Outdoor Volleyball at Doc Harris: Camas vs. Ridgefield

0:00This story was written by Paul Valencia with Clark County today.com Friday night lights has a whole new meaning in campus tonight. How about Friday night digs and spikes? Yes, the campus paper makers and their guests, the richfield sputters are expected to play an outdoor volleyball match on a court set up at Doc Harris Stadium. The idea was to give our girls the Friday night experience said Steven Barronowski, the athletic director of campus. Coach Michelle Ford has wanted to do this for years. Richfield wanted to jump in with us. It should be an amazing experience. This might be the first of its kind high school volleyball match in Clark County playing outdoors. It also is being played on the 25th anniversary of the attacks of September 11th, 2001. To observe the occasion, there will be a tribute to first responders before the match, including a parade of emergency vehicles around the volleyball court on the track at the stadium. Red, white and blue fireworks are planned during the national anthem too. Also of interest is the time of the match scheduled for 7pm. That was not determined until Thursday night after the court was put down on top of the field turf on Thursday

1:01morning. Officials wanted to see if condensation affected the court in the evening hours. There was an outdoor match in college volleyball recently that was cut short due to poor court conditions. Well, late Thursday night, the court was doing just fine. So it has been determined that Friday's match will start at 7pm. This whole thing will be a learning experience. Berenowski said if all goes well, maybe next year there will be a Friday night outdoor match that a volleyball tournament on Saturday at Doc Harris Stadium. We want to offer our kids unique and awesome experiences. We're going to take some swings at things. Berenowski said, I can't tell you how excited the players are for this game. The buzz around school is awesome. Football notes. Of course, Friday night traditionally means high school football. There are plenty of games featuring Southwest Washington teams. That includes a lot of non league rivalry games. Hudson's Bay and Fort Vancouver are renewing their rivalry. These programs from Vancouver public schools have not faced each other since 2019. But they have played each other 67 times with Fort Vancouver leading the series with 37 victories.

2:03Bay, however, has won the past six meetings. The battle for battleground public schools is Friday night as well, with battleground facing prairie at district stadium. This is the 53rd meeting between the football teams. Bragging rights are on the line. The series is tied 26 to 26. In a small school rivalry, Woodland is hosting law center. Woodland leads the all-time series 49 to 19 to 1. But law center has won the past six meetings. In Evergreen public schools, Evergreen has played Union 14 times since Union opened in 2007. Union won the first 12 games, but Evergreen has won the past two years. Oh, and while we don't necessarily count Columbia River versus Mountain View as much of a rivalry anymore, they have a storied history. These two teams play Friday for the first time since 2013. But a long time ago, they battled for supremacy in Southwest Washington as league foes. Columbia River leads the series 13 to 11. A shout out to our friend Brian Levec, Southwest Washington High School Football Historian.