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Cottage Grove Sentinel Sports & Recreation SOUTH LANE COUNTY SPORTS AND RECREATION • Dec. 12 Dec. 13 • CGHS basketball vs. North Valley (girls @ 7 p.m., boys @ 7:15 p.m.) • North Douglas Winter Invitational basketball(NDHS/ EHS boys’ and girls’ bball, starts @ 3 p.m.) CONTACT SPORTS REPORTER NICK SNYDER AT 942-3325 OR NSNYDER@CGSENTINEL.COM Relay excitement kicks off swim season Calendar • CGHS boys’ bball vs. Hidden Valley @ 6 p.m. • CGHS girls’ bball @ Hidden Valley @ 6 p.m. • CGHS swimming: Cottage Grove Invite @ WHD Aquatic Center @ 4:15 p.m. • YHS basketball vs. Mapleton (girls @ 5:30 p.m., boys @ 7 p.m.) • THURSDAY | DECEMBER 12, 2019 B1 Non-traditional events help to start swim sea- son on a fun note By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com PHOTO BY NICK SNYDER/CG SENTINEL (From left) Braeden Buckland, Emma Burleson, Chase Fuller, Melissa Johnson and Fisher Nash cheer on their teammates in the 100-back relay. Since its October 2 grand re-opening, the Warren H. Daugherty Aquatic Center has quickly returned to its place as a community staple for Cottage Grove residents. Last Friday, Dec. 6 the facility achieved another new milestone as it played host to the first high school swimming event of the 2019-20 year. Marshfield, Marist and North Eugene High Schools traveled to the Grove to join the Lions for the season-opening re- lay meet. Relay meets have become a kind of season-opening tradition for many area schools, but the events themselves are decidedly non-tra- ditional. With coed relay teams, varying relay distances within a single event and even the use of kickboards in some of the group races, it’s a fun and stress-free way for swimmers to get their feet wet before the meets truly start to matter. “I’ve been really sick recent- ly so it was a little bit harder for me,” said senior Mikayla Baird, who also plays on the water polo team and lifeguards at the Daugh- See RELAYS 2B Skyline basketball tips off in Elkton Dec. 14 • North Douglas Winter Invitational basketball(NDHS/ EHS boys’ and girls’ bball, starts @ TBD) • YHS basketball @ Rogue Valley (girls @ 6:30 p.m., boys @ 8 p.m.) PHOTOS BY NICK SNYDER/CG SENTINEL ODFW R EGIONAL F ISHING R EPORT www.dfw.state.or.us/RR (Left) Keegan Mast goes up for a shot against Hosanna Christian. (Top middle) The Elks set their defense against Triangle Lake. (Bottom middle) North Douglas players get ready on defense. (Top right) Freshman Brooklyn Williams drives to the hoop for the Warriors. (Bottom right) The Elkton girls exit the locker room before their Saturday game against Triangle Lake. By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com WINTER TROUT AND STEEL- HEAD ARE BEST BETS FOR WINTER FISHING • Anglers are starting to catch winter steelhead in mid- and north coast rivers. Fish low in the systems until there’s some rain to get the fish moving. • Late fall/early winter can be a good time to target native redband trout in rivers like the lower De- schutes, Fall, Metolius, Crooked and Blitzen. The fishing is a little slower, but sharing the river with fewer people can make up for it. • Trout anglers also should con- sider the upper Willamette be- tween Albany and Harrisburg. It’s open for trout year-round and fish- ing can be very good when flows are cooperating. IT’S NOT TOO EARLY TO RE- PORT YOUR HUNT You’re right. The reporting dead- line for 2019 hunts isn’t until Jan. 31, 2020. But now that we’ve got you thinking about it, why not re- port early and get it over with? WEEKEND FISHING OPPOR- TUNITIES • Conditions on Quartzville Creek are good for trout fishing. • Last week, Alton Baker Canal, Junction City Pond, Row River Na- ture Park Pond, Timber Linn Lake, Walter Wirth Lake, and Waverly Lake were stocked with one-pound trout. • Another batch of extra-large rainbow brood trout were released Monday at the following locations: Canby Pond (40), St. Louis Ponds (45), Salish Pond (50), Row Riv- er Nature Park Pond, and Henry Hagg Lake (96). These fish range in size from five to 15 pounds. Keep in mind the daily bag limit on trout over 20 inches in length is one fish. Additional brood trout will likely be released into January, and these releases will be first announced in this column, so stay tuned! Basketball season has arrived in Doug- las County. Last Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6 and 7 was the annual Elkton Tip-Off Classic where the Elkton, North Douglas, Tri- angle Lake and Hosanna Christian boys’ and girls’ teams faced off in a series of round-robin games. Though the two local league rivals - North Douglas and Elkton - didn’t get a chance to go head-to-head, the two-day event gave them a long look at each other and the overall landscape of 2019-20 1A basketball. In a weekend full of hoops action, the biggest piece of early-season excitement came on Saturday when the North Doug- las boys took on Hosanna Christian, a team that, through various twists of fate, the Warriors always seem to find. The re- sults in recent memory have been less than ideal. “Right before the game I walked down to the locker room and I didn’t say any- thing,” said head coach Tyler Vancil. “The first thing I did was write ‘0-6’ on the whiteboard because that’s our record against them between football and basket- ball in the last four years.” Not including regular season losses, the Warriors’ football and boys’ basketball teams have been eliminated from the state playoffs three times in the last four years by Hosanna Christian. Shaking such a See BASKETBALL 3B Aussies score down under, outside to defeat Lions By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com Typically, it’s a relatively short trip to Cottage Grove for most of their opponents. Marist need only travel around 30 minutes by car and Marshfield is the most far-flung at around two hours away. The Lions’ matchup last weekend, however, saw an op- ponent that crossed an ocean to get here. On Sat., Dec. 7 the Lions hosted the visiting Knox Grammar School, a board- ing school for boys located in the North Shore suburb of Sydney, Australia. The school boasts a student body of over 2000 students, nearly 800 of whom participate in basket- ball activities, and their on- court prowess shone through as they defeated Cottage Grove soundly, 85-41. The Australian team is in the midst of a seven-game trip throughout Oregon and Cali- fornia, a vast distance to travel for some early season tune- PHOTO BY NICK SNYDER/CG SENTINEL AUSSIES 2B Knox and Cottage Grove pose together for a photo after the game. Athlete of the Week See Th is week’s athlete of the week is Elkton freshman Cash Boe who has quickly become one of the Elks’ most eff ective players in his fi rst season. Through his fi rst two games of varsity bas- ketball, Boe averaged 20.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. PHOTO BY NICK SNY- DER/CG SENTINEL