B
S PORTS
Section B
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
South Lane County Sports and Recreation
CGHS
promotes
Spirit
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Home opener sees Lions roar to win
By Zach Silva
While high school students
are constantly bombarded with
a refrain saying to stay off their
phones, Cottage Grove High
School is looking to utilize this
screen time to create school
spirit.
“Kids are always on their
phones and I’m a big propo-
nent of going to where your
clientele is,” said Chris Wells
who has a number of roles at
CGHS including a focus on
media.
And this was the key idea to
the school using an app called
Spirit. The app acts as a glori-
fi ed calendar that lists all of the
school sponsored events that
are taking place; from outdoor
club to a soccer game, every-
thing is listed.
Students and staff are then
instructed to check-in to these
events so that they get points
for them personally and for
their class. To check-in, the
app has to see that the indi-
vidual is physically at the lo-
cation of the event for them to
be awarded points. At the end
of the year individuals and the
class that does the best will be
awarded for their school spirit.
“The overall goal is to give
a sense of connectedness and
you know kind of put our
school in the pocket of every
kid so they can see who is go-
ing to what, what’s going on,
how they can interact with the
school,” said Wells.
The idea was pitched to
Wells by a junior on student
council who heard about the
app at a conference with stu-
dent councils from around the
state. From there the school
signed up and create events
through it.
While smart phones are
booming in popularity, Wells
and the team were aware that
not all students have access to
these devices.
“We kind of anticipate some
equity issues around it and
we acknowledge that not ev-
ery kid will have a phone and
we can still run the system
through other devices like our
computers and stuff like that…
We’re trying to be really mind-
ful about our kids and what
they come to school with,”
said Wells.
The ultimate goal is to pro-
mote the school and to get
students involved in activities
around campus.
“We’re trying to really make
it worth it for kids to take their
time and enjoy their school be-
cause the statistics behind it,
the more kids interact the more
they are around each other the
less chance they have of being
bullied or being bullies,” said
Wells.
Cottage Grove routs Madras but are not satisfi ed with the result on the fi eld
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
While the scoreboard showed that Cottage Grove
won 49-13 in a game that saw the Lions overpower
Madras in every facet of the game, you would not
have known it simply by seeing the team or coaches
after the game.
“Like I told the guys, I’m only disappointed because
I know we can do better,” said head coach Gary Rob-
erts. “If we were as good as we can be then I would
just nod my head and tell them I guess that’s all we’ve
got. I think we can better than what we are. I know we
can be better than what we were tonight.“
Regardless of how the team felt things went, the Li-
ons started strong right out of the gate. After the de-
fense forced a fi rst drive three and out it took one play
on offense for the Lions to score on a Jacob Woods 48
yard run. The defense got a quick stop which then led
to a four play drive that went 82 yards in 45 seconds,
and featured a 52 yard run by Chad Bottorf, and put
the Lions up 14-0.
The Lions continued to roll from all angles. Bottorf
rushed for another touchdown and got an interception
and the offense piled it on. Quarterback Dylan Graves
went seven-for-eight through the air with a touchdown
and rushed for a pair of scores.
The Lions went to the locker room at halftime up
42-0. In their fi rst two games of the season, they have
outscored opponents 85-0 in the fi rst half. Regardless
of the scoreboard, Roberts did not like the way his
team was carrying itself.
“We preach the little things all the time to the kids.
All the time about body language, about hustling
around, about taking pride in what you do and I don’t
think we did that tonight all the time,” said Roberts
who noted that he felt a shift in the team attitude
during the second quarter.
The team was also aware of this shift. Bottorff, who
ended the game with 170 yards rushing on ten carries,
keyed in on the lack of attention to detail.
“It’s like we did the big picture well but we didn’t
get it tuned in the end. Like we still need to work on
all the little things because that’s what matters most,”
he said.
While the Lions heavily leaned on their backup
units, the second half featured penalties and a turn-
over; Madras ended up outscoring Cottage Grove 14-7
in the half.
“We just have better players than they do. I thought
that our kids just kind of went through the motions,”
said Roberts. “That will be good enough against Ma-
dras but is it going to be good enough against Scap-
poose? Our league opponents? Our kids need to have
a little bit more pride in themselves and what their job
is.”
The Lions will fi nd out how they measure up when
they travel to Scappoose on Friday. The Indians have
jumped out to a 2-0 start and have outscored their op-
ponents 113-19 in their fi rst two games. The teams met
last year and the Lions won 24-21.
“[Our team] knows when they play Scappoose they
are playing one of the premier programs in class 4A.
And they know that they have to come with their ‘A’
game,” said Roberts.
PHOTO BY JORDAN HAGEWOOD/CHANDLER BASCUE
PHOTO BY JORDAN HAGEWOOD/CHANDLER BASCUE
Jacob Woods evades a Madras defender.
Athletes
of the
Week
PHOTO BY JORDAN HAGEWOOD/CHANDLER BASCUE
Cottage Grove's Chad Bottorff springs past the Madras defense on his way to rushing for 170 yards in the game on Friday.
The Lions defense drop Madras' running back Treyvon Easterling for a loss.
This week's athletes of the week were
Cottage Grove waterpolo players
MJ Raade (left) and Mikayla Baird
(right). The duo scored a combined
12 goals against Sheldon last
Tuesday to beat the Irish 13-7. For
more information on waterpolo and
a complete roundup of last week's
games across all sports, turn to A4.
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