Sports & recreation
Cottage Grove Sentinel
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
South Lane County Sports and Recreation
CGHS
football
schedule
announced
Section B
Contact Sports, 942-3325 or e-mail zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Making their way downtown, biking fast
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Fresh off of winning a state
title, the Cottage Grove High
School football team will be-
gin the 2018 season on Au-
gust 31.
The 2018 schedule was an-
nounced last week as the Li-
ons will be in the new-look
Sky-Em League. Entering
the league is Marshfield and
Marist. The Pirates, who were
dominant in sports across the
board, fell to Cottage Grove
48-14 in last year’s state title
game. The Spartans finished
5-5 a season ago at the 5A
level.
“It’s certainly going to be a
challenging league,” said foot-
ball coach Gary Roberts. “So
it certainly ups the quality of
our league. But at the same
time it will help with power
rankings and gives us quality
games. It’s also pretty close,
we’re not driving to Klamath
Falls, we’re not driving over
the mountain.”
League play will be without
the familiar faces of Sisters
and Sweet Home who are
now in different leagues and
Sutherlin who is now in the
3A classification. Siuslaw has
also joined the Sky-Em league
but will be playing football at
the 3A level.
Filling in the rest of the
Cottage Grove non-league
schedule includes Cascade,
Crook County, Stayton and
Phoenix.
“Well, I think some of the
things that stand out are Cas-
cade won a state champion-
ship a few years ago and they
were supposed to go up to
5A and were able to get back
down to 4A. So obviously
they’ve had a really good pro-
gram the last few years,” said
Roberts.
“Crook County is getting
better. They’ve improved the
last two years. And then Stay-
ton was right on the cusp of
being a playoff team last year
and they got quite a few guys
back so they should be pretty
good. A solid team out of the
Oregon West League.”
In the final non-league
game of the year the Lions
will face Phoenix because
both leagues the teams are
in have an odd number of
teams for the football season.
Last year the Pirates finished
ranked sixth in state.
“So somebody is going to
have a bye every week so we
just tried to match up our bye
weeks based on teams that we
thought were going to be a
good competitive matchup,”
said Roberts. “So that’s how
we ended up playing Phoe-
nix because we kind of look
where we think we can slide
in and they kind of felt the
same thing.”
The season will begin with
a jamboree on August 24 at
CGHS.
2018 Schedule
8/24 vs. Marist, North
Eugene and North
Bend (Jamboree)
8/31 vs. Cascade
9/7 @ Crook County
9/14 vs. Stayton
9/21 @ Marshfield
9/28 @ Marist
10/5 vs. Elmira
10/12 @ Phoenix
10/19 vs. Junction City
The jamboree will begin at 6
p.m. All games start at 7 p.m.
A group of riders cruise along the Row River Trail for the Mayor's Bike Ride on Saturday.
heat and smoke from wildfires, this year’s well-utilized by not only people in Cot-
Mayor's Bike Ride celebrates trip began with clouds before the sun tage Grove but by individuals across the
started to peek through.
county and even the state.
its second year with ride
The
ride
started
downtown
and
went
“It’s just letting people know that we
along the Row River Trail
to the Mosby Creek Trailhead where have such a valuable asset with this bike
By Zach Silva
participants were treated to ice cream trail. It brings, you know, a lot of reve-
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
sandwiches, granola bars and some brief nue to the city. And you know, it creates
bike safety reminders. But the goal of the a healthy lifestyle to get out and exer-
It was a beautiful day to ride a bike.
cise,” said Gowing. “Just experience the
Mayor Jeff Gowing and a group of event was simple.
“Just
get
out
and
be
active,
”
said
Gow-
trail. When you’ve got something in your
about 20 riders, and one roller-blader,
ing.
“We’ve
got
all
winter
to
sit
on
the
backyard like that, you should take ad-
took to the Row River Trail for the sec-
couch
and
watch
TV.
”
vantage of it.”
ond year of the Mayor’s Bike Ride. While
Gowing
puts
on
the
ride
to
remind
After being sore from last year’s ride,
last year’s ride in September battled the
residents of the 16.5 mile trail that is this year Gowing prepared for the ride by
PHOTOS BY ZACH SILVA/CG SENTINEL
biking 2.5 miles to work each day. From
Gowing to Jim Harrison who is leaving
for a bike trip across Europe next month,
the riders on the day greatly varied.
Also in attendance was Horst Hitten-
berger and his grandson Tyler who were
there to just enjoy the ride.
“And just getting out, it’s nice, good op-
portunity to do something,” said Horst.
“And the bonding. And you know, he
needs a little exercise. He’s a very good
chess player but it’s a sitting down job. It’s
nice company.”
Left: Greg Lee takes a picture of the group before the ride. Right: Horst Hittenberger and his grandson Tyler finish up Saturday's ride.
Revamped PE classes impact entire school
Lincoln Middle School's
switch to a workout-based PE
model has had ripple effects
across the school
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
A
t Waldo Elementary School in
Salem, principal Tricia Nelson
wanted more from the PE program.
Year after year she saw the same games
being played and a thought kept coming
back to her: will students know how to be
in shape without the assistance of team
sports? What happens when they are no
longer in school?
“How do you take care of yourself
when it’s just you?” she asked in a phone
interview on Monday.
With this operating as the foundation
for what the PE program could become
Waldo created a program based around
high intensity interval training (HIIT)
that has not only impacted students in
the gym but in the classrooms.
“It has become the fabric of what we
do,” said Nelson.
hile working in Salem, cur-
rent Lincoln Middle School
PE Teacher Mark Dreiling noticed the
athletes at nearby Waldo Middle School
were making drastic improvements.
“It was just night and day for some of
them. And I was like what is going on
over there?” he said.
He found out that at Waldo, a switch
had been made in the PE department to
W
Athletes of
the Week
focus on working out using HIIT.
This one change in the PE curriculum
sent ripple effects across the school.
He soon found out that utilizing a new
program, Waldo participation in PE was
now at 100 percent on days it was in use.
Even more tantalizing was the anecdotal
evidence of better behavior outside the
classroom, lower referral numbers and
rumors of higher test scores.
“We went over there and it was just
amazing,” said Dreiling.
Once at LMS, Dreiling continued to
think of what was going on at Waldo.
After seeing HIIT in action, simply play-
ing games four times a week in PE didn't
seem like it was helping students.
“My first year here, the things we were
doing with kids it was kind of like putting
This week’s athletes
of the week are the
members of the AA
South Valley Little
League team that
took first place in a
playoff tournament
last Wednesday.
them all in one boat and making them
perform and it only got like a section of
them. The kids who were really good or
the kids who really struggled, it really
didn’t fit their needs,” said Dreiling.
With the support of administration,
they decided to change how things would
be done. The idea was to now spend three
days a week using the HIIT model.
“We just revamped, we didn’t copy
their program but we got ideas from
their program. And we each have differ-
ent skill sets so we just kind of put our
heads together and... now we have a new
program and we’re serving all kids and
it’s just a great process. It’s a long process,
it takes a lot of work,” said Dreiling of the
LINCOLN see B2
The team
celebrates
their victory
last week.
PHOTO C/O SOUTH
VALLEY LITTLE LEAGUE