La Pine beat Cascade 65-54 to advance to the semifinals of the Class 4A state girls basketball tournament in Corvallis. The Bend girls lost to Crater 43-37 in the Class 5A state girls basketball tournament to move to the consolation semifinals in Eugene.

Find all the draws HERE.

Ready, aim — dodgeball
New league allows players to take the court and let go

Bend’s Andrew Boone was 9th, Colin Mahood 15th and Damon Kluck 26th @ the 35th Great Ski Race in Lake Tahoe.
FULL RESULTS

Brother Jon’s Public House on Galveston is a great place to watch sports and eat some delish food! I was sitting in front of three TVs there watching NBA, golf and a snowboard video… pretty hard to beat!

Four to the floor
Two boys teams and two girls teams from Central Oregon took very different routes to their respective state tournaments

Chris Horner’s Team RadioShack diary: Paris-Nice time trial

Bend is in its second elite-8 since the reclassification, all eight schools have qualified at least once. Willamette is the defending state champion and is going for their third state title in four years. The only other 5A champion is Jefferson, who won in 2008. Five of the eight teams are league champions. The Southern Sky and the Intermountain Conference are the only leagues with two representatives in the final eight. The only teams without at least 20 wins are West Albany (16), Bend (17) and Hermiston (17).
• Draw
• Polls

(teams appear in order of where they are in the draw)
No. 4 Willamette – Midwestern 1st
20-4
2009 – 1st
2008 – 5th
2007 – 1st

No. 3 Ashland – Southern Sky 1st
22-5
2009 – 5th
2008 – 6th
2007 – DNQ

No. 2 Wilsonville – NW Oregon 1st
21-4
2009 – DNQ
2008 – 3rd
2007 – 6th

No. 13 Hermiston – IMC 2nd
17-5
2009 – DNQ
2008 – 2nd
2007 – 4th

No. 10 Crater – Southern Sky 2nd
21-7
2009 – DNQ
2008 – Quarterfinals
2007 -DNQ

No. 11 Bend – IMC 1st
17-9
2009 – DNQ
2008 – Quarterfinals
2007 – DNQ

No. 5 West Albany – Mid-Willamette 2nd
16-8
2009 – DNQ
2008 – DNQ
2007 – Quarterfinals

No. 1 Jefferson – PIL 1st
20-3
2009 – 3rd
2008 – 1st
2007 – 3rd

Summit, Bend wrap up solid state meet
Storm are second overall, Bears are fourth; Summit’s Schuster wins boys slalom championship

The Lava Bears beat Corvallis 44-41 in a class 5A girls state playoff basketball game @ Bend Senior High School on Friday night. Bend, along with Hermiston of the IMC, advances to the state’s final eight tournament.