Linn-Benton Volleyball Dig Pink Night

Linn-Benton Volleyball heads towards the benches as Clackamas Community College calls a time-out.

Linn-Benton Volleyball coach Jayme Frazier encourages the bench after a substitution during the home match against Clackamas Community College on Dig Pink night Friday, October 13.

Linn-Benton Sophomore Grace Boeder sends a spike towards Clackamas Community College late in the first set on Dig Pink Night Friday, Oct. 13.

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LBCC Athletic Director Mark Majeski

Mark Majeski has been the athletic director at Linn-Benton since 2018. He was born in Wisconsin and moved to California at the age of 8. Growing up, Majeski had a passion for sports and had aspirations of being a coach. He played basketball at Menlo college in Atherton, California, went on to finish a degree in communication at San Jose State University then was offered a position as Menlo’s Sports information director after coaching for the schools high school team. He stayed at Menlo until 2003 when he took a job at Willamette University as the schools athletic director where he worked until 2011 to 2018 when he started his own business advising schools athletic programs and directors. He has seen a lot of success at LBCC in recent years including four NWAC championships in the last three years and is proud of the contributions he has made to the school’s four programs. How did you get the job at LBCC? through a normal hiring process. I'd been living up in Salem and was worki...

LBCC Catcher Ethan Buckley

A rainout is typically a baseball player's worst nightmare. But in April 2022 LBCC sophomore Ethan Buckley got the opportunity of a lifetime due to bad weather. Buckley was born in Germany and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, both of his parents were athletes as well and represented South Africa's national baseball and softball teams. He has loved the game since he first picked up a baseball around age 5. His primary position has been catcher since he was 12 and since then he knew his dream was to play division 1 college baseball in America. He first came to the United States in 2018 to represent the South Africa U15 national team, and by the time he was 17 started to put his name out to recruiters around the world. In January 2022 Buckley and his childhood coach Tanner Leighton devised a plan to make his dream a reality. Using a recruiting website, Buckley got the email addresses of about 60 coaches in the Northwest and directly contacted them for a tryout. Then, ...

Linn-Benton Splits Doubleheader with Mt. Hood

The 10th inning started with a quick three up, three down for the Saints and the Roadrunners took full advantage of their defensive stop. Catcher Ethan Buckley reached second after a throwing error, then was scored by a walk-off single by Kolten Lindstrom . Linn-Benton defeated Mt. Hood 6-5 but then dropped the nightcap 3-1 in NWAC South Region baseball action at Dick McClain Field on the LBCC campus on Wednesday afternoon, March 13. The Roadrunners (8-6, 4-2 NWAC South) started game one hot after starting pitcher Brody McMullen held Mt. Hood scoreless with two strikeouts. Ethan Buckley hit a 2-run single in the bottom of the first to give Linn-Benton a 2-0 lead. Mt. Hood scored one run in the second inning then one in the third, tying the game 2-2. Then after two scoreless innings the Saints took a 4-2 lead in the top of the sixth inning when sophomore Ryoma Imai hit a 2-run single. In the bottom of the seventh, the Roadrunners rallied and took the lead 5-4 when sophomore designate...

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