A10
Wallowa County Chieftain
SPORTS
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Cougars:
but the Eagles got no closer
until Orr’s last-second shot.
“You always need more
time when you’re on the
end we’re on,” Joseph head
coach Lance Homan said.
“The eff ort was great. The
outcome is what it is. They
didn’t give up.”
The game was much
more like the team’s fi rst
matchup, a 43-42 Joseph
win in Wallowa, than the
Feb. 11 rematch, which
the Cougars won on the
road, 30-17.
Both teams struggled
off ensively during the fi rst
half, though at diff erent
stages.
Nave scored the game’s
fi rst fi ve points in a span of
2:13, but Wallowa took the
lead by the end of the fi rst,
7-5, as the Eagles strug-
gled through an 11-minute
scoring drought. The Cou-
gar lead reached 11-5 on a
layup by Lyvvie Throne,
but a Meyers 3-pointer
ended the drought, and her
steal and layup just before
the half sent the teams into
the break tied at 11-11.
Wallowa grabbed the
lead early in the third and
never gave it up. The mar-
gin stayed between 1-3
points throughout the quar-
ter until two Moeller free
throws gave Wallowa a
20-16 edge headed to the
fi nal quarter.
Joseph sees its season
end at 12-11, but Homan
returns four starters on what
is still a relatively young
squad.
“They’re a ton of fun.
They learned a lot, they got
better as we went on...there
was never an easy game, so
they fought for everything,”
Homan said.
Wallowa,
which
improved to 16-8, will take
its young squad on the road
for a fi rst-round game at
5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23,
at Jordan Valley.
“I’m not going to sugar
coat it. We got our work cut
out for us,” Oveson said.
“With that being said, we
got a lot of young kids, and
the experience will be good
to get down there and play
another good team again.”
at 113. She took fourth in
her weight class, dropping
matches by fall to Debren
Sanabria and Joseph’s Jett
Peterson, the latter being the
third-place match.
However, there were not
enough third-place wrestlers
from the other districts, so
Delapena was tapped as an
alternate to help fi ll out the
bracket.
Peterson was the coun-
ty’s fi fth state qualifi er, and
the lone one from Joseph,
taking third at 113. He lost in
the semifi nals by fall to Cul-
ver’s Aiden Guest before the
aforementioned win in the
third-place match. Guest, on
the earlier win, took second,
while Peterson was third.
Also for Enterprise, Cody
Fent took fourth at 182.
After a semifi nal loss by
fall to Union/Cove’s David
Creech, he pinned Cul-
ver’s Lonny Hernandez to
reach the third-place match.
There, though, he dropped
a 9-3 decision to Heppner/
Ione’s Conor Brosnan.
Pearce
Schnetzky
dropped two matches by
fall at 138, and Alex Alba-
nez forfeited two matches
at 138.
For Joseph, Gavin Rus-
sell went 3-2 to take fi fth at
152. He dropped a quarter-
fi nal match to Justin Hodge
of Grant Union by fall, and
after a win by forfeit, pinned
Edward Ellsworth of Hep-
pner/Ione. Isaiah Lemmon
earned a pin of Russell in
the consolation semifi nals,
but Russell recovered to fi n-
ish his season with a win
in the fi fth-place match, a
pin of Culver’s Rigoberto
Gonzalez-Felix.
Dylan Rogers went 1-2
at 126, with a loss to Pine
Eagle’s Giovanni Cart-
wright by fall and then a
win by fall over Hayden
Hurst of Echo/Stanfi eld
before an injury ended his
match against Jacob Jones
of Union/Cove.
And Jayden McNall went
winless in three matches at
120. As a team, Joseph fi n-
ished 12th.
The fi ve state qualifi ers
will compete at Culver High
School in the 2A/1A state
tournament Saturday, Feb.
26. Matches begin at 9 a.m.,
with the fi nals scheduled for
7 p.m.
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Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Enterprise head coach Mike Crawford speaks with his players
during a timeout in the second half. The Union Bobcats
defeated the Enterprise Outlaws 46-30 on Saturday, Feb. 19,
2022, to win the Blue Mountain Conference district title at the
Pendleton Convention Center in Pendleton.
Outlaws:
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going into the district cham-
pionship it was going to be a
tough game and it was going
to be a good matchup. Per-
sonally, I couldn’t stop think-
ing about the game.”
Enterprise stayed in range
after dealing with the early
Union run, and twice got
within eight in the second
quarter — once on a scoop
shot by Alex Rowley and
once on a putback by Emily
Love that made it 24-16 —
before Union took a 26-16
lead to the half.
Union pushed the lead
back to 12 midway through
the third quarter before
Glenn went off again and put
the game away.
She was fouled on a
3-pointer, and made two free
throws for a 32-18 lead with
3:16 to play in the third. Less
than two minutes later, she
grabbed a steal, and though
she missed a layup the Bob-
cats regained possession
and worked the ball back to
Glenn, who stepped back
to bury a corner 3-pointer.
She connected on another
trey — her fi fth of the night
— with 48 seconds remain-
ing in the period for a 38-18
lead. A short Kaelyn Shoe-
maker jumper just before the
buzzer sounded extended the
lead to 22, the Bobcats’ larg-
est of the game.
“All three times we played
them (before) we had 20
turnovers plus, low shooting
percentages, so tonight — we
were aware of those things all
week in practice — we made
that a point (of emphasis)
tonight that we’d take care
of the ball and it showed,”
Union head coach Jordan
Klebaum-Johnston
said.
“When my senior shows up
and knocks down 26 points,
that’s pretty unstoppable.”
The Outlaws cut the mar-
gin to 16 in the fourth, but
were unable to make a seri-
ous run.
“We defi nitely didn’t have
one of our best games,” EHS
senior Jada Gray said. “We
were kind of off , our defense
and off ense. We just didn’t
have a great night.”
Glenn was the only player
on either side in double fi g-
ures. Kaylin Nowak added
seven points for Union.
Love scored eight points
in the loss for Enterprise, and
put in the team’s fi rst and last
points of the game.
Enterprise (15-10) hits the
road to visit Gervais at 4 p.m.
Feb. 26.
“We don’t get a choice on
who we play, so we’ll just
go in with the best we got
and try to get a win,” Craw-
ford said. “We really don’t
have a clear idea about how
we match up but I believe we
can play with them.”
The winner heads to
Pendleton for the state quar-
terfi nals beginning March 3.
time off the clock. Our girls
were patient on off ense,
especially in the second
half. They really looked for
good shots, we got them and
we started making them.”
But Joseph, which
caught fi re and scored 18
points in the fourth after
managing just 16 through
three quarters, responded
each time. Cooper Nave
countered Hermens’ trey
with one of her own, and
Orr connected from the
corner after the lead again
reached seven.
Wallowa turned it over
with 1:49 to play and just a
three-point lead before Her-
mens cashed in a key play.
She collected a steal, found
Sophie Moeller for a layup
attempt that missed, but
then grabbed a rebound and
put it back home for a 32-27
lead with just about 1:40 to
play. The teams traded free
throws on ensuing posses-
sions, with two from Aimee
Meyers making it 34-31,
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those to make it at 195.
Tegan Evans qualifi ed
in the same manner, tak-
ing third at 145. He reached
the semifi nals with a pin of
Imbler’s Krager Muilen-
burg, but lost by fall in the
semifi nals to Elgin’s Reece
McConnell. After pinning
Cohen Simpson of Pine
Eagle, Evans eked out a 2-1
decision over Jack Strong to
secure third place. McCo-
nnell earned second due to
the earlier victory, but Evans
received one of the three
at-large bids.
And reaching as an alter-
nate was Gabby Delapena
Ronald Bond/Wallowa County Chieftain
Wallowa head coach Greg Oveson talks with his team late
in the fourth quarter of the Old Oregon League third-place
game Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Wallowa defeated Joseph, 35-
34, to advance to the state playoff s.
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