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Cottage Grove Sentinel Sports & Recreation SOUTH LANE COUNTY SPORTS AND RECREATION Calendar Nov. 6 • CG boys soccer @ Valley Catholic, 5:30 p.m. (OSAA State Playoffs Round of 16) Nov. 8 • ND FB @ Hosanna Christian, 6:30 p.m. (OSAA State Playoffs Round of 16) Nov. 9 • OSAA 4A Cross Country State Championships, @ LCC, first race @ 11:45 a.m. • • WEDNESDAY | NOVEMBER 6, 2019 B1 CONTACT SPORTS REPORTER NICK SNYDER AT 942-3325 OR NSNYDER@CGSENTINEL.COM ND Volleyball ousted early from playoffs By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com With a core group of five seniors and just two years removed from a 1A state ti- tle, the North Douglas volleyball team had high hopes entering 2019. Much to their chagrin, the Warriors’ season came to an early end last weekend in the opening round of the OSAA state playoffs. On Saturday, Nov. 2 seventh-ranked North Douglas (22-10 overall, 12-2 league) traveled to Medford to take on ninth- ranked Rogue Valley Adventist Academy (18-3, 12-1) in a round of 16 matchup, ul- timately losing to the Hawks in a five-set heartbreaker, 3-2 (22-25, 25-20, 25-19, 19- 25, 18-16). The loss ended the 2017 state champi- ons’ year and they were left with feelings of frustration and unfinished business. “We did not play how we normally play,” said head coach Emily Reed after the game. “We had so many mistakes. I can handle defeat if I feel like we were just beaten by a team that’s better than us and I don’t feel like that was the case.” The Warriors won both the first and third sets to hold a 2-1 lead, but were done in by a litany of mistakes throughout the game. North Douglas had 41 hitting errors and a number of them came in the fifth set where, at one point, the Warriors held a 13-10 lead and were just two points away from reaching the quarterfinals. “If we had just played a clean game, we would’ve been out of there in three sets,” Reed said. “We passed well, we served well, but we See VOLLEYBALL 2B Freshman phenom flies into state meet ODFW R EGIONAL F ISHING R EPORT www.dfw.state.or.us/RR SHOTGUN SKILLS CLASS ODFW will offer a Basic Shot- gun Skills class on Nov. 17 in Mon- mouth. Good for both beginners and experienced shooters whose skills have gotten a little rusty. WILLAMETTE FISHING Weekend fishing opportunities • Coho are beginning to show up in good numbers on the North Santiam, especially below Stayton. • Coho fishing is in full swing in the Sandy and Clackamas rivers. • Fall can be some of the best trout fishing of the year in the area’s lakes and reservoirs. • It won’t be long before snow will limit access to central Oregon’s high elevation, hike-in lakes. Until then fish will be feeding aggressive- ly as they get ready for the winter, and fishing can be good. • This time of year is great for observing Chinook and coho salm- on spawning near the campground at Whittaker Creek (Siuslaw Basin). Please observe, don’t disturb. • A handful of waterbodies are scheduled to be stocked this week, including Walter Wirth Lake, Row River Nature Park Pond, Walling Pond, Alton Baker Canoe Canal and St. Louis Pond. COTTAGE GROVE POND (ROW RIVER NATURE PARK POND): trout, warmwater species Will be stocked in the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 1 with 800 legal-size rainbow trout. ODFW doesn’t typically include the exact date of stocking, but because the stocking is happening very late in the week, consider this a day-after-Hallow- een treat and then go take the kids fishing on the weekend! Fish is healthier than candy. ALTON BAKER CANOE CANAL: trout Will be stocked this week with 500 trophy rainbow trout. Will be stocked in the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 1 with 1,120 legal and 50 trophy-size rainbow trout. ODFW doesn’t typically include the exact date of stocking, but because the stocking is happening very late in the week, consider this a day-after-Halloween treat and then take the kids fishing on the weekend! Fish is healthier than candy. UMPQUA RIVER, NORTH: steel- head, trout There have been some reports of anglers catching summer steel- head, but it has been slow. We are entering the shoulder season for steelhead and it should pick up for winter steelhead in January. The North is closed to all fishing for Chinook. PHOTOS BY NICK SNYDER/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL (Right) Freshman Jaden Owens surprised his coaches, teammates and the field by finishing second overall at the Sky-Em District Championships. (Top left) Sophomores Piper Youngmayr and Hannah Cook both set PRs at the distract race. (Bottom left) Sophomore Eternity Reimche, seen her crossing the finish line, has run every varsity race this year for the Lions. CG XC’s biggest team ever took to the Sky-Em Championships with exciting results By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com Five schools, 71 boys and girls varsity runners and, after all races concluded, only one athlete reached the finish line with a faster time than Cottage Grove freshman Jaden Owens. The 2019 Sky-Em League Cross Country Championships were held last Thurs., Oct. 31 at Lane Community Col- lege (LCC). The crisp, sunny weather provided ideal condi- tions for the Lions’ 14 total var- sity runners — seven boys and seven girls — as half of them achieved personal records, none more impressive than Owens announcing himself to the world of Sky-Em cross country with a second-place finish and a spot in this week’s state championship. As the runners completed the second lap of the 5k course, the Lions’ faithful may have been surprised to see senior standout Jimmy Talley in the middle of the pack. Talley fin- ished fifth in the district race in his 2017 sophomore season — when Cottage Grove placed second as a team and earned a group invite to the OSAA state championships — and won the race last year as a junior. Talley, however, had found himself hobbled by nagging in- juries and ailments throughout much of the second half of the 2019 season. Thus, in his final race as a Lion, Talley served as an ideal teammate, motivator and pace-setter for the fresh- man phenom Owens. “Jimmy knows that there were some events in his health that messed with him [this See XC 3B Warriors dominate play-in game By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com PHOTO C/O BECKY GERRARD Senior Tyler Kallinger makes a diving catch in the second quarter against Siletz Valley. Athlete of the Week From pregame warmups to the post-game celebration, the hoots and hollers of a fired-up North Douglas football team could be heard echoing throughout Drain last Friday. In the play-in round of the OSAA 1A State Playoffs on the evening of Nov. 1, the ninth-ranked Warriors (6-3 overall, 4-1 league) took on visiting Siletz Valley (3-5, 3-2) and put together a wire-to-wire 48-0 victory, dominating all phases of the game en route to a spot in next weekend’s round of 16. Winners of their last four games coming into this playoff, and replete with graduating seniors in their final year of foot- ball, North Douglas entered this matchup with both momen- Th is week’s athlete of the week is North Douglas senior quarterback Austin Frieze who accounted for six of the Warriors’ seven touchdowns against Siletz Valley. See WARRIORS 2B Frieze is a big reason the War- riors carry a fi ve-game winning streak into the Round of 16. PHOTO BY NICK SNY- DER/CG SENTINEL
