COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JANUARY 9, 2019
High School
Basketball Standings
Boys Sky-Em League
Team
Marshfield
Marist
Junction City
Siuslaw
Elmira
Cottage Grove
Record
9-3
7-6
6-8
5-9
4-6
1-12
Rank
3
12
22
30
18
34
Girls Sky-Em League
Team
Marshfield
Junction City
Marist
Cottage Grove
Siuslaw
Elmira
Record
12-1
9-5
8-5
7-6
4-10
2-9
Rank
1
9
8
11
30
29
Boys Skyline League
Team
Overall League
UVC
10-2
2-0
Riddle
10-0
1-0
Elkton
4-8
1-0
North Douglas 6-6
1-1
Camas Valley 5-6
1-1
Pacific
5-7
1-1
Milo
4-4
0-0
Glendale
0-7
0-0
Days Creek
6-5
0-1
NHC
2-8
0-1
Yoncalla
5-8
0-2
Girls Skyline League
Team
Overall League
North Douglas
Pacific
Elkton
NHC
Yoncalla
Milo
Days Creek
Riddle
UVC
Camas Valley
10-3
8-6
6-6
5-6
5-8
2-6
4-7
1-8
6-6
4-7
2-2
2-0
1-0
1-0
1-1
0-0
0-1
0-1
0-2
0-2
3B
Elkton cruises past Yoncalla for victory
After Yoncalla took a brief 4-3
lead, the Elks swiftly answered
with a 21-0 run that started
with their full-court press. The
pressure created easy fast break
opportunities which led to 12
first quarter points from As-
pyn Luzier, including a pair of
threes, and 11 opening quarter
points from Kieryn Carnes. Lu-
zier and Carnes finished with
17 and 20 points respectively.
“If we do really good on our
press and we get easy buckets
then it gives us confidence,”
said Carnes. “And so when we
do get into our offense, we’re
already ready and we’re already
settled into the game and we’re
not just going crazy.”
The Elks continued to pour
it on in the second quarter and
went to the half with a 46-17
lead.
“We were hoping to run and
we did. We work all week on
looking down the court be-
Elks hang 46 points on
Eagles in first half on
the way to win
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Elkton head coach Rob
Parker has wanted his team to
start fast. He wanted this tal-
ented, junior-led side to strike
from the get-go. And on Fri-
day night, with a 30-point first
quarter against Yoncalla, they
did just that on their way to a
63-32 victory at home to start
league play.
“We’ve been talking all week
about how we come out some-
time early in a game and we’re
kind of soft. We’re kind of like
a fighter, feeling out the other
team and then when we think
we’re better, then we go after
them,” said Parker. “I said, ‘Just
do it. Start hard, just go.’ And so
they did it, I was impressed.”
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tory. Yoncalla’s Dominic Agu-
ilar hit a three-pointer at the
buzzer but it was too little,
too late.
“We got some steals and
forced some turnovers there
at the end and Spencer hit that
big bucket. Just doing what he
was supposed to do and for
us, sometimes that’s tough,”
said Trout. Adding, “We tend
to make things more difficult
then they need to be and we
start overthinking it instead
of letting the offense flow and
we start trying to make the
perfect pass and then we just
tighten up.” Woody led Elk-
ton with 14 points and Austin
Luzier added 10 for the home
side.
Elijah Allen led Yoncalla in
scoring with 10 points.
“Elkton, I thought, played
great on their home court
and came after it. But it was a
good ball game. I don’t think
we took advantage when we
got up by I think six or seven
cause we have a tendency to
just look for Kieryn. You know,
even though someone is wide
open underneath the basket,”
said Parker. The Elks got contri-
butions from across the board
as Margaret Byle added nine
points, Sadie Olson seven and
Alexis Halstead six.
Yoncalla’s Kaleigh Soto fin-
ished with 13 points on the
night.
“We kind of turned it around
in the second half and didn’t
look as bad as we did in the
first,” said Yoncalla head coach
Nick Edera. “I just couldn’t
figure out, we worked on the
press all week, we broke it fine
and then we got in here and we
couldn’t break it. And then all
of a sudden we passed through
it a couple times and it was like,
‘Oh, hey, that’s how you do it.’”
The Eagles followed up Fri-
day’s loss with a 31-23 victory
over Umpqua Valley Christian.
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there,” said Terry. “I think in
the third or even the fourth
quarter where they were kind
of going to sleep there a little
bit but I couldn’t get my guys
to generate the energy to go
attack the basket when we’re
up.”
On Saturday the Eagles lost
to Umpqua Valley Christian
56-42. The team played Days
Creek on Tuesday Jan. 8 (after
The Sentinel’s print deadline)
and will play North Douglas
on the road on Friday.
The Elks played UVC yes-
terday and have Days Creek
at home on Friday and North
Douglas home on Saturday.
“We’ll see where we take
it from here. Obviously our
schedule gets tougher. We’ll
take a win however we can
get it and hopefully we can
build some confidence,” said
Trout. “We’re seeing flashes
of pretty good basketball, just
the consistency is hurting us
right now.”
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Kieryn Carnes brings up the ball against Yoncalla on Friday
night.
The team hosted Days Creek
at home yesterday (after The
Sentinel’s press deadline) and
will travel to fifth-ranked North
Douglas on Friday.
For Elkton, the team played
Umpqua Valley Christian on
Tuesday before back-to-back
games of defending league
champion Days Creek on Fri-
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we’re a fourth quarter team and
we know that we can beat these
guys, let’s prove it to everyone in
the gym.’ And that’s it. It’s that
simple,” said Keller. “There’s no
magic play, there’s no speech you
can give the kids, it’s simply…
having confidence in your kids,
having confidence in your play-
ers.”
From the midway point of the
third quarter to the closing min-
utes of the fourth, Hidden Valley
went on a 26-4 run to take back
the lead. The Lions looked to
rally in the final minute and cut
their deficit to two. But despite
Hidden Valley misses at the free
throw line, could not come away
with a final shot to get the team
back into the game.
“Credit to the team, they did
a really good job, they respond-
ed of what I asked them to do
in the first three quarters of the
game. We came out and looked
like a really good team,” said
Hutchison. “I mean, [Hidden
Valley is] a 9-4 team now and we
came out and looked like a really
good team. Now we’ve just got to
figure out how to put it in four
quarters all together.”
WARRIORS
Cottage Grove’s Jaden Doolittle comes up with a steal on Satur-
day against Hidden Valley.
For Cottage Grove, it was their
fourth loss this season by three
or fewer points. But for first-year
head coach Hutchison and the
Lions, that are currently ranked
34th of the 34 teams in 4A, he re-
mains hopeful for the league sea-
son that begins Friday at Siuslaw.
“Everything that we want
to do is still ahead of us. I told
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them today in the locker room,
we can easily get third place in
this league and if not, we could
get second,” he said. “If we’re
clicking and we put it altogeth-
er. I truly believe that. There are
beatable teams. [The pieces] are
there and now we’ve got to put it
all together when league hits.”
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day and fifth ranked North
Douglas on Saturday where
they look to continue their win-
ning ways.
“It feels really good to start
out the season with a win. And
I don’t know, it feels good to
have a 1-0,” said Carnes. “It feels
good to have a good start.”
PHOTO BY BECKY GERRARD
North Douglas senior Abby Whipple drib-
bles up court in a game earlier this season.
Michaels who was named
player of the year, in ad-
dition to defensive play-
er of the year, for the
Skyline Conference. Mi-
chaels finished with nine
points.
“The job she did on
Michaels is just incred-
ible. To come out the
game never changes her
facial expressions, never
misses a beat. She really
had the look in the locker
room tonight,” said Da-
vis.
After losing to Days
Creek in all three meet-
ings a season ago, the
Warriors were pleased
with how they per-
formed.
“That’s a big win, open-
ing weekend. Defend-
ing league champions in
here, won convincingly.
And who knows what the
heck is going to happen
the rest of the year,” said
Davis.
Last Friday night,
North Douglas started
league play with a 44-10
victory over Umpqua
Valley Christian. Aided
by a 45-24 rebounding
advantage, the Warriors
were dominant including
scoring 33 points during
the second and third
quarters. Thompson led
the team in scoring with
12 points. Olds had 11
rebounds.
This week, the War-
riors, who have moved
up to fifth in the OSAA
rankings, host Yoncalla
at home on Friday. On
Saturday, North Douglas
is on the road taking on
14th ranked Elkton.
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High School
Sports
Recap:
Cottage Grove Girls Basket-
ball:
At
the
Skyline/Sky-Em
Crossover at Henley High
School, the Lions scored a pair
of victories against Mazama
and Henley. The Lions defeated
Mazama 45-37 on Friday. On
Saturday, the team took down
Henley 51-32. Freshman Gracie
Arnold led Cottage Grove with
19 points while senior Reilly
Kelty scored 16 points.