Marshfield runners aim for state berths
Marshfield s girls and boys cross country teams have a chance to make school history Wednesday at the Midwestern League district meet. The girls are trying to become the first Marshfield group to qualify for the state meet four straight years, while ...
 4.1K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 741.0 Pre look-alike wins annual race
As Bradley Croker rounded the track at Pete Susick Stadium, spectators might have believed he was the second coming of Steve Prefontaine. Sporting a mustache, sideburns and shaggy, dark hair, the sinewy and thin Croker loped across the finish line in...
5.1K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 1000.0 Festival Season isn't all merrymaking
We ve celebrated cranberries, blackberries, seafood, chain saws and sand dunes. And just before festival fatigue settles in, we ve got another weekend of fun ahead of us. Today s Bay Area Fun Festival represents the last big hoorah before the tourism...
5.8K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 208.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Sept. 19
Bowling North Bend Lanes Sept. 8-13 HIGH GAME Alley Cats Sandra Jacobs 187, Kitty Russell 187, Nora Bailey 167. Bay Area Hospital Tom Lofthouse 244, Ron Chambers 233, Arnold Hill 231; Lisa Wooley 214, Tina Chambers 206, Sally Ash 192. Cosmo Sha...
10.4K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 208.0 Pre s aura beckons runner
In eighth grade, Tanner Alexander s father made him a promise. If Tanner continued with his love of running, then his father would allow him to compete in any race in the country during his senior year of high school. Tanner s father kept his promise...
3.1K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 349.0 Museum names fourth Maritime winner
Harold Johnson has done it again. For the second time in three years, Johnson won two of the top four awards in the Coos Art Museum s annual Maritime Art Exhibit. The museum announced Johnson of SeaTac, Wash., is the winner of the People s Choice aw...
0.8K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 208.0 30th Prefontaine Run is Saturday
The biggest annual sporting event on the South Coast celebrates 30 years on Saturday, when runners again celebrate the memory of Steve Prefontaine. The 30th-annual Prefontaine Memorial Run starts at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Fourth Street and An...
2.1K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 307.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Sept. 12
Golf Cedar Bend Golf Club Popeye Olive Oyl Saturday Low Gross 1. Bob Wood and Sandy Shinn; 2. Todd Anderson and Betty McGrath. Low Net 1. Dick Worley and Peggy Nussbaumer; 2. Ron Edwards and Dee Price. Sunday Low Gross 1. Tie-Jake Jacobson an...
11.1K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 380.0 Prefontaine Run celebrates 30 years
The Prefontaine Memorial Run marks 30 years of honoring the memory of famed Coos Bay runner Steve Prefontaine with the annual 10-kilometer race on Saturday, Sept. 19. The race starts at 10 a.m. in downtown Coos Bay and runners will follow one of Pref...
1.8K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 291.0 Community Sports: Community Scoreboard for Aug. 29
Golf Forest Hills Country Club Ladies Day Tuesday Scramble with the Guys Low Gross Ray Malmberg, Stephanie Thomas, Pat Porter and Don DeFilippo, 71; Harvey Myers, Charlie Brickey and Marlene Allsop, 72; Jim Koenig, Dave Morgan, Hal Pintar and Marth...
9.5K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 267.0 30th Prefontaine Run is Sept. 19
The Prefontaine Memorial Run marks 30 years of honoring the memory of famed Coos Bay runner Steve Prefontaine with the annual 10-kilometer race on Saturday, Sept. 19. The race starts at 10 a.m. in downtown Coos Bay and runners will follow one of Pref...
1.8K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 291.0 Merritt breaks record
EUGENE Olympic gold medalist LaShawn Merritt bested his own Hayward Field record by winning the seldom-run 300 meters in 31.30 seconds Sunday in the Prefontaine Classic. Merritt, who won gold in the 400 last summer in Beijing, surpassed his own mar...
3.2K - Jun. 8, 2009; scored 267.0 Coach of the Year: McIntosh maintains Marshfield tradition
Rich McIntosh had quite an act to follow. Last year, the man known as Mac to his athletes, was named the head track and field coach at Marshfield High School, following in the footsteps of the legendary Fran Worthen in a year when Marshfield s boys...
1.6K - Jun. 6, 2009; scored 161.0 Prefontaine legacy
COOS BAY She started as a student at Blossom Gulch Elementary School decades ago. On Monday, Linda Prefontaine returned as a benefactor. She was fulfilling a promise made to the students a year ago. Prefontaine co-authored a book on her famous brot...
1.2K - Jun. 2, 2009; scored 354.0 Sprinting to the head of the class
With a fast run at the Far West League district meet Saturday, North Bend senior Mike Forbes stamped himself as one of the state s top sprinters. Amazingly, he almost never put on a track uniform for the Bulldogs. Sports didn t interest me until juni...
5.8K - May. 20, 2009; scored 161.0 Youth Sports: Athletes qualify for Hershey meet
A total of 11 South Coast athletes qualified for the Hershey State Track Meet by winning events in a local qualifier at Marshfield High School last weekend. The winners in every event for each of three age groups qualified for the state meet, which w...
3.8K - May. 2, 2009; scored 161.0 Local athletes shine in Prefontaine meet
Caleb Kruse made his last big meet on his home track a great one. The Marshfield senior smashed three meet records and was part of the winning 4x100-meter relay team at the 20-school Prefontaine Rotary Invitational on Saturday. No team scores were ke...
6.0K - Apr. 27, 2009; scored 291.0 Locals win state tourism awards
The South Coast has grabbed two out of seven awards for tourism at the Oregon Tourism Hospitality Industry 2008 Achievement Awards. This was the first year that the Bay Area was handed two awards and only its second year of receiving an award in th...
2.4K - Apr. 20, 2009; scored 267.0 Youth Sports: Hershey Track Meet qualifier is April 26
The local qualifying meet for the Hershey Track and Field state meet will be held on Sunday, April 26, starting at 1 p.m. at Marshfield High School. The free event is hosted by the Boys Girls Club of Southwestern Oregon and is for boys and girls ag...
2.5K - Apr. 18, 2009; scored 161.0 Newcomers share top runner honors
Mike Forbes and Tyne Riddick never had competed in the Coos County Meet before Friday night. At the end of the night, the two seniors walked away with major awards from the 101st edition of the meet. Forbes, who participated in track briefly for Nort...
6.1K - Apr. 18, 2009; scored 161.0 | 
