2B | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
GOLF SCORES
Middlefield Mens Club
Thursday 2/6/2020
Game: 2,3,1 Points
First Place
91
Bruce Schennum
Gary Sparks
Mike Stahl
Darrell Lee
Second Place
88
Jake Cox
Jim Cunningham
Frank Gates
Keith Rowling
Third Place
86
Gary Culp
Steve Ellickson
Jim Lehl
Gary Ingram BD
Fourth Place
85
Tom Arney
Jerry Pennington
Phil Hamilton
Jim Cunningham BD
Fifth Place
82
Gary Ingram
John Kallbrier
Larry Zuvich
Pat Rickard BD
Sixth Place
78
Larry Eyman
Jim Hoover
Pat Rickard
Jim Wamsley
Low Gross
Jake Cox
Gary Sparks
It’s really nice that we have
something that’s not only
good for our student ath-
letes and good for the pool,
but good for the town.”
While the CGHS swim-
mers — and myriad citi-
zens of the Grove — have
delighted in using their
top-tier facility over the
past few months, the big-
gest event thus far in the
Daugherty Center’s recent
history involved around
five high school swim
teams.
On Friday, 12 teams
will converge on the pool,
pushing the pool deck to
the limits of its capacity,
while also setting the stage
for a buzzworthy local
event that will bring hun-
dreds of out-of-towners to
Cottage Grove and give the
Lions a chance to show off
their new home.
“I always kind of liked
the idea of building the
pool to help bring in some
money into the town, help
out the economy a little
bit,” Pilling said. “I really
think this will be one of
those meets that’s a step in
the right direction.”
On the competition side
of things, Pilling also noted
that, throughout the 2019-
20 swim season, a number
of 5A and 6A teams re-
quested to use the Daugh-
erty pool because of its
speed and quality, a feather
in the cap for members of
the local swim community
and those involved in the
renovation.
“Not only is it such a
great setup, but the way
that it was built I really
have to give a lot of credit
to Matt Allen, James Mill-
er, Bud Taylor and the pool
committee for really mak-
ing sure that the compo-
nents you need to have for
the tank were as good as
they could be,” Pilling said.
The biggest effect of the
pool, however, is simple.
After a season of transience
while the local facility was
being updated — using
pools in Drain, Eugene and
beyond — the CGHS swim
team has felt the effects of
finally having a home, not
just in their level of com-
fort and amount of travel,
but in their preparation
for important, late-season
meets like this weekend’s
districts.
“It’s absolutely huge,”
Pilling said. “We have a
home now, for one, but
it helps in and out of the
water. It helps the physical
game, it helps the mental
game, it helps all the way
around.”
The Lions’ swimmers
have spent the last couple
weeks preparing for dis-
tricts, tapering off from
their more intense work-
outs, and despite some
nerves, they appear ready
to go.
“It’s going absolutely fan-
tastic,” said junior Fisher
Nash. “We went out [pre-
paring for districts], we
went out hard, we showed
up, we put in our work and
we’re just swimming fast.
We’re enthusiastic and op-
timistic.”
As for expectations, Pill-
ing’s are high as usual, but
the coaching staff ’s belief
in their squad is right there
with the swimmers.
“Our expectation is al-
ways to win. But, we’re as
prepared as we can be for
71
75
Low Net
Darrell Lee
60
Jerry Pennington 63
Steve Ellickson 66
Larry Zuvich
67
Closest to the Pin
#5 Gary Sparks
#7 Jake Cox
#14 Mike Stahl
Middlefield Mens Club
Monday 2/10/2020
Game: 2M Points
First Place (tie) 94
John Kallbrier
Dan Pearson
Dan Smith
Larry Zuvich
First Place (tie) 94
Gary Culp
Todd Dennis
Jerry Haugen
Jim Wamsley
Third Place
92
Steve Ellickson
Larry Eyman
Leon Hayes
Todd Dennis BD
Fourth Place
91
Jake Cox
Frank Gates
Gary Ingram
Pat Rickard
Fifth Place
89
Tom Arney
Jim Cunningham
Jerry Pennington
Bruce Schennum
Sixth Place
87
Jack Doleman
Mike Stahl
Dave Tooker
Phil Hamilton
Low Gross
Dan Smith
Todd Dennis
Gary Sparks
Districts from B1
66
70
74
Low Net
Gary Culp
60
Frank Gates
63
Jerry Pennington 64
John Kallbrier 65
Larry Zuvich
65
Jim Wamsley
66
Larry Eyman
66
Closest to the Pin
#5 Larry Zuvich
#7 Gary Sparks
#14 Larry Zuvich
Longest Putt
#15 Larry Strickland
districts. We just wanna get
locked in, get our races in,
do what we need to do to
win and then start looking
towards the state meet.”
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vance. This year, there were 12 girls total in
her weight class and, despite having a bye in
the first round as the top seed, she won four
matches on her way to the south regional
title.
“I had more nerves because I know that
it’s not guaranteed,” Herzog said. “Even go-
ing into the finals, I know that I’m guaran-
teed to go to state, but I won it last year and
there’s all the nerves and stuff that go with
that so … when you win it like this it’s just a
lot more exciting.”
With greater expectations comes greater
pressure — true in both life and in sport —
but CGHS head coach and Raina’s father,
Rich Herzog, sees the maturity with which
his daughter handles her lofty status as a
top-ranked athlete.
“That’s always a funny feeling,” Rich said.
“For the state regionals for her, there’s always
that doubt of, ‘What if I don’t win this again?’
So, when you do execute, then that confi-
dence and that affirmation of self-worth and
self-belonging really builds for you.”
The necessity of getting through four
opponents this year, as opposed to two last
year, is indicative of the other big takeaway
from this event: girls wrestling has exploded
in popularity in the state of Oregon.
“When I was in high school there was one
girl on our team and there may have been
five or six throughout the state,” said Rich.
“It’s not uncommon for teams to have 10,
15, even upwards of 30 or 35 girls on their
teams now, which is great. I expect to see it
grow even further. If you look at the middle
school and the Mat Club, they have several
girls in there, so I see it continuing to evolve
and grow.”
The growth of the sport locally in Cottage
Grove has matched the growth seen state-
wide. This same event last year — the first
year girls wrestling was a sanctioned OSAA
sport — hosted 180 wrestlers from 53 teams.
In 2020, 269 wrestlers from 59 teams con-
verged in Thurston, marking an 11 percent
increase in teams and a whopping 49 per-
cent increase in total competitors. In the
2020 state tournament, each weight class
will have an eight-girl bracket. Last year, it
was just four.
“And I expect in the next five years for
that to grow,” Rich said. “We’ll likely see a
full 32-girl bracket, just like the boys. They’ll
probably need their own weekend and their
own gym space for their own state tourna-
ment.”
As for the other Lions wrestlers, a number
of them had hard-luck losses on day two of
the tournament, losing in what the wrestling
community calls the “blood round”: the last
round of the bracket a wrestler needs to win
in order to earn one of the six podium spots.
For Rich Herzog and the other coaches at
CGHS, those results point to the mental and
physical difficulties that exist in wrestling
and particularly a multi-day event like the
regionals. It’s two days of matches, some-
times with down time in between, some-
times without, and the ability to maintain
focus is paramount.
“Some of them competed well,” Rich said.
“But it’s that grind: six minutes, match after
match, in this case day after day. You’re up
early, you’re not 100%, you’re sore, you’re
banged up a little, tired, maybe hungry. It’s
not always the best wrestler who wins these
tournaments. It’s who can get themselves
mentally prepared to give that top perfor-
mance as if it was their first one.”
While Raina will eventually have to recap-
ture her focus in order to earn another state
title, she had a slightly different plan follow-
ing last weekend’s triumph.
“Probably celebrate a little. We’re gonna
get a milkshake after this. My tournament
traditions are either a Snickers at the tourna-
ment or some kind of ice cream afterwards,”
she said laughing.
Next up for the Lions wrestlers is the boys
regionals, to be held at CGHS on Feb. 21-22.
Girls who didn’t qualify for state at region-
als will be entered into the boys regionals,
so their season isn’t over and the coaching
staff emphasizes that every wrestler has the
responsibility of helping their teammates
prepare.
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and individ-
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turn to page www.cgsentinel.com
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photos of the
event, see 8B.
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