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MARCH 25, 2021 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
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EASTER SUNDAY
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April 4, 2018
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Cottage Grove junior setter Peyton Kidd celebrates the Lady Lions win. Cottage
Grove swept Marshfield in two separate matches last week to go 5-1 in league.
CANDY FILLED
EASTER EGG HUNT
Lady Lions sink Pirates. Twice
By Zeahna Young
Cottage Grove Sentinel
Cottage Grove d Marshfield:
25-12, 25-18, 25-17
Cottage Grove d Marshfield:
20-25, 25-17, 25-17, 25-18
On Friday (March 19),
Cottage Grove’s volleyball
team hosted a double-
header against Marshfield
at home, playing two full
games back-to-back on the
Lions’ Senior Night.
Cottage Grove issued the
Pirates two major defeats,
winning the first game in
three sets, and the second
game in four sets.
Coach Abby Ladd ex-
plained that a double-
header was not an ideal
situation, however in the
interest of accommodating
both sides and playing as
many league games as pos-
sible, the Lions opted to be
the host with the most.
“Marshfield is still in ex-
treme risk in Coos Coun-
ty,” said Ladd, “so they
can’t host any home games
this season. So, rather than
traveling to Cottage Grove
two separate times, they
wanted to do a double-
header. And we did every-
thing we could to make it
work for them, because
given the situation, you
kind of have to be flexible,
so we made it happen.”
Going into the first game
of the afternoon, Ladd had
several concerns.
“I was honestly a little
bit nervous for the varsity
girls to play two full games
of the three out of five sets
because of the injuries
we’ve been having thrown
our way,” explained Ladd.
“Blakely Herbert just came
back this week, and this
was only her second game
of the season. So, making
sure she was ready to go,
and everything was rolling
and going well, I was a lit-
tle bit anxious, but they did
a really good job.”
Ladd described how
things came together for
the girls in the first game.
“It was a combination of
everything,” said the coach.
“We have been working a
lot on our mental game —
how we can set the pace on
our own side and focus on
what we’re doing and not
let what’s happening on
the other side of the net af-
fect our game. And I think
that those scores really
show that we had taken it
to heart.”
Ladd ran a different
lineup in all three sets of
the first game. “So, the
score variations show their
adjustment to the new
lineups, but they stayed
really strong mentally,”
Ladd said. “We played a
very controlled game, and
we kept sending balls to
the other side. We talk all
the time about how it’s not
who scores the most points
— it’s who makes the least
amount of errors.” The
Lady Lions kept the pres-
sure on Marshfield, forcing
the Lady Pirates to make
mistakes.
Cottage Grove had an
explosive first game with
26 kills overall, seven of
them coming from Avery
Hutchins. Said Ladd, “Av-
ery played really well in
both games. In that first
game, she was one of the
two tied for the most kills.
And then she played real-
ly, really well in the second
game, too, and had a lot of
blocks.”
Ladd has been working
with Hutchins this year on
her blocking technique,
although she already has a
stunning height advantage.
“She’s huge, she’s like
6’2”,” said Ladd, “so we’ve
been working a lot in prac-
tice on keeping arms up
while blocking to hold that
block longer, because even
when [she’s] just standing
on the ground, if [her]
arms are up, [she’s] putting
up a good block.”
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6:30 am ..............Sunrise Service: The Promise of Hope!
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9:00 am...............Baptismal Service in the Chapel
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33087 Saginaw Road East,
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NOTE:
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DURING THE
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CONCLUDING
WITH THE
EGG HUNT
IN THE BACK FIELD