Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014
Page A-3
Sports
Cougars making due with injuries
give St. Mary’s a physical
at half-time or a time-out.
By
game.
Head
Coach
Jeff
Win-
Jenna Larkin
Even with a rough
ters is confident that with a
IVN Contributing Writer
Last week the IVHS
Cougars had a little break
from traveling for games.
The Cougars hosted two
home games on Tuesday,
Jan. 21 and Friday, Jan. 24.
On Tuesday IVHS
went up against Rogue River
with the Lady Cougars over
powering the Chieftains,
taking the game, 46-28.
The guys had a harder
time going up against Rogue
River. The Cougars’ defense
was not as strong as it has
been in the past, with a 71-
47 loss.
A lot of this is attribut-
ed to the team only current-
ly having six players. With
not enough subs to put in
when a player on the court
get worn out, those players
have to push themselves
to the extreme, sometimes
playing the whole game
with the only breaks coming
few more players returning
this coming week, the guys
will have an easier time
keeping up the opposing
teams.
The leading scorer for
the guys was Zach Welch
with 21 points, while Kade
Doyle scored 14 for the
Cougars and six rebounds.
Lander Nordal had 10 re-
bounds and five assists.
The Lady Cougars
struggled during their game
against St. Mary’s Crusad-
ers on Friday. The Crusad-
ers were a tough opponent
for IVHS, taking the game
55-37.
The Lady Cougars cur-
rently are ranked 5-11 over-
all and 1-2 in the league.
With the “Fab Six”
still holding the guys team
together, they did well go-
ing up against the Crusad-
ers. Even with a loss of 51-
45, the Cougars were able to
start to the season and the
season only getting tougher,
some of the guys were able
to shine during the game.
Welch, who averages 14
points per game but was able
to get 15 on the board with
10 rebounds and five assists;
making this Welch’s best
rebounding game this sea-
son. Senior Lander Nordal
had a career high, scoring
16 points, making him the
leading scorer for the game.
Michael Weaver put five
points on the board for the
Cougars, while Bryce Gar-
denhire, Tannan Thompson
and Elijah Chavez scored
two and Doyle put three
points on the board.
Currently the guys are
ranked 3-12 overall and 0-3
in the league.
The Cougar basketball
teams played after press time
(Photo courtesy of Kelli Augustadt for The Illinois Valley News)
against Cascade Christian at
Senior Zach Welch, #20 shows some defense along with #14 Lander Nordal. 33 Kade Doyle
home Tuesday, Jan. 28.
and #24 Bryce Gardenhire. The Cougs fell to the Chieftains 71-47, Tuesday, Jan. 21.
Winding Trails:
Thursday, January 30, 1964 – Il-
linois Valley News, Cave Junction,
OR –
The True Firs
The trees that are in large
part responsible for the soft velvety
beauty of our evergreen hills are
mostly conifers – the firs, Douglas-
fir, cedars, pines, etc. – with a num-
ber of species of evergreen broad-leaf
trees, such as California laurel (Or-
egon myrtle), madroña and Canyon
liveoak, blending artistically with the
conifers and enhancing the beauty of
our winter forests with their varying
shades of green.
Our largest, commonest and
most valuable timber tree in the Sis-
kiyous is the Douglas-fir; it is next to
the giant Redwoods in size. Most of
the biggest ones have fallen prey to
the lumber industry, but we still find
them up to 250 feet high and 9 feet in
diameter. This tree has an unusually
narrow and shapely, soft-appearing
crown. The leaves are narrow and
blunt, dark-green and grooved above,
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whitish beneath with a green mid-line;
they are scattered on all sides of the
twig. The cones are unique in hav-
ing 3-pronged bracts protruding from
between the scales; they are elliptic in
outline and tow or three inches long.
Bark of the tree is brownish, deeply
furrowed and up to eight inches thick
on old trees.
In our area we have four spe-
cies of true, or Balsam, firs, as distin-
guished from Douglas-fir, which is in
a genus of its own. A prominent fea-
ture that distinguishes these firs from
the Douglas-fir and other conifers is
in having the cones borne upright on
the upper branches instead of hanging
downward. In general appearance
our four firs are divided into pairs,
the Noble and Shasta Firs resembling
each other, and the White and Grand
Firs, being very similar.
Noble fir has the honor of
bearing the most beautiful cones in
the forest. The large seed-covering
scales are borne in conspicuously
attractive spirals, and are especially
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beautified by the large pointed bracts
that grow from between the scales,
bending backward and downward,
almost completely covering them,
and giving the false impression of a
cone with scales pointing the wrong
way. Shasta fir cones are similar but
usually lack the neat spiral arrange-
ment of the bracts and scales that
is so characteristic of the Noble fir
cones. Needles of Noble fir are short
and curved and seem to all be grow-
ing from the top side of the branches;
however, they spring from all sides
of the twigs, but after running length-
wise along the twig for a short dis-
tance (characteristic of this fir) they
all turn abruptly upward, apparently
originating on the upper side only.
From beneath, the needles all seem to
have been combed and brushed up-
ward.
Foliage of the Shasta fir is quite
similar in general appearance, but
close inspection shows the needles to
be four-sided, with the top side angled
or rounded and smooth, in contrast
to the Noble fir needles which are
grooved on the upper side. Another
distinguishing feature between these
two firs, but one which is not readily
discernible on casual examination,
has to do with the leaf buds. On the
Noble fir these are resin-coated; on
the Shasta fir they are without resin.
Time to look for the cones
for identification is about the last of
August. Cones of the firs never fall
from the tree intact, disintegrating
while still attached to the branches,
leaving the bare cones standing like
candles in the top of a Christmas tree.
But the squirrels are usually at your
service, willingly or otherwise, if you
conduct your hunt when the cones are
mature.
At the higher elevations,
above 4,000 feet, Grand fir and White
fir may be found growing side by
side. At lower altitudes Grand fir is
the only one of the Balsams to be
found. These two firs, when mature,
look very much alike until closely
examined. Mature cones of the two
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and
trees are smooth, usually purplish,
and indistinguishable. Best means
of quick identification is the foliage
of lower branches. Grand fir needles
are flat, shiny yellowish-green and
grooved above; they are arranged in
flat sprays, the needles in horizontal
rows on either side of the twig and
of two alternating lengths, usually
notched at the tip, with two broad
white longitudinal stripes beneath.
White fir needles are more haphaz-
ardly placed; they are longer than
Grand fir leaves, more bluish-green
with a whitish cast, usually pointed
or rounded at tip and with narrow
faintly-whitish rows of stomata be-
neath. In both trees the upper branch
needles all point upward.
If you could fly up to the top
of the tree and examine the tiny male
cones you could tell at a glance which
of these two trees is which: The male
cones of White fir are of a reddish
cast; those of Grand fir are yellow
– the only one of our local firs with
this feature.
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