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SPORTS
Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Home run barrage helps Outlaws earn split Track: Joseph boys
By RONALD BOND
Wallowa County Chieftain
ENTERPRISE — A
power surge in the second
game of Saturday’s double-
header helped the Wallowa
Valley softball team end its
home slate with a split.
Aimee Meyers, Liz Row-
ley and Cooper Nave all
homered as the Outlaws
rolled over Echo/Stanfi eld
10-0 in the nightcap on Sat-
urday, May 1, after the Cou-
gars grabbed the opener 6-5.
The win sent the Wallowa
Valley seniors off as winners
in what is currently slated to
be their fi nal home game of
the season.
Rylin Kirkland hom-
ered in the opening game of
the doubleheader, and both
Meyers and Nave drove in
two runs. It wasn’t enough
off ense, though, to keep
Echo/Stanfi eld from tak-
ing the win, despite the fact
the Outlaws had 11 hits
— including three from
Rowley.
Rowley struck out 10
batters in 6⅓ innings in the
loss, allowing six runs on
four hits with six walks.
The second game was a
completely diff erent story.
Wallowa Valley had just
six hits, but the three that
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Wallowa Valley’s Aimee Meyers connects for a home run
during a doubleheader with the Echo/Stanfi eld Cougars on
Saturday, May 1, 2021.
left the yard provided a big
lift for the Outlaws. Nave,
Meyers, Claire Farwell and
Rowley each drove in a pair
of runs in the win.
On Tuesday, April 27,
Wallowa Valley split a
road twinbill against Grant
Union, dropping the opener
8-3, but winning the second
game, 12-10.
Wallowa Valley fi nished
with seven hits in the opener,
with Kirkland leading the
way with two hits. Farwell,
Grace Collins and Sophie
Moeller all scored runs, and
Rowley had the team’s lone
RBI. Rowley pitched 5⅔
innings, allowing eight runs
on seven hits, walking four
and striking out six.
In the second game, Row-
ley homered and drove in
three runs, Collins also had
three RBIs, and the Outlaws
held on to win in a shootout.
Moeller and Macy Marr
had two hits each. Moeller
also scored twice, and Kirk-
land scored two runs and
had two RBIs.
Meyers allowed fi ve
earned runs on nine hits in
fi ve innings, walking three
and striking out three.
On Friday, April 23, the
Outlaws dropped two games
in a doubleheader against
the Pendleton JV, 14-2 and
11-8.
Wallowa Valley had just
three hits in the opener.
Emma Bateman had the
team’s lone RBI.
The off ense woke up in
the nightcap with double
hits. Karly Baremore drove
in three runs and Nave had
a pair of RBIs, each hit-
ting run-scoring doubles.
Moeller scored a pair of
runs.
Wallowa Valley (4-5
overall) visits Heppner/Ione
for a doubleheader Tuesday,
May 4, and heads to Pilot
Rock/Nixyaawii on Friday.
Wallowa Valley baseball scores three more wins
By RONALD BOND
Wallowa County Chieftain
ENTERPRISE — Chalk
up three more wins for the
Wallowa Valley baseball
team.
The Eagles secured a
blowout road win Tuesday,
April 27, at Union/Cove by
a score of 15-5, then swept
Grant Union in a double-
header Saturday, May 1,
14-4 and 6-3.
In Tuesday’s win over
the Bobcats, Wallowa Val-
ley scored the fi rst 11 runs
to take a commanding lead
by the middle of the third
inning, then coasted to an
easy win, which the Eagles
fi nished in six frames.
Flynn Nave went 3-for-5
with a double and a run.
Trace Evans had a pair of
hits and scored four times,
and Zeb Ramsden and David
Salim both had two hits and
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Wallowa Valley pitcher Flynn Nave slides into third just before
the tag. He was ruled out on the steal attempt in the fi rst
game of a doubleheader at Enterprise’s Jensen Fields on May
1, 2021.
scored twice. Salim earned
the win on the mound, toss-
ing 4⅓ innings, striking out
fi ve batters, walking two,
and allowing four runs on
six hits.
In Saturday’s opener, the
Eagles took over the lead for
good with four runs in in the
third to go ahead 6-3, then
iced the game with seven
runs in the fi nal two innings,
including fi ve in the sixth
for a walkoff win.
Maclane Melville had
a 3-for-4 day and scored
twice. Evans had three more
runs and went 2-for-3, and
Ramsden, Nave and Lane
Rouse each went 2-for-3
with two runs. Nave also
tossed six innings, and gave
up four runs on fi ve hits
with two walks and eight
strikeouts.
In the second game, Wal-
lowa Valley scored a run
in the third to break a 3-3
tie, and added runs in the
fi fth and sixth to gain some
breathing room and secure
the win.
Rouse had a strong eff ort,
going 3-for-3 and scor-
ing two runs. Nave added
two doubles and scored a
run. Evans earned the win,
allowing three runs on fi ve
hits with a walk and seven
strikeouts in 4⅔ innings.
Wallowa Valley (6-1 over-
all) hosted Weston-McEwen
in a doubleheader Tuesday,
May 4, then faces McLough-
lin in a home twinbill either
Friday or Saturday.
take fi fth in Central
Idaho Invitational
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was fourth in the javelin
(117-feet-2), Bayden Men-
ton was fourth in the 1,500
(4:21.08) and Ian Goodrich
was fi fth in the 400 (56.93).
On the girls side, Lottie
McDonald was fourth in the
400 (1:09.61) and eighth in
the 200 (30.91), and Iona
McDonald was sixth in the
400 (1:11.61).
On Friday, Knapp, Flynn
and Peters all earned wins
for the Enterprise boys to
lead the team at the Elgin/
Imbler meet in Elgin.
Knapp led a 1-2 fi n-
ish in the 800, winning in
2:05.7, with Moore in sec-
ond at 2:21.8. Flynn won
the 300 hurdles in a time
of 48.9, and teamed with
Moore, Weston Wolfe and
Knapp to take second in
the 4x400 relay in 3:51.1.
Peters, meanwhile, won the
long jump (17-feet-11¾)
and was second in the 200
(24.2). Moore was second
in the 3,000 (10:37.0), and
Gray was second in the jav-
elin (113-feet-6) and third
in the high jump (5-feet-3).
Gallagher was second in the
high jump, also at 5-feet-3).
Flynn was fi fth in the long
jump at 15-feet-9). And
the Outlaws piled up sev-
eral seventh-place fi nishes:
from Tanner Kesecker in
the shot put (27-feet-2¼),
discus (70-feet-11) and
the javelin (87-feet-2), and
from Ransom Peters in 200
(25.9) and the long jump
(13-feet-4¼).
On the girls side, Komis-
key, Nordtvedt, McEntire
and Vaughn teamed up to
win the 4x100 relay in 56.5
seconds, and Nordtvedt also
won the 100 (14.6) and was
second in the 200 (30.0).
Salim was second in the
javelin (85 feet even), third
in the discus (63-feet-10),
third in the shot put (25-
feet-8), and sixth in the 100
(15.1). Vaughn was second
in the high jump at 4-feet-
6, and Komiskey and Mad-
die Wigen placed third and
fi fth in the high jump, each
clearing 4-feet-4. Komiskey
also was third in the 100
(15.0), Wigen was eighth in
the 100 (15.5) and McEntire
was fourth in the 200 (32.1).
On Saturday, Joseph’s
Henry Coughlan competed
at the Phillips-Klimek Dis-
tance Twilight in Phoe-
nix against some of the
top distance runners in the
state from each classifi -
cation, and came away in
sixth in the 3,000 in a time
of 8:53.75. The time was a
personal best in the race by
13 seconds, according to
data from athletic.net.
The rest of the Eagles
competed at the Central
Idaho Invitational in Lap-
wai, where the Joseph boys
took fi fth and the girls fi n-
ished ninth.
Juston Rogers earned
two victories for the Eagles
in the 200 (24.31 seconds)
and in the 400 (53.74). Nel-
son won the high jump at
another meet, clearing the
bar at 6 feet even, and was
third in the long jump at
16-feet-11. Ferguson led
a 1-2 fi nish in the javelin,
winning with a throw of
121-feet-2, while McBur-
ney was second at 103 feet
even. Kane Johnson fol-
lowed in fi fth at 90-feet-4.
In the 800, Menton was sec-
ond at 2:04.77, Goodrich
was sixth in 2:08.16,
and Ferguson added sev-
enth-place fi nishes in the
100 (12.37) and the discus
(105-feet-7).
On the girls side, Lot-
tie McDonald was second
in the 300 hurdles (54.12),
third in the long jump (13-
feet-10½) and eighth in the
100 hurdles (21.62). Iona
McDonald was fourth in the
300 hurdles (57.69) and in
the javelin (49-feet-5). And
Ariana Samples was fi fth in
the javelin (47-feet-7).
The Outlaws competed
at the Mac-Hi 3-way Tues-
day, May 4, and Joseph
travels to the Grant Union
Invitational on Friday,
May 7.
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