Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
SPRINGFIELD – Age is a relative term in the Springfield Drifters’ dugout.As Blake Stavros spends his fourth and final summer as one of the elder statesmen with the team, he has earned a new nickname. “I got a couple guys who keep calling me ‘Unc’…
DRIFTERS RECAPS FRIDAY ■ SPRINGFIELD – The Drifters hotly pursued a Portland Pickles lead for seven innings of the series opener in Springfield, but even a second life from a dropped pop fly in foul territory that would’ve ended the game wasn’t enough to flip…
CRESWELL – Brandi Wittenborn, a longtime Bulldogs soccer coach, was named athletic director for Creswell Middle School. Wittenborn brings 33 years of coaching middle school and high school athletics and three years of experience as athletic director at Creswell High School from 2009-12. School officials…
SPRINGFIELD – Peyton Tyner won’t have to put as many miles on his car this summer. The outfielder from Lane Community College is spending his second year in the West Coast League with the Springfield Drifters. The Eugene native and Marist High School graduate spent…
TUESDAY, JUNE 9 WENATCHEE, Wash. – After the first homestand of the year, the Springfield Drifters started their six-game road trip on a high note, defeating the Wenatchee Apple Sox 11-6 thanks to multi-hit performances from five different Drifters and shutdown pitching from the back…
Spring chinook, also known as “springers,” are built for the long haul. Unlike their genetically identical counterparts, the fall chinook, which enter the river beginning in September and are already sexually mature, spring chinook start their freshwater migration in early March while still immature. They…
EUGENE – After a rainy start Saturday afternoon, the sun finally peeked through the dark clouds at PK Park during the Class 5A state championship baseball game. By that time, though, it was the third inning, and things couldn’t have been more dreary in the…
CRESWELL – Zero. In the 25 years before Kevin Feist took over the Creswell baseball program, the Bulldogs had zero 15-plus win seasons. In Feist’s three years at the helm, the Bulldogs have already had two such seasons, and this year’s team won 15 in…
SPRINGFIELD – The Drifters entered last weekend’s series against the Bellingham Bells with a 1-5 record. While they’d only won a single game up to that point, every loss was a competitive battle. After the dust settled on Sunday, the Drifters finished the series 1-2,…