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COTTAGE GROVE – The Cottage Grove Lions might have felt like it just was not going to be their day this past Friday. They had lost 7-0 on Tuesday, and now had only two baserunners through five innings of Game One of a Friday doubleheader.…

THURSTON – Eric Orton has been promoted to head boys basketball coach at his alma mater. Orton, who starred for Thurston as a senior in 2002 when the Colts won the Midwestern League title and reached the state quarterfinals, has spent the past two seasons…

SPRINGFIELD – Lucas Geren, who joined the Drifters at the end of last season and will return this summer, pitched another gem for Lane Community College, throwing 6.2 scoreless innings for the Titans in their final series of the regular season against Umpqua Community College.…

CRESWELL (19-4, 12-0, #4) ■ Leading off: The Bulldogs bring their 14-game winning streak into the final week of the regular season. The win streak is the longest for the Bulldogs since at least 1998, and is more wins by itself than the program has…

■ CRESWELL went 3-0 this week to extend its winning streak to 14 games. On Tuesday, the Bulldogs defeated rival Pleasant Hill for the third time this year, 5-3. The game was tied 3-3 heading into the 7th inning when Kayden Roberts hit a two-run…

PLEASANT HILL (11-7, 8-4, #15 ■ Leading off: The Billies have a league home doubleheader against No. 39 Sisters (1-15, 0-11) on Friday, to finish the league season. Earlier this season, the Billies defeated the Outlaws 25-6. The Billies already have clinched a place in…

■ THURSTON swept Springfield last week, getting its first three wins of the season. Tuesday’s game finished 19-1 in four innings, with the Colts scoring 13 in the top of the first inning. Colts catcher Daphnie Heckel was 3-for-3, with a HR, 3 RBI and…

RECAPS ■ THURSTON competed at the 76th Grants Pass Rotary Invitational. Kelsie Raven won the women’s 100m hurdles with a time of 14.81 seconds and the triple jump with a distance of 11.08m (36’ 4.25”). ■ SPRINGFIELD competed at the 41st Dean Nice Invitational meet…

THURSTON – The Crater Comets may have been the No. 1 team in the state before their Saturday doubleheader against the Thurston Colts, but the Colts had won 15 games in a row over the visitors from Central Point. In the bottom of the seventh…