SPORTS
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Highlights:
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NIKE/JESUIT RELAYS
— Pendleton’s Sam Jennings
threw a personal best, and
broke his own school record
in the javelin, with a toss of
213-5 at Jesuit High School in
Beaverton.
The mark is the second-best
in the nation this spring behind
Walla Walla’s Dash Sirmon,
who threw 219-4 on April 28.
UNION RELAYS —
Griswold freshman Ellery
Flerchinger won the discus
with a personal best throw of
82-6 ½, and placed second in
the shot put (25-0 ½) on Satur-
day.
Flerchinger also placed
fi fth in the long jump (11-9 ½),
and ran a leg on the winning
throwers relay (1:02.49),
along with Sydney Moore
and Elliana Boatright. It was a
combined boys and girls relay,
with Caiden Boatright leading
off the race for the Grizzlies.
Moore fi nished fourth in
the long jump (12-2) and fi fth
in the javelin (68-2).
The Griswold girls fi nished
fourth in the team standings
(41 points) with three girls.
Union won the team title with
132 points.
ON THE SLATE
Schedule subject to change
TUESDAY, MAY 3
Prep baseball
McLoughlin at La Grande (2), 2 p.m.
Weston-McEwen at Union, 4 p.m.
Stanfi eld/Echo at Umatilla, 4 p.m.
Irrigon at Riverside, 4 p.m.
Pendleton at Hood River Valley,
4:30 p.m.
Prep softball
McLoughlin at La Grande (2), 2 p.m.
Hermiston at Walla Walla, 3 p.m.
Irrigon at Riverside, 4 p.m.
Hood River Valley at Pendleton,
4:30 p.m.
Weston-McEwen at Umatilla,
5:30 p.m.
Boys soccer
Hermiston at Walla Walla, 4 p.m.
Prep tennis
Walla Walla at Hermiston, 4 p.m.
Irrigon at Stanfi eld, 4:30 p.m.
Prep golf
Hermiston at MCC pod, Sun Willows
Golf Course, TBD
Track and fi eld
Pilot Rock, Stanfi eld/Echo,
Weston-McEwen at Mustang Senior
Night, Heppner, 3 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4
Track and fi eld
Hermiston at MCC meet, Pasco, TBD
Prep tennis
Pendleton boys at Ridgeview,
3 p.m.
Ridgeview girls at Pendleton, 3 p.m.
Prep lacrosse
Hermiston at Kamiakin, 7 p.m.
College baseball
Blue Mountain at Columbia Basin
(2), 1 p.m.
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weight room, and she is open
to that,” Hazeltine said. “She
came and watched our girls
do a weight room workout.”
Bryant hopes to see Leber
follow through with her
summer plans.
“I’m hoping she can put
a little meat on her bones,”
Bryant said. “If she put on
10 pounds, she could be a
whole diff erent player. She’s
as skilled a player as I have
coached.”
Though she was the
team’s leading scorer, Bryant
said Leber’s strength is on
the defensive end of the fl oor.
“I think Emma’s biggest
thing is her defensive
instincts,” Bryant said.
“She’s a pretty special player
when it comes to leaving her
player and protecting the
rim. She has a knack for
being in the right place at the
right time. She’s also able to
stretch the fl oor and step out
and shoot the 3, or bring the
ball up the fl oor.”
Leber said the athletic
genes in her family are pretty
limited. Her mom Jennifer
played high school basket-
ball at Weston-McEwen,
and her older sister (Brooke
Smiley) played volleyball,
basketball and softball at
Mac-Hi.
Leber has played basket-
East Oregonian
ball and volleyball at
Mac-Hi, with the latter at the
behest of Rhoades.
“I started playing volley-
ball in the eighth grade, but
it’s never been my favor-
ite,” Leber said. “Darby and
I played basketball against
each other in elementary
school and we started play-
ing with each other in middle
school (Center Middle
School). We became really
good friends in the sixth
grade. It’s awesome that I get
to play two more years with
her. It’s an awesome privi-
lege to have.”
Leber’s height is a luxury
a lot of teams don’t have, and
she uses it to her advantage.
“I’ve always been the
tall girl, all the way through
middle school and high
school,” Leber said. “The
height is perfect, it makes the
game so much easier. I like
blocking shots, and being tall
makes that easier.”
An education degree is
on the radar for Leber, and
maybe more basketball after
WWCC.
“I want to major in
elementary education,”
she said. “I want to get my
prerequisites done, then
probably transfer to Eastern
Oregon. Maybe I’ll continue
to play.”
Floor general
Unlike her tall best friend,
Rhoads is a 5-8 guard who
has been the fl oor general
for the Pioneers the past few
years.
“She is a really good
motivator,” Bryant said of his
team captain. “She’s always
positive and has a strong
work ethic. It will be good
to see her with girls who
are athletic and will push
her. She is a worker and she
will grind and do what she is
asked to do.”
Rhoads knows playing
for Hazeltine won’t be easy,
but she’s looking forward to
the challenge.
“I think even if I don’t
play that much, I will grow
as a player and as a person,”
she said. “It will make me
push myself harder to be the
best I can be.”
Rhoads averaged 10.5
points, 6.3 rebounds, three
assists and 2.5 steals per
game, and was a second-
team GOL selection.
The Pioneers fi nished 2-4
in GOL play, and 8-11 over-
all. They lost their 4A state
play-in game to Hidden
Valley 57-32.
The Pioneers have gotten
their money’s worth out of
Rhoads, who has been a
three-sport athlete. She also
played volleyball and soft-
ball, where she plays third
base and shortstop.
“I have been doing sports
since I could walk,” Rhoads
said. “I have been part of
AAU basketball teams in
grade school and middle
school, and a little in high
A11
school during COVID.
Travel softball got too expen-
sive and I wanted to focus on
basketball.”
Basketball has been a
family sport on her mom’s
side of the family for gener-
ations.
“My mom (Denette) went
to Enterprise and played
track, volleyball and basket-
ball,” Rhoads said. “Basket-
ball is the family sport. My
grandpa (Dennis Harvey)
was a pretty good player.
He played at his high school
then went into the military.
My Dad played football and
wrestled at Mac-Hi, but he
was a motocross guy. My
uncle (Steven Rhoads) is on
our wrestling wall at school.”
In just a few weeks,
Rhoads will graduate and
move on to new adventures,
with her best friend by her
side.
“We have been playing
together for so long,” Rhoads
said. “We are taking this next
step to college basketball and
it’s nice to take your best
friend with you.”
Rhoads does admit it will
be hard to give up all of her
sports for just one, but she is
coming to terms with it.
“It’s going to be hard to
say goodbye, but I will be
stepping into something
new,” she said. “I’m excited
for my next chapter of
sports. You take your shoes
off for the last time and
you are done.”
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