COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL FEBRUARY 7, 2018
Buzzer-beater lifts Warriors past Elks
W ARRIORS
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
PHOTO BY BECKY GERRARD
Hannah Maxwell and Rilie-Jo Olds battle for a rebound.
they did quite well,” said
Parker.
The Elks looked to foul late
to force a free throw contest
late but the Warriors were able
to hit enough shots to extend
their lead and fi nish with a
victory. North Douglas was
14-of-31 from the line. Der-
3B
rick led the team going sev-
en-of-10.
Riley Black had 11 points
and Rilie-Jo Olds added 10 for
the Warriors.
North Douglas outrebound-
ed Elkton 37-14 in the game.
Abby Whipple led the team
with eight boards.
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While it’s better to be lucky
than good, as the saying goes,
North Douglas’ Jake Gerrard
had just enough of both to pro-
pel the Warriors to a win on Fri-
day night at home.
After teammate Caleb Parks’
three-pointer bounced off, Ger-
rard grabbed an offensive board
and got a shot in the lane off be-
fore time expired to beat Elkton
59-57 at the buzzer.
“I was thinking, I just need
to get the rebound, hopefully
it takes the correct bounce and
High school
sports recap
A look back at the busy
week of high school sports
in the area
Cottage Grove Girls Basketball
Last Tuesday the Lions defeat-
ed Sisters at home 63-38. Mikaela
Blomquist led the team in scoring
then do what I can do with it in
1.5 seconds. It was lucky, really
lucky,” said Gerrard.
“I was like, good luck, see if
my prayer comes through here
and I’ll be darned, it did.”
Friday’s win, coupled with
Saturday’s 72-34 victory over
New Hope Christian locked the
Warriors into the second seed
at the district tournament. The
team will host the three seed
from the South next Tuesday.
“Jake went in there and got
the biggest rebound of the game
and put it up and it went in. It
was awesome,” said North
Douglas head coach Tyler Van-
cil.
For the Warriors, they felt that
they should have not been in the
position to need a last second
shot.
“We had a 10 point lead going
into the fourth and I said hey,
let’s extend that and then they
started hitting threes and we
couldn’t get a shot down here
and they just brought it right
back. They were fi ghting hard,”
said Vancil.
For the Elks it was Brad
Doudna, who fi nished with 24
points, leading the charge. In the
fi nal two minutes of the game it
was his teammate Mason Cox
who hit a pair of threes that tied
the game at 57.
“Our defensive intensity
picked up a bit and to our kids
credit they battled through.
They didn’t get their heads
down; they didn’t get frustrat-
ed and you know they just kept
chugging away,” said Elkton
head coach Gary Trout. “And
making shots certainly helps but
we were getting good looks and
we were running our offense to
get them. Got to be pleased with
that.”
The Warriors were led by
Parks with 14 points, Kyle Bow-
en with 11 and Gerrard with 10.
with 11 points. Maria Pardee had
nine points and eight rebounds.
The Lions defeated Sisters on the
road last Friday 54-19. Blomquist
led the team with 10 points. Reil-
ly Kelty added nine points and 14
rebounds.
North Douglas Boys Basketball
The Warriors rolled past New
Hope Christian 72-34 on Saturday
night.
North Douglas Girls Basketball
On Saturday on the road, the
Warriors beat New Hope 54-21.
Sofi a Alcantar led the team with
12 points, eight assists and seven
steals.
Elkton Boys Basketball
The Elks fell at home against
Glendale 44-39 on Saturday. Brad
Doudna fi nished with 14 points
and 12 rebounds for Elkton.
Elkton Girls Basketball
On senior night the Elks beat
Glendale 90-5. Hannah Maxwell
fi nished with 24 points and 11 re-
bounds.
Yoncalla Boys Basketball
The Eagles fell to Camas Valley
at home 57-46 on Friday night be-
fore defeating UVC 55-47 on the
road.
Yoncalla Girls Basketball
The Eagles won back-to-back
games this week. Friday night they
defeated Camas Valley 23-21 be-
hind Shanausi Hardy’s 10 points.
On Saturday the team downed
UVC 43-39. Kaleigh Soto had 21
points.
where it needs to be has got-
ten better, so too has the Lions
defense. Playing weaker oppo-
nents than earlier in the season,
Cottage Grove has been able to
force their will on the defensive
end. During a four-game stretch
during league-play the Lions
blocked an eye-popping 20% of
their opponent’s shots.
While the Lions are tall, there
is not a consensus on what
phase of the game the team best
utilizes their heights.
Yoss sees it on the defensive
end which has led to transition
points. Kelty sees it in their
ability to score from down low.
Ladd sees it as the offense’s
ability to adapt to different sit-
uations. Gardner believes it is in
how they can see over defend-
ers and make the right passes.
Murphy says it is the ability to
crowd the lane on defense.
Regardless of who is right,
what’s clear is that in all phases
of the game the Lions can pres-
ent a problem to any team that
they face. While the Lions
struggled early in the season, as
things are going right for them
now, there is no team that would
look forward to playing this
multi-faceted squad.
“Coaches, after we give high-
fi ves after the game, they always
talk about how tall our girls
are. Like they always, even if
they’re like technically a better
team than us ranked or whatev-
er, they’re always like, we dread
playing you,” said Lions guard
Sam May. “We don’t want to
play. Because no one wants to
play against six-footers that can
swat you every time you drive
in.”
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“They’re so focused on the
one thing of getting the ball to
the post that they forget that
they can also dribble and relieve
some pressure and then still get
it to the post,” said Yoss after a
Dec. 20 loss to Philomath.
Being able to get the ball
inside became the focus of ev-
erything the Lions did. Both
in games and at practice; the
importance was turned up. In
practice, when bad passes were
made during their scrimmages
Yoss noted that the players then
faced “consequences.” It was
not making the individual run
more but having their team have
to play 4-on-5 to show just how
costly it is to the team.
“We’ve been working a lot on
post entries, our guards have,
and so if I’m standing there and
I’m open and I have both hands
up and like I’m ready for it, I
can work my way around the
girls,” said the 6 foot 3 Kelty.
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