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.
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volleyball guts out
two wins to move on
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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.
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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
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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
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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.