SPORTS
6A — THE OBSERVER
La Grande baseball
team aims for state
championship
By DAVIS CARBAUGH
The Observer
AURORA — Both the
La Grande baseball and
softball teams will com-
pete at North Marion High
School Saturday, May 22,
with a 4A baseball state
championship on the line.
On the baseball dia-
mond, La Grande is having
one of its best seasons in
recent years. The Tigers
went 12-1 in the regular
season and are riding a
12-game winning streak
into the 4A championship
game.
The Tigers, ranked
third in the bracket, easily
defeated the six-seed Glad-
stone 18-1 and then nar-
rowly beat the reigning
champion and two-seed
Banks 7-4. Now, La Grande
faces a matchup with the
top-seeded Hidden Valley
Mustangs. First pitch is
scheduled for 4 p.m.
La Grande softball lost
to the No. 1 seed Henley on
May 20, which snapped the
Tigers’ streak of winning
the last two championships.
The team will compete for
third place May 22.
Prior to the loss, La
Grande softball had a 10-1
regular season record.
The Tigers coasted past
Gladstone 6-0 but fell 0-8
against Henley. They will
face Banks in the third
place matchup at 1 p.m.
Fans are allowed to
attend the games at North
Marion High School. For
those who can’t be there,
score updates will be posted
at OSAA.org.
Mountaineers finish at
21 in final football poll
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LA GRANDE — The
Eastern Oregon University
football team has plenty on
which to build next year.
After finishing with a
3-1 overall record and a
share of the Frontier Con-
ference Conference title, a
first for the program, the
Mountaineers had a strong
showing in the final edition
of the Football FirstDown
PlayBook Top-25 Poll.
Eastern came in at No.
21 — less than 10 points
from squeezing into the top
20. The Mountaineers fin-
ished with 84 points, just
behind No. 20 Roosevelt,
with 90 points.
EOU wasn’t the only
Frontier Conference team in
the final Top 25. The Col-
lege of Idaho finished at No.
18, while Carroll College
finished at No. 22.
Along with picking up
a share of the conference
crown, the Mountaineers
also had multiple all-confer-
ence selections, including
the offensive player of the
year, the defensive player
of the year and coach of the
year.
Pendleton graduate
Kai Quinn was named the
offensive player of the year,
Chase Van Wyck was the
defensive player of the year,
and head coach Tim Camp
was named the Frontier
Conference Coach of the
Year.
Van Wyck and Quinn
each also earned AFCA
All-American honors for
the NAIA. Also garnering
All-American honors
was offensive lineman PJ
Schubert. In all, EOU had a
total of 15 All-Frontier Con-
ference selections. Earning
the honors on offense were
Quinn, Schubert, Tanner
Zenke and Luke Thomas.
Making the second team on
offense were John Lesser,
Isaiah Thomas and Patrick
Collins.
On the defensive side,
earning first-team recog-
nition was Van Wyck, Zak
Donato and Solo Taylor.
Dakota Hibbs was the lone
selection for EOU on the
second-team list.
Zachary Cahill was a
first-team selection at kicker
and was a second-team
selection at punter. Isaiah
Thomas was a first-team
special team selection at
both kick returner and punt
returner.
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in playoffs for first time
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LA GRANDE — After
a long pause, basket-
ball season is back at La
Grande High School.
The Tigers girls basket-
ball team took on the Bull-
dogs of Nyssa and came
away with a 63-25 victory
during their season opener
Thursday, May 20.
“It feels strange to be
playing basketball this
time of the year,” said head
coach Brian Wright.
The last time the Tigers
took the court was in the
playoffs last season. La
Grande had qualified for
state competition but the
season was cut short due to
COVID-19. Now playing in
the spring, Wright’s team
looks poised to start the
season on a high note.
The Tigers came out
strong, opening the game
on a 14-0 run. Camryn
Collman scored five of the
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La Grande’s Makenna Shorts drives for a layup during the second
quarter of the Tigers’ home game victory against Nyssa on Thurs-
day, May 20, 2021. Shorts scored eight points in the second quarter
as the Tigers jumped out to a big lead.
team’s first seven points,
while controlling the
tempo on fast breaks and
rebounding effectively.
“We’ve been trying
to work on being able to
push the ball and get easier
opportunities in transition,”
Wright said. “I thought the
kids did a really good job
of that early on.”
Collman finished with
10 points and was all over
the court on offense and
defense for La Grande.
The Tigers held a com-
manding 20-2 lead at the
end of the first quarter and
never looked back. Mak-
enna Shorts added eight
points in the second quarter
to extend La Grande’s lead
to 38-9 at the half.
In the paint, Ella Dunlap
and Maddie Larman dom-
inated the boards and
scored efficiently up close
to the basket.
“It’s our game plan. We
run a lot of triangle and
we look at the low block,”
Wright said. “We try to get
the easiest opportunities we
can get, or putbacks.”
The Tigers held the
Bulldogs to less than 10
points in each quarter,
despite a late push from
Nyssa.
Up next, La Grande will
host Baker on May 27. The
season is a bit unconven-
tional, but the Tigers are
glad to be back.
“For some of these
kids it’s unfinished busi-
ness,” Wright said. “They
want a chance to get
back on the court and
it’s good for them.”
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PORTLAND — Car-
melo Anthony has been
around the NBA for
quite some time but he’s
never faced the team that
launched his career in the
playoffs.
Until now.
Anthony’s current team,
the Portland Trail Blazers,
faces the Denver Nug-
gets in a first-round best-
of-seven series starting
Saturday.
Anthony said he hadn’t
realized that he’d never
faced the Nuggets in the
postseason. But so much
has changed since he wore
a Denver jersey.
“It’s a lot different now.
My mindset is different.
My goals are different.
We’re going in there trying
to win,” he said. “So, it’s
a different type of men-
tality, but deep down inside
I know that Denver will
always hold a special place
for me.”
A 10-time All-Star,
Anthony is ready for
another chance at an NBA
title, something that has
so far eluded him in his
18-year career and 12 trips
to the postseason. Last
season, Portland was elim-
inated in five games by the
Los Angeles Lakers.
“This is where I should
be. I should be in the post-
season. That’s just me
speaking from the heart
and genuinely. If I’m not
in the postseason, then it
should be a problem,” he
said.
Anthony was drafted by
the Nuggets with the third
overall pick in the 2003
NBA draft. He played in
Denver for seven-plus sea-
sons, helping the team
reach the Western Confer-
ence Finals following the
2008-09 season.
He was traded in 2011
to the New York Knicks,
where he spent more than
six seasons. Anthony also
had stops in Oklahoma
and Houston, but in early
2019 he was traded to Chi-
cago and the Bulls cut him
before he played a game.
Anthony hadn’t played
for a year when he was
signed by the Trail Blazers
in November 2019. He
instantly sparked the team
and developed a chemistry
with his teammates while
also providing veteran
leadership.
This season he’s come
off the bench, leading the
Blazers’ second unit with
an average of 13.4 points
per game,
“What he’s done for us
in a year and a half has
been what we needed. This
year, the role that he’s had
off the bench has been a big
part of the reason why we
are where we are,” Blazers
coach Terry Stotts said.
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