Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Page A-3
Sports
After road loss IVHS heads north for playoff game
No. 23 Bailee Moore goes up for a shot during the girls’ home win against Cascade Christian Tuesday, Feb. 13.
Tristan Stocker
IVN Contributing Writer
On Tuesday, Feb. 13, the
Illinois Valley girls’ basketball
team (5-3) played their first league
playoff game against Cascade
Christian (4-4) in a home game
that resulted in a 50-36 victory for
the Lady Cougars, however, on
Friday, Feb. 16, they came up short
on the road against the undefeated
Lakeview Honkers (8-0) and lost
16-49.
Aairka Brooks was the top
scoring player in the game against
Cascade Christian with a whopping
total of 22 points.
“She played well for us the
entire game,” said head coach
Jonathan Valenzuela-Reece. “We
also played good defense and shut
‘em down when we needed to.”
And in the game against
Lakeview, Brooks played a good
defensive game getting 10 blocks,
but as the top scoring player
managed to put only seven points
on the board.
“Defensively, we didn’t box
out and we kept giving ‘em second
chances,” said Valenzuela-Reece.
“We didn’t play well as a team like
we’ve done in the past.”
Valenzuela-Reece also noted
the experience and age gap that
(Photo by Laura Mancuso, Illinois Valley News)
exists between the two teams.
But despite the loss at
Lakeview, the Lady Cougars
finished second in the 3A-6
Southern Cascade League, which
means this Friday, Feb. 23, they are
heading up to Clatskanie to play
the Clatskanie Tigers (14-2) of the
3A-1 Lewis & Clark League in
the 2018 OSAA / U.S. Bank / Les
Schwab Tires 3A Girls Basketball
State Championship. Tip-off starts
at 7 p.m.
Fans can find brackets and
additional information here:
http://www.osaa.org/activities/gbx/
brackets.
The I.V. boys’ basketball
team wrapped up the season after
facing defeat in their league playoff
game against St. Mary’s, (6-2) in
Medford last Wednesday, Feb. 14.
The final score was 42-61.
Cougs “wrestled tough,” represented Valley well at state
Donnell Suggs
IVN Contributing Writer
The Illinois Valley High
School (IVHS) wrestlers
and their head coach Zach
Pagnotta returned to the
school Sunday afternoon.
They made the trip to
Portland and back after
having wrestled in the Oregon
School Activities Association
(OSAA) U.S. Bank/Les
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tournament. IVHS wrestlers
Chase Nelson (170 pounds)
and Jesse Valles (106 pounds)
are coming home empty-
handed after failing to place
in their respective weight
classes but they are returning
with valuable lessons.
According to Pagnotta
they did the Valley proud.
“They wrestled tough,”
said Pagnotta minutes after
getting back in town. “It
wasn’t Illinois Valley’s finest
showing unfortunately, but I
told them to save the feeling
of seeing those other wrestlers
on the podium in their heads
and in their hearts and it will
give them added motivation to
push through.”
Senior Chase Nelson
lost his two matches. “We
got a tough draw, you put
this one on the books and
get ready for next year,”
said Pagnotta of the super-
competitive 170-pound class.
“Chase will be on to bigger
and better things.” The 170-
pound 3A division was won
by Adam Simpson of Nyssa
High School. Leithan Brigg
of Harrisburg High School
placed second and Alex
Miranda of Walls of Irrigon
was third.
Cougar freshman
Jesse Valles made his state
tournament debut and was
received some valuable
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Pagnotta continued,
“Right now is where state
champions are made, in the
offseason and Jesse, he’ll get
a couple more cracks at it.”
The 106-pound 3A
division was won by Reyes,
Ryan Vidlak of Cascade
Christian High School placed
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piece of that tough draw as
well when he was picked to
wrestle the No. 1 seed in the
3A 106-pound class. Valles
lost that meeting and another
to eventual state champion
Jordan Reyes of Willamina/
Falls City High School but
also picked up points for the
Cougars with a victory in his
second round match. “It was a
tough way to end his season,”
said Pagnotta. “It wasn’t the
result any of us wanted but I
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