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Stevens signs with Idaho
❇ ✁✂✄☎✆✝ ❇✂✄✝
❚❤✞ ✟✠✡✞☛✈✞☛
Cove senior Tim Stevens
has always loved running
— possibly even further
back than he can remem-
ber.
“My dad said when I was
learning to walk I took two
steps and then I was run-
☞✌☞✍ ✎✏✑✒☞✓ ✔✕✖ ✗✑✘✖✖
table,” he said.
While Stevens jokingly
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validity of that statement,
his lifelong love for the
sport has translated into
an impressive high school
career that has seen him
win six individual state
championships in track
and cross country.
And his career is set to
last much longer, as on
Jan. 28 he has signed a
letter of intent to run for
NCAA Division I Univer-
sity of Idaho.
“It was a combination
of things,” Stevens, who
was also considering Wyo-
ming, Portland and Gon-
zaga, said of the choice to
join the Vandals. “They
were very supportive. I
was impressed with every-
thing I saw academically
and athletically. Really it
just came down to how
I felt after thinking and
praying about it, and I had
the best feeling about Uni-
versity of Idaho.”
He intends to study me-
chanical engineering at
U of I, saying he was im-
pressed by the labs and
shops in the school’s en-
gineering department on
his visit. He also said me-
chanical engineering has
a broad scope, which will
give him more options in
what to study.
Stevens will be joining
both the track and cross
country teams as arguably
the best distance runner to
graduate from Cove, which
he’ll do this spring. (Alex
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pion runner who signed
with University of Oregon
a year ago, was at Cove for
two years before transfer-
ring to Union.)
Stevens has claimed in-
dividual state champion-
ships in cross country for
Union/Cove’s
coopera-
LHS baseball
drops three in
Pride Classic
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tive as a sophomore and
a senior and was second
as a junior. His time last
fall of 15:33 matched a
state record set by Graf-
funder a year earlier (Graf-
funder’s record was in
Class 3A/2A/1A, Stevens’
in 2A/1A). The time was
also the second best in the
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cation, topped only by 5A
runner Evan Holland, of
Ashland.
Stevens has been just
as good for the Leopards’
track team. He has won
the 1A state champion-
ship in the 1,500-meter
and 3,000-meter runs
each of the last two years,
and his time of 4:00.40
in the 1,500 at last year’s
state championship was
a 1A state meet record.
The 3,000 state meet re-
cord could be in danger
this spring, too, as he was
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mark a year ago.
He may have been run-
ning circles around cof-
fee tables at a young age,
but he didn’t transition to
running track until mov-
ing to Cove in the seventh
grade. Prior to that, he
spent a lot of time playing
soccer.
But Stevens’ current
teammate, Jack Silveira,
helped turn him on to the
sport during those middle
school days.
“He encouraged me to
go out for track,” he said,
adding soccer wasn’t in the
picture at Cove due to the
lack of a program. “(I) re-
alized I like to run. People
were telling me to go out
for track.”
It was around that time,
too, that Stevens, who is
a Christian, began to look
at his running ability as a
gift from God, and one he
should put to use.
“I don’t see any expla-
nation other than it came
from (God),” he said. “Ev-
erything I have is a gift
from God.”
He didn’t want to waste
it, either.
“I heard other people
talk about how they’ve
been good at something,
not used it and then lost
it,” Stevens said.
His ability to use that gift
was tested during middle
school and into his fresh-
man year when he devel-
oped
Osgood-Schlatter
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on orthoinfo.aaos.org as
See Stevens / Page 8A
Dodd wins heptathlon at Forest Grove
✟✠✡✞☛✈✞☛ ✡➼➽➾➾
Paige Dodd claimed the top spot
and Olivia Lane was third to lead a
trio of athletes on the Eastern Ore-
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the heptathlon Monday and Tuesday
at the Boxer Combined Event in For-
est Grove.
Dodd, who was an all-American in
the pentathlon during the indoor sea-
son, scored 4,503 points to win the sev-
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of Corban’s Valerie Schmidt, who was
second with 4,383 points, and Lane
placed third with 4,247 points.
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events, winning the high jump with a
mark of 5-feet-3-1/4, and taking sec-
ond in both the 100-meter hurdles
(15.10 seconds) and the long jump
(16-feet-11-1/8). Her highest-scoring
event was the 100 hurdles, where
she brought in 828 points. Dodd’s
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her 747 points, gave her a lead she
never relinquished.
Dodd also achieved marks of 32-
feet-1-3/4 in the shot put and 99-feet-
6-1/4 in the javelin, and times of 27.07
in the 200 and 2:35.97 in the 800.
Lane hung between fourth and
ninth throughout the event, but
surged to third after winning the
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of 2:22.25 and scoring 793 points.
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tie for third with a height of 5-feet-
1-1/4.
Lane added times of 16.27 in the
100 hurdles and 27.53 in the 200.
She also had marks of 31-feet-4-1/4
in the shot put, 15-feet-9 in the long
jump and 88-feet-5-1/4 in the javelin.
See EOU / Page 8A
The La Grande Tigers
baseball team dropped
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Pride Classic Monday and
Tuesday. All three games
were played in either
Phoenix, Arizona, or one
of the city’s suburbs.
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A late rally by La
Grande fell short in its
opener at the Pride Clas-
sic as it fell to Santa Mar-
garita.
The Tigers never led,
and were down 6-2 enter-
ing the bottom of the sixth
before staging a two-out
rally. A walk and two hit
batters loaded the bases,
and Parker Robinson fol-
lowed with a triple to drive
in all three runners and
make it a one-run game.
Santa
Margarita,
though, put the game out
of reach with four runs
in the seventh inning.
Wyatt Earp hit an RBI
single in the bottom
of the seventh, but the
Tigers drew no closer.
La Grande managed
just three hits — one each
from Robinson, Earp
and Brody Kincade —
but took advantage of 10
walks and two errors by
Santa Margarita to stay in
the game.
Isaac Zamora pitched
four innings to take the
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four earned — on six hits.
He walked two batters
and struck out four.
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straight runs — two in the
fourth inning and four in
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tie and pull away for a win
Tuesday morning.
La Grande scored three
times in the third on an
error, a passed ball and
an RBI single by Devin
Bell to tie the score be-
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Bell added a second RBI
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for the Tigers.
La Grande hurt itself
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to seven unearned runs.
Robinson pitched 3-1/3
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runs, three earned, on six
hits with three walks and
four strikeouts.
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ning was La Grande’s un-
doing in its second game
Tuesday as Green Moun-
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La Grande.
The Tigers had taken a
3-0 lead in the third in-
ning when Justin Fred-
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erick scored on an error
and Zamora hit a two-run
home run.
But Green Mountain
responded in a big way
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slaught highlighted by a
three-run triple by Danny
Wisor for a 6-3 lead. The
lead eventually reached 9-3
before Casey Cornford hit
an RBI single in the bottom
of the sixth for La Grande
to wrap up the scoring.
Daniel Rogers pitched
1-1/3 innings in relief, al-
lowing six runs on four
hits.
La Grande (2-5 overall)
wraps up play at the Pride
Classic today against
George
Washington
(Calif.).
Union/Cove softball
splits two at John Day
The Union/Cove Lady-
cats softball team went
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at the Grant Union Spring
Break Invite Tuesday
in John Day, defeating
Sutherlin, 10-0, but los-
ing to Clatskanie, 11-1.
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Callie Glenn tossed a
two-hit shutout with 10
strikeouts and was one
of seven players to drive
in runs as Union/Cove
rolled over the Bulldogs.
The Ladycats, already
up 4-0, broke the game
open with six runs in
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hit an RBI single, Kylie
Marriott followed with a
two-run double and Ky-
lie Bruce added an RBI
double to make it 8-0.
Kaylee Lantis then had
an RBI groundout and
Kaylin Nowak hit an RBI
single to enforce the 10-
run mercy rule.
Marriott and Lantis
both had two RBIs, and
Glenn, Daggett and Bruce
each scored twice.
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The Ladycats managed
just two hits against the
Tigers, the top-ranked
team in Class 3A.
Clatskanie, which hit
two home runs, jumped
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lead. Union/Cove pulled
within 5-1 in the third
when Glenn scored on
an error, but the Tigers
responded with a run in
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with Shelby Blodgett’s
two-run single.
Glenn allowed 11 runs
— eight earned — on nine
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Union/Cove
(2-1
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John Day today against
Rainier.