SPORTS

Delaney shatters LBHS record for 3,200 meters Dexter Delaney set a new all-time Mountain Lion mark in the 3,200-meter run at the WIAA 2B State Championships in Yakima on Saturday, and Kady Hammer earned two 1st-place finishes in the Ambulatory Division, to highlight Liberty Bell High School’s performances. Nine of the 10 competing Liberty Bell […]

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 350-500 teenaged mountain bikers are expected to invade the valley this weekend as the Methow Cycling Team hosts the 2023 Washington Student Cycling League (WSCL) state championships on Sunday (June 4). The Sean McCabe Trails complex on the Methow Valley School District campus is the site as racing gets underway […]

Dexter Delaney sets district 3,200M record Liberty Bell High School sophomore Dexter Delaney claimed the top spot in both the 1,600-meter and 3,200M runs in last Wednesday’s District 6 Track and Field championships at Oroville High School. His two victories led the way for the Mountain Lions, who qualified 11 athletes for the WIAA State […]

The 2023 baseball season came to a sudden end at Mountain Lion field for Liberty Bell High School last Tuesday in a playoff loss to the Tonasket Tigers, 9-2. Tonasket pitcher Joe Thornton dominated the home team, throwing a no-hitter through the first five innings, eventually giving up three hits and only two runs. The […]

Marit Nelson, Dexter Delaney and Will Halpin each took home 1st-place ribbons and several other Liberty Bell High School distance runners also placed highly at the Bridgeport Invitational track meet last Friday (May 5). Nelson set a personal best of 5:45 in winning the 1,600-meter run as the Liberty Bell freshman also climbed up a […]

Local junior Nordic skier and biathlete Aidan Sands recently brought home a pocketful of medals from a junior international biathlon competition at the Liatoppen Ski Centre, northwest of Oslo in central Norway. Sands, a 15-year-old freshman at Liberty Bell High School, won gold in the team 4.5K x 3 skier relay event, bronze in the […]

Mountain biking is a recreational activity for most people. For Methow Valley native Cody Cupp, it’s a profession and way of life. Cupp’s primary source of income is found in the dirt and gravel long-distance races of the Belgian Waffle Ride series and other events that often cover 70-100 miles in one race. As a […]