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Mac-Hi girls basketball moving in the right direction
The Pioneers
picked up their first
GOL win since
2016 last week
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
MILTOn-FreeWaTer
— Times have been a little
tough for the Mac-Hi girls
basketball program. The last
winning season for the Pio-
neers was 2015-16 when they
finished 13-12.
Things are changing under
first-year coach Chris Bryant,
whose team is off to an 8-9
start, and won its first Greater
Oregon League game in four
years last week.
“This was a good year to
take over,” Bryant said. “We
have a group of seniors who
are a little behind fundamen-
tally, but they are athletic.
They came to me last spring
when I was hired, and they
were ready to embrace their
roles. We went to some camps
and got some wins this past
summer, and that got their
confidence up.”
The Pioneers beat Ontario
30-29 on Jan. 11, marking
their first GOL win since Jan.
30, 2016.
“The girls were aware
that we did not have anyone
on our team that had won a
varsity league game,” Bry-
ant said. “We thought Ontario
was a team we could beat. I
didn’t have any intention of
driving that far and lose.”
Mac-Hi had its second
GOL game Monday, a 66-28
loss to No. 2-ranked Baker.
“realistically, we have a
year before we are ready for
them,” Bryant said of the likes
of Baker and La Grande. “We
don’t have the depth quite yet.
We have a good group with a
bright future.”
since the 2015-16 sea-
son, Mac-Hi has gone 0-18 in
league play and 4-61 overall.
“The people I have talked
to, they said the last really
good team was 1996,” Bry-
ant said. “That was the last
really, really good program
that came through. It’s a
See Mac-Hi, Page B2
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan, File
McLoughlin’s Emma Leber (10) drives past Weston-McE-
wen’s Trinity Hearn (4). The McLoughlin Pioneers
defeated the Weston-McEwen TigerScots 40-30 at
Weston-McEwen High School in Athena on Dec. 6, 2019.
PREP ROUNDUP
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Kendra Hart (3), of Stanfield, goes
up for a shot during Saturday’s
Blue Mountain Conference game as
Enterprise’s Claire Farwell defends.
Stanfield
rallies for
win over
Outlaws
East Oregonian
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
sTanFIeLd — although they
trailed by two points at the half,
the Stanfield boys rallied in the last
two quarters to post a 53-45 Blue
Mountain Conference win over
Enterprise on Saturday.
“We came out slow, but started
playing better defense in the sec-
ond half,” Stanfield head coach
Devin Bailey said. “We just
weren’t scoring in the first half.”
Uriel Carrillo posted 15 points
to lead the Tigers, while Rene San-
chez followed with 11.
Stanfield (8-8, 3-2 BMC) hosts
Pilot Rock on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Boys basketball
NIXYAAWII 81, WAL-
LOWA 38 — The Golden Eagles
outscored the host Cougars 25-8 in
the first quarter to dominate early
as they took home an Old Oregon
League win on Saturday.
Quanah Picard scored 14 of the
Golden Eagles’ 19 points in the
third quarter, 12 of which came
from beyond the arc.
Tyasin Burns posted a game-
high 21 points, while Picard had
19, and Moses Moses 17.
Nixyaawii (10-4, 3-0 OOL)
hosts White Swan at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday.
HEPPNER 52, UNION 46
— Tied at 6-6 at the end of the
first quarter, the Mustangs made
a 13-10 second-quarter run to
remain just ahead of their Union
hosts for the remainder of Satur-
day’s Blue Mountain Conference
contest.
Jayden Wilson had a game-high
23 points to lead Heppner, while
Mason Lehman added 12.
Heppner (8-7, 3-2 BMC) trav-
els to Stanfield on Saturday for a
5:30 p.m. game.
HORIZON CHRISTIAN 51,
ECHO 34 — The Cougars fell
to 0-6 in Big Sky League action
See Prep roundup, Page B3
Hermiston’s Trevor Wagner (in blue) takes down Liddel Giles, of Othello, in the 170-pound championship match of Saturday’s Farm
City Invitational.
HERMISTON’S WAGNER,
CADENAS WIN FARM CITY TITLES
Dawgs finish second
in the team standings
behind Chiawana
FARM CITY INVITATIONAL
Team scores: Chiawana 439, Hermiston 248, Zillah 228.5, Othello 197, Kamiakin 128,
Deer Park 121.5, Ridgevue 118, Richland 47, College Place 28, Heppner/Ione 19.5,
Irrigon 19.5.
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
ERMISTON — Sam Cadenas is
only in his second year of wres-
tling, but the Hermiston soph-
omore made quite a statement
Saturday, winning the 220-pound title
at the Farm City Invitational.
Cadenas’ win helped the Bulldogs
to second place in the team standings
with 248 points — just a bit better than
third-place Zillah (228.5), but a distant
H
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES
106 — Hudson Garcia (Zil) d. Por Htoo (Chi), 10-9. 113 — Davian Martinez (Chi) p.
Jorge Espinoza (Zil), 3:06. 120 — Nathan Gregory (DP), md. Adrian Delgado (Herm),
13-4. 126 — Guillermo Ramirez-Diaz (Kam) d. Nate Montelongo (Chi), 5-4. 132 — Levi
Miller (DP) d. Lance Stover (Chi), 6-3 (3OT). 138 — Joel Coronel (Zil) p. Evan Sauceda
(Chi), 3:30. 145 — Robby Vaughn (Chi) md. Arturo Solorio (Oth), 8-0. 152 — Joey
Chavez (Kam) p. Darius Grogan (Chi), 2:27. 160 — Riley Cissne (Chi) p. Ricardo Go-
mez-Sanchez (Zil), 1:13. 170 — Trevor Wagner (Herm) p. Liddell Giles (Oth), 1:22. 182
— Tyson Stover (Chi) p. Daniel Faaeteete (Herm), 2:52. 195 — Isaiah Anderson (Chi) d.
Gilbert Marquez (Kam), 7-2. 220 — Sam Cadenas (Herm) d. Jon Lee (Herm), 8-6. 285
— Colby Blasdel (Chi) p. Alex Smith (CP), 5:23.
See Dawgs, Page B2
LOCAL ROUNDUP
Burns powers Nixyaawii past Nyssa 69-66
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
NYSSA — Tyasin Burns had
20 points, and Mick Schimmel
added 16 to lead Nixyaawii to a
69-66 nonleague win Monday over
nyssa.
The Bulldogs (10-4), who beat
Nixyaawii in their first meeting
53-51, led 35-33 at the half, but the
Golden Eagles went on a 36-31 run
in the second half to secure the win.
Burns, who scored nine of his
points in the final quarter, went 7 of
10 from the free-throw line down
the stretch.
Magi Moses and Quanah Picard
added 10 points each for the Golden
Eagles (11-4).
Leo Barba had a game-high 27
points for the Bulldogs — 14 in the
second half — while Pedro Chavez
added 23 points.
nixyaawii will host White
Swan at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in a
nonleague game.
BAKER 59, MAC-HI 49 —
The Pioneers fell to 1-1 in Greater
Oregon League play with a road
loss to the Bulldogs.
no
other
information
was available.
Mac-Hi (7-8, 1-1) will host
DeSales at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in
a nonleague game.
VALE 66, IRRIGON 30 —
A dismal first quarter (four points)
set the tone for the game, and the
Knights could not right the ship
in an eastern Oregon League loss
Monday to the Vikings.
See Local roundup, Page B2