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B Section B S PORTS South Lane County Sports and Recreation Contact Sports, 942-3325 or e-mail sports@cgsentinel.com Wednesday, June 17, 2015 Aqua Lions take on the long course The one-year-in column BY MATT HOLLANDER The Cottage Grove Sentinel BY MATT HOLLANDER The Cottage Grove Sentinel T photo by Matt Hollander MJ Raade set fi ve personal bests at the Mike Morris Invitational. he Cottage Grove Aqua Lions sent a host of swimmers to the annual Mike Morris Invitational, held this past weekend at Amazon Pool in Eugene. It was the fi rst long-course competition of the season, and coach Tyson Pilling said that the results were predictably mixed. “This meet gives us a good baseline of where the kids are at,” he said. “We’ve only held a few workouts in this pool so far, but we’ll start coming up here once or twice a week now that we’re into summer.” Despite the challenge stepping up from the 33-yard length of their home pool to the 50-meter distance at Ama- zon, several swimmers made signifi cant improvements on their entry times. Competing in the girls 11-12 divi- sion, MJ Raade cut 15 seconds in the 200 freestyle down to 3:00.71. She im- proved by nearly four seconds in the 50 freestyle (38.15), eight seconds in the 50 backstroke (48.32), 13 seconds in the 100 freestyle (1:25.16), and a whopping three minutes, 20 seconds in the 800 freestyle (12:56.85). Please see AQUA LIONS, Page 2B Athlete of the Week: Blake Sentman F ifty two weeks ago, I had never been published. I’m not sure that Jon Stinnett real- ized that little fact when he hired me, but he certainly fi gured it out on the afternoon of our fi rst deadline, when only half of my section was complete. Lesson number one: 12’ x 22’ pages are gigantic if you’ve never fi lled one before. We fi nished sometime just be- fore midnight, and I’m sure that we both left the offi ce thinking we had made a mistake: him of- fering the job, and me accept- ing it. But I kept coming back. He remained patient. And that’s more or less how it went for the next 51 issues. I’ve learned a lot over this past year, but it all goes back to fi lling the page — with head- lines, copy and art. I used to believe that the stories were the most important part of telling the news, but if the other ele- ments don’t work, then no one will bother to read them. Here are a few other things that I’ve concluded after my fi rst year on the job: 1. Covering sports is hard Watching sports on TV in this day and age, there’s never a point when I don’t know ex- actly what’s going on in a given game: the camera puts you right on the action; the infographics keep you up to date all the time; and even the announcers can oc- casionally be helpful. This pro- duction quality has left a lot of us thinking — myself included — ‘Hey, I could cover sports too!’ I can tell you that without anyone feeding you the infor- mation, it can be really hard to know what’s going on in a game, let alone report on it with accuracy. 2. Covering a winning team is just better Please see HOLLANDER, Page 2B photo by Matt Hollander Blake Sentman led the Lions to the end zone in each of his turns at quarterback against Springfi eld, Creswell and Junction City during Cottage Grove's 7-on-7 tournament Saturday at Herald White Stadium. Cottage Grove measures progress against Springfi eld Lions show improvement in 7-on-7 scrimmages BY MATT HOLLANDER The Cottage Grove Sentinel C oaches will tell you that 7-on-7 scrimmages are more about teaching than competition. The 2015 Lions will tell you they are tired of learning and ready to compete. With just a handful of returning players with varsity experience, the 2014 Lions were expected to be young and inexperienced. But the signs of trouble began in earnest at a 7-on-7 scrimmage against Springfi eld in July. There, Miller quarterback Trever Watson picked apart the Cottage Grove defense, needing but a few throws — and sometimes only one — to lead his team to the end zone. On Saturday, Cottage Grove hosted six schools for a 7-on-7 competition, including Springfi eld. The Li- ons blew past the defending 5A Midwestern League champions, four scores to two. “Last year Springfi eld ate us alive, and today we did better than hold our own,” said Cottage Grove co-de- fensive coordinator Mike Ingman. “We may not have done to them what they did to us, but we defi nitely had the advantage today.” Cottage Grove’s defense fl ummoxed Watson, hold- ing the two-time reigning Midwestern offensive play- er of the year to 95 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions on 5-of-14 passing. “I feel like our defense was making a lot of good plays,” said senior Evan Britton, who intercepted Wat- son twice. “It was really good for us to get some mo- mentum heading into the offseason.” Cottage Grove’s offense, which also struggled against Springfi eld a year ago, showed similar signs of growth on Saturday. Junior Blake Sentman went 10-of-17 for 120 yards, three touchdowns and no in- terceptions against the Millers. “I hoped that we would be competitive today,” he Please see FOOTBALL, Page 2B Over the weekend at the Cottage Grove Speedway... CGS completes second Kart race of 2015 BY BEN DEATHERAGE C ottage Grove Speedway hosted some exciting action on Friday, June 12 for the second Kage Kart race of the season. Coos Bay’s Tallon Dubisar led the Pee Wee feature wire to wire for his fi rst vic- tory of the season. Despite lots of cautions and heavy traf- fi c, Isaac Stere of Cottage Grove kept all challengers at bay during the Intermedi- ate feature to visit victory lane for the fi rst time of the season. photo courtesy of Dirt Monkey Productions Scott Fox (3) sped to victory in the Open Kage event Friday at the Cot- tage Grove Speedway. Please see KARTS, Page 3B Barraza, Owen, and Maricle earn wins at Cottage Grove Speedway on Ladies Night BY BEN DEATHERAGE C ottage Grove Speedway had one of its best crowds of the season for Ladies Night on Saturday, June 13. All three main events were action packed, and there was good racing all night long. Classes in competition in- cluded the 360 Sprints, IMCA Sport Mods and Hornets. In the 360 Sprint main event, Patrick Dills was the early race leader. The Cottage Grove young gun lost the lead around lap 17 to Roseburg’s Kyler Barraza, who stayed in front the rest of the way to win his fi rst race of 2015. In the IMCA Sport Mod main event, Gene Ashley seemed to have the car to beat until mechanical prob- lems took him out of the race. Cottage Grove chauffeur Jimmy Owen inherited the lead and won his fi rst career CGS race. Please see SPEEDWAY, Page 3B June 20th FATHER’S DAY Clark Printing Extreme Sprints, Street Stocks, Dwarf Cars
