High School Sports Zone September 4

High School Sports Zone
The Chronicle

2nd annual North Star Volleyball Jamboree;
season openers

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Teams have a ball at Pleasant Hill
PLEASANT HILL – “Why do you play volleyball?” asked Lauren Anderson, director of the Warsaw Sports Business Center at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. She was speaking… Read more.
Teams have a ball at Pleasant Hill
PLEASANT HILL – “Why do you play volleyball?” asked Lauren Anderson, director of the Warsaw Sports Business Center at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. She was speaking… Read more.
New coaches debut at jamboree
PLEASANT HILL – Building a successful volleyball program is never easy. You have to install a system and build a culture. Every great program has to establish a sense of… Read more.
New coaches debut at jamboree
PLEASANT HILL – Building a successful volleyball program is never easy. You have to install a system and build a culture. Every great program has to establish a sense of… Read more.
Showcase draws 40+ teams to Springfield
SPRINGFIELD – More than 40 high school soccer teams played at the 2025 Les Schwab Soccer Showcase last week, a two-day jamboree-style tournament on Aug. 28-29. The girls’ teams played… Read more.
Showcase draws 40+ teams to Springfield
SPRINGFIELD – More than 40 high school soccer teams played at the 2025 Les Schwab Soccer Showcase last week, a two-day jamboree-style tournament on Aug. 28-29. The girls’ teams played… Read more.
Fall sports results & schedules; Season openers and jamboree week
RESULTS/SCHEDULES – Football Football Friday, Aug. 29 Mountain View 42,Springfield 13; Thurston 48, Caldera 17; Friday, Sept. 5 North Marion at Cottage Grove; Gervais at Creswell; Sutherlin at Pleasant Hill; Thurston at Silverton *All games at 7 p.m. Boys soccer Saturday, Aug. 30 North… Read more.
Fall sports results & schedules; Season openers and jamboree week
RESULTS/SCHEDULES – Football Football Friday, Aug. 29 Mountain View 42,Springfield 13; Thurston 48, Caldera 17; Friday, Sept. 5 North Marion at Cottage Grove; Gervais at Creswell; Sutherlin at Pleasant Hill; Thurston at Silverton *All games at 7 p.m. Boys soccer Saturday, Aug. 30 North… Read more.


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New coaches pouring foundations

With hard hats and building plans in hand, new football coaches Kenny Koberstein of Pleasant Hill and Chase Beach of Creswell are looking to implement their visions for Class 3A championship programs.
BOB WILLIAMS / THE CHRONICLE

Class 3A Special District 3 might as well be completely renovated for the 2025 high school football season.

With Cottage Grove moving back to Class 4A after its undefeated regular season last year in Class 3A, Harrisburg moving down to Class 2A after 10 years in 3A, and four of the six schools seeing coaching changes, a wrecking ball has virtually turned the league upside-down. 

However, in the debris, new coaches Kenny Koberstein of Pleasant Hill and Chase Beach of Creswell – the two schools with the most intense rivalry within the league with only 8 miles separating them – have drafted new blueprints, poured the cultural cement, and laid down a new foundation.

“I give the energy, but most of all, I care about the lessons and the stories,” Koberstein said last week during a preseason practice in Pleasant Hill. “I want to give them the lessons that this game gave to me. I want them to know that this game has given me a great deal in my life, enriching it and teaching me things I would not have learned otherwise. This game will teach you a lot about how to live your life with character and with honor.”

“What Creswell can expect from me is authenticity,” Beach said while watching over his team’s practice last week at Creswell. “I’m 100% committed to my players and 100% committed to leaving it better than I found it. I tend to give everything when I coach. I was born to coach and be a part of these young men’s lives. It exceeds the wins and losses. Don’t get it twisted. I’m ready to win, too, but I will always 100% be myself first.”

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