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Cottage Grove Sentinel Sports & Recreation SOUTH LANE COUNTY SPORTS AND RECREATION Calendar • THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 27, 2020 • CONTACT SPORTS REPORTER NICK SNYDER AT 942-3325 OR NSNYDER@CGSENTINEL.COM CG sends six to Portland Feb. 28 By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com See ODFW 3B See WRESTLING 4B See WARRIORS 4B (Clockwise from bottom left) Drew Swenson won by fall in his quarter- final against Henley’s Dylan Rose; Cobie Simpson celebrates his quarterfinal win against Mazama’s Nathan Tramp; Fernando Soto- Cruz was one of five Lions to make a district championship match; CGHS senior and multi-sport ath- lete Jacob Dunn dominated en route to a district title, joining Simpson and Swenson as district champs. • CGHS wrestling: OSAA State Championships, Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Portland, Ore.), 7:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. BEST BETS FOR WEEKEND FISHING • Conditions are dry and clear in coastal rivers, and likely to remain so into the weekend. But there are fish throughout the systems and anglers continue to catch steelhead. • Last week, Saunders Lake got 30 excess hatchery steelhead, which should spice up any trout anglers diet. • Lost Creek Reservoir remains a good bet for late winter/early spring trout fishing, especially now that both the Tekelma and marina boat ramps are accessible. • The small bump in river flows this past weekend should have winter steelhead starting to show more in the Galice Area of the Rogue. • Steelhead fishing continues to be hot on the Chetco and it’s been picking up on the lower Rogue. • In Krumbo and Malheur reservoirs, fishing has been good for trout up to 20 inches. • Now that ocean conditions have calmed down, anglers have been catching a nice assortment of rockfish. • If you prefer to fish with your feet on the ground, surfperch fishing from the beach can be good this time of year. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK OF OREGON’S BIG GAME HUNTING SEASONS Before we start proposing changes for the 2021 big game seasons, we’d like to hear from our resident hunters. You can comment through March 3 at www.oregonbiggameforum.org. BEST BETS FOR WILDLIFE VIEWING Spring is a great season for wildlife viewing – birds are migrating, mammal are emerging from hibernation and the weather makes you want to be outside. Here are a few opportunities for the weekend and beyond! • “Peeps” are migrating a little ahead of schedule on the north coast. These sandpipers and other small shore birds are difficult to identify due to small size and subtle differences in plumage. So ual season. For four Cottage Grove wres- tlers — Malaky Barr (fifth place at 160 pounds), Walker Hum- phrey (sixth at 182), Crimson Tadlock (sixth at 195) and Levi Boitz (fifth at 182) — their indi- vidual seasons may have ended last weekend, failing to secure a place at state, but they wrestled well enough to end atop the dis- trict podium. “We were wrestling and wres- tling well. Pretty proud of what the kids did. Taking 12 and plac- ing 10 is a pretty good day,” Her- zog said. The other six placers — Lo- gan Lowrey (fourth at 138), Fernando Soto-Cruz (second at 138), Jacob Dunn (first at 152), Drew Swenson (first at 170), Cobie Simpson (first at 195) and Aft er three straight trips to the OSAA 1A State Championships in Baker, Ore. from 2015- 2017, the Lady Warriors of North Douglas High School are one win away from ending a two-year absence from the tourna- ment. Last weekend, North Douglas concluded their regular season and dis- trict tournament games, fi nishing the year a per- fect 13-0 against league opponents, 23-3 overall and a number-six spot in the 1A rankings. Despite the overwhelming suc- cess of their season thus far, however, the team and coaching staff are far from satisfi ed. “We’ve said from day one that that’s our goal this year, to be at Baker,” said head coach Jody Cyr. “Truthfully, I wouldn’t be happy with anything else.” Aft er joining the 1A Skyline league in the 2014-15 season, the War- riors went on an impres- sive run of playoff ap- pearances. Th ey won the third place game in Bak- er in 2015, followed it up with a loss in the champi- onship game in 2016 and made a third consecutive trip east in 2017. With back-to-back seasons of failing to make it back in 2018 and 2019, this year’s team will look to fulfi ll the sometimes loft y expectations their past success has created. Th is is a program that is unsatisfi ed by regular season success. “We talked about it in the locker room aft er we won league, talked about it aft er we won districts,” PHOTOS BY NICK SNYDER/CG SENTINEL Feb. 29 www.dfw.state.or.us/RR Getting back to Baker North Douglas girls basketball looks to build on dominant regular season • CGHS girls basket- ball: endowment/ alumni game, CGHS gym @ 7 p.m. • NDHS girls basket- ball: OSAA State Championship tour- nament round two @ TBD • CGHS wrestling: OSAA State Championships, Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Portland, Ore.), 7:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. ODFW R EGIONAL R ECREATION R EPORT B1 CGHS boys’ wrestling team sends six to state, sees 10 take the podium at last weekend’s regional district tournament By Nick Snyder nsnyder@cgsentinel.com Spectators at last Saturday’s wrestling districts champion- ship round may have noticed a great deal of Lions’ blue and yel- low on the mat. On Fri. and Sat., Feb. 21-22 Cottage Grove High School hosted the OSAA Special Dis- trict 3 wrestling tournament and, after two days of competi- tion, Cottage Grove could begin tallying their accolades. 10 of the 12 Lions entered in the tournament fought their way to the top-six podium in their respective weight classes. Six wrestlers qualified for this week- end’s state tournament. Five made it to the district champi- onship match and three were crowned district champions. “This is the culmination of all the blood, sweat, tears and hard work they put in,” said head wrestling coach Rich Herzog. As a coach, Herzog emphasiz- es that wrestling is a sport about discipline and hard work. A high school wrestler gets out of it what they put in. “That piggy bank that they’ve been putting into all season, this is the tournament where you make your withdrawals. We could see that work paying off in the third round condition- ing where we were outwrestling people.” In a bracket-style tournament such as this — where an athlete must compete multiple times over a two-day period — wres- tling skill and strength are key, but endurance and an ability to maintain focus is often the dif- ference between earning a place at state or the end of an individ- In prep for playoffs, CG girls to host alumni game The Cottage Grove Lions girls’ basketball team has won the Sky-Em league title out- right for the first time since 2013 and now awaits their opponent for a Mar. 6 play- off game to be held at Cottage Grove High School (CGHS). With over two weeks of down time between their last regular season game and next month’s playoff, the team looked for ways to stay in post- season form and has scheduled an OSAA endowment alumni game for Fri., Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. at CGHS. Endowment games include admission prices and conces- sions and are a way for schools and the OSAA to fundraise for future athletic endeavors. 50 percent of proceeds will go di- rectly back to CGHS with the other half going to the OSAA. In this case, it’s also a way for this year’s state-tournament hopefuls to remain sharp for their playoff run and a chance for fans to see alumni stars and players from past teams in a fun-filled, nostalgic atmo- sphere. Come on down to CGHS on Feb. 28 to support CGHS athletics and the 2019-20 Lady Lions in their pursuit of a state title. Admission is $6 for adults and $4 for students. The only PHOTO BY NICK SNYDER/CG SENTINEL passes accepted for free ad- Head coach Steve Eastburn and his players celebrate last mission will be OSAA media week at Junction City as they wrapped up the 2019-20 Sky- passes. Em league title. Athlete of the Week Th is week’s athletes of the week are the members of the CGHS bowling team, winners of last weekend’s high school state bowling championships! The Lady Li- ons bowling squad only lost one match over the entire weekend, and aver- aged over 170 a game, en route to their state title. COURTESY PHOTO
