In the Media: Capital Conference title makes Husky history

AURORA — By securing its first Capital Conference title since 2005, the North Marion baseball team helped make a piece of school history.

This is the first time North Marion has had its football, boys basketball and baseball teams all make the OSAA state playoffs during a single school year.

While the baseball team has been a fixture in the state playoffs, the football and basketball teams both ended playoff droughts earlier this year. For the football team, it was the first time in six years the Huskies had advanced to state; three years had gone by for the boys basketball team.

Only two North Marion athletes have been a part of all three state-playoff teams — senior Zach Borowczak was a linebacker and fullback on the football team, a wing on the basketball team and a catcher for the baseball team; junior Adam Hayden played quarterback in football, post in basketball and splits time between pitching and first base on the baseball team.

They join Josh Turner, also a senior at North Marion, as the only three athletes in school history to be a part of three boys state-playoff teams in a single school year. Turner was part of the football, soccer and basketball teams.

The North Marion baseball team has now been to the state playoffs seven straight years, but hasn’t won a playoff game since 2006.

The Huskies (18-6 overall, 13-3 in the Capital Conference) will close out the regular season with a road game against Stayton on Thursday and a home game against Gladstone on Friday.

North Marion will host the No. 2 seed from the Greater Oregon League in the second round of the state playoffs on May 25.

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