Salem-News.com Sports Feed http://www.salem-news.com/tgsearch.php?tag=sports 2010 With its eighth straight season-opening win Friday night, the University of Oregon volleyball team (1-0) celebrated its first-ever win against a top-ranked team and halted four-time defending NCAA champion Penn State's 94-home match win streak. http://salem-news.com/articles/august262011/uo-volleyball-penn-state.php Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:18:00 PDT Junior middle blocker Ashley Eneliko (Seattle, Wash.) hit .625, killing 16 balls on 24 attempts to lead the Oregon State volleyball team to a five-set come from behind win (23-25, 21-25, 25-23, 25-17, 15-13) over the Wyoming Cowgirls on Friday afternoon in the Beavers’ second match of the UniWyo Wyoming Invite. http://salem-news.com/articles/august262011/beavers-volleyball-win.php Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:43:00 PDT The Willamette University men's cross country team, which won the West Region title and finished 23rd at the NCAA Championships last season, is ranked #22 in the 2011 NCAA Division III Preseason Poll released by the United States Track And Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) on Wednesday, Aug. 25. The Bearcat men's team also is ranked #1 in the West Region, while the WU women's cross country team is ranked #6 in the West Region. http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/willamette-cross-country.php Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:22:00 PDT The Western Oregon baseball team has seen coaches, student-athletes and even the turf change since entering NCAA Division II in 2002 but through all that one thing has remained constant; the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Championship has always belonged to the Wolves. http://salem-news.com/articles/may062011/wolves-gnac-title.php Fri, 06 May 2011 17:54:00 PDT Batting around in both the fourth and fifth innings and scoring 10 runs combined in the two frames, the George Fox University Bruins broke open a close game to defeat the Concordia University-Portland Cavaliers 11-3 in their final home baseball game of the season Monday afternoon here at Morse Field. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022011/bruins-cavaliers.php Mon, 02 May 2011 21:15:00 PDT Oregon State University is pleased to announce that it will host the Fifth Annual Willamette Volleyball on May 6-8. The event will be capped by an exhibition match between Oregon State and Western Washington on Saturday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. in legendary Gill Coliseum. Admission is free to the event and fans can pick up the 2011 spring poster for autographs post-match. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022011/willamette-volleyball-classic.php Mon, 02 May 2011 20:17:00 PDT Will Crook of the Western Oregon track And field has been named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Men's Athlete of the Week for the week of Apr. 25-May 1. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022011/crook-gnac-athlete.php Mon, 02 May 2011 19:22:00 PDT The University of Puget Sound defeated Willamette University, 4-1, in a Northwest Conference baseball game on Sunday, May 1 to prevent the Bearcats from sweeping the three-game series at John Lewis Field. WU pulled within 2-1 in the bottom of the eighth, but the Loggers added two runs in the ninth. http://salem-news.com/articles/may012011/puget-willamette.php Sun, 01 May 2011 18:19:00 PDT The No. 16 University of Oregon softball team (35-11, 7-7) banged out a season-high 16 hits Saturday night to beat No. 9 Arizona (36-13, 7-7) for the second straight game. http://salem-news.com/articles/may012011/ducks-softball-arizona.php Sun, 01 May 2011 11:51:00 PDT Zach Manley and Evan Hilberg combined to shut out the George Fox University Bruins and the fifth-ranked Linfield College Wildcats made the most of four hits for a 3-0 victory Saturday afternoon here at Roy Helser Field, sewing up the Northwest Conference baseball championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III National Tournament. http://salem-news.com/articles/april232011/linfield-george-fox.php Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:07:00 PDT Daniel Dillard went 4-for-4 with three runs scored and six runs driven in to lead Western Oregon to a 12-1 win in the opener of a four-game set against Montana State Billings. http://salem-news.com/articles/april232011/wou-win-opener.php Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:55:00 PDT Willamette University junior pitcher Alex Watilo (Jr., RHP, Newcastle, CA/Del Oro HS) has been named Northwest Conference Softball Pitcher Student-Athlete of the Week for her efforts against Whitworth University on April 16-17. It is the third time this season that Watilo has been honored as the Student-Athlete of the Week. She previously was selected on March 1 and March 29. http://salem-news.com/articles/april212011/watilo-student-athlete.php Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:42:00 PDT Coming off a four-game sweep of Saint Martin's in which Western Oregon took over first place in the GNAC by 104 percentage points, Aaron Headrick and Cam Nobles have both been selected for conference player of the week honors. http://salem-news.com/articles/april192011/gnac-weekly-awards.php Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:47:00 PDT Willamette University and Pacific University played to a 6-6 tie in 11 innings in a non-conference game ended due to impending darkness on Tuesday, April 19. Willamette trailed 3-1 in the fifth inning at John Lewis Field, but scored four runs in the sixth and led 6-3 in the seventh, before Pacific tallied three runs in the top of the eighth to tie the game http://salem-news.com/articles/april192011/willamette-pacific-baseball.php Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:40:00 PDT For the second season in a row the Western Oregon baseball team has used strong starting pitching to spark a late season run. Last year, the Wolves rode that pitching to a 23-game Great Northwest Athletic Conference winning streak, and this year they have won their past seven games, all by holding opponents to three runs or less. http://salem-news.com/articles/april182011/wou-basball-sweep.php Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:42:00 PDT