In the second installment of our spring sports preview at Liberty Bell High School, we highlight three programs which share a common theme with other sports this year: experience, youth and growing popularity. More than 120 students are participating in spring sports out of Liberty Bell’s 158-student enrollment. It would seem to point toward a […]
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Sports Briefs: Mountain bike meeting, Play volleyball, Winthrop Trailhead parkrun
Spokane Gulch hike Methow At Home hosts a free hike up Spokane Gulch with former ranger Eric Burr on Saturday (March 25), starting from the Mazama Store at 9:30 a.m. Prepare to spend half the day on a fairly steep hike. Wear good shoes, bring your water bottle and snacks. Register at methowathome.org. Mountain bike […]
Sports Briefs: Spokane Gulch hike, Fly Fishers meet, Play volleyball
Spokane Gulch hike Methow At Home hosts a free hike up Spokane Gulch with former ranger Eric Burr on Saturday, March 25, starting from the Mazama Store at 9:30 a.m. Prepare to spend half the day on a fairly steep hike. Wear good shoes, bring your water bottle and snacks. Register at methowathome.org. Fly Fishers […]
Ref-flections: Sometimes you just have to say ‘yes!’
It was my intent to write an appreciation piece directed at the many people who made my last couple of weeks as a high school varsity basketball official so special. But then I had one more chance to hit the floor, stripes on, whistle in mouth, at a very special tournament in Wenatchee. The Washington […]
Mountain Lions open spring practice, mostly indoors
The sounds of spring sports highlight the late afternoons on campus at Liberty Bell High School these days. The rhythmic beat of track and field hooves stampeding across the hard surface, the crack (well, more like a ping) of the bat connecting with the baseball, the snap of the ball hitting the leather of the […]
McCabe doubles at NCAA meet; Hall places in top 10
Methow Valley collegians Novie McCabe and Walker Hall helped push the University of Utah to the Utes’ fourth consecutive NCAA Nordic skiing championship at the 2023 championships in Lake Placid, New York, last weekend. Hall placed 8th overall in the men’s 10-kilometer freestyle sprint and 17th in the 20K classic, but it was his teammate […]
Clayton steps away from snowshoe softball tournament
Coordinated annual event for 26 years After 26 years coordinating the Winthrop Snowshoe Softball Tournament, Mike Clayton is tossing the duties to a new team and stepping away. Clayton assumed the tournament when he purchased Three Fingered Jack’s Saloon and Restaurant from previous owner Corky Scharf in 1997. Clayton credited Scharf with starting the tournament, […]
Mountain Lions grapplers celebrate successful season, look ahead
While the Liberty Bell High School wrestling family honored the accomplishments of this year’s athletes in the junior and senior high programs, varsity Coach Kyle Erickson made the end-of-season banquet more about the future of the program. With a freshman, three sophomores and an eighth-grader on this year’s squad, it’s a pretty easy connection to […]
Sports Briefs: Still time to skate, Fly Fishers meet, Play volleyball
Still time to skate Don’t put your skates away just yet. The Winthrop Rink will remain open for winter skating through Sunday (March 12) before closing for the season. For information, visit https://winthroprink.org/schedule. Fly Fishers meet The next meeting of the Methow Valley Fly Fishers Club will be at Bear Creek Golf Course on Tuesday, […]
Five Mountain Lions earn All-League hoop honors
Bourn and Surface are Coaches of Year Kyler Mitchell heads a list of five Liberty Bell High School basketball players receiving All-League honors for the 2022-23 season. Mitchell was named to the first team of the Central Washington 2B League. Second-team nominations went to Ruby McCarthy for the girls and Remington Paz for the boys, […]
