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BAKER CITY HERALD — 5A MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020 BAKER SWIMMING BAKER GIRLS BASKETBALL Baker girls 5th, boys place 7th ■ Brianna Stadler wins two events at the Jay Rowan Invitational meet REDMOND — Baker sophomore Brianna Stadler won two events to lead the girls swim team to a 5th- place fi nish at the Jay Rowan Invitational Saturday at the Cascade Swim Center. Stadler won the 200 individual medley and the 100 butterfl y. Stadler owns the state record in the 100 backstroke, and she set meet records at the La Grande Invitational in December in the 100 butterfl y and 100 backstroke. In the 200 individual medley, Stadler’s time in the fi nals was 2:36.92, almost 12 seconds faster than runner up Teagan Perret of Bend (2:48.45). Stadler’s fi nals time in the 100 butterfl y was 1:11.19, six seconds ahead of runner-up Lydia DiGennaro of The Dalles. Baker junior Hollie Mays fi nished third in the 200 individual medley and 100 freestyle as Baker amassed 126 points. Bend won the girls team title with 302 points. Baker’s girls relay team fi nished second to Bend in the 200 medley. The team consists of sophomore Kelcee Bailey, junior Salena Bott, Stadler and Mays. On the boys side, Baker senior Zachary Wise fi nished in the top 8 in three events — 6th in the 100 freestyle, 7th in the 200 freestyle and 8th in the 100 breaststroke. The Baker boys fi nished with 74 points. Redmond won the team title with 344 points. Other Baker results: Girls • 200 freestyle relay: 4th (Bott, Mays, Bailey, Stadler) • Bott: 3rd, 100 breaststroke, 7th, 50 freestyle • Penelope Simmons: 20th, 100 freestyle • Bailey: 10th, 400 freestyle; 14th, 50 freestyle Boys • 200 medley relay, 6th (Tommy Huntington, Danny Myers, Jacob Miller, Wise) • Miller: 4th, 100 breastroke, 9th, 50 freestyle • Gabriel Bott: 13th, 100 breaststroke; 21st, 50 free- style • Huntington: 10th, 100 backstroke • Myers, 7th, 100 butterfl y; 10th, 50 freestyle Kathy Orr/Baker City Herald Baker’s Jocelynn Hellberg dribbles in traffi c against multiple Weiser players, including Tobie Noyer, left. Bulldogs breeze by Weiser raced downcourt for an un- contested layin. The scoreboard clock That’s a designed play the scarcely had time to start its Bulldogs will use if they think work before Baker was in it’s likely that Ramos, the the lead, and the Bulldogs team’s tallest player at 6-foot, never relinquished that early is likely to win the tip, Baker momentum in a 58-33 rout of coach Mat Sand said. Weiser Saturday afternoon in Younger scored Baker’s a nonleague girls basketball fi rst 5 points, and when game at the Baker gym. Ramos grabbed an offensive Freshman Jozie Ramos rebound and converted a tapped the opening tip to three-point play, the Bulldogs senior Sydney Younger, who led 8-0 with 3:20 left in the fi rst quarter. Meanwhile Baker’s stifl ing full-court defense nearly kept the Wolverines scoreless for the entire period. Mattie Shirts’ rebound basket with 43 seconds left in the quarter accounted for Weiser’s only points as Baker led 10-2. The Bulldogs’ lead would have been bigger but for a few shots that barely missed, among them Younger’s run- ner in the lane that rolled agonizingly slowly around nearly the entire circumfer- ence of the rim before sliding off. Shirts scored the fi rst basket of the second quarter to cut the lead to 10-4, but Baker then scored 13 straight points to break the game open. Four Bulldogs scored dur- ing the streak. Sydney Keller started the run with a pair of free throws. 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Younger assisted to set the tone of the game.” on that shot and on Nemec’s Ramos, who tied Younger second hoop. for game-high honors with 16 Sand called a couple of points, said Sand has instilled timeouts in the fi rst half to in his players the importance review with his team some of playing solid defense. new offensive sets that the “We try to play really in- Bulldogs just started working tense defense,” Ramos said. on in practice this past week. On the other side of the Sand said the team simply court, Ramos said she recog- didn’t have time during nized from early in the game December, when the Bulldogs that she had an advantage traveled more than 2,000 over Weiser’s interior players miles to compete in four once she had the ball in the tournaments and also battled post. In addition to her inside recurrent illness, to put in baskets Ramos drew multiple much practice time. fouls and took advantage, “We’re trying to work on making 4 of 5 free throws. some new things and add Ramos said she also looks them to our tool box,” Sand to turn her teammates’ or her said. own missed shots into second- He said he’s also experi- chance rebound baskets. She menting with lineups to see had three of those against which groups of fi ve play- Weiser. ers have the best chemistry But it was Baker’s defense depending on the opponents’ that dictated the game early, defensive strategy. even as the Bulldogs’ offense Although Sand said Baker was inconsistent. went through offensive “ebbs Weiser had 10 team fouls and fl ows” during the easy before it reached double fi g- win over Weiser, he was ures in points. generally pleased with the Madison Phillips’ jumper Bulldogs’ progress. from just inside the three-point “I like the way it’s coming line made the score 32-10 at along,” he said. halftime. He was also satisfi ed with The Wolverines made a brief Baker’s defense — the key to run in the middle of the third quarter, a 13-3 spurt that cut Baker’s lead to 37-25. 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