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Camas' Humphries likes the home cookin'

A healthy dose of focus, a touch of home cooking, and a whole lot of rain made the perfect combination for Brian Humphreys.

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Camas freshman, River senior win state golf titles

Humphreys wins 4A boys crown, Bartek takes 3A girls title

Brian Humphreys wins 4A boys crown, Chloe Bartek takes 3A girls title

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State golf championship live chat Wednesday

Get updates from the high school state golf tournaments

The Columbian will provide live updates from the four state golf tournaments in Clark County.

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Two locals in five-way tie for lead at 4A state golf tournament

Union’s Eddie Abellar and Camas’ Brian Humphreys made good use of their home-course advantage to shoot two-under rounds of 70 to join a five-way tie for first Tuesday at the Class 4A boys golf state tournament at Camas Meadows Golf Course.

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Spring all-league teams

Links to spring all-league teams

Links to spring all-league teams for the 4A, 3A and 2A Greater St. Helens Leagues and 1A Trico League

Tim Martinez: Final preps weekend packed with local participants

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

The final week of the high school sports year is always the busiest. And this is a rare year when Clark County has participants in every sport this week.

Woodland gives Montesano too many chances

Beavers season ends with 9-1 loss in 1A baseball regional

Two-out errors, including a key one in the fifth inning, gave life to Montesano rallies and helped the Bulldogs beat Woodland 9-1 in the Class 1A regional .

Tim Martinez: Seton Catholic soccer coming on strong in 1A

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

With all that the Seton Catholic boys soccer team has overcome this season, a couple of more hurdles shouldn't be a problem for the Cougars.

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Saturday's prep sports scores for 5/11

Updates on district and bi-district action

Updates from Saturday's events in district or bi-district events involving Clark County teams

Skyview storms back again to win in baseball playoff

Baseball win over Kentridge clinches state regional berth

Things didn't look good for the Skyview baseball team after the first three Storm players struck out on 10 total pitches from Kentridge pitcher Sam Dacus in the first inning.

Tim Martinez: Softball playoff berths, seeds on the line this week

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Softball will wrap up its regular season this week, and what it all means.

Tim Martinez: Some unfinished business before playoffs start

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

4A, 3A, 2A Greater St. Helens soccer, 1A Trico soccer, as well as 2A GSHL and 1A Trico baseball will finish their regular seasons this week.

Tim Martinez: Roundball Shootout returns to Clark College

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

The 15th annual Les Schwab Roundball Shootout is slated for this weekend, a little bit later than normal.

Tim Martinez: Better late than never for softball league openers

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Here it is halfway through the month of April and there are still some teams in Southwest Washington that haven't played a league game yet.

Tim Martinez: River set to host two big events

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Columbia River High School will host a pair of high profile prep events this week, one that will draw just about every team in Clark County and one that used to do just that.

Tim Martinez: Camas baseball plays in Anaheim and other notes

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

It's spring break, not much going on this week. So for this week's column, we'll just share some random thoughts.

Tim Martinez: High school schedule gets heavy before break

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

This week is the last before spring break and league games are on the schedule.

Tim Martinez: Early baseball results are often hard to judge

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

We'll start to get good answers on which teams will be in the mix for the 4A Greater St. Helens League baseball title on Wednesday when league play opens.

Tim Martinez: Sun goes away just in time for spring sports openers

Commentary: Tim Martinez

It's the first full week of the spring sports season, so that's means I'm going to discuss -- what else -- the weather.

Tim Martinez: Unveiling of All-Region teams starts Wednesday

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

The winter sports season is over, but there's one last piece of unfinished business -- All-Region.

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Fan vote for All-Region boys and girls basketball teams

Voting continues through Friday

The Columbian is giving fans the chance to help select its All-Region girls and boys basketball teams.

Tim Martinez: Kodiaks have a familiar opponent

Maybe the WIAA might think about implementing a rule that would prevent, if possible, teams from the same qualifying tournament from facing each other to open state.

Tim Martinez: Clark County has its own Elite Eight teams

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

And then there were eight.

Boys basketball: Hockinson 42, W.F. West 37

Hockinson boys basketball coach Matt Gruhler entered Saturday's game with an 0-4 record against W.F. West of Chehalis.

Girls basketball: River Ridge 48, Hockinson 35

At the end of the night Saturday, the Hockinson girls basketball team could say this -- the Hawks give themselves a chance.

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Saturday prep postseason live chat 2/16

Updates from bi-district and district basketball games start at 4 p.m.

There are 12 postseason basketball games involving Clark County teams (and Woodland, too), and The Columbian will be running a live chat to pull into updates from as many as possible.

Improved effort still not enough for Columbia River boys

Chieftains fall to Foss 58-52

When asked what was the difference between Friday's effort by his Columbia River boys basketball team than its previous matchup against Foss, coach David Long had a simple answer.

Prairie girls dish out easy win, 66-33

Falcons roll past Bonney Lake, clinch regional berth

Cherita Daugherty finished with 11 points for the Prairie girls basketball team on Friday night. But she could credit most of those points to easy baskets thanks to great passes from Cori Woodward.

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Prep postseason live chat 2/15

Play-by-play coverage of 3A bi-district basketball games

The Columbian will be hosting a live chat from the Class 3A bi-district basketball games Friday at Columbia River. We will also be pulling in updates from other games, as well as state wrestling, gymnastics and swimming.

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Wednesday prep basketball playoff live chat

Get updates on tonight's games

The Columbian will be providing in game updates on Wednesday's games via a live chat

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Tuesday prep basketball live chat

Games tip off at 6 p.m.

The Columbian is a running a live chat that will provide updates from Tuesday's high school basketball games.

Tim Martinez: The rush to state events is on

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Before we can talk about what's coming up on the schedule this week, we still have some work to clean up from last week.

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Winter all-league teams

All-league teams 4A GSHL, 3A GSHL, 2A GSHL and 1A Trico

Links to all-league teams can be found here

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Prep sports live chat on Saturday

Get updates from regional wrestling, basketball playoffs

Follow along with a busy Saturday of high school sports with a live chat at 4 p.m.

Tim Martinez: Time to sort out the upcoming playoff picture

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

The only regular-season games still on the schedule will be held Monday and Tuesday. And there are still spots in the district basketball brackets that are yet unresolved.

Tim Martinez: Change of plans for some 3A/2A bowlers

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Turns out, the Mountain View bowling team won't be going to state as a team.

Tim Martinez: Bowlers get postseason rolling with district events

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

The first postseason events are scheduled for Friday as the girls bowling district tournaments are held.

Tim Martinez: Big GSHL hoops games on schedule

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

If you want to go watch two of the bigger boys basketball games in Clark County this week, you might need to get off from work early.

Tim Martinez: Ringing in the new year with league basketball

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

When the holiday season ends on Wednesday and local prep basketball leagues return to action, the games will take on more meaning.

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Wrestlers get some help in winning Pac Coast titles

All have goals of eventually reaching podium at state

From the grandstand, it looked like Jose Nava-Montez, Ramon Ortiz, Kenji Yamashita and Gunnar Metzger each won titles at the Pacific Coast Championships wrestling tournament on their own.

Tim Martinez: We've managed to fill out the holiday brackets

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

But every year at this time, it's a challenge to post the weekly high school sports schedules because so many basketball teams are participating in holiday tournaments.

Tim Martinez: Trico League gets a running start on league play

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

By the end of this week, every Trico League basketball team will be at least one-third of its way through its league schedule.

Tim Martinez: Behind the scenes of choosing All-Region teams

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Our series on the fall All-Region athletes of the year and teams concludes today, and I hope you've enjoyed our celebration of the best in high school athletics ... even if you didn't completely agree with it.

Tim Martinez: Fans will have a say in All-Region football selections

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

The fans have spoken, and we've listened.

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High school basketball team-by-team schedules

Schedules for 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A teams

Basketball season is under way in Southwest Washington. So here are links to high school boys and girls basketball teams' schedules

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Camas' Efraimson places fourth at national cross country meet

Muddy race caps dream season for Papermakers

PORTLAND -- The members of the Camas High School girls cross country team finished the season Saturday arm-in-arm, mud-splashed and full of smiles.

Tim Martinez: Camas still in the running with one last event

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Don't put away those jackets and umbrellas just yet, fans of Camas High School athletics. The fall preps season is not entirely finished.

Tim Martinez: It will be hard to not pick Camas

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

The thing about high school football predictions is that fans love them, even when they hate them.

TIM MARTINEZ: Pursuit of state titles continues, and other notes

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Saturday was a busy day for Clark County high school sports.

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3A football: Kennedy slips past Columbia River

Chieftains find Cossette hard to stop in 20-14 loss

True to its team-first philosophy, the Columbia River football team had a bevy of stars Saturday -- Clayton Frank, Jayson Branson, David Snuffin, Terrell Bolton to name a few.

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