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THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021
SPORTS
Moha fi rst, Warrenton
boys cross-country third
The Astorian
Zander Moha was the
individual winner, while
the Warrenton boys took
third in the team standings
Oct. 29 in the District 1 3A
cross-country meet at Sher-
wood Middle School.
The result: everyone
will compete at state for
the Warrior boys, who are
looking to improve on
last year’s fourth place
showing.
Moha covered the 5,000-
meter course in 16 minutes,
25.0 seconds, fi nishing
ahead of Westside Chris-
tian’s David Dugan (16:34).
Oregon Episcopal won
the team title, with three
runners in the top seven for
37 team points. Westside
Christian (45) was second,
with Warrenton (82) third
out of eight scoring teams.
After Moha, Warrenton’s
next fi ve runners included
Phoenix Martin (ninth,
18:48), Erik Cooley (20th,
19:33), William Carruthers
(21st, 19:42), Josh Baker
(40th, 21:39), and Mason
Devos (60th, 23:33).
SCOREBOARD
PREP SPORTS
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY
Football — 4A Playoff : Astoria
vs. Cascade (at Scio High School),
6 p.m.; 3A Playoff : Philomath vs.
Warrenton (at CMH Field), 7 p.m.; 2A
Playoff : Jeff erson at Knappa, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
Football — 1B (Washington)
Playoff : Crescent at Naselle, 3 p.m.
GIRLS SOCCER
4A STATE PLAYOFFS
FIRST ROUND SCORES
Gladstone 5, Newport 0
Marist Catholic 3, Sisters 1
La Grande 1, Corbett 0
Woodburn 2, North Valley 1
(PKs, 4-3)
North Marion 6, Astoria 0
Philomath 3, Henley 2
Valley Catholic 4, Mazama 0
Hidden Valley 5, Estacada 0
Loggers second behind
St. Stephen’s
Knappa’s nemesis in
cross-country — St. Ste-
phen’s — got the best of the
Loggers on Oct. 30 in the
District 1 2A/1A cross-coun-
try meet, held at Sherwood
Middle School.
With 42 points, St. Ste-
phen’s won the team title
over Knappa (48) and Verno-
nia (64), while senior Colin
Friend of St. Stephen’s was the
surprise individual winner (16
minutes, 11.6 seconds) ahead
of Knappa’s Isaiah Rodriguez,
who took second in 16:19.
Both times would have been
good enough for fi rst and sec-
ond among the 3A runners.
Runners from St. Stephen’s
fi nished third and fourth,
while Knappa’s next four run-
ners placed seventh (freshman
Joshua Peterson), ninth (junior
Clay Keyser), 17th (sopho-
more Moses Peitsch) and 19th
(junior Finn Corcoran).
Jewell senior Nicholas
Nikander was sixth overall
in 18:17 to qualify for state
individually, while the entire
Knappa boys team will be a
contender for a trophy in the
state meet later this week.
In the girls combined Dis-
trict 1 3A/2A/1A meet, Ver-
nonia won the team title with
49 points.
Warrenton freshman Pay-
ten Buckelew placed 11th in
22:11, followed by teammate
Abigail Miller (15th, 22:36).
Alivia Swearingen of Jewell
was 39th in 24:35. Warren-
ton, Knappa and Jewell did
not score as teams.
North Marion tops Astoria, 6-0
The Astorian
The task was a tall one
Tuesday night for the Astoria
girls soccer team.
Facing a team that had
outscored its last three oppo-
nents 16-0, and had lost
just once since Sept. 23, the
Lady Fishermen made the
trip to Aurora to face the No.
3-ranked North Marion Hus-
kies in a fi rst round state play-
off game — a fi rst for Astoria.
And the Huskies showed
why they’re ranked third
in the 4A rankings, as they
scored three goals in each
half for a 6-0 win over the
Fishermen.
Astoria fi nishes the season
at 7-6-3 overall. The Lady
Fish were fresh off a 3-1
play-in victory over Molalla
and ranked 14th among the
fi nal 16.
Freshman
goalkeeper
Audrey Cereghino stopped
the fi rst pair of shots on goal
by North Marion, but the Hus-
kies scored 7 minutes, 40 sec-
onds into the fi rst half when
a free kick from 30 yards out
was defl ected into the net for
a 1-nil lead.
North Marion added suc-
cessful shots off crossing
passes in the 15th and 18th
minutes for a 3-0 halftime
advantage.
“Our girls still worked
hard with the help of Audrey,
who came out in the end with
multiple amazing saves,” said
Astoria coach Tim Fastabend.
“Although it was a tough loss,
this is the fi rst time in a long
time that the Lady Fish soccer
team has made it to the play-
off s. As a team and a commu-
nity, we want to say thank you
for all the support we had this
season.”
The Huskies advance to
the quarterfi nals, where they
will host Philomath. Else-
where in fi rst round action,
Cowapa League champion
Valley Catholic defeated
Mazama, 4-0.
Astoria girls basketball hosts youth camp
The Astorian
The Astoria Lady Fisher-
men are hosting a youth girls
basketball camp on Satur-
day , Nov. 12 and Nov. 20.
Cost is $35 per child
and includes a T-shirt for
the camp, which is a senior
project for Astoria players
Mollie Matthews and Ava
Palmberg.
The camp is for players
in fi rst through eighth grade.
Held in the Astoria High
School main gym (1001
West Marine Drive), times
for the Saturday and Nov. 20
camps are 9 to 10:30 a.m. for
grades one through four , and
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for
grades fi fth through eighth .
On Nov. 12, times are 4
to 5:30 p.m. for grades one
through four , and 6 to 8 p.m.
for fi fth through eighth
graders.
Participants are asked to
show up 20 minutes early
on Saturday to fi ll out a reg-
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Linda Dickson, left, collects clippings and old photographs to put into a scrapbook collage
at the Wolf Creek Grange in North Powder.
Eastern Oregon grange
celebrates centennial
By DICK MASON
The Observer
NORTH POWDER —
The story of the Wolf Creek
Grange is one of community
service, dances, fairs and a
fi re that ultimately may have
benefi ted it.
The Grange celebrated
its 100th year of operation
on Oct. 24.
The grange is one of the
most vibrant in northeastern
Oregon. Its hall is a gath-
ering place for a number
of community events and
activities and it has a sta-
ble membership of 20 to 25
men and women. The Wolf
Creek Grange is an anom-
aly during a time when
many granges have declin-
ing memberships and are
closing.
The continuing strength
of the grange refl ects the
dedication of its mem-
bers to the grange and the
community.
“It is an amazing group,”
said grange master Carol
Bouchard.
She said its mem-
bers bring the commu-
nity together in a manner
that binds it in everlasting
fashion.
“They help make this a
village, not just a group of
houses,” Bouchard said.
The Wolf Creek Grange
hall is perhaps the most pop-
ular meeting place in North
Powder. It is the site of exer-
cise classes, weddings and
city council meetings; the
weekly distribution of fresh
food and other items pro-
vided by the Fresh Food
Alliance operated by North-
east Oregon Food Bank; and
a Lunch Bunch program
where lunches are served by
the grange each Friday to the
community. The rent paid
by the groups involved in
many of these events helps
keep the Wolf Creek Grange
on solid ground fi nancially.
People are likely drawn
to the spacious hall’s warm
and inviting atmosphere
because it is so well kept
and well decorated. Another
plus is that it is centrally
located and easy to reach.
The site is a far cry from its
original location near Wolf
Creek, 8 miles northwest of
North Powder, where it was
destroyed by a fi re in the
early 1940s, Bouchard said.
The Wolf Creek Grange
purchased its present hall
in 1957, a building that pre-
viously housed a number
of businesses, including a
meat market and a mercan-
tile store. If the grange had
remained in the Wolf Creek
Reservoir area instead of
moving into North Powder,
it might not be as popular a
meeting place as it is today.
“People like to go to
places that are convenient to
get to,” Bouchard said.
The Wolf Creek Grange
was the 596th chartered in
Oregon but today it is one of
only about 200 in the state.
Few of the state’s
remaining granges likely
are involved in more com-
munity
services
proj-
ects than the Wolf Creek
Grange. They include a free
medical equipment loan
service program through
which donated items, such
as wheelchairs and walk-
ers, are lent free of charge
to anyone; college schol-
arships given annually to
local youths; and a com-
munity dinner served each
year the Sunday before
Thanksgiving.
Wynn Nielsen, a member
of the Wolf Creek Grange,
said the community work
done by the grange is a
refl ection of the many peo-
ple who live there.
“North Powder is just a
special place,” he said.
People who visit the
grange can learn about its
history, and the dances and
fairs it once put on, by look-
ing at scrapbooks and old
photos and reading cop-
ies of North Powder’s old
newspaper, The North Pow-
der News, which was pub-
lished at least into the
1930s. People reading cop-
ies of the 1930s editions of
the old newspaper will learn
that North Powder then
had a gas station, Hutchin-
son Service Station, an auto
repair shop, Newman and
Keeney Garage, and a phar-
macy, Ferguson’s Drug
Store, which sold candy for
60 cents a pound.
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