SPRINGFIELD – There was lots of talk coming into the season that the annual crosstown rivalry football game between the Springfield Millers and Thurston Colts was going to go differently than the recent history of the game. Someone forgot to tell the Colts, who waltzed into Springfield’s Silke Field and[Read More…]
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Millers-Colts rivalry game hinges on line play Friday
SPRINGFIELD – This Friday, the Springfield Millers (4-0) host the Thurston Colts (2-2) in the annual football rivalry game. With stars abound on both sides, it’d be easy to get caught up in the action of the quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers – the usual suspects. But if you[Read More…]
Golf tourney to support disabled children
SPRINGFIELD – No child should feel excluded – especially when it comes to a physical or mental disability. That’s why Springfield’s Tom Chesnut partnered with The Arc Lane County to host a charity golf event centered around raising money and support for children with disabilities. The event, which will take[Read More…]
Lions halt winless streak
COTTAGE GROVE – Cottage Grove High School was on dreadful streak, having lost 29 of its last 30 football games – including the last 17 in a row. New Lions head coach Steve Turner sensed that his team was getting better, that a breakthrough might be on the horizon. [Read More…]
Colts’ overhauled roster making strides
SPRINGFIELD – It hasn’t been an easy start to the season for the Thurston Colts girls soccer team. A tough non-league schedule was made more difficult as the Colts were trying to figure out how to replace six seniors from last year’s quarterfinal team — including four all-state athletes. Despite[Read More…]
HSSZ Football Capsules: Week of Sept. 28
FOOTBALL PREVIEWS Cottage Grove Lions (1-3) at Cascade Cougars (3-1)Game facts: Friday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m., 10226 Marion Rd. SE, Turner.What2Know: The Lions got their first win in two years last week under new head coach Steve Turner. Now, Cottage Grove travels to No. 13 Cascade for the first[Read More…]
HSSZ Capsules: Week of Sept. 28
Volleyball Previews + Recaps PREVIEWS Cottage Grove Lions: 3-6, ranked #16■ Setting up: Cottage Grove continues league play with a home game against No. 3 Marist before heading to the Creswell tournament on Saturday. A young Lions squad with only one senior has been led offensively all season by sophomore[Read More…]
Pleasant Hill’s Cheyenne Green wins Athlete of the Week
Below: Images of Green from matches against Creswell and Sisters this season.
Millers stay undefeated, blank South Eugene
SPRINGFIELD – The Springfield Millers football team used a heavy dose of running and stout defense to blank South Eugene on Friday night. Springfield won the game 35-0 behind a 21-point second quarter and moved to 4-0 for the first time since 2015. “It’s a work in progress. We’re still[Read More…]
Burleson: ‘Biggest story ever told in CG’
EUGENE – Few people get a chance to live out their dream. Dyrol Burleson is one of those lucky people. Because the former Cottage Grove High School star was so dedicated and so determined and so doggone good at distance running, he was inducted Thursday night into the Collegiate Athlete[Read More…]
