COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Oct. 26, 2016
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-nior Zane Levings, who
eventually worked his way into
the endzone to draw fi rst blood.
Elmira was able to respond on
their next drive, but that would
be all for the Falcons in terms of
points scored.
In the second quarter, Sent-
man hit Hayden Glenn from
12 yards out, but the throw was
closer to 25 yards as Glenn was
deep in the right corner of the
endzone.
For a moment, the Lions’ of-
fense stalled. After forcing an
Elmira punt, stripped the ball out
of the hands of Juice Clafl in for
Cottage Grove’s fi rst turnover.
But the Lions’ defense, which
has proven to be stout all year,
got the ball right back after Par-
ent intercepted a deep ball. The
senior shortly caught an 18-yard
Sentman pass for a touchdown
just before halftime.
The game became more de-
fensive in the second half. The
Lions struggled to convert on
fourth down but were able to get
close enough for a 32-yard fi eld
goal by Erick Giffen in the third
quarter, Cottage Grove’s only
third-quarter points. However,
the Lions didn’t allow Elmira to
get anything going either. The
Falcons only racked up 56 yards
of offense in the second half.
Sentman was fi nally able to
put the game away in the fourth
quarter with a deep pass to Ja-
cob Woods, a 34-yard score.
The game play of this matchup
was slightly different than Cot-
tage Grove’s usual performanc-
es. The Lions frequently put up
large passing numbers, while
their rush yards stayed relative-
ly low. But against Elmira, the
Lions ran the ball 45 times for a
total of 234 yards. Sentman was
12-for-23 through the air with
150 yards (though he threw the
last three touchdowns). Despite
the lower yards, Sentman re-
mained a potent passer, getting
points when it counted the most.
Levings carried the ball 16 times
for 96 yards, and Clafl in ran six
times for 50 yards.
The 31-7 score is surprisingly
one of the closer games behind
the 24-21 game against Scap-
poose and the 34-22 win over
Sisters.
Coming into the season, the
Falcons were heavily hyped as
the league favorite. As the Fal-
cons and Lions kept winning
early in the season, Elmira con-
sistently held a higher spot in
the OSAA rankings than Cot-
tage Grove. However, fi nishing
the season with three losses in
a row has severely hurt the Fal-
con's stock.
Cottage Grove now gets a
week of rest as they wait to fi g-
ure out who they will play on
the weekend of Nov. 5.
Head Coach Gary Roberts
says that the team has earned
“one or two” pats on the back
now.
“We [the coaches] told the
team to celebrate until Monday,
then after we watch Friday’s
game fi lm, we’re 0-0 again,”
Roberts said.
To recap the regular season,
Cottage Grove has outscored
its opponents 359-64, which
means that they averaged 44.9
points per game, and the de-
fense only allowed an average
of eight points per game. The
Lions’ rushing game totaled
945 yards on the season with 18
touchdowns, while the passing
game totaled 2,127 yards and 28
touchdowns. The leading rusher
was Levings with 65 carries
for 321 yards and three touch-
downs, followed by Sentman
with 66 carries for 259 yards
and eight touchdowns. Over the
two games that Parent started
as quarterback (and even a few
when he wasn’t starting), he was
21 for 23 for 427 yards and sev-
en touchdowns. Sentman was an
impressive 104 of 177 for 1,689
yards and 21 touchdowns.
Giffen led the team in receiv-
ing with 33 catches for 372
yards and four touchdowns.
Parent had 24 receptions for 308
yards and fi ve touchdowns. In
most games, Parent didn’t lead
the team in receiving, but that’s
because his impact as a leader is
defensively, and those statistics
aren’t regularly kept.
“He’s the best leader I’ve ever
had in my time as a coach,”
Roberts said of Parent. “It’s like
having another coach on the
fi eld.”
Roberts says that the coaches
give Parent a lot of freedom in
making his own reads and call-
ing his own adjustments on the
defensive side of the ball.
“His football and athletic IQ
are high enough where we can
trust him to do that,” Roberts
added. Roberts also added that
a lot of the defense’s success
comes from the team’s ability to
listen and trust Parent. Roberts
said that the team is determined
to get back to work after cel-
ebrating a Sky-Em Title and an
undefeated season.
It won’t be until November
that fans will see the Lions take
the fi eld to start their playoff
run.
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