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Dodd leads after first day
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▲✶ ✷✸✶✹✺✻➆s ✼✽✶✾✹✶ ✿✶✸s❀✹❁ ✽✻❂t❁ t✸✾✻s t❀ ❃❄t ✶ t✶❅ ❀✹ ❇❈▲❀❄❅♦✽✾✹➆s ❉✾❊❊✾ ❇✶✸❊ ✺❄✸✾✹❅
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A proper christening
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The La Grande Tigers
softball team couldn’t have
asked for a much better way
to christen a newly revamped
Sam Marcum Field Thurs-
day — a dominant double-
header sweep that strength-
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-
ham, one of LHS’s seniors,
said the upgraded facility,
which includes a new back-
stop, new dugouts for both
home and visiting teams and
Head Coach Woody Wright
said. “As long as we can con-
tinue to support (Brock) with
runs I feel pretty good about
where we’re sitting with the
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Paige Dodd already has one women’s hep-
tathlon title under her belt this spring, and
the Eastern Oregon redshirt junior is eyeing
another. Dodd held the lead in the heptath-
lon through one day of the Cascade Colle-
giate Conference Multi-Event Champion-
ships, which began Thursday and concluded
today at the EOU track.
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All three Mountaineer women, in fact, hit when G
personal bests in three events: both Dodd
and Lane in the 100 hurdles, outdoors high groundou
jump and shot put, and Collins in the hur- launched
dles, shot put and 800.
shot of th
Dodd’s time of 14.99 seconds in the hur-
dles put her in fourth with 843 points. She
moved into the lead with a national qualify- charge. G
ing mark of 5-feet-5-3/4 for 818 points, and
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Hafer ha
the shot put and a time of 26.57 in the 200, scored
which were good for second and seventh. other play
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and moved into fourth with a fourth-place circle,
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allowing
followed by taking fourth in the shot put (34- on a fourt
feet-0-1/4) and 11th in 200 (27.44).
pitches w
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Thursday
Both Dodd and Lane, in fact, were more
than 150 points ahead of their scores
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by Jayce Seavert lifted the
facility came an inning later
peting in the heptathlon this weekend, had
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third when Seavert and Ha-
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fensive attack sent La Grande
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to a 12-6 win in the second looked the part of the state 3-0 lead.
Cheyanne Collins (2,260) are in fourth and
game and to a 6-0 start in contenders they are, as the
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GOL play.
sweep Thursday continued ÕáÑ òÚãØÕáç ßÔÕá ðÝØÝ ñÚÚ -
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she said
Seavert said. “We were like, start to GOL action. In their the charge. Gooderham hit
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chipped
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on error that plated two more
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helps to validate the program
and its growth into one of the
state’s strongest after taking
the title a year ago.
“It shows we’re not just
some rag-tag team from no-
where. We won state and we
run of the opener without a
hit, as Alaina Carson was hit
by a pitch and later scored
when Seavert reached on an
said Thursday. “The warm weather was a
nice change and it seemed to help every-
LHS tennis has mixed results
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The La Grande Tigers boys
tennis team bounced back
from a loss to Baker earlier
in the week to top Ontario
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Wednesday and split a home
set against McLoughlin
Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Tigers
dropped just one set as Colm
Cahill went the distance
to earn a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 win
against Andrew Barba.
The other four matches
were sweeps. Cayson Fors-
berg rolled over George Leyva
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dumped Jose Banuelos (6-0,
6-0), while in doubles James
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Tristan
in 3:
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lee, Sim
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in 45.
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with a
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took down Trevor Gammage ✿❀✽❍ ✿✶♦✾✽✽ ◆✻✹t t♦✸✻✻ s✻ts ❑❀t♦ ❲✻✺✹✻s✺✶❏ ✶✹✺
day,
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and Jonathan Snow (6-3, ■♦❄✸s✺✶❏ t❀ ◆✾✹ ♦✾s ❍✶t❈♦✻s ❂❀✸ ▲✶ ✷✸✶✹✺✻▼
110 hur
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6-3) and Nick DuVernay and
third in
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feet-7).
Curtis and Jonathan Alman and Devin Ingram and Ash- ÝÒÓæÝôÜÑØ ñÝââÝ×ÑçðÝÕÑ -
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6-0, 6-1.
ton Morwood lost to John lin Banes and Linsday Shaul
(36-feet-
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Thursday the team went Wells and Jamie Gomez, 8-6. fell to Emma Navarrete and
the tripl
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2-2 in both singles and dou-
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garth wa
bles against the Pioneers. Ca- had two rough afternoons, and Isabelle Hadley and
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hill again went three sets to ÓØÚÙÙÔÒ× ÝÜÜ ÖÔõ âÝÕÞáÑÖ ÕÚ Celeste Villagomez lost 5-0,
100 (12.1
earn a win, edging Jamie Go-
mez 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 7-5, and
Caden Johnson took an 8-2
win over Andrew Starr. Fors-
berg, though, dropped an 8-5
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Miller.
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tilla and Chris Gracia (8-5),
and Mason Mellinger and
Gabe Blackman topped Ed-
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three sets to Dylan Quist and
Ontario Wednesday and
seven to Mac-Hi Thursday.
In singles against Ontario,
✌
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Navarrete, Brenna Bushman
lost to Megan Oester 6-1, 6-1,
and Emily Wilson fell to Izzy
Mills, 6-3, 6-0. On Thursday
against Mac-Hi, Daisy Alva-
rez beat Conklin (6-2, 6-2)
Leslie Diaz topped Bushman
(8-1) and Nicole Flores de-
feated Wilson (8-0).
In doubles Wednesday,
Maylen Tommy and Mattie
Hendrickson dropped a 6-4,
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5-2 to a split squad from
Ontario.
Thursday against Mac-Hi,
Janelle Martinez and Evelyn
Garcia defeated Tommy and
Bushman (6-2, 6-0), Jes-
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Banes and Shaul (8-1), Jadie
Jackson and Sarah Odman
beat Hadley and Villago-
mez (8-0) and Dani Angel
and Aby Hernandez topped
Banes and Shaul (8-0).
The Tigers host Weston-
☞ ✎
season home match Tues-
day.
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