Cottage Grove Sentinel
Sports & Recreation
SOUTH LANE COUNTY SPORTS AND RECREATION
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Calendar
• CG VB @ Junction
City, 6:30 p.m.
• ND VB vs. Days
Creek, 6 p.m.
• EHS VB vs.
Yoncalla 6 p.m.
First tournament
points to bright future
for WHD Center
By Nick Snyder
nsnyder@cgsentinel.com
Oct. 18
Oct. 19
• CG VB @
Marshfield
Tournament, TBD
• CG XC @ Warner
Pacific XC Classic,
Lents Park, Portland,
Ore.
CONTACT SPORTS REPORTER NICK SNYDER AT
942-3325 OR NSNYDER@CGSENTINEL.COM
Water polo makes
itself at home
Oct. 17
• CG FB vs. La
Grande, 6 p.m.
• ND FB @ Yoncalla,
7 p.m.
• EHS FB vs.
Oakridge, 3 p.m.
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WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER 16, 2019
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NICK SNYDER/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Senior M.J. Raade was a standout yet again for the Aqua
Lions, scoring four goals against Sheldon in an 11-3 win.
The new and improved
Warren H. Daugherty Aquat-
ic Center may still be in its in-
fancy, opening just a few short
weeks ago, but the Aqua Lions
water polo teams are doing
their best to get comfortable
in their new home pool.
Cottage Grove played host
to three visiting teams last
Fri., Oct. 11, putting on the
first water polo tournament
since the Daugherty Center’s
grand re-opening. North Eu-
gene, Sheldon and Medford
all made the trip to the Aqua
Lions’ home pool, with Shel-
don ultimately taking the
boy’s title and Cottage Grove
triumphing on the girl’s side.
All in all, however, accord-
ing to head coach Tyson Pill-
ing this was a day that was just
as much about celebrating the
Daugherty Center as it was
See WATER POLO 2B
CG soccer poised for playoffs
Oct. 22
• CG boys soccer vs.
Junction City, 7 p.m.
• CG girls soccer @
Junction City, 7 p.m.
• CG VB @ Marist,
6:30 p.m.
ODFW R EGIONAL F ISHING /
H UNTING R EPORT
Zone 1 duck hunting opens
this Saturday
With the opening of westside
duck hunting on Oct. 12, duck,
pheasant, chukar, CA quail and
forest grouse will be open state-
wide.
General deer season takes
a break for elk
General season Cascade elk
opened this Saturday, Oct. 12.
The Cascade buck season closed
on Oct. 11 and will reopen on
Oct. 19.
Best bets for weekend fishing
Coho and trout offer some of
the best opportunities for week-
end fishing.
• Fall Chinook is still the heavy
hitter in mid-coast fisheries. With
the drier weather, most fish are
still staging in tidewater and the
fishing should be good.
• Adult steelhead fishing con-
tinues to be good throughout the
middle Rogue with spinners and
flies bringing in some nice large
fish.
• Coho passage at Willamette
Falls continues to build – these
fish are arriving in the Sandy and
Clackamas rivers now.
• Detroit Reservoir has been
stocked with over 6,000 trophy
trout in the past two weeks, and
the cooler fall temperatures have
probably put these fish on the
bite.
• In Chickahominy Reservoir,
recent sampling suggests there are
plenty of trout available in the 17-
to 21-inch range.
• Fly-fishing in the Blitzen
River has been good with anglers
catching some nice redbands up
to 16-inches.
• Fall can offer some of the best
trout fishing of the year in Ore-
gon’s hike-in lakes – the mosqui-
toes are gone, so are many of the
See
ODFW 4B
NICK SNYDER/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
(Left) Sophomore goalie Ty Kishen helped a staunch Lions defense hold Marshfield to one goal; (top right) junior mid-
fielder and team captain Evan Snauer exhausted after a hard-fought win against the Pirates; (bottom right) junior mid-
fielder Chanel Leach has been a lead aggressor in the midfield for a Lions team that sits in second place in league.
Both the girls and boys teams
on verge of securing playoff
spot
By Nick Snyder
nsnyder@cgsentinel.com
After losing 4-0 earlier in the week to a
second-ranked Marist team, the Cottage
Grove boys soccer team still controlled
their own destiny for the playoffs.
As the clock ticked to zero last Thurs.
Oct. 10 at Don King Field, the Lions (6-4
overall, 3-2 league) and their fans looked
up at the scoreboard to see a 2-1 victory
against the visiting Marshfield Pirates (6-
4, 2-3).
With Junction City losing to Marist 8-0,
the results broke a three-way tie for second
place in the Sky-Em League - between the
Tigers, Pirates and Lions - leaving Cottage
Grove alone in second behind the Spar-
tans. With three games remaining, the
Lions can win two of three to guarantee
themselves an automatic bid to the state
playoffs, given to the top two finishers in
each of the six 4A leagues.
“You want to be in the top two,” head
coach Vern Stewart said after the game.
“We ended up third [in the league] last
year and ended up ranked number 18 in
the state. That made it so we got to go …
But it gets a little dicey when you do it that
way, so it’s better to go in as the top two.”
The first half was a tale of two familiar
teams waiting for the right moment to
strike, resulting in a defensive battle that
See SOCCER 3B
Lethargic first half leads to Lions loss
Penalty fl ags fl y in
shutout loss as Fal-
cons O dominates
By Joshua Leach
Cottage Grove Sentinel
Early turnovers and penal-
ties put Cottage Grove down
big early in Thursday night’s
matchup with the Elmira Fal-
cons.
The Falcons (3-3, 2-1
league) came out hungry on
defense early, forcing fumbles
and capitalizing on bobbled
snaps by the Lions (0-6, 0-3
league). The game looked like
it might be a defensive battle,
with the Lions forcing a turn-
over on downs as the Falcons
threatened in the red zone
after their first fumble recov-
ery, but Elmira rattled off 50
straight points in the first half
en route to a 50-0 halftime
lead.
“We hurt ourselves a lot,”
said Lions head coach Chad
Smith of the first half of the
game. “[Elmira’s] a team we
can come and compete with.
We just made a few mistakes
and shot ourselves in the foot
a little bit.”
The Lions came out of the
locker room with a little more
Athlete of
the Week
See FOOTBALL 3B
JOSHUA LEACH/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Jacob Dunn (#1) tackles Gavin Parker (#11) on Thursday.
Elmira dismanteled the Lions’ defense in the first half.
Th is week’s athlete
of the week is Lions
goalkeeper Raina
Herzog, who has three
clean sheets in her last
fi ve games. Herzog
is also a standout
wrestler for CGHS.
Despite a
4-0 loss,
Herzog had
14 saves
against
the Marist
Spartans.
NICK SNYDER/CG
SENTINEL