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Mountaineers endure a winless weekend at Cavalier Classic
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The Eastern
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10 team struggled
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13 weekend at the
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Oregon softball
through a 0-4
Cavalier Classic
in Portland, dropping a pair of
contests on both Friday and Sat-
urday.
EOU opened play Friday with
a 4-3 loss to Western Washing-
ton in nine innings.
The Mountaineers had taken a
3-2 lead in the top of the ninth
on an RBI single by Jordan Hen-
ley, who had a pair of hits, but an
RBI groundout by the Vikings’
Emily Benson tied the score, and
Rylie Wales won it with a walk-
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Amanda Smith took the hard-
luck loss for Eastern, tossing
8-2/3 innings, allowing four
áâÜÚ ÕÜ ãäß åÛæÚ çÜè ÚæáÛéÛÜÝ Õâæ
nine batters. EOU also got a solo
home run in the contest from
Haley Ebner.
Later Friday, the Mountain-
ßßáÚ êßÞÞ æÕ ëÕÜìÕáèÛçí îïðí ÛÜ ãäß
innings.
Concordia took command of
the game with a seven-run sec-
ond inning, which Hannah Self
started with a solo home run and
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7-0 lead.
Shevan DeFreitas had two
hits, including an RBI single in
the third, for the Mountaineers.
Ashton Kazmierski allowed
seven runs on three hits in just
1-1/3 innings.
On Saturday, Eastern opened
with a 10-2 loss to Central
Washington as EOU was again
done in by two big innings.
Hannah Rothwell hit a solo
home run in the third to tie the
score at 2-2, but Central Wash-
ington scored four times in both
the third and fourth innings to
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Mountaineer runs with a triple
in the second inning to tie the
score at 2-2. A two-run dou-
ble by Paityn Cyr in the third,
though, triggered a three-run in-
ning to put Western Washington
ahead for good.
Kazmierski tossed all six in-
nings for EOU, allowing six runs
on 11 hits.
Eastern (1-9 overall) returns
to action Friday and Saturday
when it visits Southern Oregon
to begin Cascade Collegiate Con-
ference play.
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Gracee Dwyer RBI single in the
fourth.
Smith surrendered 10 runs on
10 hits in four innings for EOU.
Eastern wrapped its stay in
Portland with another matchup
against Western Washington,
falling to the Vikings, 6-2.
Ashley Kelly knocked in both
16
Bobcats with 14 points,
while Callie Glenn and Kay-
lee Lantis both had four.
Union, though, shot just 12-
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loss.
“I’m proud of our girls,”
Head Coach Rhondie Rick-
man-Johansen said. “We’re
young. We’ve known that
all along. We never used
that as an excuse.”
The Bobcats, who will
lose only one player to
ns, 5 p.m.
ÝáçèâçæÛÕÜí ãÜÛÚåßè òÛæå
an overall record of 14-11,
the most victories the team
has had since winning 24
games in 2015.
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Tuesday,
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sessions,
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Boys
Friday
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The season came to an
end for the La Grande Ti-
gers boys basketball team
one win shy of a state play-
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to the Philomath Warriors
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on the road in the Class 4A
state play-in round Friday,
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then Badgers to score the game’s
ãáÚæ ÚßäßÜ ñÕÛÜæÚ çÜè ÕñßÜ
Rachel Haas scored 14
points, all in the second
half, to pace the Wildcats.
The victory sets up the
Badgers (24-3 overall) in
’s Dylan an 11-2 lead on a steal and
ision. It layup by Belle Blair.
st John- The Badgers led by as
match, öâìå çÚ ðð ÛÜ æåß ãáÚæí çÜè
win- used an 8-0 run late in the
decision second — capped by a bas-
ket in the lane by Bingham
ws scored — to go up 18 in the second
ce Evans before settling for a 26-10
the Out- lead at the half.
uke “We are growing the most
n to open defensively. Our defense
st in the is really good,” said Logan
’s Caleb Nedrow, who had a strong
He recov- all-round game with seven
nsolation ñÕÛÜæÚí ãäß ÚæßçÞÚ çÜè ãäß
- assists for the Badgers. “Ev-
and eryone who comes in the
match game is going to give 100
Patzke by percent.”
Nedrow helped put the
went 0-2 game completely out of
place. reach early in the third
with a 3-pointer and later
a steal and layup for a 32-
12 margin. Two buckets by
Autumn Davis, who added
10 points, pushed the lead
to 24, and the Badgers built
as much as a 25-point lead
in the fourth en route to the
win.
The defense and re-
ç øâçáæßáãÜçÞ öçæìåâñ
the only downside for the
Badgers Saturday — shoot-
ing. Powder Valley was just
21-for-57 for the game but
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bounds. Josi Kreiger, who
led the way with nine re-
Haley Miller scored 15
points to lead three players
against Crane Thursday
night in Baker City. Crane
scored a 44-35 win over the
Badgers back in December,
but Nedrow said the team
has improved since it was
in that contest.
“We’re playing 100 per-
cent better than we were at
the beginning of the year,
and I don’t think a lot of
teams realize how much
we’ve improved. We’re
ready to come out in the
state tournament and show
people we are a good team,”
she said.
Megan Bingham agreed
the team is playing with
öÕáß ìÕÜãèßÜìß æåçÜ ßçá -
lier in the year, and noted
that defeating Joseph in the
district tournament a week
ago gave them a boost.
“After beating Joseph I
æåÛÜé Ûæ Ýçäß âÚ ìÕÜãèßÜìß
in knowing we have po-
tential to go super far (at
state),” she said.
Also Saturday
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“We rebounded well,
and (we) were taking good
shots, (but) they were not
going in,” Allen Bingham
said.
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Joseph Eagles girls bas-
ketball team built an early
22-point lead on the way to
a 50-34 road win over the
Mohawk Mustangs Satur-
day in the second round of
for a 17-5 lead that it never
relinquished. A 12-2 run in
the second quarter gave the
Eagles their largest lead at
31-9, and they led 32-15 at
the break.
Mohawk pulled within
40-30 in the fourth quarter
on a Peyton Robinson steal
and layup but got no closer.
Madelyn Nelson added
14 points and Albee had 12
for Joseph. The Eagles shot
just 13-for-49 but made up
for it at the free-throw line,
going 21-for-27.
The Eagles (25-3 overall)
will face St. Paul in the state
øâçáæßáãÜçÞÚ ✟ åâáÚèçô ÛÜ
Baker City. The teams met
in early January, with the
Buckaroos earning a 40-32
win.
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2013, the Enterprise Out-
laws girls basketball team is
headed to the 2A state quar-
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Carsyn Miller led three
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“For the last four years
we have been ranked in the
top 16, and based on the
old rules we never got into
the fray. We’ve been knock-
ing on the door,” Crawford
said.
Enterprise lost in this
round a year ago, but the
returners who were in that
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there.
“That experience paid
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“We lost four starters (from
last year) but I’ve got three
seniors this year and I’ve
got enough athletes (along
with them). They all want
to do more.”
The win puts Enterprise
(19-6 overall) into a quar-
æßáãÜçÞ öçæìåâñ òÛæå ✒ ßá -
nonia Thursday night in
Pendleton. The Loggers
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48-46 upset win over Mon-
roe, the second seed and
last year’s state runner-up.
with 11 points, and Enter-
prise used a 9-0 run late
in the third quarter to take
control on the way to a 45-
34 road win over the Port-
land Christian Royals in a
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night.
Enterprise took a 19-15
lead at the half and was up
by 10 before Portland Chris-
tian went on a 10-0 run to
even the score at 28-28.
A timeout, though, reset
the Outlaws, who respond-
ed with a 9-0 run to go into
the fourth leading 37-28
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Shelby Moncrief
with Sabrina Albee beating
the buzzer to cap the run,
program Head Coach Mike
Crawford said has been on
the cusp of getting back to
and
Karli Bedard both added
10 points for Enterprise, a
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The Union Bobcats girls
basketball team hung with
Coquille for about 20 min-
utes before the Red Devils
pulled away for a 54-32 win
in Coquille.
Union took a 12-10 lead
through one quarter, led
late in the second before
Coquille rallied to go up
22-17 at the half, and was
still within single digits in
the third. But Coquille built
its lead to 43-31 after three
quarters, then pulled away
for the win.
Kaylin Nowak led the
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La Grande has missed the
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A big second quarter by
the Warriors set the Tigers
back, as Philomath out-
scored La Grande in the
second stanza 17-9 to build
a 32-20 lead at the half. La
Grande pulled within 45-35
after three, but the War-
áÛÕáÚ ãÜÛÚåßè ÕÖ æåß òÛÜ ÛÜ
the fourth.
Kaleb Myer scored 12
points and hit four 3-point-
ers to lead La Grande.
Hunter Youngblood added
11 points, and Kaden Chan-
dler scored seven points.
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season with a record of 7-13.
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The Power Valley Bad-
gers boys basketball team
fell short in its bid to get
back to the 1A state quar-
æßáãÜçÞÚí ÞÕÚÛÜÝ ÕÜ æåß áÕçè
to the Days Creek Wolves
in the second round of the
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A big second quarter al-
lowed the Badgers to erase
ç ð ✖ ïñÕÛÜæ èßãìÛæ çÜè æçéß
a 29-26 lead at halftime.
Days Creek responded with
a 22-point third quarter
to pull ahead, 48-47, after
three quarters, then held on
late.
The Badgers were hurt by
hot 3-point shooting from
Days Creek, as the Wolves
were 13-for-25 from be-
yond the arc. Caleb Kruzic,
who led the Wolves with
20 points, had six of those
3-pointers.
The Badgers, who lost de-
spite shooting 58 percent,
were led by Roper Bing-
ham, who had 23 points
and 11 rebounds. Reece
Dixon added 15 points, and
Moziss Nesser scored 10.
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with an overall record of
17-10.
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The Union Bobcats boys
basketball team ran into the
defending 2A state cham-
pion Columbia Christian
Knights, and saw the sea-
son end on the short end of
a 103-36 blowout road loss
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CC jumped out to a 25-11
lead after one quarter and
followed with 31 second-
quarter points to take a 56-
20 lead at the break and roll
to the win, its 17th in a row.
Keegan Glenn scored
nine points to lead Union.
D.J. Coon added eight
points, and both Tate Lantis
and Gannon Carreiro had
seven points.
The Bobcats, who were
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æåß ãáÚæ æÛöß ÚÛÜìß ÷ ✖ ð ✛ ✜
when they were also elimi-
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ished with an overall record
of 16-9.
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