8A — BAKER CITY HERALD
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
WEEK AHEAD IN
HIGH SCHOOL
SPORTS
MONDAY, SEPT. 23
■ Boys soccer:
Pendleton at Baker, 6:30
p.m.
BAKER GIRLS SOCCER
La Grande Tigers blank Bulldogs
By Ronald Bond
The (La Grande) Observer
LA GRANDE — The La
Grande Tigers were generat-
ing constant pressure and
scoring opportunities, but for
much of the fi rst half couldn’t
break through against the
Baker Bulldogs’ defense.
La Grande led 2-0 at the
break, but it easily could
have been a fi ve- or six-goal
margin, especially consider-
ing the Tigers had 20 shots in
the fi rst half and dominated
possession.
“It wasn’t our best con-
nective possession play, but
we played well,” head coach
Sam Brown said. “I think the
second half we came back
better.”
La Grande, though, fi nally
broke the game wide open
with three second half goals
on the way to a 5-0 win over
the Bulldogs Saturday in
their Greater Oregon League
opener.
“When you get a couple
goals ahead, (you’re) able to
calm down and relax a bit.
The confi dence increases, the
touches improve,” Brown said.
The Tigers needed only
nine minutes to get on the
scoreboard when Audrey
Garlitz dribbled in and scored
from about 10 yards out.
What followed was a run
of missed opportunities. A
few shots missed wide but
most were stopped by Baker
goalkeeper Shayna Ruby, who
had 10 fi rst-half saves and 17
total to keep the Bulldogs in
the match.
“Shayna is an amazing
goalie,” Baker head coach
Kristen Rushton said. “She
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24
■ Volleyball: Baker at La
Grande, 6:30 p.m.
■ Boys soccer: Nyssa at
Baker, 5 p.m.
■ Girls soccer: Nyssa at
Baker, 3 p.m.
WEDNESDAY,
SEPT. 25
■ Volleyball: Burnt
River vs. Harper and
Huntington, 3:30 p.m.,
Harper
THURSDAY, SEPT. 26
■ Volleyball: Imbler at
Pine-Eagle, 6:30 p.m.
Ronald Bond / The (La Grande) Observer
Baker’s Taylor Gyllenberg, left, makes a play to keep the ball away from La Grande’s Audrey Garlitz Saturday.
has a brilliant ability to read
the ball and to know where
her goal is behind her, which
is very uncommon in high
school play.”
Several of Ruby’s saves
were made on point-blank
shots, including a save on a
run-in by Garlitz where the
two met at the ball almost
simultaneously and Ruby
made the stop.
“She did really well, and
some of them were really
good saves, right in the cor-
ner,” La Grande’s Katie Perry
said of Ruby. “She did a good
job.”
Perry’s goal from 11 yards
out in the 35th minute gave
the Tigers some breathing
room, and the Tigers netted
scoreboard, Rushton was
pleased with the effort of her
team Saturday.
“The La Grande team
is
a
great team. They have
— Baker girls soccer coach Kristen Rushton, talking about
great
control, they are really
goalkeeper Shayna Ruby, who had 17 saves Saturday
aggressive and they play soc-
three goals in a 12-minute
the second half.”
cer well,” she said. “It was a
span in the second half to
The Tigers’ defense turned great game today. It was very
turn the game into a rout
in a third straight shutout
respectable, even though the
as Lindsay Adkins, Rosie
and fourth on the season
score was 5-0, the goals they
Aguilera and Starra Ullman — all coming at home. La
made were beautiful goals,
each scored.
Grande allowed just two
but I feel like we held them
“I feel like whenever we
shots on goal, and Alexyss
really well.”
score our fi rst goal we start
Chamberlain and Brenna
Brown commended Baker’s
playing a little bit better, we
Strand recorded a save in
effort on defense.
start playing a little bit more each half — Strand’s coming
“They played well de-
confi dently. It still took us a
on a leaping stop on a Baker fensively, very similar to
long time to score after that,” free kick.
Umatilla. She had them well
Perry said. “Once we got into
Even though it may not
organized,” he said.
the second half we got it go-
have shown, in that it became
Baker (1-4 overall, 0-1
ing, especially the fi rst part of a one-sided game on the
GOL) hosts Nyssa Tuesday.
“Shayna is an amazing goalie. She has a brilliant
ability to read the ball and to know where the goal is
behind here, which is very uncommon in high school.”
BAKER BOYS SOCCER
Baker falls to Tigers in GOL opener
By Ronald Bond
The (La Grande) Observer
LA GRANDE — The La Grande
Tigers and Baker Bulldogs appeared
destined for a tight contest in their
Greater Oregon League opener at
Community Stadium.
But one goal by the Tigers shortly
after halftime swung the momentum
and suddenly opened the fl oodgates.
James Thurman recorded a hat
trick — with the fi rst of those goals
defl ecting off a Baker defender and
in — and La Grande scored fi ve un-
answered goals in the second half for
a 5-0 win over the Bulldogs Saturday.
“We tried something in the fi rst
half to experiment, changing forma-
tions,” La Grande head coach Sid
Rangel said. “That didn’t work, so we
stuck with our original plan. We went
back to that and started connecting
passes, and things started working
for us.”
La Grande had an edge in posses-
sion and scoring opportunities in the
fi rst half, but was unable to break
through. Baker goalkeeper Silas
Carter played a role in that, register-
ing fi ve saves in the fi rst 40 minutes,
including a couple of impressive plays
made on attempts by Callum Ebel
and Westin Blake. The Bulldogs even
seemed to have the momentum early
in the second half as they set the tone
in the fi rst fi ve minutes.
But in the 46th minute, Thurman’s
attempt that he said appeared to
be headed wide glanced off a Baker
defender and trickled home to break
the stalemate and set off a snowball
effect.
“I shot it, the opponent got a foot on
it as I shot it. It was going wide, their
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27
■ Volleyball: Crane at
Pine-Eagle, 4 p.m.;
Elgin at Powder Valley,
4 p.m.
■ Football: Crane at
Pine-Eagle, 2 p.m.;
Baker at Ontario, 7
p.m. (MT); Elgin at
Powder Valley, 7 p.m.;
Huntington at Prairie
City/Burnt River, 7 p.m.
■ Cross country: Baker
Invitational, tba
SATURDAY, SEPT. 28
■ Boys soccer: Baker at
Ontario, 2 p.m. (MT)
■ Girls soccer: Baker at
Ontario, noon (MT)
AT A GLANCE
Net match moved
Baker’s home non-
league volleyball match
with Weiser has been
moved from today to
Sept. 30 at BHS.
Eastern Oregon
riders place well
Members of the
Eastern Oregon Rodeo
Team competed in three
rodeos in August and
September.
Michelle Williams of
North Powder is second
in girls all-around. Mag-
gie Mackenzie of Baker
is 11th.
Williams is fi rst in bar-
rels, eighth in breakaway
roping, second in goats,
28th in team roping and
second in girls cutting.
Mackenzie is fourth in
breakaway roping, 13th
in goats, ninth in team
roping and fi rst in girls
cutting.
Kylie Siddoway is
fourth in girls cutting.
Redlands defeats
Linfi eld, 27-19
Ronald Bond / The (La Grande) Observer
Baker’s Jamisun Rigueiro, far right, leaps for a header against La Grande’s James Thurman during Satur-
day’s match at La Grande. Baker’s Jorge Duran, far left, awaits the outcome.
player was running back and hit the
ball in the net,” Thurman said.
Thurman fed a beautiful pass to
Ebel for a goal seven minutes later for
a 2-0 margin, then scored his second
goal in the 60th minute immediately
after La Grande seemed to catch a
break. A corner kick by La Grande
appeared to be sent out of bounds on
a header by the Tigers, but they were
granted another corner kick. Thur-
man took advantage, scoring on the
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next corner for a three-goal lead.
“It’s hard to say this, but a lot of
times the refs play a part,” Baker head
coach Victor Benites said. “On the cor-
ner kick they put it out, and then he
gives it back and they scored on that.”
Thurman said the key for La
Grande was settling down after
halftime.
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we were trying to be too quick,” Thur-
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entire time, which can be a detriment,
surprisingly. The second half we
calmed down, played some passes and
once we got the fi rst goal, the fl ood-
gates open.”
Adam Remily and Thurman added
late goals for the fi nal margin and the
blowout win.
“In our formation that we have as
our base, that formation is crucial for
us in our success, and we executed
pretty well. It’s meant to score goals,”
Rangel said.
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REDLANDS, Calif.
— Unranked Redlands
earned its fi rst vic-
tory over Linfi eld in nine
tries, knocking off the
No. 11 Wildcats 27-19
in a mistake-fi lled and
penalty marred contest
Saturday night at Ted
Runner Stadium.
Linfi eld (1-1) fell into
an early hole against
the defending Southern
California Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference
champions and could
never quite seize com-
mand. Redlands (3-0)
snapped Linfi eld’s cur-
rent win streak of eight
straight victories dating
to September of last
season.
Colorado nips
Arizona State
TEMPE, Ariz. —
Colorado lost two of
its best players in the
fi rst quarter and the
attrition kept coming as
one player after another
went down.
But Steven Montez
threw for 337 yards and
had three touchdown
passes to Tony Brown,
and Colorado rallied for
a 34-31 win over No. 24
Arizona State on Satur-
day night.