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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL NOVEMBER 8, 2017 Lions fi nish 12th at State By Zach Silva zsilva@cgsentinel.com Saturday the Cottage Grove boys’ cross country team took 12th place at the State meet at Lane Community College. It was Jimmy Talley who led the way for the team as he fi nished in 33rd place with a time of 17:35. Behind Talley were Konrad Raum at 17:35 and in 33rd place and Paesen Timm at 18:01 and 58th place. Raum and Timm are also members of the boys’ soccer team that had their quarterfi nal game moved to Friday night to accommodate the runners. The pair arrived home from their game at around 3:00 a.m. and were warming up for the meet by 11:00 a.m. " It was the hardest race I have ever ran in my life," said Raum. "When the gun was shot and the race starts you go up this straight stretch and then you go up a hill. Right when I went up the hill my legs were already tired and I was like, ‘Oh crap.’” Raum still fi nished 35 seconds faster than his time at the state meet last season. Closing out the Lions top fi ve was Konnor Owens in a time of 19:07 and Justin Francis in 19:22. Jesse Ellingworth who fi nished 17th at State last year and 9th at districts did not run at the meet. A busy week Cottage Grove's Paesen Timm and Konrad Raum both competed in the boys' soccer quarterfi nal game on Friday and ran at the State cross country meet on Satuday. Here was their schedule during the last week: 11/1 7 p.m.: Cottage Grove vs. La Grande, fi rst round playoff game 9:30 p.m.: Lions win 3-2 (with goals from Raum and Timm) in overtime 11/2 11 a.m.: Soccer team loads up bus and travels to Pendleton 6:00 pm: Arrive in Pendleton 11/3 2:30 p.m.: board bus for McLaughlin 5:00 p.m.: Start game against Mc- Laughlin 7 p.m.: Lions lose 2-0 9 p.m.: Team departs for Eugene 11/4 3:30 a.m.: Team arrives at high school 10:00 a.m.: Cross country team arrives at Lane Community College 10:50 a.m.: Cross country team begins warming up 11:50 a.m.: State cross country meet begins 12:18 a.m.: Raum and Timm fi nish race 5B Two sports, twice the fun By Justin Francis CGHS Student Paesen Timm, a junior at Cot- tage Grove High School, has en- dured the time consuming task of taking part in two sports at once: cross country and soccer. With a season best time of 17:22 minutes in cross country, and his constant goals and assists in soccer, Timm is helping lead his teams to victory. The only fl aw with competing in two sports is the amount of time he has to do anything else. “It helps me learn to man- age my time a bit better,” said Timm, “The hardest part would be attending the practices.” Timm also mentioned that, “The meets and games were pretty easy because we only have to worry about one thing on that day.” The workload that Timm and all of the other athletes at Cot- tage Grove High School endure is nothing less than immense. They have to juggle practices, games, meets, school work and even a job for some. This task can be extremely diffi cult and stress inducing at times, and one might wonder why people would want to put themselves through it. The answer for Timm was easy, he wanted to challenge himself and play with his friends in both sports. Timm has been playing soc- cer since he was four-years-old and got into running his fresh- men year during track season. Until track season of his fresh- man year, Timm wasn't a run- ner, but when he told himself that he could push his limits and run with the faster runners and become better and better with every race he ran, he did. Hav- ing done sports his whole life, PHOTO BY ZACH SILVA/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Timm fell into the schedule of Cottage Grove's Paesen Timm races at running almost instantaneously. the district cross country meet. Fueling your body with what makes it happy, eating regularly his current cross country sea- throughout the day and drinking son and his current soccer sea- plenty of water; all of these put son, which means the choice of together led to constant increas- doing which sports arises next es in race times for Timm, and year, when Timm only has one kept him in amazing physical more year at Cottage Grove shape as he did it. A word of High School before he goes on advice that Timm shared is to to the “real world” where he can not procrastinate on work and make decisions to steer his life make sure that you are taking in directions to fi t who he is as a care of everything you need to person. Timm has three younger in school, before you participate siblings, and an older brother. in multiple extracurricular ac- He is very helpful around the tivities. house, especially with his little This year, he is fi nishing up brother, Jaxton. Timm used to be a basketball player in middle school and his freshman year of high school, but soon realized that when track time rolled around that Fran Rothage he could have been training in the winter time when basket- Age: 69 ball took place. The head track coach at Cottage Grove High Years Bowling: 8 School, Ricky Knutson, had agreed to train Timm through- High Game: 246 out the winter, leading to Timm Reason for bowling: seeing drastic changes in his race times. 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