Track and Field

Oroville, Tonasket bring home state track medals

By on June 4, 2014 in Sports and Outdoors

Hornets bring home multiple medals CHENEY- Oroville’s track and field squad brought home a total of six medals last weekend from the WIAA State 2B Track and Field Championships, with the girls squad garnering a ninth place finish. “Our athletes followed up at state with stellar performances,” said Oroville coach Harold Jensen. “Experience, dedication, and [...]

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Speiker’s record-setting weekend

By on June 4, 2014 in Sports and Outdoors

CHENEY – Sierra Speiker runs with such precision, you could calibrate a metronome to her pace. And despite a ruthless drive to achieve sometimes unattainable goals, she has carried herself with such grace that often her vanquished competitors are as excited as Speiker after the Oroville senior leaves them quickly receding in the rear view [...]

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Arrigoni completes jump from small town to big stage

By on June 4, 2014 in Sports and Outdoors

Oroville grad qualifies for NCAA D-1 national meet CHENEY – A bet to get her high school teammate to play soccer, a community college basketball scholarship and the discovery of a new sport were just the beginning for Catie Arrigoni. The 2011 Oroville High School graduate, now attending Eastern Washington University, ran cross country her [...]

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Rain clears out for Oroville invite

By on May 5, 2014 in Sports and Outdoors

Tigers, Hornets gear up for post-season OROVILLE – A monsoon-like deluge delayed the start of Saturday’s Draggoo Financial Oroville Invitational, but once the rain was finished, the weather cooperated on about as nice a day as one could hope for at a spring track meet. That translated into a lot of personal bests for quite [...]

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