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B S PORTS Section B South Lane County Sports and Recreation Wednesday, October 21, 2015 Contact Sports, 942-3325 or e-mail sports@cgsentinel.com Lions shut out Sutherlin despite 'average' play Coach Gary Roberts didn't see total domination on both sides of the ball as the score might have suggested BY SAM WRIGHT The Cottage Grove Sentinel Despite several offensive miscues, the Lions were able to run the Sutherlin Bulldogs out of Cottage Grove with a domi- nating 44-0 victory on Friday, Oct. 16. With such a shutout, it’s hard to believe that the Li- ons weren’t performing at their highest potential, but according to Head Coach Gary Roberts, Cottage Grove’s play on Friday was described as “average.” “We didn’t really dominate on either side of the ball, and we benefi ted from some of their in- juries,” Roberts said. “The game just kind of had a weird, ho-hum feeling to it.” Roberts referred to a few dropped passes on offense that “bogged us down at times.” During the shutout, quarterback Blake Sentman completed only eight of 16 passes for 170 yards and one touchdown. But hybrid player Kory Parent who also took over the quarterback posi- tion for a series, who also faced a few bad-luck drops. “The coaches wanted to give the kid a look at some quick- change potential adversity," Roberts said. Parent executed his plays well, helping his team move the ball down fi eld on the series, which eventually ended due to some dropped passes. Parent unfortunately complete zero passes out of three at- tempts. The other side of the Lions’ offensive spectrum saw a great amount of production. Cottage Grove ran the ball 44 times for a bold 305 yards overall. A to- tal of 10 different Lions man- aged to carry the ball (mostly due to them being able to put in second and third-stringers), but the leading rushers were once again star wide receiver Bryn- den Howell and running back Zane Levings. Howell carried the ball 10 times for 73 yards, and Levings had a similar game of 11 carries for 64 yards and a touchdown. Sentman was once again able to show off his legs with fi ve rushes for 39 yards and two touchdowns. A new rusher emerged from the sideline this week, too. Reily Boyce, a senior who is listed as a wide receiver and linebacker, had four carries for 32 yards as well as a touchdown. “[It was] great to get Reily Boyce involved with the of- fense,” Roberts said. “He gave us a nice little spark for a series.” Boyce has been hurt for most of the year, and his play time has consequentially been limited. This week was the Lions’ most impressive defensive per- formance. Last week, 28 points was the least that the Lions had allowed. Needless to say, the 0 points allowed this week has topped that and won’t be topped again this season. “Our defense did a good job of buckling down when we needed to,” Roberts said. “We probably gave up too many rushing yards.” Leave it to the Cottage Grove Lions to have the most perfect defensive statistic (zero points scored on) and still look for ways to improve. Friday’s win qualifi ed the Lions for the play-in round, as their power ranking is high enough. However, should Cottage Grove defeat the Junction City Tigers, the Lions will be tied for second in the Sky-Em league and will therefore have a coin fl ip to determine the play-in seeding (which subsequently will determine if the Lions get a home game or not). “Junction city is really solid. They have good backs and a solid line,” Roberts noted. The Lions will host the Tigers this Friday at 7 p.m. Athlete of the Week Reily Boyce returns to boost the Lions' offense The senior wide re- ceiver and linebacker carried the ball four times for 32 yards and a touchdown, and Head Coach Gary Roberts said he "lit a spark" in the offense for a series that really helped the team. Cross Country continues to set personal bests The Lions' cross country team has seen numerous personal bests three weeks in a row BY JIM SETTELMEYER For the Sentinel The Lion runners keep getting personal records. Thirteen more were set in Wednesday’s meet at the Country Fair Cross Country meet last Wednesday including Ryan Barger (19:18), Alex Clif- ton (21:37), Max Gause (21:30), Jeramy Hall (20:51), Connor Howard (18:40), Kevin Ma- nuntag (32:34), Konnor Owens (22:26), Jayden Tucker (21:54), Abigail Bunce (26:33), Lilly Burleson (28:07), Savannah Davis (25:18), Abril Leal-Coro- nel (21:58) and Sandy Locke (31:14). The fl at, entertaining course weaves through the trails and shops that house the sum- mer event the run is named after that hordes of people fl ock to a couple miles north of Elmira. As far as getting ready for the district meet, the team is doing everything right. As an added bonus to the fast times, nagging injuries and dings seem to be healed enough so all but two of the harriers that have been out of action in the last couple of weeks or longer are expected to participate today (Wednesday, Oct. 21) at LCC in the Sky-Em Championship meet. If all 32 compete, it will be the largest group from Cottage Grove to participate in the season-ending classic in the last eight years. Abril (currently with the 10th best time in the district) and Konrad Raum (with the 7th best time) are the two lions with the best chance of placing in the top fi ve of their races to extend their season to the OSAA Cross Country Championships to be held on Halloween at LCC. Kale'a Galbreath, Tyra Gordon and Allie Harris pace themselves during their race. Girls' Soccer in the hunt to take Sky-Em pending Sisters match BY SAM WRIGHT The Cottage Grove Sentinel T he Lions’ soccer team is near- ing the end of its race to take the Sky Em league’s top seeding with two more victories this past week against Junction City and Sweet Home. Cottage Grove hosted the Junction City Tigers on Tuesday, Oct. 13, and shut them out with a dominating 4-0 victory. It’s the second time this year that the girls’ soccer team has beaten the Tigers (winning 2-1 at Junction City earlier in the season) after a previous decade of being unable to top them. The four goals came from senior Me- lissa McCasline, who scored twice, accompanied by Kia Hemenway and Jasmin Lopez with one goal each. “We did really well with our move- ment and with fi nishing,” Head Coach Vern Stewart said. A lot of the Lions’ problems have come from not being able to close a match, or not being able to play strongly for the entirety of a match. “It’s good to see us play well and play our game for the entire match,” Stewart added. After defeating Junction City, Cot- tage Grove moved up to No. 8 in the power rankings. On Thursday, the team traveled to Sweet Home where the girls put on another dominating performance, defeating the Huskies 7-2. The high scoring game saw goals from players who are less common to show up on the scoreboard. Junior Hudson Wey- bright had one goal, along with senior Brooke Fisher. Then, of course, top scorers Josie Mootz and Hemenway had two goals apiece, topped off with another high scorer, McCasline. “This was a game we came in ex- pecting to be able to take care of busi- ness, and we did,” Stewart said. Kia Hemenway strides toward the goal as her teammates watch on. Please see SOCCER, Page 2B Boys' Soccer defeats Sweet Home after Junction City loss The boys' soccer team hopes to fi nd success in this week's match ups against Sisters and Elmira after suffering a loss to the Junction City Tigers and nabbing a win against Sweet Home on Thursday at home. The Lions will then look to their play-in match up on Halloween. Cassidy Herbert jumps to put the ball over the net. Volleyball downs Junction City before Sweet Home loss The Lions lost to Sweet Home 3-0 on Thurs- day, but not before they were able to take down Junction City 3-0 on Tuesday. Senior Jadon Snauer chases down a Sweet Home player to take the ball away.
