By LUKE O’ROARK | @LukeORoark Loroark@postregister.com District 91 will have two new athletic directors for the 2018-19 academic calendar. Gregg Baczuk and Pat Lloyd were announced as Skyline’s and Idaho Fall’s new athletic directors, respectively, last Friday, per a recent email sent to the Post Register. Baczuk […]
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By LUKE O’ROARK Loroark@postregister | @LukeORoark Some significant changes are on the horizon for 3A and 2A high school football in Idaho. The Idaho High School Activities Association board of directors passed a proposed change to 2A football playoff brackets Wednesday morning, switching the upcoming 2A playoff […]
Read more →At Melaleuca Field, the Skyline High School baseball team swept a conference doubleheader against Blackfoot, 5-1 and 6-5 (10 innings) on Tuesday to extend its win streak to five. Mason Jacobsen got the win during game one and Tim Orgill recorded the save, as Blackfoot’s sole run […]
Read more →By MARLOWE HEREFORD mhereford@postregister.com “And though she be but little, she is fierce.” That line from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is fitting for Butte County senior point guard Shay Lambson, who confirmed she is in fact 5-foot-4 (the 2018 state basketball program lists her as 5-6). […]
Read more →By LUKE O’ROARK | @LukeORoark Loroark@postregister.com The wind gusted through the Bonneville Sports Complex Friday afternoon, but it surely didn’t cool down Bonneville’s bats. Bonneville beat Hillcrest in five innings Friday, 14-4, to complete an early season sweep of its District 93 rival. Tavyn Lords scored the […]
Read more →By LUKE O’ROARK | @LukeORoark Loroark@postregister.com Pick any spot on the basketball court — any. Corner pocket 3-pointer? Elbow jumper? 27-feet out? Hillcrest senior guard Derek Marlowe will probably make it. Behind a calm demeanor and streaky shooting, Marlowe helped Hillcrest boys basketball reach uncharted territory in […]
Read more →FIRST TEAM * – Player of the Year finalist Kalvin Bowen Junior guard, Idaho Falls THE PLAYER: A crafty ball-handler and solid playmaker, Bowen was the key cog to Idaho Falls’ late-season run. He scored 14-plus points in eight consecutive games to help give the Tigers the […]
Read more →By LUKE O’ROARK | @LukeORoark Loroark@postregister.com District 6 seniors, from all over eastern Idaho, packed Bonneville’s gym Wednesday evening. Hillcrest’s Trey Johnson nearly tore the whole gym down, though. Johnson won this year’s District 6 senior showcase dunk contest, throwing down three dunks that rattled Bonneville’s gym […]
Read more →By LUKE O’ROARK | @LukeORoark Loroark@postregister.com NAMPA — The echoes of ‘back-to-back” may be ingrained in the heads of Hillcrest High School boys basketball players for some time. So close, yet so far from winning the program’s first boys basketball championship in a program first state title […]
Read more →By LUKE O’ROARK | @LukeORoark Loroark@postregister.com NAMPA — Hillcrest’s Derek Marlowe made around eight-straight 3-pointers in Thursday’s warm ups at the Ford Idaho Center, inching to the right of the arc after each make. In the closing moments of the Knights’ 5A opening round game against Mountain […]
Read more →By LUKE O’ROARK | @Lukeoroark Loroark@postregister.com ST. ANTHONY — Overtime didn’t deserve Wednesday’s Ririe-North Fremont game at South Fremont High School’s packed gym. No, scratch that: the basketball universe didn’t deserve Ririe-North Fremont. In an exhilarating, intense 2A District 6 championship, Ririe defeated North Fremont 65-59 in […]
Read more →NAMPA — A fiery second half for the Bonneville High School girls basketball team wasn’t quite enough Thursday at the Ford Idaho Center. The Bees turned a 10-point deficit into a three-point game within four minutes in the fourth quarter but fell 49-43 to Mountain View in […]
Read more →By LUKE O’ROARK | @LukeORoark Loroark@postregister.com After a drive and converting an and-one, Idaho Falls High School point guard Kalvin Bowen flexed and smiled toward a raucous student section. The Tigers dismantled the rival Grizzlies 77-56 on their home court Thursday to advance to Tuesday’s 4A District […]
Read more →By MARLOWE HEREFORD mhereford@postregister.com RIRIE–Ririe High School head girls basketball coach Damien Smith experienced several ‘firsts’ in 2017. With seven seniors—the most he has ever had in one season—the Bulldogs ended a program best 25-2 season with a program first state title on Feb. 18. A little […]
Read more →By LUKE O’ROARK | @LukeORoark Loroark@postregister.com Sometimes, sports can be our greatest healer. Just five days after the death of his cousin, Camden, Skyline guard Cruz Taylor garnered 10 points, six assists, four rebounds and three steals in a 42-27 win over Pocatello in Tuesday’s 4A District […]
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