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LBHS well-represented at District 6 track meet
Liberty Bell High School will send a solid contingent to the District 6 track and field championships on Thursday (May 16) at Brewster High School. In all, 23 Mountain Lions qualified for districts at the Central Washington 2B Sub-Regional league championships in Oroville last Tuesday (May 7). The District 6 meet also serves as the 2024 WIAA-Gesa State Championship qualifying meet. The top three placers in each event at Brewster will move along to the state meet at Eisenhower High School in Yakima May 23-25.
Jacks win district title, head to state tourney
It sounds like a storybook ending – beating the undefeated league champions in the district title match – but the Jacks are aiming for more, in the state tournament. Getting to state and making a deep run was the Quincy High School boys soccer team’s objective from the start of the season, said head coach Hector Vaca. The Jacks earned their spot at state May 8 with a 1-0 victory over Bridgeport in the second round of the District 6 1A tournament. They will begin state competition Friday, May 17.
Sports briefs: Blank, McMillan still alive in districts, Softball season ends at Brewster
Sophomore Gavin Blank and freshman Kara McMillan remained alive in their respective District 6 post-season singles tennis tournaments through the past weekend. Blank heads for the combined District 6 1A/2B/1B tournament on Thursday (May 16) with a No. 3 seeding and hopes of advancing on to the Saturday finals and an eventual trip to the WIAA-Gesa State Tournament in Yakima over the first half of the Memorial Day Weekend. The top four places qualify for the state championships.
Baseball team wins one in districts, falls to Chelan
As the grounds crew began its postgame grooming of the diamond, a cloud of infield dust wafted over the right field grass where Quincy baseball head coach Seth Longwill addressed his team. After beating Omak 3-2 in the first round of the District 6 1A playoffs, the Jacks had just been eliminated by Chelan in a 3-1 loss May 11 at Johnson-O’Brien Stadium in Ephrata.
Bridging Memories: Reflections from the 1,300-mile, 52-day Columbia River Canoe Project
Professional outdoor athlete Robert Lester from Butte, Mont., recently traveled through Bridgeport, Wash., along the banks of the Columbia River on the on his way to shoot a ski film in the Cascade Mountains. Bridgeport is most well-known for its Chief Joseph Dam and the 2,620 megawatts it produces. “This was the second time in my life I had been in Bridgeport, but I had never seen the town from a car,” he says, explaining that the first and only other time was from the seat of a canoe.
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