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‘Hungry for more,’ Huskies look for football playoff win this year
By Ryker Burr For The New Era “I think they’re just hungry for more.” That’s what head coach…
Young, but veteran Huskies looking for big year in cross-country
Five years ago, Dave Martin took over a Sweet Home cross-country program that had been decimated by COVID…
Young Warriors can’t hold off Ridgeview in football opener
By Mike Warner For The New Era With last year’s successes now a memory and some stars gone…
Ellertson, Debban, Godard and Matlock Take Feature Wins at Willamette Speedway
Saturday night at Willamette Speedway was full of excitement, with four divisions racing and several drivers putting on…
Sports Roundup: Sept. 2, 2026
East Linn County High School Sports Roundup Things kick off this week in earnest for local high…
Huskies building skills as they enter new division in boys soccer
Sweet Home’s boys soccer team is entering a new season that could be very different than what the…
Coach says he’s ‘excited’ by potential for girls soccer season
Sweet Home girls soccer Head Coach Ramiro Santana is “excited” as his team starts to answer the question:…
Husky volleyball, loaded with veterans, looks to end three-year playoff drought in new classification
By Ryker Burr For The New Era It may be the first year in the 3A Mountain Valley…
Volleyball veterans Bondeson and Tyler take Huskies’ helm
By Ryker Burr For The New Era Two longtime local athletes and coaches are taking over Sweet Home…
New SHHS athletic director brings wealth of coaching, Leadership
Tomas Rosa has said many times, publicly, that he’s grateful that he grew up in Sweet Home. A…
Football camp readies Huskies for season
Sweet Home’s football players got down to business last week with their annual summer camp, which this year…
Warriors kick off football season with end-of-summer camp
Lebanon High School’s football team got things rolling last week with their Football Camp. Coming off a league…
OSAA Reclassification: big impacts for SH; changes for Lebanon, ELCA
By Ryker Burr For The New Era Sweet Home High School is about to experience a big change…
Fan Night puts fans in the spotlight at Willamette Speedway
On Saturday night, Aug. 1, kids climbed into race cars, collected autographs, and met their racing heroes as…
Alumni Roundup Addition: Lebanon’s Sadie Dannen
Editor’s note: We’re still trying to “round up” all of the local high school alumni who are competing…
SH’s Landtroop takes All-American honors at wrestling nationals
Jesse Landtroop, who has won three state OSAA titles in wrestling, added All-American status to his resume last…
Girls wrestling camp returns to SHHS
Sweet Home hosted its sixth annual Santiam Girls Wrestling Camp last week, drawing 99 girls for what Head…
Updated: Where are they now? 2025-26 Alumni Roundup
Following is a round-up of the exploits during the past school year of local high school alums who…
Sweet Home Tennis Camp
Participants in a tennis camp held last week at Sweet Home High School gather for a group photo…
Local athletes medal at Nike Nationals track championships
Lebanon’s Cade Weber and Logan Large both medaled at the Nike Outdoor Nationals and USATF U20 track and…
25th annual Santiam Wrestling Camp draws 170 boys
Sweet Home High School hosted its 25th annual Santiam Wrestling Camp for boys June 26-29 and, this week,…
Water polo tournament back at Foster Lake
The 14th annual Foster Lake Open Water Polo Tournament returned to Sweet Home last week. Founded by Steve…
Linn County high school basketball teams square off in tournament
Nearly all of Linn County’s high schools squared off in a summer tournament hosted by Sweet Home High…
JBO Action in Lebanon
The Lebanon 2 team and Sweet Home Black team faced off in Senior National JBO baseball June 16…
Future Huskies develop their court skills at basketball camp
Sweet Home’s girls basketball team held its Little Huskies basketball camp last week. Here, obviously on Dressup Day,…