Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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Sports
Lady Cougars have eyes on state tournament
(Photo by Dan Mancuso, Illinois Valley News)
Head coach Sarena Barry gives instructions to the team during a time-out Thursday, Feb. 2. The girls fell to St. Mary’s in the final home game at Ken Mann Me-
morial Gymnasium. The Cougars will meet St. Mary’s in the first round of playoffs at home Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Ray Brown
IVN Contributing Writer
The Illinois Valley Lady Cougars
finished their season of league play at Cascade
Christian Tuesday in Medford. The Cougars
built a lead of 27-14 by halftime and were
only outscored in the third quarter to get
the win. Coach Serena Barry reported, “At
Cascade Aundrea led the team with 17 points,
six rebounds, six steals and five assists. Tori
Johnson had 11 points, nine rebounds and four
assists, while Aarika Brooks had 11 points and
eight rebounds. Courtney Scott, Bailee Moore,
and Roza Jonas each pulled down six rebounds
and did an excellent job of containing Emily
Stephens, a strong sophomore center that
scored 27 points in our first game against
them. Those three helped hold her to nine
points. Miller also drew a few fouls on
Stephens early in the game, which limited her
minutes, while Scott took a big charge in the
third quarter to put her on the bench again.
We made a run at the end of the first half, and
while Cascade cut into it in the third, we were
able to extend it in the fourth and finish strong.
The final score was 46-35.”
Then the girls traveled again to Bonanza
for a nonleague contest and continued their
winning ways. Coach Barry said, “A balanced
scoring effort in this victory. Johnson had 16
points and Miller had 14 points; Scott had
13 points, and Brooks had nine. We started
the game off sluggish; many of the girls
recovering from illness. But we were able to
battle back and finished really strong, scoring
22 points as a team in the fourth quarter. The
final score was score was I.V. 58, Bonanza
49.”
Barry continued to recap the girls’ efforts,
“We finished second place this year in the
Southern Cascade League with a 6-2 record.
Now we are looking at the post season. We
will host a home playoff game Wednesday
Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. against third place St.
Mary’s. The winner of that game will move on
and play first place Lakeview on either Friday
or Saturday to determine seeding for the 3A
state playoffs.”
IVHS senior recap:
Andrea Miller is one of the many Millers
in the Valley. She at least once said she would
rather wrestle than play basketball. An athlete
is an athlete, and when you combine that with
her competitive spirit, she could probably
excel at any sport.
Roza Jonas hails from Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. She came to this county and soon
started playing basketball in the Boys and Girls
Club program, then one year in Fall River,
California. She came back to Cave Junction
destined to be a Cougar and play the game she
loves.
Victoria Johnson got to be coached by her
dad Ray in the Boys and Girls Cub program
and always had the look of competitiveness
and love of the game. She will always glance
at the hoops if she’s open at the 3-point line.
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