TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2021
BAKER CITY HERALD — A5
SPORTS
BAKER GIRLS SOCCER
McCall-Donnelly shuts out Baker
“We have still been playing
the 4-3-2-1 formation, and we
made a little bit of an adjust-
The Vandals of McCall-
Donnelly, Idaho, came to the ment where the back line is
Baker Sports Complex Sat- supposed to play a certain
way,” Teegarden said. “We
urday, Aug. 28 and handed
the Baker girls soccer team a took feedback from the first
game, and we learned how
5-0 loss.
we can make this (work) for
Coming less than 36
hours after a season-opening us, and we are still trying to
get them to understand their
loss to Weiser, Idaho, the
positions better in general.”
second nonleague match
Baker coaches also had to
against an Idaho opponent
adjust to a roster disruption.
gave the Baker coaching
With junior goalkeeper
staff another chance to
Neah Thomas away for the
tinker with formations and
prepare the Bulldogs for the weekend, head coach Eric
Layton put junior Teygan
league season to come.
Coley between the posts.
“This is still preseason,”
“Teygan, I think, played
Baker assistant coach
in middle school a little bit of
Christine Teegarden said.
goalie, so we worked with her
“We are getting in better
condition. We don’t have that yesterday and a little bit be-
many practices under our
fore the game today,” Teegar-
belt (and) it’s not a league
den said. “She stepped up and
opponent.”
took the role knowing it had
a lot of pressure. Honestly,
Incorporating a new
and I think the team agrees,
field scheme is a focus for
that she was our MVP at this
the Bulldogs.
By COREY KIRK
ckirk@bakercityherald.com
Corey Kirk/Baker City Herald
Junior Teygan Coley, No. 0, stepped up to play
goalkeeper for the Baker Bulldogs Saturday, Aug. 28
against McCall-Donnelly, Idaho. Here Coley blocks a
shot early in the first half against the Vandals.
The Vandals scored two
point. Even though it was 5-0
at the end, Teygan had a lot of early goals and led 2-0 at
halftime.
good blocks.”
BAKER BOYS SOCCER
Vandals nip
Bulldogs, 2-1
Freshman Aldo
Duran nets Baker’s
first goal of season
By COREY KIRK
ckirk@bakercityherald.com
In front of a sideline full of
fans, and the occasional dust
cloud whipped up by afternoon
winds, the Baker boys soccer
team couldn’t overcome the
McCall-Donnelly Vandals in a
defensive struggle, losing 2-1
Saturday, Aug. 28 at the Sports
Complex.
Baker fell to 0-2 on the sea-
son.
Head coach Victor Benites
had two objectives for the Bull-
dogs as they sought to rebound
from a 3-0 loss at Weiser, Idaho,
on Aug. 26.
“They were going to have to
communicate more, and be able
to throw the ball and pass the
ball better,” Benites said.
A few minutes into Saturday’s
match, a referee called a viola-
tion on the Vandals, leading to a
penalty kick for senior captain
Wyatt Hawkins.
Hawkins netted the shot, and
Baker thought it had taken a 1-0
lead.
But a referee whistled Baker
for encroachment and waved off
the goal.
That’s the sort of costly mis-
take Baker can’t afford to make,
Benites said.
“We have to pay attention,” he
said. “I am not blaming anyone
but little things like that can cost
you a game. You have to focus,
and you have to be ready.”
The Vandals scored in the
10th minute to lead 1-0, but 15
minutes later Baker tied the
score on freshman Aldo Duran’s
goal, the Bulldogs’ first of the
season.
“I thought it was a pretty good
goal, it was a pass from an-
other freshman which was Alan
(Bedolla),” Benites said. “Being
a freshman and scoring a goal,
that was pretty cool, he was all
excited.”
McCall-Donnelly scored again
Corey Kirk/Baker City Herald
Senior goalkeeper Silas Carter
sends the ball downfield
Saturday, Aug. 28 against
McCall-Donnelly, Idaho, at the
Baker Sports Complex.
late in the first half to lead 2-1 at
intermission.
Benites said he was proud of
senior goalkeeper Silas Carter,
who had more than 10 saves in
the first half alone.
“I can always count on him,”
Benites said of Carter. “He’s been
playing goalie for three years I do
believe, and he’s one of the kids
you can play anywhere on the
field and he can do good for you.”
During halftime Benites said
he exhorted the Bulldogs to be
more aggressive on offense.
“We need to take more shots,”
he said. “(At) halftime they had
17 shots on goal, we had 5. We
needed to have better shots and
better passes.”
Baker kept the ball on the
Vandals’ side much of the second
half, but the Bulldogs couldn’t
capitalize.
“They did really well, they
did what I asked them to do,”
Benites said.
He said he urged his players
to not dwell on the loss.
“They are slowly improving a
bit on the things we work on dur-
ing practice,” Benites said. “We
didn’t know what kind of team
they were going to be.”
Baker will play host to the
Four Rivers Falcons on Thursday,
Sept. 2 at 4 p.m.
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But Teegarden said the
first 40 minutes were not
without positives for the
Bulldogs.
“We were hearing commu-
nication throughout the first
half, that’s good,” she said.
“They were doing a really
good job staying in their posi-
tions. What we talked about,
what we really wanted to see,
was (being) first to the ball,
and then controlling and pos-
session more, which we didn’t
necessarily see.”
The Vandals scored again
early in the second half, but
then neither team was able to
score for the next 30 minutes.
The Bulldogs struggled
to advance the ball beyond
midfield. Teegarden said
Baker players need to be more
patient, even when they’re
behind.
“They were playing in that
flustered, want to catch up
game, and you see a lot more
of them booting it, hoping for
Charbonnet has 3 TDs in UCLA
debut as Bruins rout Hawaii
By JOE REEDY
Associated Press
PASADENA, Calif. — The moth-
er of UCLA quarterback Dorian
Thompson-Robinson echoed the
thoughts of many Bruins fans dur-
ing the first half of Saturday’s game
against Hawaii after Zach Charbon-
net scored his third touchdown.
Melva Thompson-Robinson
tweeted “Thanks @UMichFootball”
as Charbonnet rushed 106 yards
in his UCLA debut and the Bruins
rolled to a 44-10 season-opening
victory at the Rose Bowl.
Charbonnet — who was at
Michigan the past two seasons be-
fore transferring — also became the
first Bruins back since Johnathan
Franklin in 2012 to run for three
TDs in a season-opener.
“My line put me in great situa-
tions when I did have an opportu-
nity,” Charbonnet said. “It allowed
us to be one-on-one defenders, and
that’s all as a running back you can
ask for.”
UCLA scored on its first five
possessions and roared out to a 31-3
halftime lead as it snapped an eight-
game losing streak to nonconference
teams dating back to 2017. It is also
the first time that Chip Kelly has
won an opener in four seasons as
UCLA’s coach.
“We’re just excited as a team. I
thought our kids played with great
energy,” Kelly said. “There is an idea
with what you think you can do in
all three phases of the game (coming
into the season), but until you actu-
ally play another opponent, you’re
not sure.”
Charbonnet scored UCLA’s first
touchdown midway through the
first quarter on a 21-yard run after
great blocks from the right side of
the offensive line to extend the lead
to 10-0.
The junior’s best run of the day
came with 47 seconds remaining in
the first quarter when he broke four
Hawaii tackles before turning on the
speed for a 46-yard touchdown to
make it 24-3. He then went over 100
yards on his sixth carry with a 21-
yard score on the next possession.
Charbonnet wasn’t the only
UCLA back to fare well against the
Rainbow Warriors. Brittain Brown
added 78 yards on 13 carries as the
Bruins rushed for 244 yards and
averaged 5.7 yards per carry.
“They run angry, and we love
that as an offensive line,” lineman
Jon Gaines II said. “To be able to
have the opportunity to get them to
the second and third level and see
Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times-TMS
UCLA running back Zach Charbonnet breaks free for a touchdown
run against Hawaii in the first quarter Aug. 28, 2021.
what they can do, it’s a great experi-
ence for us.”
Brown also reached the end zone.
His 1-yard TD with 6:06 remaining
in the first quarter made it 17-0
four plays after defensive lineman
Datona Jackson picked off Chevan
Cordeiro’s pass deep in Hawaii
territory.
Dorian Thompson-Robinson was
10 of 20 for 130 yards. He completed
all four of his passes on the opening
drive of the second half, culminating
in a 44-yard strike to Kazmeir Allen
to make it 37-3.
Hawaii’s lone touchdown came
late in the third quarter on a 1-yard
pass from Cordeiro to Caleb Phillips.
Cordeiro was 24 of 46 for 216 yards.
“No excuses. We just played
poorly. We played poorly, we coached
poorly, and we got beat by a team
that was better than us today,”
Hawaii coach Todd Graham said.
“But we made ’em look a lot better
by playing very poor.”
LESS THAN FULL HOUSE
A 12:30 p.m. late August kickoff
and students not reporting to
UCLA’s campus until later next
month didn’t translate to a huge
crowd.
The game had an announced
attendance of 32,982, which is the
second-lowest for a UCLA game
since the Bruins moved to the
Rose Bowl in 1982. The record low
remains 32,513 against Oregon
State in 1992.
THE TAKEAWAY
Hawaii: Calvin Turner Jr. came
into the game as the nation’s lead-
ing returner in career all-purpose
yards (4,359 yards), but the senior
all-purpose back was held to 50
yards on five receptions.
UCLA: Kelly said the one thing
he likes about having Brown and
Charbonnet is that both are physi-
cal three-down backs.
“It’s comforting to know there is
not much of a transition between
either of those guys. Brittain and
SPECIAL TEAMS WOES
Hawaii’s Matthew Shipley had a Zach are very similar in terms of
career-long, 48-yard field goal in the body types and the types of runs
first quarter, but he had two critical that they can do. When you play
the schedule that we play, where
errors on punts.
After the Rainbow Warriors went you need to have multiple running
three-and-out on their opening drive, backs, I was very happy with how
Shipley’s knee hit the ground as he those guys played today.”
fielded the snap, allowing the Bruins
to take over at the Hawaii 15.
UP NEXT
In the third quarter, Ale Kaho
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blocked Shipley’s punt and it was
on Sept. 4. It will be the Rainbow
recovered by David Priebe in the
Warriors’ first home game on
end zone for UCLA’s final TD.
campus after Aloha Stadium was
Hawaii came into the game with the shuttered at the conclusion of last
nation’s longest streak without a
season.
blocked punt at 154 games.
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It was UCLA’s first blocked punt on Sept. 4 in the first meeting
since 2016.
between the two programs.
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the best,” she said. “We need
to get the passes together and
strategically move it up.”
The Vandals sealed the
victory with two more goals at
the end of the match.
Teegarden said the coach-
ing staff emphasized to the
Bulldogs that the season has
just begun, and that they need
to be excited about practices
and matches to come.
“We can’t let their out-
look reflect on the rest of the
season; it’s very important for
them to realize we have had
very little practice,” Teegarden
said. “These are a couple of
preseason games, it doesn’t
say how the rest of the season
is going to go. Let it roll off,
but also let this be a decider or
a motivator of how much you
want to invest going forward.”
Baker returns to the
Sports Complex this after-
noon for a 4 p.m. kickoff
against Pendleton/Weston-
McEwen.
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