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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2021
LEOPARDS: ‘Everyone Local 1A football standouts earn all-league honors
Powder Valley leads
is super competitive
with 11 nominations
and pushing each other’ after runner-up
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has played organized high
school basketball, so I will
be leaning on her quite a
bit,” Wright said.
Baird was a standout
player for the Cove volley-
ball team while Garlitz is
signed to play soccer at the
University of North Dakota.
Neither has played basket-
ball since middle school.
Early practices have all
been about the basics.
“We are starting at
ground zero,” Wright said.
“Form shooting, form
passing, footwork, pivot. We
are starting at the beginning,
but it is amazing how fast
they are picking it up.”
Wright credits the team’s
collective intelligence and
competitiveness for making
practice benefi cial each
day. Her only goal for the
team before it tipped off the
season Dec. 3 at the Union
tournament was to have the
Leopards in the best shape
possible. They plan to run
and use an up-tempo style to
their favor. What the Leop-
ards lack in experience they
make up for with athleticism
and aggressiveness.
“This is a team made
up of mostly guards, so we
are not big but very quick,”
Wright said. “Everyone
is super competitive and
pushing each other.”
How aggressive are
the Leopards? Aggressive
enough that Wright actu-
ally broke her thumb during
practice. She doesn’t want to
temper the aggressiveness
too much, but Wright knows
they have to do it without
fouling.
In past seasons there may
have been a quicker hook
if a player missed a couple
of shots. That will not be
the case under Wright. She
knows her team will not be
locked-in shooters, but that
doesn’t mean she doesn’t
want them putting the ball
up.
“If you are open, no
matter where, you have a
green light,” Wright said.
“We are going to shoot a
lot.”
Wright is hoping her
players buy into the pro-
gram, enjoy the style and
tempo and start building
larger numbers in the future.
The Leopards did not
have a season last year,
but Wright was able to
take a handful of girls to
Idaho over the course of
two weekends for a pair of
scrimmages.
“It was a great experi-
ence for the girls just to get
in the gym and play against
someone else,” Wright said.
“It was helpful for me too
because this is my fi rst time
as a varsity coach.”
finish at state
By DAVIS CARBAUGH
The Observer
UNION COUNTY
— Coming off a strong
showing as a whole, Union
County’s 1A football teams
earned a plethora of all-
league nominations in the
1A Special District 2 East
and West divisions. The
season was highlighted by
three schools from Union
County and Enterprise
from Wallowa County
qualifying for the 1A state
tournament.
The Powder Valley Bad-
gers led the way in nomi-
nations after a 8-1 regular
season that saw the team
fi nish 5-1 in league play.
The Badgers fi nished the
season ranked No. 2 in the
OSAA 1A rankings and
earned District 2 East fi rst-
team nominations at 11 dif-
ferent positions.
Leading the way was
senior quarterback Reece
Dixon earning fi rst-team
honors under center. The
Badgers received fi rst-team
nominations from senior
running back Clay Martin,
junior off ensive lineman
Logan Profi tt, junior
center Colt Cobb, senior
wideout Kaden Krieger,
junior defensive end Casey
Vaughn, junior defensive
Alex Wittwer/The Observer
Powder Valley’s Reece Dixon (7) looks for his receiver at Baker High
School on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. The Badgers lost to the Adrian
Antelopes 46-38 in the OSAA 1A State Championship game in a
heartbreaking fi nale that saw Adrian come back in the fourth quar-
ter to take the title. Dixon was one of 11 fi rst-team all-league nomi-
nations on Powder Valley’s roster.
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more defensive end Jere-
miah Martin and sopho-
more defensive back Dallin
Rasmussen.
On the second team for
Imber were senior running
back Krager Muilenburg
and sophomore linebacker
Isaih Trujillo. Senior quar-
terback Carter Crooks
earned honorable mention.
In the east division,
Wallowa earned four sec-
ond-team nominations and
two honorable mentions.
Second-team honorees
were sophomore off ensive
lineman Ty Hunt-Prince,
sophomore wide receiver
Lucas Hulse, Hunt-Prince
at defensive line and senior
Jesse Duncan at line-
backer. Junior quarterback
Lute Ramsden and sopho-
more punter Jose Mendez
both earned honorable
mention.
The Union Bobcats
saw one player earn fi rst-
team honors, one player
be selected to the second
team and four players take
honorable mentions. Junior
linebacker Zak Morton led
the way with the team’s
lone fi rst-team honors.
Sophomore Tee Ledbetter
was named to the second
team at wide receiver.
Honorable mentions were
senior running back Quin
Morton, junior center Nick
Baxter, junior defensive
back Bo Ledbetter and Tee
Ledbetter at punt returner.
Cove senior linebacker
Bryce English earned hon-
orable mention in the east
division for the Leopards.
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lineman Cade Ling, senior
linebacker Case Olson and
junior defensive back Cole
Martin. On special teams,
Olson was named fi rst-
team kicker and freshman
Tucker Martin earned fi rst-
team punt returner.
For Elgin, a 3-4 reg-
ular season and fi rst-
round playoff exit was
highlighted by all-league
honors at eight positions
in the east division. Senior
Blake Jenkins was the lone
fi rst-team honoree at the
defensive end position.
The Huskies saw six sec-
ond-team nominations and
two players earning honor-
able mention.
Elgin’s second-team
nominations were junior
running back Bruce More-
head, junior linebacker Joe
Lathrop, sophomore line-
backer Ty McLaughlin,
Lathrop at punter and
Morehead at punt return.
Senior center Blake Jen-
kins and senior defensive
lineman Reece McCon-
nell both earned honorable
mention.
In the 1A Special Dis-
trict 2 West division,
Imbler tallied fi ve fi rst-
team honorees, two sec-
ond-team nominations and
one honorable mention.
The team went 4-4 in the
regular season and earned
a spot in the state playoff
bracket.
First-team honorees for
the Panthers were sopho-
more center Justin Frost,
junior kicker Noah Insko,
junior defensive lineman
Payden Bowles, sopho-
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