COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL August 30, 2017
Cross-Country
Season Begins
The Lions begin the season by hosting
their two-mile trial
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
When the starting gun fi red last Thursday at Cottage Grove High
School’s (CGHS) track, the 2017 cross-country season was offi -
cially underway.
Seven teams from around the state toed the starting line for the
annual two-mile trial. The goal of this meet is to get the runners
back into the groove of racing at a shorter distance than they will
run during the season.
On the boys side, the Lions jumped out to a fast start. After the
fi rst 300 on the track, junior Konrad Raum and sophomore Jimmy
Talley were in striking distance of the leaders. The pack raced to
the running trail where they would then complete two laps before
returning to the track for the fi nish.
While running up the hills of the trail, Raum worked to maintain
his pace as he passed Talley and moved closer to the lead group of
runners. As the runners went downhill to head back to the track,
he continued to climb up the ranks. In the last 300 on the track he
passed two more runners to take fourth place.
“I was hoping I would have the energy at that last downhill com-
ing and I did. I planned that out actually better than I thought I was
going to,” said Raum. “I wanted to be under 12 [minutes] and I was
like 11:19… I was pretty happy with it.”
Shortly after Raum crossed the fi nish line teammates Talley and
junior Paesen Timm followed in 7th and 9th place respectively. The
Lions top fi ve was fi nished off with a 19th place fi nish from soph-
omore Justin Francis and 22nd place from junior Eric Cortes. The
team fi nished in second with 53 points. Roseburg, a 6A school, fi n-
ished fi rst with 31 points.
The Lions have six runners back from last year’s team that fi n-
ished 9th in state. Of those runners, four posted faster times at this
meet than they did at last year’s two-mile with Francis dropping an
impressive 56 seconds off of last year’s mark.
“[The] message to the team is this is our fi rst race – don’t over-
think it. Go out and you should feel like you’re pushing and… we’ll
get some times off of this to start playing with. So early in the sea-
son, fi nish feeling okay about yourself,” said coach Jim Settelmey-
er.
On the girls side, the story of the race was the freshman stand-
outs. Four freshman fi nished in the top 12 including Junction City’s
Anika Thompson in fi rst place.
The Cottage Grove fi rst runner was sophomore Leslie
Chacon-Romero in 16th place. She was followed by sophomore
Nadia Witt and junior Kenzie Parsons. Parsons took off just over
a minute from her time at this race last year. Finishing out the Li-
ons top fi ve were senior Savannah Davis and sophomore Lizbeth
Zarate-Hernandez in 27th and 33rd place. The team fi nished fourth
behind Roseburg, Pleasant Hill and Sutherlin.
Both CGHS teams will race again on Saturday at the Ultimook
Race Nike Invitational in Tillamook, Oregon. The race features two
shallow river crossings and a mud pit for runners to go through.
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Football (see front page) and
cross-country (see above) both
competed this week. The boys
and girls soccer teams were
scheduled to play at a jamboree
in Phoneix, OR but the event
was cancelled due to poor air
quality caused from the wild-
fi res.
Yoncalla:
Football – Last Thursday,
Yoncalla played at the Lowell
Jamboree where they faced off
against Lowell, Hosanna Chris-
tian and Powers. Coach Matt
Bragg noted that they won one
game and that the defense did
not look as good as they could at
this point of the season. Bragg
also noted that the team was
without a few key players who
First Place: -17 (tie)
Tom Marx
Rudy Nellermoe
Jerry Singer
Rickie Ambrose
Middlefi eld Men’s Club
Saturday 8/19
Game: Closest to the Pin
are still in the process for being
cleared to play this season.
Elkton:
Cottage Grove:
New Cottage Grove coach Nick Finley while he was head coach at Ninilchik
School in Alaska.
Game: 2, 3 Best Ball
High School
Sports Recap:
The Elkton volleyball team
played Mohawk twice last
week. In both games the team
won in straight sets. Head coach
Tera Monroe said that she likes
where the team is at right now
and that they will be looking to
build on the success that they
have had. Senior Hannah Max-
well noted that she believes that
this team has the ability to get
to the state playoffs this season.
Last Saturday, the football
team travelled to Rogue River
for a football jamboree. In the
jamboree they played against
Rogue River, Prospect, Butte
Falls and Riddle. For their jam-
boree each team had nine plays
on each side of the ball.
Against Rogue River, the
team gave up a touchdown but
was able to move the ball well
according to coach Bill Shaw.
Shaw noted that they drove to
the 2 yard line but then were
out of plays. Shaw felt the team
played well against Prospect
and Butte Falls but struggled
against Riddle who scored two
touchdowns against them. He
believes that if it were a full
game his team would have been
able to make the necessary ad-
justments to compete.
Next Week:
Check out next week’s paper
when there will be a 20-page
look at all of the varsity teams
in Cottage Grove, Elkton, North
Douglas and Yoncalla. It will in-
cludes interviews with players,
coaches and athletic directors
from each school in addition
to each team's schedule for the
coming year.
First Place: -17 (tie)
Gary Culp
Jack Doleman
Frank Gates
Gary Ingram
Champion Flight:
Name, Low Gross, Net
Jerry Singer, 139, 125
Jake Cox, 143, 129
Dylan Rowe 144, 143
Larry Zuvich, 146, 124
Kent Russo, 147, 133
Gary Sparks 149, 133
Third Place: -14
Mel Gowing
Steve Lindholm
Gary Rider
Larry Strickland
KP's
#5 Jerry Singer
#7 Bruce Dorman
#14 Todd Dennis
Fourth Place: -12 (tie)
Bob McCarty
Don Perkins
Dave Tooker
Richard Vargas
A Flight
Al Nelson, 159, 129
Manny Anderson 165, 137
Tom Arney, 165, 133
Bob Martindale 165, 135
Tom Lemmon, 167, 129
David Morris, 169, 141
Larry Strickland, 171, 133
Fourth Place: -12 (tie)
Tom Arney
Phil Hamilton
Al nelson
Gary Welch
KP's
#5 Phil Hamilton
#7 Bob Martindale
#14 Bob Martindale
Sixth Place: -11
Larry Emery
John Kallbrier
Pat Rickard
Gary Sparks
B Flight
Jerry Pennington, 157, 133
Rudy Nellermoe, 159, 133
Bob McCarty, 161, 135
Russell Bryce, 162, 135
Jim Wamsley, 170, 142
Low Gross:
Gary Sparks 72
Jerry Singer 75
Larry Emery 75
Jake Cox 76
KP's
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#7 Jim Wamsley
#14 Gary Welch
Don Perkins 62
Ricki Ambrose 63
Frank Gates 64
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