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Sports 8A Saturday, July 18, 2020 The Observer CCC action on hold until at least November Legends get on the field By Ronald Bond By Ronald Bond The Observer The Observer ONLINE LA GRANDE — The Cascade Collegiate Confer- ence announced Friday it is delaying the start of the fall sports season. The conference in a press release stated it hopes to conduct its fall schedule in the winter or spring of 2021. It also said in the release it is suspending all intercollegiate competition in CCC sports until Nov. 1 at the earliest, and will reevaluate at that time. “The ongoing issues with COVID-19 and the surge in cases, particularly in the geographical regions of our members schools, (have) made the prospect of properly conducting a fall season with the con- fidence we need to ensure the health and safety of our student-athletes during this pandemic unrealistic,” CCC Commissioner Rob Cashell said in the press release. The CCC has schools that participate in fall sports in four states — Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana — and in British Columbia, Canada. The conference in the release pointed to this as one of the challenges with each region being in different phases of reopening. It noted the U.S.- Canada border is still closed. “Our desire is to mini- mize risk and minimize the spread of the virus,” Cashell told The Observer Friday afternoon. “We’re allowing for practices and condi- tioning and all that, but within a team setting. They cannot compete against out- side entities.” Women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s cross- county, men’s and wom- en’s soccer, and men’s and women’s golf are the sports impacted by the decision. Eastern Oregon Univer- sity has teams in each sport with the exception of golf. “It’s a difficult and dis- appointing decision because our athletes and coaches want to compete,” EOU’s athletic director, Anji Weis- senfluh, said. “This has been the longest layoff any of us have ever had. Making the best decision for our campus community, to me, the only decision to make was to postpone it, and hopefully we’re in a better spot this spring.” EOU President Tom Insko in a press release also pointed to health as the most important factor. “This is a tough deci- sion, and one that I do not take lightly, but I believe we are making it in the best interest of our students, coaches, staff and fans,” he said. “Managing around this current situation to enable our teams to have stronger, healthier seasons in the spring just makes sense.” A decision has yet to be made on winter sports, such as men’s and women’s wrestling and men’s and women’s basketball. EOU’s football team is not impacted by the deci- sion, as it competes in the Frontier Conference for the sport. The Frontier has not yet made a call on its plan for the fall season. “We’ve been in close communication with the Frontier,” Weissenfluh said. “The presidents met this Monday and at that time the Frontier was leaning more (toward) being in alignment with the NAIA.” The move could mean that the CCC’s fall teams miss out on an opportu- nity to compete at national championship compe- titions if the NAIA fall season moves forward. The NAIA earlier this month announced that for a season to start, the sport would need to have half of the teams in each sport given LA GRANDE — American Legion baseball isn’t happening. But the La Grande Legacy Ford Legends have been able to get on the field. The 16U Legends split a doubleheader July 10 in Pendleton with a 4-3 vic- tory and a 13-6 loss, then Tuesday swept Baker City on the road 13-5 and 9-1. La Grande trailed Pendleton 3-2 entering the seventh inning of the opener and at one point was down to its final strike, but Jarett Armstrong reached on an error with the bases loaded that allowed Sergio Staab and Gabriel Zamora to score and gave the Legends the lead for good. La Grande also scored twice in the third inning when Cole Shafer hit an RBI single and later scored on a wild pitch. The Legends won despite getting just two hits. Pendleton scored four times in the first inning of the nightcap and added on as it salvaged the split. La Grande did pull • For a complete ver- sion of this story, go to lagrandeobserver.com Observer file photo Eastern Oregon University volleyball players Madison Pilon (4) and Cambree Scott (12) jump to attempt a block during a November 2019 match against Southern Oregon Uni- versity. The Cascade Collegiate Conference announced Friday it is delaying its fall sports schedule until the winter or spring. the green light to play. A sport with 200 teams, for example, would need to have 100 committed to the season. Should that indeed happen, Cashell said, the conference would still aim to have a conference season and conference tourna- ments for its athletes. “Our intent is to provide seasons for these teams, and it may be that we cul- minate with our Cascade Conference season and a Cascade Conference cham- pionship,” he said. “We’ve moved out stuff to a winter/ spring set up. If the NAIA doesn’t do that we are pre- pared to have just our con- ference season and confer- ence championship.” The decision also could mean a level of overlap between the fall, winter and spring seasons. “It’s very conceivable we could have volleyball games at the same time as basketball games,” he said. “We hope we’re busy. That means we’ve come a long way with the virus and have opportunities.” within 6-5 in the fifth when Zamora scored on an error, Owen Rinker walked with the bases loaded and Jameson Stenkamp hit a sacri- fice fly, but Pendleton responded with five runs in the home half of the fifth for an 11-5 lead. In the opener Tuesday, La Grande used a sev- en-run second inning and a five-run fifth to kick off the sweep of Baker. Austin Higgins tied the game at 2-2 with an RBI single, and Shafer had the key hit in the inning, a two-run single that gave La Grande a 5-2 lead. Two errors and a bases-loaded hit batter led to three more runs, and Sam Tsiatsos capped it with an RBI single for an 8-2 lead. Shafer capped his four-RBI day with a two-run triple in the fifth, and Zamora’s RBI single finished off the Legends’ scoring and gave them a 13-4 advantage. FIELD TEST Candidates Wanted (GENERAL LOCATION HERE) and the W URGENT NOTICE: surrounding areas. 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