SPORTS
Wallowa.com
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
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Eagle boys, girls on track for state playoffs
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
The fabled home court
advantage didn’t have much
effect on the Eagles after a
successful three-game road
trip in successive games
against Cove, Pine Eagle
and Elgin.
The trek started Tuesday,
Jan. 29, as the Cove Leop-
ards fell prey to both the
ladies and boys teams.
The boys came out
strong, beating the spots
off the Leopards in a 62-34
manhandling. Led by Mason
Ferre and his 15-point con-
tribution, the Eagles put on
a sparkling shot fest, with
several players scoring in
double digits and the point
spread evenly across the
team as a whole.
Coach Olan Fulfer said
the team is firing on all cyl-
inders, but Cove played
tough.
“They have a couple of
dang good athletes includ-
ing a kid who’s leading
the league in scoring right
now,” he said. “They’ve
beaten a lot of good teams.”
The coach said the
Eagles had lapses, but they
were few and far between.
“Hopefully, we can keep
our consistency up,” he
said. We got rid of the hero
ball and remembered to
share and it made a big dif-
ference in this game.”
After Ferre’s 15, Kade
Kilgore followed with 11 in
the bucket, including three
from behind the paint. Trey
Wandschneider and Tyler
Homan chipped in with nine
points apiece while Chase
Murray donated seven
points and Hadley Miller
pocketed six.
As for Fulfer, he thinks
the team’s work ethic helped
it turn a corner over the last
couple of games.
“We’re just a whole dif-
ferent team now,” he said.
Friday, Feb. 2, saw the
squad traveling to Pine
Eagle. The Spartans made a
game of it for the first half,
at times trailing by only
two. The second half saw
the Sparts robbed of their
dignity as they fell, 53-36.
Coach Fulfer said the
team played lackadaisi-
cally in the first half, but a
half-time pep talk quickly
set the lads straight, as they
came out of the locker room
on fire. The Spartans never
had a chance. Homan led
the scoring with 15, includ-
ing three shots from behind
the paint. Junior Hadley
Courtesy Photo/Jeni Greenshields
Joseph Eagles basketball player TJ Grote looks for an open
man during a Feb. 2 game against Elgin. The Eagles crushed
the Huskies, 57-22.
Miller had his best scoring
of the season, laying 13 in
the ring. Fulfer noted Miller
performed well at the free
throw line as well as the
field. Ferre followed with
eight points and steady Kil-
gore scored seven with two
shots from the three-point
boundary and his usual stel-
lar defense.
“We didn’t have Chase
Murray for this game
because he’s sick, and we
didn’t play as well as we
could have, but it ended
up as a convincing win,”
Fulfer said. “We’re getting
the reputation of a team that
doesn’t back down, and I’m
proud of that.”
The following day saw
the Eagles traveling west-
ward to teach the Huskies a
few new tricks, to the tune
of a 57-22 knockout punch.
Fulfer said it was the best
game of the year for the
Eagles.
“We had total con-
sistency, which is what
I’m looking for,” he said.
“Defensively it was our best
game of the year. We took
great shots and had only
seven turnovers.”
Ferre put the spurs to his
steed for 20 points including
three buckets from beyond
the paint and went 5 for 5 at
the foul line. Homan nabbed
11 points with two buckets
from the three zone. Kilgore
had six with two from the
long range.
“He’s so unselfish,”
Fulfer said. He always
works for great shots, and
he makes them. We need to
get him to shoot more.”
The boys are now 7-2 on
the season and 14-7 overall.
They next host Wallowa on
Friday, Feb. 8.
Despite a slow start,
the ladies also scored big
against Cove, defanging
the Leopards, 57-31. While
the offense had problems
getting the shot to fall in,
Coach Lance Homan said
that the defense sparkled,
forcing more than 40 turn-
overs with 29 being steals.
The ladies caught fire in the
second half, burning numer-
ous holes in the Leopard
defense for a 31-point third
quarter during the cruise to
victory.
The always marvel-
ous Sabrina Albee scored
well into the double digits
with 22 points with Mad-
elyn Nelson hard at it with
17, including 15 in the third
quarter. Haley Miller blazed
in with 10. The Eagles only
turned the ball over 13 times
in the contest.
The ladies traveled to
Pine Eagle Spartans on Feb.
1, taking their armor and
beating their swords into
plowshares on the way to a
52-23 victory with awesome
Albee scoring 30 points,
nine rebounds and seven
steals to her credit. Miller
had another solid game with
10 points, seven rebounds,
and five steals.
Homan said the ladies
had better luck offen-
sively although more of
the 40-plus turnovers they
forced should have con-
verted into points. On the
bright side, all the team
members got significant
minutes on the floor.
”I am proud of how hard
our girls worked as a team,”
Homan said. “They truly are
Courtesy Photo/Jeni Greenshields
The JV squad got in on the action as well, turfing the Elgin Huskies, 67-34. Here, Juston Rogers
scores two of his 23 points.
fun to watch and to coach.”
Elgin was last in line to
fall to the Eagle talons as
Joseph buried the Huskies
under a 58-30 avalanche led
by Albee’s triple-double,
20 points, 11 boards and 11
thefts from the hapless Hus-
kies. Miller again pulled her
share of the weight play-
ing on the inside and scor-
ing 13. Nelson proved her
worth with 11 points and
seven steals while point
guard master Emma Hite
contributed six points with
six rebounds and four steals.
For the third straight game,
the Eagles defense forced
more than 40 turnovers.
Homan lauded the ladies’
performance of late.
”Overall it was a great
week of basketball with
winning three road games,”
he said. “Our kids are so
resilient and cohesive and
have such a great perspec-
tive of things. Its an honor
to coach them.”
The victory proved the
ninth straight for the ladies,
vaulting them into the no. 1
spot in state rankings. They
harbor a league record of
9-0 and are 19-2 overall.
The ladies next host Wal-
lowa on Friday, Feb. 8.
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