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B S PORTS Section B Wednesday, November 18 , 2015 South Lane County Sports and Recreation Contact Sports, 942-3325 or e-mail sports@cgsentinel.com CGHS Awards Night sends off fall sports athletes with style Teams and families gather to celebrate the successful fall season of 2015 BY SAM WRIGHT The Cottage Grove Sentinel On Tuesday, Nov. 10, Cottage Grove High School hosted its Fall Sports Awards night with students, faculty, family and friends gathered in the cafeteria. Athletes from soccer, football, cross-country, water polo and volleyball attended to receive their varsity letters and were recognized for their achieve- ments during their 2015 season. Athletic Director David Presley introduced coaches, who in turn introduced their players before dispersing into separate rooms for individual sports. Boys’ soccer was introduced by Head Coach Brian Fish and noted the players who made the all-league team, which in- cluded Kyle Browning and Austin Shipley. Although only two players made the fi rst team, the Lions had two more on the second team and fi ve other honorable mentions. The boys’ soccer team will see the ab- sence of Richie Villalobos, Alex Hernandez, Kaiden Ramsey, Austin Shipley, Chris Clure, Lucas Ward, Bryce Allen, Scott Anderson, Jadon Snauer, and Zachary Snauer as they fi nish their senior year. “I’m proud of our guys; we had a great season and overall I think we played pretty well,” Fish said. “It was unfortunate we got beat in the playoffs, but it was against a pretty good team.” Head Coach of cross-country Jim Settelmeyer introduced his runners proudly. The highlight of the speech being Settelmey- er’s attention to freshman run- ner Konrad Raum. Raum was the only Lion runner to make it to the State Finals at Lane Com- munity College and placed 47th out of the 111 runners compet- ing. The corss country team will lose a total of nine seniors this year. The seniors include: Tess- lyn Foster-Gordon, Ka’lea Gal- breath, Arianah Hanke, Ryan Barge, Alexander Clifton, Con- nor Howard, Anthony Trujillo and Jayden Tucker. Presley introduced fi rst-year Head Coach Jason Corwin of the volleyball team and praised his commitment to Cottage Grove High School. “It really means a lot when you can get someone from the collegiate level to teach our kids,” Presley said. Corwin ac- knowledged the efforts of his entire squad and specifi cally mentioned Allyssa Ganchegui for making the fi rst team all- league squad. “We saw tons of improvement throughout the season, especially for this be- ing my fi rst year,” Corwin said. The Lions will say goodbye to a total of six seniors this year: Ganchegui, Jaylene Forrester, Abigail Ladd, Kassidy Whisler, Haley Simonsen, and Alexis Gaethle. Girls’ Soccer Head Coach Vern Stewart was introduced with applause for making coach of the year for the Sky-Em League. The team itself won the Sky Em league for the fi rst time in school history. The Li- ons had to share the crown with Sisters, but after an easy 3-0 win over Sisters during their play-in match, the Lions seemed to be a clear winner. The girls were ranked No. 8 as they entered the playoffs, but their season abruptly ended after a 2-0 defeat against No. 9 ranked Gladstone. The team also fi lled fi ve out of the 11 spots on the Sky-Em All- League roster. “We had a fantastic season,” Stewart said. “I’m so proud of our girls; I’m grateful to have been able to watch these seniors grow all four years since I’ve been here.” The soccer team will lose nine players to gradu- ation this year. Delia Nichols- Ferguson, Melissa Thielman, Chelsey Bottorff, Melissa Mc- Casline, Brooke Fisher, Jasmin Lopez, Emma Browning, Josie Mootz and Emma Simons will all be fi nishing high school in the spring. For water polo, Head Coach Tyson Coleman gave a brief speech about the effort of both the boys and girls teams. The girls had a wildly different sea- son than the boys, but the young players encourage the future of Cottage Grove’s water polo teams. The girls’ team will only see the departure of one player, senior Amelia Phillips, while the boys’ team had no seniors this year. Football Head Coach Gary Roberts also got the opportunity to refl ect on his team and their 2015 season. Please see AWARDS, Page 3B Equestrian signs letter of intent to TCU Josie Mootz will continue her horseback riding career in Texas BY SAM WRIGHT The Cottage Grove Sentinel Photo by Sam Wright Mootz eagerly signs her letter of intent as her parents proudly watch on. Cottage Grove High School experienced a special moment on Monday, Nov. 16, when se- nior Josie Mootz signed her lit- ter of intent to enroll at Texas Christian University to be a part of the equestrian team. Mootz, who is extremely notable for her skills on the soccer fi eld, plans on studying kinesiology in col- lege while she competes on the school’s equestrian squad. “I’m really excited; it was re- ally cool to get an offer from a school like this,” Mootz said. Mootz said she has been riding horses all her life. Her mother described her starting out as a “champion stick-horse rider in our living room.” At the age of eight, she won the title of regional walk trot champion in Nampa, Idaho on her quar- ter horse named Amber. Mootz eventually ended her quarter horse career with “numerous buckles, all around awards, and two saddles.” After quarter horses, Mootz began showing paint horses, for which she also has received nu- merous accolades with. Since winning the walk trot regional in Idaho, Mootz was taken under the wing of Tammy Mills, an equestrian trainer who, along with her husband Rob Mills, was considered like “sec- ond family” to Mootz. “They have spent long hours together on the road, waiting for classes to start when its freezing out, and even getting up before light to feed and get horses ready,” Mootz’s mother explained in a speech. Please see MOOTZ, Page 3B Athletes of the Week Brad's Chevy and GMC bowling team take fi rst place in round one of Cottage Mixers league Lion basketball players run drills in the main gym at CGHS on Monday. Winter sports kick off with try outs Monday marked the beginning of Cottage Grove High School's winter sports seasons. This means basketball (girls and boys), swim- ming and wrestling have come to accompany the colder weather. Although no offi cial contests start until December, student-athletes have begun to attend try outs as teams begin to take form. Stanton Newlan, Merv Kwandt, Errol Miller, Ann Steeprow and Alli Miller of Brad's Chevy and GMC bowling team secured fi rst place on Wednesday, Nov. 11. The team racked up a to- tal of 50 wins against 20 losses. They beat every opponent by at least 12 pins. Second place was taken by Forklift Services of Org with 38 wins and 32 losses, followed by Swearengin Designs (37-33). Cottage Grove Sentinel
