The West Albany Bulldogs will face the Lebanon Warriors this Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Ore., in the basketball quarterfinals of the 5A girls state playoffs.

West Albany clinched their spot by beating Pendleton 62-48 on Friday. This is their third consecutive year of going to the playoffs.

Lebanon secured their spot with a hard-fought victory over Marist. The final score was 48-43. It is the first time in the school’s history the girls’ basketball team advanced to the state playoffs.

Two months ago, the two teams faced each, and the Lebanon Warriors came out on top, beating the Bulldogs by a score of 36-33. It will be an exciting rematch in the newly built UO basketball arena.  

“The Albany Democrat-Herald” ran two stories about each team’s recent victories.

From a press release

The TrackTown12 Local Organizing Committee and SportsOne announce the return of the popular “TrackTown Tuesday” series, as TrackTown USA looks forward to hosting the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field.

The year’s first meeting will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the Old Pad, located at 3355 E. Amazon Drive in Eugene. Refreshments will be provided beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The night’s featured guests will be women’s NCAA champion Jordan Hasay and men’s All-American Luke Puskedra from the University of Oregon; as well as Cyrus Hostetler, who won silver in the javelin at the Pan-American Games this past October, and Sam Chelanga, who won the 2009 NCAA cross country title for Liberty, from Oregon Track Club Elite. Associate Athletic Director Vin Lananna, co-chair of TrackTown12 Local Organizing Committee will also be present.

The Little Rascalz, who were selected by fans as the winner of the Official Power Anthem contest for TrackTown12, will also be performing their winning song “Run this Town.” It will be the first of many performances for the Albany duo.

As part of a study of winter steelhead on the Alsea and North Fork Nehalem rivers, ODFW has adopted a temporary rule that allows anglers who catch a radio-tagged hatchery winter steelhead to harvest the fish.

Permanent fishing regulations prohibit the harvest of radio-tagged fish. Instead, anglers are required to release the fish unharmed so scientists can continue to collect data.