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state, and Ramsden was
second-team.
Having four players
make all-state was a “pretty
big deal,” the head coach
said.
Nave played a key role
on the team, not only as a
staff ace along with Evans,
but also at the plate.
“He pitched really well
for us. He kept the ball down
in the zone which we’ve
been working on forever,”
Mark Ramsden said. “That
is probably the biggest asset
for Flynn as a pitcher is he
threw a lot of strikes. He
keep the ball down in the
zone and he had a nice lit-
tle curveball to add to that.
He had strikeouts and he got
a lot of groundballs. That’s
a winning combination for
us.”
Ramsden said Nave, who
is set to attend Oregon Insti-
tute of Technology, has the
skills to contend at the col-
lege level.”
“He should take the next
step. He should try it,” the
coach said.
Evans, the other staff
ace, played a key role on the
mound and in centerfi eld,
and as Wallowa Valley’s
leadoff hitter.
“Trace really, I think,
stepped it up this year,”
Ramsden said. “He kind of
had to be a leader. He always
had something to say after
the game. I don’t think he
ever picked on anybody, he
was encouraging to the other
players. He’s a good athlete. I
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He had a platelet-rich
plasma injection done on
his Achilles tendon to help
heal some damage from
wear-and-tear. For a while
after he wasn’t running,
and instead spent more time
working on an elliptical or
just feel like he gave it 100%
when he was in centerfi eld.
We felt really good when he
was in centerfi eld. He could
cover a lot of ground.”
Evans is competing in the
state wrestling tournament in
Sweet Home on June 25-26.
Zeb Ramsden was a quiet
leader on the fi eld and a stal-
wart behind the plate, Mark
Ramsden said. He also said
his son excelled at working
with the pitchers.
“He just did not let any
passed balls go. I think he
really did well handling
our pitchers,” Mark Rams-
den said, adding he had
endurance behind the plate.
“(Before him), we didn’t
have a catcher that could
last two games (in a double-
header). Zeb had no prob-
lem catching two games.
That was huge for us. He
had the endurance to catch
two games every series we
played.
“There was probably no
better at blocking pitches in
the dirt. … His blocking was
top notch.”
Ramsden is playing in
Saturday’s 8-man all-star
game in La Grande.
Salim’s fl exibility, not
just this year, but throughout
his career, was an asset to the
Eagles.
“He started all four years,
and he’s been a utility man
from the start. We always
found a spot for him. He
played in the outfi eld, played
in the infi eld.
“David is an even-keel
type of individual. No highs.
No lows. You know what
you got from David. He
had the hardest job moving
around like that.”
swimming. He added the
year was “needed.”
Now?
“I’ve never felt more like
myself, and never felt more
confi dent,” he said.
And while he may be an
underdog, he is optimistic
of his chances to run for a
spot in Tokyo.
“My coaches, myself
and my family believe that
is a possibility,” he said.
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nifer Teeter, 25-20, 25-18,
25-21, in a match Johnston
ended with a kill, and fell
to “Team Lind” coached by
Marji Lind of Powder Valley,
27-25, 25-11, 25-22.
That 2019 contest against
the Buckaroos was the last
time either had played in
over a year, so there were
some cobwebs that needed to
be shaken off .
Young said, though, it
didn’t take long to fi nd a
rhythm — even though the
seven athletes on the squad
had just one practice Friday
night before the two matches
Saturday.
“Pretty sore this morn-
ing, hard to get back out on
the court,” she said. “But the
dynamics were still there.
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(and) sponsorship. We’re
funded without having to
charge anybody admission.”
That means no cost to see
McKay and the roughly 17
other bronc riders, the 12-16
bull riders, and the 7-10 wild
horse racing teams.
McKay, whose score of
76.5 won the event in 2019,
has arguably the best — and
most unlikely — story of
any of the competitors.
Roundup:
The Joseph girls basket-
ball team dropped its fi nal two
games of the 2021 season, fall-
ing to Crane, 61-27, Wednes-
day, June 16, in a game played
in Enterprise, and then Thurs-
day dropping a home contest
to Powder Valley, 39-36.
Stats were not provided.
Caldwell who were on the
team that defeated Wallowa
back in the 2019 playoff s?
“I
enjoyed
playing
with them,” Johnston said.
“They’re competitive but
they love to support us, and
if we do something wrong,
they pick us up. They don’t
put us down like most play-
ers do.”
Both agreed a high point
of the day was earning a
win in their opening match,
though Young added that for
many seniors, getting to have
that fi nal match is a highlight.
Playing that match meant
putting on the uniform again.
Weird? Sure. But for Young,
it also signifi ed that, truly,
the volleyball career was
over after Saturday.
“It was heartbreaking,
knowing there was nothing
going on past this,” she said,
“but it was nice to put it on
one more time.”
He and fi ve siblings —
three initially, and three
later on — were adopted out
of Haiti by Joe and Joyce
McKay in the early 1990s.
My adoptive parents
couldn’t have kids, so they
were kind of looking around,
looking to adopt. They had a
close friend that mentioned
something about you could
adopt kids out of Haiti,”
Gabe McKay said. “They
prayed on it. They adopted
my brother and I and my sis-
ter. About two years later,
they brought my three other
siblings to the state, so they
adopted twice.
“They were running a
ranch. They brought us out
there, raised us as their own
and gave us a good life — a
chance at life.”
Gabe McKay ranches
with his family in Juntura,
and also competes as a sad-
dle bronc rider in the PRCA,
ICA and NPRA circuits. His
brother, Levi, also rides sad-
dle bronc, but will be com-
peting in Meridian, Idaho,
this weekend.
The two often compete
together, both continuing a
tradition of sorts in the sport
as their father and relatives
competed. They plan to get
to about 30-40 rodeos this
year.
“My dad did it, my cous-
ins did it and it went down
the family line,” McKay
said. “My fi rst horse I got
on, I really liked it. You
either like it or you won’t.”
He knows, too, the chal-
lenge to repeat as champion
will be stiff , but he is up for
it.
“Those guys are going
to be gunning for it, but I’m
not going to give it over eas-
ily,” he said.
Joseph wrapped up the
season with a fi nal record of
7-4 overall.
Culver. He recovered to win
two matches by technical fall,
defeating Isaiah Lemmon of
Echo 17-1, and Gen Winter-
steen of Elgin 18-1.
Tegan Evans took fi fth,
dropping a pair of matches
but defeating Crane’s Ty Tay-
lor by fall in the fi fth-place
match. He also had a win by
forfeit.
For Joseph, Kale Fergu-
son took third despite wres-
tling just one match. He lost in
the 195 semifi nals to Christian
Mattson-McKenzie of Culver
by a 21-5 tech fall, and had
three other byes.
Andy Miranda pinned
Heppner’s Zane Fisher to take
fi fth at 126 and fi nish 1-2, and
Adrian Cabrera was sixth at
170.
As a team, Enterprise
placed 10th and Joseph took
12th.
Evans and Ferguson qual-
ifi ed for the 2A/1A Oregon
Wrestling Association state
tournament, which takes place
Friday and Saturday in Sweet
Home.
Enterprise’s Trace Evans
went 3-1 to take third place
at 152 pounds in the 2A/1A
Special District 4 tournament
Thursday, June 17, in Culver.
Evans needed just 21 sec-
onds to pin Tyler Boor of
Heppner in his fi rst match, but
dropped a 5-2 decision in the
semifi nals to Wyatt Corwin of
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“Belle (Blair) went up for
a hit, and I went to block, and
it took my arm with it,” she
said.
She was back the next set,
which Young said was par
for the course for Johnston.
“It’s happened a lot,
throughout basketball and
volleyball, but she’s always
come back,” Young said.
“You can always rely on her
to come back even though it
happens.”
Young commented on
how quickly the team, which
also featured Mary David-
son and Jordyn Caldwell of
St. Paul, Tyanna Norton of
Vale, and Hallie SkunkCap
and Kaiden Raif of Burns,
meshed.
“We’ve been together for
what, eight hours total, and
it’s like we’ve been together
for a whole season,” she said.
As for playing with two
athletes in Davidson and
Evans, Ferguson
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Joseph girls end
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It was getting the speed
(down), and that kind of
thing was a little rusty.”
Johnston acknowledged
the power she was accus-
tomed to playing with was
somewhat lacking.
“Strength for hitting and
blocking (were not there),
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Still, she was excited to
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“It meant a lot. It made
me super excited, because I
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