Scores

Thursday, December 4

Girls/Women’s Basketball

Yreka 47 - Brookings 44

Yreka: Carrie Watson 18, Jaylene Phillips 13, Adriana Scala 9

Etna 43 - Mazama 63

Etna: Annalesia Nadig 10, Trina Appler 10

Mt. Shasta 21 - Klamath Union 52

Mt. Shasta: Taylor Hansen 15

Weed 18 - Del Norte 30

Weed: Amanda Greene 7, Nicolette Neel 6

COS 76 -Merritt 56

Boys/Men’s Basketball

Yreka 26 - Brookings Harbor 84

Yreka: Gareth Watkins 12, Chris Marks 8

Mt. Shasta 38 - Del Norte 51

Mt. Shasta: Steven Reed 10, Zack Morris 8,

Etna @ Los Molinos Tourney

Dunsmuir v Redding Adventist

Weed @ Burney at Fall River Tourney

COS 80 - Sequoias 74

Seventh straight win for COS. (more…)

Siskiyou Youth and PremierWest Bank are sponsoring the 2008 Basketball Challenge for all varsity basketball teams that Siskiyou Youth covers: Yreka, Mt. Shasta, Etna, Weed, Dunsmuir, and Happy Camp. The winning team’s players and coaching staff will receive custom made “Team of the Year” T-shirts designed by Golden Grotto.

The winner of the challenge will be the girls or boys team that is most successful during the 2008-09 season, which is defined as the team that advances the furthest in the North Section CIF playoffs. The challenge will end at the finish of the section playoffs and does not include any state playoff games because Division-VI teams (Dunsmuir and Happy Camp) are not eligible for state playoffs. Tiebreakers also do not include state playoff games. (more…)

The Weed Cougars football team placed two players on the SCL All-League Team—lineman Ty Andrews and lineman/linebacker Zack Vogel. Lineman Zack Schnack received an Honorable Mention.

The Lady Cougars volleyball team had no all-league selections, but Madison Moser and Sierra Skeen received Honorable Mentions.

Zack Morris of the Shasta Cascade League champion Mt. Shasta Bears grabbed Overall MVP honors. Weed’s Omar Fernandez is the Offensive MVP, and Pedro Aceves from Fall River was named Defensive MVP.

SCL All-League selections:

Mt. Shasta

John Holst

Erik Thelander

Sam Wooten

Honorable Mention: Andrew McLane

Weed

Jose Luquin

Ruben Ducoing

Honorable Mention: Usmaro Sanchez

Etna also received All-League and Honorable Mention selections, but Etna’s coach has requested that the names be temporarily withheld.

Scores

Saturday, November 8

Football

COS 35 - American River 49

Dunsmuir 50 - Liberty Christian 15

Friday, November 7

Football

Yreka 20 - West Valley 42

Yreka JV 8 - West Valley JV 20

Mt. Shasta 26 - Trinity 34

Mt. Shasta JV 8 - Trinity JV 16

Weed 6 - Burney  47

Etna bye week

Volleyball

COS 2 - Shasta 3 (25-17, 26-24, 21-25, 20-25, 12-15) (more…)

COTTONWOOD – The Mt. Shasta High School cross country team shined at the Shasta Cascade League and Small Schools Division cross country championships, on Wednesday.

Mt. Shasta’s Mitchell Nesheim and Joanna Been won the boys and girls individual SCL titles, and both finished fourth in the division. Nesheim covered the 3-mile course in 17:34.00. Beem’s time was 20:58.00.

Etna Lady Lion Jilinda Franklin was second in the SCL and fifth overall (21:07.00). Right behind Franklin in sixth through ninth place overall were Lady Bears Cary Rogers (21:21), Kirsten Bree (21:28), Lisa Shinohara (21:36), and Cynthia Laiacona (21:55). Weed Lady Cougars Chelsea Quigley (24:36) and Ellie DeRoss (24:42) finished seventeenth and eighteenth out of 62 runners. (more…)

The North Section CIF released updated volleyball playoff points rankings today.

Dunsmuir (11-8) is tied for 7th with Butte Valley (8-5) in Division-VI, and is in position to host a first-round playoff game. However, Big Valley (10-13-3) ranked 11^th has won at least a share of the Evergreen league and has defeated Dunsmuir twice in league play. Big Valley will likely jump over Dunsmuir in the playoff seedings. Happy Camp is ranked 15^th (2-9), and Tulelake is 19^th (3-21) (more…)

The Northern Section CIF released updated football playoff points rankings on Monday.

Etna (7-3) slipped one spot to 5^th in Division-IV, trialing Quincy (7-2) and ahead of Esparto (4-5).

Mt. Shasta (4-5) stayed in the 6^th position in D-III, ahead of Trinity (2-7), and behind Live Oak (4-5). With a win over Trinity this Friday, Mt. Shasta should jump past Live Oak, based on head to head competition. Mt. Shasta beat Live Oak earlier this season. (more…)

The Northern Section CIF released updated volleyball playoff points ranking on Monday.

Dunsmuir (9-8) remained ranked 7^th in Division-VI, ahead of Greenville (8-10) and behind Princeton (10-8). Butte Valley is 12^th, Happy Camp 15^th, and Tulelake 18^th. The top 16 teams make the playoffs.

Etna (16-15-2) moved up one spot to 10^th in D-V, in front of Mercy (14-13). Esparto (10-7) and Chester (17-12) are tied for 8^th. The top 16 teams make the playoffs. Weed is ranked 16^th, but does not meet the Shasta Cascade League’s .500 criteria for playoffs. (more…)

Opinion by Ray Wolf

Sometimes, people define a team by its last game of the season. Sometimes, that does a great injustice to what the team has accomplished. To let the Weed Cougars’ 3-1 loss to the Fall River Bulldogs last night be the last word on their season would be an injustice. For the record, Fall River caught Weed’s future superstar goalkeeper away from the net twice for goals. The first coming a little under 20 minutes into the match, and the second with just eight minutes or so to play.

In between, Jose Luquin used a free kick to set up Salvador Avila for a header to tie the score at 1-1, less than two minutes after Fall River had scored its first goal. The final Bulldog goal came in the last minute of play on a breakaway, while the Cougars were in an all out effort to tie the match.

One of the significant positives to come out of the match was the high level of support from the community. The crowd may have been the biggest ever for an SCL game in Siskiyou County. It looked more like a football crowd than a soccer crowd. And, when you have a football guy in the announcer’s booth yelling “Goooooooal” when the Cougars’ scored, you know soccer has arrived in Weed. (more…)