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With a deep, senior-laden group of experienced players ready to take the field, the Huskies are looking for all the marbles this year in boys baseball.
After one of the most successful seasons in Coach Doug Peargin’s 36 years with the Sweet Home swim team, Peargin decided that he couldn’t hand out the normal couple of captain’s stars given to the team’s leading swimmers.
Being the favorite isn’t always friendly and Sweet Home boys basketball team discovered that Saturday night.
After Sweet Home’s boys track and field team won its second straight state championship last spring, Coach Billy Snow predicted the Huskies would wear a bull’s eye this year.
In the 16 years he’s been coaching golf at Sweet Home, Tom Horn said he’s never had a boys team like this one going into the season.
The Sweet Home softball team is young this year, but most of the Huskies are veterans.
Sweet Home will face either the Phoenix Pirates or the Sutherlin Bulldogs in the second round of state 4A boys basketball playoffs at home on Saturday, Feb. 6.
It may not have been the trophy they were aiming for, but the Sweet Home wrestlers’ second-place finish at the state 4A wrestling championships was a masterful piece of work last weekend.
The Huskies dispatched Taft and Philomath last week to secure their first Val-Co league championship in boys basketball and first seed in state playoffs. Sweet Home finished the league season with one loss, to Central, which last week was ranked tied for first with the Huskies in the state coaches poll and second behind Sweet Home in the Oregonian poll.
The Huskies finished their season in girls basketball defeating Taft 33-13 on the road Friday after losing 66-8 to Philomath on Feb. 16.