COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JANUARY 17, 2018
Lions, Spartans
split swim meet
Sutherlin edges Cottage Grove in meet
Cottage Grove's Shaelyn Stevenson takes first in backstroke on Thurs-
day at Warren H. Daughtery Aquatics Center.
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
For the Cottage Grove swim
team, it was the boys defeating
Marist and the girls team fall-
ing to the Spartans last Thurs-
day at home.
“I thought it went great. It
went really, really, really good.
Getting the kids down, seeing
what we might do for districts.
People are doing hard work
and still swimming good so
we just keep doing what we’re
doing,” said head coach Tyson
Pilling.
On the boys side, the Lions
were led by the success of their
relay teams. The team won the
200 medley relay, 200 free re-
lay and the 400 free relay. The
Lions also had individual wins
from Ian Dukes in the 100
breaststroke, Ethan Burleson
in the 100 backstroke, Josef
Pifer in the 500 free and Fish-
er Nash in the 200 individual
medley.
On the girls side, the team
scored individual victories
from Mikayla Baird in the
200 freestyle, MJ Roade in the
500 free and Shaelynn Steven-
son in the 100 backstroke.
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Cottage Grove's Chance Rolston records a fall on Thursday night at home.
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Last Thursday at home the
Cottage Grove wrestling team
fell to Sutherlin in a dual meet
49-25.
“I understand that it was 49-
25, take away the forfeits – that
is what it is if we don’t have
somebody there – but we wres-
tled way better than 49-25,” said
head coach Chris Joyce.
Five Lions won their match-
es with Chance Ralston, Aaron
Boitz, Jacob Dunn and Travis
Thomas all being named win-
ners by fall. Cottage Grove’s
Adam Lamb won by a two-one
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
It was a slow start for the vis-
iting Elks who took a quarter to
find their rhythm before win-
ning a game by over 20 points
for the 11th time this season as
they defeated Yoncalla 47-21 in
league-play last Tuesday night.
“We just got done talking, and
we don’t want to do that slow
start like that anymore. ‘Why
did we do that?’ And the answer
they came back with was for
some reason – they’re not sure –
they just weren’t really excited
today,” said Elkton head coach
Rob Parker.
In the early going, it looked
like Elkton’s press that has been
a problem for teams all sea-
son was going to continue to
wreak havoc, but after an ear-
ly 8-0 lead, it was the Eagles
that found a way to score. As
Shanausi Hardy evaded the Elk-
ton defense, she led the team to
a stretch of basketball that does
not align with the team’s 2-10
record.
Powered by defensive stops
and a made three, the Eagles
went on a 6-0 run and were
down just three points halfway
through the second quarter to
the top-ten ranked Elks.
“We kind of looked like a dif-
ferent team. We just got tired
again there and I’m proud of
the effort there by the kids,”
said Yoncalla’s head coach
Nick Edera about his six-person
team. “They’re getting it. I keep
telling them, if they get those
defensive effort, the offense is
eventually going to come and
we’ll be okay.”
As all good things come to an
end, so too did Yoncalla’s hope
of upsetting Elkton.
Elkton’s Hannah Maxwell
took over the game and despite
being double teamed at the post,
the crafty-left hander exposed
the arsenal of moves in her
game as she found her way to
the rim. In a span of 10 seconds,
Maxwell completed a strong
up-and-under followed by steal
and was fouled on the lay-up.
A 14-1 run in the span of four
minutes gave the Elks a com-
fortable 27-11 halftime lead.
Maxwell led the team with 24
points and eight steals.
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“I don’t yell very much and I
didn’t yell today, but some stern
talking at halftime. And we
changed what we were doing a
little bit on offense. It present-
ed a little more opportunity. But
our big problem was we weren’t
going for rebounds. Too much
standing around. So we weren’t
happy with that. This is one of
the few games that we got out-
rebounded,” said Elkton’s Park-
er.
Yoncalla finished the game
with 33 rebounds; Elkton had
19.
In the second half it was Elk-
ton doing what they have done
all season as they imposed their
will and were able to take out
their starters as the lead contin-
ued to climb.
Big first quarter propels Eagles past Elks
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decision.
“I thought that after not wres-
tling for four weeks, we’ve only
wrestled each other for four
weeks in the wrestling room
since Christmas break, …we
wrestled better than the out-
come,” said Joyce.
Joyce noted that the Lions had
two forfeits and he believed that
Nate Farrell “probably should
have taken that one” after Far-
rell was defeated by sudden vic-
tory against Sutherlin’s Bryce
Anderson.
The Lions are now preparing
for their last home dual meet of
the season against Elmira on
Thursday.
“Coach Herzog recognized
[some nerves] before the meet.
It was a nervous -- it’s nervous
because we haven’t competed.
So now we’ve got this out of the
way,” said Joyce. “So let’s get
back in the room. We can dis-
cuss it say hey we’ve got that.
We’ve wrestled somebody that
wasn’t our partner and progress
on.”
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Yoncalla's Jeff Tibbatts fakes out Elkton's Brad Doudna last Tuesday.
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Spurred on by an early lead,
Yoncalla was able to get their
first league victory of the season
Tuesday night at home against
Elkton. The Eagles opened up
the game with a 20-2 run that
stretched into the second quar-
ter that the Elks were never able
to answer.
“We had a heck of a first
quarter, heck of a second quar-
ter,” said Yoncalla’s head coach
Jarred Eakin.
In the early going, the Eagles
appeared unstoppable.
Leading the charge, as al-
ways for Yoncalla, was Ted
Wickman. Wickman, who was
settling in early and looking for
teammates, filled the box score
as he finished the game with 27
points, 10 rebounds, five blocks,
four steals and three assists.
With Elkton’s Brad Doudna
headed to the bench in early
foul trouble, the Eagles took a
20-point lead into halftime.
“We’ve got to play in the first
half and do what we’re sup-
posed to do and we didn’t. We
didn’t change anything for the
second half,” said Elkton head
coach Gary Trout. “We came
out flat and then Brad picked up
two fouls and we kind of went
in a funk without him on the
court. And just couldn’t get out
of it.”
The tides began to chance in
the third quarter as Doudna be-
gan the quarter scoring on back-
to-back possessions. The Elks
began to run through Doudna as
he found teammates and got to
the rim to outscore Yoncalla 20-
10 in the quarter and the team
trailed by just ten heading into
the final stanza of play.
“We got a little lackadaisical
in the third, but of course they
were fired up coming in after
halftime,” said Eakin.
“They went on a run but we
didn’t fold.”
In the fourth quarter, the
teams traded buckets and the
Eagles recorded their first con-
ference win of the season.
“In practice they knew that
they had to have this one. In pre-
game, we knew that we had to
have that one. And in fact when
I came in and I said, ‘I shouldn’t
have to tell you’ and they said
‘we know,’” said Eakin.
For the Elks, it was their first
loss of conference play.
“Every night in this league is
going to be a battle. We could
get blown out or we could win a
game. We’re just going to have
to learn how to come and play
every night and we’ll see what
happens,” said Trout.
“Tough one tonight. Tough
first half.”
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