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February 25, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
COUGARS: Girls heading to state
Nixyaawii senior Charlotte
Barkley scored 19 of her 26
Wallowa coach Greg SRLQWVLQWKH¿UVWKDOIEXWZDV
Oveson said his team calm- slowed when Wallowa adjust-
O\FDPHEDFNGRZQWKHÀRRU ed with a concerted double
made two or three quick pass- team that forced other Eagle
es, and found Makin open players to shoot the basket-
again for another try on goal. ball.
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After Makin (two) and
less than 10 seconds to play, 7D\ORU+DUVK¿HOGKDGERRVWHG
Makin, who led WHS with 13 Wallowa’s offense with a to-
points, found nothing but net tal of three treys in the third
from three-point distance on quarter, Wallowa outscored
the right wing and Wallowa, 1L[\DDZLLWKH¿QDOHLJKW
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game, was in the lead at 39-
Oveson said the game was
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almost a carbon copy of a
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exciting too, said the Wallowa Jan. 24 when WHS, playing
mentor, as Eagle players had on the road, erased a similar
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ed, unsuccessful shots on goal victory.
before time expired.
The victory sends the
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Cougars to Adrian to face the
No. 5-rated team in the state,
the No. 2 team from the 1A-8
High Desert League that
boasts a 21-5 season record.
Oveson says the game
will be a challenge because
Adrian exercises a full-court
press the entire game and the
Adrian gymnasium is “tiny.”
Old Oregon League rules
say six teams play in the
district tournament with the
losers sent home following
Thursday night games. Three
of the remaining four teams
advance to state playoff ac-
tion.
The girls from Joseph,
after downing Pine Eagle 43-
36 in a Tuesday night game
to get into the district tourna-
ment, earned a shot at Wal-
lowa on Thursday at Baker
City.
While downing PE, Lind-
say Kemp scored 16 points
and Alexis Sykora 10 to pace
the E-Gals.
With their season on the
line Thursday night, Joseph
(7-15 on the season) was
within two points of the Cou-
gars at 23-21 before WHS
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who led all scorers with 15
points, scored 10 of her to-
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when Wallowa outscored
JoHi 13-5 en route to their
10-point, 36-26, team win.
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double-digit scorer in Wal-
lowa’s Thursday evening
win over Joseph. Wallowa’s
Lauren Makin and Joseph’s
Satori Albee each scored
eight points for their respec-
tive teams.
Joseph Coach Travis
Huffman said, “I thought we
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girls were a little intimidat-
ed by the situation because
so much was riding on the
game. I kept waiting for
someone to take charge, and
no one ever did.”
Wallowa’s girls could
have ensured a slot in the
state tournament Friday, yet
fell big to eventual district
champion Echo by a 55-25
score.
Doing major damage for
Echo were sisters Elizabeth
and Hannah McCarty who
STATE: Senior OUTLAWS: EHS girls lose
mat men make
tournament
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Outlaws weren’t able to cap-
italize.
After being outscored by
The tables turned and Im-
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od, the Outlaws totaled seven thers couldn’t sink their free
points to the Panthers’ six in throws either, but with only
the second frame.
seconds remaining, a second
Enterprise coach Mike missed free throw bounced
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weight class.
Crawford said, “This is a off the rim and right into the
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Sophomore Clayne Mill- prise and receiving no points a lot of these kids have played ZKR SXW LQ WKH ZLQQLQJ ¿HOG
er, at 106 pounds, and fresh- were Gotro Thanadkit, at 132 in this environment. They goal to break the hearts of
man Cole Farwell, at 113 pounds, and Zyler Hermens, came out and played a little Enterprise’s fans, players and
pounds, both came within at 152 pounds.
tight and it showed.”
coaches.
one victory of advancing to
Wallowa entered two
However, EHS fought
“It was a heart-breaker,”
state, but each fell short in grapplers in district competi- back hard, pulling to with- &UDZIRUG FRQ¿UPHG ³2XU
bouts to claim second place. tion, and both placed.
in a point after at the third goal of making it to district
Interestingly, Miller lost ear-
Fuller, the only individu- quarter’s end. And then it was made. We set another
ly to Burns wrestler Kyran al champion from Wallowa was basket for basket in the goal to move on. When we got
Simpson whom he lost to a County, received one bye at fourth, with Enterprise out- there, it didn’t happen. The
second time in the second 195 pounds, won a technical scoring Imbler by one, 11-10, girls did everything they were
place match, and Farwell, fall over Joseph’s Warnock in and putting the game into the supposed to do except we
far all practical purposes, did VHPL¿QDODFWLRQWKHQSLQQHG four-minute overtime.
didn’t make our free throws.
the same thing. Farwell lost Elgin wrestler Levi Carper
The game remained in- We know how important that
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is.”
tler, Dallon Higgins, then to claim his title.
Crawford recalled his team
Sophomore Darby Gassett
was bested by Higgins again
Wallowa’s second wres- going to the free throw line played phenomenally and was
when the second place/third tler, 120-pound competi- with the game tied, but the awarded player of the game.
place match was held.
tor Luis Mendez, won two
EHS also received seven matches, lost two matches,
team points from freshman DQG FODLPHG D ¿IWK SODFH LQ
Dylan Staigle who, like Mill- the tournament for 10 team
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er, wrestled in the 106-pound points.
Echo game. “We came out
and played our game. The
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was on to at least one state some big threes and poured it
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play-in match.
on from the inside too.”
to go on service, but
Joseph
beat
the
Echo
Cou-
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Joseph as tourney runner-up. 18-14, putting the Cougars
Joseph coach Olan Fulfer up by a point before Joseph’s
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Eagles the win.
“Cayden (DeLury) hit a
big three-pointer near the end
and Sam (Beckman) hit four
clutch free throws (in a row)
to help us win the game,”
Fulfer noted.
Stats
weren’t
avail-
able
from
Saturday’s
game
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against
Nixyaawii.
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Gassett scored 14, going
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range. Senior leader Carsen
Sajonia scored six including
a three. She also had three re-
bounds, two assists and three
steals. Emma Hall didn’t
score any points but did have
four rebounds, three assists
and a steal. Center Tiffanie
George scored three with four
rebounds and an assist. Sar-
ah Aschenbrenner scored six
points with three rebounds
and a block. Freshman Reece
Christman put up one three-
point shot and made it. She
also had three rebounds and
an assist. Riley Gray, anoth-
er freshman, scored and had
two rebounds and two assists.
Crawford will be losing three
seniors from this year’s team,
but some of his team will be
returning for two more years
and other players for three. He
thinks EHS will become the
team to beat.
each scored 15 points. Eliza-
beth is a senior and Hannah a
sophomore.
Calling the outing Wal-
lowa’s worst game since
December, Oveson said his
troops trailed 16-4 after eight
minutes and never threatened
the eventual league champs.
Echo (9-3 in league and 19-6
overall) kept full-court pres-
sure on the Cougars through-
out most of the game.
In the opening minutes
of the second half, Wallowa
rebounders Calli Miller and
Macey Frei picked up their
fourth fouls and Oveson,
seeing the handwriting on
the wall, began pulling his
starters to rest them for Sat-
urday’s showdown with
Nixyaawii.
MATS:
Young
wrestlers
vie for
state
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Those who place high at
Boardman will move on to
the State Junior High School
Wrestling Tournament sched-
uled for March 14 in Wood-
burn.
Competing in pod com-
petition Friday, Feb. 6, on
mats inside the Pine Eagle
High School gymnasium,
several local wrestlers com-
peted well.
In fact, the team from
Enterprise won 13 of 15
matches it competed in and
had three of its five wres-
tlers go undefeated.
Winning three match-
said the Eagles came out and
played “like they had nothing es each for Enterprise were
to lose.” Going into the half seventh grader Kennison
the Joseph Eagles were up Knifong and eighth graders
by one over their formidable Shane Lund and Evan John-
foe. In the second half, how- son. Knifong and Lund wres-
ever, Nixyaawii came out fast tled at 95 pounds and John-
and strong and poured it on, son at 110 pounds. Winning
two of three matches for the
Fulfer acknowledges.
One of the highlights of same Enterprise team were
last week’s tournament came sixth grader Trace Evans, at
when Joseph was forming its 90 pounds, and eighth grad-
spirit line before the Nixy- er Klint Norton, at 200-plus
aawii game. The Wallowa pounds.
In that same tournament,
boys’ and girls’ teams and
Wallowa fans all joined in the Joseph junior high school
line. ”We really appreciated coach Ryan Seal said his four
wrestlers compiled an accu-
it,” Fulfer said.
-RVHSK¶V ¿UVW VWDWH SOD\LQ mulative record of 8-4. Going
game was scheduled Tuesday undefeated for Joseph with
at home against the Dufer 3-0 marks were 80-pound
Rangers. A Joseph win would eighth grade wrestler Steven
place the Eagles to a second Beckman and eighth grade
play-in for a spot among the 160-pound wrestler Callum
elite eight in the state tourney. Wilcox. Another eighth grad-
er, Trey Wandschneider, won
two of three matches at 135
pounds and Seal’s fourth
wrestler, seventh grader Aus-
tin Sykora, wrestled at 120
STILL RUNNING OUT pounds and was winless in
three matches.
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