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Artificial turf in near future JFor Husky Field?
By Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
Sweet Home High School
football Coach. Dustin Nichol and
others are working to generate
community support for an artificial
turf field for Husky Field.
The high school quietly ap-
plied for and was awarded a grant
from the Community Sports Devel-
opment Council, Inc. to partially
fund the installation of an artificial
playing surface on the field inside
the track at the stadium.
The grant would pay for ap-
proximately two-thirds of the proj-
ect, Nichol said, provided that the
school can raise the other third of
the approximately $1.1 to $1.2 mil-
lion the field would cost.
Nichol said the field would be
multi-purpose, providing a play-
ing surface for both football and
soccer. He said CSDC has funded
similar fields at Santiam Christian,
Pleasant Hill and Eagle Point high
schools.
Lebanon High School installed
an artificial turf field last summer
but that was financed entirely by
the community, he said.
Nichol said a series of meet-
ings will be held to inform those
interested in the project after it
takes shape.
A preliminary meeting will be
held Oct. 30 for organizers, fol-
lowed by a larger meeting, planned
for November, to introduce the
project to interested potential par-
ticipants.
"We ne+d public support, so
this meeting will be a planning ses-
sion to figure out how to generate
business and public support/' he
said.
If the money can be raised
by next spring, the field could be
installed in time for the fall 2013
sports season.
Nichol said he hopes to gather
a small group of businesses to pro-
vide core support for the project,
who will then help recruit other
"investors."
He said the project actually
started two years ago, in the fall
of 2010, when he and others ap-
proached the School Board with the
idea. But the financial difficulties
that struck the district soon thereaf-
ter put the brakes on progress.
"Because of the pool and the
budget and everything, we wanted
to put it off one season," he said.
Football
From page #
Bryon Brown, who had nine car-
ties for 178 yards, scampered 85
yards for the hosts' second touch-
down with one second left in the
third quarter to make it 41-16.
But sophomore Kyler Gaskey
showed flashes of brilliance in re-
sponding with a 58-yard touch-
down run on fourth-and-two after
back-up quarterback Colton Holly
got the Huskies rolling with a 32-
yard pass to Keeney following a
penalty and a sack that had Sweet
Home looking at a first-and-24 to
re-establish the lead, 47-16.
"It's great to be behind a strong
line," Gaskey said, noting that he
finds the varsity game "more com-
petitive, harder-hitting and faster
game speed."
"It's definitely a bigger re-
ward," he said.
Playing against a nearly all
freshman and sophomore defense,
Brown hit Joe Schacher with a 10-
yard screen pass midway through
the final period to close the gap
slightly to 47-22, but Sweet Home
responded with a 21-yard field goal
with 19 seconds left to finish with
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50 points.
"Our varsity guys stayed with
the game plan and by doing that
they gave some time for the JV
guys, who did not get a game this
week," Nichol said, crediting the
efforts of Gaskey and Brandon
Keenon.
Once again Paulus accounted
for the largest amount of Sweet
Home's 455 total rushing yards,
finishing with 279 yards on 27 car-
ties. With Spencer Knight unable
to play due to illness, Gaskey con-
tributed 124 more on 11 carries.
Homer completed seven of
nine passattempts and Holly added
one more.
Mitch Keenon finished with
six catches for 114 yards.
"The timing was perfect," he
said of his chemistry with Homer.
The offensive line gets the
credit for most of that offensive
production, Nichol and players
said.
"We have a great line," Paulus
said. "That line has worked together
I don't know how many years. They
move together as one on that first
6-inch step and I know there's go-
ing to be room for me. Then there's
Jake Smith. He's a bulldozer."
Center Nate Melcher said the
linemen have reached the point that
they are confident in each other and
"we know what the other guys are
thinking. All 11 guys work togeth-
er, six inches at a time."
Defensively, the Huskies were
able to contain Junction City's air
Mat Club
sign-ups
sweet Home Mat Club
will hold sign-ups from 4
to 5:30 p.m Monday and
Tuesday, Oct. 29 and 30,
and Thursday, Nov. 1, at the
Sweet Home High School
Gymnasium.
Cost is $45 for kinder-
garten through second grade
and $60 for third-through
sixth-graders. Those who
need a USA card will need to
pay for that separately.
Practice for kindergarten-
ers through second-graders
will start Wednesday, Nov. 7,
from 6 to 7 p.m. First prac-
tice for third- through sixth-
graders will be from 6 to 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6.
For more information,
contact Steve Thorpe by e-
mailing steve.thorpe@sweet-
home.kl2.or.us or calling
(541) 367-7160 days or (541)
401-1154.
Photo by Scott Swanson
David Miller, 21, comes close to picking off a Junction City pass as Trever
Olson, 22, and Austin Rice close in behind him.
attack, limiting the Tigers.to four
completions in 16 attempts for 51
yards.
"We've been preparing for
Junction City and Cottage Grove,"
said senior defensive back Colton
Schilling, who had two monster
hits on hapless Junction City re-
ceivers who went up for balls in the
second half. "We set up the tight
defense for that. I think by next
Friday night we'll be ready."
Cottage Grove, 8-1, beat Sis-
ters 41-20 Friday night and quar-
terback Scotty Hitner was 17-for-
31 for 209 yards through the air.
Running back Brian Spindler had
11 carries for 113 yards. The Li-
ons are ranked fifth in the OSAA
RPI 4A listing, while Sweet Home
is llth.
Nichol said this is one of the
more anticipated match-ups the
Huskies have had in recent years,
particularly since both teams are
undefetlted in league and have
beaten common opponents by fair-
ly comparable margins.
"Coach (Gary) Roberts and I
are pretty good friends and after
the second game he's been texting
me, telling me to keep winning so
we could have a big finale at our
place," he said.
"I told him I'd bring a couple
of generators so we can keep the
lights on," he added, referring jok-
ingly to a game three years ago
when the stadium lights went out
midway through a game with the
Lions.
The teams are "polar oppo-
sites" in playing styles, he said.
"They'll throw the ball 40 to
60 times a game," he said. Hitner,
who transferred into the Lions' pro-
gram last year, "changed the whole
dynamics of their game plan."
Nichol said Friday's game,
which starts at 7 p.m. at Husky Sta-
dium, may be a good tunezup for
the playoffs, which will begin Nov.
1 with play-in games for the No. 2
teams from the Sky-Em, Cowapa,
Oregon West, Tri-Valley, Far West
and Skyline leagues, along with
the highest-ranked No. 3 or hybrid
league. The first round of bracket
play will be held Nov. 9 and 10.
"One of us will get some good
momentum going into the play-
offs," Nichol said.
Players said they're ready for
the match-up, but that they're con-
fident that Sweet Home's pressure
will pay off.
"We'll have a good first half,
I think," Melcher said. "I think
they're going to give up in the sec-
ond half. We have a lot of steam
and we don't give up. We make the
other team quit."
"We need to work together
and we can't come out fiat," Paulus
said. "We need to come out on fire,
ready to play ball tight away. If we
play Husky football, they're going
to break just like every other team
we've beaten."
Scoring Summary
Sweet Home- 13 21 7 9--50
Junction City- 0 8 8 6--22
First quarter
SH: Wade Paulus 5 run (kick failed) 8:59
SH: Jake Smith 3 run (Smith kick) 3:07
Second quarter
SH: Mitch Keenon 10 pass from Cole Homer
(kick failed) 4:55
JC: Bryon Brown 56 run (Brown run) 3:37
SH: Paulus 40 run (Keenon pass from
Homer) 2:09
SH: .Keenon 50 pass from Homer (Smith
kick) 0:02
Third quarter
SH: Paulus 23 run (Smith kick) 9:20
JC: Safety 7:41
JC: Bryon Brown 85 run (run failed) 0:0 !
Fourth quarter
JC: Joe Schacher 74-yard run (run failed)
9:37
SH: Kyler Gaskey 58 run (kick failed) 2:26
SH" Smith 24 field goal 0:19
Individual statistics
Rushing: Sweet Home-Wade Paulus 27-
279; Kyler Gasky 11-124, Brandon Keenon
9-50; Jacob Smith 2-9; Trever Olson 1-2;
Cole Homer 1- (-9); Total rushing 51-455.
Junction City - Bryon Brown 13-182; Joe
Schacher 9-107; Kanon Seitz 4-23; Cody
Miller 2-(-5); Total rushing 28-307.
Passing: Sweet Home - Cole Homer
7-9-0-99; Colton Holly 1-1-0-25. Junction
City - Cody Miller 2-11-35; Bryon Brown
2-5-16.
Receiving: Sweet Home- Keenon 6-114,
Brycen Mitten 1-8, Colton Holly 1-5; Ash-
ton Stutzman 1-5. Junction City - Bryon
Brown 1-25; Joe Schacher 2-20.
