SPORTS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2022
THE OBSERVER — A7
Tigers football faces new opponents this fall
Special district
changes add teams
to La Grande’s 2022
football schedule
By RONALD BOND
For The Observer
LA GRANDE — All
the La Grande High School
football fans who were
getting tired of seeing
the same ol’ teams on the
schedule are in for a treat
this fall.
The Oregon School
Activities Association’s
restructure of football
has the Tigers facing fi ve
league opponents — two of
them schools who are tra-
ditionally on the schedule,
while the other three are
new faces to the regular
slate for La Grande.
LHS has a nine-game
schedule this fall, including
fi ve contests in the new
4A Special District 5. The
Tigers start league play
at home Sept. 30 against
Baker, the school’s big-
gest rival. A week later,
La Grande travels to face
Madras on Oct. 7, with the
White Buff aloes being one
of four new teams in the
district for football. LHS,
in fact, meets the new dis-
trict opponents in four con-
secutive weeks.
La Grande’s regu-
lar-season home fi nale
comes on Oct. 14 against
Crook County, before
matching up on the road
with Pendleton on Oct.
21. It’s another traditional
opponent for La Grande,
though it will be the fi rst
time the Buckaroos and
Tigers have met in a league
battle since the old Inter-
mountain Conference days.
The Tigers wrap up
the regular season Oct. 28
on the road against The
Dalles, in the fi rst matchup
on the gridiron between the
schools since the 2019 4A
semifi nals, a 68-0 win for
The Observer, File
La Grande’s Brody MacMillan (11) fends off a Burns defender Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, at Community Stadium in La Grande. The Oregon School Activities Association’s restructure of
football has the Tigers facing fi ve league opponents — two of them schools who are traditionally on the schedule, while the other three are new faces to the regular slate for La
Grande.
La Grande on its way to the
state championship.
La Grande’s nonleague
slate includes an opponent
the Tigers played annu-
ally until 2015, but hav-
en’t met since — Weiser.
LHS opens its season Sept.
2 at the Idaho school for a
6 p.m. kickoff .
The last time the teams
met, in 2015, was also in
Weiser, and La Grande
served the host Wolverines
a 41-7 beatdown.
Former league rival
Ontario, which dropped
to 3A for football, hosts
La Grande at 6 p.m. on
Sept. 9. A week later, the
Tigers wrap up a three-
ries from 2021, including
Adrian’s 46-38 win in the
state title game. Other
key dates for the Badgers
include a season-opening
contest against Camas
Valley at 4 p.m. Sept. 2 at
the Dufur Classic, a home
matchup against Dufur
on Sept. 30, and another
home date against Enter-
prise Oct. 14.
The Outlaws, mean-
while, visit Imbler for an
early-season nonleague
matchup on Sept. 9, and
host Pilot Rock on Sept.
23.
Imbler, in addition to
game season-opening road
trip against a team they
played twice a year ago —
Estacada. The squads meet
at 6 p.m. Sept. 16.
LHS’s fi nal nonleague
game is Sept. 23, as it hosts
Molalla in its home opener.
Powder Valley, Adrian
will meet again in 2022
At the 1A level, a key
matchup to watch is the
rematch between last
year’s state championship
game contenders, Powder
Valley and Adrian. The
Badgers host the Ante-
lopes at 7 p.m. on Oct.
21, hoping to exact a little
revenge for two victo-
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