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Mountain Valley tournament: CHS boys, girls make playoffs

SPRINGFIELD – The top teams in basketball’s Class 3A Mountain Valley Conference (MVC) gathered last Saturday for the league tournament to decide playoff teams and seedings. The Creswell Bulldogs were…

Mountain Valley tournament: CHS boys, girls make playoffs

Greener pastures? Millers, Colts will install turf football fields for 2024-25

The Springfield Board of Education approved money to convert the football fields at Springfield and Thurston high schools to artificial turf at its Feb. 12 meeting. Both schools requested the…

Greener pastures? Millers, Colts will install turf football fields for 2024-25

The Springfield Board of Education approved money to convert the football fields at Springfield and Thurston high schools to artificial turf at its Feb. 12 meeting. Both schools requested the…

Thurston coach: ‘They don’t give up, and they don’t give in …’

SPRINGFIELD – Losing close games is never fun. Losing close games where you had a fourth-quarter lead is less so. Yet, for the Thurston Colts boys basketball team, having a…

Thurston coach: ‘They don’t give up, and they don’t give in …’

SPRINGFIELD – Losing close games is never fun. Losing close games where you had a fourth-quarter lead is less so. Yet, for the Thurston Colts boys basketball team, having a…

HSSZ Capsules: Week of Feb. 22

This week’s High School Sports Zone capsules contain: The Main Event, boys and girls basketball previews, a conference call, results/schedules, and recaps from last week’s basketball, swimming, and wrestling competitions.…

HSSZ Capsules: Week of Feb. 22

Thurston girls pin down district title

By Pierre Weil / [email protected]

KALLIE HANSEL-TENNES/ THE CHRONICLE. Thurston’s Kristal Zamora (red) tries to pin Bend’s Jessie Mclver during the 140-pound finals at the 6A/5A Special District 3 Championships at North Eugene last week. Zamora was one of two Thurston individual winners as the Colt girls grabbed their fifth-straight district team title.

EUGENE – The top-ranked Thurston Colts girls wrestling team went into the Class 6A/5A Special District 3 Championships at North Eugene High School last Saturday as the clear favorites. Almost 12 grueling hours later, the Colts proved why they’re the No. 1 team, winning their fifth consecutive district title by 58 points over No. 3 Redmond.

“We competed really well; our girls showed up today. I mean, of course, we would have liked to have won every finals match, but this is a tough regional and our job is to get as many qualifiers as we can,” Thurston coach Mike Simons said. “We got 11 through, and we’ve never had more than seven. But now we have to get all those 11 to win matches at state.”

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