BAKER CITY HERALD — 5A
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2020
BAKER BOYS BASKETBALL AT POWDER VALLEY
Baker holds off Badgers
in offensive showcase
BAKER GIRLS BASKETBALL AT POWDER VALLEY
Bulldogs shake off
sluggish period to roll
past Powder Valley
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Baker’s offense all but
disappeared for eight minutes
Tuesday at North Powder, but
the Bulldogs’ stifl ing defense
stuck around.
After racing to a 15-4 lead
after one quarter in a rare
varsity matchup against
Class 1A Powder Valley, the
Baker girls managed just 4
points in the second period.
The Bulldogs, ranked third
in Class 4A, led 19-12 at
halftime.
But Baker regained its
offensive momentum in
the second half, and with a
consistently strong defense
the Bulldogs went on to win
51-27.
“We started out fairly well
but it just seemed like our
energy went totally away in
the second period,” Baker
coach Mat Sand said. “We lost
our intensity as a team, and
we can’t do that.”
Baker’s defense helps offset
those offensive lapses.
For the third straight game
the Bulldogs didn’t allow its
opponent to reach double
fi gures in any quarter.
Baker, which has won nine
straight games and is 18-2
overall, is yielding an average
of 24 points over its past four
games.
“Our defense was really
good,” Sand said. “Our offense
was clunky at times.”
Freshman post Jozie
Ramos scored 6 of her game-
high 20 points in the fi rst
quarter, and seniors Lauren
Benson (5 points) and Sydney
Younger (4) helped Baker roll
to a 15-4 lead.
But Baker’s only points
in the second period were
Benson’s 3-pointer and a free
throw by Sydney Keller.
Powder Valley’s Belle
Blair, who had a team-high
11 points, scored 6 points in
the quarter and the Badgers
closed to within 7 at halftime.
Ramos tallied 11 of Baker’s
15 points in the third pe-
riod — including 5 for 5 free
throws — and the Bulldogs
increased their lead to 34-19.
Younger scored 8 of her 12
points in the fourth quarter
as Baker pulled away.
Benson added 10 points,
including both of Baker’s
3-pointers.
Dallee Jo Bingham had 6
points for the Badgers (8-8),
and McKenzie Leggett added
5.
Baker had a major advan-
tage at the free throw line,
Kathy Orr/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Sydney Keller drives to the basket against Pow-
der Valley’s Belle Blair Tuesday at North Powder.
“We started out fairly well
but it just seemed like our
energy went totally away
in the second period.”
— Baker coach Mat Sand
making 17 of 25 compared
with Powder Valley’s 6 of 8.
“They’re a really good bas-
ketball team,” Badgers’ head
coach Allen Bingham said of
Baker. “If we could improve
in a few areas regardless of
the outcome, we’d be good. We
felt like it was positive for us.”
Although Powder Valley
is Baker’ nearest competitor,
just 20 miles north on Inter-
state 84, the schools rarely
compete at the varsity level.
Powder Valley is in the Class
1A Old Oregon League.
BAKER (51)
Elms 0 0-0 0, Hellberg 2 0-0 4, Flanagan 1 0-0 2,
Keller 1 1-6 3, Younger 3 6-7 12, Zikmund 0 0-0 0,
Carter 0 0-0 0, Ramos 6 8-9 20, Benson 3 2-3 10,
Moore 0 0-0 0. Totals 16 17-25 51.
POWDER VALLEY (27)
Williams 0 0-0 0, D. Bingham 3 0-0 6, McKenzie
Leggett 2 0-0 5, Orr 0 0-0 0, K. Bingham 0 3-5 3,
Davis 1 0-0 2, Blair 4 3-3 11. Totals 10 6-8 27.
Baker
15
4 15
17 — 51
Powder Valley 4
8
7
8 — 27
Three-point baskets — Benson 2, McKenzie
Leggett. Total fouls — Baker 12, Powder Valley 14.
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BMS 7th-grade
girls hoops
team opens
season with
two big wins
The Baker Middle School
seventh-grade girls basket-
ball team improved to 2-0 on
the season with a 57-2 win
over La Grande Tuesday at
La Grande.
Emylia Myer was Baker’s
leading scorer with 14 points.
Kathryn Gentry had 12
points and 12 rebounds.
Baker opened its season
Jan. 23 by beating Grant
Union 47-20 in the BMS gym.
Myer led the way with 13
points.
Ashlyn Dalton had 11
points as well as 6 steals and
6 assists.
Baker is coached by Russ
Elms.
Baker athletic director
Buell Gonzales Jr. said he
was looking for a late-season
nonleague game to round out
the schedule, and Powder
Valley athletic director Brad
Dunten invited the Bulldog
girls and boys to play in the
brand-new gym at North
Powder.
Baker hosts La Grande Fri-
day at 6 p.m. in a key Greater
Oregon League game. Baker
is 3-0 in league play.
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By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Baker’s boys
basketball team had
its shortest bus ride
of the season, and the
Bulldogs played like a
team that hasn’t had
time to get stiff sitting
on uncomfortable
benches.
After the 20-mile
jaunt up Interstate
84 to North Powder,
the Bulldogs scored
25 points in the fi rst
quarter against the
Powder Valley Bad-
gers Tuesday night.
But the Badgers,
who didn’t have to
travel at all, nearly
matched Baker’s early
spurt, trailing just
25-24.
Dominick Grende
had three of his seven
3-pointers in the fi rst
period as the Class
1A Badgers kept pace
with the Class 4A
Bulldogs.
“They played with
a bunch of energy and
the crowd got into the
game early on,” Baker
coach Jebron Jones
said of the Badgers.
“We didn’t play very
good defense in the
fi rst quarter.”
He was much more
pleased with Baker’s
defense thereafter,
as the Bulldogs pulled
away for a 74-62 win.
“We played better
defense the last three
quarters and that’s
why we won the game,”
Jones said.
Baker senior Riley
Flanagan scored a
season-high 21 points
to share team honors
with senior Caden Long.
Kathy Orr / Baker City Herald
Baker’s Bryan Robb, right, battles with Powder Valley’s
Reece Dixon for a rebound Tuesday
Gabe Gambleton had 19
take on La Grande Friday at
points.
7:30 p.m.
Grende scored a game-high
BAKER (74)
23 points, Roper Bingham
Younger 0 0-0 0, Gambleton 8 0-0 18, Flanagan 10
21, Robb 0 0-0 0, Rigueiro 1 0-0 2, Wright 2 0-0
had 14 and Moziss Nesser 11. 0-1
4, Shirtcliff 0 0-0 0, Long 9 2-3 21, Van Arsdall 1 1-2
“I thought we played very 3, Smith 1 2-4 2. Totals 32 5-10 74.
POWDER VALLEY (62)
well,” Powder Valley coach
Bingham 5 4-9 14, Dixon 4 0-0 8, Grende 8 0-0 23,
Martin 0 0-0 0, Stephens 1 0-0 2, Nesser 5 0-0 11,
Kyle Dixon said. “It was a
Krieger 2 0-0 4. Totals 25 4-9 62.
good game. They were bigger
25 19 16 14 — 74
than we were (and) they just Baker
Powder Valley 24 11 14 13 — 62
Three-point
baskets
— Gambleton 3, Flana-
kind of beat us on the boards.” gan, Long, Grende 7, Nesser.
Total fouls — Baker
11, Powder Valley 12.
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