Oregon
Championship rewind: Sights and stories from Oregon’s wrestling state tournament
The OSAA wrestling state championships were from Thursday through Saturday at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. In those final days, champions were crowned in seven classifications between boys and girls, and team titles were hoisted.
Here’s a look at the action this weekend from The Oregonian/OregonLive:
Newberg’s Dillon Le celebrates after winning a state championship on Saturday night. Tim Healy for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Newberg returns to the top of the state at Oregon’s wrestling championships
The Tigers had to stomach being the runner-up in 2023, breaking a three year streak of state tournament wins. This year, they were back. Read about it HERE.
Roseburg’s Drew Dawson celebrates after winning the Class 6A 106-pound title. Tim Healy for The Oregonian/OregonLive
From 3A to 6A: Drew Dawson ends transfer to Roseburg with a wrestling state championship
Drew Dawson went from competing in Class 3A as a member of Glide last season, to winning a Class 6A title with Roseburg this year. Read about it HERE.
Wrestlers from around the state compete in the OSAA Class 6A wrestling state championships on Saturday, Feb 24, 2024 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum.Tim Healy for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Back on top: After upset losses, Roseburg’s Gage Singleton ends his prep career a state champion
After an upset loss in the state tournament last year and an upset loss in Reser’s this year, Roseburg’s Gage Singleton needed to end his high school career on top. Read about it HERE.
West Linn’s Charles Spinning celebrates after winning the 165-pound state championship in Class 6A. Tim Healy for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Charles Spinning comes back from serious knee injury, leads three Lion two-timers at wrestling state championships
A knee injury threatened to derail Charles Spinning’s title defense this year. But he was able to come back and be a part of three West Linn wrestlers who repeated as state champions. Read about it HERE.
Newberg’s Isaac Hampton gets his hand raised after winning the 126-pound Class 6A wrestling state title. Tim Healy for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Match breakdown: Newberg’s Isaac Hampton beats Clackamas’ Jeremiah Wachsmuth in dream showdown of former wrestling champions
A match between two former state champions. A match over 10 years in the making with the title on the line. Read about it HERE.
Dallas’ Joe Johnson, right wrestles against Crescent Valley’s Colton Hankey in the Class 5A 126-pound finals. Howard Lao for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Dallas boys come out ahead in competitive Class 5A boys wrestling field
The Class 5A team title came down to the finals on Saturday night. How did Dallas come out with the win? Read about it HERE.
Bend’s Lief Larwin, celebrates at the 2024 OSAA State Wrestling Championships on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024 in Portland, Ore.
Howard Lao for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Bend’s Leif Larwin introduces himself as a new force in Oregon’s Class 5A wrestling with title win as a freshman
Freshman Leif Larwin’s first year of high school wrestling included a Reser’s title and a state title. Read about it HERE.
Silverton’s Brash Henderson celebrates after winning the Class 5A state championship at 285 pounds.Howard Lao for The Oregonian/OregonLive
After facing against some of Oregon’s best in past years, Silverton’s Brash Henderson finally gets his wrestling gold
Brash Henderson’s state title this year was one at the end of a rocky road. With the competition he’s had over the years, it was rocky than perhaps anyone has ever seen. Read about it HERE.
Thurston’s Izabella Castleberry, top, wrestles Tigard’s Natalie Wilhoit in the girls 155-pound finals. Ali Gradischer for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Thurston girls, after back-to-back runner-up finishes, finally take the top spot in Class 6A/5A girls wrestling
The Colts have watched teams win the title each of the past two years as they ended with silver. Read about it HERE.
Dallas’ Polly Olliff, left, wrestles in the state championship match. Ali Gradischer for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Dallas’ Polly Olliff navigates the tough 110-pound weight class, repeats as Class 6A/5A girls wrestling champion
Navigating the 110-pound weight class was not an easy challenge, but Olliff was able to successfully complete it for her second state title. Read about it HERE.
Cleveland’s Isabel Herring gets her hand raised after winning the girls 170-pound state championship. Ali Gradischer for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Cleveland’s Isabel Herring beats Wilsonville’s reigning champion Jasmine Brown for 170-pound Class 6A/5A girls wrestling crown
Herring needed to face a reigning state champion to get her first title. She was able to look dominant in her finals match. Read about it HERE.
Wells’ Zorina Johnson gets her hand raised after winning the 125-pound state championship. Ali Gradischer for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Wells’ Zorina Johnson wins battle of 2023 runner-ups, finally gets her Class 6A/5A girls wrestling state title
A runner-up last year, Johnson’s finals win was about more than winning a match. It was the culmination of hard work and forging new relationships in wrestling. Read about it HERE.
Kyle Sieminski makes it to the four-timers club, Sweet Home brings home the team gold at Oregon’s Class 4A wrestling state tournament
Oregon now has had 50 four-time state champions, with Kyle Sieminski being the latest while helping the Huskies to team gold as well. Read about it HERE.
La Grande’s Kai Carson brings home third state title, matching his brother’s mark
The Tigers have been dominant for years in Class 4A, and a big part of that has been the Carson brotherrs leading the way. Read about it HERE.
La Grande wins first girls team gold at Oregon wrestling state championships
The La Grande boys are one of Class 4A’s best over the past few years. Now the girls are getting in on the fun. Read about it HERE.
Crook County’s MaKenna Duran warms up for her finals match. Ali Gradischer for The Oregonian/Oregon Live
MaKenna Duran makes it back-to-back golds, leading a surging Crook County girls wrestling squad at Oregon’s state championships
Crook County’s first girls wrestling state champion just set the bar a little higher. Read about it HERE.
Sweet Home’s Bailey Chafin celebrates after winning her second state championship. Ali Gradischer for The Oregonian/Oregon Live
Sweet Home’s Bailey Chafin wins second state title, sets her sights on four
There are currently two girls in Class 4A/3A/2A/1A on pace for four state titles, and Bailey Chafin on Sweet Home is ready for the moment. Read about it HERE.
Vale’s Ava Collins gets her hand raised after winning a second state championship. Ali Gradischer for The Oregonian/Oregon Live
Ava Collins has to get through training partner Hannah Hernandez to match Vale record 2 girls wrestling state titles
Winning a second state title wasn’t going to be easy for Ava Collins, especially since she had to get through a wrestler she faces all the time in the practice room. Read about it HERE.
Harrisburg and Toledo win their school’s first team titles at Oregon wrestling state championships
The Class 3A and Class 2A/1A state championships both went to teams that have never won it before. Read about it HERE.
Illinois Valley’s Mike Miller celebrates after winning a fourth state championship. Linus Brush-Mindell for The Oregonian/OregonLive
‘Be like Mike’: Illinois Valley’s Mike Miller becomes the 49th to win four Oregon wrestling state championships
The first four-time state champion of the year won in Class 2A/1A. Read about it HERE.
— Nik Streng, nstreng@oregonian.com, @NikStreng
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Bryce Boettcher homered leading off the top of the 11th inning and Logan Mercado worked out of trouble in the bottom half to give Oregon a 5-4 win over San Diego on Friday in the NCAA Santa Barbara Regional.
Boettcher, the Ducks’ No. 9 batter, had gone hitless in his previous 10 at-bats before he drove reliever Calvin Schapira’s 1-0 pitch over the fence in left.
San Diego had runners at the corners with one out in the bottom of the 11th when Mercado struck out Angelo Peraza and got Ariel Armas to pop out to short to end the game.
The Ducks (38-18) will play UC Santa Barbara or Fresno State in a winner’s bracket game Saturday. San Diego (40-14) plays the UC Santa Barbara-Fresno State loser in an elimination game.
Mercado (6-1) worked the final four innings, allowing one hit and one walk. Schapira (5-2) went 2 1/3 innings.
The Torreros trailed 4-1 before Jakob Christian’s three-run homer, his 24th, tied it in the eighth.
Oregon’s Carter Garate homered in the fifth to open the scoring, and he finished 2 for 4 with three RBIs.
Oregon officials closed the state’s entire coast to shellfish harvesting on Friday after an unprecedented outbreak of paralytic shellfish poisoning, which appears to also be affecting parts of Washington and California.
During a press conference Friday morning, officials said Oregon had never experienced such a large outbreak before, in terms of both the toxic levels being detected in shellfish and the number of people becoming ill.
At least 20 people who harvested shellfish have become ill. An Oregon Health Authority spokesperson said most illnesses have been mild, although some people required hospitalization.
An OPB file photo of oysters underwater in Oregon’s Netarts Bay. Michael Bendixen / OPB
“These are unprecedented levels that we’re seeing, and especially in bay clams and oysters,” Matthew Hunter, shellfish program manager with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said.
Paralytic shellfish poisoning is the most severe type of shellfish poisoning. It is caused by eating shellfish contaminated with saxitoxins, a naturally occurring toxin. Many kinds of shellfish can be contaminated by this toxin, but it most often affects mussels and clams. Saxitoxins and similar biotoxins affecting shellfish are tied to algal blooms in the ocean. These blooms are colloquially called “red tides” or “brown tides,” though they don’t always color the water.
Symptoms usually appear within an hour after a person eats toxic shellfish. They include numbness and tingling of the face, lips, tongue, arms and legs, as well as digestive issues like diarrhea, vomiting and nausea. Extreme cases could include neurological symptoms, like paralysis, or respiratory failure.
Cooking shellfish will not destroy these poisonous biotoxins, and there is no antidote for biotoxin poisoning. People who become ill need to wait for the toxins to naturally flush from their bodies.
Hunter said officials need to do more testing to see if these toxin levels have hit their peak, or if they are starting to decline.
“I doubt we’re at the decline because we’re seeing Washington have some closures,” Hunter said.
California closed part of its northern coast to razor clam harvesting in early May due to domoic acid, which is tied to a different type of biotoxin. That state has yet to close parts of its coast to shellfish harvesting because of paralytic shellfish poisoning, but Hunter said he “would be very surprised if this isn’t an event that’s covering all three states.”
Oregon first detected high levels of toxins among shellfish along the Central Oregon Coast on May 17. Since then, high levels of toxins have been found in several different types of shellfish across the Oregon coast, including bay clams, razor clams, oysters and mussels.
Paralytic shellfish poisoning has a long history of sickening people and animals along the West Coast, but Hunter said it and other shellfish poisons appear to be getting worse along with climate change.
“We’ve shown that the changing of the oceans has definitely increased the frequency, the duration and the toxicity of all of our biotoxins,” Hunter said. “That’s definitely something that we’re going to have to do adaptive management for.”
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