Historic performance Pleasant Hill’s Gavin Inglish broke the school record by scoring 56 points in a 78-61 win over St. Mary’s in the Christmas Classic at Cascade Christian on Dec. 23 – after The Chronicle’s early deadline due to Christmas. Pleasant Hill’s previous points record was held by Bruce Bradshaw,[Read More…]
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Cottage Grove’s Mariah Bailey wins Athlete of the Week
Milestones & Memories
The Chronicle’s Pierre Weil recaps the biggest high school sports stories in the southern Willamette Valley through 2023: Springfield girls get their revenge ■ The Springfield Millers girls basketball team took down Crescent Valley 44-29 in the Class 5A title game on March 10. The top-ranked Millers got their revenge over[Read More…]
Alumni Corner
Multiple area athletes who graduated in 2023 are competing, or preparing to compete, collegiately. Here are a few athletes who competed this year who are first-year college athletes. COTTAGE GROVE ■ Brennen Murphy, track & field Murphy, a freshman at Western Oregon University, competed for the Cottage Grove basketball and[Read More…]
Best of the Best in 2023
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK ■ January: Danaeja Romero-Ah Sam, Bailey Tovey, Max Velarde, Allison Palluck ■ February: Nate Stiffler, Claire Crawford, Gavin Inglish, Danaeja Romero-Ah Sam ■ March: Kolton Malone, Connor Hanson, JB Robinson, Kiley Campos, Hope Ukolov ■ April: Maddox Molony, Brennen Murphy, Grady Saunders, Springfield softball ■ May:[Read More…]
HSSZ Weekly Capsules: Week of Dec. 28
BASKETBALL PREVIEWS BOYS BASKETBALL #17 Cottage Grove (5-4) ■ Tipping off: The Lions return from the holiday break and travel to the Stayton HS tournament Wednesday-Friday. Cottage Grove has benefited from the emergence of 6-foot-5 freshman Trevor Cooper. #20 Creswell (5-5) ■ Tipping off: Creswell faces Class 1A Umpqua Valley[Read More…]
Thurston’s Nate Stiffler wins Athlete of the Week
Billies boys drive to title in inaugural I-5 Tournament
CRESWELL – Any team that has hopes of contending late in the season for a league or state title hopes to be battle-tested early in the season. Mission accomplished for the Pleasant Hill boys basketball team as the Billies won three close games in as many days last weekend en[Read More…]
HSSZ: Week of Dec. 21 Capsules
BOYS & GIRLS BASKETBALL PREVIEWS Pleasant Hill Billies boys: 7-1, ranked #2 ■ Tipping off: The Billies boys team, fresh off a Battle of I-5 Tournament win, head down to Medford for the Cascade Christian Tournament. Pleasant Hill opens against No. 13 Catlin Gabel on Thursday, and with a win[Read More…]
McClain bringing youth, energy to Billies athletics
PLEASANT HILL – You might say that athletics is in Kyle McClain’s blood. McClain, the athletic director at Pleasant Hill High School since the beginning of the 2022 school year, is the grandson of Dick McClain. Grandpa McClain was the founding athletic director at Linn-Benton Community College, was the head[Read More…]
