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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.
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WEDNESDAY | NOVEMBER 6, 2019
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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