COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL OCTOBER 31, 2018
3B
N. Douglas girls score fi fth trip to quarterfi nals
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Th e Warriors are going back
to Redmond. For the fi ft h sea-
son in a row, the North Douglas
volleyball team has advanced to
the 1A state quarterfi nals.
“I’m just excited. I’m really
happy for the girls. I’m happy
for our seniors that they get to
fi nish their volleyball career
on the state tournament fl oor,”
said North Douglas head coach
Anne Campbell. “We’ve got
freshmen that have been con-
tributing all season and so they
can see that hard work can get
them to the state tournament
and it kind of sets the tone for
them coming back. Now they’re
going to want to go to the state
tournament every year. So I’m
excited that we won.”
North Douglas had a pair
of home playoff wins last week
defeating 18th ranked Rogue
Valley Adventist Academy in
straight sets (25-6, 25-14, 25-14)
on Wednesday and 16th ranked
Adrian in four sets (25-15, 23-
25, 25-19, 25-20) on Saturday
aft ernoon.
In Wednesday’s game, it was
all Warriors from the start as
they were untouched in the fi rst
set against Rouge Valley. Th e
visiting Red Tail Hawks strug-
gled on their serve receive and
when they did manage to get it
over the net, it did not turn into
a rally but rather an exhibition
in North Douglas hitting.
“We’ve just got to outpower
them and outplay them and out-
work and outhustle and outlast.
Th at’s what we do,” said Camp-
bell.
Leading the way for North
Douglas was Arianna Helgren
with 11 kills to go with 11 digs.
Abby Whipple had eight kills,
seven digs and 20 assists for the
Warriors.
“I told (the team), aft er that
fi rst set, you know, that’s a team,
playoff jitters, long bus ride or
whatever. Th at’s not the team
that made it this far so you’ve
got to prepare for that team,”
said Campbell. “And then in the
second they played a little more
competitively and we started
off right away with like four or
fi ve hitting errors which, I told
them, that doesn’t work for us.”
Aided by North Douglas’
sloppy start to the set, Rogue
Valley was able to hang around.
Th e set swung with the serving
of North Douglas’ freshman
Samantha MacDowell. Th e Red
Hawks were again out of rhythm
and the Warriors capitalized
with an 11-3 run.
Rogue Valley hung around in
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the third set and even took an
11-9 advantage before the War-
riors rallied. It was, again, jump
started with their serve but this
time from Rilie-Jo Olds who
helped put together an 8-0 run.
Jo-Olds fi nished the game with
12 aces and fi ve kills.
“I think it was a very good
performance. I think there is
more that we can work on and
lots more kills that we can prob-
ably get but I feel like we played
a very good game,” said Jo-Olds.
“I think energy and keeping our
composure is a big thing for us
and not letting any points get to
us. If they get a point, we get the
next point.”
Th e win set the team up for a
matchup against Adrian in the
second round of the playoff s. In
the fi rst game of the season, the
Warriors defeated the Antelopes
at the 1A Preview Tournament.
From the start Adrian was
competitive but the Warriors
were too dominant across the
board with big performanc-
es from Helgren, Whipple and
Nicki Derrick. Helgren had 22
kills and 31 digs, Whipple re-
corded a triple-double with 24
digs, 24 assists and 14 kills while
Derrick added 29 assists, 23 digs
and seven aces.
Aft er North Douglas took the
fi rst set, Adrian answered in the
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second with a late-ral-
ly. Th e Warriors had a
19-14 lead that was fol-
lowed with an 11-4 run
by the visiting side to
even the match at one
set apiece.
“We got into a couple
times where we kind
of got into a little bit of
tentative play and kind
of let’s see what they
do on their side and
I told them, that’s not
our game. We don’t win
those games. We have to
play our aggressive ball,”
said Campbell.
In the third set, the
Warriors again led 19-14
but this time were able
to take care of business
and close out the set.
Th e fourth set was up for
grabs throughout with
neither team able to take
control.
“I felt like the last set
North Douglas’ Arianna Helgren tips the ball over the net against
was low energy on both
Adrian on Saturday.
sides,” said Campbell. “It
was like 15-15 and it was
Douglas is facing a familiar foe
fectively did that today.”
like, who’s going to play
in fi ft h ranked Days Creek. Th e
Going
into
the
quarterfi
nals,
hard for 10 points? Because
teams
have met four times this
the
Warriors
feel
that
this
year
that’s what it’s going to take
because I didn’t want to go fi ve the championship is up in the season with the Warriors win-
(sets). I did not want to play air. Th e last four seasons the title ning both league matches and
has belonged to Country Chris- the Wolves taking both tourna-
fi ve.”
Campbell got her wish as tian but they were eliminated ment matches. Days Creek leads
her team was able to claw their in the second round on Satur- the series in sets won 10-8.
Regardless of matchup, North
way to a win that was fi nished, day. Additionally, three teams
Douglas’
Campbell believes that
ranked
higher
than
eight
(Per-
fi ttingly, with a Helgren kill to
the
team’s
best volleyball is yet
rydale
ranked
9th,
Joseph
10th
seal the game and send the team
back to Redmond for the fi ft h and Crosshill Christian 11th) to come.
“We always talk about peak-
have made their way to the fi nal
year in a row.
ing
in November,” she said. “So
location.
“Before the game we went out
I
want
to have the ultimate vol-
“I’m
so
excited.
It’s
senior
year
there and we were just like, we
need to jump on them. Because and we get to play in the state leyball experience, I want every-
our biggest strength is being tournament. What ever happens one to have their best games and
able to jump on teams and just there happens but I think we can just walk away from the state
hit aggressively,” said Helgren. go all the way,” said Whipple. tournament ending our season
on a proud and happy note.”
“So we knew in order to win, all “It’s so exciting.”
In a quarterfi nal match taking
of our hitters had to pound the
ball. And I felt like we really ef- place at 8 a.m. on Friday, North
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seed. Th is year, they enter as the
three seed.
“None of us had ever been to
the tournament before and it’s
way diff erent than your regular
tournament because it’s Forest
Grove and it’s huge. And it’s re-
ally tall and the lights are huge
and everything is diff erent,” said
Herbert. “Having that (experi-
ence) we know what to expect…
and it feels a lot better knowing
that.”
Cottage Grove will take on
sixth-ranked Tillamook on Fri-
day at 3:15. Th e game can be
streamed from OSAA’s website.
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