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SPORTS
East Oregonian
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Johnson:
ON THE SLATE
Tuesday, Sept. 28
Prep volleyball
Weston-McEwen at Heppner, 5 p.m.
Hood River Valley at Pendleton,
6:30 p.m.
Pilot Rock at McLoughlin, 5 p.m.
Tri-Cities Prep at Irrigon, 6 p.m.
Sherman at Echo, 5 p.m.
Griswold at Elgin, 5 p.m.
Ione/Arlington at Condon, 5 p.m.
Prep girls soccer
Hermiston at Pasco, 7 p.m.
The Dalles at Pendleton, 4:30 p.m.
McLoughlin at La Grande, 5 p.m.
Prep boys soccer
Pendleton at The Dalles, 4:30 p.m.
Golf:
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“I think some are watching the
weather,” he said. “The cutoff is
Sept. 29, so cards and groupings
can be put together.”
Fee to play is $65 for amateurs
and $75 for pros. Everyone will get
a player’s pack.
A game for everyone
Manning first started play-
ing disc golf a couple of years ago
when he and fellow bullfi ghter Sean
Peterson were looking for some-
thing to do before a rodeo.
“We were staying in a hotel and
Prep slowpitch softball
Chiawana at Hermiston (2), 4 p.m.
Prep volleyball
Heppner at Stanfi eld, 5 p.m.
Pendleton at Ridgeview, 6:30 p.m.
Richland at Hermiston, 7 p.m.
Enterprise at Weston-McEwen,
5 p.m.
Pilot Rock at Union, 6 p.m.
Enterprise at Weston-McEwen,
5 p.m.
McLoughlin at Baker, 6:30 p.m.
Prep girls soccer
Hermiston at Chiawana, 7 p.m.
Pendleton at Crook County,
4:30 p.m.
Four Rivers at Stanfi eld/Echo, 4 p.m.
Irrigon at Riverside, 4 p.m.
Prep boys soccer
Crook County at Pendleton,
4:30 p.m.
Irrigon at Riverside, 6 p.m.
Prep football
The Dalles at Pendleton, 7 p.m.
Hermiston at Walla Walla, 7 p.m.
Heppner at Weston-McEwen, 7 p.m.
Santiam Christian at McLoughlin,
7 p.m.
Ione/Arlington at Enterprise, 7 p.m.
Pilot Rock at Lyle/Wishram/Klicki-
tat, 7 p.m.
Irrigon at Umatilla, 7 p.m.
Grant Union at Riverside, 7 p.m.
Mitchell/Spray/Wheeler at Echo,
7 p.m.
we were next to a disc golf course,”
Manning said. “We went to Big 5
and got a starter pack of three discs.
We can kill half a day playing. Now,
we have courses we like to go to.
We know which ones are good,
which are bad and which are fun.”
Manning has his brother, Miles
Barry, who also is a bullfi ghter,
playing the game.
“Miles is really into it,” Manning
said. “I got into it more than they
did, and I was better than they
were in the beginning. I met a
friend, Andrew Laffi e, in Pendle-
ton playing disc golf. He played for
the Oregon State University disc
team in college. He really taught
me how to play. I was better than
he was within a year. I turned pro
last year.”
A big draw to the sport for
Manning is that disc golf is cheap.
“There are no green fees and it
plays fast,” he said. “When you play
golf, you are committing to half a
day, and it can get spendy. If you
have someone who has never heard
of disc golf or who has never played
golf, you can show them the diff er-
ence. If you took them out for golf
in the morning, and disc golf in the
afternoon, they would have more
fun playing disc golf. It’s easier.
I have taken bullfi ghters and bull
riders out.”
Once you get to the pro ranks,
and fi nd discs that you prefer to play
with, the sport can drain your wallet
a bit.
“I have between 200 and 300
discs,” Manning said. “If you just
want to have a nice walk in the park
you can play with three. I will pay
$15 for a disc, throw it a few times.
If it’s not what I want, I can sell it for
$10 and get part of my money back.”
And if you really like your disc,
you put your name and phone
number on it. If you lose a disc, an
honest person will make sure you
get it back.
If you want to learn to play,
Manning runs weekly events on
Tuesday nights at Community Park
in Pendleton. There are also events
on Thursdays and Sundays.
Prep slowpitch softball
Hermiston at Pasco (2), 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 29
Prep volleyball
Nixyaawii at Umatilla, 5 p.m.
Ione/Arlington at Sherman, 5 p.m.
Prep boys soccer
La Grande at McLoughlin, 5 p.m.
College volleyball
Blue Mountain at Big Bend, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 30
Friday, Oct. 1
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Johnson joins the Mountaineers
following a two-year professional
playing career in Brazil where he
played for Basquete Blumanau/
APAB in the Brazil-CBC League.
Johnson spent this past season,
2020-21 working as a volun-
teer assistant coach at Lakeland
High School in Rathdrum, Idaho.
During that time, Johnson also
operated a business that trained
high school age basketball play-
ers in personal skill development
in North Idaho.
As a player, Johnson was a
member of the Washington State
Cougars from 2012-16. He played
three seasons with WSU from
2013-16, appearing in 93 games.
He was a starter in 42 of those
contests. He fi nished his career at
WSU ranked 16th in three-point
field goals made with 121. He
averaged 9.0 points per game in
three seasons, including a season
best 11.3 per contest during his
redshirt-junior season in 2015-16.
Following his time at WSU,
Johnson played his fi nal collegiate
season at Western Kentucky in
2016-17. With the Hilltoppers, he
started in all 32 games and aver-
aged a career best 13.2 points per
game.
SPORTS SHORT
EOU selects 1980 baseball team for Hall of Fame
The Observer
LA GRANDE — East-
ern Oregon University
Athletics announced its
2021 Hall of Fame class,
selecting the 1980 baseball
team.
The team fi nished 28-10,
marking the best winning
percentage by an Eastern
baseball team at the time.
The record was eventually
broken by the 1984 team
that won 34 games. Of the
1980 team, fi ve players were
named all-conference, four
were named all-district and
one was named all-Amer-
ican.
“This group of men had
outstanding accomplish-
ments on the diamond both
individually and as a team,”
Athletic Director Anji
Weissenfl uh said in a press
release. “Not only did they
have an impact athletically,
they also played signifi cant
roles on campus and in our
community.”
The Mountaineers won
19 straight games during
the 1980 season, which still
stands as a program record.
The 1980 team held a league
batting average of .339,
which remains a school
record through both the
wood bat and metal bat eras.
In addition to a produc-
tive off ense, the 1980 team
also was known for its stel-
lar defense. The Mountain-
eers recorded a .971 fi elding
percentage overall and .981
in league play, which stands
as a program record.
The all-conference play-
ers from the 1980 team
are shortstop John Tolan,
pitcher Jeff Davis, outfi elder
Bill Kean, outfi elder Tim
Noland and fi rst baseman
Gary Davidson. Tolan
was named an honorable
mention all-American.
The 1980 team won
the Evergreen Conference
regular season champion-
ship and went on to fi nish
as runner-up in the confer-
ence tournament.
Eastern Oregon University Athletics/Contributed Photo
Eastern Oregon University Athletics announced it selected the 1980 baseball team for the
2021 Hall of Fame Class.
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