A Cottage Grove player is fouled as he drives to the basket late in the fourth quarter against Creswell. RON HARTMAN/CHRONICLE PHOTO CRESWELL – Playing against a young and outmanned Taft team, Creswell snapped out of its two-game funk, getting back on the winning track…

Cottage Grove’s Gracie Arnold scores late for the Lions as Creswell’s rally fell short on Thursday night. RON HARTMAN/CHRONICLE PHOTO CRESWELL – The sky isn’t falling on the Creswell girls basketball team, but after a 4-6 start the Bulldogs couldn’t feel much more frustrated.  Not…

Now that Christmas break has come and gone, the basketball teams at Creswell High School look to begin the new year on the right foot.  For the boys, they look to continue their undefeated season. The No. 3-ranked Bulldogs (8-0) were facing a busy week,…

CRESWELL – Saturday’s championship game of the inaugural Bulldog Invitational presented the Creswell girls with a stage unlike anything they’d seen before.  “For almost all of our girls, that was the biggest game they had ever played in,” Bulldogs coach Tyler Hollingsworth said of his team’s…

CRESWELL – During their first six games, all victories, the Creswell coaches kept cautioning the players that pretty soon they were going to have to fight their way out of a big hole. That time arrived Saturday night, in the championship game of the inaugural…

Maleata Polamalu of Douglas drives to the basket against Creswell’s Emma Maness (15) and Kendyl Whitson (3) during Thursday’s season opener. RON HARTMAN/CHRONICLE PHOTO CRESWELL – Despite their 0-2 record, the Creswell girls have put together two good halves of basketball. Coach Tyler Hollingsworth said…

CRESWELL – Defense. Teamwork. Rebounding.  Those are becoming the calling cards for Creswell, and two games into a new basketball season it’s a formula that’s working.  Point guard Chase Green, who nailed 4-of-5 3-pointers, scoring 14 points with 2 steals and no turnovers in a…

Whitson CRESWELL – Tyler Hollingsworth says he thinks his Creswell girls basketball team compares quite favorably with the team he took to state in 2017-18, his first season as head coach at the school.  “If we keep improving, we can certainly be as good as…

Photo: Scorebook Live So simple to describe. So lethal in its execution. That was Thurston’s game plan Friday night for its Class 5A state semifinal matchup with Wilsonville at McNary High School in Keizer. The Colts blitzed on just about every down, betting that their…