COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL OCTOBER 25, 2017
got hit right as he was fl exing that nerve. I was out for
three months after that happened,” said Sweet Home’s
head coach Eric Stutzer after the game. Stutzer reported
that the player was then driven to the hospital, not via the
ambulance, to have the injury evaluated.
After the game got back underway, it was the Huskies
that came out strong. After putting pressure on the Lions,
a Cottage Grove defensive clearance resulted in a Sweet
Home corner kick. The ball was whipped in and after it
bounced around and could not be sent away, Sweet Home’s
Carlos Galvez found the ball in the crowded six-yard box
and was able to send it in to tie the game up at 1-1. It was
just the sixth goal the Lions have given up all season.
Not content with a tie, the Lions attack was revived. In
the 51st minute, the Lions capitalized on a corner kick of
their own. The pass was played short to Lathan Vanwagner
who sent a ball into the box that found Raum who headed
the ball in for his second goal of the game to put Cottage
Grove back up.
In the 65th minute, the game took another turn after Cot-
tage Grove goalie Zach Stewart made a leaping save that
pushed the ball over the upper crossbar. On the ensuing cor-
ner, Stewart went to make another save but was undercut on
the way down and dislocated his knee.
“I went to save the ball he undercut me, he used his
hips, fl ipped over and landed on it. Dislocated it and
had to pop it back in,” said Stewart.
Walking with a visible limp, Stewart stayed in the
game. In Stewart’s time of need, it was the defense
Wendy McNeill
that saved the day as Cottage Grove didn’t allow a
Sweet Home shot in the fi nal 15 minutes.
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“They packed it in and gave it their all so they
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could keep the pressure off of me,” said Stewart.
The Lions were then able to seal the victory after
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a pass from Snauer freed up Cervantes for a goal in
the 77th minute.
Reason for bowling:
“We really needed to bring the intensity today and
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I really wanted to push our team as much as we can
to bring the intensity up,” said Raum after the win.
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“We can’t celebrate yet because now we are going
into state and we need to keep our heads straight for
that because we can’t assume that we’re going to do
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The Lions will now have a bye until their fi rst
playoff
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“I’m excited to see how far we can go. Even if we
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get eliminated in the fi rst round, it was awesome be-
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ing with these guys through all my years of soccer,”
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want to strengthen up the defense,” said Stewart on the
adjustment.
Two minutes later, the Lions were attacking again. After
a Kyle Conley steal, he found Raum ahead just outside of
the 18 yard box in an attacking position. After he dribbled
around a defender, Sweet Home’s goalie came out to chal-
lenge and Raum slipped it by to put Cottage Grove on the
board.
The Lions, looking for a second goal, continued to push
but could not fi nd the back of the net. In the fi nal ten min-
utes of the half, it was Conley striking a perfectly placed
pass to a streaking George Cervantes inside the box that
Sweet Home’s goalie stopped. The Huskies found some
chances in the closing minutes of the half but a foul and
offsides call stopped their progress.
Just four minutes into the second half, what looked to be
just a player falling down turned into a scary situation. A
Sweet Home player went down in a routine play but stayed
down on the turf. Play was stopped for the next 25 minutes
as an ambulance came and paramedics assessed the situa-
tion.
“I think what happened, there is a nerve that runs right
[down your leg], I’ve had that injury before, and I think he
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Warriors start playoffs
PHOTO BY ZACH SILVA/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
North Douglas hitter Arianna Helgren spikes the ball in a recent match.
Number one ranked North
Douglas volleyball start
playoffs tonight
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
At the start of the season, the North
Douglas volleyball team was not a
team to be worried about.
Last year’s team that fi nished sec-
ond in state graduated fi ve seniors and
the team was starting from scratch. But
after a dominant season that saw the
Warriors go 26-6 and 12-0 in league
play, the Warriors enter the playoffs
ranked number one in state.
“Going into this season, people
didn’t have very big expectations of
us,” said head coach Anne Campbell.
“So the last two or three years the ex-
pectations were high because the last
three years we’ve had our best play-
ers coming back year after year. And
this year after losing all those seniors,
I told them people are going to expect
us to not be very good because we lost
all of our seniors. So we need to sur-
prise people.”
While holding the number one rank-
ing, the Warriors lost last weekend in
the league tournament which means
that despite being the top ranked team
and undefeated in league play, they
will fi nish second in league to Days
Creek. This second place fi nish means
the Warriors will not get a fi rst round
bye and instead will host Lowell to-
night at 6:00 p.m.
Going into the playoffs, the War-
riors will be depending on the expe-
rience and skill of outside hitters Ari-
anna Helgren and Abby Whipple. The
pair of juniors both started last year in
the state championship game.
“We have the same intensity, same
passion for the game that we had last
year even more. It’s really amazing.
Just playing with these girls on the
court,” said Helgren.
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