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Below are all the area athletes who earned All-State honors for their play this fall. FOOTBALL Class 5AтЦа 1st Team – RB Connor Dye, Sr., Springfield. WR Walker Bonar, Sr.,…
Below are all the area athletes who earned All-State honors for their play this fall. FOOTBALL Class 5AтЦа 1st Team – RB Connor Dye, Sr., Springfield. WR Walker Bonar, Sr.,…
SPRINGFIELD – Friday’s game between the No. 3 Springfield Millers girls basketball team and top-ranked Crater was everything it was expected to be – physical, fast, and often-times frantic as…
SPRINGFIELD – Friday’s game between the No. 3 Springfield Millers girls basketball team and top-ranked Crater was everything it was expected to be – physical, fast, and often-times frantic as…
CRESWELL – The Bulldogs girls basketball team continues to have Harrisburg’s number this season as they earned their second 20 point win over the Eagles with a final score of…
CRESWELL – The Bulldogs girls basketball team continues to have Harrisburg’s number this season as they earned their second 20 point win over the Eagles with a final score of…
THE MAIN EVENT – GIRLS WRESTLING тЦа Game facts: Thurston heads to North Eugene this weekend for the 6A/5A Special District 3 championships. The Colts, ranked No. 1 in Class…
THE MAIN EVENT – GIRLS WRESTLING тЦа Game facts: Thurston heads to North Eugene this weekend for the 6A/5A Special District 3 championships. The Colts, ranked No. 1 in Class…
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Growing pains: Springfield coach focusing on culture; confident wins will come
KALLIE HANSEL-TENNES/ CHRONICLE PHOTO. First-year Springfield coach TC Combs fires his team up during a timeout in the team’s loss to Thurston last week. Combs is trying to change the culture at a program that’s gone a combined 13-50 over the last three seasons, and says getting the kids to believe in themselves is the first step.
SPRINGFIELD – The Springfield Millers boys basketball team hasn’t had it easy in recent history, and their new head coach is trying to turn that around. Springfield was 13-50 over the course of the past three seasons, and hasn’t had a winning season since the 2019-20 campaign.
TC Combs, Churchill alum and previously a Churchill assistant, is trying to change the culture in his first year at the helm.
“They didn’t have a great record last year, and so we’re just trying to build off of that. But it is also a new team, new coach, new identity, and we just need to establish a character,” Combs said after a recent 60-35 loss to Thurston. “We just have to change our mentality on how we approach this game. What I do like is that they’re buying in, and they’re competing. We don’t need the greatest athletes in the world, we just need people that compete and give maximum effort.”
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