Category Sports Zone

Senior sendoff: A playoff victory?
EUGENE – The Creswell Bulldogs softball team took a break from Mountain Valley Conference (MVC) play last week with three games. The Bulldogs capped off the week with a hard-fought 3-2 victory at Class 4A No. 15 Marist Catholic – a win in which Creswell’s…

Sports Notebook: Martial arts event features good times, power-punching and more
The 5th annual Oregon State Hanmadang Martial Art Tournament & Expo makes its return to the Bob Keefer Center in Springfield this weekend. The event, organized by MooDo Taekwondo owner Tim Greathouse, will have a martial arts expo on Friday night, and a tournament on…
HSSZ Capsules: Week of May 2
THE MAIN EVENT: TRACK & FIELD WALLY CIOCHETTI INVITATIONAL■ Meet facts: Cottage Grove and Creswell at Wally Ciochetti Invitational (CGHS). … Friday, May 3 at 2 p.m. … Admission: $5 adults, $3 students.■ What2Know: Cottage Grove and Creswell will be two of 15 teams competing…
Eugene Sports Zone: May 1 Capsules
WEEKLY PREVIEWS BASEBALL #21 CHURCHILL (6-13)■ Leading off: Churchill has a week off from Midwestern League games and faces Class 6A No. 17 Willamette in its final non-league game of the season. The Lancers attempt to stop a six-game skid, and will need a stellar game…
Thurston baseball wins Team of the Month
Springfield’s Owen Fuller wins Athlete of the Week

Millers coach Embree brings series of successes to Springfield
SPRINGFIELD – If there’s one thing Alan Embree knows how to do, it’s win. Embree, in his first season at the helm of the Springfield Millers baseball team, has won at pretty much every level there is. The former left-handed pitcher won a state title…

Creswell, Pleasant Hill boys volleyball ‘emerging’ as competitive, good time
PLEASANT HILL – Anna Baltrusch, one of the most-decorated high school girls volleyball coaches in Oregon during her tenure at Creswell High School, said she was often beset with one question from boys. “Boys forever would ask me, ‘Why can’t we play volleyball? Why isn’t…
