McKenzie Sports Report – February 26
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week
The McKenzie Winter Sports season has concluded. There are no contests scheduled.
Mt. West League Tournament Sets Post Season State Berths
Eddyville Charter Boys and Mapleton Girls Win MWL Tournament
The 2025-26 Mt. West League Regular season is in the books, the MWL Tournament is history and the six MWL teams representing the League are set.
The Eddyville Charter Boys are the 2026 MWL Champions and the League’s top seed to the 2026 OSAA/OnPoint Community Credit Union 1A Boys Basketball State Championships. Eddyville earned the MWL top spot with a 64-34 win over second place Triangle Lake at last weekend’s MWL Tournament at Harrisburg High. Triangle Lake will represent the MWL as the second seed to State. Alsea upset Mapleton, 56-27, to win the third seeded berth. Alsea (4-3) was the fourth place team in the final MWL Regular Season standings and Mapleton (5-2) was third.
Eddyville Charter (21-5) finished the season ranked 12th in the final OSAA State Class 1A rankings and earned a home game with 21st ranked Southwest Christian (13-11), the fifth place team out of the Valley 10 League. Alsea (15-12 overall), finished the season with a 31st ranking and thus will travel north to play the State’s second ranked Country Christian Cougars (20-6). Country Christian is representing the Valley 10 League. The Lakers of Triangle Lake (10-15) have the lowest ranking of the First Round, 32nd, and have the uphill task and opportunity to travel to and play the top-ranked team in the State, the 24-2 Union Bobcats representing the Old Oregon League.
All Boys First Round games take place on Tuesday, February 24. The sixteen First Round winning teams will advance to the Second Round, scheduled to commence on Friday, February 27.
The Mt. West League Girls Tournament crowned the Mapleton Sailors Girls as their 2026 Champions. The Sailors earned that distinction with a close, hard fought 41-38 victory over second place Alsea. Mohawk defeated Crow, 48-34, to advance to post season as the MWL third seeded team. Mapleton (18-5) finished its season ranked 16th and will host 17th ranked St. Paul (17-10) the second place Casco League representative in State First Round play.
All Girls First Round action takes place on Thursday, February 25, and Second Round contests are scheduled for Saturday, February 28. Mohawk (20-5) is the State’s 22nd ranked team and will take the road trip to the 11th ranked Mountain Valley League Champion North Lake (19-6) Cowboys. Alsea (19-7) is 23rd ranked and will have the opportunity to travel over the Pacific crest and beyond to 10th ranked Union (18-6), representing the Old Oregon League.
Other Local State Bound Teams
There are several other local teams qualified for the 2026 Oregon State Basketball playoffs. In Class 2A action, the Central Linn Girls and the Lowell Boys teams qualified. Class 3A girls teams ready for post-season play are Harrisburg, Creswell, and Pleasant Hill.
Class 3A boy’s teams headed for State are Creswell, Pleasant Hill, and Elmira. The Class 4A through Class 6A teams haven’t finished their seeding tournaments yet to determine their representative teams to the State playoffs.
2026 Mt. West League Basketball All-League Awards
The Mt. West League announced its 2026 Mt. West League All-League Teams last Saturday, February 21, at the Mt. West League Tournament, held at Harrisburg High School.
The Girls Player of the Year is Mapleton Junior Lucie Burruss. Defensive Player of the Year went to Alsea Freshman, Chloe Pedder. MWL Girls Coach of the Year is Mapleton Head Coach Vanessa Clemons. The Mt. West League Girls First Team selections are Mapleton’s Abbi Galvan Mendez and Averie Walker, Alsea’s Tamarra O’Brien, Mohawk’s Summer Ludwig, Triangle Lake’s Madeline Brewster, and Crow’s Elsee Otley.
Second Team selections are Mapleton’s Natalee Stevens, Alsea’s Paisley Jacobsen and Megan VanLeuven, and Mohawk’s Addison Barrowcliff, Peyton Bond, and Miley Sherman.
Third Team selections are Mapleton’s Arista Bernhardt, Triangle Lake’s Caydence Riggs, Crow’s Maddi Okari and Tryniti Kelly and Eddyville’s Gracee Slaughter. Honorable Mention selections are Triangle Lake’s Isabel Brewster, Siletz’s Safiya Reed, Lexi Jackson, and Bella Gomez, Eddyville’s Jill Sanders, and McKenzie’s Liliana Jones and Claire Weiss.
The Mt. West League Boys Co-Players of the Year are Eddyville Charter Junior Nixon Clendenin and Senior Darian Schultz. Defensive Player of the Year is Alsea sophomore Devyn Smallwood. MWL Boys Coach of the Year is Eddyville Charter Head Coach Eddie Townsend.
The Mt. West League Boys First Team selections are Eddyville’s Ashton Fawver, Mapleton’s Roenin Barrows, Alsea’s Nate Allen, Triangle Lake’s Ivan Surcamp, and Crow’s Alex Seller. Second Team selections are Mapleton’s Kam Wilson, Alsea’s Kyler Campbell, Triangle Lake’s Jack Eastburn and Porter Overbaugh, and McKenzie’s Amir Enfield.
Third Team selections are Crow’s Cayden Hernandez, Alsea’s Devyn Smallwood, Mohawk’s Bryson Devault, Eddyville’s Ethan Musick, Mapleton’s Toni Garcia Galvan, and Triangle Lake’s Ezra Pennel.
Honorable Mention selections are Eddyville’s Kaden Foley and Diego Slaughter, Mapleton’s Kayden Gutz and Jaacob Burchell, Mohawk’s Aaron Wallace, Justin Cassidy, and Jordan Layman, McKenzie’s Jacob Norland and Will Meister, Siletz’s Kyler Adams and Luke Case, Triangle Lake’s Owen Mooney, Alsea’s Kai Ferguson, and Crow’s Foster Otley.