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Tayler Walker doesn’t remember what she was thinking as the final out was made in Southern Oregon University’s 8-3 win over Oklahoma City on Wednesday that clinched the NAIA softball national championship.
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Just like the Harlan Carter Invitation to kick off the high school basketball season, the annual 3-on-3 tournament is a right of passage in Redding.While JV and varsity kids get the spotlight during the first week of December for Harlan Carter, the 3-on-3 event, presented by Elevate Camps and sponsored by Lithia Chevrolet and Shasta County Sports, the limelight shines on all ages on the blacktop of the Redding Civic Center.
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Growing up in Chicago’s South Side, Lamont “Disco” Cooper knows a thing or two about hoopin’ it up.And that education served him well, not just on the rough-and-tumble courts of the Windy City, but on the blacktop of the Redding Civic Auditorium and the annual Redding 3-on-3 tournament.
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In the end, Easton Waterman’s decision had less to do with the beautiful Point Loma University campus than with the feel he got from the Sea Lions’ baseball coaching staff. Waterman signed his letter of intent Monday to play baseball for the Sea Lions after a standout career at Enterprise High School and Shasta College.
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Foothill’s Zoey Bishop was among a handful of athletes who had themselves quite a day on Friday at the Northern Section Masters Track and Field finals at West Valley High School.The Cougars’ junior had a hand in four victories – two solo and two relays – for Foothill. She won the 200-meter race in 26.07 seconds and grabbed the 400 in 59.16. She then joined Sophia Porzio, Teagan Richards and Melody Wu in winning the 400-relay in 50.30 and anchored the Cougars’ 1,600-relay win in 4:06.50 with Savanna Dutton, Wu and Grace Dudley.
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Riley Wallen has played in a Northern Section Division III girls basketball final. The Foothill product scored more than 500 points in her high school career.
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It took the Shasta Wolves less time to dispatch Las Plumas in Tuesday’s Northern Section Division II baseball quarterfinal than it did for the Thunderbirds to drive to Redding from Oroville.Simon Turner tossed six innings of one hit ball and Jordan Chabolla wiggled out of a seventh-inning jam to preserve a 2-0 win for the Wolves in 80 minutes. The win secures a semifinal date with No. 1 seed Pleasant Valley on Friday.
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Hoping to spoil Red Bluff’s annual baseball title trek is, among others, Foothill. The Cougars (18-9, 9-6 Eastern Athletic League) earned the third seed in the postseason and host No. 6 Chico at 7 p.m. in the single-elimination opening round. A Foothill win earns a three-game set with No. 2 Red Bluff (17-9, 10-5 EAL).
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The irony of Enterprise senior Jadyn Matthews trading in her Black and Gold colors for the Purple of Weber State wasn’t lost on the crowd assembled to watch her Monday sign her National Letter Intent to play basketball for the Division I program in Utah. And while Matthews will sport the colors of rival Shasta next season for the Wildcats, there’s no doubt Matthews is among the all-time greats to play basketball at Enterprise.
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Next month, Josiah Hutt will decide where he’s going to play collegiate basketball.The announcement will cap a decade-long journey that’s seen Hutt grow from a grade-school gym rat playing pickup games at the YMCA against grown me to high school prodigy playing varsity ball as a freshman to a senior leader pushing Foothill to heights its never before accomplished. And finally as the Shasta County Sports boys basketball Most Valuable Player for 2018-19.
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