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2B COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL FEBRUARY 13, 2018 Middlefield Men’s Club Monday 2/7/2019 Game: 2M Points Cottage Grove falls to Elmira on the road Falcons’ fourth quarter surge pushes team to victory By Zach Silva zsilva@cgsentinel.com In a matchup featuring a pair of teams that have both been frustrated throughout the sea- son, it was Elmira using a strong fourth quarter to defeat Cottage Grove 57-47 on Friday night. “That was tough. That was really tough, that’s just how the season has been,” said first year Cottage Grove head coach Seth Hutchison after the loss. Head- ing into the fourth quarter of Friday’s road game, the Lions (5-17, 3-5 Sky-Em) had a one- point advantage over the Fal- cons (8-12, 2-6). But instead of a close fourth quarter contest, it was an Elmira 15-3 run to take the Lions out of the game. The scoring came from across the board as five different Fal- cons in the quarter. For Elmira head coach, and CGHS teacher, Nick Garman, his team’s fourth quarter performance seemed to be an answer to his pre-game challenge. “I get it, I’m from a different era where we didn’t have cell phones and we didn’t have video games until I was in high school. What we did was play sports and everything was based on sports: did we win, did we lose? And if we lose we were in a bad mood,” said Garman. “Losing motivated us. I said, ‘You guys aren’t the same as me. And I rec- ognize that but I challenge you right now, we’ve got to go out and put some effort into win- ning.’ And winning is import- ant. And just said, ‘We’ve got to play with fire.’” In the team’s first meetings, it was fire that was lacking as Cot- tage Grove jumped out to a 16-0 lead before defeating the Fal- cons 53-40. But on Friday night, the teams traded baskets early on as the Falcons led 14-12 after one quarter of play. As Cottage Grove switched to their bigger lineup featuring the height of Creed Lufkin, Jasper Nichols-Ferguson and Shambay Trapp – all of whom are over 6-foot-4 – Elmira countered by pressing the Cottage Grove ball- handlers. “We don’t press much. But it’s like, we can’t guard their three big guys with my little guys. So we got to try to change the game,” said Garman who has one player over 6-foot-4 on his team. The press worked to varying results as the Lions, at times, broke it with the ease of three simple passes that created open lay-ups while, at other times, committed turnovers. “I don’t feel like they caused us to do those things and some- times that’s just the press,” said Hutchison. “That’s just what they want you to do, get your mind spinning. Get you rushed a little bit and you start to be lackadaisical with the basketball in those situations where you start to throw it away.” Despite turnovers, Cottage Grove rallied in the third quar- ter as they went on a 10-0 run to take the lead going into the fourth quarter. The Lions were led in scoring by Nichols-Ferug- son with 13 points. Jaden Doo- little and Lufkin each added eight points for the team. Cottage Grove was limited in the game by their short-bench as Hutchison stuck to a sev- en-man rotation. “We’re really thin and it hurts, it hurts at times. Leaving some kids out there and they try to push through their tiredness and in reality it should be the next guy up rather than fight through that,” said Hutchison. “That’s when things happen when you get tired.” The team’s depth took a hit re- cently after starting guard – and First Place: 98 Jake Cox, John Kallbrier, Don Perkins, Bob McCarty Second Place: 97 Jim Cunningham, Larry Strickland, Jack Doleman, Pat Rickard Third Place: 93 Frank Gates, Gary Ingram, Gary Rider, Dave Tooker BD Fourth Place (tie): 90 Larry Eyman, Phil Hamil- ton, Jerry Pennington, Ron Ackerman Fourth Place (tie): 90 Don Hanly, Darrell Lee, Gary Sparks, Jim Wamsley Fifth Place: 89 Bill Avery, Steve Lindholm, Mike Stahl, Dave Tooker Cottage Grove’s Jaden Doolittle gets off a shot against tight Elmira defense on Friday night. the team’s only returning starter don’t have as much to play for. from last season – Erick Giffen’s Nothing changes, you’re still departure from the team that competitive, you’re still playing Hutchison described as being hard,” said Hutchison. 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