Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
Hyper Local News I Springfield, Cottage Grove, Creswell, & Pleasant Hill
SPRINGFIELD – “We’d like one Big Culp to go, please.” The fans at Hamlin Field – hoping to avoid extra innings as the night air’s chilly winds picked up – got their wish as Brady Culp laced a two-out walkoff hit to center field, giving…
SPRINGFIELD – The Springfield Millers football team will have a new head coach next season. Former Marist Catholic coach Frank Geske will take over the program after Miles Haley and the school had a “parting of ways.” “I’m pumped, Frank’s a great coach and they’re…
EUGENE – The Thurston Colts weren’t the only program to win the state title in incredibly dramatic fashion, there were multiple incredible finishes last weekend. The Sheldon Irish softball team might have had the most dramatic win, claiming the Class 6A softball title on Saturday…
All photos by Bob Williams / The Chronicle
EUGENE – Freshman Grady Saunders had an improbable game-winning play on Saturday at the University of Oregon’s PK Park, scoring on an inside-the-park home run in the bottom of the 8th inning to give the Thurston Colts Baseball team its first state title since 2009.…
SPRINGFIELD – Braxton Barnes and Hunter Dryden are both sophomore right-handed pitchers for the Springfield Drifters, but their roles with the team are vastly different. The Drifters begin their second season Friday night in the West Coast League, a collegiate wood-bat league. Springfield plays host…
EUGENE – The Cottage Grove boys and Thurston girls both took home third-place finishes in the team competition at the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) Track and Field State Championships last weekend. For the Cottage Grove boys, the podium finish was the team’s first in…
EUGENE – While the big-classification schools competed at the OSAA State Track and Field Championships on Friday and Saturday, the three smaller classifications competed on Thursday and Friday. The Pleasant Hill Billies had two individuals earn second-place medals – junior Dakota Hyland in the girls…
Pleasant Hill Softball: Pleasant Hill’s season came to a close last week in the quarterfinals of the Class 3A state playoffs. Last Wednesday, the Billies took down No. 11 Glide 6-4 in the first round. Pleasant Hill trailed 4-1 entering the bottom of the 5th…