WEDNESDAY
February 4, 2015
Seniors lead WHS boys
to back-to-back wins
By Rocky Wilson
Wallowa County Chieftain
For the fi rst time since early December,
the Wallowa boys’ basketball team won
consecutive games last weekend. Both
games were in 1A-7 Oregon League ac-
tion, both wins were desperately needed,
and in large part each victory was manu-
factured courtesy of one of the two seniors
playing on Coach Greg Oveson’s squad.
And yet, in the eyes of the veteran
WHS coach, the wins could not have
been much different from one night to the
next.
Oveson had no real explanation, but
was of the opinion that a 40-30 win in
Wallowa over Griswold (0-8 league
and 2-16 overall) was his team’s most
poorly played game of the season, and
Saturday’s 56-45 win at Pine Eagle (5-3
league and 6-10 overall) might have
been the team’s best effort to date.
Friday in the Cougar Dome, playing as
if in slow motion with a shot fi lter on the
rim, Wallowa scored on a give-and-go lay-
in between brothers Gareth and Caevan
Murray 15 seconds into the second quarter
and didn’t score again, other than one free
throw, until more than two and a half min-
utes had elapsed in the third period.
See WINS, Page B2
Rich Rautenstrauch/Chieftain
Little
League
sign-ups
to begin
Stayin’ Alive
By Rich Rautenstrauch
T
Wallowa County Chieftain
Rich Rautenstrauch/Chieftain
Wallowa senior Calli Miller
takes a shot against the Helix
Grizzlies Friday evening in the
Cougar Dome. The Wallowa
girls have been taking care
of business, reeling off eight
straight wins.
WHS
girls
look for
No. 9
By Rocky Wilson
Wallowa County Chieftain
Following a perfect Jan-
uary plus one, the Wallowa
High School girls’ basket-
ball team will head to Joseph
Friday in search of its ninth
straight victory.
Struggling early in the
year, Wallowa (7-2 league
and 11-7 overall), has found
new life in hitting the back-
boards and learning to adapt
its offense to what defensive
ploys opposing teams are us-
ing against them.
The Cougar wins last
weekend, as a whole, were
not pretty and not against
two of the league’s stronger
teams, yet they were wins by
15 and 11 points respectively
and Coach Greg Oveson is not
complaining.
For a team beginning to en-
joy the pleasure of seeing who
plays best on a given night, it
was sophomore Lauren Makin
who did the damage during
WHS’s 40-25 win over Gris-
wold Friday night in Wallowa.
Following a low-scoring
fi rst half after which Griswold
led 17-16, Makin countered a
Grizzly fi eld goal by being on
the receiving end of a quick,
four-pass fl urry to score a short
bank shot.
See STREAK, Page B2
he Enterprise Out-
law girls traveled
twice to Union
County this week-
end and lost two
league games. First the ladies
lost to Imbler in a Friday
night (Jan. 30) contest, 30-40
and then lost to Enterprise’s
powerhouse rival, the Union
Bobcats, on Saturday, 26-52.
The Outlaws are in an
unusual spot with a 3-6 league
record and are hoping three
fi nal games at home will
boost them in the standings as
they enter the fi nal stretch of
the season.
Enterprise coach Mike
Crawford talked about the
disappointing loss in Imbler.
“Basically we couldn’t get
off to any kind of a start. The
score was 11-0 before we
scored. Imbler was hitting a
lot of three-point shots and
we turned it over too many
times. The bright spot in the
game was Tiffanie George’s
excellent play. She worked
really hard.”
Tiffanie was the player
of the game. The sophomore
had another double double
(her second this year) scoring
12 with 11 rebounds, and she
also had two blocks. Senior
Carsen Sajonia had numbers
all across the board with six
points, three rebounds, four
steals and a blocked shot.
Darby Gassett also scored six
with an assist and a steal. Rea-
gan Bedard scored three with
three rebounds and two steals.
Sarah Aschenbrenner had
seven rebounds. Freshman
Riley Gray scored and had a
rebound and three steals.
See HOPES, Page B2
Wallowa’s
Noah Allen
takes
a shot
against
the Helix
Grizzlies
Friday
evening.
The
Cougars
won the
game and
are gaining
ground
in league
play,
winning
both their
games
this past
weekend.
Despite losses, EHS girls
hold on to playoff hopes
Courtesy photo/Charity Ketscher
Darby Gassett, an Enterprise sophomore, is a study in concentration as she prepares to
take a free throw Saturday against the Lady Bobcats.
Player registration begins
Friday, Feb. 6, for Wallowa
Valley Little League’s 2015
season. Eligible ages for boys
are 4-12; for girls, 4-15. Reg-
istration costs $35 for one
player, and $30 for each sub-
sequent player from the same
household.
Baseball divisions in-
clude: Co-ed T-Ball, ages
4-5; T-Ball, 6-8; Minors,
8-10; Majors, 10-12.
Softball divisions: Co-ed
T-Ball, 4-6; Machine Pitch,
7-8 (and 6-year-olds who
have two years of T-Ball);
Minors, Majors, Juniors and
Seniors, 9-16.
Registration dates and
locations: Friday, Feb. 6, at
Enterprise School (during
the high school basketball
games), 3–8 p.m.; Friday,
Feb. 13, at Enterprise School
(again during basketball),
3–8 p.m.; Tuesday, Feb. 13,
at Enterprise Post Offi ce,
12–3 p.m .; Saturday, Feb.
28, at Enterprise Post Offi ce,
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
A registration date in Wal-
lowa is yet to be announced,
but will probably take place
during a 5th/6th grade bas-
ketball game.
A copy of the player’s
birth certifi cate is needed for
registration, along with the
registration fee and submis-
sion of the registration form,
signed player Code of Con-
duct form, and a completed
and signed Medical Release
form. Forms can also be
turned in at the school offi ces
in Wallowa, Enterprise and
Joseph.
For more information,
contact Lisa Bateman at 541-
426-7164, or Donnie Rynear-
son at 541-263-0598.
Victories have Eagle boys fl ying high
‘A
t the half I lit a fi re under the boys and things got better.’
By Rich Rautenstrauch
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Joseph Eagle boys basketball
team had an outstanding and exciting
weekend, beating two teams they lost to
earlier in the season.
First, in an away game Friday eve-
ning, the Eagles handled the Powder
Valley Badgers, 65-52. On Saturday the
Eagles had their hands full with the Echo
Coach Fulfer
Cougars, Joseph winning it dramatically
in overtime, 52-48.
Joseph coach Olan Fulfer said his
team didn’t play so well Friday against
the Badgers in the fi rst half, “Our fo-
cus was off and we weren’t shooting
too well. At the half I lit a fi re under the
boys and things got better,” Fulfer said.
“They refocused and we started playing
inside-out (bringing the ball to the bas-
ket and passing it out) and this opened
things up for Cayden (DeLury). The
super sophomores, Cayden, Jake Christ-
man, and Aaron Borgerding all had a
great game.”
Cayden DeLury led the team in scor-
ing with 30 points, Borgerding scored
16 and Christman 11. Noah DeLury and
Sam Beckman each scored four.
See VICTORIES, Page B2
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