With only one twentieth of the entire team having four years of track and field experience under their collective belts, one might say that the Brookings-Harbor High School track and field team is young in terms of experience.

But according to Head Coach Jim Keys, what they lack in experience, they make up for in desire.

“Biggest difference this year is a lot of inexperienced kids,” he explained. “I won’t say young kids because we have a number of seniors, juniors and sophomores who have never come out for track. A lot of inexperienced kids.”

The Brookings-Harbor High School softball team lost both games of doubleheader action against a tough Marshfield pitcher who gave up just three hits over 14 innings.

The Bruins lost the first game on the road 1-5 with Hannah Goergen and Mimi Fernandez recording the two hits. 

The second game found a larger margin with the Lady Bruins dropping the loss 1-8 with Goergen recording the solo hit.

Bryce Aldrich puts metal to leather during Friday’s doubleheader action against Marshfield. The Pilot/Jef Hatch

“We hit the ball really well,” Assistant Coach Charlie Jenkins said following the second game. “It’s a great way to get things started. It creates the momentum we need to carry us into league play.”

The Bruins won the first game 8-5, scoring 1 run in the first inning and 7 runs in the fourth inning.

This is a no-hassle easy-to-tie bank fisherman’s springer rig for the Rogue River. The Pilot/Larry Ellis

Fishing report for 

March 16-22

Spring is sprung, the grass is ris. I wonder were the springers is?

If you answered, “The Rogue River”, then treat yourself to this issue’s rig of the week: a bank fisherman’s spring king primer.

Saturday’s All-Star basketball games were more about having fun and getting the top players on the Southern Oregon Coast from 11 different schools together in a game that they wouldn’t play otherwise than it was about the score.

Sophomore Mallory McDonald and seniors Brianna Juarez, Nick Corpening and Tyler Wood all made the two-hour trip to Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay to participate in the 3rd Annual South Coast High School All-Star Basketball Series.

Brookings-Harbor High School wrestling team captains, CJ Paxton, left, Cole Hannan and Brandon Holteen make a presentation on Thursday night. The Pilot/Jef Hatch

Wrestlers present Thursday night 

The Brookings-Harbor High School wrestling team fed athletes, coaches and parents alike on Thursday night as they presented the 2011-2012 wrestlers with their awards for completion of a successful season.

Assistant Coach Ramon Nunez made the presentations in place of Head Coach Dave Freeman and was effusive in his praise for the 12 wrestlers who made it all the way through the season.

“I’ve been involved with wrestling for a long time,” Nunez said, “and I don’t think I’ve ever been with a team that went through as much as our team did.”

Fishing report for 

March 9-15

I cannot get excited enough about this year’s ocean salmon season. Indeed, it has been a long time ago when anglers could venture out on the ocean with the confidence that they might be putting one or two salmon in the cooler. But this year’s projections are so high that people are counting their salmon before their rods go down.

To quickly recap last week’s column – sometime this May, southern Oregon is going to get a very long ocean Chinook season. Three ocean salmon season options were discussed one week ago in Sacramento and, this coming April, members of the PFMC will be doing their balancing act to come up with one season. All of the Chinook options look great for the Brookings Harbor area, so it doesn’t matter which option is finally chosen – they’re all excellent!