Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
COTTAGE GROVE – The Cottage Grove boys basketball team finished the regular season last week with a 56-52 overtime loss at home against No. 11 Marist Catholic on senior night. Despite the loss, Lions coach Seth Hutchison said it showed his team something special: as…
Boys Basketball Recaps Pleasant Hill: Pleasant Hill had an important win in a league playoff game Saturday. The Billies beat No. 19 Sisters 50-37 to clinch the second seed in the Mountain Valley Conference. Landen Melvin led the team in scoring with 18 points, and…
Wrestling – the main event All area schools, boys and girls, head to the Wrestling State Championships this weekend in Portland. Classes 1A-4A compete on Thursday and Friday; Classes 5A-6A compete Friday and Saturday. Boys leaders for area schools are: Cottage Grove’s Nathan Abrams (285)…
Cheer Thurston and Central tied in the Class 6A/5A Coed Game Day routines with final scores of 124.50, meaning they became co-champions. In doing so, Thurston added their 12th state championship to the program’s storied history. Pictured above, Front row, from left: Makena Fredrickson, Olivia…
PLEASANT HILL – One year ago the Pleasant Hill Billies girls basketball team was finishing a 6-11 regular season in which it went 2-6 in league play and missed the playoffs. Fast-forward 12 months and the Billies finished this regular season at 21-1 and 12-0…
CRESWELL – The Creswell Bulldog boys basketball team clinched the Mountain Valley Conference championship last week with a 60-41 home win over Sisters. The win also avenged Creswell’s sole conference loss, the cherry on top of an incredible regular season. It was the first conference…
Boys Basketball Cottage Grove – The Main Event10-11, ranked #20In the bonus: Cottage Grove has a huge matchup tomorrow against No. 13 Marist Catholic. The Lions can’t automatically qualify for the playoffs, but a win over Marist could be enough to push Cottage Grove into…
Pleasant Hill’s Gavin Inglish, a sophomore, has been one of the top scorers in all of Class 3A. Inglish has averaged 21.2 points-per-game to lead the Billies to a 19-5 record and #9 ranking in the state. Some of Inglish’s top performances on the season…
SPRINGFIELD – Where does one begin when trying to rank Gary Bowden’s accomplishments as a wrestling coach? Tough question. But his favorite team? That’s a pretty easy call. It’s the 2002 Thurston state championship team, which was honored Saturday night during the 7th annual Thurston…