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February 4, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
EHS grapplers compete at New Plymouth
ENTERPRISE — Choos-
ing not to compete at a more
local wrestling matfest in Bak-
er City, Enterprise wrestling
coach Troy Farwell elected to
take four members of his team
to New Plymouth, Idaho, Sat-
urday to compete in a 16-team
tournament, with 10 of those
schools representing the state
of Idaho.
EHS, led by 113-pound
Nate Anton, scored a total of
32 points during the one-day
event, good enough for a 10th-
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Anton claimed third place
in the tournament, yet took a
tough route to get there. Af-
ter pinning Ontario wrestler
Hunter Falk at the end of their
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ton himself had his shoulders
planted to the mat in the second
round against a tough opponent
from host New Plymouth. An-
ton next did yeoman’s duty to
Joseph, Wallowa wrestlers
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By merging the efforts
of mat men from Joseph,
Wallowa, and Imbler high
schools, one team was formed
to participate in dual matches
against Baker High School
and a squad from Payette, Ida-
ho, last Thursday, Jan. 29, in
Baker City.
Still, says Joseph coach
Tim Kiesecker, the dual
matches were not sanctioned
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were kept. Kiesecker said that
La Grande had a team attend
the one-day occasion, but
returned home before their
grapplers could square up
with individuals from the Jo-
seph, Wallowa, Imbler team.
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Joseph who participated, only
Lars Skovlin at 126 pounds
won both his matches. In suc-
cession, Skovlin pinned Izaha
Demoulin of Payette and Lo-
gan Valentine of Baker.
Other than that, Raymond
Seal at 145 pounds and Rylie
Warnock at 195 pounds split
matches against individu-
als from Payette and Baker,
and Jared Wilcox, wrestling
up from 160 pounds to 170
pounds, and Benjamin Lo-
pez at 182 pounds lost sin-
gle matches versus grapplers
from Payette.
Wallowa wrestling coach
Mel Byers could not be
reached to comment regard-
ing matches involving Cou-
gars who might have partici-
pated. However, according to
Kiesecker, Wallowa’s premier
wrestling threat — 195- or
220-pound wrestler Micah
Fuller — attended the meet,
but neither Payette nor Baker
had participants meet weight
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Powder Valley, Echo shoot
down E-Gals basketball team
By S.F. Tool
Wallowa Valley Chieftain
Both Powder Valley and
Echo plucked the E-Gals
clean in two basketball con-
tests on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31.
Powder Valley defeated
the Joseph girls, 46-39, in an
away game at North Pow-
der, but Joseph coach Travis
Huffman could identify bright
spots for his team.
“I thought we played pret-
ty well on Friday night, apart
from our turnovers,” Huffman
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said. “We took the lead in
the third quarter and we had
an opportunity to extend it,
and I think the girls just kind
of panicked a bit. It all boils
down to inexperience.”
Huffman said Satori Albee
and Alexis Sykora scored 85-
90 percent of Joseph’s points,
and he’d like to see more bal-
ance to the offense. “We need
to get more production from
the guards somehow,” Huff-
man said.
Sykora led the scoring,
pouring in 19 points with Al-
bee close behind at 15. The
next highest players scored
two. The team shot .357 from
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The E-Gals followed with
a home loss by 21 points to
Echo. Sykora led the team
with 20 points while Albee
followed with nine points to
go with 13 rebounds. Lindsay
Kemp and Natalie Williams
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spectively. The team shot .254
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“Our nemesis right now is
turnovers. You can’t have 37
like Friday night and 39 the
next night and expect to win
games,” Huffman said.
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cation by, in succession, pin-
ning opponents from the Idaho
schools of Eagle and Fruitland,
then doing the same to a wres-
tler from team champion Nys-
sa. In the match to claim third
place against Amber Pair of
McCall-Donnelly, Idaho, An-
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By Rocky Wilson
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Enterprise Outlaws
boys’ basketball team, in the
throes of an 11-game los-
ing streak that began Dec.
29, are looking forward to
an opportunity to level the
score with the Cove Leop-
ards during a home game
Friday night at Dick Quinn
Court.
EHS, 6-12 on the season
and 0-9 in league play, led
almost the entire game ver-
sus Cove on the Leopards’
home court Jan. 10, only to
fold at the end and fall by
a narrow 43-41 score. En-
terprise Coach Jeff Micka
is hoping to reverse an on-
going trend of late-game
miscues and finish a game
strong.
On this Saturday night,
again at home, EHS will try
to surprise the faithful and
mount a strong showing or
even engineer a major upset
against the state’s No. 7-rat-
ed team from Burns. Burns is
16-5 on the season and 7-1 in
2A-6 Wapiti League play.
But things did not go well
last weekend for Micka’s
troops, who suffered decisive
losses to Imbler and Union
on the road. The Imbler loss
was by a 50-25 score and the
Union loss, 60-35.
A 6’1” junior named
Trace VanCleave did most
of the damage for the Pan-
thers Friday night in Im-
bler. During a low-scoring
first half that left the home
team holding a narrow 17-
14 lead, VanCleave dumped
in two treys from beyond
the arc and scored 13 Im-
bler points. He proved to be
Imbler’s only double-dig-
it scorer on the night, but
his 21 points came close to
matching Enterprise’s game
total.
As has been the norm
much of the season, Kaden
Lathrop led the Wallowa
County quint in scoring
with a total of 11 points.
Wade Isley used his speed
and competitiveness to grab
several rebounds and score
six points as well.
Against Imbler (14-4
overall and 5-3 league),
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
in the fourth quarter—has
earned Athlete of the Week
honors for Lauren Makin.
Makin’s personal best 21 points
help boost her Wallowa
Cougars to their seventh
consecutive win Friday night.
A 15-year-old sophomore,
Makin has improved her skills
immeasurably while
performing the role of a starting
wing player the past two years.
Her coach says that Makin,
known as a popular free spirit
with a sense of humor, has
made strides in defense and
rebounding. The daughter of
Brian and Kit Makin boasts a
3.56 GPA and plays volleyball
for WHS.
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EHS suffered anemic sec-
ond and fourth quarters;
Trent Bales tallying all of
the team’s four points in
the second stanza and the
team, as a whole, scoring
one field goal and one free
throw during the final eight
minutes of the contest.
Things got worse, much
worse the following evening
during a 60-35 thrashing
handed out by the league’s
top team from Union (13-6
overall and 8-1 league).
The game had to have
tipped the scales on the
side of frustration for the
6’6” Lathrop, a senior and
by far the team’s leading
scorer. Smothered start to
finish by a box-and-four de-
fense, Lathrop took 11 shots
on goal, converted none of
them, and never went to the
charity stripe.
Isley spread out his scor-
ing, but did knock home
nine points to pace EHS
in the score books. Justin
Exon started the game with
two quick three-pointers,
but never scored thereafter.
Cody Irish matched Exon’s
point production with six
points of his own.
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Enterprise’s Trent Bales takes a jump shot against Union on
Saturday, Jan. 31.
A flurry of deadly outside
shooting, including four
second-half treys—three of
them along with two free
throws gracing the net during a
scorching 115 seconds of play
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scored 10 team points by win-
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Also competing for EHS at
106 pounds, although not qual-
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were Clayne Miller, who won
two of four matches, and Dylan
Staigle, who lost two of two
matches.
Outlaws working hard
to halt losing skein
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ton pinned his man early in the
third period.
Because the remaining three
Enterprise wrestlers all com-
peted in the same 106-pound
weight class, only Cole Farwell
was designated among the three
to score points. Farwell did not
place in the 16-team event, yet
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