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A18 Sports/Outdoors wallowa.com February 11, 2015 Wallowa County Chieftain Water Pipit a rare visitor here Outlaws’ As a connoisseur of local songbirds, I almost never see a species of bird that I can’t identify. However, a few years ago, I was out on the Crow Creek Road looking to see if the ground squirrels were out yet. It was March and quite chilly, but when I looked on a barbed wire fence there was a gray- ish/brown bird with stripes on its breast WKDWZDVDOOÀXIIHGRXWOLNHPRVWELUGVGR to keep warm. Actually, there are numerous species RI¿HOGVSDUURZVWKDWKDYHVLPLODUSOXP- age, but I couldn’t get a positive identi- ¿FDWLRQRQLWVQDPH,SKRWRJUDSKHGWKLV mystery bird and took its picture to Pat Matthews at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and even he couldn’t name it off the top of his head. Courtesy photo/EH Van Blaricom About 10 days later he gave me a call and said this bird was a Water Pipit, some- Bird on a wire — this Water Pipit stumped Van Blaricom. times called an American Pipit. I can’t re- habit of wagging their tails. They breed member ever having seen one before. This mostly in the far north, but sometimes lone bird was probably migrating to its BIRD- breeding grounds in northern Alaska. winter as far south as Guatemala. WATCHING When I looked in my bird book, there Now that I learned a few things about he was, but he looked somewhat more this mystery bird, I will add it to my rep- EH Van Blaricom slender — of course, the cold weather ertoire of song birds to watch for. And it ÀXIIHGKLPRXW will help keep me humble in realizing According to my Audubon Encyclo- and feed in open pastures while rarely that there are, no doubt, other species of SHGLD WKHVH SLSLWV WUDYHO LQ ORRVH ÀRFNV ever lighting in trees. They also have a birds I can’t identify. WRESTLERS: Local teams see little success at meet Continued from Page A11 Although a second wres- tler on Mel Byers’ Wallowa team competed, Fuller was responsible for all 24 points scored by the WHS squad. Wrestling for the Cougars at 138 pounds was Cam- eron Salmon who lost two matches and was eliminated from tournament play. The second notewor- thy effort made by a local athlete was registered by EHS frosh Cole Farwell, wrestling at 106 pounds. After recording a relatively routine first round victory, Farwell — trailing 5-0 at one point — rallied against Riverside mat man Andrew Barker to eventually re- cord a high-scoring over- time win. But then things got tougher. Facing Farwell in the championship fina- le was the defending state champion from Heppner, Ryan Smith. The young wrestler from Enterprise did not score a point against the state champ, but had to take satis- faction in the fact Smith was unable to pin his shoulders to the mat in a 13-0 major decision loss. The only remaining place winner for the Outlaws, al- though unable to tally team points because he wrestled at the same 106-pound weight class as Farwell, was Clayne Miller, who placed fourth. Enterprise’s remaining pair of wrestlers each record- ed one victory and two loss- es. They were Dylan Staigle at 106 pounds and Zyler Her- mens at 138 pounds. Staigle bested a grappler from Ma- cHi and Hermens a foe from Grant Union. As a team, Enterprise scored 22 points. Joseph coach Tim Kiesecker took six wrestlers to Heppner, said overall his team did not wrestle poorly, yet did not garner the hoped- for results while tallying 27 team points. Three of JoHi’s six wres- tlers placed, but one fourth and two sixth places at a meet narrowly won by Cul- ver was shy of the desired return. Joseph senior Jared Wil- cox, at 160 pounds, narrowly lost a 6-5 decision to Elgin’s Jaydon McKay in the match for third place. Losing fifth round matches and earning sixth places for the Eagles were Lars Skovlin at 126 pounds and Ben Lopez at 182 pounds. Team Scores: Culver 183.5, MacHi 183, Riverside 163, Crane 77.5, Heppner 74, Elgin 73.5, Pine Eagle 64.5, Union 58, Baker 54, Irrigon 37.5, Imbler 36, Adrian 32, Joseph 27, Wallowa 24, Enterprise 22, Grant Union 22. The final tune-up before the District Wrestling Tour- nament to be held Saturday, Feb. 21, in Enterprise will arise this coming Saturday, Feb. 14, when all three wres- tling teams from Wallowa County and many others will meet in Halfway where the mats will be laid out in the Pine Eagle gymnasium. Many of those same schools will send junior high school wrestlers to Halfway the day before, on Friday, to compete in a large regional wrestling tourna- ment. losing streak reaches 13 By Rocky Wilson Wallowa County Chieftain In contrast to Jan. 10 when Cove senior Derrick Murchi- son scored 11 fourth-quarter points to lead his Cove Leop- ards to a come-from-behind 42-40 win against the Enter- prise Outlaws, Murchison did his damage early and often Fri- day night, ensuring EHS of yet one more loss during a trying boys’ basketball season. Playing in Enterprise, the Outlaws not only fell 51-42 to Cove (3-7 league and 7-12 overall) Friday, but tumbled 51-24 at home against Burns (9-1 league and 18-5 over- all) Saturday. For those brave enough to continue counting, that means that EHS — after a promising 6-1 start to the sea- son — has lost 13 consecutive games and stands in the cellar of the 2A-6 Wapiti League with an 0-11 record. After nearly upending the Leopards in January, Enter- prise Coach Jeff Micka and players were hoping to end their winless skein against Cove, but the 6’4” Murchi- son with an outside touch and knack for getting on the free throw line would have none of it. 0XUFKLVRQ VFRUHG ¿YH RI &RYH¶V VHYHQ ¿UVWTXDUWHU points. During that initial pe- ULRG D SDLU RI ¿HOG JRDOV E\ EHS’s Christian Ruckdashel helped plant the Outlaws into a 9-7 lead. And then the Cove senior got serious. During the second eight-minute segment of the game, Murchison knocked home two of his game-high four three-pointers, scored 15 of the Leopards’ 25 sec- ond-quarter points, and was in- strumental in erecting a 32-22 halftime point spread the Out- laws never recovered from. Enterprise senior Kaden Lathrop led his team in scoring with 14 points while Ruck- dashel scored in all four peri- ods, accounting for another 11 Outlaw points. Converting one three-point ¿HOGJRDODSLHFHIRUWKHKRPH team were Ruckdashel, Lath- rop, and freshman Rylie Hay- ward. As has become the norm for the season, Enterprise shot poorly from the free throw line. While both teams cast 20 attempts from the charity stripe, Cove canned 12 and (QWHUSULVH¿YH)RUWKH/HRS- ards, Murchison was on the Rich Rautenstrauch/Chieftain Enterprise senior Kaden Lathrop puts up a jumper while playing against the Cove Leopards Friday night at Quinn Court. Lathrop dunked the ball later in the contest, bringing the crowd to its feet. line 17 times and made 11 of those shots. Burns, the eighth-rated 2A team in the state and Wa- piti League leader, played a lock-down defense on Enter- prise Saturday night when the Outlaws were limited to few- er than 10 points in any one quarter and fell 52-24. While being held to their lowest point output of the season, Enter- prise could muster only nine ¿HOGJRDOVRQHWUH\E\-LPP\ Wells, and three of nine free throws. The game was less than a thriller in the eyes of most fans, as the visiting Hilanders led 25-9 at the half and never were threatened. Burns’ scor- ing was led by 6’1” senior guard Austin Feist and 6’1” ju- nior guard Ty Hueckman. Feist scored 15 points for the victors and Hueckman 14 points. For the Outlaws, Lathrop scored eight points, all of them in the second half, and point guard Justin Exon had seven. This coming Friday night, Feb. 13 — again at home — the Outlaws will conclude their season and receive one last opportunity to grace the victo- ry circle, a locale they’ve not known since before Christmas. The opponent Friday will be Grant Union. Although Grand Union, by its standards, is having a less-than-acceptable season (5-5 league and 10-10 overall), it was the Prospectors who handed mighty Burns its one league loss in late January. Ariella Rose Wilber, M.A. Whole Heart, Whole Mind, Whole Body #"! "! """" #"""" " """! "" #"""! " #"! 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