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

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…

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

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…

National Amputee Golf Tourney coming to Creswell mid-September

CRESWELL – For the first time in its 75-year history, the National Amputee and Adaptive Golf Championships are coming to Lane County. The event, put on by the National Amputee…

National Amputee Golf Tourney coming to Creswell mid-September

CRESWELL – For the first time in its 75-year history, the National Amputee and Adaptive Golf Championships are coming to Lane County. The event, put on by the National Amputee…

SSZ Briefs: Jackson joins UO radio team; youth event at WPRD

Luke Jackson is sure to be a busy man this winter. After being announced last month as the Pleasant Hill High School boys basketball coach, the Oregon Sports Network (OSN)…

SSZ Briefs: Jackson joins UO radio team; youth event at WPRD

Luke Jackson is sure to be a busy man this winter. After being announced last month as the Pleasant Hill High School boys basketball coach, the Oregon Sports Network (OSN)…

Challengers look to generate more offense

PIERRE WEIL / CHRONICLE PHOTO. Brock Johnson, a member of the Eugene Challengers and a rising junior for the Thurston Colts, gets a hit for the Challengers during the team’s 7-6 win over Mid-Valley last Wednesday. The Challengers, defending Area 4 champions, are off to an 11-2 start this season.

EUGENE – The Eugene Challengers, a AAA American Legion Baseball team, are back in action for summer ball. The Challengers, with five Thurston Colts on the roster, faced off with Albany’s Mid-Valley Southpaws last Wednesday in a doubleheader, recording a walk-off 7-6 win after trailing the entire game.

“For our guys to battle late shows a lot of character, but I hope it doesn’t come back and bite us in the butt thinking that that’s how we can play. If it was on ESPN’s analytics, we probably had a 99.9% chance to lose that game,” Challengers head coach Kenny Niles said. “But we stayed resilient and battled. Hopefully, this can kind of catapult us into a little bit of chemistry and feeling like we’re never out of a baseball game.”

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