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six-man football, losing to
Prairie City/Burnt River on
the road Thursday, Oct. 21,
66-12.
The Eagles (4-3 overall)
travel to face Powers in the
six-man quarterfi nals on Sat-
urday, Oct. 30. Kickoff for
the game is slated for 1 p.m.,
per the OSAA website.
record of the early 90s was
better, back-to-back state
championships is hard to
trump.
Cougars routed
by Huskies
Wallowa’s
injury-
plagued season ended on a
rough note with the Cougars
getting beaten at home by
Elgin, Friday, Oct. 22, by a
score of 66-0.
The Cougars also had to
forfeit their lone win against
Union (and four other con-
tests, though they were
defeats) for having played
an ineligible player during
fi ve games.
The loss wraps up Wal-
lowa’s season with a fi nal
record of 0-6 overall.
Enterprise Outlaws
There is no discus-
sion here. The 1980s were
prime time for Enter-
prise, then known as the
Savages. The dominance
really started in 1979 with
Enterprise reaching its fi rst
state championship game,
though the previously
unbeaten Savages were
decimated by St. Mary’s
that day, 40-0.
It began a playoff rivalry
between the schools.
Enterprise returned to the
title game in 1982 with a
lockdown defense that had
shut out its previous three
playoff opponents. The
Savages held St. Mary’s
to just three points in the
rematch of the 1979 game,
but missed out on a title,
falling 3-0 despite allow-
ing an average of 0.75
points per game in the
postseason.
A year later, St. Mary’s,
seemingly having Enter-
prise’s number, stopped a
previously unbeaten squad
led by Chuck Corak again,
this time in the semifi nals,
and again via shutout, 13-0.
Then came 1984. The
year that the Red and Black
fi nally broke through. The
Savages went 13-0, shut
out their fi rst two playoff
opponents, edged Colton
16-6 in the semifi nals, and
held Yoncalla — who was
averaging nearly 50 points
per game in the playoff s —
to just two touchdowns as
they won what is the pro-
gram’s only state champi-
onship, 17-14.
Only once since — in
1998 — has Enterprise
returned to the champion-
ship game, a 15-6 loss to
Amity.
For the 1980s, the Sav-
ages posted a record of
96-17, six times winning
10 or more games. In the
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playoff s, they were 14-7,
reaching the postseason
eight times in the 10 years,
winning at least one game
seven times, reaching the
semifi nals four times and
the championship game
thrice.
An argument could be
made that this was the best
decade among the three
schools, though that is for
another day.
Joseph Eagles
Joseph, a dominant
force on the girls basket-
ball court, has had a rough
time on the gridiron. The
Eagles reached the play-
off s in 1958, but went one
and done, and were left
on the outside looking in
until 2005, when Rusty
Eschler guided them to the
state semifi nals and a 10-2
record in their fi rst year in
eight-man football. Three
years later, they returned
to the semifi nals, then
went one step further and
played for a state title, fall-
ing to Imbler, 48-36, to fi n-
ish 11-2, their only losses
that season coming to the
Panthers.
Success then eluded
Joseph until 2018 and an
OSAA trial run of six-man
football, which it hadn’t
played since the 1950s.
The Eagles dropped down
to the pilot and in 2018
rolled every opponent on
the way to a 7-0 record
and a de-facto state title,
a 64-31 win over McKen-
zie. A year later, they were
undefeated again and back
in the championship before
South Wasco County —
the only team to stay close
to them the fi rst two sea-
sons — did the unthinkable
and stopped the Eagles’
off ense for a 19-6 win.
With just two decades
to consider, the 2000s and
the 2010s, this is a tougher
call. On one hand, it seems
an easy argument to say
the 2010s, given the state
title. But it was in a pilot
season, and the team had
limited success prior. The
2000s saw them win multi-
ple playoff games (which is
unprecedented in prior his-
tory), going 5-3 and play-
ing for a sanctioned OSAA
championship.
But there is something
to be said about beating
who is across from you,
and the Eagles did that to
close the decade — going
13-1 and outscoring teams
by an average of 55-7, and
an average of 58.8-6.2 in
the 13 wins. Call it recency
bias, but we’ll by a hair
give it to the 2010s.
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Wallowa
council
sets up
complaint
procedure
Chieftain staff
WALLOWA — A reso-
lution establishing the pro-
cedure for the investigation
of complaints against the
city or its employees was
approved by the Wallowa
City Council at its meeting
Tuesday, Oct. 19.
Carolyn Harshfi eld, city
administrator, said the pre-
vious week that the reso-
lution was crafted by city
attorney Roland Johnson
upon the request of Mayor
Gary Hulse after a city res-
ident complained about a
comment a city employee
made in public. Harshfi eld
said the comment was not
derogatory nor was it made
during working hours, but
the mayor believed a resolu-
tion governing such a situa-
tion was warranted.
In another matter during
last week’s brief meeting,
city resident Jean Foster
discussed with the council
his concerns over the pend-
ing closure of Community
Bank in Wallowa. He said
some elderly people had
expressed concerns about
the closure, Harshfi eld said
Monday, Oct. 25.
She said the city owns
the building that the bank is
vacating, and anyone is wel-
come to lease it. A potential
tenant would need to bring a
proposal to the city.
The
council
also
approved a request for a
minor partition of Bernice
Bernotat’s property at 303 S.
Alder abutting Pine Street.
Bernotat recently purchased
the house there and it has
a pasture behind it. She
wishes to partition the prop-
erty so it can more easily be
sold, Harshfi eld said.
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