6A — BAKER CITY HERALD
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
BAKER VOLLEYBALL
BAKER GIRLS SOCCER
Bulldogs fall to Parma
in 3-set home opener
Bulldogs rout Nyssa, 5-1
By Gerry Steele
gsteele@bakercityherald.com
Baker had a long night
against Parma in the
Bulldogs’ home-opening
nonleague volleyball match
Tuesday in the Baker gym.
Baker made too many
miscues on the way to drop-
ping a 25-19, 25-13, 25-15
match.
Baker was hampered by
several unforced errors, and
by Parma’s ability to fi nd
gaps in Baker’s defense.
“They found our holes
and took it to us,” said
Baker coach Chelsea Hurli-
man.
Hurliman said the
Bulldogs didn’t play as well
against Parma as they did
in their season opener at
Weiser last week.
“The things that we did
well against Weiser we
weren’t doing well tonight,”
the fi rst-year Baker coach
said.
After forging a 2-2 tie
early in the fi rst set, Baker
fell behind 14-4.
The Bulldogs then man-
aged to pull within four
points, 23-19, but couldn’t
get any closer.
Set 2 was more of the
same. Baker against fell
behind 14-4, but this time
the Bulldogs weren’t able
to rally.
Baker played better in
the fi nal set, tying the score
at 9 and 10.
But Parma then scored
seven straight points to
pull away for the sweep.
Baker (0-2) travels
Younger, Daphne Thomas and
Brooklyne Jaca each added
Four Baker players scored
single goals.
Tuesday in the Bulldogs
“We had great leadership
season-opening nonleague 5-1 from our returning players,”
girls soccer win at Nyssa.
said Baker coach Kristen
Sydney Pierce led Baker
Rushton.
with two goals. Sydney
Rushton also had praise for
By Gerry Steele
gsteele@bakercityherald.com
keeper Syana Ruby.
“Shayna was a great
keeper,” Rushton said. She
was worth the wait.”
Baker travels to Boardman
Thursday to take on Riverside,
then returns home Monday to
play Weiser at 6 p.m.
BAKER BOYS SOCCER TOPS NYSSA, 8-2
Baker boys start with a win
By Gerry Steele
gsteele@bakercityherald.com
A trio of Bulldogs scored at least two goals
each Tuesday as Baker opened its nonleague
boys soccer season with an 8-2 rout at Nyssa.
Jorge Duran led fi ve Baker scorers with
three goals.
Jamisun Rigueiro and Brylan Robb each
added a pair of goals, and Israel Duran a
single goal.
Baker travels to Weiser on Monday for a
match starting at 4:30 p.m. PDT.
POWDER VALLEY VOLLEYBALL
Sluggish Badgers still
manage sweep at Union
By Ronald Bond
The (La Grande) Observer
S. John Collins / Baker City Herald
Lacy Churchfi eld goes for a kill during Baker’s match
against Parma, Idaho, Tuesday night.
to Homedale, Idaho, on
Thursday, then competes
in the Burns tournament
Saturday.
Baker split the pre-
liminary matches against
Parma, winning the JV
match 25-20, 23-25, 15-4
and losing the JV2 match
25-21, 19-25, 6-15.
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UNION — Brooke Allen
said she felt that the Powder
Valley Badgers didn’t play to
their full potential Tuesday
night.
It was still a good enough
effort to earn a sweep.
Allen had 16 assists, seven
digs and fi ve kills as part of
a balanced attack as Powder
Valley swept the Union Bob-
cats, 25-19, 25-17, 25-22, in a
nonleague contest at Union.
“We didn’t have a lot of
energy, and we had (our fi rst
day of) school today,” Allen
said. “We had 10 games last
week, so we’re still tired from
that.”
Powder Valley coach Marji
Lind agreed that the team
was “still sluggish” after the
long weekend — having
played matches Thursday
and Friday in Molalla and
Saturday in La Grande —
but she said the Badgers
found a way.
“They came out and did
their jobs. It may not have
been fl ashy or the way they
wanted it to click, but they got
it done,” Lind said.
The Badgers were rarely
threatened Tuesday, using
a 6-0 run and later a 5-0
run to take the fi rst set and
building double-digit leads
in both the second and third
sets. A kill by Josi Krieger in
the second gave the Badgers
a 23-13 lead before Keanna
Bingham fi nished it with a
kill. Another kill by Bingham
put the Badgers ahead by an
identical 23-13 score in the
third as they appeared set to
fi nish the match.
But the Bobcats rallied.
Taylar Daggett started a
9-0 run with a kill. Ahnica
Shoemaker had consecu-
tive blocks — teaming with
Autumn Daggett on one — to
bring Union within 23-20,
and an ace by Kylie Marriott
and another Autumn Daggett
kill cut Powder’s lead to 1.
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home game,” she said, add-
ing that the crowd gave
the team a boost late. “We
got a bigger crowd than we
expected, and that helped at
the end.”
Union briefl y led in the
fi rst set, 7-5, after three
straight kills by Autumn
Daggett, who had 10 to lead
the Bobcats. Allen gave the
Badgers the lead for good
with a kill for an 8-7 edge
midway through the fi rst big
Badger run in the set, then
capped the 6-0 spurt with
an ace. Krieger had a kill to
make it 20-12, and Union
got no closer than four points
before Allen put the set away
with a kill.
Bingham had 11 kills to
lead the Badgers, and also
had 15 assists. McKenzie
Leggett had 12 digs, Krieger
had 10 and Bailey Cole
added nine. Davis added six
kills and four blocks.
“They all can run multiple
jobs, and the nice part about
it is they’re really intelligent
players as well,” Lind said.
The Badgers (7-1 overall)
visit Weston-McEwen Thurs-
day, while the Bobcats (1-2)
host Pine Eagle Friday.
Federer upset in quarterfinals
at Flushing Meadows, Federer appeared to be
fl exing his upper back after some points and
NEW YORK — Betrayed by his 38-year-old said afterward that he began feeling some-
body, and his forehand, Roger Federer is done thing in that area in the afternoon.
at the U.S. Open.
He took a rare-for-him medical timeout
Federer’s upper back and neck gave him
after the fourth set, leaving the court with
trouble, he kept missing makeable shots and a trainer. When play resumed after a break
he kept giving away the lead against a guy
of nearly 10 minutes, Federer’s form never
he’d never lost to. It all added up to getting
picked up.
beaten 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 by 78th-ranked
“He started slowing down a little bit,” Dimi-
Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfi nals before
trov said. “For sure, in the end, he was not 100
a stunned crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium on percent of himself.”
Tuesday night.
The stats were staggering and showed
“Grigor was able to put me away,” Federer exactly how off Federer was on this evening:
said. “I fought with what I had.”
61 unforced errors, 33 on the forehand side.
Chasing a 21st Grand Slam title, and sixth Compare that to his 40 total winners.
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Powder Valley’s Belle Blair,
who had 10 kills, ended the
rally with a kill, and the
Badgers fi nished the match
on the next point.
Union head coach Karly
Knapp, in addition to saying
the team was “a little off,”
said the Bobcats were lacking
some confi dence after having
played — and losing to —
Powder Valley on Saturday.
“Going in kind of blind
Saturday was a little dif-
ferent, and then coming in
tonight knowing we got beat,
regardless of the score, still
doesn’t feel that good, so I
think the girls coming in
were not as confi dent as they
should be,” Knapp said.
The Bobcats had a height-
ened sense of urgency which
sparked the late rally, which
Knapp attributed to them
realizing the match was on
the verge of being over.
“In the end they realized
they have the ability to play
a tight game with North
Powder,” she said.
Bobcats’ setter Callie
Glenn said wasn’t properly
prepared for the match
“We weren’t mentally
ready for being at our fi rst
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Union’s Sydney Antoine, left, and Powder Valley’s Au-
tumn Davis both make a play on a ball at the net during
Tuesday’s match in Union.