Wallowa County Chieftain
Sports
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September 16, 2015
A9
Lady Cougars lose two road matches
By Rob Ruth
Wallowa County Chieftain
Wallowa High’s varsity
volleyball team continued
along its early-season learn-
ing curve this past weekend,
gaining more experience
even as the young squad
dropped matches to Adrian
and Enterprise. Both match-
es were on the road.
At Adrian on Friday, the
host Antelopes beat up on
the Cougars in game one,
25-8, but Wallowa looked
better in a 25-14 game two
loss, and performed down-
right competitively in game
three, which again went
Adrian’s way, 25-19.
“Friday they had a slow
start, but I saw a lot of im-
provement by the third
game,” remarked Wallowa
coach Janea Hulse.
The team didn’t return
home from Adrian until
around 1:30 a.m., though, a
circumstance which took its
toll.
“Saturday it was pretty
apparent that they were very
tired,” Hulse said, referring
to her team’s match at Enter-
prise. The Outlaws won in
three games, by respective
scores of 25-10, 25-9 and
25-18. Again, a third-game
resurgence for Wallowa
made it a night worth the
trip, and Hulse singled out a
couple of players for praise.
“Rylee Goller (a fresh-
man outside hitter) played
her best game to date,”
Hulse said, and middle
blocker Jordan Ferré, a ju-
nior, showed herself to be “a
team leader.”
This week’s schedule
included a Monday trip to
Elgin, followed by a nice,
long lull until Saturday’s
Joseph Invitational Tourney.
In the interim, Hulse said,
her Cougars would concen-
trate “on coming together as
a team. That’s what we’ll be
working on this week.”
JOSEPH: Girls win
a pair of matches
FAMILY: ‘I’m pretty happy’
Continued from Page A8
The ride, it turned out, was
their easiest leg.
And then came the run, and
Ashlie was tired but game. Dad,
it turned out, was game — but
he’d uttered a prophecy earlier:
the limiting factor was the legs.
Halfway through the 5K, he got
a cramp in his leg that never let
up. They didn’t have time for
that, either.
Joseph has three games
scheduled for the upcoming
weekend: one away game on
Friday at 1 p.m. at Pine Eagle
and two games in the Joseph
Invitational Tournament on
Saturday. Joseph’s ¿rst game
starts at 9 a.m., against a
school that remains to be de-
termined, and that’s followed
by a second game at 10 a.m.
vs. Riverside, of Boardman.
COUGARS: Wallowa football
team loses after strong showing
Continued from Page A8
After the Antelopes tied
the game with a 2-yard TD
run and successful 2-point
conversion, Wallowa capped
the ¿rst-half scoring, Frye
¿rst connecting to Travis
Haga on a 28-yard TD pass,
and then running the ball in
for the conversion and Wal-
lowa’s 8-point advantage at
the break.
Unfortunately, the Cou-
gars’ offensive magic was
missing during a second half
dominated by the Antelopes,
who scored two touchdowns
in the third quarter, and one in
the fourth, and succeeded in
all their conversions.
Wallowa stats: Chandler
Burns had 89 of Wallowa’s
163 total rushing yards to
lead the team, and quarter-
back Frye, who was 3-of-14
passing with one interception,
twice found Cole Hafer in ad-
dition to the TD toss to Haga.
Frye and Wallowa had 69
yards through the air. On de-
fense, Gus Ramsden led with
6 tackles, Allen, Haga and
Chandler Burns had 5 tackles
each, and Patrick Ritthaler
was next with 4 takedowns.
Ramsden intercepted an Adri-
an pass.
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day, too. They had each other.
The winner of the Triathlon
was Javin Berg, 47, of Dixie,
Wash., with a time of 1:04:47.
Berg came with several other
runners from the Blue Mountain
Endurance club of Walla Walla.
“We’ve been here before and
we’ve been looking at coming
again for a while. The run is
a fundraiser for a good cause
and it’s a good crew and good
event,” he said.
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touchdown. “He’s learning a
lot, but playing well,” Koehn
said.
The Eagles didn’t give up,
roaring back in the second half
to outscore Wilder 22-7. “We
made our adjustments at half-
time, and came out and stopped
them on their ¿rst drive and we
scored when we got the ball
back. Our goal was to turn the
game around when we came
back out, and that’s what we
did,” Koehn said.
The Eagles had 231 yards
rushing on 31 carries. Logan
Welch had 78 yards on 10 car-
ries. Raymond Seal stood out
defensively with 11 tackles.
DeLury had 8 tackles on the day.
Koehn said he was also im-
pressed with the coaching staff
as it was the ¿rst time all three
coaches worked together in a
game scenario. “We communi-
cated well and look forward to
growing as a coaching staff,” he
said.
The team attitude after the
loss made a good impression
on Koehn. “The kids were
very optimistic, discussing
the things the team needs to
do better, so we’ll be all right.
They’re excited,” he said. The
team’s next game is in Baker
playing Dayville/Monument
on Sept. 19.
ENTERPRISE: Irrigon shuts out Outlaws
Continued from Page A8
Junior Trent Bales had the
best rushing game on the
day, taking 19 carries for 69
yards, which included a 13-
yard run.
On the receiving end,
sophomore Trent Walker
hauled in two passes worth 50
yards, the longest resulting in a
40 yard gain. Junior Tate Olsen
snagged 1 pass for 17 yards.
Defensively, Olsen, Exon
and Bales had three tackles
each. Bales and senior Nathan
Perren each recorded one sack
in the effort.
Juniors Clayne Miller and
Grant Jones snagged one in-
terception each, as did senior
Isaac Rowley.
“This is not the Irrigon team
of old. They have 50-plus kids
out and they have speed they
used to score big plays on us,”
said EHS coach Mike Rowley.
The Outlaws are running a
new offense with new receiv-
ers and a new line and even so,
managed to get within scoring
distance a few times without
being able to punch in for a
score. “We’re in the pre-sea-
son and we’re learning. We’ll
get better as time goes on,”
Rowley said.
Enterprise is 0-2 on the sea-
son and traveling to Heppner
for a Sept. 18 contest.
OUTLAWS: Enterprise girls lose to Cove
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Cove took the third set, 25-
18, but barely squeaked a win
in the fourth set when the score
went 25-23. Enterprise came
back too late and slipped to a
43 ranking.
The good news is: the Lady
Outlaws showed both improve-
ment and promise. They are
clearly coachable and coaches
Gill and Stangel are dialed in
and developing the team week
by week. The proof in the pud-
ding came on Saturday, when
the Outlaws went up against
Wallowa. Enterprise won 25-
10, 25-9, and 25-18.
Andrea Butter¿eld was out
with an injury, so Gill had soph-
omore Reece Christman swing
varsity and play in the middle
spot, where she did an excellent
job and recorded three kills.
One of the more notable
improvements was in commu-
nication. Cove had demonstrat-
ed remarkable communication
skills on Thursday and the En-
terprise girls took notice and
brought their own communica-
tion up a notch.
Standout players included
Jacklyn Jenson (#7) who led
with a whopping 23 serves and
was top in aces besides. Darby
Gassett (#9) reprised the killer
serve that stunned Cove and
in one set against the Cougars
served 14 times in a row.
“The team as a whole served
extremely well with only three
serving errors, of which two
were from us trying jump serv-
ing for the whole match,” Gill
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Riley Gray and Tiffany
George were also notable.
“Tiffany had a great game
and seven kills,” said Gill.
“And Riley’s con¿dence level
is becoming stronger. When
she’s got con¿dence she plays
better. When she matures she’s
going to be awesome.” Gray
had three kills and a block —
and dozens of smart assists.
“The team as a whole left
everything on the court,” Gill
said. “They played hard, had
very few errors and Àowed to-
gether as a team.” They were
so good it was hard to pick, but
Jacklyn Jenson gets the MVP
for this game.
A shout-out must also go to
the JV team, romping over both
Cove JV and Wallowa JV with
energy and spirit.
“Our JV team is always like
this,” said Gill with a laugh.
“We talk about this all the time.
When they come up to varsity,
it gets tougher; the games count
at league and there’s more pres-
sure.”
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Ashlie and Ron are already
committed to doing it next year.
“I’m proud of myself and I can’t
wait until next year,” Ashlie
said.
“And we’re trying to talk
Mom into it,” Ron added.
“She’s uncommitted right now,
but I think she’ll do it.”
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¿nish line and then went back to
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He grimaced and grinned,
one after another as he tried to
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“I don’t know how many other
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day.”
And it looked like another
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