they are fine with that.
Teams can still sign up for the annual Greenskeeper’s Revenge at Bandon Crossings Golf Course.
In the eyes of Brent Hutton, the opportunity for Bandon’s runners to join Marshfield, North Bend and Powers for weekly track meets in the Bay Area this month is a reward of sorts.
Marshfield and North Bend are halfway through the first of two fall seasons, their volleyball, softball, baseball and track teams competing against each other each week.
The first round of the Marshfield-North Bend fall sports series comes to an end this week, with the schools turning their focus to a new batch of sports for November and December.
NORTH BEND — The goal of the current sports seasons for North Bend and Marshfield is to give the student-athletes an opportunity to play.
In a normal year, I would have been at a football stadium Friday night, covering a high school football game like I have nearly every fall Friday night for more than 20 years.
COOS BAY — Preston Luckman of Coos Bay was a double-winner on the final night of the season for the oval dirt track at Coos Bay Speedway on Saturday.
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NORTH BEND — There were two full baseball teams at North Bend’s Clyde Allen Field on Thursday afternoon, but only two uniform numbers.
COOS BAY — Announcer Andrew Brainard’s voice boomed through Pete Susick Stadium at Marshfield High School on Wednesday night. North Bend’s cheerleaders performed routines on the track. And the stadium lights shined down on the action on the turf field.
COOS BAY — Mirroring the Oregon School Activities Association schedule, the Boys & Girls Club of Southwestern Oregon has postponed its sports seasons until 2021.
COOS BAY — Local drivers won several divisions in the Winged Sprint Cars Battle at the Bay on Saturday, one of the final oval dirt track events of the season at Coos Bay Speedway.
COOS BAY — The shiniest new sports field on the South Coast is one that will benefit a lot more than the school that owns it.
COOS BAY — Epuerto has started taking reservations for fall soccer for players ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade and also adults.
COOS BAY — The seventh-annual Bay Area Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament will take place Saturday, Sept. 26, at Coos Golf Club south of Coos Bay.
COOS BAY — It wasn’t anything like a normal year, but a number of South Coast runners and walkers kept up the tradition of the Prefontaine Memorial Run on Saturday.
SOUTH COAST — South Coast Striders had to reschedule the Humbug Mountain hikes. The hikes are now scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 27.
COOS BAY — Participants in Saturday’s unofficial COVID-Style Prefontaine Memorial Run are asked to follow sidewalks along the entire route, since it will be open to traffic.
COOS BAY — For South Coast runners, the third weekend in September means just one thing, the Prefontaine Memorial Run.
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Alexander Schulz of Bandon gpt away from the smoke and got one of the great joys for golfers when he had a hole-in-one in Central Oregon.
Matt and Kris Schueneman won the annual couples tournament at Coos Golf Club last weekend.
Athletes at Marshfield and North Bend high schools will be able to practice and have competitions against each other in several sports this fall after the school boards for both schools approved.
BANDON — There will be another new Crossings Cup champion at Bandon Crossings Golf Course after defending champion Richard Stefiuk was beaten by Brian Gibson in the semifinals last week.
COOS BAY — Griff Smith made it 10-for-10 in main events this year in the Junior Stingers division at Coos Bay Speedway when the 13-year-old Bandon racer won the race Saturday night.
Fall soccer registration is open until Sept. 19 through Coos County Youth Sports unless the teams have already filled.
The Boys & Girls Club of Southwestern Oregon has canceled the annual Pre Run for Kids and other Kids Day Activities scheduled for Sunday Dec. 20 in downtown Coos Bay.
Bandon Crossings will hold its fourth annual US Open Best Ball Tournament on Sunday, Sept. 20.
Craig Praus had a hole-in-one during the Dick Hanen Club Championship at Coos Golf Club.
COOS BAY — Preston Luckman is busy as can be, excelling in two very different sports while working for his dad, caddying at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort and preparing for another year of college.
COOS BAY — Dyllan Siewell of Bandon won the featured race in the Street Stock Battle at the Beach on Saturday at Coos Bay Speedway.
Defending champion Richard Stefiuk was the only past champion to survive the quarterfinals of the Crossings Cup tournament at Bandon Crossings last week.
BANDON — Several golfers have had aces at Bandon Crossings in the past few weeks, on several different holes at the course.
BANDON — Max Kirkendall had the best shot and the Umpqua Bank team had the best score, but the big winners in the annual Chuck McKay Memorial Golf Scramble might turn out to be families up and down the Oregon Coast who receive food baskets funded by the tournament during the upcoming holiday…
COOS BAY — Jason Humphrey, Kris Valencia and John Garkow were the big winners in the fourth-annual Dick Hanen Club Championship at Coos Golf Club last weekend.
COOS BAY — For Griff Smith it was business as usual Saturday. For Brody Montgomery, it was finally a first victory of 2020. And for Coos Bay Speedway, it was another busy night at the races even as other tracks in the state have started racing again.
Three past champions are among the eight golfers who qualified for the Crossings Cup match play tournament at Bandon Crossings golf course at the end of the regular season.
Coos Golf Club will host the 2020 Couples Tournament on the weekend of Sept. 5 and 6.
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Preston Luckman of Coos Bay picked up a win during a midweek event at Coos Bay Speedway on Monday and Jeff Thurman of Coquille also was a winner.
BANDON — Tyler Strafaci was the official winner of the 120th U.S. Amateur Championship at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort on Sunday, but the resort also was a winner of sorts in the success of the tournament that was made all the more challenging this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preston Luckman won the featured 50-lap Super Late Model Tidal Wave race on another busy Saturday night at Coos Bay Speedway over the weekend.
BANDON — In a day filled with outstanding shot-making, Tyler Strafaci won the 120th U.S. Amateur Championship at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort with one final memorable ball strike.
BANDON — KC Gonzales has been a caddie at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort since 2004, so he’s intimately familiar with the courses at the renowned golf destination.
BANDON — The 120th U.S. Amateur is down to eight golfers after a long day Thursday when those eight players won two matches each to advance to Friday’s quarterfinals at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.
BANDON — James Piot said it doesn’t take being a high seed to feel stress to do well at the U.S. Amateur.
BANDON — Wilson Furr knew he had caught a break in the scheduling in the 120th U.S. Amateur at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.
