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Sports Blue Mountain Eagle ROUNDUP Continued from Page B1 Emerson also beat her previous season records in the 100-meter hurdles, where she placed fi rst, and the 300 hurdles, where she fi nished second. She also had a personal record in dis- cus, placing fourth with a mark of 76-07. Pettit had fi rst-place fi n- ishes in the 100-meter dash and long jump. Faythe Schafer had a personal record in the 200, placing second with a time of 29.64. She was also fi fth in javelin and seventh in dis- cus. For the Monument boys, Jess Hoodenpyl fi nished second in the 1,500-meter run and sixth in the 800. He fi nished fourth in the 300-meter hurdles — his fi rst time trying the event. Monument’s Hayden Schafer fi nished second in javelin with a mark of 132- 09 and sixth in shot put and discus. Prairie City’s Devin Packard fi nished third in javelin, about 3 feet behind Schafer, achieving a person- al record. Packard was also fourth in discus and 11th in shot put. For the Prairie City girls, Rilee Emmel was 13th in the 100 with a time of 16.31 and a personal record. She was fourth in the 200. The Long Creek boys 4x100 relay team, including Nathan Galmiche, James Kreamier, Matheus Gamba and Emile Stainier, fi nished second with a time of 50.29. Long Creek head coach Linda Studtmann said it was a personal record for the group. “I hope to see continued improvement on their time and would love to see them get fi rst one of these times,” she said. Several Long Creek boys placed well in their events with each achieving at least one personal record. Gamba and Stainier both tied for second in the high jump, and Galmiche was third in the long jump. Stainier tried the long jump for the fi rst time, placing third, and plans to continue competing in the event. All four girls on the Long Creek team earned a person- al record in at least one of their events, including Ya- Chi Hsueh who broke her records in the 100 and shot put. Studtmann said, although she likes to see her athletes succeed and win, “success is not always measured by a score on a sheet of paper.” “My goal for all our ath- letes is that they learn, im- prove, and do their best,” she said. “Then when they SOFTBALL achieve that, let’s take that and learn and improve some more, and make their best even better.” Continued from Page B1 Moulton said it was a good feeling to get the home run af- ter struggling at the beginning of the second game. Stearns said she was pleased with the day’s games. “I think it shows what we can really do as a team once we get focused and work hard,” she said. Grant Union scored 11 runs on nine hits and two walks . The Prospectors had 15 hits and drew three walks in the game. Prospectors Whitney Mc- Clellan, Wright and Stearns each had two hits, and Walker and Moulton each had three, as well as two doubles. Mad- den pitched the fi ve innings, giving up two hits and had two strikeouts. “This was a good test for us this weekend,” Nash said. “Echo/Stanfi eld is a quality team, and we knew we would need to play well to fi nish on top.” Grant Union was sched- uled to host Nyssa for a dou- bleheader on Tuesday, past press time, in their league opener. The games were to make up for those can- celed last week due to bad weather. The Prospectors also host league opponent Vale at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Friday. Grant Union is 11-1 in nonleague play, and Nash said it will be “critical” to win this week’s games as they start league action. Grant Union girls roar to second at Burns Lions meet Athletes from Grant Union, Prairie City and Day- ville competed at Saturday’s Burns Lions Arlie Oster Track Meet. Grant Union’s Jozie Rude amazed her coach Sonna Smith Saturday as she tied the school record in shot put at the event. She earned fi rst in shot put with a distance of 37-7.5 at Burns High School. “The previous record she now shares was set in 1995 by Jess Zinn,” Smith said. Rude also set a personal record of 22 feet in discus with a throw of 115-5 and placed third in javelin. Four Grant Union girls entered in javelin, discus and shot put made it to fi nals, Smith said. Kaylee Wright had a sea- son record throw of 126-00 in javelin for fi rst place, fol- lowed by Rude with a throw of 114-11. Dayville’s Kristi- na Humphreys placed third with a mark of 114-00. Wright also placed fi rst in the high jump with a leap of 5-00 and was fi rst in the 100 with a time of 13.13. Smith also highlighted Trinity Hutchison and Sierra Cates who had their fi rst offi - cial triple jumps at the meet and are now fi rst and second in league. Erika Dickens also set new personal records in the 1,500 and 800. Chelsie Kodesh had a sea- son record in discus where she placed second with 100- 05, and she was followed by Reitta Wyllie who placed third with 89-06. For the Grant Union boys, Mason Gerry had a 20-foot personal record in javelin, placing fourth in the fi nals with a throw of 133-09. Nick Springer set a season record in the high jump with a mark of 5-10.00 and a personal record in javelin, where he placed eighth out of 31 com- petitors. Several Prairie City ath- letes set personal records, including Emily Ennis for the 100 and 200 and Jessica Reames in javelin and long jump. Setting personal records for the Prairie City boys were Jake McHatton in discus and javelin, placing eighth and 10th, respective- ly; Devin Packard, fi fth in discus; and Lane Williams for long jump. For the Dayville boys, Gabe Walker had person- al records in three of four events, the 200, 110 hurdles and long jump. ABOVE: Grant Union’s Tressa Ranft gets a base hit in Saturday’s game against Echo/ Stanfield. RIGHT: Grant Union first baseman Dauna Bishop tags for an out in Saturday’s game against Echo/ Stanfield. In back left, head coach DeAnna Nash and assistant coach Les DeHaven. Eagle photos/ Angel Carpenter B9 Wednesday, April 19, 2017 the SPORTS SCHEDULE Friday, April 21 Grant Union golf @ Hermiston Invite at Big River Country Club, 10 a.m. Monument track and fi eld @ Viking Invitational in Vale, 3:30 p.m. Grant Union soft- ball vs. Vale (2), 1 p.m., 3 p.m. Saturday, April 22 Grant Union track and fi eld @ Pep- si Invitational in Union, 11 a.m. Grant Union base- ball @ Sherman County in Moro (2), 11 a.m., 1 p.m. Thursday, April 27 Grant Union soft- ball @ Pilot Rock/ Nixyaawii in Pilot Rock (1), 4:30 p.m. corner’s HOT SH T EEK OF THE W DUANE STOKES The Eagle/Angel Carpenter Grant Union golfer Fallen Bolman, right, stands with her mother, Dovie, as a hailstorm moves over the John Day Golf Club course during Friday’s GUHS Invitational. GOLF Continued from Page B1 The weather included sun- shine with a brief hailstorm that made the fairway look like a winter wonderland. For the boys teams, Hep- pner placed fi rst with 337, Burn 394 and Enterprise 409. Logan Grieb of Heppner placed fi rst with 79, followed by Dan Bretsch of Heppner with 81 and Stokes. For the girls teams, Hep- pner fi nished fi rst with 426, followed by Grant Union with 521, Vale with 528 and Burns with 549. Nicole Propheter of Heppner posted the low- est score at 100, followed by Amanda Rea of Heppner with 103 and Allen. Other Grant Union girls competing were Emily Springer, 127; Makenna Cul- ley, 134; Fallen Bolman, 135; Kaytlyn Wells, 146; Maddy Way, 146; and Andrea Comer, 167. “It was a great day for girls golf at GU,” Lundbom said. “It was their fi rst 18-hole match on a very challenging day to play golf. The kids ex- ceeded my expectations for their fi rst 18 holes in these conditions, and I’m very proud of them.” School: Grant Union Grade: 11 Parents: Kelly and Lori Stokes Sport: Golf What I like best about my sport: “I like that I can go out there and play a calm sport with kids from other schools and still be friendly about it.” Coach’s Comment: “Although everyone had a goal, Duane has put in a lot of work with a swing change this year. He wanted to shoot mid-80’s and he did that at our home match.” - Coach Ron Lundbom PROUD SPONSOR OF GRANT COUNTY ATHLETES 100 E. Main • Stoplight in John Day 541-792-0425 05516