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
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The Elkton team celebrates their victory over North Douglas on Saturday.
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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.
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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
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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.