Welcome to The Chronicle Newsletter

Hyper-local highlights delivered to your inbox each week.

The Chronicle Foundation provides a tax-deductible way for you to support your community newspaper. No matter the amount, you can make a one-time payment or set up a monthly, recurring gift.

Fast Girls Live: A high-speed approach to empowerment

SPRINGFIELD – As the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials made its eighth return to Hayward in Eugene, Oiselle, a women-centered running company focused on elevating the liberation and confidence…

Fast Girls Live: A high-speed approach to empowerment

SPRINGFIELD – As the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials made its eighth return to Hayward in Eugene, Oiselle, a women-centered running company focused on elevating the liberation and confidence…

Fun on the field: ‘RunJumpThrow’ event draws young athletes to track, fun

SPRINGFIELD – Kids aged 6 to 12 cheered for their teammates in youthful glee as they watched them dart down the field with the baton, others giggled as they experienced…

Fun on the field: ‘RunJumpThrow’ event draws young athletes to track, fun

SPRINGFIELD – Kids aged 6 to 12 cheered for their teammates in youthful glee as they watched them dart down the field with the baton, others giggled as they experienced…

PHOTOS: Walk this way: Springfield hosts Olympic Trials Racewalk

All Photos by Bob Williams / The Chronicle

PHOTOS: Walk this way: Springfield hosts Olympic Trials Racewalk

All Photos by Bob Williams / The Chronicle

Drifters Data Center: Midseason Report

WEST COAST LEAGUE FIRST-HALF STANDINGS South DivisionTeam W L PCT GB STREAK LAST 10Corvallis Knights 19 5 .792 – 1W 6-4Portland Pickles 17 8 .680 2.5 2W 8-2Bend Elks 13…

Drifters Data Center: Midseason Report

WEST COAST LEAGUE FIRST-HALF STANDINGS South DivisionTeam W L PCT GB STREAK LAST 10Corvallis Knights 19 5 .792 – 1W 6-4Portland Pickles 17 8 .680 2.5 2W 8-2Bend Elks 13…

Embree, Drifters seeing improvement on field, in the stands at mid-season

PIERRE WEIL / CHRONICLE PHOTO. Drifters pitcher Tyler Biddinger (2) makes a throw to 1st base after a Corvallis bunt during the Drifters 5-1 loss last week.

SPRINGFIELD – Anytime a program has a coaching change, there’s bound to be an adjustment period. That period gets magnified when the coaching change happens a week into the season – the way it did for the Springfield Drifters this summer.

Alan Embree took over the team after Tommy Richards, the coach for the first two seasons of Drifters baseball, left to take an assistant coaching job at his alma mater Washington State.

Luckily for the Drifters, Embree has an extensive career in baseball, one that includes a West Coast League title in 2015 at the helm of the Bend Elks. After going 2-7 in the first few games under Embree, the tides look to be turning as the Drifters won five straight games, including two over the seven-time defending West Coast League (WCL) champion Corvallis Knights.

“It’s been positive, the team’s come together really well as a group. I have expectations that they’re probably not used to from other places, and it’s about us getting on the same page as far as those expectations go,” Embree said of the team’s adjustment.

Lets keep in touch…

Interested in getting interviewed? Have an insight or perspective that needs to be shared with the community? Click The Chronicle logo below to fill out an entry form.