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. Adding,
“mutual.”
“Keep getting better, keep com-
The Lions finish the regular peting, keep being a good team-
season this week with home mate. And you just hope for the
games against Junction City and best and play hard. Effort is half
Marist.
the battle.”
“Nothing changes even if you
Low Gross:
Jake Cox 72
Gary Ingram 74
Low Net:
Jim Cunningham 57
Don Hanly 60
Don Perkins 63
Closest to the Pin:
#5 Ron Ackerman
#7 Frank Gates
#14 Don Hanly
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