2B COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL AUGUST 16, 2017
Cottage Bowl wins big
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
The father daughter pair of Butch Cardoza and
Natalie Cardoza Clark were named Proprietors
of the Year by the Oregon State United States
Bowling Congress. This award was given to them
for their excellence in running the Cottage Bowl
bowling center.
“It was like our Academy Awards,” said Clark
on receiving the honor. “As you’re walking
around everybody is going around shaking your
hand congratulations. All the way around the
whole table. It’s like when you see them on the
Academy Awards where they are like, ‘Oh yeah
you just won’ and Matt Damon walks up and
things like that. And that’s kind of what it is, it’s
that level for our state.”
Cardoza and Clark were nominated, unbe-
knownst to them, for this award by long time Cot-
tage Grove bowler Janet Batchelor. In her nomi-
nation and speech that she gave at the ceremony
at Seven Feathers Casino at the end of July, she
highlighted both Cardoza and Clark’s bowling
histories. She talked about Clark’s fi rst 300 game
at 16 and how Cardoza had aspirations of owning
a bowling center at 18. She discussed the tourna-
ments they put on and how they bring bowlers
together.
“Natalie and Butch actively support the local,
state and national USBC associations by provid-
ing a fun recreational experience for bowlers of
all skill levels,” said Batchelor during her speech.
Cardoza and Clark were honored by the kind
words from Batchelor and were just pleased that
their work was being recognized.
“It’s crazy because there are people that make a
lot more than we do. There are people who have
a lot more, have bigger centers and it’s really cool
to be recognized in this little place,” said Clark.
Regardless of awards the Cottage Bowl re-
ceives, Cardoza is most proud of the support that
they receive in Cottage Grove and proud to be
honored for his work.
“I always say that I’m not here to get rich, I’m
not. And I’m not going to get rich in this little cen-
ter but we’re having fun and we have a big fami-
ly and people really care about us,” he said. “It’s
amazing, it’s really amazing. It blows my mind.
And it really makes my day when I start thinking
about it that way, talking to people. I’m going to
be on cloud nine the rest of the night.”
Proprietors of the year Natalie Cardoza Clark (left) and Butch Cardoza (center) with local bowler Janet Batchelor
(right) who nominated them for the coveted bowling award that they won.
Lots of familiar faces at IAAF Championships
Former University of Oregon athletes and current athletes who train in Portland helped the United States
come out on top in the medal count at the Track and Field Championhips in London
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Phyllis Francis wins 400
The local that achieved the
most success at the World Cham-
pionships was former Oregon
Duck Phyliss Francis. Francis
is coming home from the games
with a pair of gold medals after
she won the 400 and was part of
the 4x400 relay.
Going into the 400, Fran-
cis was not a favorite. Fellow
American Allyson Felix looked
to be the one to take it but as the
rain fell on the track, the former
Duck found her rhythm and won
in a time of 49.92.
Other Oregon Ties
After a successful qualify-
ing round, former Oregon star
Deajah Stevens ended up plac-
ing fi fth in the 200 fi nal. Dafne
Schippers of the Netherlands
took fi rst.
PHOTO BY ZACH SILVA
Former Ducks Ariana Washington, left, and Deajah Stevens, right, competing at the NCAA Track and Field
Championships in 2017. Washington competed in the 100 at the IAAF Championships and Stevens in the
100 and 200.
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The steeple chase has not been
an event that Americans have
historically been successful at.
The tides began to really turn
last year when Evan Jager, who
trains in Portland, took second at
the 2016 Olympic Games. In this
year’s fi nal, Jager led for most of
the race but was passed on the
fi nal lap by Kenya’s Conseslus
Kipruto and Marocco’s Soufi ane
Elbakkali. Jager could not regain
the lead and fi nished in third just
1.2 seconds after Kipruto.
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American women have also not
seen great success in this event.
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Emma Coburn and Courtney
Freirichs, who also trains in
Portland, took to the track in the
fi nal. The pair made history tak-
ing fi rst and second in the event
and which are the fi rst medals
for any American women in this
event. In the process Coburn
also broke her own American re-
cord with a time of 9:02.
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200 but fi nished in fi fth in his
semifi nal heat and failed to qual-
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Great Britain’s Mo Farah, who
trains in Portland, ended up his
time in London with a second
place fi nish in the 5000. Farah
won the 10,000 earlier in the
week.
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