Scores

Friday, October 10

Football

Yreka 18 - Central Valley 35

Mt. Shasta 41 - Pierce 6

Etna 6 - Modoc 32
Etna TD: Jordan Pehle-Munson pass to Taylor Pehle-Munson (5Y).

Full story and slide show by noon on Saturday.

Etna JV 8 - Modoc JV 30
Etna TD: Eric Freckman 1-yard run

Weed v Chester

Slide show coming soon.

Dunsmuir 30 - Princeton 26
Dunsmuir: Cory Knowles 3 TDs.

Full story and slide show on Saturday.

Happy Camp @ Greenville (more…)

WEED – The College of the Siskiyous Lady Eagles hosted the Diablo Valley College Vikings and Lassen College Cougars, on Saturday. It took the hosts just over an hour per match to clean house and send the Lady Vikings and Lady Cougars packing, with a pair of 3-0 sweeps.

The Lady Eagles beat DVC 25-17, 25-20, and 25-11. Their domination of Lassen was even greater, with wins of 25-15, 25-13, and 25-12.

Against DVC, Kinzy Towry led the attack with 12 kills, and a pair of aces. Laura McMahon had five blocks and four kills. Setter Stephanie Batchelder tipped her way to seven kills. Katie Zauner blocked a pair, and had five kills. Amber Franko joined the party with four kills, two blocks, and an ace. Ashley Spalding notched three aces, two kills, and a block.

COS spread the wealth around against Lassen, with five or more kills by four different players. Megan McMahon had seven kills, with twin sister Laura McMahon nailing five kills, and a block. Zauner had six kills and three blocks. Franko had an ace and five kills. Towry ripped three aces, and had four kills. Spalding had a couple of aces and three kills. Yreka High School graduate Lauren Young recorded a kill from the back row.

WEED – The College of the Siskiyous Eagles scored two touchdowns in the last 2:10 of the game in an attempt to stage a miracle comeback against the Shasta Knights—a comeback that fell one onside kick recovery short. Despite the late fireworks, the Eagles dropped their third straight game.

Eagle QB Aqura Brown threw two TD passes, one each to Darius Davis and Anthony Young. Raymond Neal rushed for two TDs.

The Knights pooched their opening kick off, and COS inexplicably watched the ball bounce around its own 30-yard-line. Shasta recovered and moved the ball to the Eagle 5-yard-line, where the COS defense stiffened and forced Shasta to settle for a field goal.

On their second possession, the Knights moved the ball from their own 49 to the COS 17. The Eagle defense came up with another stop when Steven Butrick recovered a fumble.

The Eagles took over on their own 15. Eagle quarterback Aqura Brown and Darius Davis hooked up three times for 51 yards of an 85-yard drive scoring drive, capped off by a 13-yard TD run by Raymond Neal. Brown picked up the 2-point conversion on a keeper, giving COS an 8-3 lead, with 2:41 left in the first quarter. (more…)

WEED - On Thursday, October 9 beginning at 7:00 pm, The Mount Shasta International Film Festival will hold their annual Gala Party at the Community Center in Mount Shasta to kick off the 5th annual Mount Shasta International Film Festival. Films will be shown October 10 through 12 at the Coming Attractions Theatres in Mount Shasta, and on Sunday, October 12 at the College of the Siskiyous Kenneth W. Ford Theater in Weed. (more…)

WEED - The College of the Siskiyous is inviting all community college students, and the public, to attend College and Career Day on Monday, September 24, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. College and Career Day will be held in the COS Gym at the Weed Campus.  There is no admission fee and all interested persons are invited to participate. (more…)

Opinion
By Ray Wolf

There’s no doubt about it. Butte College has a great football team. The Roadrunners are fast, strong, intense and execute most of their plays to perfection. When it comes to being disciplined in carrying out their football assignments they perform extremely well.

Normally, I’d be writing about the football aspect of the game between the Butte College Roadrunners and the College of the Siskiyous Eagles, last Saturday. Instead, I find myself writing an opinion piece, but I suppose I should write a little about the football part.

Except for a few nice pass plays by the Eagles, Butte dominated nearly every part of the game, and beat COS 53-25. There, that about covers it. Check the end of the story for who scored for COS. Now, here’s the real story.

Although the Roadrunners put 53 points on the board, when it came to sportsmanship and class, they laid a giant goose egg—as in zip, zilch, nada.

It’s one thing to be a little cocky, and maybe even arrogant. After all, this is football—intense, tough, and at times down right mean. It’s played by tough young men that are hyper-jacked up for the game, and every play within the game. It’s not unusual to hear players talking smack to each other, especially when you get beyond the high school level. (more…)

WEED - The Eugene Ballet Company (EBC) will bring the holiday classic The Nutcracker to the College of the Siskiyous Weed Campus, Kenneth W. Ford Theatre, on Saturday evening, November 15, at 7 p.m. The Eugene Ballet Company invites all interested Siskiyou County school-age children (ages 6 to 18) with dance experience to audition to dance with the company in this performance. (more…)

WEED – The Delta Mustangs didn’t play error free football, but they made fewer mistakes than the host COS Eagles, and that translated into a 28-21 win for the visitors.

Delta began the first possession of the game on its own 40-yard-line, and quickly moved down the field, capping the drive with a 16-yard TD pass. The PAT was good, and the Mustangs took a 7-0 lead, with only 1:27 gone off the clock.

Following Delta’s kickoff, the Eagles started their first possession on their own 42. Patrick Lunney went 25 yards on the first play to move the ball to the Delta 33. The Eagles continued to give the ball to Lunney, and eventually wound up with a first down on the Delta 11. After Lunney gained a yard on first down, COS threw two straight incomplete passes. On fourth down, the Eagles attempted a field goal, which was wide.

With 1:27 left in the first quarter, the Mustangs attempted a 25-yard field goal and missed. (more…)

WEED – The Cosumnes River College Lady Hawks were no match for the COS Lady Eagles volleyball squad on Tuesday. COS quickly dispatched the Hawks, 3-0.

With Samantha Stoneback serving, COS scored the first three points of game-one, including an ace by Stoneback. The Hawks came back to narrow the gap to 4-3, but COS maintained a 1-4 point lead throughout the game, winning 25-20.

In game-two COS leapt to a 5-1 lead. With the score 7-4 and the Lady Hawks serving, Amber Franko won back the serve with a kill, making it 8-4. A kill by Laura McMahon made it 9-4. The Hawks failed to return a serve, making it 10-4. A combo block by L. McMahon and Heather Wicks upped the lead to 11-4. An ace by Franko put COS up 12-4. The match was never close from that point on, with the Lady Eagles winning 25-15.

Game-three was close early, but the Lady Eagles eventually built a seven point lead, 23-16, when Katelyn Prigmore nailed an ace. The Hawks, however, rallied back with a 5-0 run to make it 23-21, and would close to within a single point at 24-23. Franko registered the final kill of the game to seal the 25-23 game win, and 3-0 match victory. (more…)

WEED – The College of the Siskiyous hosted the COS Classic on Friday, with the COS Lady Eagles, Napa Lady Storm, and Sierra Lady Wolverines participating.

The Lady Eagles won their first match 3-2 over Napa. COS won a tough first game 31-29, but Napa rebounded to take game-two 25-22. The Lady Eagles went ahead again, winning game-three 25-21. However, the Storm blew away the Eagles in game-four 25-10.

That set up the decisive game-five. The Lady Eagles jumped to a 5-1 lead, but Napa battled back to take the lead 8-7. A block by Laura McMahon tied the game at 8-8, and COS scored the next two points to take a 10-8 lead. The Storm tied it again at 10-10, and again a McMahon block started a mini three point run by COS, including a McMahon kill, making it 13-10. A kill by Kinzy Towry made it match point for the Lady Eagles at 14-11. The Storm narrowed the gap to 14-13, but COS held on to win the game 15-13.

The Lady Eagles dropped their next match to Sierra 1-3 (25-22, 18-25, 22-25, 16-25). Sierra also beat Napa, to go 2-0 at the Classic. Napa was 0-2.

Overall, Coach Tom Powers was happy with the performance of his team.

“We’re going to be good,” said Powers. “We’ll figure it out. We play Tuesday. So, we’ll see if we learned anything.”

COS hosts Umpqua on Tuesday, September 2, at 5:00 pm.