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February 18, 2015
Wallowa County Chieftain
Grapplers set sights on district meet here Saturday
By Rocky Wilson
Wallowa County Chieftain
ENTERPRISE — The
results of hundreds of in-
dividual wrestling matches
in 14 weight classifications
for 2A and 1A wrestlers in
this area will mean nothing
beginning Saturday morn-
ing in Enterprise when the
Oregon School Athletic As-
sociation’s District 2A/1A
Wrestling Tournament un-
folds in the EHS gym.
The prize for top wres-
tlers will be tickets to com-
pete in the State 2A/1A
Wrestling Tournament Feb.
27 and 28 in Portland.
The final tune-up for
district came last Saturday,
Feb. 14, at the Pine Eagle
Invitational.
Wallowa’s
Micah Fuller, 28-3 on the
season, pinned his way
to the championship rung
in the 195-pound weight
classification, and Joseph
freshman Riley Warnock
claimed third place in the
Courtesy photo/Kannon Miller
Enterprise’s 106-pound sophomore Clayne Miller, shown in the down position, took three
rounds to win a technical fall decision over Grant Union’s Jesse Paulson during his first
match at the Pine Eagle Invitational.
same division, although he
was seeded in the opposite
bracket and never faced
Fuller on the mat.
Otherwise, in a year
when the overall numbers
of competitors on Joseph,
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Enterprise, and Wallowa
wrestling teams are down,
points scored by schools
here were less-than-plenti-
ful at Saturday’s PE event.
Among 17 wrestling
teams competing in Half-
way, Joseph placed 12th
with 38 points; Enterprise
13th with 34 points; and
Wallowa 14th with 33.5
team points.
Warnock scored 17 of
JoHi’s team total by claim-
ing third place via wins by
pin over Lane Hicks of Vale
and Dylan Dahl of Burns,
and suffering a major deci-
sion loss to Heppner/Ione’s
John Propheter, the wres-
tler who had his shoulders
pinned to the mat by Fuller
in the 195-pound finale.
Raymond Seal, at 145
pounds, grabbed anoth-
er third place and tallied
14 team points for the
Eagles. Seal won two of
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three matches in the tour-
ney to earn his medal. The
remaining Joseph points
were scored by 182-pound-
er Benjamin Lopez. Lopez
won one of three match-
es, earned one bye, and
claimed a sixth place in his
weight class, good for sev-
en points.
Wrestling in the competi-
tive 106-pound weight class,
Dylan Staigle grabbed 16.5
team points for Enterprise
while winning four of five
matches and earning fifth
place. Staigle bested mat
men from Melba, Idaho;
Grant Union; Echo; and Par-
ma, Idaho: only losing by
pin to a wrestler from Burns.
Cole Farwell scored another
13 points for EHS by win-
ning one of three matches
and receiving a bye, placing
him fourth at 113 pounds.
The remaining Enter-
prise points, 4.5 of them,
Courtesy photo/Kannon Miller
At 138 pounds, Enterprise wrestler Gotro Thanadkit, in
control here, lost by fall late in the first round of consolation
action to Cris Diaz, of Nyssa.
came courtesy of Clayne
Miller who won two of four
matches competing, like
Staigle, at 106 pounds.
In addition to Proph-
eter, Wallowa’s Fuller made
short work of Burns wrestler
Dylan Dahl en route to his
195-pound title. The Wal-
lowa senior also received
two byes and scored 25.5
of the Cougars’ final points
tally. WHS and Coach Mel
Byers also received eight
points from Luis Mendez
who, while winning two of
three matches, claimed fifth
place at 120 pounds.
Team Scoring:
Vale 150; Nyssa 134.5;
Burns 116.5; Crane 105.5;
Elgin 96.5; Pine Eagle 90;
Melba, Idaho 75; Heppner/
Ione 67; Union/Cove 65;
Grant Union 43.5; Imbler
43; Joseph 38; Enterprise
34; Wallowa 33.5; Adrian
21; Parma, Idaho 20; Echo
12.
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Wallowa FFA
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shoot set for Sunday up at
Ducks
Unlimited
banquet
WALLOWA — On Sun-
day, Feb. 22, the Wallowa
FFA Alumni again will hold
its annual trap shoot at the
Wallowa Rod and Gun Club.
Randall Johnson, a gun
club veteran, estimates — de-
pending on weather — that
possibly 70 shooters from
Wallowa and Union counties
will converge on the gun club
to compete for 75 pork prizes.
The event will begin at 9
a.m. and last until novice and
experienced shooters have
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skeet typically launched at
anywhere from 16- to 30-yard
distances.
Breakfast and lunch will
be served inside the club-
house where non-shooters
typically gamble to win prizes
via scatterboard games.
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earned dollars will go toward
student scholarships and pos-
sibly transportation to various
high school FFA events.
The event is open to all
comers, and Johnson says
those without shotguns, if
they are willing, can purchase
ammunition and normally
borrow guns to shoot at the
targets.
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Wallowa County’s chap-
ter of Ducks Unlimited, part
of the widely known orga-
nization set on conserving
critical waterfowl and wet-
land habitat, held its annual
banquet and auction Saturday
night, Feb. 7, in Enterprise’s
Cloverleaf Hall. Attendance
at the fundraising event was
strong at 113 people, says
spokesman Gene Bieraugel,
but bringing special pleasure
to those belonging to the
16-member local chapter was
the number of greenlings, or
youth under the age of 17,
present at the banquet and
auction. Among them were
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prise FFA chapter who hand-
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Final tallies of fundraising
numbers were unknown when
Bieraugel was interviewed.
He noted that no new
Ducks Unlimited projects
have launched in Wallowa
County, the closest being
Ladd Marsh in Union County
near La Grande.
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The work includes treatment of invasive species,
maintenance of facilities and equipment, management
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