6A — BAKER CITY HERALD
SPORTS
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2021
DAWGS
BAKER WRESTLING
Bulldogs get 10 wins
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• River Clark, 106 pounds, pinned
teammate Marcus Chamberlain
• Cole Hester, 132 pounds, defeated
Baker wrestlers earned 10 wins Ontario’s Jamis Gonzalez, 8-3
during a competition with Ontario
• Kaci Anderson, 145 pounds, defeated
and Vale on Thursday, June 3. The Ontario’s Hannah Hernandez, 11-6
meet took place at Baker Middle
• Gavin Stone, 152 pounds, pinned
School.
Ontario’s Marcus Grivajala
“Even though a lot of the kids
• Jacob Mills, 182 pounds, pinned
teammate
Ryan Braun
weren’t the same weight, they were
•
Adrian
Allen, 220 pounds, defeated
within one weight class of each
Ontario’s
Alec
Sigrah, 7-1
other, it made for some really good
•
Gauge
Bloomer,
220 pounds, pinned
matches,” Baker coach Brandon
Ontario’s
Alec
Sigrah
Young said. “The kids got to wrestle
• Jaden Martin, 285 pounds, pinned
kids maybe they normally didn’t
Ontario’s Nico Sigrah, and pinned On-
get to wrestle, and we had a lot of
tario’s Christian Rodriguez
By Corey Kirk
ckirk@bakercityherald.com
evenly matched kids involved.”
Baker winners included:
• Joey Duncan, 106 pounds, pinned
Ontario’s Nick Sandberg
• Marcus Chamberlain, 106 pounds,
pinned Ontario’s Nick Sandberg
Baker will travel to Nyssa on
Thursday, June 10 for their fi nal
regular season match, then com-
pete at the regional tournament in
La Grande on Saturday, June 12.
BAKER
“I kind of know his game a
lot, I know where he likes to
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get his work in,” Jones said.
A pair of freshmen led
“He hit his shots, got into the
Baker, as Paul Hobson scored lane, ran the fl oor, and did
a game-high 26 points,
what I asked him to do.”
including a trio of three-
Jones said he was proud of
pointers, while Hudson Spike Baker’s collective effort.
added 18 points and two
“Just how hard the kids
three-pointers.
played, I was proud of them
Jones said he was im-
taking the initiative to do
pressed with Spike’s shot
the little extra stuff in the
selection.
second half to get the job
BYWAY
Corey Kirk/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Casey Vaughn, top, battles Ontario’s Ruben Herndandez.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
THURSDAY, JUNE 3
done,” Jones said.
BAKER (78)
Justin Ash, Kaden Krieger POWDER VALLEY (47)
Ash 3 2-2 8, Stephens 2 2-2 7, Krieger 4 0-2 8,
Gambleton 4 0-0 9, Quintela 4 1-1 9, Younger 4
and Cole Martin each had
Clay Martin 2 3-4 7, Dixon 2 1-1 5, Secl 0 0-0 0,
1-3 9, Ogan 0 0-1 0, Dalke 0 0-0 0, Gentry 0 0-0
Cole
Martin
4
0-1
8,
McCall
2
0-0
4,
Golar
0
0-0
0, Spike 7 3-4 15, Hobson 5 1-1 14, Wright 2 0-1
eight points for the Badgers. 0, Proffi t 0 0-0 0. Totals 19 8-14 47.
4, Pepera 0 0-0 0, Van Arsdall 5 1-2 11, Mitchell 2
0-2 4, Morrison 0 0-0 0, Conklin 0 0-0 0, McCull-
Ethan Stephens and Clay
BAKER (75)
och 0 0-0 0, Harper 0 0-0 0. Totals 32 7-15 78.
Martin added seven points
Gambleton 4 2-2 11, Quintela 2 0-0 4, Younger 4
2-4
10,
Ogan
0
0-0
0,
Dalke
0
0-0
0,
Gentry
0
0-0
ONTARIO (44)
each.
0, Spike 8 0-0 18, Hobson 8 7-8 26, Wright 0 0-0
Hendrickson 1 0-0 3, Reyna 1 0-0 2, Mendoza 2
0, Pepera 0 0-0 0, Van Arsdall 1 0-0 2, Mitchell
1-2 6, Garfi as 0 202 2, Smith 0 202 2, Nielson 4
Baker (4-1) will go for a
1 0-0 2, Morrison 0 0-0 0, McCulloch 0 0-0 0,
3-4 12, Anzaldua 3 0-0 6, Rolden 1 0-0 2, Benites
fi fth straight win Monday,
Conklin 0 0-0 0. Totals 29 11-14 75.
0 0-0 0, Helmick 3 0-0 9. Totals 15 8-10 44.
June 7 when the Bulldogs
Powder Valley 13
14
10
10 — 47
Baker
26 17
24
11 — 78
21
19 23
12 — 75
Ontario
7
18
9
10 — 44
travel to North Powder for a Baker
Three-point baskets — Gambleton, Spike 2,
Three-point baskets — Gambleton, Hobson 3,
rematch against the Badgers Hobson
3, Stephens. Total fouls — Powder Valley
Spike, Hendrickson, Mendoza, Nielson, Helmick 3.
T
otal
fouls — Baker 12, Ontario 12.
12,
Baker
19
at 7:30 p.m.
Forest Service, which oversees the
section of the byway most prone to
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persistent snowdrifts, decided to
The obstacle is snow, a sub-
punch through those drifts.
stance that crew has quite a lot of
“It’s something we took on to
experience with since their usual help people be able to get up and
task is moving snow during the
over,” she said.
ski season.
“Over,” in this case, meaning
On Tuesday, June 1, Anthony
over Elkhorn Summit, the 7,392-
Lakes workers fi nished plowing
foot pass about two miles west of
enough lingering snow to clear
Anthony Lakes.
one full lane through the higher
Elkhorn Summit is the second-
elevations of the byway, said
highest point reached by a paved
Chelsea Judy, marketing director road in Oregon. The only higher
for Anthony Lakes.
paved road in the state is the Rim
In most years, snow blocks the Drive in Crater Lake National
two-lane byway until mid to late
Park, which tops out at about
June. In 2020 the route opened
7,900 feet.
the last week of that month.
The longest-lasting snowdrifts
Judy said Anthony Lakes offi -
usually are along the two miles
cials, after consulting with the U.S. or so beyond Elkhorn Summit,
In the seventh-grade
game, La Grande led 8-5
after the fi rst quarter, and
after Baker took a 17-12
lead after three quarters,
La Grande mounted a
fourth-quarter rally that
fell short.
Baker was led by Hunter
Coleman and Kale Dalke
who both scored seven
points. Chase Roy and Tyler
Wirth both scored four
points and Ashton Carter
scored two.
The Baker eighth-grad-
ers continued their domi-
nance against La Grande,
leading 25-8 at halftime.
All eight players scored
for Baker in the game,
led by Daniel Brown’s
season-high 18 points.
Grant Gambleton had eight
points, Jaxon Logsdon, Eli
Long and Palmer Chandler
had six each, Kevin Gutier-
rez and Colton Birmingham
had two points each, and
Colton Clark had one point.
The players and coaches
— Joel Richardson for the
seventh-graders, Mike Long
for the eighth-graders —
appreciated the work that
Al McCauley put in to mak-
ing the three-week, spring
season happen.
where the byway crosses some
areas sheltered from the sun.
By punching through drifts
in that area, the Anthony Lakes
crew gave travelers a way to ac-
cess places such as the North Fork
John Day River campground, and
the Blue Mountains Scenic Byway
to Ukiah, via Anthony Lakes
rather than through Sumpter and
Granite.
In the future, Anthony Lakes
will strive to open at least one
lane by Memorial Day weekend,
although that goal might not al-
ways be feasible depending on the
amount of snow, Judy said.
Peter Johnson/Contributed Photo
The Elkhorn Drive scenic
byway on Thursday, June 3.
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