Victoria Jacobsen
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Bend Bucks showcase some of Central Oregon’s best baseball talent
Earlier this month, Jake Farnsworth scored a run on a passed ball in the Class 3A state championship game, helping La Pine to its first state baseball title. Three days later, the right-handed pitcher — and newly minted high school grad — was the starting pitcher for the Bend Elks. After that, is it hard to come back to earth and start an entirely new season, this time with the Bend Bucks, a… → Read More
Ridgeview finds redemption in seventh-inning comeback win over La Salle
REDMOND — Nearly half an hour after she slid into home plate and scored the tying run in the bottom of the seventh inning, Ridgeview’s Emma Cannon said she still felt nervous.“Which is weird,” Cannon admitted, still excited and jittery after the Ravens’ 6-5 comeback win Wednesday against No. 9 La Salle Prep in the first round of the Class 5A softball playoffs. “That’s definitely the most intense… → Read More
Storm repeat as nordic champs
MOUNT BACHELOR — The snow swirled and the wind blew so hard Saturday morning at Mt. Bachelor ski area that the lifts were closed and all alpine events canceled. But across the way at the Mt. Bachelor nordic trails, the second day of the Oregon Interscholastic Ski Racing Association Nordic state championships continued with only minor concessions to the blizzardlike conditions.Despite chaotic… → Read More
Learn to ice skate at any age
Julia Kelleher knows what you’re thinking: Figure skating is for kids. If you made it to adulthood and haven’t fulfilled your ice prince or princess dreams, it’s too late.But Kelleher wants you to know that window has not closed.She had always admired skaters on TV and wanted to take up the sport, but her 30th birthday came and went, and she still had never taken a lesson.“I felt really… → Read More
Mountain View girls beat Redmond with 31-point 3rd quarter
It was the reaction every coach wants out of a halftime pep talk. Mountain View trailed visiting Redmond by five points heading into the locker room — the Cougars had made just two baskets in the second quarter before Mia Morey hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer — and coach Steve Riper thought his team had left too many scoring opportunities on the table. “I challenged the kids at halftime, because I… → Read More
Bend wins Mayor’s Cup for the 4th straight year
Bend swimmers dominated the pool at the City of Bend High School Invitational at Juniper Swim & Fitness Center on Friday night, winning 16 of the 22 events to capture the Mayor’s Cup trophy for the fourth year in a row. The team standings, which combine points scored by boys and girls teams, have been close in past years, but this time around the Lava Bears finished with 548.5 points, well ahead… → Read More
Summit’s Max, Ballantyne top local finishers at Oxford Classic
After her race at the Oxford Classic on Friday afternoon, Fiona Max admitted that she is still working on her sprinting form.The effort seems to be working for the Summit sophomore, who was the top Central Oregon finisher in the girls race in Drake Park, running the 5,000-meter race in 18 minutes, 52.47 seconds to place third overall. “My sister got the sprinter side of things and has really… → Read More
Bend scooter riders look to resurrect indoor skatepark
It is not immediately obvious when you watch the kids doing flips on their scooters and showing off their best tricks at Ponderosa Skatepark in Bend, but the riders know it: They could be even better. No matter how much time Bend riders spend on their skateboards, scooters and bikes during the warm months, wet, snowy winters keep them cooped up during the same months when their peers who live in… → Read More
Five questions that need answers for the Oregon State Beavers
It has been a rough few years for the Beavers, who went 2-10 in 2015 and 4-8 last year, winning just three conference games in that span. Will 2017 be the year Gary Andersen, now in his third year as head coach, turns the team around?Here are the five questions that will be key for the Beavers this season.Will newcomers be the Beavers’ saviors in 2017?Between inconsistent play and injuries, the… → Read More
Pickleball’s growth — in appeal and skill — on full display
A.J. and Irene Fraties have helped organize plenty of tournaments since they and several friends founded the Bend Pickleball Club in 2010, but none quite like the event staged over the weekend in Bend.The four-day USA Pickleball Association Pacific Northwest Regional Championships, which concluded Sunday at Pine Nursery Park, drew 480 amateur entries — which the Fraties said is the largest field… → Read More
Get ready for standup paddleboarding!
Let’s start with the obvious question: If you’ve never tried stand-up paddleboarding before, will you topple into the water during your first try?Well, maybe. “I would say about 50 percent of the people in my class fall in, to be totally straightforward,” says Sue Fox, a SUP instructor at Tumalo Creek Kayak & Canoe in Bend. “For some people, they take to it right away, and I’ve literally had… → Read More
Thomas Tyner fulfills ‘childhood dreams’ as an Oregon State Beaver
Like many other students finishing their senior years this past May, Thomas Tyner was packing his belongings in Eugene and preparing for his next move.A top recruit from Aloha High School, Tyner played for Oregon in the 2013 and 2014 seasons, scoring two touchdowns in the Ducks’ Rose Bowl win over Florida State on New Year’s Day 2015. But he was sidelined by a left shoulder injury in 2015 and… → Read More
Thousands turn out for Beavers scrimmage, Fan Fest
Oregon State quarterback Jake Luton said some of his previous teams would draw about 50 spectators to open scrimmages, so he was not sure what to expect from the Beavers Fan Fest and scrimmage held Friday night at Summit High School in Bend. But it is safe to assume he was not expecting the crowd of approximately 3,800 fans, many of them in orange and black, that turned out to see him and his… → Read More
Feeding the OSU football team is a caloric exercise
Wherever the Oregon State University football team goes, food travels with it. A lot of food.Each of the lounges at the OSU-Cascades residence hall, where the football team and support staff are staying during their weeklong trip to Bend, has a fridge stocked with yogurt, cheese and apple slices, and counters stacked with containers of Gold Fish crackers, beef jerky and energy bars. Snacks are… → Read More
Record field and a national champion at Cascade Lakes Swim Series
Jeff Erwin, winner of the 5,000-meter swim at the Cascade Lakes Swim Series, said it had been at least a decade since he raced in the annual three-day open-water swimming festival, which concluded Sunday at Elk Lake. “The last time I was here, I had my kids, and we were watching them play over there in the water, so they were pretty young,” Erwin said, gesturing to the shallow area near the… → Read More
Helping to elevate riders and horses
Rachael van den Berg says she has had the mind of a hard-bargaining businesswoman since she was a little girl. When her parents sat her down and told her the family would be leaving Florida for Central Oregon, she agreed that she was perfectly happy with the move — as long as her parents would buy her a horse in Oregon. At 10, her parents made good on the agreement, buying Barbie, a 4-year-old… → Read More
Dream horse and dream win for Bendite
Lindsey Garner says she has had her eyes on her “dream horse,” Capilano, since she first spotted him as a gangly 4-year-old in 2012. Capilano was powerful and clever and had, as Garner put it, “an amazing canter,” but he had a quirky jumping style and kept changing hands from one trainer to another.Garner, 36, had competed at the Grand Prix level in her early 20s, but she had not had a horse… → Read More
Aiming to resurrect adult baseball in Bend
For Austin Evans, the logic is simple: Kids love playing baseball. Bend is a town where adults get to play like kids. Therefore, there should be lots of adults in Central Oregon who would jump at the chance to play baseball again. The Deschutes National Adult Baseball Association, a Central Oregon-based 18-and-over league, operated for decades and claimed 10 teams at its peak in the mid-2000s,… → Read More
Yes, that was Ashton Eaton at the Prineville Splash n’ Dash (he finished 17th)
The man with the title world’s greatest athlete finished 17th at the Fourth of July Splash n’ Dash in Prineville. Ashton Eaton, the 29-year-old athlete from Central Oregon and two-time Olympic decathlon champion, is not really a swimmer, or a paddler or a cyclist, or even a distance runner for that matter. But Tate Metcalf said he and his wife, Aimee Metcalf, and Eaton’s wife, Brianne… → Read More
In Madras, Todd Beamer still remembered 20 years later
The Fourth of July could be a sad day for Bud Beamer, but he says he is typically so busy he does not have time to dwell.Beamer has been organizing Independence Day races in Madras for about 40 years, but in June 1997 his 28-year-old son Todd went missing during a run with five of the family’s dogs. Several days later, Todd’s body and those of four of the dogs were found in an irrigation → Read More