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SPORTS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020 THE OBSERVER — 7A Mendoza scores 29 to lift LHS; Union girls claim BMC title Observer staff Girls NORTH POWDER — The La Grande boys basketball team poured in 29 points in the third quarter Saturday to break open their non- league road game against the Powder Valley Badgers en route to an 81-47 road victory. La Grande went into the break up 37-27, then went off in the third as Cristian Mendoza had 11 points in the third and Kaleb Myer had 10 points. The quarter ended with LHS ahead 66-37. Mendoza fi nished with 29 points and connected on fi ve 3-pointers for the Tigers. Myer scored 16 points and Devin Bell added 12. Roper Bingham and Ethan Stephens each scored 12 points to lead the Badgers. La Grande (7-12 overall) fi nishes the regular season Saturday at McLoughlin, while Powder Valley (16-6) hosts Pine Eagle Tuesday. Union 45, Heppner 37: The Bobcats picked up an important home win Satur- day as they jockey for posi- tion in the Blue Mountain Conference tournament. Keegan Glenn led Union with 10 points, Cole McLean had nine and Jace Phillips scored eight. The Bobcats are locked into no worse than fi fth headed into the conference tournament, but need to win their upcoming season fi nale and get help to move up in the standings. Union 59, Heppner 38: The Bobcats clinched the Blue Mountain Conference regular season title and a state playoff berth Saturday with their win and Stan- fi eld’s loss at Enterprise. Union broke the game open in the second half be- hind a big third quarter from Callie Glenn, who fi nished with 26 points, and a big fourth from Brianna Kohr, who had 12 points. Glenn had 12 of her points in the third, including two 3-point plays, as Union took a 36-27 lead after three after trailing 18-17 at the break. Kohr had 10 points and hit a pair of 3-pointers in the fourth, and the Bobcats scored 23 points in the fi nal period to pull away. Glenn added six points in the fourth. Kylie Marriott also reached double fi gures in scoring as she fi nished with 10 points. Union (21-3 overall, 11-0 BMC) wraps up the regular season Tuesday at Stanfi eld. La Grande 52, Powder Valley 28: The Tigers pulled away in the fourth quarter Saturday for a nonleague road win over the Badgers. La Grande led throughout, and was up 30-21 after three quarters before scoring 22 points in the fi nal quarter. Camryn Collman, Ella Dunlap and Lauran Rinker each scored six points in the fourth for La Grande. Collman fi nished with 17 points to lead the Tigers, while Dunlap had 13 and Rinker scored 10. Josi Krieger had eight points to lead the Badgers, and McKenzie Leggett added fi ve points. La Grande (14-6 overall) hosts Jordan Valley Thurs- day, while Powder Valley (11- 9) hosts Pine Eagle Tuesday. Enterprise 42, Stanfi eld 39: The Outlaws came from behind in the fourth quarter Saturday and connected on several key free throws in the fourth to get past the Tigers. Enterprise trailed 33-30 after three, but pulled ahead in the fourth behind fi eld goals from Gracie Niezen and Asiya Salim, and an 8-for-12 effort from the charity stripe. Zari Bathke, who led Enterprise with 10 points, was a perfect 8-for-8 from the line, and 4-of-4 in the fourth. Ashlyn Gray added eight points for the Outlaws (15-4 overall, 7-3 BMC), who host Heppner Tuesday. Cove 47, Griswold 24: The Leopards used a big sec- ond quarter and a balanced scoring attack Saturday to take down the Grizzlies on the road in Old Oregon League play. Cove outscored Griswold 19-6 in the second to take what proved to be an insur- mountable 28-11 halftime lead, and extended the margin from there. Kierra Moore, Elli Hines- Dunlap and Austin Kendall each scored 13 points to lead Cove (10-10 overall, 3-6 OOL), which hosts Imbler Friday. Nixyaawii at Imbler: The Panthers’ home game against Nixyaawii was rescheduled for Thursday. Imbler (1-17 overall) hosts Joseph Tuesday. (160) and Ronny Morello (170) took sixth. Ninth-place Enterprise picked up a title from Trace Evans, who won both his matches at 138 by technical fall for the championship. In the fi nal, he scored a 17-2 win over Crane’s Levi Roath. Cody Fent (132) fi nished with a record of 2-2 to come in fourth winning both his matches by fall, and Drew Widener (285) was fi fth. Imbler, which fi nished 11th, had both Garrett Burns (120) and MyKail Fos- ter (152) place fourth. Foster earned a pair of wins by fall for his placing. The teams return to action Friday and Saturday for the 2A/1A Special District 4 Tournament in Union. WRESTLING Continued from Page 6A Morehead (152) and Blake Jenkins (195) all took fi fth. Terry fi nished 3-2 — with all his matches being decided by fall — while Morehead was 2-2 and Jenkins fi nished 1-2. Union/Cove followed in sixth place and had three wrestlers take third in Photo by Ellen Morris Bishop/EO Media Group Union’s Callie Glenn, left, is shown in Friday’s win over Enterprise. The Bobcats locked up the Blue Mountain Conference title with wins over Enterprise and Heppner. Union (15-9 overall, 6-5 BMC) wraps up the regular season Tuesday at Stanfi eld. Stanfi eld 69, Enterprise 56: The Outlaws got a big night from Devin Greer Saturday, but fell short in a Blue Mountain Conference contest at home. Greer fi nished with 26 points, including 14 in the fi rst half, to lead all scorers. Cason Kirkland scored nine of his 14 points in the third quarter for the Outlaws, and David Salim added 11 points. Enterprise (6-11 overall, 2-8 BMC) hosts Heppner Tuesday. Cove 71, Griswold 47: Caden Hall went off for 33 points Saturday to help Cove end a 16-game losing streak and get its fi rst Old Oregon League win. Braden Dickenson added eight points, and both Caleb Wiggins and Bo Ledbetter had seven. The Leopards scored 22 points in the second quarter to take a 39-24 lead at the half, then fi nished the win by outscoring the Griz- zlies 18-8 in the fourth. Cove (2-18 overall, 1-8 OOL) hosts Imbler Friday. Nixyaawii at Imbler: The Panthers’ home game against Nixyaawii was rescheduled for Thursday. Imbler (6-11 overall) hosts Joseph Tuesday. their weight classes. Jaxon Blackburn went 3-1 at 126, Levi Hammond was 5-1 at 152 — and won his fi nal four matches — and Michael Day fi nished 2-1 at 220. Carter Blackburn took fourth at 145 with a mark of 2-2, and Damon Nipper also went 2-2 to take fourth at 195. Alleah Haydon fi nished sixth at 195. Joseph/Wallowa placed seventh, and put two wres- tlers in the fi nals. Jonah Staigle (220) won his brack- et by pinning New Plym- outh’s Caiden Cutburth in the fi nal. Zeb Ramsden (145) went 2-1, dropping the fi nal by fall to Joel Campbell of New Plymouth. Laramie Hess (182) placed fi fth, and both Harley Miller JOSEPH Continued from Page 6A a basket on the low block; Murray responding with a layup before Simpson put in one of his own. Murray then hit a crucial 3-pointer for a 51-44 lead with 4:09 to play. Ian Adams had a putback to keep Elgin within fi ve moments later, but the Huskies got no closer despite the fact Joseph didn’t score for the fi nal 3:30. “They’re shots were falling a little bit more than ours, and that was the decider between it,” Elgin head coach Kevin Johnson said. “Both teams were playing good defense, we had some open looks and were driving to a hoop a lot more, and just couldn’t get it in the cylinder. Miller had 10 points in the fi rst half, and sparked Joseph’s offense early around the rim with four early points. Mason Ferre hit a 3-pointer for a 9-5 lead and the margin reached 11-5 before Elgin found its groove to take the lead by the end of the fi rst. Jordon Palmer hit a 3-pointer to start a ELGIN Continued from Page 6A before Joseph’s Sabrina Al- bee drained a long 3-pointer seconds later to cut the margin back to two. That trey was the only basket Joseph hit in the third. Elgin scored the fi nal 10 points of the period. Palmer countered Albee’s triple with another of her own. Ander- son converted a 3-point play and Kaelin Evans scored inside to push the margin to 10 before Palmer scored her 10th point of the quarter to give Elgin a 40-28 lead and cap a quarter that saw Elgin shoot 50% (8-for-16). “I thought they were aggressive, they took shots, and they’re a good basketball team,” Joseph head coach Lance Homan said of Elgin. “We left them open and they hit them.” Elgin also dominated the boards, outrebounding quarter-ending 12-2 run for the Huskies. A steal and layup by Kaden McClure gave El- gin its fi rst lead at 15-13, and Gage McKay’s layup just before the quarter ended made it 17-13. A 3-pointer by Hite early in the second gave Joseph the lead back at 19-17, but two layups by McClure and a putback by Wyatt Hallgarth gave Elgin a 23-19 edge. Miller scored for Joseph late for a one-point lead before a McClure free throw sent the teams into the half tied at 26-26. Adams and McKay both scored early in the third to give Elgin a 30-29 lead, but McKay’s tough jumper with fi ve minutes to play in the period accounted for the fi nal points Elgin would score in the quarter. Murray hit a 3-pointer and later a jumper for a 34-30 lead after three. McKay scored 13 points to lead Elgin, while Adams had 12 and Simpson had 11, including nine in the fi nal quarter. Joseph (16-5 overall, 7-2 OOL) visits Imbler Tuesday, while Elgin (12-8, 7-3) visits Nixyaawii Friday. Joseph in the third 15-6. The Eagles, meanwhile, were unable to buy a basket in the third — sometimes due to Elgin’s defense forc- ing tough shots, but also at times due to shots simply not staying down. Joseph was just 1-for-14 shooting in the third. Brianna Micka opened the fourth by banking in a 3-pointer to pull Joseph within nine, but that would be as close at the Eagles got the rest of the way. Palmer’s seventh and fi nal 3-pointer with 3:19 to play gave Elgin its largest lead at 46-32. Albee hit two 3-pointers in the fi nal two minutes that both cut the margin back to nine, but the Huskies had a response each time. Anderson fi nished with 12 points and 16 rebounds, with all but one of her fi eld goals coming on putbacks. Six of her rebounds were on the offensive glass. Elgin on the night shot 41%, and was at 48% through three quarters, which helped offset Elgin’s 32 turnovers. The Huskies also had a 47-28 advantage in rebounding. Albee fi nished with 14 points to lead Joseph, and Camille Crenshaw added 11 points, including 10 in the fi rst quarter. The Eagles, though, shot 25% and turned the ball over 24 times. Joseph scored the game’s fi rst eight points, with Crenshaw’s layup forcing an Elgin timeout less than three minutes into the game. The Huskies responded with a 10-0 run started and fi nished by 3-pointers from Palmer. The teams were never separated by more than four points the rest of the half, as they jockeyed back and forth until the break with Joseph leading 25-21. Elgin (17-3 overall, 9-1 OOL) visits Nixyaawii Fri- day, while Joseph (15-6, 8-1) is at Imbler Tuesday. 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