With two minutes left in a Dec. 11 game against the Camas Papermakers, the West Linn Lions girls basketball team — Oregon’s top-ranked 6A team — took a five-point lead and appeared to be in control of the young Papermaker squad.
Excitement and high expectations surround Camas wrestlers as they train and work on moves for the new season on the almost blinding red practice mats that surround each athlete with Papermaker pride.
The wrestling room at Washougal High School has a lot of hardware hanging on the wall, from a long list of state champions. It’s something athletes take great pride in and this year’s team plans to bring more postseason hardware back to the Washougal Panther practice den.
After two consecutive trips to the state championships, the Camas High School girls basketball team has a fresh look with a new head coach and — other than star point guard Haley Hanson — a new set of varsity players.
The Camas boys basketball team is off to a hot start this season, easily winning their first two games, and players believe this could be a history-making year.
For the past three seasons, when opposing teams faced the Washougal girls basketball players, their primary focus has been figuring out how to slow down 6’1” guard Beyonce Bea.
After going all the way to the district tournament last season, the Washougal boys basketball players seem hungry to improve on what they started.
When you enter the front doors at Washougal High School, you see cases filled with a variety of gold trophies calling out the achievements of the school’s many athletic teams. The one exception seems to be basketball. And that’s something the Washougal girls basketball team plans to change this year.
The 2A Washougal girls basketball team kicked off the season against the 3A Evergreen High Plainsmen with a 61-20 shellacking in the Evergreen Fieldhouse on Monday, Nov. 26.
The Panther’s star senior basketball player is now officially a University of Idaho Vandal.
