SPORTS
Wallowa County Chieftain
A12
PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP
Eagles see winning
streak come to end
Chieftain staff
all) hosted Enterprise
Tuesday, June 1.
UNION — The Joseph
Eagles boys basketball
team saw its perfect run
to start the season end Fri-
day night, May 28, with a
55-47 loss at Union.
The Bobcats, who
opened up a double-digit
lead in the second half and
held on to win, were pow-
ered by a 28-point perfor-
mance by Keegan Glenn.
Joseph, which trailed
29-23 at the half but saw
the defi cit grow to 47-35
after three quarters, was
led by Mason Ferre, who
scored 19 points. Reece
Nelson added nine points
and James Burney netted
seven points.
Eagles thump
Outlaws
A night earlier, the
Eagles scored early and
often in rolling over Enter-
prise on the road on May
27, 66-33.
The Eagles got 13
points from both Ferre
and Chase Murray. Javon
Brown added 10 points
and Burney scored nine
points.
Joseph built a dou-
ble-digit lead by halftime
of 32-19, then posted 25
points in the third quar-
ter to break the game open
and take a 57-25. Ferre
had eight in the period to
outscore Enterprise on his
own.
The Outlaws did have
balanced scoring, with
both David Salim and
Spencer Decker scoring
seven points, and Jackson
Decker adding six points.
Joseph (4-1 overall)
hosted Cove Tuesday, June
1, while Enterprise (0-3)
visited Wallowa June 1,
then travels to Echo June
5.
Cougars take two
tough losses
The Wallowa boys bas-
ketball team dropped a pair
of home games, falling to
Cove, 61-38, on Wednes-
day, May 26, and to Pine
Eagle Friday, 46-37.
Against the Leop-
ards, Tristin Bales led the
way for Wallowa with
17 points, while Mason
Moore and Zeb Hermens
each scored six points.
Cove built a 29-13 lead
by halftime. Wallowa hung
tough, and was able to cut
into the lead in the third
quarter before the Leop-
ards pulled away.
Tee Ledbetter led Cove
with 23 points.
On Friday, the Spartans
came away with a win in a
low-scoring contest.
Pine Eagle led just
17-7 at halftime. The Cou-
gars found an off ensive
rhythm in the third and cut
the defi cit to 29-22, but
couldn’t get over the top in
the fourth.
Bales led the way with
15 points, including 13 in
the second half, and Her-
mens scored 12 points.
The Cougars (0-3 over-
Joseph girls edge
Enterprise
The Joseph girls bas-
ketball team got the best of
Enterprise in a road con-
test Thursday, May 27,
collecting a 47-41 win.
On Thursday, the Out-
laws grabbed a 19-18 lead
at the half with its typical
balanced scoring as seven
players netted points in the
fi rst half.
In the third quar-
ter, Joseph started rain-
ing 3-pointers, hitting fi ve
in the period — includ-
ing two each from Sabrina
Albee and Brianna Micka
— to open up a 35-27 lead.
Albee, who fi nished with
a game-high 26 points,
added seven in the fourth
quarter to help the Eagles
hold on.
Micka added eight
points, and Sarah Orr
scored seven.
For Enterprise, Rylin
Kirkland scored 13 points,
including 11 in the sec-
ond half. Grace Col-
lins chipped in with eight
points as eight diff erent
players scored.
The Outlaws (1-2 over-
all) were at Wallowa Tues-
day, June 1, then visit Echo
June 5.
Union runs
over Joseph
The Joseph girls saw
their three-game winning
streak end with a 47-25
road loss to Union Friday,
May 28.
Union already was up
25-17 at the half, then
busted the game open
in the third, outscoring
Joseph 12-3 for a 37-20
lead.
Kaylin Nowak and Cal-
lie Glenn had 11 points
each for Union.
Albee led Joseph with
19 points, and the senior
guard scored all eight of
Joseph’s points in the sec-
ond half.
Joseph (3-2 overall)
heads to Wallowa Wednes-
day, June 2.
Staigle takes second to
lead Joseph/Wallowa
wrestling at Culver
Jonah Staigle placed
second overall to help the
Joseph/Wallowa wrestling
team score 42 points at the
Culver Invitational Friday,
May 28.
The senior recorded
pins of Bonanza’s Erza
Neese (2:31), Nestucca’s
Dylan Prock (50 seconds)
and Adrian’s Toby Clow
(51 seconds) to reach the
fi nal at 220 pounds. He
lost there, though, by fall
to Ridgeview’s Cole Jack-
son in 3:14.
Juston Rogers (145
pounds), Adrian Cabrera
(170) and Kale Fergu-
son (182) all went 2-2 for
Joseph. Rogers and Fer-
guson won both their
matches by fall.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Scoring bursts by Albee, Micka lift Eagles
By RONALD BOND
Wallowa County Chieftain
JOSEPH — Sabrina
Albee caught fi re in the third
quarter. Brianna Micka fol-
lowed suit in the fourth.
The
scoring
surges
proved to be enough to boost
the Joseph girls to a win in
their fi rst basketball game on
the new home fl oor.
Albee scored 11 of her
game-high 19 points in the
third quarter, Micka hit three
fourth-quarter 3s — includ-
ing two late seal the deal —
and the Eagles fended off a
scrappy Wallowa Cougar
squad for a 42-33 victory
Tuesday, May 25, in Joseph.
“Basketball is a game of
runs, for sure,” Joseph head
coach Lance Homan said.
“That game at a certain point
could go either way depend-
ing on how the ball bounces,
but defi nitely, if we can get
Sabrina going, and Brian-
na’s shooting well right now
and getting her in her spots,
that helps a lot.”
The Eagles never trailed
after Albee grabbed a
steal, dribbled up court and
popped a long 3-pointer for
a 26-24 lead with 2:55 to
play in the third.
But the Cougars, who
were playing their fi rst game
of Season 4, hung around
until the fi nal moments,
responding every time
Joseph went on a run.
Libby Fisher, who led
Wallowa with eight points,
scored twice in the fi nal two
minutes of the third to pull
the Cougars even at 28-28.
Aimee Meyers’ layup to
close the third gave the
Eagles a two-point mar-
gin, and Micka opened the
fourth with a trey for a 33-28
margin.
Sophie
Moeller’s
3-pointer out of a time-
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Joseph’s Sabrina Albee, left, sets up for a 3-pointer off a screen during the third quarter of a
Season 4 basketball home game against Wallowa on Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Albee scored 19
points in the Eagles’ 42-33 victory.
out cut Wallowa’s defi cit to
35-31 with 6:05 to play, and
the game was still in doubt
until Micka, who fi nished
with nine points, hit a pair
of 3s 30 seconds apart —
the last for a 42-31 with just
2:06 to go — to put the win
away.
“That pretty much was
the diff erence right there,”
said Greg Oveson, who is
beginning his third stint as
Wallowa’s head coach. “We
ran out of gas. I don’t know
that we were in any bet-
ter shape than they were. I
know Lance has had some
girls that haven’t been there
much. We just need a few
more practices. I feel like
we could have done a little
better, but I’m really happy
with what I saw tonight.”
The back-and-forth con-
test, which featured nine lead
changes, saw neither team
pull ahead by more than four
points until the fourth quar-
ter. Wallowa struggled with
turnovers in its opener, but
made up for it with scrappy
defense and length at several
positions which gave Joseph
issues.
“They have a pile of
good young kids that have
played a lot of basketball,
and they’ve played a lot of
basketball with Oveson, and
they played hard,” Homan
said. “I was extremely
impressed, which was
exactly what I expected. I
was impressed with Wal-
lowa. They’re much longer
than us. They’re just ath-
letic. They’re extremely ath-
letic. They’re a good basket-
ball team.”
Ella Moeller had four
of her seven points in the
fi rst to help Wallowa take
an 8-7 lead after one, and
her 3-pointer in the second
countered a 3-point play by
Meyers and kept the Cou-
gars ahead, 11-10. Meyers
and Zoe Hermens traded
baskets in the fi nal 10 sec-
onds to see Joseph go into
the half up 17-15, and Haley
Brockamp’s layup to open
the third tied the score.
Albee then found her
touch. The senior hit a 3
coming off a screen, then
later had a layup for a 22-19
edge. Sophie Moeller’s trey
and Brockamp’s jumper
gave the Cougars the lead
back at 24-23 before Albee’s
steal and 3 and then jumper
in the key pushed Joseph
back ahead, setting the stage
for her teammate to go off in
the fourth.
Sophie Moeller and
Brockamp both added six
points for Wallowa , while
Meyers chipped in seven for
Joseph .
“I was pretty happy with
the way we played,” Oveson
said. “Five of the girls, last
night was the fi rst night
they’ve been out. We were
pretty disorganized. Other
than that we did some good
things. We start having a
few more practices, I think
in a couple weeks we’ll be
alright.”
Inside game key as Eagles scoot by Wallowa
By RONALD BOND
Wallowa County Chieftain
JOSEPH — An extended
run that started midway
through the fi rst quarter and
rolled early into the third
quarter gave the Joseph boys
basketball team a win in its
home opener.
The Eagles held Wallowa
without a point for more
than nine minutes during a
25-4 run, and moved to 3-0
in Season 4 with a 55-29 win
over the Cougars on Tues-
day, May 25, at Sather Court.
“I was defi nitely proud
of those guys. (They were)
playing hard throughout the
whole game,” Joseph head
coach Olan Fulfer said. “I
gotta give it to Wallowa, too.
They played incredibly hard,
and they played us tough the
whole time.”
The teams were close
early, but the tables quickly
turned after Tristin Bales’
layup tied the game for Wal-
lowa at 7-7 with 4:30 to go in
the fi rst quarter.
Mason Ferré, who had
had a game-high 15 points,
scored fi ve straight to start
the run, and Javon Brown
had a late layup to send the
Eagles into the second ahead
17-7.
Wallowa never got back
within double digits.
A second quarter domi-
nated by Brad Wilcox, who
scored eight in the period
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Wallowa’s Zeb Hermens, left, drives to the hoop against
Joseph’s defense Tuesday, May 25, 2021. Hermens scored 12
points to lead Wallowa, but the Cougars fell, 55-29.
and 14 in the contest, ended
with the Eagles ahead 30-11.
In the quarter, Wilcox had a
hot stretch late with a put-
back, a short fi eld goal and
a layup that helped Joseph
quickly build the margin.
Fulfer said the goal was
for his team to open up the
inside game with outside
shooting, which was what
the Eagles ultimately did.
“We missed a lot of shots
that we’re hoping to later
on make,” he said. “I still
wanted them to take those
shots. Some of them were
kind of out of the off ense,
but the main thing is I want
them attacking and feeding
the post, and that’s what we
started doing fi nally after our
timeout. Brad ended up with
(several points) just off those
drives and dishes.”
Zeb Hermens, who led
Wallowa with 12 points, did
hit a 3-pointer with 3:20 to
go in the second that ended
a nine-minute drought and
pulled the Cougars to 22-10,
but Wallowa got no closer
the rest of the night.
The margin touched 24
in the third when Chase
Homan’s trey made it 41-17.
The Cougars trimmed the
defi cit to 17 to start the
fourth on a putback by Jace
Fisher, but Joseph scored
eight of the next 10 points,
going up 49-26 on another
layup by Wilcox.
The Cougars struggled
with turnovers and played
rushed on the night, but
Fulfer chalked a lot of that
up to his opponents being
in their opener, and expects
they’ll improve quickly.
“Joseph played really
well,” Wallowa head coach
Cody Lathrop said. “It was a
great atmosphere for Joseph.
It was a pretty intimidating
atmosphere for us. Being the
fi rst game, when we showed
up, we wanted to win bad,
and we were a better team
than we showed.”
Brown added six points
for Joseph, while Mason
Moore chipped in seven for
the Cougars.
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