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SPORTS
Union takes second at tourney EOU sends five to nationals
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Maybe the Union Bobcats
boys basketball team needs to
be nervous more often.
The Bobcats channeled
their pre-game anxiety into
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build a double-digit lead that
they never gave up as they
topped the Grant Union Pros-
pectors, 58-49, Friday in the
Blue Mountain Conference
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“We had a good pep talk be-
forehand and (I) said, ‘Are you
nervous, or are you ready to go
because you prepared?’ They
decided they were ready to
go,” Head Coach Dan Daggett
said. “Man, we shot the lights
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And it was seemingly every
player in red who came on the
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The Bobcats opened the game
7-for-11 from 3-point range
and 11-for-18 overall. Even
shots launched from the NBA
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Pendleton Convention Center
were going in.
Three-pointers from D.J.
Coon and Jace Phillips early in
the second quarter extended a
four-point lead to 30-17, and a
late trey from Keegan Glenn
capped the half and put Union
up 37-21.
“Our mindset is if we get a
little space, that’s all it takes,”
nsen and Glenn, who led Union with 21
or second points and 11 rebounds, said.
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m of Ro- it from anywhere we can.”
en- The 54-percent shooting
ually, the ✤✙✍✯✙✗✏☞✘✙ ✖✗ ✏✒✙ ✌✍✎✏ ✒☞✓✔
from Ro- didn’t carry over, as Union
medley was just 21 percent in the
rth in the second half, which allowed
Grant Union to close in. The
n the re- Prospectors twice got as close
✛ as four, including at 49-45 on
d out the a Tristan Morris layup with
xth in the 3:21 to play. But Glenn scored
4 seconds twice late to help keep Grant
Union at bay, and the Bobcats
e meet for
e “a great
swam so
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The Eastern Oregon men’s wrestling team
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al Championships and placed sixth as a team
at the Cascade Collegiate Conference Cham-
pionships Friday and Saturday in Great Falls,
Montana.
Drake Randall (165 pounds) reached the
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championship match against Providence’s
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the Argos’ wrestler earned a win by fall in the
second extra period to claim the title. Mhar
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win four matches in a row and take third. In
the third-place match, Caballa earned a 3-1
decision over Menlo’s Ian Morken to com-
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went 5-for-8 from the free-
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hold on.
“The biggest thing was call-
ing a timeout and getting our
team to settle back in on (de-
fense),” Daggett said. “The
boys weathered the storm.”
Glenn said it was the de-
fensive play early, in fact, that
gave Union the lift it needed.
“When we came down on
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and got a stop, then the sec-
ond possession and got a stop,
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the stops on defense really led
to the momentum,” he said.
Cole McLean added 12
points and six steals for Union,
and Hunter Coon scored eight
as seven players scored.
The win locked up the Bob-
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2017.
“It’s an awesome opportu-
nity,” Glenn added. “Last year,
we didn’t get to play in a state
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The Bobcats fell short,
though, in their bid for a BMC
tournament title, losing to the
Heppner Mustangs in Satur-
day’s championship game,
63-50.
The Mustangs quickly built
a double-digit lead, went into
the half up 29-18 and con-
trolled the contest most of the
night.
Glenn had 14 points and 10
rebounds for Union. Phillips
also had 14 points and Tate
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with 10 points.
The Bobcats (16-8 overall)
will travel to face defending
state champion Columbia
Christian on Friday in their
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The Enterprise Outlaws
boys basketball team saw its
season end with a 53-41 loss
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at the Blue Mountain Confer-
ence tournament in Pendle-
ton.
Enterprise fell behind by
eight at halftime and watched
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the end of the third quarter.
Devin Greer scored 14
points and Dylan Marr had 13
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with a record of 9-15.
Enterprise, Union are playoff bound
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The Enterprise Outlaws
girls basketball team couldn’t
have asked for a better start,
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ably in a 41-33 loss to the Hep-
pner Mustangs Friday in the
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tain Conference tournament
in Pendleton.
“It’s a classic example of be-
ing all jacked up to start the
game and then coming down
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Crawford said. “They were all
excited to the point of wasting
a huge amount of energy.”
Enterprise jumped out to
a 10-2 lead just 2:23 into the
game, with a steal and layup
by Shelby Moncrief and a put-
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the hot start.
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Heppner, though, came
back to take the lead by the ✏✒✙ ✪✕✕✍✱ ✫✖✏✒ ☛ ✙✤✤✗✙✍ ✎✒✕✕✏ - the third-place game Satur-
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The Outlaws held just a
Marlee Mitchell 3-pointer, 14-for-54. But the Mustangs
then went ahead for good 17- hit four 3-pointers to none for ✳ ✙ ✑✳ ✆ ✓✙☞✣ ✙✗✏✙✍✖✗✘ ✏✒✙ ✌✗☞✓
14 on a Jacee Currin 3-point Enterprise and outrebounded quarter, before putting up 18
play midway through the sec- the Outlaws 47-33.
points in the fourth to pull
ond quarter.
Miller and Moncrief both away.
The lead reached 34-23 late scored eight points to lead En-
Moncrief had 17 points for
in the third before Enterprise terprise. Gray added six points Enterprise, and Miller had 10
put together a 9-0 run to get and 13 rebounds.
points and seven rebounds.
within 34-32 with 6:11 to play
The loss didn’t keep Enter-
Callie Glenn had 11 points
after a layup and jumper by ✤✍✖✎✙ ✔✍✕✜ ✏✒✙ ✤✓☞✛✕✥✎✱ ☞✎ ✏✒✙ for Union, and Kylie Marriott
Carsyn Miller. Sydney Wilson ✮★✏✓☞✫✎ ✌✗✖✎✒✙✣ ✒✖✘✒ ✙✗✕★✘✒ grabbed 18 rebounds.
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Union reached the third-
for Heppner to stop the run, ✙✗✏✒ ✓ ✏✕ ✘☞✍✗✙✍ ☞✗ ☞✏✑✓☞✍✘✙ place game by defeating the
and the Outlaws converted bid to state. It did, though, ❅✏☞✗✌✙✓✣ ❈✖✘✙✍✎ ✖✗ ✖✏✎ ✌✍✎✏
just one free throw the rest of eliminate their hopes of play- game at the district tourna-
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the way.
Stats were not available.
Wilson and Currin were home.
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ished with 19 points and 12 well for the Outlaws.
will travel to face Portland
rebounds, and Currin had 11
“We needed to win this ✞ ✒✍✖✎✏✖☞✗ ✖✗ ✏✒✙ ✌✍✎✏ ✍✕★✗✣
and 15, respectively.
game in order to host. How- ✕✔ ✏✒✙ ✤✓☞✛✕✥✎ ❅☞✏★✍✣☞✛✱
“The two players we had ever, we may face a better op- while Union (14-10) visits
to deal with were Wilson and ponent,” Crawford said.
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Currin. We didn’t shut them
The Outlaws recovered game, also on Saturday. It’s
down at all,” Crawford said.
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Both teams struggled from to top the Union Bobcats in berth since 2015.
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Eastern hoops splits on the road
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egon Tech, the Eastern Oregon men’s bas-
The Eastern Oregon women’s basketball
team saw its 48-game Cascade Collegiate
Conference winning streak end at the hands
of the last conference opponent to beat EOU.
Oregon Tech rallied in the fourth quarter to
upend No. 9 Eastern Oregon, 74-69, Friday
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in CCC play since the Owls defeated EOU 69-
65 on Jan. 15, 2017.
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quarter, but a Bailey Nelson 3-point play trig-
gered a 7-0 run that gave the Owls the lead
for good. Maya Ah You-Dias hit a jumper to
pull EOU within 60-59 with 6:14 to play, but
the margin reached as much as seven in the
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Ah You-Dias had 18 points, six rebounds
and six assists to lead Eastern. Both Julia Han-
ni and Maren Herrud scored 14 points. EOU,
though, was just 1-for-11 from 3-point range.
On Saturday Eastern Oregon started a new
winning streak with a tightly contested 73-72
win over rival Southern Oregon in the regu-
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The Raiders got as close as 71-70 on a Des-
tinee Jones layup with 43 seconds to play.
EOU twice split two free throws to push the
lead to three, and the tying 3-point attempt by
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Maren Herrud and Maya Ah You-Dias both
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and Beverly Slater scored nine.
Eastern Oregon (25-3 overall, 19-1 CCC),
which reached the 25-win plateau for the
third year in a row, hosts Multnomah at 7
p.m. Tuesday to begin the CCC tournament.
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a 64-61 win at Southern Oregon Saturday
when Jordan May knocked down the game-
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The win meant that EOU would clinch the
fourth seed if Corban won at home against
Northwest Christian, but NCU had other
plans as it scored a 75-73 overtime victory.
The win gave NCU the third seed, Corban the
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The Mountaineers were seemingly in con-
trol against SOU. They led for all but three
minutes and were up 57-47 after a Zane
Wright 3-pointer with 6:39 to play. But SOU
scored seven straight to get close, and eventu-
ally tied the game on a 3-pointer by Tristen
Holmes with 24 seconds to play.
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the winning trey for his second game-winner
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which won despite shooting 36 percent and
going just 5-for-17 from 3-point range. Jarek
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and Landon Jones had 13 points.
It was a stark contrast from Friday, when
OIT pulled away in the second half for a 91-61
win over the Mountaineers.
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ter a May 3-pointer, but a 19-5 OIT run gave
the Owls a 34-23 lead. They led 46-36 at the
half, then opened the second half on a 15-5
run and cruised to the win.
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Mountaineers. May had 11 points, and Jones
scored nine.
Eastern (15-14 overall, 10-8 CCC) trav-
els to Corban Wednesday for the CCC
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EOU softball drops openers
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The Eastern Oregon soft-
ball team dropped two con-
tests in Redding, California,
to open the 2019 season, los-
ing to Simpson, 6-0, and to
William Jessup, 8-7.
Eastern had just two hits in
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single and a Rayne Spencer
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pitcher Sydney Moorhead,
who struck out seven. Lauren
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the loss for the Mountain-
eers.
EOU took a 5-3 lead into
the sixth inning in its second
game against William Jes-
sup, but the Warriors plated
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mierski to take the lead.
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rhythm in the contest, col-
lecting 13 hits, including a
solo home run in the sixth by
Madison Parker that pulled
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Steven Beckman and Zeb Ramsden both
clinched district titles, and the Joseph/Wal-
lowa Eagles wrestling team earned four state
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Special District 4 Tournament Friday and
Saturday in Halfway.
Beckman (113 pounds), a two-time defend-
ing champion at 106, won the district title at
his new weight class by defeating Heppner’s
Trevor Antonucci by a second-round fall in
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4-0 and beat Culver’s Anthony Hood by a 4-0
decision in the title bout.
Both Austin Brockamp (170) and Jonah
Staigle (195) went 2-1 to take second and
reach state. Brockamp, after falling in the title
bout, defeated Heppner’s Charles Cason by a
16-0 technical fall in the second-place match.
Staigle also recovered from a title match loss
to take second, earning the No. 2 spot by rule
over Crane’s Tanner Davis due to an earlier
win over Davis.
Enterprise took seventh with 66.5 points
and put two wrestlers through to state. Trace
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took second place by rule over Union/Cove’s
Carter Blackburn after beating him earlier in
the tournament.
Klint Norton (285) went 2-1 for second,
losing the championship match but winning
second by rule over Martin Negrete of Culver.
One surprise for the Outlaws was Shane
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to third at 132 after losing the second-place
match to Anthony Hood by fall.
Union/Cove, which took ninth at 59.5
points, saw Jaxon Blackburn (126) qualify
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3-1, losing only in the title match, and won the
second-place match by fall over Crane’s Glen
Starbuck.
Imbler, which was 10th with 48.5 points,
also got a wrestler into state as Logan Butcher
(145) placed second. Butcher went 4-1 on the
tournament, lost just the title bout, and de-
feated Grant Union’s Justin Hodge by a 5-3
decision in the second-place match.
Reece McConnell (138) went 2-2 and
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12.5 points.
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mat at the state tournament Friday and Sat-
urday in Portland.
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the Mountaineers within 8-6.
Sarah Bonner added a sacri-
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in the seventh, but couldn’t
pull even.
Shevan DeFreitas and
Spencer both had three hits.
Parker had two, and Bonner
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lowed eight runs on 10 hits in
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EOU (0-2 overall) faces
the same two teams again
today and then Simpson in a
doubleheader Tuesday.
Eight qualify for 2A/1A state
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plete his comeback.
Blake McNall (133) also placed third and
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sion over Embry-Riddle’s Collin Anderson in
the third-place match.
Ryan Redford (184) was the Mountaineers’
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sler by a 5-3 decision in the third-place match.
Rounding out the placers for EOU was Harley
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The national championship tournament is
March 1-2 in Des Moines, Iowa.
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