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Cottage Grove Sentinel Sports & Recreation SOUTH LANE COUNTY SPORTS AND RECREATION Calendar Oct. 30 • 1A playoff: ND VB vs. McKenzie, TBD. • 1A playoff play-in: EHS VB @ Central Christian, 5:45 p.m. Oct. 31 • CG cross country Sky-Em League Championships @ LCC (first race starts @ 12 p.m.). Nov. 1 • League crossover playoff: ND FB vs. Siletz Valley, 7 p.m. • Non-league: Yoncalla FB vs. Mohawk, 7 p.m. • Non-league: Elkton FB vs. Waldport, TBD. • WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER 30, 2019 • CONTACT SPORTS REPORTER NICK SNYDER AT 942-3325 OR NSNYDER@CGSENTINEL.COM CG limps into shot at state playoffs Lions on prowl as they await OSAA playoff s By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com The 2019 season for the Cottage Grove vol- leyball team didn’t quite end as smoothly as they would have liked. Beset by injuries over the final few weeks of the season, the Lions (10-11 overall, 6-4 league) dropped their final two games, leaving them in a precarious playoff position. In their first game of the week, on Tues., Oct. 22, Cottage Grove had a chance to secure a top-two Sky-Em finish - and an automat- ic playoff bid - with a win over Marist in the final regular season contest. Alas, the Lions couldn’t get the win against their rivals to the north, losing 3-1 (23-25, 25-23, 27-25, 25-23) See LIONS 2B By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com PHOTO BY NED HICKSON/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Matty Ladd (10) and Gracie Arnold’s (7) con- tributions against Marshfield weren’t quite enough to secure an automatic playoff spot. Tigers best Lions in battle of the beatens ODFW R EGIONAL F ISHING R EPORT www.dfw.state.or.us/RR ARTWORK AND WINE BEN- EFIT OREGON’S FISH AND WILDLIFE ODFW’s annual fish and wild- life art show is Saturday, Nov. 2, 1 - 4 p.m. at Duck Pond Cellars, 23145 Hwy 99W, Dundee where the winery will release its new Conservation Cuvee Pinot noir. EARLY SEASON DUCK HUNTING Warm sunny weather and blue- bird skies can create challenging conditions for early season duck hunters. (And we’re not talking about sunburn.) Adjusting your tactics to these conditions will help you bag more ducks. 10 TIPS FOR CATCHING COHO Coho returns have been looking good in many rivers, including Willamette Valley rivers such as the Clackamas, Sandy and North Fork Santiam. Coho can be the bank angler’s best chance at landing a salmon. BEST BETS FOR WEEKEND FISHING The fall season has trout biting, salmon fishing picking up in some areas, steelhead fishing getting good in eastern Oregon and even warmwater fish are still biting. Here are just a few sugges- tions for the weekend: • This will be your last weekend of the season to fish for cutthroat trout in coastal rivers and streams before they close Oct. 31. • Campbell, Cottonwood Meadows and Deadhorse lakes are good choices for some great fall trout fishing. • Best bet in the Klamath Basin is to target brook trout in the up- per areas of the Sprague, William- son or Sycan rivers. • Recent rains have pushed fall Chinook from the north and mid- coast estuaries into the rivers. As a result, there are fish throughout many of the rivers. • Umatilla River coho made a strong push this past week with over 750 adults returning to Three Mile Dam. • Steelhead are spread out in the lower Deschutes as far upriver as South Junction. • Steelhead are starting to move into the John Day River. • Expo pond has some surpris- ingly large bass with decent bank fishing opportunities this time of year as vegetation dies back. • Reinhardt Park Pond has also been seeing some good fishing for warmwater species, and for recently stocked trout. See ODFW 3B B1 NICK SNYDER/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Junior Joey Spink returned at quarterback on Fri., Oct. 25 against Junction City (1-7 overall, 1-3 league), leading the Lions (0-8, 0-4) with senior wide receiver Jacob Dunn in the team’s most tightly contested game of the year. Dunn took an end-around 53 yards for a touch- down in the first half (pictured bottom left) and Spink found paydirt himself on a quarter- back sneak (pictured top) to make the game 17-16 Tigers just before halftime. However, Junction City would score three more times to the Lions’ one, sealing a 36-22 victory over Cottage Grove to earn their first win of the season. Spink (bottom right) got more work in the passing game than in any prior contests and will look to build on his experience for his 2020 senior season. LMS XC finish on high note Success in fi nal two meets of the season capped by district meet sweep By Ben Deatherage Community Contributor The Lincoln Middle School cross country team flexed their muscle the last two weeks in their final pair of meets. On Oct. 16 the Tigers traveled to Indepen- dence, just outside of Salem, for the Mid-Wil- lamette Valley meet. In boys action, Carter Bengston was the lone top-ten finisher, finish- ing sixth out of a field of 82. On the girls side of things, Gracee Dizick- Kaleese posted a sixth-place result, Addi- son Voelkel crossed the line eighth and Bella Athlete of the Week Keating finished just behind her teammate in ninth. The girls’ field was comprised of 72 total runners. All things came to a head on Oct. 23 at Fern Ridge’s Richardson Park for the Willamette Valley Youth League Cross Country District Championships. The boys took care of business with Carter Bengston and Max Ellis finishing first and sec- ond while Jace Meyer was a strong seventh. The girls also had three runners among the top ten, led by Gracee Dizick-Kaleese in second, Addison Voelkel in fifth and Bella Keating in eighth. Once all team scores were totaled, both teams were at the top of the podium. It is the first time that both teams have won the Dis- trict Championship meet in the same season. Th is week’s athlete of the week is Cottage Grove starting running back Daetrayl Berry. In a diffi cult, tumultuous season for the Lions, Berry was a cornerstone, starting every game of the season in the backfi eld. Th e Cottage Grove boys’ soccer team would’ve liked more than a split of their two games last week, but in the end it didn’t really matter. In their fi nal regular season game of the year on Th urs., Oct. 24 the Lions (8-5 overall, 5-3 league) had the tall task of taking on the Marist Spartans (12-0-1, 8-0) in Eugene, ultimately falling to the number-two team in the state 4-0. No matter, as two days prior on Tues., Oct. 22 Cottage Grove success- fully secured an auto- matic state playoff berth by exacting revenge on a Junction City team that got the better of the Li- ons in their fi rst matchup over a month ago. It was a hard-fought, defen- sive battle that ended in a narrow 1-0 victory for the hometown Lions on senior night. Having set their des- tiny with a win earlier in the week, head coach Vern Stewart went into the Marist game with a particular message for his squad, a message where winning or losing fell by the wayside to make way for something more im- portant. “I talked about the journey and how oft en you only concentrate on the destination and you shortchange yourself by not enjoying the journey itself,” Stewart said. Despite both games against the Spartans fi n- ishing with the same 0-4 result for the Lions, Stew- art wanted his team to focus on the process, the moment to moment fl ow of the game, rather than just the fi nal outcome. Stewart, an avid fi sher- man, saw a metaphor in his own life. “I used the analogy of going out on my boat as I get older,” Stewart said. “I love the ocean, I love fi shing, I love my boat. I’ll go out and I’ll be tak- ing my time to see the sunrise, watch the whales and all that kind of stuff . You’ll have other boats whizzing by to get to that fi shing spot, but I take my time to get there. So it’s really not the destina- tion.” In any case, even with a loss to Marist, the Lions locked up their next des- tination - an OSAA state playoff berth - in the sea- son’s penultimate game. Th ey were led by team co-captain Evan Snauer who, according to Stew- art, played the best game he’s ever seen out of his junior midfi elder. “And that’s quite a thing to say because he’s played a lot of good games. He just cut out any penetra- tion that Junction City See SOCCER 2B Though held without a touch- down, Berry’s play against JC created chances for Joey Spink and Jacob Dunn. PHOTO BY NICK SNY- DER/CG SENTINEL
