Taholah faces district football test
Taholah will face Crescent in a quad-district Class 1B football playoff game scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Forks.
The winner will advance to another district contest on Saturday.
The Chitwhins earned a postseason berth with a 40-26 win over State Deaf last week.
District soccer opens tonight
Elma hosts Stevenson in the opening round of the District IV Class 1A Girls Soccer Tournament tonight. The kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Davis Field.
The survivor of the loser-out contest will face Trico League champion King’s Way Christian on Thursday. If Elma wins tonight, that contest will be at Montesano’s Rottle Field.
Evergreen 1A League champion Montesano will host tonight’s La Center-Tenino winner in the other semifinal. Thursday’s game times have not yet been announced.
The tourney concludes Saturday at Montesano. The top three finishers will earn state berths.
Ocosta, meanwhile, faces Central League rival Adna in the semifinals of the District IV Class 2B Tournament tonight at Centralia High School’s Tiger Stadium.
The Wildcats and Pirates will collide at approximately 7 p.m., or immediately after the Life Christian Academy-Kalama semifinal.
Tonight’s winners qualify for state and will collide for the district championship at noon Saturday. The semifinal losers are eliminated.
District 1A volleyball starts Wednesday
Three Grays Harbor teams will compete in the District IV Class 1A Volleyball Tournament beginning Wednesday.
With only two state berths on the line, the format has been changed this year to include loser-out first-round contests. Only league champions Elma and Castle Rock have been seeded into the double-elimination phase of the tournament.
At Montesano’s Bo Griffith Memorial Gym, Montesano will take on La Center in a loser-out contest at 5:30 p.m. The winner will face Elma in a semifinal scheduled for approximately 7 p.m.
Hoquiam will venture to La Center to take on King’s Way Christian in a loser-out match at 5:30. The winner advances to take on Trico League champion Castle Rock at 7 p.m.
The tournament concludes Saturday, with sites to be announced on Thursday.
Hoquiam man inducted into Oregon hall of fame
William Miller Jr. of Hoquiam was inducted into the Portland Interscholastic League Athletic Hall of Fame on Sunday.
A graduate of Madison High School in Portland, Miller was a two-time all-league running back in football and a second-team all-state selection as a senior. He is among the top five career rushers in school history.
Miller was also a second-team all-league pitcher in baseball and played four years of professional basketball in the Kansas City and Detroit farm systems.
