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WEDNESDAY
January 21, 2015
Cougs lose heartbreaker
By Rocky Wilson
Wallowa County Chieftain
Down 12 points at halftime,
the Wallowa Cougar boys’
basketball team went on a 24-
12 second half run to knot the
score at 37-37 with two min-
utes to play against the Echo
Cougars Saturday night in
Wallowa, but couldn’t sustain
their rally and lost 42-39.
Wallowa Coach Greg
Oveson said his team missed
two critical layins in the ¿ nal
minute and a half that could
have changed the outcome of
the game.
“It was a real heartbreaker,”
he said.
Behind 25-13 at the half,
guard Karl Wellens and post
player Gareth Murray began
chipping away at the lead un-
til, with the home crowd in the
game, WHS tied the game at
37.
Oveson was realistic about
the cause of the loss. “We can’t
put ourselves that far back,” he
said.
WHS had ¿ ve players who
scored points in the contest.
Wellens tallied 12 points, Mur-
ray 9, Noah Allen 8, Koby
Frye 6, and Cole Hafer 4.
The Cougars will go on
the road this weekend and
play Powder Valley Friday
(which has the identical 2-3 in
league and 6-8 overall record
as WHS) and Nixyaawii Sat-
urday (4-0 in league and 9-6
overall).
Gareth Murray
put up a three
point shot in
the second
half of the
Wallowa/Echo
game Saturday
evening at
home. The
Cougars who
were down early
rallied in the
second half of
the game and
almost beat the
team from over
the mountains.
Rich Rautenstrauch/Chieftain
Rich Rautenstrauch/Chieftain
Wallowa senior Taylor Harshfield tries to keep an Echo Cougar
in check Saturday evening in the Cougar Dome. Wallowa’s
defense came up big in Saturday evening’s match up.
League’s best falls
big in Wallowa
By Rocky Wilson
Wallowa County Chieftain
Wallowa Cougar girls’
team had a huge win Satur-
day night. They beat the sev-
enth-rated team in the state,
Echo, in the Cougar Dome,
but the twists and turns of that
victory go much further than
just the win.
Wallowa girls entered the
game with a 6-7 season mark
and not only downed a team
who had been 5-0 in 1A-Old
Oregon League play, but
downed them decisively by a
- ¿ nal score.
And yet the biggest
head-scratcher for Wallowa
coach Greg Oveson came in
a statistical category not obvi-
ous to the average fan.
“We made 40 turnovers
in that game. I’ve never had
a team make that many turn-
overs and still win the game,”
said Oveson.
And yet, a cursory look at
the scorebook and it’s clear
why Wallowa won the game
by such a big score. From the
free throw stripe, WHS girls
converted 21 of 31 opportuni-
ties and Echo 6 of 10; match-
ing the 15-point differential of
the ¿ nal score.
Only one week earlier and
Oveson was lamenting the
fact his team had only taken
more free throws than their
opponent in one game all
year. Echo became number
two in a big way,
After a slow ¿ rst Tuarter
where the visitors led 10-6,
WHS girl began dominating
the backboards and raced to a
21-13 halftime lead that was
not in danger thereafter.
Wallowa’s Calli Miller led
all rebounders with 14, and
completed a double-double
with 11 points as well.
See LOSS, Page A16
Joseph E-Gals win
¿ rst league game
S.F. Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Joseph E-Gals won
their ¿ rst league game of the
season, sTueaking by Pine
Eagle 38-36 in a Jan. 16 con-
test. The win put the team at
a 4-8 won/loss record, already
matching the win total of last
year.
Satori Albee led the team
in scoring, pouring in 20
points from the À oor. Satori
also wrested 13 rebounds, as
well as, a steal. Lindsay Kemp
scored seven points while
pulling down seven rebounds
and notching two thefts.
McKinzie Parker and Natalie
Williams scored ¿ ve and four
points respectively.
“We had a great ¿ rst half
and played really good de-
fense and had good offensive
FULLER TAKES FIRST
AT OROFINO INVITE
production. Satori Albee just
had a monster game; she pret-
ty much carried the team with
her 20 points,” Coach Travis
Huffman said.
On the negative side, Huff-
man said the team only scored
9 points in the second half and
had troubles at the free throw
line. “One of our strong points
is free throws, and we were
only 5 for 21,” Huffman said.
The E-Gals played very
good defense, but also had a
lot of turnovers, Huffman not-
ed. “Once we get that under
control I think we’ll be a lot
better off,” Huffman said.
The team shot .333 from
the ¿ eld and pulled down 43
rebounds, blocked two shots,
along with 12 steals.
The E-Gals next game is
a rescheduled home match
against Griswold/Helix Jan.
20 at 5 p.m.
Courtesy photo Kannon Miller
Enterprise grappler Zyler Hermens wrestled Brian Davis of Wallace at the Orofino Invitational last weekend. Hermens
pinned Davis twice while wrestling in pod matches. All three Wallowa County schools attended the match with Joseph
placing 6th and Enterprise placing 7th. Wallowa’s placement wasn’t available at press time, however senior Micah
Fuller did come out a champion in his pod. Coach Troy Farwell said the pod matches are kind of a fun way to wrestle,
offering more opportunities for a wrestler to compete on the weekend.
Joseph boys beat Pine Eagle, get
boost for second half of season
By Rich Rautenstrauch
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Joseph Boys basket-
ball team won a big league
game Friday night beating
Pine Eagle Spartans on their
home court 40-37. The boys
had a home game against
the Griswold Grizzlies Sat-
urday, but was canceled be-
cause of winter travel con-
ditions.
Coach Olan Fulfer was
pretty happy with the win
over the Spartans, “Pine
Eagle beat three of the
teams we lost to this year so
this win puts us where we
should be competing in the
league.”
Joseph put together three
good Tuarters in the game.
In the first Tuarter Joseph
scored nine to the Spartans
eight. In the second Tuarter
Joseph rallied scoring 17 to
Pine Eagle’s seven. Joseph
scored 12 in the third with
Pine Eagle tallying six. Go-
ing into the fourth Tuarter
the boys were ahead 38-22.
“We were playing not to
lose. That didn’t work so
well. We started missing
our shots and turning the
ball over. Pine Eagle came
back scoring 14 points to
our two. It was pretty excit-
ing at the end. We’re going
to simulate this in practice
so we do better next time,”
said Coach Fulfer.
Cayden DeLury was the
leading scorer for Joseph
with 15. Aaron Borgerding
had eight, Sam Beckman
and Jake Chrisman each
scored seven, Tyler John-
son scored three and Wyatt
Smith had two. Senior Noah
DeLury was out of the line-
up with an injury, but is
expected to be cleared for
practice Monday.
Saturday’s
canceled
game against Griswold is re-
scheduled and will be played
Tuesday evening. Friday
night Jan. 23, the Nixyaawii
Eagles come to town.
The Eagle boys are 2-4 in
league play almost halfway
through the season.
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