A6 — BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2021
SPORTS
BAKER VOLLEYBALL
Vandals hand Baker fi rst loss
 Bulldogs rallied
often but couldn’t
avoid sweep at
McCall-Donnelly
By COREY KIRK
ckirk@bakercityherald.com
The Baker volleyball team
took to the road for the fi rst
time this season on Saturday,
Aug. 28, and the Bulldogs
returned from the three-hour
trip to McCall, Idaho, with
their fi rst loss.
The McCall-Donnelly
Vandals swept Baker, 3-0.
But the Vandals had to
earn every point in front of
their raucous home crowd.
“Yesterday was a good test
for some of our kiddos, having
to get off the bus and show
up to play a tough team,”
Baker coach Ali Abrego said
on Sunday, Aug. 29. “They got
into rhythm and were able
to piece together some really
nice plays.”
Baker, which opened its
season by sweeping Powder
Valley in the Baker gym on
In the second set the
Vandals again forged an early
lead at 11-6.
But Baker responded
again, tying the score at 13
and even taking a brief lead
at 18-16.
McCall-Donnelly then
scored four straight points to
lead 20-18, but the Bulldogs
rallied again to tie it at 21
and 22.
Junior Rylee Elms served
two straight aces to give
Baker a set point at 24-22,
but the Vandals then tied it
at 24.
Baker had two more set
points, at 25-24 and 26-25,
but couldn’t get the winning
point. McCall-Donnelly scored
the fi nal three points to win
the set.
In the third and fi nal set,
McCall-Donnelly went up 9-4
but Baker scored six straight
Mark Stoeckl/The Star-News points, its longest stretch of
Baker’s Ashlyn Dalton goes up for a spike on Saturday, the match, to lead 10-9. Elms
had a spike that tied it at 9.
Aug. 28 at McCall-Donnelly against the Vandals’ Lexi
Baker continued the rally,
Arnold. McCall-Donnelly swept the match.
eventually winning 13 of 15
the Vandals’ early advantage points to lead 17-11, its larg-
Aug. 26, fell behind 16-8 in
est advantage of the match.
was too much to overcome,
the opening set at McCall.
But the Vandals responded
The Bulldogs rallied to get and McCall-Donnelly won the
with a 7-1 run to tie it at 18.
within 19-15, and 24-22, but set 25-22.
McCall-Donnelly led 23-20
and appeared poised to put
the match away, but Baker
rallied to tie it at 23 before the
Vandals scored the fi nal two
points to wrap up the sweep.
“The girls recognized what
they needed to improve on,
and what they did well, with-
out me having to tell them,
which also shows growth,”
Abrego said.
Baker returns to the road
this week, but for a much
shorter journey, to Union.
The Bulldogs will take on
the Bobcats Thursday, Sept. 2
starting at 5:30 p.m.
Mark Stoeckl/The Star-News
Baker’s Jozie Ramos makes a set during the Bulldogs’
match at McCall-Donnelly, Idaho, on Saturday, Aug. 28.
Patrick Cantlay delivers clutch putting for signature win
suited the biggest hitters, facing
the biggest masher of them all in
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — No one Bryson DeChambeau, he delivered
ever questioned that Patrick Cantlay a moment that will be remembered
for the ice in his veins and nerves of
had the chops to be among golf’s
steel.
elite.
He really only smiled after he
What he might have lacked in
made the last of six pivotal putts on
number of PGA Tour victories, he
the fi nal nine holes — six of them in
made for it with the way he won or
the fi eld he beat. His victory Sunday a sudden-death playoff.
“I’m just as focused as I can be. If
in the BMW Championship — the
fi fth of his career and his PGA Tour- I look the way I do, it’s because I am
leading third of the season — was a locked in and focused,” Cantlay said.
“And I felt like that today.”
little of each.
Even more remarkable is that
On a Caves Valley course that
By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
Cantlay had plenty of occasions to
believe he wouldn’t be winning the
BMW Championship, yet it only
crossed his mind once.
That came on the second playoff
hole when he hit his approach heavy
and came up 55 feet short of the hole.
DeChambeau, who had a 30-yard ad-
vantage off the tee on the 18th hole,
hit wedge into 6 feet.
“I liked Bryson’s chances of mak-
ing that 6-footer up the hill,” Cantlay
said. “I thought he was going to make
that putt. That was maybe the only
time that I really thought I was done.
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But he didn’t make it. That’s golf.”
As for the other times? Right
when Cantlay looked to be done, he
was clutch.
DeChambeau took a one-shot
lead on the par-5 16th with a 12-foot
putt, and Cantlay still faced an 8-foot
par putt to avoid falling two behind.
He made it.
On the next hole, Cantlay’s tee
shot bounced short and right and
into the water, with DeChambeau
in the rough just short of the green,
about 25 feet from the hole. Cantlay
removed his cap and slowly tugged it
over his head. Surely, it was over.
But then DeChambeau muffed
his chip and missed his 12-footer for
par. Cantlay hit lob wedge from 100
yards away in the drop area and slid
in the bogey-saving putt from 8 feet.
“I got to thinking, ‘Let’s try and
make 4 here and at least not take all
the pressure off of him.’ We both had
4s on that hole, and that really kept
me in the golf tournament, kind of
switched the momentum a little bit,”
Cantlay said. “It would have been al-
most insurmountable if I would have
went down two going into 18.”
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