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Shooter:
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league,” Ray said. “We usu-
ally have our league in the
spring, followed by state and
nationals. We will hopefully
have another league in the
spring. Being in the top five
is pretty crazy.”
The fall season, which
ended Nov. 22, featured
more than 350 athletes from
19 schools. The sport is
co-ed, with boys and girls
earning points for their team.
Approximately one-third of
the competitors are female.
Trap shooting is a club
sport and not sponsored by
the Oregon School Activities
Association.
In addition to Ray’s sec-
ond-place finish, Echo fin-
ished third among the four
teams in Conference 3.
Echo’s Riley Hampton
(11th) and Elliot Glenn (15th)
also are ranked in the top 20
among female shooters.
Hermiston won Con-
ference 4 with an impres-
sive score of 6,293.5. Sec-
ond-place Canby had 5,343.
Hermiston’s Dustin Ham-
ilton finished third among
male shooters in the confer-
ence with a 23.7 average.
Hermiston’s team has 40
shooters.
Both teams practice and
compete at the Hermiston
Gun Club. On competition
days, teams shoot at their
own clubs and turn in their
marks.
The hardest part of com-
peting during the coronavi-
rus pandemic, according to
Ray, was wearing a mask
while shooting.
“Your glasses fog up, and
you are so used to the feel
of the gun on your cheek,”
Ray said. “The fabric of the
mask gets in the way. It’s not
ideal.”
A family sport
Ray has been shooting
trap since she was in the sev-
enth grade. It’s a sport she
has grown to love.
“My dad was a trap
shooter in the past and I
wanted to try,” she said.
“We talked to the school
board about putting a team
together, and they were super
supportive. Back then, it was
us, Hermiston and schools
in Central Oregon. To see
it grow as much as it has is
amazing. It’s so cool.”
The league allows shoot-
ers from sixth through 12th
grade to compete. Chad
Ray has coached his daugh-
ter and the Echo team from
the beginning. This year, the
Echo team has 23 members,
10 of which are girls.
Chad Ray was a Wash-
ington junior state champion
in the late 1980s, and was
part of the Junior Olympic
Clay Target All-Star team
from 1990-92.
“I can beat him now,”
Emily said with a little laugh.
The gun that Emily Ray
has shot the past two years is
a Browning BT-99 12-gauge
shotgun that her dad bought
in 1987. The bluing is start-
ing to wear, but she loves it.
“It’s cool to be able to
shoot something my dad
shot,” she said. “I don’t let
anybody else shoot my baby.
The gun has so much history,
and it means a lot to me.”
Ray would like to shoot
in college, but there are few
schools that offer shooting
as a sport. Most have club
sports.
“It’s hard to find a school
that has a program and the
major (speech and language
therapist) that I want,” Ray
said. “Eastern Oregon and
Idaho State have teams.”
A nice little bonus
Ray shot her first string
of 25 consecutive targets on
Sept. 20, getting a little help
from her eye doctor.
“I got prescription shoot-
ing glasses,” Ray said. “The
targets were so clear. The
first time I wore them, I shot
25 straight at practice. I was
so excited.”
Ray’s glasses are from
SSP Eyewear, which is based
in Moses Lake, Washington.
Ray has been asked to
write a testimonial about the
glasses for the MidwayUSA
Foundation, which helps to
sustain and grow the shoot-
ing sports industry by pro-
viding long-term funding to
youth shooting teams.
“I’m excited about that,”
she said.
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Ducks: Oregon faces Cal Bears on Dec. 5
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Stanford in the Big Game
on Nov. 27 in Berkeley.
The next daunting test
on their home field is with
the Ducks, who are coming
off their demoralizing late
defeat.
Oregon
quarterback
Tyler Shough threw for 266
yards and two touchdowns
with two interceptions last
week. He has four intercep-
tions in all.
Stopping the run
The Ducks’ run defense
had few answers for Ore-
gon State star Jermar Jef-
ferson, who went off for
226 yards and two touch-
downs, one of those a
career-best 82-yard TD
run.
“Technique and funda-
mentals have really got to
improve,” Cristobal said.
“The way you come off the
football, the way you strike
your blockers, the way
you maintain gap control.
All the things that go with
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Oregon wide receiver Devon Williams (2) skirts around Oregon State inside linebacker Av-
ery Roberts (34) during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Corvallis on
Nov. 27, 2020.
playing great run defense,
that we have done before,
have got to be rectified.”
Cal running back Chris-
topher Brown Jr. has been
limited in his touches by
an injury but coach Jus-
tin Wilcox was hopeful he
would continue to get more
reps this week because “we
really would like to be a
balanced offense.”
“Chris is continuing to
improve. He’s a real com-
petitive guy, he’s a tough
guy,” Wilcox said. “We
had to work through some
things on the injury front.”
Beavers: Jefferson ranks 5th with 2,740 yards
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of his best performances of
the year. He threw for 263
yards and a touchdown and
ran for another score.
Nolan, a redshirt sopho-
more who came to the Bea-
vers from Saddleback Col-
lege, will get his first career
start for Oregon State (2-2)
against the Utes (0-2).
Oregon State coach Jon-
athan Smith told his team
leftover excitement about
the win can’t get in the way
of preparation for Utah.
“We’ve got a mature
group that really under-
stands things. We spoke to
them yesterday about that,
and so we went back to our
normal approach,” Smith
said. “There are things to
clean up like any game, and
there were some really good
things we point out. Then
we flush everything and we
Whittingham said. “Just
keep working hard, keep
trying to get better and pro-
gressing. So that’s where
we’re at.”
Jefferson repeats
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Utah safety Zemaiah Vaughn (16) runs 73 yards as quarter-
back Jake Bentley (8) reacts on the sideline after Vaughn in-
tercepted a Washington pass during the first half of an NCAA
college football game Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Seattle.
move forward.”
But the rivalry win was
significant for the Beavers,
in their third year under
Smith. The Beavers hadn’t
defeated a top-10 opponent
since 2014, when they beat
No. 7 Arizona State.
Utah, meanwhile, is still
looking for a first win. The
Utes let a 21-point lead slip
away last weekend against
Washington in a 24-21 loss.
“We need to take another
step forward as a football
team,” Utah coach Kyle
Jermar Jefferson ran for
226 yards and scored twice
in the win over the Ducks,
earning him his second
consecutive Pac-12 Player
of the Week honor. His
rushing yards were a record
in the series with Oregon.
Despite the short season,
Jefferson is easily on pace
to reach the 1,000-yard
mark. He leads the league
with 168.8 yards rushing a
game and seven total touch-
downs. He’s rushed for at
least 100 yards in each of
the Beavers’ games this
season.
He’s got 2,740 yards for
his career, ranking him fifth
all-time at Oregon State.
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