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❱❳❨ ❩❬❭❨❪❫❨❪
EOU has 15 set for
national competition
➝➞ ➟➠➡➢➤➥ ➝➠➡➥
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Fifteen members of the
Eastern Oregon track and
➱➽✃➼ ➸➽➷× ➷➘➽ ➵➽➸ ➸➺ ➬➽➮➪➚
action at the NAIA Indoor
National Championships
in Brookings, South Da-
kota, and several of the
Mountaineers are in posi-
tion to come home as all-
Americans or even con-
tend for a national title.
Events begin early
Thursday, which will be
a busy day for Eastern’s
Paige Dodd, who will
battle in the women’s
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The Joseph Eagles girls
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“I don’t feel like teams get lucky
enough to be that successful that of-
ten. It’s been the coolest experience,”
said senior Maren Herrud, who
scored 17 points.
EOU, which trailed for just nine
seconds, was already ahead by dou-
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ter three Emma Logan free throws
Unlike Friday’s double overtime
thriller, Monday’s Cascade Collegiate
Conference championship game pro-
vided little drama.
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half from its star player and a bal-
anced second-half attack boosted the
Eastern Oregon women’s basketball
team to its third straight CCC tour-
nament title, 75-60, over Corban in
front of a capacity crowd at Quinn
Coliseum.
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quarter.
That’s when Maya Ah You-Dias,
who scored a game-high 27 points,
broke the game open. The senior
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scored eight straight Mountaineer
points to open the second, then hit
a pull-up jumper and a 3-pointer to
give EOU its largest lead, 35-12, with
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It was the defense, though, that
helped set the early tone, forcing Cor-
ban to take several tough shots, many
with the shot clock winding down. A
big piece of the scouting report was
focused on Corban’s Jordan Wood-
vine and on help defense.
“Our team worked hard to play
See Champs / Page 7A
➳✃✃ ➱➶➽ ➼➪➵❒➪❮✃➪➚➽➵ ➪➚
the pentathlon — the high
jump, the 800-meter run,
the 60-meter hurdles,
the shot put and the long
jump — will be held on
Thursday.
The preliminaries in
both the men’s and wom-
en’s 4-by-400 relay races
will also be held Thurs-
day. Megan Bolton, Olivia
See Eastern / Page 7A
State tourneys kick off
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pentathlon. Dodd scored
3,484 points in the pen-
tathlon in a January meet
and enters ranked fourth
in the nation.
pretty quickly if it’s going to
be in the mix to play for a
state title this weekend.
Joseph opens play at the
1A state tournament in Bak-
er City against the top-seed-
ed and undefeated St. Paul
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at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
The teams met earlier
this season, with Joseph
taking a 24-21 lead into
the fourth quarter before
St. Paul found a spark for
a 40-32 win.
The teams appeared
destined to be on opposite
ends of the bracket and
poised for a rematch, po-
tentially in the state title
game, as they were Nos.
1 and 2 in the OSAA rank-
ings. But Joseph was upset
by Powder Valley in the Old
Oregon League title game,
43-37, a loss that dropped
the Eagles to the OOL’s No.
2 seed to state and eventu-
ally into the matchup with
the Buckaroos.
Joseph is one of just two
See State / Page 7A
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