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B S PORTS Wednesday, June 22, 2016 Section B South Lane County Sports and Recreation Contact Sports, 942-3325 or e-mail sports@cgsentinel.com Three Lions compete in All-Star series in Roseburg Athletes of the Week: Harris, Ward, Presley South goes 1-2 in a close series, but Presley wins yet another accolade with the team's MVP award BY SAM WRIGHT The Cottage Grove Sentinel Over the weekend, three re- cent graduates of Cottage Grove high school and star baseball players made the journey to Roseburg to play in the 4A All- Star series. Hunter Harris, Lucas Ward and Payton Presley all had one last chance to represent Cot- tage Grove on a baseball fi eld in a series of three games over the course of two days. Harris, Ward and Presley were part of an 18-man roster that featured two coaches. The three players were on the South team’s roster that includ- ed their very own coach, Dan Geiszler, alongside state-cham- pion head coach Tim Cleland of Henley. Of the three games, the South only managed to come out victo- rious in one of the three games, but each game was close and neither team was convincingly better than the other. The South’s two losses came in a 5-4 and 6-4 fi nal score and their win was also 5-4. Over the course of the series, Ward racked up two sizeable hits, Harris hit fi ve and Presley fi nished with either seven or eight (statistics were not con- fi rmed). Presley walked away as the South’s MVP to add yet another award on his shelf of ac- complishments in baseball. It was Geiszler’s fi rst time coaching in the All-Star series, and the Sky-Em Coach of the Year praised the event. “It was a really great experi- ence for everyone, especially the players,” he said. “It was all done very professionally. They really made it into a big event, and it was a big deal.” The absence of these stars next year will be noticed within the baseball team, but Geiszler has a few other weapons. For example, Brett Ollivant will re- turn as a senior after winning the Sky-Em pitcher of the year award, and TJ Bellamy showed potential to be a leader next year as well. Photos by Gary Ordway Hunter Harris (left), Payton Presley (middle) and Lucas Ward (right) all made impacts on the fi eld during Satur- day's and Sunday's All-Star Series. Despite injuries, Lions fi nd success during summer The Cottage Grove Lions basketball team has maintained a high rate of success during summer competition despite being plagued with several in- juries. The Lions are 17-2 as they enter the latter part of their summer season. Leaders such as Kory Parent and Blake Sentman have missed games due to in- juries. Parent, who was the Sky-Em player of the year in the 2015-2016 season, has yet to play due to a pulled groin. Sentman has missed several games due to a poison oak affl iction, and senior Jordan Hagewood is still out after missing the entire regular season be- cause of a leg injury. The injuries and success speak volumes to the Li- ons' depth. Not only was Parent the Sky-Em Player of the Year, he also made fi rst-team All State after leading his team to the state tournament in March. Parent and Sentman make the bulk of the scoring for the Lions. Head Coach Donn Pollard says that the in- juries give other players the opportunity to step up. “It’s good to get some of the younger guys in there and get more experience,” he said. Cottage Grove travels to Willamette tonight (Wednesday) to play a doubleheader and will be playing in a tournament at Gonzaga after that. Kellen Chadwick makes late race pass to win Wild West Modifi ed Shootout round three BY BEN DEATHERAGE For the Sentinel Photo by Gary Ordway Kory Parent has yet to play this sum- mer due to a groin injury. The Wild West Modifi ed Shootout was back in the state of Oregon (after spending the night before in California) on Monday, June 13 for the third round of the tour. Cottage Grove Speedway hosted and produced some excellent racing for the fans in attendance. Forty drivers made the journey to the quarter- mile clay oval representing the states of Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, North Da- kota, Colorado, and North Car- olina as well as the Canadian province of British Columbia. Lakewood, Colorado’s Tripp Gaylord took full advantage of his pole starting position to get to the front early in the main event. Gaylord mastered the middle of the race track (in only his fi rst visit), and kept all chal- lengers at bay for much of the race. Unfortunately, he wasn’t able to develop a large lead due to several cautions occurring in the fi rst half of the race. Despite the yellows, the young Gaylord was good enough on the restarts to main- tain the lead and go to work on creating distance between him- self and second place. But that second-place car was the win- ner from the night before, Kel- len Chadwick. Chadwick, of Oakley, California would search high and low to try and fi nd a way around the leader, but each time Gaylord got away. Eventually Chadwick was able to pull level with Gaylord after a lap 26 restart for his fi rst opportunity to get around the Coloradan. Kellen was able to fi nesse the throttle on the bot- tom of the track to get in front of Gaylord on lap 27. From there on out, Chadwick would cruise the rest of the distance to win his second straight Wild West Modifi ed Shootout event of his career. Gaylord crossed the wire in second but unfortunately was too light at the scales during the post-race inspection, resulting in a disqualifi cation. Tripp’s older brother, Ryan, also out of Lakewood, Colorado, would in- herit second, and Albany’s Bri- cen James fi nished third. Fourth place belonged to Jesse Wil- liamson of Eugene, while Col- len Winebarger fi nished fi fth. Two B-Mains were ran earlier in the night, and they were won by Danny Lauer of Nipomo, California and Lance Mari from Imperial, California. In the Last Chance Qualifi er, Sweet Home’s Brian Thompson was the top fi nisher. Mark Wauge holds on to win Wild West Modifi ed Shootout round four in CG BY BEN DEATHERAGE For the Sentinel Despite several rain showers over the course of the day, Cot- tage Grove Speedway was de- termined to complete the Wild West Modifi ed Shootout event. It was the fourth leg of the tour and the second consecutive eve- ning at the famed quarter-mile clay oval. A total of 47 racecars participated in the night’s action representing the states of Or- egon, Washington, California, Montana, North Dakota, Colo- rado and North Carolina, as well as the Canadian province of British Columbia. Mark Wauge of the southern Oregon town of Jacksonville started the main event on the inside pole position. He got to the front on the opening lap and began to develop a sizable lead early on. But he wouldn’t be able to construct too large of a gap between himself and the rest of the fi eld due to quite a few cautions in the fi rst 10 laps. After a lap seven restart, Wauge paced the fi eld on a long green fl ag run. As he started to catch the tail end of the fi eld he was briefl y bottled up in some lapped traffi c. But just as the challengers were setting them- selves up to make a move for the coveted position, a yellow came out on lap 18. The second half of the main event went practically go cau- tion free. Although lapped traf- fi c wasn’t a factor, Wauge had a close call on the fi nal circuit. On the white-fl ag lap, a car stopped to a halt in turn four. The fi eld raced back the yellow, and the incident forced Wauge to slam on the brakes and nearly hit the motionless vehicle. Wauge and the rest of the fi eld managed to miss the stopped car, and he crossed the line to win his second career Wild West Modifi ed Shootout victory. It was the fi rst time since Siskiyou Motor Speedway in 2013 that he had won an event with the series. It also marked the third occasion that Mark has won a feature at CGS in 2016. Chowchilla, California’s Alex Stanford was scored second, followed by the Albany teenag- er Bricen James in third. Nipo- ma, California chauffeur Danny Lauer got fourth, while fi nish- ing in fi fth was Randy Brown of Chowchilla, California. Due to the high car count, three B Mains were ran elimi- nating entirely the Last Chance Qualifi er. B Main winners were Vancouver, Washington’s Don Jenner, Eric Ashley of Jasper, and Jake Mayden from Spring- fi eld. 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