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Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
OSAA goes digital with playoff tickets
WILSONVILLE — The
Oregon School Activities
Association is going digital
with tickets to all postseason
events.
Starting with fall play-
offs — football, volley-
ball, soccer and cross-coun-
try — fans can go online
and purchase their tickets
in advance for events. They
then will show their e-ticket
at the gate when arriving for
the event.
“Pre-sold digital tickets
will take precedence over
any potential walk up at the
day of the event,” OSAA
Assistant Executive Direc-
tor Kyle Stanfield wrote in a
new release. “It’s important
that host facilities are pre-
pared to take these tickets at
the event.”
Though the digital tick-
ets are preferred, fans can
pay at the door if the game
is hosted at a high school.
Once playoffs reach neu-
tral sites (semifinals and
finals), e-tickets will be the
way to go. At the state finals,
only digital tickets will be
accepted.
“At OSAA State Cham-
pionship events, there will
be no cash transactions or
point of sale system on site,”
Stanfield said. “All people
entering the event must have
a digital ticket.”
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Outlaws:
McDonald finished together,
placing 27th and 28th with
respective times of 23:20.8
and 23:22.8. Also finish-
ing was Isabella Brann, who
placed 41st in 25:03.8.
The state cross-coun-
try meet will be run Satur-
day, Nov. 6, at Lane Commu-
nity College in Eugene. The
3A boys meet is slated for
11:10 a.m.
“It’s looking really good.
If I’m being completely hon-
est, I didn’t think any group
would top us when we won
state in 2019, but this group
is looking really good. I think
we can totally win, and we
can make a statement.”
Knapp added that for the
seniors, it’s an opportunity
to go out on top. Goodrich
agreed.
“It’s our last chance to
shine. We’ve been doing this
since eighth grade,” he said.
“This last weekend was five
years ago since we won the
eighth-grade championship.
“Definitely super excited
for this weekend.”
thing that I’ve had to do for
a while.”
The sophomore wasn’t
alone in earning all-league
accolades, and the balance on
the team was a big part of the
Eagles going 23-3 through
the regular season and dis-
trict tournament.
“It’s super fun. At the start
of the season we didn’t really
know what was going to
come out of it, and it’s been
really fun to see what this
team has done,” she said. “I
think that the team has just
bonded really well together,
and that is the main key in
volleyball.”
Cooper Nave, a soph-
omore outside hitter and
Eagles’ leading attacker, was
named first-team all-league.
Molly Curry, a junior middle
blocker, was second-team.
And honorable mention was
given to both libero McKen-
zie Keffer and outside hitter
Sarah Orr.
“And not just that, but I
wish I could have had more
spots to put more kids on all
league,” Hite said, noting
she could nominate just five
players. “They all did great.
Any one of the eight could
have been an all-league nom-
ination this year.”
Hite rounded out the all-
league awards for the Eagles
by being named coach of the
year.
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behind her was Michaila
Caine in 21st with a time of
22:26.0.
Moody noted that Nordt-
vedt posted a time even bet-
ter than he was hoping she
would, that Stonebrink was
running hurt and that Caine’s
time was a two-minute
improvement in two weeks.
Nevaeh James and Iona
Meyers:
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also brought the added com-
ponent of being able to
dig a kill attempt from the
opposing team and keep the
Eagles’ offense moving, and
also could play attacker —
whether she tried to slip a
dump past the defense on the
second touch, or swinging
on a ball set by a teammate.
“She definitely is our glue
that holds us together, for
sure,” head coach Jill Hite
said. “She’ll make any pass.
She sets up those hitter really
well.”
Meyers said she keeps an
even keel approach on the
floor, and has for years.
“I’m really good at keep-
ing my composure, and I
think that’s a huge role in
being a setter,” she said.
“I’ve had that sort of role for
a while, since I was like in
fifth grade, so it’s been some-
Wallowa, Enterprise
both get two awards
The
Wallowa
Cou-
gars got two players on all-
league following a 6-15 sea-
son. Senior Haley Brockamp
was selected to the OOL sec-
ond team, and junior Libby
Fisher was named honorable
mention.
The Enterprise Outlaws
also had two players on the
all-Blue Mountain Confer-
ence squad after the team
went 10-11 this season.
Senior setter Rilyn Kirkland
and junior outside hitter Maci
Marr both were named all-
league honorable mention.
Ronald Bond/Wallowa County Chieftain
Joseph’s McKenzie Keffer dives to save a ball during a match against Days Creek on
Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021.
Joseph:
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“What’s really nice
is when we can’t go one
place, we can turn around
and go to another place,”
Hite said of the balanced
offense, which has been
one of Joseph’s strengths
this season. “It’s nice to be
able to have those options
instead of just having one
option like what we’ve had
(in the past).”
Days Creek, which trav-
eled almost 540 miles for
the second-round match,
made the first set some-
what interesting with a 9-1
run, getting within 19-15
on a kill by Bailey Stuffle-
beam. But Nave had four
kills late, including the
final one of the set for the
1-0 lead.
“I think we were play-
ing really well in the first
two sets because we all
had confidence in each
other, and were just having
confidence in ourselves,
and our serves were good,”
Curry said. “We were just
playing our positions.”
A serving run by Nave
helped put the second set
away in a hurry. The soph-
omore had three aces as
the Eagles turned a mea-
ger 5-4 lead into an 18-4
margin.
The final point of the
13-0 run brought a moment
of humor to the match.
Curry put a kill attempt off
the head of a Days Creek
defender that, even as the
rally continued, set several
Joseph players — espe-
cially Meyers — into a fit
of laughter.
“I really was laughing
hard, couldn’t focus, but
pulled myself together and
got through it,” she said.
Curry did finish the
point off with a kill and
a 14-point lead. Orr later
had a kill to put the set
away.
The Eagles appeared
ready to put the match
away easily, as Joseph on
several occasions in the
third set took an eight-
point lead, the last on a kill
by Orr that left the team
two points from the vic-
tory at 23-15.
Days Creek put together
one final salvo to not only
get back into the set, but
reach the cusp of a fourth
set. Three kills and a block
by Stufflebeam and con-
secutive kills by Lyris Ber-
lingeri moved the Wolves
to within 24-23. A kill
attempt from Nave went
long to tie the match at
24-24, and after the teams
tied at 25-25, McKenzie
Park blocked the ball for
the Wolves’ first — and
only — lead of the night at
26-25.
The teams battled to a
27-27 tie before a kill by
Berlingeri went long to
give Joseph the lead back,
and on the next point, the
Wolves failed to handle
a ball played over the net
by Meyers, sending the
Eagles on.
Curry finished with
eight kills to lead the
Eagles. Nave had six kills
and team-high 18 digs and
six aces, McKenzie Kef-
fer had 15 digs and Meyers
had 13 digs and 21 assists.
The victory set up
another home match for the
Eagles, who hosted North
Douglas in the state quar-
terfinals Tuesday, Nov. 2.
The Warriors swept Perry-
dale on Saturday and, like
Joseph, entered the quar-
terfinals with a record of
24-3 overall. The teams
last met in the postseason
in 2017, with the Eagles
taking down the Warriors
in straight sets on the way
to a third-place finish.
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