Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Page A-3
Vikings ready to wrap up season against strong foe
Jason McMillen
IVN Contributing Writer
The Lorna Byrne football
team has met with great success this
season and currently stands with
three victories and only one loss.
Defensive coach Bob Clarke
reported that it was a competitively
close game with the opposing
team only having won by a single
touchdown. Clarke attributed the
loss to penalties and other small
mistakes. Their next and final game
will be held late this afternoon
against Cascade Christian, the top
team in the league.
Clarke said that their strongest
game so far was against St. Mary’s
Oct. 4 where they won with a
staggering final score of 24 to 6. He
further added that each and every
player’s skill set had improved
throughout the season and that the
whole team has performed well from
the get go. “These kids pretty much
don’t allow themselves to be beat,”
Clarke said, “That’s one thing we
try to teach the players—it’s one
thing to get beat by a better team,
it’s something else to get beat by
yourself.”
However, one problem that
was of particular emphasis this
year was that the team wasn’t
providing enough time for the
quarterback to make a good throw.
“Our quarterback has had to run for
his life several times,” Clarke said
humorously, “So with each passing
game we taught our players to block
for him so he doesn’t have to do
that now. He actually has time to
throw the ball.” Another thing that’s
hampered the team is its small size;
17 players. St. Mary’s, for example,
has 40.
Wildfire smoke made it
difficult for the team to practice
early on in the season and even
resulted in a game being canceled.
“The smoke really made it hard on
everybody,” Clarke said, “We had
a lot of times that we couldn’t run
what we needed to run. We kind
of went into our first game half
loaded.” Despite the lack of practice,
Clarke reported that the team did
surprisingly well during their debut
Cougs defeated in Homecoming game
game against White Mountain.
Clarke and the team are
excited to have their showdown with
Cascade Christian but there’s no
delusion that the game is going to be
a walk in the park. “Playing against
them in years past, I’ve gained a
healthy respect for their very well
coached team and we told our kids
that we’re going to have to play
better than we’ve ever played. We’re
going to have to go out there and
earn our victory.”
Boys win as end of
season approaches
Tristan Stocker
IVN Contributing Writer
(Photo by Michelle Binker, Illinois Valley News)
Freshmen: Prince Wyatt Navarro (left), Princess Denise Pimentel, Soph: Prince Elijah Polk,
Princess Bailee Moore. Jr: Princess Chelsea Sanders, Prince Devan Dangerfield, Sr: Princess
Diamond Murphy, Prince Isaiah McClanahan
Michelle Binker
IVN Contributing Writer
Illinois Valley High School celebrated Homecoming this
past week, but the Cougars felt anything but celebratory after
the visiting St. Mary’s Crusaders football team delivered a
crushing, 53-15 defeat Friday, Oct. 13.
Cougars Head Coach Bruce Reece noted his
team’s great effort, but cited the distractions of
Homecoming, among other reasons, for the loss.
“We can’t allow that to happen down the road.”
With two more games left in the season, the
Cougars (3-4) travel to Lakeview Friday, Oct. 20 to
face the Honkers (2-4) in 3A Southern Cascade League
play.
The Illinois Valley
boys’ soccer team (6-4) just
recently defeated Rogue River
(2-6-1) in a home game on
Saturday, Oct 14 with a final
score of 2-1, and Wednesday,
Oct 11, they were defeated
by Cascade Christian (8-3)
– final score 2-8.
During the game
against Rogue River, Huver
Rodriguez scored one goal
and a newcomer to the team,
Christian Mendez from
Tillamook, scored the second.
“Today was his first
game and he scored the game
winning goal with the assist
from Cody Box,” said head
coach Neigel Hruska. “It was
perfect timing because one
of our normal kids called up
and said he couldn’t make it,
and our goalie was knocked
out during the previous game
against Cascade.”
The Cougars have won
a total of six games so far this
year, which is, for the seniors,
as many games as they’ve
won in the past three years.
“They won one game
their freshman year, two
games their sophomore year
and three games their junior
year, so this year they’ve
won as much as they have the
whole three seasons,” said
Hruska. “So they’re feeling
good right now at 6-4.”
This week, the boys
hit the road for a non-league
game against Mustangs at
Milo Adventist Academy
Monday, Oct. 16. Then
Wednesday, Oct. 18, they play
the Honkers at Lakeview (2-
8) and for the last game of the
season, they face off against
the Pilots at Canyonville
Christian Academy (6-3-1)
Saturday, Oct. 21.
The girls’ soccer team
managed their first win in
almost a month out on the
road against Rogue River
(0-6) Saturday, Oct. 14, with a
narrow victory of 3-2.
Looking ahead, the Lady
Cougars are scheduled to play
St. Mary’s Medford (5-1) at
home Wednesday, Oct. 18,
another home game against
Lakeview Saturday, Oct. 21,
and the final game of the
season is a non-league game
at South Umpqua / Riddle
Tuesday, Oct. 24.
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