Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
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Boys meet experienced Eagles
By KENNY HIX
For IVN
The Illinois Valley boys
soccer team went to Eagle
Point on Saturday, Oct. 17 to
face a very good and extremely
experienced Eagle squad.
It was a reversal of mis-
fortune for coach Gary Enoch
and his team. They normally
play their best soccer in the
first half and then run out of
gas in the second. Not today.
The Eagles systemati-
cally ran a productive offen-
sive attack and game plan.
Their aggressive play was
effective as they scored 3
goals in the first half.
The Cougars are well
coached, quite talented and
competitive. However, ac-
cording to Enoch, to really
play their best brand of soc-
cer, the Cougars need to do
four things:
Talk and communicate;
don’t stab at the ball and stay
behind the ball; on defense
clear the ball wide; lastly, let
the ball do the work for you.
You don’t have to take the
ball away every time. Be pa-
tient, sooner or later your
opponents will make a bad
pass. Then you capitalize on
their mistake.
The first three “No-
No’s” on Enoch’s list led to
the first three goals scored by
the Eagles. Their goals
against I.V. came because:
Everybody thought
somebody had it, but nobody
really did; don’t clear the ball
wide and get it stolen for a
straight-on-shot; and three
defenders went fishing and
found out stabbing is not the
right bait for success.
End result -- an Eagle
Point 3-0 lead.
“It is really the small
things that matter, as they are
very important to play the
game the right way,” said
Enoch. His players got the
message at half time and
came out mentally focused,
stepped up their determina-
tion as a team and played
their best second half of the
season. The I.V. defense was
impeccable; and on offense,
they were even on shot op-
portunities.
“Mental focus will pre-
vent mistakes and make us
compete and play good soc-
cer, even when we may be
physically out matched and
few in numbers,” said Enoch.
“Focus will also give us our
best chance to win.”
David Perata played well
in goal with 17 saves, 14 in
the first half, and saved all
three Eagle shots on goal in
the second, one of which was
a spectacular.
This occurred when con-
fusion by a fellow Cougar on
the off-side had him playing
too far back and all the other
Cougars including Perata,
thought everybody had their
mark. Not so, an Eagle player
snuck through and had a
wide-open shot from 3 feet
away. Perata used his foot not
to block the shot, then stayed
focused and recover his own
deflection.
“Jesse Meichtry and his
brother Jason played well in
the first half,” added Enoch.
The coach had to pull a
couple of key players at the
tail end of the first half to
hold them accountable for
their play.
“Those captain bands
mean something. They need
to be leaders,” observed
Enoch. “Jordan Crouse
played extremely well in the
second half. I was proud of
him.”
Pirates pillage Cougar squad
By KENNY HIX
For IVN
From the start of the
game at the Phoenix Home-
coming Friday night, Oct. 16,
the Pirates imposed their grid-
iron will on the few, the
proud, and the brave Cougars.
The Phoenix offensive
line opened up the middle and
also got to the edge to move
the ball running and provided
protection for their quarter-
back to connect with his re-
ceivers consistently.
The Pirate defense held
the Cougars to one of the
lowest offensive output of the
year, allowing only 137 total
yards. Phoenix took advan-
tage of I.V. and lit up the
scoreboard in the first half:
Pirates 55, Cougars 0.
The Cougs played ex-
tremely well in the second
half. In fact they outscored
the Pirates 14 to 6. T.J. Parker
scored on a 17-yard run, and
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Mitch Van Tassel ran in the
2-point conversion.
Brandon Foraker
stripped and stole the bounty
from the Pirates and ran until
he hit pay dirt 60 yards later.
Final score 61-14 Phoenix.
“Phoenix must have
watched film for the last two
years, because we ran plays
from last year’s play book
and they were well prepared,”
said coach Ray Yarbrough.
Too well prepared, according
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He said, “The whole
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AG forms civil rights unit
The appointment of Port-
land lawyer Diane Schwartz
Sykes to lead the new Oregon
Dept. of Justice Civil Rights
program Early was an-
nounced in October by Ore-
gon Attorney General John
Kroger.
“I’m committed to pro-
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civil liberties of all Orego-
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courtroom attorney and a
great addition to our team.”
“I’ve dedicated my ca-
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As the first managing
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Sykes also worked for
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In his race for attorney
general, Kroger announced
that he intended to restore the
DOJ Civil Rights program
that had been eliminated dur-
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1980s. Despite the current
economic downturn, Kroger
gained legislative support for
funds to restore the program.
Kroger credits then-Sen.
Margaret Carter (D-Portland)
with securing money for the
program.
Sykes graduated in 1992
from the University of Califor-
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Student Honor Society and the
Psi Chi Honor Society. Sykes
obtained her law degree from
the University of Oregon at
Eugene in 1997.
She is treasurer of the
Oregon State Bar Diversity
Section Executive Commit-
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The Cougars (above) demonstrated grit and determination against the Pirates on Thursday,
Oct. 15. The girls regroup (bottom photo) prior to going into overtime against the Phoenix
Pirates. (Photo by Michelle Binker, Illinois Valley News )
Cougars show pride on the court
By KENNY HIX
For IVN
The Lady Cougar volley-
ball team lost to fourth-
ranked Henley in Klamath
Falls on Tuesday, Oct. 13, as
the Hornets and Autumn We-
don’s kill shots once again
proved too much.
Illinois Valley fell 25-9,
25-3 and 25-2.
The Cougars hosted
Phoenix at home in Ken
Mann Memorial Gym on
Thursday, Oct. 15. The
Cougs played great in the
early minutes of the first set
to force a tie at 5. The rest of
the set the Pirates scored at a
2-to-1 pace, eventually win-
ning 25-16.
In the second set the Pi-
rates took an early lead and
kept their distance while trad-
ing points with Illinois Valley
to win, 25-12.
The third set was the
most exciting game of the
year for coach Cathy Pope
and her Cougars. Everything
the Cougs did went right, and
they took an early 3-0 lead.
I.V. battled and matched
Phoenix with timely and
lengthy rallies for points, until
the Pirates tied at 12.
Both teams again traded
points until the Pirates took
the lead 18-17. With the score
22-18 for Phoenix, Cougar
Kara Tyler had four consecu-
tive service points when she
and her teammates played
team ball to tie at 22-22.
Hailee Parker was instru-
mental during this stretch.
Trading points again, the
score was tied at 23. The Pi-
rates attempted a kill shot
only to have Libero Alex
Miller make a spectacular
dig, and her teammates re-
warded her effort with a point
to tie at 24.
The Cougars next serve
went out of bounds, making
the score 25-24 and forced
the Pirates to win by 2. The
Pirate rally was cut short
when Bre Smith went high at
the net and blocked the Pirate
kill shot to the floor. Cougar
point and another tie: 25-25.
The Cougar fans went
ballistic, but I.V. and Smith’s
attitude was “been there, done
that.” They knew they had
ance this writer has seen all
year. Miller had 29 digs;
Heidi Unger and Kayla John-
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