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Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan)
Friday, 06 November 2009 22:49 Hits: 86
Stayton’s Win and Tie Breakers Send Cascade to Playoffs
Turner – Cascade quarterback Nick Lamonica found Tyrell Williams for a pair of touchdown catches, and Robbie Federico added a pair of rushing touchdowns, and carried for a game high 134 yards, as the Cougars defeated the visiting Illinois Valley Cougars 28-6.
Thomas Parker's 82 yard touchdown run out of a spread formation highlighted Illinois Valley's game.
Stayton’s 13-0 win over North Marion earned the Eagles (8-2, 5-1) the final Capitol Conference championship, and also resulted in a three way tie for the other two playoff berths. Cascade’s non-conference record earned the Cougars (7-3, 4-2) the second seed, their first playoff trip in 10 years. North Marion (7-3, 4-2) picked up the third seed, while Estacada (5-4, 4-2) was eliminated, despite their 32-7 win over La Salle (2-7, 1-5).
“I’m pretty excited, the kids are excited, and the community is excited,” Cascade Coach Karl Elliott said of the victory. “The kids worked hard, they earned it.”
“Our goal from the start of the season, after going 2-8 last season, was to make the playoffs,” Federico added.
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Written by Kirk Mays
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 22:52 Hits: 509
The Perrydale Pirates quickly dispatched the Country Christian Cougars this last Friday night, 52 - 6.
The Pirates scored at will in the 1st half, as they built a 44-0 halftime lead.
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Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan)
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 18:46 Hits: 6769
Championships At Stake In Capital, Skyline
Marist and Central wasted no time in claiming the championships of the SkyEm and the Valco, while Douglas had to work for the FarWest title.
Phoenix and Henley set up a showdown on the Skyline, and Ontario claimed the I-84 showdown.
Astoria took care of a formality called beating the ‘Mooks to lock up the Cowapa, and the Capital was already ticketed for a showdown on the last night.
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Written by Bruce McCain
Monday, 02 November 2009 11:10 Hits: 6005
League Titles and OSAA berths at stake Friday night.
The final week of the 2009 regular season 2A schedule serves as a de facto district seeding playoff. League championships and top OSAA seeds are on the line in all five 2A districts. Headlining Friday’s action will be #1 Knappa (8-0, 4-0) @ Portland Christian (7-2, 4-0). Meanwhile, the MVC has three teams locked at 5-1, with all four district seeds up for grabs. The TRC, SCL, and BMC champions are not finalized yet, giving 2A fans from the Columbia Basin to the California border a terrific final week of small-school gridiron action.
Unlike almost every other sport, football does not use a district playoff system to determine OSAA seeding. Even ties in the standings are decided by SOP formulas. So it is quite rare and enjoyable to see the scheduling gods bestow upon 2A fans such a terrific final week of football with all five districts hosting several key games that may make or break a team’s playoff hopes.
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Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan)
Friday, 30 October 2009 23:36 Hits: 2649
Lamonica To Williams Combo Tears Up Huskies
Aurora - Cascade quarterback Nick Lamonica completed eight of eleven passes for 184 yards and three touchdowns, two to Tyrell Williams, as the Cougars upset Capital Conference leading North Marion 29-12 on the road.
The first of two key sequences came in the last minute of the first half. North Marion, trailing 15-12, had held Cascade, forcing the Cougars to punt from their own 9 yard line, and took over at the Cascade 40 with 46.4 seconds left.
However, Husky quarterback Adam Hayden misfired on four consecutive throws, and the Cougars took the ball back with 26.6 seconds left. Which was more than enough for Lamonica.
Lamonica found Williams for 20 yards, and after a timeout, scrambled for seven more, before getting out of bounds at the 33 with 8.7 seconds left. Williams then shook free of the Huskies’ coverage down the left sideline, and Lamonica fired a strike for a touchdown with 2.5 seconds left, and Cascade carried a 22-12 lead into halftime.
“Our running game set that up,” Williams said. “Their defensive backs were crowding up and inside, and (with my speed) I could get outside a couple of steps. Nick threw a perfect pass, and all I had to do was turn and score.”
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Written by Don Francis
Friday, 30 October 2009 21:46 Hits: 378
In a game that had all the looks of heading toward a Kansas Plan Overtime, Tualatin had something else in mind. Back on their own 28 yard line with under a minute and facing a Second and 22, quarterback Matt Yarborough hooked up twice with his ace reciever Christian Pierson. The first for 34 yards and then with 26 seconds left, again for 38 yards and the winning touchdown to break a 20-20 tie and vault into second place in the Pacific Conference. They can claim the runner-up spot and #2 Pacific Conference Seed with a win over Tigard next week.
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Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan)
Friday, 30 October 2009 06:18 Hits: 683
18 Players At Practice Not Enough
Tonight's non-conference game between the Sprague Olympians and the Lake Oswego Lakers is the latest game to be cancelled due to illness outbreaks, and the first at the 6A level.
Approximately 400 students were absent Tuesday from Sprague, and the number climbed to 600 midweek. As a result, only 18 players were available for practice, and less than a dozen of the varsity.
Sprague (5-2, 3-2) has already clinched a playoff berth from the Central Valley conference, holding a tie-breaker over all the teams below them in the standings who could catch them, and has two weeks to get healthy, with only a road game to winless Redmond remaining.
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Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan)
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 17:27 Hits: 6615
Valco, GOL Titles On The Line In Games of the Week
Sweet Home and Central both rolled on the coast, setting up a neutral site showdown in Corvallis for the Valco championship, while Ontario has the home field advantage in the defacto GOL championship game.
No one is in yet in the SkyEm, but Marist can lock up the title with a win over Pleasant Hill, and the same is true in the Far West, where no one is in yet, but a Douglas win in Sutherlin clinches the title for the Trojans.
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Written by Don Francis
Monday, 26 October 2009 15:31 Hits: 698
An eerie sight unfolds this Saturday when untold tens of thousands of zombies will stream up and down I-5 calling out "Brrrrrayynnnnns." Some zombies (known as the "I am Orange Zombies") will veer off onto Route 34 and head west to Reser Vault (It used to be a Crypt but not any longer) in hopes of feasting on Little Ricky and his little teddy bears. I've been a card carrying member of the Autzen Zombie cadre for now what seems an eternity. For we are a highly trained unit of living dead who's howls have horrified many an opposing quarterback and had coaches lament the terrifying cachophony of shrieks and wailing have spawned night terrors for which there is no cure. On Saturday at sunset, the holiest of collegiate craniums will be observed in the sacrificial "O" chamber. The golden fleece of brains. Tucked beneath a sea of enviable waves of silver coiffed good looks, lies the most coveted brain for any Autzen Zombie in all of college football. Bring us the brains of Pete Carroll. Those Autzen Zombies sitting in the west endzone are encouraged to go after the Trojan band to silence the incessant bleating of their 'first down dirge' which I have come to loathe.
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Written by Don Francis
Friday, 23 October 2009 22:25 Hits: 1036
Maybe Sherwood's Coach Greg Lawrence can console Glencoe's Tim Duvall that 'this is just what the doctor ordered in order to take the next step to becoming a better team.' Its a dangerous game when you start looking at common opponents and using that as a measuring stick. Maybe last week Sherwood deduced they'd beaten West Albany and ergo should defeat Hillsboro. Maybe Glencoe deduced Hilhi throttled Sherwood and they were beaten on a fluke play ergo they should defeat Sherwood. Sometimes its hard to figure out whats going to happen on any given Friday Night and just like nobody saw the 48-14 beat down the Bowmen were given, nobody saw this lopside 62-6 Sherwood win coming either. In what is shaping out as a playoff that will be full of intrigue and mystery, the third ranked Sherwood Bowmen came out firing on all cylinders and getting back to their basics in demolishing the fifth ranked Glencoe Crimson Tide to grab the steering wheel of the #2 NWOC Playoff Seed.
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Written by Andy Wooldridge (CCCougarfan)
Friday, 23 October 2009 22:07 Hits: 1996
Cougars Celebrate Homecoming With Big Plays
Turner – Cascade celebrated homecoming with 14 big plays of 10 yards or more, and a 31-6 win over La Salle. The biggest plays included a 50 yard Nick Lamonica play action pass to Robbie Federico for a second quarter touchdown, and a 60 yard completion by Lamonica to Zach Rouse that set up another Federico touchdown, and gave the Cougars a 21-6 halftime lead over the Falcons.
“None of us had ever beaten Gladstone or La Salle,” Federico explained. “This year, we finally beat both of them.” The win, the Cougars’ third straight, also pulled Cascade back into third place, and in the thick of the Capital Conference race.
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Written by R.A. Pennington (Dawgbytes)
Friday, 23 October 2009 20:47 Hits: 1203
Last week saw North Bend as the home team on a warm night but a cold start killed off any chance to win. This week in Florence it was a cool damp night following a rainy day as the Bulldogs were the visitors and this time North Bend had the hot start. With their best player, Jake Lucero, out for the season following a concussion suffered in the game against Sutherlin, the Bulldogs still came out running as usual and spread the ball among the backs well. Seiger got it going with an 18 yard gain. Harris rattled off a 15 yard run. Hardin picked up 10.
After three consecutive 1st downs, the yardage per carry dropped to more normal levels but the foward push continued with Seiger carrying twice and Harris once to put the ball on Siuslaw's 1 yard line. QB Dalton Iveans stuck it in from there but Ryan Johnson missed the XP kick wide right. North Bend had the lead at 6-0 with 9:18 to go in the 1st quarter.
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