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Gresham High School football suffered a painful lose to visiting Clackamas High School on Thursday, Oct. 14 losing to the Cavaliers 42-7.

It was a tale of two-halves. The Gophers showed some promise in the first half with some defensive stops and limiting their mistakes to minor holding calls.

First Half

Gresham's defense had some strong moments especially Jody-Tyrese Goldsby, who was able to knock down a deep ball pass to bring up fourth down for the Cavaliers. The Gopher's defense was able to pick up a Clackamas fumble to give their offense great field position.

The other side of the ball is where the Gopher's struggled the most. Gresham quarterback Jaxon Doving was uncomfortable in the pocket all night as the Cavalier's defensive ends ran through the Gopher's o-line. The Gopher's rushing attack struggled to find lanes and that was when they were able to make it our of the backfield.

Touchdown passes to AJ Perez and Parker Harrison would give the Cavaliers a 14-0 lead as the end of the half neared. A four-and-out by the Gophers gave Clackamas a short field to work with in the last minute of the game. Great coverage and pressure from the Gresham defense kept the score to a manageable 14-0 entering the second half.

Second Half

Though it seemed that the momentum was in the home team's favor, the Cavaliers were quick to erase the idea that Gophers would be able to crawl their way back.

On the first play of the second half, the Cavaliers handed it off to running back Jaxson Decker who sliced his way down the field to put Clackamas near the one-yard-line. A short burst from Zach Frazier would give the Cavalier's a three score lead of 21-0.

After another touchdown from Clackamas the Gopher's had lost all momentum they might have had entering the second half. Still, the scrappy offense put together a solid drive that got them passed mid-field. In a collapsing pocket Doving connected with receiver Andre Miller, who would muscle his way into the end zone for a Gresham touchdown.

Clackamas went on to score two more touchdowns for the 42-7 victory.

"I think our team was more focused on not losing the game and not focused on actually winning the game," said Gresham head coach Cesar Martinez. "When you put that idea on yourself you cause a mental breakdown like we did. It causes missed tackles, miscommunication on offense, missed blocks and once it starts rolling like that it's hard to stop."

Next Game

The Gopher's continue their search for their first win as they welcome David Douglas at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21.

Every good team has a standout player, but the great teams have a collection of them.

The Gresham High School boys basketball squad is looking like the latter as the Gophers have climbed as high as No. 6 in the OSAA 6A rankings.

There’s no doubt that opposing teams see guard Esyah Pippa-White and gameplan around the stellar senior, but the cast around him is what has helped propel Gresham toward the top of the state.

Leading the crew of secret weapons at times has been senior Scotty Riddle, who’s left opponents stumped trying to figure out the answer to this Gophers’ offense.

“Scotty is the silent assassin,” Gresham first-year head coach Corey Lockhart said. “He keeps his composure, he plays hard and he doesn’t let anything disrupt him, he just plays through it.”

As for skills on the court, Riddle has everything you want to see out of a guard.

He’s able to knock down the deep ball at a high clip, can get out and run in transition effectively, and hits the cutting lanes to either make room for others or create an open look for himself.

Off the court, Riddle and his deep voice have been a calming but stern voice to make sure the Gophers stay on task and don’t lose focus.

“Scotty is very important, he’s a senior, he’s a veteran so he’s kind of the glue guy,” Lockhart said. “His voice is deep so even in practice, it carries over in practice. He just works on those things all the time. Once I got the job, I told him like, ‘Hey, you’re going to be that guy that brings us in.’ It’s huge to have one of those guys.”

That’s the case for a large majority of this Gresham roster that features six more seniors in Ulises Gutuerrez-Guzman, Amari Johnson, Owen Cummins, Marcus McKinney, Ryan Radford and Oscar Hatangimana.

Having that deep of a core with experience has made the transition easy for Lockhart in his first year as head coach.

“Having those senior guys together makes it easy for me because all of them are important and they just have their roles,” Lockhart said. “They’re leaders, so it trickles all the way down to the young guys on the bench. Having those guys is special, it’s very rare to have three leaders on the court.”

Gresham has needed all eight of those seniors to get to the 12-3 mark it’s currently at this season.

The Gophers schedule has been one filled with tough matchups, like playing in the Capitol City Classic against John Paul II out of Texas, or matching up with tough PIL squads like Jefferson and Roosevelt, or playing Lake Oswego and its storied history.

Gresham won three of those four matchups mentioned above, proving that this squad is a threat and they’ve only learned to get better.

“There’s no days off and we have to go hard in every practice and make sure everything’s good and on point to make sure we’re ready for every tough game,” Riddle said on what his squad has learned from those tough matchups.

The Mt. Hood Conference doesn’t come with many easy games either as Barlow, Central Catholic and Clackamas are all ranked inside the top 15, plus Sandy, Nelson and David Douglas would also be playoff teams if the season ended today.

Gresham lost at the buzzer to Barlow to open league play, but has won its last four games which includes wins over Central Catholic and Clackamas.

“This is what it’s going to be like if you get to the Chiles Center,” Lockhart said. “You’re going to see these hard times and I keep preaching to them it’s not going to get easier. It’s fun and it’s cool to score 85 points and things like that, which we want to do, but the deeper we get into the schedule, the harder it’s going to get.”

Up next is a 7 p.m. tip Friday at Nelson before hitting the road again at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31 at Reynolds.

Gresham is in a good spot to control its destiny toward grabbing a top eight seed and potentially hosting the first two rounds. But it’s going to take Riddle and the crew staying together to make it through the second round of Mt. Hood play.

“We just gotta make sure we all play together,” Riddle said. “Make sure we all play hard and go hard in practice every day.”

MAJOR retailers, including Aldi, Walmart, and Bed Bath & Beyond, have shut down store locations across the country as a "retail apocalypse" hits.

The term "retail apocalypse" was coined by Dennis Dick, a trader at Las Vegas-based Bright Trading LLC, to describe the decline of major stores.

Dick told Reuters: "This is a little bit of a retail apocalypse," when talking about the 25 percent fall in Walmart's quarterly profit back in May 2022.

"It was Walmart and everybody thought it was a one-off."

"Now that Target missed earnings [by] a lot more than Walmart even did, they're scared that the consumer is not as strong as everybody thinks," said Dick.

Walmart has since bounced back with a 16 percent year-over-year online sales growth and global advertising revenue has grown over 30 percent, according to Walmart's FY 2023 Q3 earnings release.

WALMART CLOSINGS

While Walmart may be up in online sales growth, multiple physical stores have closed down.

The list of store locations that have closed so far includes:

Walmart's San Mateo Boulevard SE location in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Homewood location in Chicago, Illinois, will close on March 10.

Shuttered stores had issues such as fires and poor financial performance.

ALDI STORE CLOSINGS

Aldi, known for its stores that are small in size, but full of great deals on groceries, also shut their doors in big cities like Chicago and Minneapolis.

In June 2022, an Aldi location in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, shut down.

The company's decision to close the Auburn Gresham location was "based on several factors, including repeated burglaries and declining sales," an Aldi spokesperson said.

More recently, Aldis closed its doors in the Jordan neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

On February 12, the store location shuttered because of unforeseen structural issues relating to Aldi's expansion plans.

An Aldi spokesperson said that the store is closing “due to the inability to renovate the store to accommodate our larger product range and our current lease term expiring.”

BED BATH & BEYOND CLOSINGS

Hundreds of Bed Bath & Beyond store locations have closed as the company fights to avoid bankruptcy in the United States.

Locations that have shuttered include stores in these US cities:

As some of the state's top stars collided in Gresham, Lake Oswego simply couldn't keep up with the Gophers.

The Gresham boys basketball team blasted the Lakers 95-72 on Tuesday, Dec. 13, despite Lake Oswego sophomore Winters Grady leading all scorers with a career-high 41 points on the night. With the win, Gresham improved to 3-1 on the season.

Grady's gargantuan scoring effort was canceled out by the Gophers' two-pronged attack, as senior Esyah Pippa-White and junior RJ Alexander combined for 62 points and made 14 of Gresham's 17 total 3-pointers.

"What really led us tonight was me being a leader," said Pippa-White after the win. "That's a big factor when we get scrambled up. Being a leader out there got everybody clicking and going."

In support of Pippa-White and Alexander, who finished with 35 and 27 points, respectively, seniors Scotty Riddle (13 points), Ulises Gutuerrez-Guzman (12) and Marcus McKinney (8) provided the remainder of the offense for Gresham.

The Gophers could not do much to contain the Lakers' standout sophomore at any stage of the game. In the first half, Grady had 21 of Lake Oswego's 30 points while no other Laker had more than four.

The supporting cast picked it up a bit in the second half, but it was too little, too late for the Lakers as the hot-shooting Gresham team never cooled off. Pippa-White consistently found Alexander open for 3-pointers, and the junior responded by knocking down eight of them.

"It was just, drive, kick and he's wide open," said Pippa-White. "You already know RJ — that's going in. If they left him open, it made everybody else's shots available and the lane's open. It made our jobs a lot easier."

Lake Oswego head coach Marshall Cho noted after the game that his team could not match the Gophers' intensity level.

"We expected a fight," said Cho. "(Our players) have targets on their back the minute they step in the gym. If they're not ready to compete, nights like this are going to happen. It's inevitable."

Lake Oswego senior Max Archambo finished with 12 points, including a first-quarter dunk, while classmate Owen Alles hit a pair of 3-pointers as part of his 10-point outing. Sophomore Corbin Cichy added five points, while seniors LJ Dixon and Henry Smith each knocked down a pair of late free throws for their only scoring of the night.

Meanwhile, the Gophers reached the 95-point mark despite just five players entering the scorer's sheet.

While not happy with the result of the game, Grady enjoyed sharing the court with one of the state's other top recruits in Pippa-White.

"It's really fun competing with other high-level guys," said Grady, who noted some on-court banter between the two of them during the game. "He and I chatted back and forth a bit, but I have nothing but love for him."

Pippa-White is currently ranked as the state's No. 4 recruit in the Class of 2023, per PrepHoops Oregon, while Grady sits at No. 1 in the Class of 2025.

"Winters is a great player," said Pippa-White after the game. "His senior year, he is going to be one of the best in state. I can't wait to see it. I've got love for the guy. Sharing the court with one of the best is always fun."

This year, however, is Esyah Pippa-White's time to shine — and Gresham's senior star was not alone in shining brightly on Tuesday night.

Next up for Gresham is a trip to Salem for the Capitol City Classic tournament, which is being held Dec. 16-21 at Willamette University.

The Gophers will go up against Texas' John Paul II High School in the first round of the 16-team event, with tipoff scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17. Gresham will play in the Hampton Inn pod, which also features Canby and California's Modesto Christian High School.

For more information about the Capitol City Classic, or to purchase tickets to the tournament, visit the event's website.

Batey M. Gresham Jr., cofounder of Nashville-based architect Gresham Smith, former president of the American Institute of Architects and a benefactor who established the first endowed professorship in the Auburn University school of architecture, died Aug. 6 at 88. He is remembered as a talented architect and businessman.

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel,” says Rodney Chester, Gresham Smith CEO, quoting Maya Angelou in remembering Gresham. “There are countless employees and clients who will never forget him.”

Chester, who spent his entire 25-year career with the firm, says he could talk at length about what a great architect and businessman Gresham was, but what really sums up his impact is how he made people feel.

"He's the quintessential Southern gentleman: very friendly, very accommodating," says Steve Kulinski, senior managing director of CBRE's Nashville office.

After graduating from Auburn University in 1957 with a bachelor's degree in architecture, Gresham served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a first lieutenant and captain until 1962. Partnering with fellow architect Fleming "Flem" Smith, the pair founded Gresham Smith in 1967.

In a statement, Smith says he and Gresham took an alternate path in the 1960s, when most architects were solo practitioners. Gresham retired to Auburn in 2013.

"We were soon bringing people into our organization who had skill sets and talents that we didn't have, so we could serve a wider range of clients," he says. "Batey excelled in this search."

Gresham Smith has roughly 1,100 employees in 25 U.S. offices, Chester says. Reporting more than $236 million in 2021 revenue, the firm ranked at No. 84 on ENR's 2022 Top 500 Design Firms ranking.

Former CEO James Bearden, one of the firm's first 100 employees, joined it in the midst of a recession, according to the firm's statement. "I soon learned that Batey had no intention of letting a slow economy hold him back," says Bearden. "He forged relationships on behalf of the firm that continue to benefit us to this day."

Kulinski first met Gresham in 1983, and worked for him for about 20 years, remembering a mentor who taught him how to work a room and how to foster and maintain lasting relationships.

"He would take anybody who showed any kind of inclination to succeed, he would take them under the arm and away you went," he says. "He led me through the whole business development process. He made my career."

Shortly after cofounding his firm, Gresham established a relationship with another new Nashville-based organization, Hospital Corp. of America (HCA). Since then, Gresham Smith has designed the company’s Nashville headquarters and other HCA hospitals across the nation.

Health-Care Architect

A studious person, Gresham quickly became a health-care architect, Chester says. HCA and others became repeat clients due to the trust that Gresham was able to foster.

Chester notes Gresham's work on the Nashville City Center Office Building, which held Gresham Smith's former office location; the first American Airline hub terminal at Nashville International Airport; and a large addition to the Metro Nashville General Hospital.

Gresham kept a strong relationship with his alma mater throughout his life, establishing the university’s first endowed professorship in its School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture in 1999, the Ann and Batey Gresham Endowed Professorship. He earned the Auburn Alumni Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, recognizing achievement, personal integrity and service to the university.

"Human beings comprise the foundation of the future of any enterprise," Gresham once wrote, according to the firm's statement.

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Derek Lacey, Southeast Regional Editor at the Engineering News-Record, is a seasoned journalist with a broad range of experience. A graduate of Auburn University, his work has earned awards in everything from investigative and feature reporting to multimedia and photography. Derek is based in Huntsville, Ala.