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WEDNESDAY
September 9, 2015
Lady Outlaws show Cougars open football
grit, work to improve season with solid win
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Enterprise Lady Out-
laws volleyball team got in
some good practice in pool
play at Heppner, Sept. 5, and
revealed some areas in need of
serious work.
They started off strong
against Wallowa but then lost
the next three games against
Outlaws
endure
tough
opener
No. 1 rated
Grant Union,
No. 22 rated
Imbler and
No. 5 rated
We s t o n -
McEwen
Gray
(25-19 and
25-13 game
scores). Put in the consolation
bracket, they played No. 35
rated Heppner last — and
lost again (25-16 and 25-22).
“Grant Union and Im-
bler are very tough, dis-
ciplined teams who don’t
make mistakes,” said Coach
LaShawnda Gill. “We just
made more mistakes than
they did.” Weston-McEw-
en was tough, she said, with
some tall, good hitters.
See OUTLAWS, Page A11
By Rob Ruth
Wallowa County Chieftain
Week one of the new
football season did nothing
to dissuade Wallowa Cou-
gars fans from believing
their team is probably des-
tined for the state playoffs.
In the Friday, Sept. 4,
Dufur Classic, the Cougars
trounced the Chiloquin Pan-
thers, 60-14. Chiloquin, 8-0
last year, is expected to be
strong again in 2015. (The
Panthers have an All-State
quarterback among their re-
turning starters.)
Both Chiloquin touch-
downs followed Wallowa
turnovers inside the Cou-
gars’ 20-yard line, and both
came in the second quarter,
after Wallowa had already
THE LONG RUN
CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM CONTINUES TO BUILD
See DEFEAT, Page A11
See OPENER, Page A11
Joseph
v-ball
to focus
on unity
Captains
pleased with
turnout and
positive energy
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
The Enterprise Outlaws
suffered a 42-0 season-open-
ing defeat at the hands of
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Friday, Sept. 4. The game
was non-league.
Before he went down
with a knee injury early in
the fourth period, senior Will
McCadden took on most of
the quarterback duties for
the Outlaws, completing 3
of 9 passes for a total of 54
yards. Leading receivers
were senior Justin Exon with
two catches for 17 yards to-
tal and Trent Bales with one
nice catch for 37 yards in the
contest.
Leading ground gain-
ers for the team were Isaac
Rowley with 78 yards on 16
carries, Exon with 50 yards
on 12 carries, Bales with 35
yards on seven carries and
McCadden with 31 yards on
eight carries.
The team fumbled nine
times, recovering four of the
fumbles. Offensive totals
were 188 yards rushing com-
bined with 54 passing yards.
built a 24-0 first-quarter
cushion.
For the Cougars, the
dominant running game they
established last year was ev-
ident again on Friday, with
Chandler Burns providing
192 of the team’s 528 rush-
ing yards. Noah Allen ran
for 142.
By Elliott Seyler
Wallowa County Chieftain
From left: Juniors Isabelle Tingelstad, Jacob Evarts and Jacob Strampe run nearly four miles, east of Joseph.
By Elliott Seyler
Wallowa County Chieftain
W
allowa County’s
cross-country team had
a good season last year,
and this year is set to
be better. They’re not
without challenges, but coach Dan
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The boys team is going through
a rebuilding year. By the end of the
previous season, they weren’t able to
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team is fairly young. Moody trusts in
his methods and is preparing with the
end-game in mind.
Wallowa County competes in a
very competitive district, and a 2nd
or 3rd place team in our district can
easily take the state championship.
Moody, accordingly, focuses his
efforts on preparation to place in the
district championship, and thus make
it to state.
Returning to the boys team are
juniors Jacob Evarts and Jacob
Strampe, and sophomores Brycen
Locke, Curtis Sanders and Sebastian
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roster include freshman Kyler Winn,
sophomores Brett Greenshields and
James Madsen (James ran track as a
freshman) and junior Zyler Hermens
(whom coach Moody has been after
to join the team for some time).
The girls team is stronger than
ever, with returning runners across all
years, and strong new runners among
the freshmen.
See RUNNERS, Page A11
Triathlon athletes raise money for Safe Harbor
Triathletes from around
the country are ready to test
themselves this weekend in
Wallowa County.
The 4th Annual Wallowa
Lake State Park Sprint Tri-
athlon has 26 athletes signed
up for the Sept. 12 event.
That’s down from last year’s
total of 75, for a number of
reasons including fires and a
scheduling conflict with the
Palouse Spring Triathlon in
Moscow. But the intensity
will be the same.
“It’s always a lot of fun
and given that we have a lot
of first-timers (and at least
three teenage participants
this year), being small-
er isn’t necessarily a bad
thing,” said organizer Paige
Sully.
Chieftain file photo
Wounded warrior and Marine Corps veteran Joshua Elliott, of Yakima, Wash., poses for
photos with wife Samantha (left) after the completion of his first triathlon, at Wallowa Lake
See FUNDS, Page A11 last year.
Joseph Charter’s volleyball
team prides itself on their sup-
portive and welcoming atmo-
sphere, and that’s evident from
talking with their captains.
Seniors Natalie Williams and
Satori Albee and junior Haven
Johnson lead the team, and are
quite proud of the environment
they’ve created and the number
of players they’ve recruited.
“We have 18 girls out this
year, so we’re really looking
forward to a lot of positive
energy on the team and a lot
of people to participate,” said
Haven Johnson. “We’re kind
of just a huge big family, so it’s
kinda fun that way.”
Williams added, “I think
practices are going really well.
We have a lot of competitive
games that we focus on, and we
all work together to have a suc-
cessful practice, so that’s nice.”
See JOSEPH, Page A11
WHS volleyball
team now broken in
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to improve as the young team
gains experience, and the
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the books.
After dropping a Thurs-
day, Sept. 3, match at home to
Union, 3 games to none, Wal-
lowa traveled Friday to Ione,
where the Cougars again lost
3-0. To complete their busy
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part in Saturday’s Heppner
tournament, playing Kenne-
dy (a Washington team) and
Heppner. The Wallowa girls
lost both of those matchups,
2-0, but the gap between them
Rob Ruth/Chieftain
and their opponents was be-
ginning to narrow, and the WHS varsity setter Riley
See WALLOWA, Page A11
Ferré at work Thursday night,
Sept. 3, against Union.
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