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Former Heritage athletic director Leta Meyer, right, talks with Kelso coach Dean Sorenson prior to the first Heritage fastpitch softball game played at the school's new turfed field facility on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 (Tim Martinez/The Columbian)

Martinez: Heritage sees its new turf fields as gamechangers

Former Heritage athletic director Leta Meyer, right, talks with Kelso coach Dean Sorenson prior to the first Heritage fastpitch softball game played at the school's new turfed field facility on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 (Tim Martinez/The Columbian)

March 14, 2023, 9:45pm Prep Sports

Tuesday was a grand opening of sorts at Heritage High School, and also a class reunion. Read story

Joe Kennedy, a former assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Wash., poses for a photo March 9, 2022, at the school's football field. After losing his coaching job for refusing to stop kneeling in prayer with players and spectators on the field immediately after football games, Kennedy will take his arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, April 25, 2022, saying the Bremerton School District violated his First Amendment rights by refusing to let him continue praying at midfield after games. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Bremerton’s ‘praying coach’ to return to the sidelines next football season

Joe Kennedy, a former assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in Bremerton, Wash., poses for a photo March 9, 2022, at the school's football field. After losing his coaching job for refusing to stop kneeling in prayer with players and spectators on the field immediately after football games, Kennedy will take his arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, April 25, 2022, saying the Bremerton School District violated his First Amendment rights by refusing to let him continue praying at midfield after games. (AP Photo/Ted S.

March 14, 2023, 2:33pm Football

The Washington high school football coach at the center of a First Amendment case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court last year will return to the sidelines for the upcoming football season. Read story

Prep highlights: Union baseball tops 2A state champ Tumwater

March 13, 2023, 9:23pm Prep Sports

On a day that saw most Southwest Washington high school sports rained out, Union baseball is glad Monday’s game got in. Read story

High School Scoreboard, results from Monday, March 13

March 13, 2023, 9:12pm Prep Sports

TUESDAY’S SCHEDULE BASEBALL Washougal at King’s Way Christian, 4 p.m. at Luke Jensen Sports Park Seton Catholic at Heritage, 4:30 p.m. Mountain View at Camas, 4:30 p.m Hudson’s Bay at Evergreen, 4:30 p.m. Rochester at Mark Morris, 4:30 p.m. Ridgefield at Prairie, 4:30 p.m. Woodland at Kalama, 3 p.m. R.A. Read story

Prairie sophomore Faith Tarrant holds up two fingers for her two state championships in two years of wrestling.

All-Region girls wrestling: Faith Tarrant, Prairie

Prairie sophomore Faith Tarrant holds up two fingers for her two state championships in two years of wrestling.

March 11, 2023, 9:07pm Prep Sports

For Faith Tarrant, wrestling is all about family. Read story

Prep highlights: Peyton Sanders’ RBI single lifts Battle Ground baseball over Rogers-Puyallup

March 11, 2023, 9:03pm Prep Sports

Peyton Sanders singled home Ethan Valtierra with two outs in the top of the seventh to put the Tigers ahead, then Trevin Long sealed the win with 1-2-3 bottom of the seventh as the Battle Ground baseball team opened its season with a 5-4 win at Rogers-Puyallup on Saturday. Long… Read story

High school scoreboard, results from Saturday, March 11

March 11, 2023, 8:59pm Prep Sports

MONDAY’S SCHEDULE BASEBALL Tumwater at Union, 7 p.m. Seton Catholic at Heritage, 4:30 p.m. Woodland at Kalama, 3:30 p.m. Hudson’s Bay at Evergreen, 4:30 p.m. Prairie at Columbia River, 4:30 p.m. Battle Ground at Mountain View, 4:30 p.m. SOFTBALL Prairie at Camas, 4:30 p.m. Skyview at Clackamas (Ore.), 6:30 p.m. Read story

High school scoreboard, results from Friday, March 10

March 10, 2023, 9:51pm Prep Sports

Saturday’s schedule (subject to change) BASEBALL Battle Ground at Rogers-Puyallup, 11 a.m. Mark Morris vs. Fife, 10 a.m. at Ephrata HS Mark Morris vs. Brewster, 3 p.m. at Ephrata HS Kelso, Skyview at Ridgefield jamboree, 10 a.m. at RORC SOFTBALL… Read story