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Outdoors: Snapping turtle captured in Harrisburg
Wildlife officials captured a 25-pound snapping turtle found wandering through a Harrisburg pasture on Apr. 28. The invasive species, which poses a threat to native fish and wildlife habitats, not to...
Prep track: Lopez, 4x100 relay team place at state for Huskies
It wasn't a record-setting meet for the Sweet Home boys, but the 4A State Championships certainly weren't an embarrassment for the Huskies, who came away with two placings and a bunch of experience....
Lewis Conn named baseball team's Most Valuable Player
At Sweet Home baseball's end of season awards banquet at Husky Field on May 24, senior catcher Lewis Conn won Team MVP. "This young man is very deserving," Head Coach John Best said. "Not only did he...
No. 1 Henley ends Sweet Home's softball season
Sweet Home softball’s season ended on Tuesday, May 23, as the Huskies fell to top seeded Henley 12-1 in the first round of the 4A state tournament in Klamath Falls. Sweet Home had previously won a game at Hidden Valley to earn a spot in the...
Huskies finish track districts with qualifiers in four events, 31 PRs
Sweet Home has athletes going to the state track and field championships in four events this Friday and Saturday, at Hayward Field in Eugene, following a fourth-place finish for the boys in the...
Kelsie Rush commits to wrestle for Linfield University
Kelsie Rush may not have been thinking long-term when she asked Coach Steve Thorpe in the summer of 2021 about the possibility of participating in the inaugural women's-only wrestling camp to be held...
Huskies upset Hidden Valley on road in softball playoffs
Sweet Home softball pulled off an upset win against No. 8 Hidden Valley (19-8) on the Mustangs' home field in a play-in game on May 20. It took the Huskies one extra inning to knock off the favored...
Errors cost Huskies in close baseball loss at Newport
Sweet Home's baseball team lost to Newport twice in its final two games of the season last week, falling to the Cubs 3-1 on the road on Wednesday and then losing 17-9 to their coastal competitors at h...
Sweet Home finishes softball season with two wins
The Sweet Home softball team won its last two games of the regular season in emphatic fashion, beating North Marion 13-0 on the road on Wednesday and then besting Philomath 11-1 at home on Thursday....
Husky girls finish rookie season of golf with two-day district
Sweet Home's girls didn't place at the 4A/3A/2A/1A Special District 2 golf championship held May 8-9 at the McNary Golf Club. But Huskies Abby Logan and Hanna James, both rookies to competitive golf,...
Jake Sieminski signs to make SOU commitment official
Jacob Sieminski signed a letter of intent Tuesday, May 4, to wrestle at Southern Oregon University. As a crowd of family, teammates, friends and coaches watched, Sieminski committed to the Raiders,...
Sweet Home boys and girls notch team wins on home track
Sweet Home won both the boys and girls competitions Tuesday, May 2, as they hosted Stayton and Central Linn in the last regular-season track meet for the Husky varsity athletes before they host...
Huskies beat Cascade 12-9 for first OWC baseball win
The ball finally bounced in the Sweet Home baseball team's favor last Thursday, as the Huskies beat a Cascade team that they had previously lost two games to that week by a score of 12-9. The win was...
Sweet Home falls to league's top softball teams
The Sweet Home softball team (6-13) lost two home games to the top two squads in the Oregon West Conference last week, falling to Cascade 10-6 on Wednesday and Stayton 9-3 on Thursday. Of the game aga...
Golfers finish year with fifth place in district tournament
Sweet Home finished its golf season last weekend, placing fifth in the 4A-Special District 2 tournament held at the Tokatee Golf Course in McKenzie Bridge. The Huskies finished with a score of 789...
Big season continues for SH wrestlers at OWA state tourneys
Sweet Home's wrestlers had their best performance ever at the Oregon Wrestling Association's Freestyle and Greco State Championships April 22-23 in Central Point. Sweet Home's wrestlers finished with...
Surging softball team goes 2-1 in league games
Sweet Home softball (5-10) notched a pair of convincing conference wins last week at home against Newport (10-9) and North Marion (1-12) before falling on the road in a close one-run game to Cascade....
Baseball: OWC leader Stayton beats Huskies twice on diamond
Sweet Home faced a Stayton team that is undefeated in the Oregon West Conference on back-to-back days last week and came out on the losing end, falling to the Eagles 11-1 on the road on Wednesday and...
Sweet Home continuing to climb the ranks in track and field
Some seasonal weather seemed to put some spring into Sweet Home's top track athletes Saturday, April 22, as most posted personal bests in the Meet of Champions, one of the premier meets in the state...
Fortuitous timing links OSU students with LBCC as game broadcasters
By Jennifer Moody Orange Media Network Student broadcasters at Oregon State University were looking for sportscasting opportunities. Linn-Benton Community College wanted to improve streaming for its...
Sieminski named Most Valuable Teammate in wrestling
Sweet Home High School senior Jacob Sieminski has been honored by the Oregon Army National Guard as the state's Most Valuable Teammate in boys' wrestling. Sieminski finished the 2022-23 wrestling...
Huskies move up OWC softball ladder with wins over Philomath, NM
Sweet Home's softball team trounced league rivals Philomath (3-12) and North Marion (1-9) last week, beating the Warriors 18-8 at home on Wednesday , April 19, and then destroying the other Huskies...
Baseball win still eludes Huskies in losses to NM, Stayton
The Sweet Home baseball team still finds itself winless this season after a tough slate of games against two teams undefeated in the Oregon West Conference, North Marion and Stayton. On Friday, April...
Big day for boys results in team track win at North Marion
A raft of personal-bests, some new faces and some great weather all combined to give Sweet Home's boys a win over 11 other teams Friday at the North Marion Twilight meet in Aurora. "The kids did...
Husky boys golfers working their way up scoring charts
Sweet Home's golfers have played three tournaments since Spring Break and the Huskies are establishing themselves as an up-and-coming team, as they've consistently scored under 100 since March 31,...