BOYS BASKETBALL
OSAA Ranking – Team – Record – Streak:
6A
17, Redmond, 8-8, L1
5A
1, Mountain View, 13-4, W4
11, Bend, 9-6, W1
16, Summit, 7-9, 1L
4A
8, Sisters, 13-3, W7
12, Madras, 11-4, W3
27, Crook County, 3-13, L5
33, La Pine, 5-11, L3

The first time I saw Abe Lodwick play basketball I was refereeing his game and he was in about fourth or fifth grade. He was good! He went on to be the best high school basketball player to play at any of the Bend high schools (he was a star at Mountain View) and now is a big part of the Washington State’s 11-8 basketball team. Here’s a story about their sweep of Stanford and Cal this past weekend.
“WSU Basketball: Abe Lodwick, The Other Star Of The Weekend”

It’s a balanced year in Central Oregon for boys basketball. The only teams to go undefeated in games against local teams are Sisters (4-0) and La Pine (1-0). When Ridgeview joins the picture for the 2012-13 school year, a CO boys basketball league could be very interesting! Here’s how it’s gone locally so far this season:

Classification, Team, Overall Record:
6A Redmond 7-5
• Beat Bend 76-54
• Beat Summit 59-54
• Beat Crook County 65-38
• Lost to Mountain View 72-59

5A Mountain View 9-4
• Beat Madras 71-55
• Beat Crook County 92-36
• Beat Redmond 72-59
• Lost to Sisters 60-49

5A Bend 7-5
• Lost to Redmond 76-54
• Lost to Madras 64-61
• Beat Crook County 69-48
• Beat Summit 71-60 OT

5A Summit 6-7
• Lost to Sisters 57-52
• Lost to Redmond 59-54
• Lost to Madras 69-68
• Lost to Bend 71-60 OT

4A Sisters 10-3
• Beat Summit 57-52
• Beat Madras 50-43
• Beat Crook County 65-37
• Beat Mountain View 60-49

4A Madras 8-4
• Lost to Mountain View 71-55
• Lost to Sisters 50-43
• Beat Bend 64-61
• Beat Summit 69-68
• Lost to Crook County 70-62

4A Crook County 3-9
• Lost to Sisters 65-25
• Lost to Redmond 65-38
• Lost to Mountain View 92-36
• Lost to Sisters 65-37
• Lost to Bend 69-48
• Beat Madras 70-62
• Lost to La Pine 63-51

4A La Pine 5-8
• Beat Crook County 63-51

As of 12-18-2011
Boys Basketball Team Records
Classification, Team, Record, Streak, score avg.
6A Redmond 5-1 4W 64.8-58.2
5A Mountain View 5-2 2W 68.7-60.0
4A Sisters 5-2 2L 54.4-49.1
5A Bend 4-3 2W 62.6-61.6
5A Summit 4-3 1L 57.7-54.6
4A Madras 3-3 1L 56.5-50.2
2A Culver 2-3 2L 61.2-69.2
4A La Pine 3-5 1L 47.2-48.9
1A Gilchrist 2-4 4L 42.3-51.7
4A Crook County 1-4 2L 44.0-58.0

BOYS BASKETBALL
Classification – Team – Record – Streak – Points per game
4A Sisters 4-0 4W 57.0
6A Redmond 4-1 3W 64.8
5A Mountain View 3-2 2L 69.4
5A Summit 3-2 1L 57.4
2A Culver 2-2 1L 63.2
1A Gilchrist 2-2 2L 46.8
5A Bend 2-3 3L 60.4
4A La Pine 2-3 2W 47.6
4A Madras 1-2 1L 57.3

Current win streaks by Central Oregon high school sports teams. Mountain View will open the 2012 football season with a 10-game win streak in tact. Summit boys tennis goes into 2012 having won nine in a row.
Top Central Oregon Win Streaks:
10 Mountain View Football
9 Summit Boys Tennis
6 Summit Volleyball
5 Crook County Volleyball
3 Summit Girls Basketball
3 Mountain View Boys Basketball
3 Sisters Boys Basketball

Top Oregon Win Streaks:
55 Central Catholic Volleyball
• CC last loss was 9-25-10 to Los Alamitos, CA.
• CC 86-3 last 3 years (all three losses to out of state teams)

I’m still adding win streaks from around Oregon.

With the addition of Redmond’s new Ridgeview high school and Redmond high moving from 6A to 5A, a Central Oregon league in 2011-2012 will mean less travel. But it won’t fix the “special district” problem for “individual sports.”

2011-2012 Central Oregon Teams
5A
Bend
Mountain View
Redmond
Summit
4A
Crook County
La Pine
Madras
Ridgeview (new Redmond school)
Sisters

This is ideal for basketball, where a nine-team league gives each school a 16-game regular season. In football you could have a 5A and a 4A division. Baseball, softball and soccer could play one or two games against each opponent and have a nice schedule.

Sports that rely on a district meet to qualify for state like tennis, golf, wrestling, cross country and track will be affected in different ways by the new league. A sport like cross county doesn’t have to change anything, as it’s not important that teams meet before districts. Tennis is a different scenario where teams do need to face each other in “dual matches” before a district competition (at least that’s what most teams believe). This means that either CO would have a 4-team tennis district tournament or more likely play a district tourney with teams on the Columbia, therefore having to schedule matches with them as well.

No matter how it all shakes out, a Central Oregon league would be great for players, coaches, fans and Central Oregon in general! Less travel and less money spent on athletics.

The three teams are a combined 6-0 to start the 2011-2012 boys basketball season.

The Bend Lava Bears are 2-0 and outscoring opponents by an average of 76-58.
• Haden Crook is averaging 26.5 points per game.
The Mountain View Cougars are 2-0 and outscoring opponents by an average of 77-66.5.
• James Reid is averaging 29 points per game.
The Summit Storm are 2-0 and outscoring opponents by an average of 59.5-52.5.
• Bradley Laubacher is averaging 14.5, while Dylan Cramer is averaging 14 points per game.

Just two teams remain and they’ll be meeting for the third time in two years, this time for the Class 5A Oregon State football championship. Played in Hillsboro Stadium.
Sherwood
• 13-0 record.
• Outscored opponents 632-205 this season.
• NW Oregon League Champions.
• 2010 5A State Champions.
• 26-game win streak.
• Sherwood beat Mountain View 42-22 in last year’s semifinal.
• Sherwood ran for 407 yards and had 506 yards of total offense in their semifinal win over West Albany.
• Closest game of the season was a 14-3 win over Ashland in quarterfinals.
• Beat West Albany 61-28 in state semifinal.

Mountain View
• 11-1 record.
• 9-game win streak.
• Intermountain Conference Champion.
• Only loss all season was to Sherwood 9/16 41-18.
• Three shutout wins this season.
• Outscored opponents 529-167 this season.
• Mountain View had 530 yards of total offense in their 31-14 semifinal win over Marist.

PAST 5A STATE CHAMPIONS/RUNNER UP
2010 Sherwood 13-0 Marist 12-1
2009 Hillsboro 13-1 Jefferson 9-5
2008 West Albany 14-0 Thurston 12-1
2007 West Albnay 14-0 Glencoe 11-3
2006 Corvallis 11-1 West Albany 12-1

• “Previewing the OSAA Class 5A championship game (video & poll)” – Oregonlive.com
• “All-League Selections” – Oregonprepsports.net
• “PRESSURE ON MT. VIEW TO TAKE 5A TITLE; HEAR SHERWOOD COACH GREG LAWRENCE” – Jay Reese Sports
• “Class 5A title game fast facts” – Sherwood Gazette
• “Cougars Preparing for 5A Title Contest” – KTVZ21