Sports
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022
ON THE SLATE
April 23 results
COLLEGE BASEBALL
College of Idaho 13, Eastern Oregon 8
College of Idaho 8, Eastern Oregon 5
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Eastern Oregon 4, Oregon Tech 3
Eastern Oregon 3, Oregon Tech 2
PREP BASEBALL
La Grande 5, Philomath 0
Union/Cove 7, Sherman/Arlington/
Condon 2
Sherman/Arlington/Condon 9, Union/
Cove 6
April 24 results
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Eastern Oregon 12, College of Idaho 5
Eastern Oregon 8, College of Idaho 5
Tuesday, April 26
PREP BASEBALL
La Grande at College Place, 3:30 p.m.
PREP SOFTBALL
Joseph/Enterprise/Wallowa at Echo/
Stanfi eld (2), 2 p.m.
PREP TENNIS
Baker/Powder Valley at La Grande, 3 p.m.
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin, File
Powder Valley’s Cole Martin (17) runs into the end zone to score during the third quarter of the Class 1A state semifi nal game against St. Paul at Caldera High
School in Bend on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021.
Wednesday, April 27
PREP TRACK & FIELD
Cove at Pendleton Small Meet Invite,
2 p.m.
Final proposal
Thursday, April 28
PREP TENNIS
La Grande vs. Four Rivers, Treasure Valley
Community College, 2 p.m.
Friday, April 29
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
schools — Cove, Elgin, Enterprise, Imbler,
Ione/Arlington, Pilot Rock, Powder Valley,
Union and Wallowa — are based in either
Union, Wallowa, Umatilla or Morrow
counties.
By RONALD BOND
Eastern Oregon at Carroll College (2),
1 p.m.
Wallowa County Chieftain
PREP BASEBALL
ILSONVILLE — The
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La Grande at Ontario (2), 2 p.m.
Riverside at Joseph/Enterprise/Wallowa
(2), 1 p.m.
final recommendation
PREP SOFTBALL
of the Oregon School Activities
La Grande at Ontario (2), 2 p.m.
Union/Cove at Grant Union/Prairie City
(2), 2 p.m.
Elgin/Imbler at Weston-McEwen (2),
2 p.m.
Riverside at Joseph/Enterprise/Wallowa
(2), 1 p.m.
Association football ad hoc
committee has been made — and
little, if anything, has been changed
If approved by
OSAA executive
board in May, high
school football
changes will go into
eff ect this fall
from previous proposals.
PREP TRACK & FIELD
The committee met Thursday, April 14, and released its
fi nal recommendation April 20. The OSAA executive board will
vote on the proposal May 2.
The fi nal proposal includes support for 1A six-man football —
which has been a pilot program for the last four years — being
able to play for an offi cial OSAA state championship. Six-man,
under the recommendation, will have an eight-team bracket, con-
sisting of three teams from the nine-team Special District 1, and
fi ve teams from Special District 2, which has 14 teams in it.
Joseph Charter School has been among the most dominant
during the six-man pilot, having won a de facto championship
the fi rst season and playing for a title in the second year. It, along
with Echo, Huntington, Pine Eagle and Prairie City/Burnt River,
are the six-man schools based in the northeastern corner of the
state.
If the proposal is approved, eight-man football will also see
changes at the playoff s, as the 26 schools slated to play at the
larger 1A level will be placed into a 12-team bracket, a change
from the 16-team format the schools have had for decades.
Four teams will automatically qualify from both SD1 and SD2,
with four additional at-large slots being fi lled based on OSAA
rankings.
Special District 2 has a large local fl avor, as nine of the 14
Elgin, Imbler at Don Walker Invite, 2 p.m.
Enterprise at Nike/Jesuit Twilight Relays,
Portland, 2 p.m.
Saturday, April 30
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Corban at Eastern Oregon (2), noon
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Eastern Oregon at Carroll College (2),
10 a.m.
PREP BASEBALL
Union/Cove at Grant Union/Prairie City
(2), 11 a.m.
PREP TRACK & FIELD
La Grande at Legends Invite, Walla Walla,
Washington, 10:30 a.m.
Cove, Elgin, Imbler, La Grande, Union,
Enterprise, Joseph at Union Relays,
11 a.m.
Powder Valley at Saint Alphonsus
Invitational, noon
League shake-up
The alignment of the rest of the
leagues in Northeastern Oregon will be
vastly diff erent as well. The 4A Greater
Oregon League is on tap to having more
than four teams — not counting the season
that featured a 4A/3A hybrid — for the fi rst
time since 2005, the year before the state
reclassifi cation from four to six classes. The
league is slated to include longtime affi liates La
Grande and Baker, and will be joined by Pendleton,
Crook County, Madras and The Dalles.
The six-team league will have three state playoff berths into
the 16-team bracket.
The 3A Eastern Oregon League will feature fi ve schools —
McLoughlin, Nyssa, Vale, Burns and Ontario. Only two of those
schools will be guaranteed berths to the 3A state playoff s.
The revamped 2A Blue Mountain Conference will include
Grant Union, Heppner, Irrigon, Riverside, Stanfi eld, Umatilla and
Weston-McEwen. The seven schools will battle for three playoff
berths.
1A8-Special District 2, in addition to the nine aforementioned
schools includes Adrian, Crane, Dufur, Lyle/Wishram/Klickitat
and Sherman/Condon.
And 1A6-SD1 has Dayville/Monument, Harper, Wheeler
County and South Wasco County, in addition to the above-named
schools.
The committee has completely done away with an idea it
fl oated of banning schools who play down a classifi cation from
the postseason, according to a report from The Oregonian.
Regionally, that keeps Enterprise, Riverside and Umatilla, as
schools playing down, eligible for the postseason.
The proposal, if approved by the board, will go into eff ect this
fall for the 2022-26 time block.
SPORTS SHORT
State championship committee supports change in venues for wrestling
By NIK STRENG
The Oregonian
WILSONVILLE — The Oregon
School Activities Association’s state
championship committee on Monday,
April 18, made some changes to the
wrestling’s state championships.
The OSAA has held every classi-
fi cation’s wrestling state champion-
ship simultaneously in the Veterans
Memorial Coliseum since 2007. But
due to an increase in numbers for
wrestling, brought on by the imple-
mentation of girls wrestling in the
2018-19 school year, the OSAA is
having to move the smaller schools
to a diff erent venue.
The state tournaments for the 6A
and 5A classifi cations will remain
at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, but
the 4A, 3A and 2A/1A tournaments
would be moved to a diff erent, to be
determined, location.
The state championship com-
mittee also, again, supported split-
ting girls wrestling into two classi-
fi cations: a 6A/5A classifi cation and
a 4A/3A/2A/1A classifi cation. The
girls state tournaments will run at
the same location as the boys in the
same classifi cation.
Earlier in the 2021-22 school
year, the state championship com-
mittee had said that it does not want
to make too many changes coming
out of the COVID-aff ected seasons.
Many other state championships,
like basketball and soccer are largely
unchanged.
La Grande’s Joshua
Collins, left, throws
Stayton’s Eli Howard
in the fi nals of
the 138-pound
weight class at
the OSAA Class
4A state wrestling
championship on
Saturday, Feb. 26,
2022, at Cascade High
School in Turner.
Kenna Collins/Contributed Photo, File
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