Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1943-current, April 27, 2022, Page 10, Image 10

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SPORTS
Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Track:
Continued from Page A9
Mandy Decker/Contributed Photo
Wallowa Valley’s Spencer Decker swings at a pitch during a
game against Irrigon on Friday, April 22, 2022.
Baseball:
Continued from Page A9
Grover and Nobles each
had two hits in the contest.
Softball:
Continued from Page A9
In the second game, the
Outlaws scored seven runs
in the second and third
innings to break the game
open.
Four diff erent players
had two hits. Meyers, while
dominating in the circle, was
also on point at the plate,
driving in a game-high four
runs, while Rowley scored
three times in the nightcap.
The wins came just three
Pitchers Drew Beachy and
Melville combined to allow
just three hits, but the team
has hurt by fi ve errors.
Wallowa Valley (8-7
overall, 3-3 SD5) hosts Riv-
erside April 29.
days after a heartbreaking
6-5 road loss to Union/Cove,
one that saw the host Lady-
Cats earn a walkoff victory.
Sophie Moeller and Mey-
ers each had two hits —
combining for half of the
total for the Outlaws. Kirk-
land had a pair of RBIs in
the loss.
Wallowa Valley (10-6
overall, 4-2 Special Dis-
trict 2) visited Echo/Stan-
fi eld April 26 before start-
ing
a
season-ending
six-game homestand April
29 with a doubleheader
against Riverside.
He cleared 6-feet-2 in
the high jump, a mark that
put him in a massive tie for
the 10th-best mark in the
state, and currently the No. 2
mark in 1A. Glendale’s Eli-
jah Wytcherley has the top
height of any athlete in the
state at 6-feet-7.
Nelson broke 20 feet in
the long jump, ultimately
winning the competition
with a mark of 20-feet-4½,
and he placed second in the
triple jump with a distance of
40-feet-10½.
The Eagles picked up a
third win on the day, as Kale
Ferguson took the top mark
in the discus at 133-feet-
1. The junior added a sec-
ond-place eff ort in the javelin
at 148-feet-5, and was third
in the shot put at 39-feet-8½.
Also placing for the
Eagles was Bayden Men-
ton in the 3,000, as the
senior took third with a time
of 9:42.08, and sixth in the
1,500 in 4:21.45. And in the
4x100, Gavin Russell, Dylan
Rogers, James McNall and
James Burney took fi fth in a
time of 49.54 seconds.
On the girls side, Basey
Dawson placed fourth in the
javelin with a throw of 101-
feet-7, and Iona McDon-
ald was sixth in the 1,500
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and racking up seventh-place
fi nishes was Andrew Hurley
in the 3,000 (10:14.61) and
Tanner Kesecker in the shot
put (37-feet-0).
On the girls side, the
relay teams turned in sec-
ond- and third-place eff orts,
as the 4x400 squad of Ali-
sha Melville, Maddie Nordt-
vedt, Lannie Stonebrink and
Nevaeh James took second
in 4:32.38, and the 4x100
team of Althea Komiskey,
Nordtvedt, Stonebrink and
James placed third in 54.71.
Individually,
James
placed second in the 300 hur-
dles in 51.90, and fi fth in the
100 in 13.77, while Sophia
Espinoza chipped in a sixth-
place showing in the discus
at 85-feet-11.
Michaila Caine took sev-
enth in the 3,000 in 14:14.67.
Madison Wigen was seventh
in the high jump at 4-feet-6.
And Jada Gray was seventh
in the 100 hurdles (19.74)
and eighth in the high jump
(4-feet-4).
As a team, the EHS girls
scored 36 points to place
ninth.
The teams held a two-
way meet April 25, and
both travel to Union April
30. Knapp, meanwhile, will
compete at the Nike/Jesuit
Twilight Relays April 29.
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La Grande Saturday nt events, winning two of them.
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His day included a n in the long jump with a distance
6 feet, 2 inches, a wi inches, and a second-place finish in
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in 5:50.70, and eighth in the
300 hurdles in 56.88 sec-
onds. The Eagle girls scored
nine points to tie for 16th.
For Enterprise, Zac
Knapp had two victories
to account for half the boys
points as they scored 40 to
take seventh. Knapp took
the top spot in both the 1,500
in 4:04.80, and in the 3,000
in 8:53.41. Teammate Ran-
som Peters had a strong day,
as well, posting a third-place
fi nish in the 100 in 11.62, and
fourth in the 200 in 24.07.
Both times were personal
bests for the sophomore.
Weston Wolfe was fourth
in the 300 hurdles in 45.31,
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Enterprise’s Althea Komiskey competes in the girls high jump at the 1A/2A/3A Regional
track meet Saturday, April 23, 2022, in La Grande.