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PREP VOLLEYBALL
Hitting a high note
Ridgeview ends nonleague
play with a win over Churchill
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
CO Media Group
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Ridgeview’s Caylie Alderman (4) hits the ball over the net while playing Churchill at Rid-
geview on Wednesday night.
Heading into its final nonleague
match, the Ridgeview volleyball team
needed a win to feel good about.
And that is exactly what the Ra-
vens got Wednesday night when
they swept Churchill in straight sets
in their final tune-up match before
starting Intermountain Conference
play next Wednesday.
In a rematch of last year’s Class
5A quarterfinal match, the Ravens
made quick work of the Lancers of
the Midwestern League, winning all
three sets by double digits (25-13, 25-
15, 25-14).
“It was nice to win a playoff grudge
match and dominate more than we
did last year,” said senior outside hit-
ter Madie Vaughn. “It felt good to get
back to winning at our home court.”
The Ravens (2-3 overall) are now
on a two-game winning streak head-
ing into IMC play following a slow
start to the season during which
they lost their first three games. But
the win over the Lancers (0-4) was
a good sign moving forward for last
season’s 5A semifinal squad.
“We were trying to make a state-
ment before going into our league
schedule,” said Ridgeview coach Kur-
tis Bower. “We want to go into it with
a lot of momentum.”
In more ways than one, the 2022
season brought some major changes
to the Ridgeview volleyball program.
Randi Viggiano, who had coached
Ridgeview volleyball since 2018,
stepped into the school’s athletic di-
rector role this fall.
Now Bower takes over a program
that between 2018 and 2021 won 80
of its 99 matches, went to the 5A state
tournament each possible year, ad-
vanced to two state title games and
won it all in 2019.
“It was a little scary, but (Viggiano)
has been a great mentor and she is
here for me, to push me and to mo-
tivate me to build my own program,”
Bower said.
“The hardest part has been the
girls buying into me and earning
their respect,” Bower added. “After
these wins, I think that will help out.”
The coaching change came as a
bit of a surprise for the players, but
they were quickly ready to get back to
work for the upcoming season.
“When everyone has the same goal
and the same dream, it doesn’t matter
the circumstance,” Vaughn said. “We
are all coming together really nicely.”
After the Bend and Redmond
schools split conferences prior to the
2018 season, Ridgeview dominated
the IMC, winning three league titles.
Even with Bend, Mountain View,
Summit and Caldera rejoining the
IMC, the Ravens do not want to give
up the conference crown without a
fight.
“They are tough teams for sure,”
said junior outside hitter Ellie Owen.
“But we are ready for the challenge.”
Vaughn said the team was excited
for the addition of the Bend schools
— especially since a lot of the players
from both the Bend and Redmond
schools play together on the club vol-
leyball circuit.
“I feel like this league is going to
push us so much further, especially
with this young team,” Vaughn said.
“We are going to reach our potential
so much faster.”
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“We were trying to
make a statement
before going
into our league
schedule. We want
to go into it with a
lot of momentum.”
—Kurtis Bower,
Ridgeview coach
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Ridgeview’s Sidnee Roan, left, and Madie Vaughn dive to return a serve while playing Chur-
chill at Ridgeview on Wednesday night.
PREP
SCOREBOARD
Football
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Bend 39, North Medford 7
Grants Pass 35, Caldera 0
Mountain View 16,
Churchill 6
Summit 48, Thurston 10
Ridgeview 62, Centennial
6
Pendleton 27, Redmond
20 (OT)
Junction City 43, Crook
County 36
Madras 29, Sisters 14
Dayton 40, La Pine 6
Culver 48, Irrigon 20
Jewell at Gilchrist,
canceled
Volleyball
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Central Christian 3, North
Lake 0 (25-14, 25-9,
26-24)
Girls soccer
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Jesuit 1, Summit 0
Caldera 2, Corvallis 0
Boys soccer
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Summit 0, Jesuit 0
Corvallis 5, Caldera 1
The Ridgeview
volleyball team
celebrates after
scoring against
Churchill at Ridgeview
on Wednesday night.
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SOCCER
Wedding, Bremont form a dynamic duo
BY BRIAN RATHBONE
CO Media Group
REDMOND — Redmond High has
scored more goals than any other Class
5A girls soccer team through the first
two weeks of the season.
Leading the Panther attack has been
a pair of juniors in Reese Wedding and
Jillian Bremont. Of the 13 goals Red-
mond has scored this season, Wedding
and Bremont have netted 11 of them.
“I get goosebumps every time they
score,” said Redmond coach Martha
Segura.
Wedding, who already has seven
goals on the year, is picking up right
where she left off. She was a sec-
ond-team all-state player scoring 29
goals last fall for Redmond, which is
undefeated at 3-0-0 this season.
Bremont, an impact player her fresh-
man year for the Panthers, missed last
season recovering from an injury but
has already scored four goals this season.
The goal-scoring tandem has been
years in the making through youth and
club soccer. Now that they are finally
back on the field together in the ma-
roon and gold, the early results have
been dominant.
“We have been playing together for
a long time and we communicate really
well,” Bremont said. “We can read each
other’s mind.”
Tuesday evening against Class 6A
David Douglas (1-1) from Portland,
the duo scored five goals, and all of
them were needed in the Panthers’ 6-4
home win over the Scots.
The goals came in bunches on Tues-
day night. Within the first 15 minutes
of action three goals had already been
scored.
David Douglas was first on the
board when Olivia Eyestone found the
back of the net. Then Wedding quickly
responded with her first goal moments
later. Five minutes after that, Wedding
assisted on Azlynn Ure’s goal to give
Redmond its first lead at 2-1.
Late in the first half, Wedding split
past a David Douglas defender and its
goalkeeper for her second goal of the
first half and a 3-1 lead.
The Scots wasted no time in the
second half, scoring twice — first by
Naomi Coffee and immediately fol-
lowed by Khloe Huskic — to even the
score at 3-3.
Then it was Bremont’s turn to take
over the match.
Midway through the second half,
Bremont outran the David Douglas
backline and beat the goalkeeper for
her first goal and a 4-3 Redmond lead.
A few minutes later she lofted her sec-
ond goal over the Scots’ keeper, giving
the Panthers a 5-3 advantage.
Just one minute latetr David Douglas
scored to cut the lead to 5-4, but Red-
mond’s dynamic duo was not finished.
Right before the final whistle, Wed-
ding scored her third goal of the match,
giving her two hat tricks (the first was in
the season-opener against Pendleton) in
the first three matches of the year.
”We made a lot of good connec-
tions,” Wedding said. “The team played
really well with our possession and our
passing.”
Redmond will travel to Gresham to
face Barlow next Wednesday in its final
nonleague match before opening what
is expected to be a challenging Inter-
mountain Conference slate on Sept. 19
against Mountain View.
“Once we connect more and play
more thoughtful soccer, we are going
to have a successful team,” Segura said.
“Last I checked, four of the six teams in
our conference were ranked in the top
10. But we weren’t one of them. Yet.”
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Redmond’s Reese Wedding (5) takes control of the ball over David Douglas’s Daniela Herrera
Delgado (4) during Tuesday’s soccer match at Redmond High School.
Redmond’s Jil-
lian Bremont (2)
charges the ball
with David Doug-
las in pursuit
during Tuesday’s
soccer match at
Redmond High
School.
dean Guernsey/
The bulletin