8A — BAKER CITY HERALD
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
BOISE STATE FOOTBALL
Boise St. romps
past Portland St.
POWDER VALLEY FOOTBALL
By Jason Chatraw
Badgers top Wallowa in key tilt
EO Media Group Staff
Reece Dixon threw three
touchdown passes and ran for
a fourth score, and the Powder
Valley Badgers won an im-
portant early Special District
3-East contest at home over
the Wallowa Cougars Friday,
38-26.
“Wallowa is ranked No. 7 in
the coaches poll. The guys are
playing really hard. They’re
pretty excited,” Powder Valley
head coach Josh Cobb said.
The game of runs saw the
Badgers put together the most
signifi cant run in the second
half, with three straight
touchdowns — two on passes
by Dixon — to turn a 20-14
halftime defi cit into a 38-20
lead in the fourth quarter.
The Badgers had scored the
fi rst two touchdowns of the
game, but Wallowa responded
with 20 straight points to take
the six-point margin into the
locker room.
Dixon passes for 105 yards
and threw two of his three
touchdowns to Dominick
Grende. As a team, the Bad-
gers rushed for 239 yards.
In a losing effort for Wal-
lowa, Lute Ramsden passed
for 247 yards and three touch-
downs. Tristin Bales had 144
Ellen Bishop / EOMediaGroup
Powder Valley quarterback Reece Dixon is tackled by Wallowa’s Mason Moore (23) and
Justin Bales (16) on the way to a score.
yards receiving, 83 rushing
and three touchdowns.
Complete individual stats
for the Badgers were not
available.
Powder Valley (2-0 overall,
1-0 SD3-E) visits Pine Eagle
Friday, while Wallowa (0-2,
0-1) hosts Elgin Friday.
Associated Press
BOISE — Defensive end
Curtis Weaver shrugged
and smiled wryly when
asked about his record-
tying performance in No. 22
Boise State’s 45-10 victory
over Portland State on
Saturday night.
“It means something to
me,” Weaver said of match-
ing the school’s single-game
record of four sacks. “It’s
always good but, at the
end of the day, the whole
D-line played a role in it.
But we’ve got to keep mov-
ing forward. We’ve got the
Mountain West conference
play now and that’s still our
goal.”
Weaver served as a
perfect spokesperson for
the Broncos’ business-like
approach to playing an FCS
school for only the third
time since 2010. Instead of
getting caught looking past
the Vikings, Boise State
was laser focused.
But as focused as Boise
State was, it didn’t lack for
fl ashy and explosive plays.
John Hightower re-
turned a kickoff 98 yards
for a touchdown to get Boi-
se State’s scoring started.
C.T. Thomas scored the fi rst
of two touchdowns on a one-
handed snag after getting
tipped by his defender. And
Stefan Cobbs scored on his
fi rst ever catch, racing 44
yards to the end zone and
losing his helmet on a hit
after he had scored.
Then there was Weaver
wreaking havoc in the
Vikings’ backfi eld on just
about every play in the
second half.
“If (Weaver) continues to
stay humble and hungry,
hopefully good things keep
happening,” Boise State
coach Bryan Harsin said.
Good things have been
happening by the boatloads
for the Broncos’ defense in
the second half.
Boise State (3-0) has yet
to allow any points in the
second half this season,
joining Wisconsin as the
only two schools to still hold
that distinction.
“Protection was a
problem for us all night
long,” Portland State coach
Bruce Barnum said. “We
had some things work
for us early and I was
pleased with the start, but
we couldn’t get them off
the fi eld after that fi rst
quarter.”
Portland State (1-2),
which played Arkansas
tough in a 20-13 loss in
the Vikings’ season opener,
racked up 159 yards in the
fi rst quarter but only 85
over the fi nal three.
EOU women’s cross-country team places 3rd at home meet
seventh-place fi nish from Michelle
Herbes and a 10th-place perfor-
LA GRANDE — The Eastern
mance by Megan Boals, placed third
Oregon University women’s cross
behind College of Idaho and North-
country team is already well ahead west Nazarene during Friday’s race
of where it was this time last year,
at Lane Farms east of La Grande.
and its effort at its home cross coun-
But head coach Ben Welch said
try meet proved as much.
as a team, the combined time was
The Mountaineers, led by a
almost 3 1/2 minutes faster for its
By Ronald Bond
The (La Grande) Observer
top fi ve runners than in the same
race last fall.
“Some of that was the better
weather this year, but most of it is
they are just better. They trained
hard (and) they’re racing well,”
Welch said. “It’ll be interesting to
see what comes of it. (Friday) was a
very good start.”
Herbes crossed the line in
19:21.10, and Boals followed in
19:45.90 in what was a surprising
race.
“I wasn’t surprised how fast Me-
gan Boals ran, but Megan Boals was
surprised how fast she ran consider-
ing one of the comments she made,”
Welch said.
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