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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL NOVEMBER 1, 2017 Survive and advance, Warriors headed to quarters North Douglas celebrates after winning the fi fth set 17-15 against Griswold last Saturday. Bowler Of Th e Week North Douglas volleyball guts out two wins to move on By Zach Silva zsilva@cgsentinel.com Bill Brock Age: 54 Years Bowling: 40 High Game: 299 Reason for bowling: Camaraderie 740 Row River Rd. Cottage Grove 541-767-BOWL Great Fun! Great Food! Great Times! It’s not always easy being the number one seed. In two playoff games this week, the top seed in 1A volley- ball, North Douglas, defeated Lowell 3-1 and just scraped by Griswold in a fi ve set thriller to advance to the quarterfi nals. Last Wednesday, the War- riors hosted Lowell in the fi rst round of the playoffs. While ranked number one, because North Douglas did not win their league tournament, they did not get a fi rst-round bye. In the fi rst set, it was North Douglas up 11-10 when head coach Anne Campbell, from the sideline, told the team “we need a run.” The Warriors then rattled off 11 straight points and took the set 25-11. In the second set, the Warriors were up 18-9 but after multiple errors by North Douglas, Low- ell put together a 11-3 run to get within a point. North Douglas fi nished off the set to get the 25- 21 victory but buoyed by their play in the second set, the Dev- ils were able to put together a third set victory at 25-22. “In the third set we kind of went out, we said we were go- ing to execute and we went out there and I think we overlooked what was really going to happen and we started making mental errors,” said North Douglas hit- ter Ariana Helgren who fi nished the match with a team-high 17 kills. “Then we kind of fi gured it out like these are easy things to fi x and just cleaned up our mental errors. We didn’t pull it out but in the fourth game we fi gured it out.” It was all Warriors in the fourth game as they showed why they are the number one team in the state and rolled to a 25-7 victory to take the match. “I feel really confi dent be- cause having the kind of mis- takes we had in today’s game kind of showed us that we’re in the state playoffs now, so we don’t have a lot of room for those little menial errors,” said Helgren. Campbell noted that the team can build off what they did in Wednesday’s match. “We’re very inexperienced and we’ve played like a team that has experience but there are times when that inexperience comes out and there’s a little bit of a slip there and whether hopefully we don’t let it go long enough that we dig a hole that we can’t get out of,” she said. The win set them up to face sixteenth ranked Griswold at home in the second round. It was the Grizzlies that came out strong in the opening set as they were able to counter each North Douglas attack and they went up 11-4. But as they have done all year, the Warriors countered and worked their way back. This time they worked through North Douglas’ Nicki Derrick’s serve. Derrick ended the match with six aces and the Grizzlies could not set up their offense when she was on the attack. A 15-2 run put the War- riors up and they fi nished the set with a 25-20 victory. The Warriors again looked on their best form in the second set as they took the game 25-14 to be a set away from heading to Redmond for the quarterfi nals. But before North Douglas could seal the deal, the Griz- zlies bounced back. In the third set, the Grizzlies took the game 25-20. And in the fourth set they opened up a 13-4 lead and looked to cruise to a fi fth set until it was the Warriors who fought back. Powered by Hel- gren and Abby Whipple, the Warriors tied the game up at 18. Helgren fi nished with 27 kills and 30 digs and Whipple added 17 kills and 24 digs. Griswold responded to the rally and with the assistance of a service error and spikes into the net, the Grizzlies won the set 27-25 to set up a fi fth and fi nal set. Douglas uglas G. G Maddess, M ad d d ess DMD DM The Elkton defense shuts down Chiloquin on their way to a 60-0 win last Friday. Elkton football extends winning streak to fi ve as they beat Chiloquin By Zach Silva zsilva@cgsentinel.com 914 S. 4th Street Cottage Grove 541-942-1559 www.douglasgmaddessdmd.com With fi ve quick Helgren kills the Warriors were up 10-4 in the fi fth set. The Grizzlies came back and the match was tied at 14. Each team then had service errors and then the Warriors were able to rally to a 17-15 win to take the match. “I’m proud of the way that they battled because we really had… some ups and downs and you know they really battled back and they had this kind of late game, late set battle in the fourth set and we lost it. So when Griswold got right back into the game in the fi fth, I was a little bit worried,” said Camp- bell. “A match like this better pre- pares us to play at state… Typi- cally a number one seed has an easy road in. But when you play a team from the East you never know. They’re a different kind of volleyball over there, you don’t see them during the sea- son and the rankings are skewed a lot of times,” she said. With the victory, the Warriors will now head to the quarterfi - nals. “I’m just thrilled because like I feel like a lot of people didn’t really think you know like wow they lost a bunch of seniors, they’re not going to make it. And there was defi nitely a lot of vibes going there. And we just came out today wanting to prove everyone wrong. I mean, it took awhile but we still proved them wrong and I couldn’t be more proud of my team. North Douglas will face Jo- seph in their next match on Fri- day at 1:15 p.m. North Douglas lost to Joseph 2-1 in August at the 1A Season Preview tourna- ment. Elks win big, head to round one ready Family & General Dentistry “Brightening Lives One Smile at a Time” 3B In a home league-playoff game last Friday, it was Elkton that continued their winning ways as they beat Chiloquin 60-0 to move on to round one of the 1A state playoffs. “They are way bigger than us so I was really concerned about whether or not we could handle that size and physicality,” said Elkton head coach Bill Shaw. “And the kids responded really well. They came out and played hard, executed well and did some really good things.” The size was apparent from the start as Chiloquin’s quarter- back Den Herrera, listed at 6’2 210 pounds, and running back Daniel Jones, listed at 6’2 235 pounds, loomed over Elkton. But despite the size advan- tage, it was all Elkton from the get go. In just four plays, the Elks found the end zone with a 35- yard rushing touchdown from Spencer Moore. Then after a fumble on Chiloquin’s fi rst play from scrimmage, Moore again scored this time from four yards out. On the next drive, Chilo- quin’s Herrera was intercepted by Jase Billman who returned the interception to the end zone for a score. An Austin Luzier 40 yard rush on the next drive put the Elks up 24-0 after one quar- ter. “The defense was solid from the start. Forced a fumble, kind of got things rolling our way early. But I was really happy with our offensive execution today. No turnovers, we didn’t turn it over a bunch. We ran some things kind of outside the box,” said Shaw. The second quarter saw a continued level of dominance for the Elks. The defense forced another fumble and another in- terception in the quarter which brought their halftime total to four. Additionally they held Chiloquin to 29 yards of of- fense. On the offensive side, all sys- tems were fi ring. Moore ran for another touchdown and Luzier passed for three touchdowns in- cluding a trick play that saw two handoffs and a pitch back to Lu- zier who found an open Jayden Woody downfi eld. At the half Elkton was up 54-0. “They’re yelling to our side- line that we’re running up the score, but guess what, this is a playoff game,” said assistant coach Mike Hughes at halftime. In the second half, Elkton put their backups in on the fi rst drive that stalled and their start- ers were in after that. “I get the impression that [Chiloquin was] disappointed that they felt like we might have run it up a bit. But I tried to put my littles in but I thought that their guy 28 was going to kill my poor little freshman quarter- back,” said Shaw. With the running clock wind- ing down, the Elks found the end zone once in the second half when they ran the same trick play as they did earlier in game. “The fl ea fl icker was sup- posed to be a jab play to my two back in the middle of the line but the kids got a little creative on their own,” said Shaw. With the victory, Elkton moved up to number eight in the rankings and will now be hosting Wallowa at 1:00 p.m. next Friday.