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Columbia River-Kennedy football live chat

Play-by-play coverage starts at 3:45 p.m. Saturday at Kiggins Bowl

Columbian assistant sports editor Tim Martinez will provide play-by-play coverage of the Columbia River-Kennedy football state playoff game at 3:45 p.m. Saturday.

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Friday's state prep scoreboard

Results from Friday's state tournament action

Results from Friday's high school state tournament action in volleyball, swimming and football

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Fall all-league teams

Links to fall all-league teams

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

Tim Martinez: Camas, Columbia River have shined this fall

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Who had the better fall sports season? Camas in the 4A Greater St. Helens League, or Columbia River in the 3A GSHL? Well, you be the judge.

Camas girls take aim at state cross country titles

Last year, the Camas girls cross country team went to state as the chasers, the underdogs. And the Papermakers came home with a state team championships.

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3A football: Columbia River survives slow start for victory

Chieftains get going late to beat Bainbridge, 27-9

The Columbia River football team is well aware that in the playoffs a slow start can lead to a quick exit.

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Friday Football Scoreboard and Live Chat, Week 10

In-game reports from playoff games

Here are Friday's high school football games involving Clark County-area teams:

Tim Martinez: Magical mystery playoff tour begins ... somewhere

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Playoff season can be frustrating when you aren't exactly sure where and when the games will occur.

3A GSHL football: Fort Vancouver 24, Hudson's Bay 14

Fort Vancouver 24, Hudson's Bay 14

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Friday Football Scoreboard and Live Chat 10/26

In-game updates available here

Here are Friday's high school football games involving Clark County-area teams:

Tim Martinez: Kelso's win muddies playoff picture in 3A GSHL

Commentary: Tim Martinez

Week 9 of the high school football season came oh-so-close to being very clear, as far as postseason berths are concerned.

Late TD lifts Seton Catholic to first win

When Seton Catholic tied the score in the fourth quarter against Kalama, what thought was in Seton coach Dan Chase's mind?

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Friday Football Scoreboard and Live Chat 10/19

In-game updates available here

Scores from Friday night in high school football

MARTINEZ: Everyone chasing Camas cross country runners

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

In their first year at Class 4A, the Camas girls cross country team is ranked No. 1 as it heads into the postseason this week with the 4A district meet scheduled for Thursday at Lewisville Park.

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Friday Football Scoreboard and Live Chat 10/12

In-game updates available here

Friday's high school football games involving Clark County-area teams:

Fall prep golfers have enjoyed excellent weather

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

We talk to a lot of high school athletes at The Columbian, and we ask them all sorts of questions.

4A GSHL football: Skyview 46, Heritage 7

Kalvin Johnson rushed for 144 yards and two touchdowns as the Skyview defense held the potent Timberwolves to their lowest offensive output of the season.

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Friday Football Scoreboard and Live Chat 10/5

In-game updates available here

Friday's high school football games involving Clark County-area teams:

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Prairie runner on trail to success

Goecke goes from accidental runner to team leader

A couple of years ago, Nicole Goecke was just a basketball player ... and a rodeo cowgirl. Cross country was not really in the plans.

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Bear sightings send prep teams running

Cross country meet in Camas moved after bear spotted

There is a black bear in Camas who apparently is a big fan of high school cross country.

MARTINEZ: High school sports has become a social media

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

We in the newspaper business love folks who like to receive their information the old-school way. We also like people who engage more through new media.

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Battle Ground's Tedder 4th at Nike Pre-Nationals

Mark Tedder's response when asked how he was feeling after running in the Jim Danner Championship boys race at the Nike Pre-National cross country meet said it all.

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Friday Football Scoreboard and Live Chat 9/28

In-game updates available here

Friday's high school football games involving Clark County-area teams:

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Washougal runners pack a 1-2 punch

Tandem may be among best in state at cross country

Cross country is often described as an individual sport. But any runner who tried to win a state championship by himself might disagree with that assessment.

MARTINEZ: Score Czar rises to power in the numbers game

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

Anyone who has ever voted in the state high school football rankings will tell you those polls are not an exact science.

Union falters, then routs Bonney Lake

Titans' Ensley makes up for miscue in 52-14 victory

For a brief moment Friday, Treve' Ensley felt like the little kid who just dropped a big piece of his own birthday cake.Luckily for Ensley and the Union Titans, there was plenty of cake to go around.

Martinez: No reason not to get in shape this prep season

I'm here to offer you some suggestions that will help the nation's obesity problem.

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Skyview routs Lakes, 35-14

Fumble recovery helps Storm blow open close game on way to victory

Skyview coach Steve Kizer will remember this game against Lakes more fondly than his first against the Lancers from Lakewood.

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Skyview-Lakes football live chat

Play-by-play coverage starts at 5 p.m. Friday

The Columbian will provide play-by-play coverage of the Skyview-Lakes football game via a live chat at Columbian.com.

MARTINEZ: Actually ... there are lots of low golf scores out there

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

There are actually quite a few boys golf teams capable of having three (or more) players break 40 on any given day.

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Battle Ground gets its win over Prairie

Haynes rushes for 161 in rivalry win

Kevin Haynes rushed for 161 yards — 160 in the second half — and scored three touchdowns to lead the Tigers to a 41-21 win Friday over rival Prairie.

Tim Martinez: High school fall sports hit full stride this week

Commentary: Tim Martinez

Tuesday marks the first full day of high school sports in Clark County, with a few volleyball matches, 12 soccer matches and six golf matches on the schedule.

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Friday Football Scoreboard and Live Chat

Get updates from games around the county, and beyond

For in-game updates, follow on The Columbian's Friday Night Live Chat. We will be pulling Twitter feeds from our three staffers and four correspondents, plus a few others.

Prep notes: Skyview opens against Central Catholic

Columbian offers live chat from game in Hillsboro

The high school football season in Southwest Washington gets started Thursday with two Clark County teams in action in Oregon.

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2012 prep football schedules

Schedules for teams in 4A, 3A, 2A GSHL, 1A Trico League

Here are the team football schedules for leagues in Southwest Washington for the 2012 season. To look at each team's schedule, click on team name.

Efraimson places fourth in Adidas Dream Mile in New York

Camas freshman races against nation's top runners

Camas freshman Alexa Efraimson ran with the best high school distance runners in the country and held her own.

Martinez: Clark County tennis represents well at state

Tim Martinez: High school sports

The great thing about most spring high school sports ending on the same weekend is that you're pretty much assured of a big story.

4A tennis: Skyview's Hampton captures singles title

Freshman survives grueling title match for 4A crown

Skyview freshman Sammi Hampton grinded out a tough 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 victory over Megan Lalone of Stanwood win the girls singles title at the Class 4A state tennis tournament in Richland.

Nothing but smiles for Baba sisters after winning state title

Prairie doubles team captures 3A state championship

Akari and Shiori Baba captured the Class 3A girls doubles state championship with a 2-6, 6-1, 7-5 victory over Sophia Gage and Lydia Venditti of Mercer Island.

Mountain View soccer players rescue season

After slow start, Thunder have won their last nine games

On their way home from practice last week, three Mountain View soccer players spotted a woman who had collapsed on the sidewalk while walking her dog.

Martinez: Everything is aces as spring sports wrap up

Tim Martinez: High school sports

All Clark County athletes competing in state championships this week will have to hit the road.

Tim Martinez: Eight Clark County soccer teams set for state

Tim Martinez: High school sports

Don’t look now, but Clark County has become a boys soccer hotbed.

Martinez: Freshmen tennis players take center stage

Tim Martinez: High school sports

Last year, as freshmen, Battle Ground’s Kylee Breimon and Union’s Jelena Vidovic took Class 4A Greater St. Helens League tennis by storm.

Camas runner earns invite to run on national stage

Efraimson’s time in 1,500 is No. 2 in nation this season

Alexa Efraimson has already accomplished a lot in her freshman year at Camas High School.

Martinez: Heritage ballplayers are winners in community

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

The members of the Heritage baseball team walked off the field after their season finale Saturday as winners.

Evergreen hires new boys basketball coach

Brian Witherspoon was an assistant coach at Clark College

Evergreen High School has hired Brian Witherspoon to be its new boys basketball coach.

Tim Martinez: A beautiful day to play baseball, while you can

Commentary: Tim Martinez

The sun is coming out. Monday will be a beautiful warm spring day in Clark County.

Martinez: Keeping tabs on spring sports is as tricky as weather

Tim Martinez: High School Sports

A colleague once suggest to me that when it came to spring sports schedules, you should not publish them if you weren’t 100 percent sure they were accurate.

Martinez: High school sports spring back into action

The John Ingram Twilight Invitational track meet, Mountain View Invitational girls tennis tournament, and the Chieftain Invitational girls golf tournament highlight the week in prep sports.

Martinez: Prep spring sports endure through a waterlogged March

High school coaches didn’t need a front-page story to tell them this has been one of the rainiest Marches on record in Clark County.

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