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ARCHERY HUNTING SEASON
Naughton to lead
cross-country team
Former Pendleton
graduate has been a
long-time assistant
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — A one-time
Pendleton High School track and
fi eld record holder has taken the
reins of the Bucks’ cross-country
program.
Maddy Naughton, a longtime
assistant coach for the program,
stepped into the position after Ben
Bradley stepped down earlier this
month.
“I think we made it pretty easy
on Mike (Somnis, the athletic direc-
tor),” Naughton said. “I heard a
measure of relief in his voice when
he asked if I wanted the job, and I
told him yes.”
Naughton graduated from
Pendleton High in 1981, and held
the 800-meter record until Nicole
(Osborne) Stewart came along and
broke it in 1990 (2:17.90).
“I had always wanted to meet
her,” Naughton said after Stewart
broke her record. “She said she was
sorry. She still has the record.”
After graduating from Pendle-
ton, Naughton went to college at
University of Oregon, and lived in
Eugene and the Portland area before
returning to Pendleton in 1999.
“I wish I would have run in
college,” she said. “Had I not gone
to University of Oregon, I proba-
bly would have. I came back in 1999
and married the hardware guy (Jim
Naughton).”
In 2004, Naughton began as an
assistant for Stewart, then for Brad-
ley. Now, Stewart is her assistant
coach, along with Chris Thatcher.
“I honestly don’t mind the extra
stuff ,” Naughton said of the paper-
work that comes with being in
charge. “I’m a good team player
and I have a good support system.
Nicole is very outgoing and I am
more reserved. It’s good for me to
step out of my comfort zone.”
And with Stewart comes her
parents Margaret and Jake Osborne.
“Her parents have been so
supportive of the program,” Naugh-
ton said. “They are service-oriented
people.”
Naughton, who works at the
Pendleton Early Learning Center,
has a young team on her hands this
year. While the boys team features
some up-and-coming freshmen,
the girls team returns its top runner
from last season in sophomore
Melissa Tune, and sisters Tori and
Bella Estrada. Tori is a junior, and
Bella is a sophomore.
“We are pretty darn young,”
Naughton said of the boys team.
Yasser Marte/East Oregonian
Pendleton High School cross-coun-
try coach Maddy Naughton hits
the track for an early morning run
with her team Wednesday, Aug. 24,
2022, at the school. This is Naugh-
ton’s fi rst year as the head coach
for the Bucks.
“We lost quite a few seniors last
year. Our varsity team was made
up mostly of seniors. We are in a
rebuilding phase.”
Freshman Jack Reynolds has
shown promise early, and former
soccer player Atticus Tesch, a soph-
omore, who ran distances in track
last year, joins the group, as does
freshman Maliki Adams.
“Maliki is trying to keep up
with Jack at practice,” Naughton
said. “He has a little moxie and is
getting after it. We also have fresh-
man Khoda Brown and Owen Burt.
Owen hasn’t done cross-country
before, but I think he will be a very
nice addition to our squad.”
Returning to the team are
seniors Mekhi Spencer and Jobe
Moff ett-Wallahee, juniors Nathan
Burcham and Desmond Minthorn,
and sophomore Eric Baisley.
Juniors Aubrey Harrison and
Persephone Bearchum also return
for the girls’ team, which also has
a newcomer in senior Kennedy
Deem, a transfer from Cove.
New to the Bucks are freshmen
Evie Christiansen, Janae Minthorn,
Adreonna Hayes, Brielle Bonzani
and sophomore Maddy Lieuallen.
“They are great kids,” Naughton
said. “They just helped bring 1,000
boxes of books from the basement
to the parking lot for the Friends of
the Library book sale,” she said. “If
their work ethic yesterday (Aug. 22)
is any indication of the season, I’m
really excited.”
Bradley moves on
Bradley, 32, accepted a job as the
assistant track and fi eld/cross-coun-
try coach at College of Idaho. Brad-
ley is a 2008 graduate of Pendleton
High School.
See Naughton, Page B2
Gary Lewis/Contributed Photo, File
Archery hunting for elk starts Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022, in Northeastern Oregon. For the fi rst time, hunting in
most units is controlled, meaning hunters must have applied for and drawn a tag.
Big change for hunters
Delayed switch to controlled
archery hunts for elk starts
By JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
B
AKER CITY — The
archery hunting season
will start as usual on the
last Saturday in August,
but this year is anything but ordi-
nary in one respect.
For most of Northeastern
Oregon, the archery season for elk
is a controlled hunt for the fi rst time.
In August 2021 the Oregon Fish
and Wildlife Commission decided
to change archery hunting for elk
in 13 units and parts of three others
from a general hunt — meaning
there’s no limit on the number of
tags sold — to a controlled hunt,
with a limited number of tags that
hunters have to apply for through
the state’s lottery system.
The general hunt system had
been in place in Eastern Oregon
since 1979 for both elk and deer.
Since 1983 the archery season
for both species has lasted about
a month, from late August to late
September. This year the season
runs from Aug. 27 through Sept. 25.
See Hunters, Page B3
Bailey, past royalty highlight 100th
Morrow County Fair & Rodeo
1946 queen
Darlene Hoskins
was Grand Marshal
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
HEPPNER — The Morrow
County Fair & Rodeo always
delivers a good time.
This year, in its 100th edition,
everything from the parade to the
Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo celebrated
the past to the present.
In the midst of all the hoopla was
Heppner’s Ken Bailey, who captured
his first Morrow County Rodeo
amateur calf roping title at the tender
age of 61 on Sunday, Aug. 21.
“It has been a work in prog-
ress,” said Bailey, who owns
Bailey Heavy Equipment Repair
in Lexington. “I have been trying
to win it off and on since high
school. We only had a couple of
entries so I said, ‘why not.’ We
ended up having six or seven guys
and a girl. We had a good time. My
time was pretty long, but shorter
than the next guy in front of me.”
Bailey also took home the
amateur calf roping champion
saddle that has been given out
since 1950.
“It’s getting a little tougher to
get people to enter,” Bailey said.
“Times have changed. So far, we
have been able to pull it together.
It’s a fun part of the weekend, then
you fold it up and wait again until
next year.”
Bailey’s win was celebrated by
those who know him.
“He had been on our rodeo
board for years,” rodeo secretary
Judy Healy said of Bailey. “That
was exciting for those of us on the
rodeo board. It was the highlight
of the weekend.”
Bailey spent 20 years as
the OTPR president, stepping
aside in 2020. Tanner Britt took
over the duties that year, and is
still in offi ce.
See Rodeo, Page B2
ON THE SLATE
SATURDAY, AUG. 27
Prep football
Pendleton at Hermiston jamboree, 11 a.m.
Prep volleyball
Pendleton at Lewiston (Idaho) Tourna-
ment, TBD
McLoughlin at La Grande Tournament, TBD
Heppner at Grant Union Tournament, 8 a.m.
Weston-McEwen at Lowell, noon
Weston-McEwen vs. North Douglas, at Low-
ell, 1:30 p.m.
Prep cross-country
Heppner, Nixyaawii, Pendleton, Pilot Rock
at John Hascall Memorial, Pilot Rock, TBD
SUNDAY, AUG. 28
College men’s soccer
South Puget Sound at Blue Mountain, 5 p.m.
College women’s soccer
South Puget Sound at Blue Mountain,
3 p.m.
TUESDAY, AUG. 30
Prep girls soccer
McLoughlin at Pendleton, 4 p.m.
RiversIdahoe at Catlin Gabel, 4 p.m.
Prep boys soccer
Pendleton at McLoughlin, 4 p.m.
Catlin Gabel at RiversIdahoe, 4 p.m.
Prep volleyball
Enterprise at Griswold, 4 p.m.
Ione/Arlington at Pilot Rock, 5 p.m.
Stanfi eld at RiversIdahoe, 6 p.m.
Irrigon at Griswold, 7 p.m.
College volleyball
Bellevue at Blue Mountain, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1
Prep football
Irrigon at Baker JV, 7 p.m.
Prep volleyball
Heppner vs. St. Paul, at Dufur, 1 p.m.
Heppner at Dufur, 3 p.m.
Pendleton at Redmond, 3 p.m.
Weston-McEwen at South Wasco County,
4 p.m.
Pendleton vs. Mountain View, at Redmond,
4:30 p.m.
Umatilla at Griswold, 5 p.m.
Pilot Rock at Stanfi eld, 5 p.m.
Prep girls soccer
Pendleton at The Dalles, 4 p.m.
La Grande JV at Irrigon, 4 p.m.
RiversIdahoe at McLoughlin, 4 p.m.
Prep boys soccer
The Dalles at Pendleton, 4 p.m.
Irrigon at La Grande JV, 4 p.m.
RiversIdahoe at McLoughlin, 6 p.m.
Prep volleyball
Echo, Irrigon, McLoughlin, Stanfi eld, Uma-
tilla at Baker Tournament, TBD
Pilot Rock vs. TBD at Dufur, TBD
FRIDAY, SEPT. 2
Prep girls soccer
Trout Lake at Umatilla, TBD
Prep football
Ione/Arlington at Dufur Classic, TBD
Toledo at Heppner, 7 p.m.
Hanford at Hermiston, 7 p.m.
Pendleton at Caldera, 7 p.m.
Umatilla at Tri-Cities Prep, 7 p.m.
Pilot Rock vs. Imbler at EOU, 7 p.m.
Joseph at Echo, 7 p.m.
Weston-McEwen at Culver, 7 p.m.
Stanfi eld at Kennedy, 7 p.m.
College Place at McLoughlin, 7p.m.
Prep cross-country
Hermiston, Pendleton at Hanford Jambo-
ree, 4 p.m.
College men’s soccer
Blue Mountain at College of Idahoaho,
5 p.m.
College volleyball
Umpqua at Blue Mountain, 2 p.m.
South Puget Sound at Blue Mountain,
4 p.m.
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