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Less is more for Midwestern League.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-AUG-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Less is more for Midwestern League.(Sports)(With Sheldon, South Eugene and Lebanon gone, the six remaining schools are looking at a new landscape as the season begins)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Steve Mims The Register-Guard

MIDWESTERN LEAGUE

Thurston football coach Justin Starck noticed the change before the first practice of the season.

"We had our Midwestern League coaches meeting and I sat down, and before I thought about it I wondered, `Where's Marty and Chris? They must be running late,' ' Starck said. "Then it was `Wow, they're not here anymore.' '

Sheldon's Marty Johnson and South Eugene's Chris Miller now attend Southwest Conference football coaches meetings, and Lebanon is in the 5A Mid-Willamette Conference, as the Midwestern League has been sliced to two-thirds of its former size with just six teams.

Thurston's DeWayne Cantrell, who has coached cross country at the school for three decades, figures he will notice the difference at the Midwestern district cross country meet when 42 runners line up at the start instead of 63.

"That will definitely be different," Cantrell said.

It's a new world for prep sports in Oregon, and the...

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