SPORTS
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Mustangs:
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Also Oct. 7, Dufur is at Pilot Rock.
The Rangers (3-2), coming off a
42-16 loss to Crane, go up against the
Rockets (2-2), who have lost two in a
row after losing a handful of players
to injuries and suspensions.
SOUTH WASCO COUNTY
AT ECHO — On Friday, Oct. 8, the
3-2 Cougars entertain the Huskies
(2-3), who are coming off a 45-0 win
over Dayville/Monument.
Echo, which suffered a 56-25
loss to Mitchell/Spray last week
after winning three in a row, is the
second-highest scoring team in
Special District 4, averaging 36.6
points per game.
Also Oct. 8, Sherman is at Ione/
Arlington, McLoughlin is at Ontario,
and Weston-McEwen is at Irrigon.
Dawgs:
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“They are a much improved
team,” Faaeteete said. “Those kids
are improving, and they have more
speed than they have had in the past.
The coaching staff has the team
moving in the right direction. They
have more speed than we do. We
have to contain that speed. They are
more physical than they have been in
the past. They are a young team like
we are, which is comparable.”
The Suns have gotten good
production from running back
Jimmy Rush (416 yards) and receiver
Lucien Cone (382 yards), while
Brian Beardsley (27.5 tackles) and
Bricen Ostergaard (26.5 tackles)
lead the defense.
Southridge also has a potent kick-
ing game with senior Lance Spaniel,
who averages 44.5 yards per punt,
with 71% downed inside the 20-yard
line. No one has returned a punt this
season against the Suns.
“Their cover team is really good,”
Faaeteete said. “No team has really
been able to return on them. They
use their speed to get down the fi eld.”
East Oregonian
Mountaineers set for make-or-break
home game against Rocky Mountain
By DAVIS CARBAUGH
The Observer
LA GRANDE — It’s home-
coming week at Eastern Oregon
University, but the football team
is all business heading into a criti-
cal matchup with Rocky Mountain
College.
Coming off two straight losses,
the Mountaineers host a Rocky
Mountain team that is at the top of
the Frontier Conference with a 4-1
record. Eastern’s season is up in
the air after a 3-0 start to the year,
making this matchup a must-win
for the Mountaineers.
“We’ve dropped two games in a
row, but at the same time it doesn’t
stop the direction we want to go,”
head coach Tim Camp said.
The Mountaineers come into
the contest off two straight rivalry
losses, losing 24-7 against the
College of Idaho on Sept. 25 and
24-3 at Southern Oregon on Oct. 2.
Eastern’s off ense has stalled after
a strong start to the season, scor-
ing just 20 points in the team’s last
three contests.
The Battlin’ Bears come into
the game ranked No. 23 in the
NAIA, practically switching spots
with the Mountaineers. Eastern
has climbed to as high as No. 11
Bucks:
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The Bucks, who lead the North-
west Oregon Conference East with
a 4-0 record, are 5-1 overall. They
are coming off a 70-6 conference
win over The Dalles.
Pendleton will once again be
without tailback Payton Lambert,
who still is nursing an ankle injury.
In his place, junior Brock Mackey
scored four touchdowns last week.
“We will go down there and
see what we can do against a 6A
Alex Wittwer/EO Media Group, File
Eastern Oregon University quar-
terback Kai Quinn hands off to Jor-
dan Eggers during a game Sept.
25, 2021, against the College of
Idaho. EOU lost 24-7. A 24-3 loss to
Southern Oregon a week later has
the Mountaineers at 3-2 headed
into a home game Saturday, Oct. 9
against Rocky Mountain.
in the polls this season, but fi nds
itself on the outside looking in this
week.
“Rocky Mountain is a good
football team. They have good
skill players and good players in
the box,” Camp said. “We just
have to execute. It’s really been us
beating us lately.”
A much-improved Eastern
defense is allowing 21.4 points per
game this year, but the off ense’s
recent stagnancy has been the
PIL team,” Davis said. “We are
starting to click off ensively and
defensively. I tried to not be too
outrageous with our play calling.
We have a pretty good game plan
without a lot of bells and whistles.
It allows our kids to go full speed if
you don’t quite know what you are
doing. Defi nitely some diff erent
looks, but we’ll keep to the same
concept.”
McDaniel High School
was Madison High School
The Northeast Portland school,
once named after the fourth pres-
team’s Achilles’ heel. The Moun-
taineers are averaging 16.2 points
per game this season, which
ranks 81st in the NAIA. Rocky
Mountain’s average of 35.7 points
per game is tops in the Frontier
Conference and 27th in the NAIA.
The Mountaineers will either need
to match the off ensive production
of the Battlin’ Bears or hope that
the defense can limit the opposing
team’s points.
In Eastern’s most recent loss
to Southern Oregon, the Moun-
taineers gained just 51 total
rushing yards in what was quar-
terback Kai Quinn’s second
straight game with 35 or more
passing attempts. Quinn led the
team with 23 net rushing yards
and threw for 233 yards and two
interceptions.
“The run game has been hit or
miss, but more miss lately,” Camp
said. “There’s plays out there to be
made, we just have to make them.”
In two straight rivalry games, a
higher-ranked Eastern team found
itself outplayed in diffi cult losses.
Now playing the role of the under-
dog, the Mountaineers will look
to play a more balanced game on
homecoming. Kickoff is slated for
1 p.m. at Community Stadium on
Saturday, Oct. 9.
ident of the United States James
Madison, is now Leodis V.
McDaniel High.
The Portland Public Schools
Board of Directors unanimously
approved Resolution No. 6251 to
change the school name on Feb.
23, 2021.
McDaniel oversaw the North-
east Portland high school’s deseg-
regation during his tenure as its
principal in the 1970s and ’80s.
He died in 1987. A $10,000 schol-
arship in his name has long been
awarded each year to an outgoing
senior.
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ON THE SLATE
Thursday, Oct. 7
Prep football
Pendleton at McDaniel, 7 p.m.
Riverside at Heppner, 7 p.m.
Dufur at Pilot Rock, 7 p.m.
Prep volleyball
Heppner at Grant Union, 5 p.m.
Redmond at Pendleton, 6:30 p.m.
Weston-McEwen at Pilot Rock,
6 p.m.
Stanfi eld at Union, 5 p.m.
Nixyaawii at Riverside, 6 p.m.
Umatilla at Irrigon, 5 p.m.
Cove at Griswold, 5 p.m.
Bickleton at Ione/Arlington, 5 p.m.
Prep girls soccer
Kennewick at Hermiston, 7 p.m.
Ridgeview at Pendleton, 4:30 p.m.
Riverside at Stanfi eld/Echo, 4 p.m.
Irrigon at Umatilla, 3 p.m.
Prep boys soccer
Pendleton at Ridgeview, 4:30 p.m.
Irrigon at Umatilla, 5 p.m.
Prep slowpitch softball
Hermiston at Walla Walla (2),
4 p.m.
Prep cross-country
Pendleton, Griswold, Nixyaawii,
Pilot Rock, Riverside, Stanfi eld/Echo,
Umatilla at Mustang Invite, Heppner,
4 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 8
Prep football
Southridge at Hermiston, 7 p.m.
McLoughlin at Ontario, 6 p.m.
Sherman at Ione/Arlington, 7 p.m.
Dufur at Pilot Rock, 7 p.m.
Weston-McEwen at Irrigon, 7 p.m.
South Wasco County at Echo,
7 p.m.
Prep volleyball
Echo at Condon, 5 p.m.
Prep girls soccer
Pendleton at Hood River Valley,
4:30 p.m.
College volleyball
Blue Mountain at Spokane, 6 p.m.
Eastern Oregon at Corban, 7 p.m.
Prep cross-country
McLoughlin at Tiger Invite, La
Grande, 11 a.m.
College men’s soccer
Eastern Oregon at Rocky Moun-
tain College, noon
College women’s soccer
Eastern Oregon at Rocky Moun-
tain College, 2:30 p.m.