Brian Rathbone

The fall high school sports season has come and gone seemingly in a blink of an eye. And before we turn our focus to basketball, wrestling and swimming, let’s look back on 10 memorable moments from Central Oregon fall sports. Bend girls soccer goes undefeated to win state title  A year after a magical postseason […]

It is getting down to the nitty-gritty of the Class 5A high school football season with only four teams remaining — two of them from the Intermountain Conference. No. 1 Summit will take on No. 13 Churchill at Willamette University in Salem at 7 p.m. Friday, while No. 3 Mountain View will face No. 2 […]

Two goal-line stands, three fourth-down conversions and a 90-yard touchdown drive that ate away an entire quarter combined to save the season for Mountain View. The No. 3 Cougars got all those in their 14-0 win over No. 6 Dallas in the Class 5A football quarterfinals at Jack Harris Stadium Friday night in Bend. “I […]

Three local football teams are still alive in the postseason and one win away from advancing to the state semifinals. Summit and Mountain View will play their Class 5A state quarterfinal matchups at home Friday night, while Culver will play its 2A quarterfinal game on the road on Saturday. The top-seeded Storm (10-0) will try […]

Nearly a year ago, when the final whistle blew in Bend High’s 4-1 loss to Wilsonville in the 5A girls soccer state championship match, coach Scott Sagar went up to the officials and told them to save his seat because the Lava Bears would be back in the same spot again next year. Maybe at […]

Soccer can be a cruel, cruel game. And the top-seeded Summit boys had to learn that lesson in devastating fashion in the Class 5A semifinals against Corvallis. By Summit coach Tom Bunnell’s count, his team outshot the fifth-seeded Spartans 34-4 throughout the 100-minute match. And yet, it was Corvallis celebrating the 3-2 win in penalty […]

In the first round of the Class 5A playoffs, the Summit football team did exactly what it wanted to do in its 57-10 win over No. 16 Gresham on a chilly Friday night in Bend. The dominant performance from the Storm started the days leading up to their matchup against the Gophers. “We had a […]

The votes are in for The Bulletin’s Athletes of the Week for Oct. 27-Nov. 1 Maggie Kelley, a senior on the Summit girls soccer team, and Angel Valenzuela, a senior on the Mountain View football team, were voted by Bulletin readers as the boys and girls Athletes of the Week. Angel Valenzuela, Mountain View football […]

The constant rain might as well have been a super power for fourth-seeded Summit against No. 13 Putnam Tuesday evening. Five different Storm players scored goals in their 5-0 win over the Kingsmen at Summit High School in the first round of the Class 5A girls soccer state playoffs to advance to Saturday’s quarterfinal round […]

All-Intermountain Conference Volleyball Team Player of the Year: Brooklyn Fobi, Bend Coach of the Year: Kristin Cooper, Bend First team Hitters/Setters Brooklyn Fobi, Bend Addy Cummings, Ridgeview Jessie Doorn, Summit Kailyn Cooper, Bend McKenna Maykut, Crook County Grace Ozolin, Summit Ella Klos, Caldera Libero Kendall Martinez, Crook County Second team Hitters/Setters Aubrey Walker, Caldera Makenna […]