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** Prep Football Playoff Scoreboard **

Newberg 36, Grants Pass 33

North Medford 15, Tigard 8

South Medford 41, Sandy 21

North Valley 55, Siuslaw 22

Banks 27, Cascade Christian 20

 

The Grants Pass Cavemen were well represented on the South Central All Conference Teams announced Tuesday night. Conner Johnston led the Cavemen with first team honors on both offense as a tight end and on defense as a lineman. Tim Hart was also named to both offense and defense honorable mentions, as a receiver on offense and on the defensive line.

Other awards included Nate Bassett as a 1st team defensive back. Recieveing Hnorable mentions were Brayden Carlson on the defensive line, Braeden Reese as a linebacker, Kingston Connelly and Zach Dechenne as defensive backs and Parker Roberts as punter.

Named to the 1st Team offense was Sophomore quarterback Jordan Rossetta and receiver Isaac Johnson.

 

** Prep Football Playoff Scoreboard **

Grants Pass 49, Sunset 27
(Cavemen at Newberg 11/15)

South Medford 41, Jefferson 0

North Medford 28, Roosevelt 14

Scappoose 42, Hidden Valley 0

North Valley 35, Sutherlin 0

Cascade Christian 57, Yamhill-Carlton 7

 

The 17th ranked Grants Pass Cavemen are hosting their first home playoff football game since they lost to Madison in 2016 by one point. The boys in blue hope to absolve that loss with a win over the 24th ranked Sunset Apollo’s Friday night in Mel Ingram Field. The Apollo’s are 4th in the Metro league with a 3 and 6 record while GP is 6th in league with a 5 and 4 record. The game will be broadcast live on KAJO with the pregame airing at 6:30 for 7 p.m. kickoff.

Both North and South Medford teams have home playoff games with the number 13 Panthers hosting #28 Jefferson at Spiegelberg Stadium and the Black Tornado, ranked 14th hosting #27 Roosevelt at Southern Oregon University. Other conference foes include sixth ranked Sprague in the Open Bracket hosting Clackamas. Third seeded Sheldon has a bye week and will host the winner of the Sprague game.

In the 4A Classification the Hidden Valley Mustangs, ranked 12th, play on the road facing number 5 Scappoose. At the three A level 9th seeded North Valley goes on the road to challenge number 8 Sutherlin.

 

The Grants Pass 9-1-1 Communications Center fielded hundreds of calls for local emergency first responders over the past week. According to the 9-1-1 Dispatch Center's weekly post on Facebook, dispatchers received a total of 1,248 emergency calls between October 24th and October 30th. The Grants Pass Police Department received the bulk of the calls with 943, with American Medical Response receiving 286 and Grants Pass Fire & Rescue getting 89. Rural Metro Fire Department received a total of 66 calls last week, followed by the Illinois Valley Fire District with 30, the Oregon Department of Forestry with 16, and both the Williams and Wolf Creek Rural Fire Protection Districts with 9. Dispatchers also received a total of 497 internal calls and they made a total of 572 outgoing calls. Recent rains have caused some tricky driving conditions as evidenced by several traffic crashes over the past week. In addition, the end of fire season means that a lot of seasoned wood has been burning and a few of the piles have escaped.