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SPRINGFIELD – Three incoming Drifters dazzled on the mound last Thursday in Hayesville, with a pitchers duel between future teammates Griffin Scott and Jack Klee in Game One and a strong outing by Lucas Geren in Game Two of a doubleheader between the Chemeketa Storm…

■ THURSTON had a 2-1 week against Eagle Point. Tuesday’s game was a 3-1 defeat to give the Colts four consecutive losses. Eagles senior Braden Nugent threw a complete game with eight strikeouts. The Colts won Saturday’s doubleheader by scores of 8-3 and 16-7. Parker…

THURSTON (10-8, 5-5, #11) ■ Leading off: Saturday, Thurston welcomes No. 1 Crater (14-2, 6-1) for a doubleheader to finish a three-game series. Last season, the Colts swept the Comets, giving them three of the four league losses they had all of last season. Tuesday,…

■ THURSTON was swept by Eagle Point last week, by scores of 13-3, 7-4, and 17-12. The Eagles scored nine in the third inning of game one, then had multiple innings of 3+ runs in each of the next two games. Syren Ferguson was 5-for-9,…

THURSTON (0-18, 0-9, #27) ■ Leading off: Thurston has three league matchups this week. Saturday, it welcomes No. 2 Crater (10-4, 5-1) for a doubleheader to finish a three-game series. Last season, the Colts took two out of three from the Comets, with two games…

RECAPS ■ THURSTON competed at the Medford Rotary Relays this weekend. Addison Nelson and Brooklyn Anderson both broke the long jump meet record, with Nelson having the better mark. Nelson also broke the meet record in the triple jump and won that event. The Colts…

PLEASANT HILL – Most of the moments immediately following a tragic car accident remain unclear for Ryan Thomas, but her mom recalled one of the initial worries. “The first thing she asked was, ‘Am I going to be able to run again?’,” Kristi Bryant recalled…

CRESWELL – After an 18-2 run-rule victory in Game One of its softball doubleheader against rival Creswell, Pleasant Hill was looking to continue its offensive dominance. In the top of the second inning of Game Two, Billies freshman Zeta Holmes crushed a ball to dead…

SPRINGFIELD – Drifters pitchers, past and present, excelled over the weekend, with several dominant, low-contact performances.Hunter Dryden (a 2022, ’23) fanned five over four hitless innings for the Eugene Emeralds, and future Drifters Griffin Scott and Lucas Geren each had scoreless outings for Lane Community…