A10 Sports/Outdoors wallowa.com January 7, 2015 Wallowa County Chieftain Joseph boys beat PC, lose to M/D day, 29-50. $ERXW WKH 3UDLULH &LW\ contest coach Olan Fulfer re- After a canceled game marked, “This was a decent with Ione last week the Jo- game with a lot of in-your- seph boys’ basketball team face, man-to-man coverage. went on a roller-coaster ride, The boys were pounding it ¿UVWEHDWLQJ3UDLULH&LW\E\D into the post and attacking the hefty margin, 69-38, on Fri- basket.” day Jan. 2, and then falling to Fulfer said the boys came Monument/Dayville the next out a little slow but they did By Rich Rautenstrauch Wallowa County Chieftain ¿QLVK WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHU RQ WRS 13-10. Joseph came out strong in the second, scoring 18 to the Bulldogs’ nine. Joseph again went on a spree, out- VFRULQJ 3& LQ WKH WKLUG and 17-9 in the fourth. The “Splash Brothers,” Cayden and Noah DeLury, shared top scorer honors with 17 points apiece. Aaron Borgerding was next with 13. Jake Chrisman scored eight. Borgerding and Chrisman were also big in the rebound department. John Stein scored ¿YH6DP%HFNPDQIRXU'HQL VanWinkle three, and Cody Stone two. Coach Fulfer wasn’t too happy about the loss to the Monument/Dayville Tigers. “The Tigers are a good team, but it was our play that lost the game. We couldn’t control the ball, we turned it over 36 times, we were missing easy shots and M/D were making all theirs. Aaron hurt his leg again and Noah fouled out. ,QWKHIRXUWKTXDUWHUZHZHUH down a couple of players.” Cayden was the leading scorer with 12. Chrisman had seven, Noah four, Beckman three, VanWinkle two, and Borgerding two. The Eagles will now con- tinue on with league games for the rest of the season, starting out with Echo this coming Friday, Jan. 9, and then traveling to Wallowa for a game on Saturday. WINS: EHS girls take two S OMETHING FISHY ABOUT THIS POET Continued from Page A9 Courtesy photo Cameron Scott, pictured here, isn’t only an outdoorsman but a poet as well. He’s one of three writers (the others are Jon Rombach and Amy Zahm) who will read at the next Fishtrap Fireside, Friday, Jan. 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Fishtrap, 400 E. Grant St. in Enterprise. Scott, who received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona, has been a Writer-in-Residence/ teacher for both Fishtrap and Chiloquin Visions in Progress and also attended residencies through the Colorado Art Ranch and Playa. He spends his summers as a fly fishing guide at Taylor Creek Fly Shop in Basalt, Colo. three steals. Sajonia scored 10 (including going two-for- At the end of the period three on three-pointers) and Enterprise had six steals. the score was 21-19. The sus- 15 17 13 8 = 53 Darby Gassett and Ri- pense built to the last 15 sec- Imbler ley Gray had identical stats: onds of the game. Enterprise 10 13 8 11 = 42 each scored six, had three was up by one. Crawford rebounds, and a steal. Tif- called a time out and brought the girls to the sideline. In- six rebounds. Sarah Aschen- fanie George had numbers all across the board, scor- stead of trying to run the clock brenner scored two. out, thinking Elgin would foul “The girls did every- ing four, rebounding four, to the buzzer, the coach had thing right, they played with stealing two and blocking a the girls run a play and try and no fear and scratched and shot. Sarah Aschenbrenner score. It worked, the Outlaws clawed their way to this scored six, came up with six ZHQWXSE\WKUHHDQG¿QLVKHG win,” said Crawford about rebounds, two assists and a there. his team in the Imbler game. steal. Reagan Bedard scored Hall was the leading scor- “They took the lead and nev- ¿YH ZLWK IRXU UHERXQGV D steal and a block. Freshman er for the Outlaws with sev- er looked back.” en points. She also had four Coach Crawford com- Reece Christman scored two UHERXQGV DQG ¿YH VWHDOV mented on his team’s balance with three assists and three Sophomore Reagan Bedard with eight of his players scor- steals. The Outlaws season con- scored eight with seven re- ing points. bounds. Sajonia scored six, Hall again led the team tinues with a rivalry match- with four rebounds and four in this one. She scored 14, up this Friday when the steals. Darby Gassett and shooting 86 percent on the Union Bobcats come to town. Tiffanie George each scored QLJKW WR JR DORQJ ZLWK ¿YH On Saturday the girls travel three with Tiffanie grabbing assists, three rebounds and to Cove. S CORE BY Q UARTER : HARSHFIELD: Starter scores E-Gals split pair of games more than half her team’s points The E-Gals cagers had a mixed-results weekend, losing E\WR3UDLULH&LW\DQGZLQ- ning by 21 over Monument. 7KH 3UDLULH &LW\ JDPH WRRN place away on Jan. 2 Joseph lost by a 55-35 score. Coach Travis Huffman said the E-Gals started out strong, EXW RQH 3UDLULH &LW\ SOD\HU proved nearly unstoppable with 28 points. “Every time we got close, she’d take over and put it out of reach,” Huffman said. Bright spots for Joseph includ- ed Satori Albee with 12 points Wallowa County Chess Club Welcome Tourists and Players of all levels! Thursdays 4 to 8 PM FREE! and Lindsay Kemp with 8. Joseph turned things around in the Monument game, winning by a score of 54-33. Huffman said the team led 20-12 at the half. Both VTXDGVVFRUHGSRLQWVLQWKH WKLUG TXDUWHU EXW WKH (*DOV won going away in the fourth TXDUWHU .HPS OHG LQ VFRULQJ with 18 points followed by Natalie Williams with 12 and Alexis Sykora with 11. 403 Main Street Joseph, Oregon Puzzle 64. White to play It again was the second half that spoiled the Cou- gars’ efforts against Cove (4-7 overall). Only behind 12-11 at halftime, the girls from Wallowa could only muster two points from Lau- UHQ0DNLQLQWKHWKLUGTXDU- ter and never recovered fully in that 32-25 loss. Harshfield, as she did during the following day’s win, scored more than half of her team’s points, using KHU TXLFNQHVV WR VSULQJ IUHH for 15 points. Oveson said against Cove his unit rallied to within three points in the clos- ing minutes, but could not RYHUFRPH WKH WKLUG TXDUWHU drought. Burgess, by no means hin- dered by taking 13 trips to the charity stripe and cashing in 11 of those opportunities, VFRUHG SRLQWV DQG EHQH¿W- ed from help from teammates who tossed in 30 more to earn the win. Other than Lathrop, no Outlaw scored more than three points. Elgin led 28-20 at the half DQG DIWHU WKUHH TXDU- WHUVDQGHYHQIRXUWKTXDU- ter points by Lathrop couldn’t compete with late-game scor- ing by Huskies Gage Little, Gavin Christenson, and Bur- gess. Imbler, the No. 4-rated 2A team in the state with only a two-point loss to Heppner blemishing its 10-1 record, lacked the height to compete with Enterprise, but made up for it in athleticism while re- cording its 43-30 win on Dick Quinn Court, in Enterprise. In a game where the Out- laws failed to convert on any of their nine free throw DWWHPSWV WKH 3DQWKHUV VXF- cessfully took Lathrop out of his natural rhythm and limit- ed a player who had scored 35 points 24 hours earlier WR HLJKW SRLQWV 3RLQW JXDUG Justin Exon took up some slack for EHS by drilling home three 3-pointers in the ¿UVW KDOI HQ URXWH WR D WHDP high 11 points, but a total of Are you feeling stressed and overwhelmed? Do you feel hopeless or has the joy gone out of your life? Are you struggling to make your marriage work? I can help! A few sessions can make a big difference. Jeff Harman, MA., LPC Professional Counseling In A Private Setting www.jharmancounseling.com To schedule an appointment call Jeff Harman (541) 426-3067 Preferred Provider for Regence Blue Cross, ODS, Cascade Centers and many other private insurance and employee assistance programs. Come hear: • How to relax • How to handle difficult emotions • How to set weekly goals • How to better communicate • How to solve problems effectively • How to work with health care teams In the win over Monu- ment/Dayville (2-9), Oveson VDLGKLVVTXDGZDVLQFRQWURO throughout during that 28-23 win. In addition to Harsh- field’s 15 points, Makin scored six points, and Frei five. Starter Cheyenne Hall turned her ankle early in the Cove game and did not play against Monument/Dayville. OUTLAWS: Team loses four in a row Continued from Page A9 JOSEPHY CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURE Continued from Page A9 30 points against one of the state’s best teams wasn’t near enough. Enterprise only trailed by three points, 23-20 at the half, yet only could muster a total of 10 points during the clos- ing 16 minutes en route to their fourth successive loss. A 6’1” junior named Trace VanCleave popped in Imbler’s only two treys and paced all scorers with 14 points with multi-sport ath- OHWH¶´-RH*ULI¿QDGGLQJ 11 points for the victorious VTXDG On Dec. 29 and 30 in 3HQGOHWRQWKH2XWODZVEHJDQ their slide with daytime loss- es to 3A Umatilla and 2A Lost River during the Les Schwab Tournament. Umatilla, 6-8 on the season, bested EHS 51-33 on Friday and Lost River, of Merrill, slipped by Jeff Mic- ND¶VVTXDGRQ6DWXUGD\ Lost River now boasts a 6-6 record on the season. League games on tap this coming weekend for the Enterprise Outlaws will be versus Union in Enterprise Friday and at Cove Saturday. Union currently is 2-0 in the Wapiti League and 7-5 over- all. Cove, 0-2 in league play, has a 4-7 season mark. All classes are free and open to the public. Registration is required. 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