SPORTS Wallowa.com Wrestling: Continued from Page A7 they weigh more than you, if they’re really good. You just gotta get out there and give it your all. It doesn’t matter if you lose or win. Just do your best,” Delapena said. Cody Fent’s route to a title was shorter, as he received a double-bye to the semifi nals, where he pinned Baker’s Ryan Brown in 3:11. But then he ran into a challenge. Early in his champion- ship match against River- side’s Chris Kent, he found himself on his back, fi ghting off a potential pin. But he caught a break, as Kent was called for an illegal hold. Cody Fent took advan- tage, and later in the opening round scored a reversal, then put Kent on his back and fi n- ished off the match with a pin in just 1:25. “It feels really good to be back in the normal sea- son, and to have a fi rst win at home is great,” he said. All told, the Outlaws had four wrestlers in the top three. Tegan Evans scored a 4-2 decision over River- side’s William Harris at 145 pounds, but in the semifi - Girls: Continued from Page A7 opening quarter and fi nished with a team-high eight points. Haley Brockamp added fi ve points and Cecilia April scored four points. Wallowa (1-2 overall) travels to the Hawk Invite in Hood River next week- end, where it faces Horizon Christian and Hood River on Friday and Trout Lake on Saturday. Crane 65, Enterprise 20: The Enterprise girls basket- ball team lacked energy and ran into the buzzsaw that is Crane as they fell to the Mus- tangs in Prairie City on Satur- day, Dec. 4, 65-20. Crane quickly opened up a double-digit lead and never let up. The Outlaws were held without a fi eld goal until Rilyn Kirkland, who had six points, connected in the sec- ond quarter. The Outlaws were down 28-8 at the half, Boys: Continued from Page A7 step up. Ryder (Goller) stepped up for us this week- end.” Willie (Gibbs) stepped up. Kaed (Thorne) played some big minutes….Big Isaac is playing well. All the guys are getting their feet underneath them. “We’re very excited, they’re doing good things on the fl oor, and off the fl oor they are a family — mold- ing as a family,” Chandler added. The Cougars travel to the Hawk Invite in Hood River next weekend, where they face Horizon Christian, Hood River on Friday and Trout Lake on Saturday. nals was pinned by even- tual champion Coy Butner of Pine Eagle. He recovered to win the consolation semi- fi nal over Riverside’s Devon Wittsberger by a 20-5 tech- nical fall, and won the third- place match by besting Har- ris again, this time by a 9-1 major decision. “We got a good group of kids on our team this year. everyone did really well today, to have everyone do as well as they did felt really good,” Cody Fent said. Will Ogden (195) also took third. He earned a dou- ble-bye to the semifi nals, where he dropped an 11-1 major decision to eventual champion, David Creech of Union/Cove. In the consola- tion bracket, he pinned Cam- eron Wittsberger of River- side, then in the third-place match pinned Jesus Montes, also of Riverside. Pearce Schnetzky (138) went 2-2 on the day. He pinned Imbler’s Kadyn Trick and Union/Cove’s Noah Gliddon, but was also pinned by College Place’s Ethan Parker and Irrigon’s Alan Murguia. Alex Albanez (132) won his only competed match, pinning James Denson of Pine Eagle late in the third round, but sustained an and the lead swelled to 29 after three quarters. “Crane, they lost some really good players, but they got some really good play- ers,” head coach Mike Craw- ford said. “They look like a team that’s been playing all along. They’re polished.” Kirkland and Jada Gray both fi nished with six points to lead Enterprise. Skye Miller had 18 points to lead Crane. Enterprise (1-2 over- all) played at Elgin on Tues- day, then travels to the Calvin Hiatt Memorial Tournament in North Powder Friday and Saturday where it plays Adrian and Jordan Valley. Friday Wallowa 38, South Wasco County 34: Haley Brockamp scored 13 of her game-high 14 points in the second half, and Wallowa rallied from a halftime defi - cit to pick up its fi rst win of the season Friday, Dec. 3, topping South Wasco Crane 75, Enterprise 26: The Enterprise boys bas- ketball team was held off the scoreboard in the fi rst quar- ter and didn’t recover as the Outlaw fell to Crane on Sat- urday, Dec. 4, 75-26. The Mustangs led 20-0 after one, opened up a 42-5 lead at the half and out- scored Enterprise in each quarter. Dylan Jennings, whose 3-pointer was the lone fi eld goal for the Outlaws in the fi rst half, fi nished with a team-high seven points, and Chase Duncan added six points. “This weekend was an excellent learning experi- ence for us,” head coach Kyle Crawford said. “Both Prairie City and Crane are tough, disciplined programs MONTH While supplies last. Both Dylan Rogers (132) and Jayden McNall (126) went 1-2, but did reach the semifi nals. Rogers pinned Baker’s Samuel Nelson in 2:27, then was pinned by Imbler’s Garrett Burns in the semifi nals, and lost to Pine Eagle’s Denson in the consolation semifi nals by a 8-1 decision. McNall pinned Baker’s Michael Endersby in 1:14, dropped a close 12-9 decision to Irrigon’s Omar Rangel in the semifi nals, then was pinned by Echo/ Stanfi eld’s Hayden Hurst. James Webb (126) and Megan Brock (106 girls) both went 0-2 on the day. County, 38-34. The senior scored eight points in the third quarter alone — double the entire SWC team — as the Cou- gars turned a 16-11 halftime defi cit into a 25-20 lead after three quarters. She added fi ve points in the fourth, and Libby Fisher had four as the Cougars held on. “Friday night, we played really good basketball for about 10 minutes, and that’s the best they played all year,” head coach Greg Oveson said. “We’re going to have to do a little bit better than that. We were behind for quite a while and then got ahead and got a good lead on them.” Fisher fi nished with nine points, and Sophie Moeller netted eight points, including six after halftime. Prairie City 56, Enter- prise 53, 2OT: The Enter- prise girls dropped a wild contest Friday, Dec. 3, for their fi rst loss of the year, fall- ing at Prairie City in double overtime, 56-53, in a game where the Outlaws saw fi ve players foul out. The teams played to a 39-39 tie through four quar- ters, and were tied at 47 after the fi rst extra session. The diff erence in the sec- ond overtime was the free- throw line. Prairie City was able to shoot 13 free throws, and made seven, while the Outlaws were 2-for-6. In all, the Panthers shot 39 free throws, making 22, while the Outlaws were just 12-for-30 from the charity stripe. Head coach Mike Craw- ford said his team had oppor- tunities to win in regulation and in both overtimes, but the team’s inexperience in close situations hurt. “We had a layup at the end of regulation that would have won the game,” he said. “We had a six-point lead and the ball in the fi rst overtime. We just turned it over. ... I’m tak- ing it as a we’re going to learn from that, we’re going to go forward and see how it is.” The contest was back and forth. Enterprise trailed 12-11 after the fi rst quar- ter, but held the Panthers to just fi ve second-quarter free throws as they took a 22-17 lead at the half. Jada Gray scored all nine of her points in the fi rst half, and was the leading scorer at the break. Enterprise maintained a 29-26 lead after three quar- ters, but Prairie City’s Betty Ann Wilson had nine points in the fourth, to help the Pan- thers force overtime. She added nine more points in the extra sessions to fi nish with 30. Alex Rowley fi nished with 12 points — includ- ing seven in the fourth quar- ter — to lead Enterprise. Maci Marr added 11 points, including six in the fi rst over- time period. She was also the only Outlaws starter to not foul out. Crane 59, Joseph 19: The season did not start well for the Joseph girls basket- ball team against the reigning 1A state champs, who rolled in their own season opener to their 45th straight victory, 59-19. “Crane is a very good bas- ketball team that you can tell has played together,” Joseph head coach Lance Homan said. “Our girls played hard and we worked on what we needed to work on. We were able to play a lot of girls and we are just trying to fi gure out where every- one fi ts, what each player can do, etc. Tough way to open the season, but I think we were able to keep this loss in perspective.” The Eagles were close to Crane after one, trailing just 8-3, before the Mus- tangs broke the game open. An 18-6 second quarter put Crane ahead 26-9 at the half, and the lead grew to 46-16 after three quarters. Kortney Doman had 14 points to lead Crane in scor- ing. Joseph was led by Emma Orr, who scored six points, and Cooper Nave, who added fi ve points. which really put into per- spective some of our weak- nesses. With that said, our team is more energized than ever to work on improving our skills and prepare for this coming weekend.” Enterprise (1-2 overall) then travels to the Calvin Hiatt Memorial Tournament in North Powder Friday and Saturday where it plays Adrian and Jordan Valley. mountable 34-7 by halftime, limiting the Eagles to just two fi eld goals in the fi rst half. The Mustangs’ lead reached 36 by the end of the third quarter. Ty Taylor had 26 points for the Mustangs to lead all scorers, with 18 of those coming in the fi rst half. He single handedly outscored Joseph during the fi rst three quarters. James Burney had 11 points — all after halftime — to lead Joseph, and con- nected on three 3-pointers. Hayden Hite added seven points. Prairie City 63, Enter- prise 45: Prairie City built a double-digit fi rst-half lead and never let up, outscor- ing Enterprise in each quar- ter on the way to a 63-45 win Friday, Dec. 3. Eli Wright, who led Prai- rie City with 21 points, scored all of those points in the fi rst half as the Panthers jumped out to a 31-16 lead at the break. Enterprise found an off ensive rhythm in the sec- ond half, but was unable to make up ground despite net- ting 20 points in the third. The Outlaws were then held to two fi eld goals in the fi nal quarter. Dylan Jennings was Enterprise’s leading scorer, fi nishing with 12 points. Spencer and Jackson Decker each fi nished with 10 points. All three players hit a pair of 3-pointers in the loss, Enter- prise’s fi rst of the season. South Wasco County 74, Wallowa 21: South Wasco County scored 27 points in the fi rst quarter and led by 40 at halftime on the way to a 74-21 win over Wallowa on Friday, Dec. 3, in the Cougars’ home opener. The young Cougars were held to just one fi rst- half fi eld goal — a basket by Kellen Knifong — and found themselves down at the break 45-5. Wallowa got into a rhythm in the second half, including scoring 10 points in the third quarter. The Redsides had four players reach double fi gures, with Remington Ander- son-Sheer scoring a game- high 20 points. Wallowa was led by four players who each scored four points — Knifong, Ryder Goller, Gabriel Nobles and Malachi Wilson. Friday Crane 69, Joseph 31: Joseph ran into a tough matchup in its season opener Friday, Dec. 3, falling to Crane in a neutral-site game in Prairie City, 69-31. Crane dominated from the get-go, leading 15-2 after one quarter and stretch- ing the margin to an insur- 16 $ 34.99 Master Mechanic® 54 pc. Mechanics Tool Set Contains popular sockets and bits in a handy carrying case. R 228 709 4 M-F 8AM-5:30PM • SAT 8AM-5PM • SUN 9AM-3PM Hurricane Creek Road Enterprise, Oregon 541-426-3116 topped Orofi no’s Jonas Hartrick. After dropping a match to Lewiston’s Brice Cuthbert, he matched up again with Bowen in the fi fth-place match, and this time won. Schnetzky (138) lost by fall to Moscow, Idaho’s Cameron Vogl, then later pinned Kootenai’s Carter McGann. Delapena (126 girls) dropped two matches, including a 10-7 decision to Colfax, Washington’s Laynie Southern, and a loss by fall to Holli Schumacher of Grangeville. Enterprise scored 47 points to take 11th out of the 14 teams. “We really stressed to the kids winning is awe- some. It really is, and even the matches that we did end up losing over the weekend, those are matches we are going to learn from,” coach Fent said. “We’re building up for district and state try- ing to make sure the kids are staying positive. Those are teachable moments we’re going to try to empathize during practice.” The Outlaws next com- pete Friday and Saturday at the Muilenburg in La Grande, while Joseph trav- els to Culver. injury in the process that left him unable to continue in the tournament. For Joseph, Gavin Rus- sell led the way with a third-place fi nish at 160. He opened with a 20-9 major decision over Baker’s Ben Coburn in the quarterfi - nals, fell to Isaiah Lemmon of Echo/Stanfi eld by a 12-0 major decision in the semi- fi nals, then came back to defeat Evan Calderon by fall and later, in the third-place match, he defeated Kevin Navarro of Riverside by fall late in the third round, doing so despite suff ering an ankle injury in the match. Ronald Bond/Wallowa County Chieftain Enterprise’s Will Ogden, right, took third place at 195 pounds Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, at the Enterprise Kickoff . SAVE ® A9 The Outlaws fi nished in sixth place as a team with 64.5 points, while Joseph took 10th place with 29 points. Riverside won the team title with 157.5 points. On Saturday, the Outlaws traveled to the Dick Gris- wold Invitational and landed two fourth-place fi nishes from Evans and Ogden. Evans (145) won his fi rst match by fall over Lewiston, Idaho’s Wyatt Cook, then lost in the quarterfi nals to Kellogg, Idaho’s Raymond Heely. He bounced back for two wins by fall against Connor Farkas of Post Falls, Idaho, and Cohen Simpson of Pine Eagle, but dropped the third-place match to Heely, this time by a 10-4 decision. Ogden (195) opened with a pin of Kootenai, Idaho’s Decovin Beckman, then was pinned by Orofi no, Idaho’s John Dafoe. He recovered to pin Ian Powell, also of Orofi no, in the consolation semifi nals, but was pinned in the third-place match by Clearwater Valley’s Isaac Goodwin. Fent (170) went 2-2, win- ning two matches by pin and losing two by pin, to take fi fth. 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