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For new Sweet Home High School Girls Basketball Coach Erika Evans, basketball – particularly coaching the high school game – runs in the family.

Her dad, Wayne Molebash, was a high school boys basketball coach for 45 years. His first coaching job was at West Albany. He followed that up with coaching stints in eastern Oregon: Elgin, Prineville, Crook County and Union.

When he married Evans' mom, Laura Bullard, he moved to Roseville, Calif., where he coached numerous sports at Woodcreek High School: baseball, football, and, of course, basketball.

Evans' older brother, Robert Molebash, is...