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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL FEBRUARY 21, 2018 Elks down Warriors in overtime Skyline Tournament Reults: Boys: Girls: First: Pacifi c First: Days Creek Second: Days Creek Second: Camas Valley Third: North Douglas Third: Elkton Fourth: Glendale Fourth: North Douglas Caring for your Health WE OFFER: •Spine Care •Orthopedic/Sports Rehab •Job Injuries •MVA •Foot Care •Chronic Pain Syndrome •Stabilization Therapy •Manual Therapy •McKenzie Method •Women’s Health •Pelvic Floor Rehab •Aquatic Therapy Cottage Grove Physical Therapy • FREE & unlimited access to Anytime Fitness Club during clinic hours • Lunchtime, evening, early morning appointments • Convenient location within the Safeway Plaza ??? Carrie DPT Snow, DPT 3B Heather Holmes, DPT, OCS A Merit Rehab Facility 1498 E. Main St., Suite 109, Cottage Grove • 541-767-2750 • www.cottagegrovept.com NEW: Digital X-Rays (use less radiation) Implants •Teeth Whitening • Extractions Lumineers (no prep veneers as seen on TV) The Elkton team celebrates their victory over North Douglas on Saturday. By Zach Silva zsilva@cgsentinel.com Cottage Grove Dental Dr. Brent Bitner, DDS 350 Washington, Cottage Grove (behind Better Bodies) 541.942.7934 South Valley Athletics will be having a fundraiser at the Brewstation on Saturday, February 24th, to raise money for the soccer equipment that was stolen in December. 5% of the proceeds for the day will be donated to South Valley Athletics. In addition we will be collecting donations there. There will be BINGO at the Brewstation that day starting at 4:00pm. If you would like to play we recommend getting there early as it is a popular event. The Brewstation is family friendly and kids are welcome until 8:30pm. They have adult as well as kid bever- ages and delicious food. The Brewstation will also match those donations up to $500! We hope to see you there! All season North Douglas and Elkton were evenly matched. They both made easy work of inferior league opponents throughout the year and split their head-to-head games on the season. They were equals. But on Saturday it was Elkton, with their best player fouling out in the third quarter, coming back from 10 points down in the fourth quarter to defeat North Douglas 35-31 in overtime and advance to the state tournament. After Elkton laid an egg in the Skyline league semifi nals to a Camas Valley team that had not beat the top three teams in the league (Days Creek, Elkton and North Douglas) and lost to the Warriors earlier this season by 46 points, and North Doug- las lost to the Wolves for the third time this season - and for the second time by three points or less - the two teams met in a winner take all game. “[Yesterday] they made the game bigger than it needed to be. Like a deer in headlights. So today I mean we talked about that and they were loose. Our pregame talk we just turned the music up and let them dance for about 10 minutes and then I talked to them for about 30 sec- onds and then we went out and played,” said Elkton head coach Rob Parker. As both defenses came out active, it was the offense that struggled early resulting in a 7-2 fi rst quarter in favor of the Elks. Bolstered by fast break points, the Warriors were able to take control of the game and fi nished the half on a 13-3 run to go to the break up 14-12. “North Douglas responded well. They did some things dif- ferently. They started attacking us low and we weren’t adjust- ing really well to that. They got the ball inside and you know, they’re a good team so they’re going to do that,” said Parker. In the third quarter, North Douglas continued to hold off Elkton’s Hannah Maxwell who has been the rock of this team all season. Maxwell had just four points in the game and picked up her third and fourth foul midway through the quarter. She stayed on the court and with 1:05 left in the quarter was called for her fi fth foul of the game. “Actually, no one told me she had that many fouls. I didn’t know… But it worked out so it was uh good coach- PHOTO BY BECKY GERRARD ing,” said a joking Parker. “No, if I had known I would have taken her out.” As soon as she went out, North Douglas went on an 8-0 run that stretched into the fourth quarter to take a 28-18 lead. “When Hannah fouled out, I’m sure they thought the game was over. And I think a lot of our girls thought that, too. But we practice a lot without her just in case this happens. And sometimes we do better because they’re looking for each other instead of Hannah all the time,” said Parker. As the game looked like it was over, the Elks made a run. The Warriors who out rebound- ed the Elks 37-22 were getting shots but could not get them to fall and then began to turn the ball over. The Elkton defense began to come up with steals and led by Kieryn Carnes who fi nished with a game high 15 points, Elkton worked back into the game. “Oh gosh, we got so tentative. It wasn’t by design. That wasn’t a plan. We just asked them against the zone to move the ball side to side, they’re in foul trouble, fi nd a post and attack the basket,” said North Douglas head coach Jeff Davis. Elkton’s attack started to come from all over as, in addi- tion to free throws from Carnes, freshman Margaret Byle, Sa- die Olson and Alexis Halstead, who gave the team a lead with 44 seconds to play, all came up with buckets in the closing min- utes of the game. As the Warriors controlled the ball in the closing seconds, it was Abby Whipple, who led the team with 11 points and 14 rebounds, drawing a foul. Af- ter missing a pair, Elkton got a rebound in a frenzy of bodies but was called for a travel and North Douglas, down two, had one more chance with 4.6 sec- onds left to play. North Douglas found Whipple on the inbound under the hoop who hit a layup to force overtime. “The idea on the inbound play is get the ball in the hands of your best offensive player and Abby is that,” said Davis. “She is the most experienced in our group. We were able to fi nd her and she was able to convert.” The overtime period turned into a free throw contest as nei- ther team hit a fi eld goal. Elkton shot four-of-nine from the line, including a crucial pair from Byles in the fi nal 10 seconds, and North Douglas missed all four of their attempts. “It’s standard and it’s cliché that unless you win a title your season always ends way too soon,” said Davis. “And you know, just disappointing that we couldn’t get it done. We played good teams and just can’t quite get over the hurdle.” Elkton played on the road at Hosanna Christian on Tuesday night. Due to The Sentinel's print deadline, we will have results from the game in next week’s paper. North Douglas boys head to state By Zach Silva WE HAVE MOVED! 211 N. 9th Street • 541-942-3079 www.southvalleyathletics.org SOUTH VALLEY ATHLETICS SPRING SOCCER: REGISTRATION ENDS FEBRUARY 25TH AGES 4 YEARS OLD THRU 8TH GRADE REGISTER DURING BUSINESS HOURS IN THE OFFICE (OR PICK UP A FORM FROM THE BOX OUTSIDE THE OFFICE), ANY TIME ONLINE AT WWW.FAMILYID.COM OR COME TO OUR MASS REGISTRATION, WHICH WILL BE HELD FROM 10:00 AM TO 3:00 PM AT LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL ON FEBRUARY 24TH CALL/TEXT 541-942-3079 OR CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION! WE HAVE MOVED! 211 N. 9th Street • 541-942-3079 www.southvalleyathletics.org zsilva@cgsentinel.com After their playoff hopes looked to be in jeopardy after a four-game losing streak, the North Douglas boys won sev- en of their next eight games, with the only loss coming to top ranked Pacifi c, and are headed to the state playoffs. Earning the two seed out of the north division in the Skyline league, the Warriors began the league tournament last Tuesday when they defeated Camas Val- ley 59-48 at home. Against the Hornets, the Warriors couldn’t pull away in the fi rst half. Cam- as Valley’s Derek O’Connor seemed to be the recipient of every North Douglas pass as he worked his way to 15 points in the fi rst half. “At halftime we said, ‘hey, [O’Connor] is killing us, we’ve got to shut him down. And I don’t know what he scored in the second half but it wasn’t much,” said North Douglas head coach Tyler Vancil. With cleaned up passes, the Warriors were able to get their out the game to advance to the league semifi - nals. “I think our problem was when things were getting close was our defense. I think we took some breaks and it got closer and then when we ratcheted up our defense we were able to build a lead again,” said North Douglas’ Caleb Parks. In the next round, the War- riors faced Pa- cifi c who beat them 59-31. Entering the North Douglas' Jake Gerrard drives to the basket on PHOTO BY BECKY GERRARD state tournament, Saturday night. Pacifi c has won offense going and held Camas Valley to just three points in the 18 games in a row and have not third quarter. Up 14 with three lost in 2018. Headed to the third place minutes left, the Hornets cut the lead to eight in the fi nal minute game where the winner moves but behind made free throws on the state tournament and the the Warriors were able to close loser’s season is ended, the War- January Junior All-Stars • Bowlers of the Month %DFNHU''6 -LPV3RLQW67LUH)DFWRU\ %LUFK$YHQXH'HQWDO 1:&RPPXQLW\&UHGLW &*3K\VLFDO7KHUDS\ 2UHJRQ:HVW59 &KYDWDO2UWKRGRQWLFV 3DWULRW0RUWJDJH &HWHUD)LQDQFLDO 6/)LUHDQG5HVFXH &RDVW)RUN 6RXWK9DOOH\$WKOHWLFV (PHUDOG)LWQHVV&OXE 6WDUILUH/XPEHU 'DYH¶V3ODFH 6WDWH)DUP ' '$XWR *URFHU\2XWOHW Pictured Left to Right: Kellen Hurst Jared Simmons 9LOODJH*UHHQ &RWWDJH*URYH*DUEDJH6HUYLFH :LOOLDPV 0DWKLV 740 Row River Rd. Cottage Grove 541-767-BOWL Great Fun! Great Food! Great Times! riors faced Glendale who the team beat earlier in the season by six. On Saturday, it was a back and forth fi rst half that saw Glendale’s Tristan Ware score 14 points in the fi rst. The game was tied 22-22 at halftime. The teams remained tight until North Douglas fl ipped a switch in the fourth quarter. The Warriors were trailing going into the fi nal quarter of play but then went on a 10-0 run that was the result of forcing fi ve straight turnovers. “We went to a 1-3-1, we kind of sat back in it. We didn’t re- ally trap out of it, I said let’s just stay back in the 1-3-1 and if somebody, if it’s a good posi- tion to trap, then go trap it. And they just did a good job of just watching the ball and trying to get those steals. And we capi- talized on those steals and got some points,” said Vancil. Off the turnovers Jake Ger- rard hit back-to-back threes on the offensive end to propel the Warriors. “Oh Jake, that was huge. That kid is a sophomore and he played straight JV last year… He’s really coming into his own. The next couple years are go- ing to be scary with Jake. He’s deadly from three. A couple weeks ago I was watching him at practice and he hit something like 16 in a row. Just automat- ic,” said Vancil. With a pair of missed North Douglas layups in the fi nal two minutes and electing to shoot instead of wait to get fouled, Glendale was able to work back into the game and cut the lead to four. But it was too little, too late and the Warriors were able to punch their playoff ticket. “They knew it was win or go home and the boys wanted it bad and so that’s what we did,” said Vancil. North Douglas will now play on the road tonight at 6 p.m. at fourth ranked Hosanna Chris- tian.
