A6 — BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
SPORTS
BHS state champs receive rings
Baker City Herald
Three state champion
athletes from Baker High
School will have rings to
commemorate their accom-
plishments thanks to the
Brown family, owners of Lew
Brothers Les Schwab Tires
in Baker City.
Recently two of the cham-
pions — Sydney Keller and
Gauge Bloomer — received
their rings at the tire store
from co-owner Rocky Brown.
The ring for the third
state champion — swim-
mer Brianna Stadler — was
not available in time for the
ceremony.
Keller, who graduated
from BHS in 2021, won the
Class 4A state pole vault
championship in May.
It was her third state
crown, and second as an
individual.
Keller won the Class 4A
state wrestling title at 115
pounds in early March 2020,
just before the pandemic can-
celed high school sports. One
of the casualties of the can-
cellations was Baker’s girls
basketball team, which was
in Forest Grove preparing
to defend its 2019 state title.
Keller was a starting guard
on the championship team.
Keller is competing in
cross-country and track and
fi eld at Belmont Abbey Col-
lege in North Carolina.
Bloomer capped his unde-
feated season in wrestling
by winning the Class 4A
title at 195 pounds on June
26 of this year.
Stadler is a four-time
state champion. Her most
recent titles were in the
200-meter individual med-
ley and 100-meter butterfl y,
also on June 26. Stadler,
who is in her senior year at
BHS, won the state title in
the 100-meter backstroke
as a freshman in 2019, and
the 100-meter butterfl y as a
sophomore in 2020.
Jennifer Ramos/Contributed Photo
Jennifer Ramos/Contributed Photo
Sydney Keller, left, and Gauge Bloomer show their state championship rings.
Sydney Keller, left, a 2021 Baker High School graduate,
and BHS senior Gauge Bloomer with their state
championship rings.
No. 4 Oregon gets tune-up game coming off big Ohio State win
Stony Brook today, Sept. 18 at
4:30 p.m.
Oregon Ducks coach Mario
The Seawolves, who play in
the lower-tier Colonial Athletic
Cristobal quoted two-time
Association, are 1-1 overall
Super Bowl-winning coach
Jimmy Johnson in explaining and coming off a 24-3 victory
Oregon’s mentality coming off over Colgate last Saturday.
The game against the
its big win over Ohio State.
Ducks will be Stony Brook’s
There’s lots that can be
fi rst against a Pac-12 op-
improved upon.
“Like coach Johnson used ponent. Oregon is also the
highest-ranked team the
to tell us all the time when
Seawolves have ever faced.
I was a player, ‘You’re either
In a lot of ways, Stony
going to get better or you’re
Brook coach Chuck Priore is
going to get worse. There is
approaching the game just
no staying the same,’” said
like Cristobal: the focus is on
Cristobal, who played for
Johnson at Miami. “There is his team, not so much the
no choice. We’ve got to go get opponent.
“I think we’ve got to keep
better.”
it in perspective, certainly. I
The Ducks, who jumped
believe they’re a top-fi ve team
from No. 12 to No. 4 in the
at this point in the country
AP Top 25 following the vic-
tory over the Buckeyes, host at the BCS level, so it’s really
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
all about Stony Brook at this
point. I think we need to get
better at the things we’re do-
ing. We’ve got to approach this
week correctly,” Priore said.
“The opponent, on any given
day, really doesn’t make a dif-
ference. It’s how you prepare
and that’s how we’ll go about
it. Certainly, it’s a great op-
portunity for our kids to play
in that venue and play against
that type of team.”
The Ducks, too, are going
into this game with the same
mindset they had last week.
“We run a very tight,
regimented process and we
believe in it and it works for
us,” Cristobal said. “There’s no
reason to stray from it.”
of nagging injuries, so the tim-
ing of the Stony Brook game
couldn’t come at a better time.
It will allow Oregon to heal
before opening conference play
against Arizona on Sept. 25.
The most signifi cant
absences against the Buck-
eyes were defensive end
Kayvon Thibodeaux and
linebacker Justin Flowe. While
Thibodeaux, mentioned as a
Heisman contender, is getting
better, he’s still a question
mark against the Seawolves.
Flowe’s foot injury looks
more serious and could side-
line him for a while. Tight end
Cam McCormick sustained
a season-ending leg injury
against Ohio State.
BANGED UP
The Ducks have a number
LAWTON’S MILESTONE
Junior running back Ty
Son Lawton ran for 134 yards
and a touchdown in Stony
Brook’s win over Colgate,
giving him more than 1,000
for his career. He’s got a pair of
touchdowns this season, and
12 for his career.
Lawton was excited at the
prospect of facing the Ducks.
“I’ve been trying to prepare
myself to play at that level
for a long time now,” Lawton
said. “So I’m looking forward
to take on the competitive
standpoint of it.”
egon’s fi fth overall win over a
team ranked in the top three
since 2011, and also the fi rst
win on the road over a top-fi ve
team since 2011.
STREAKS
Oregon has won 27
straight nonconference home
games, as well as 13 straight
overall at Autzen.
“We’ve got a chance to be
in front of our fans again. Last
time we were hot and cold in
our opener,” Cristobal said,
referring to Oregon’s 31-24
victory against Fresno State.
IN OHIO STATE’S WAKE
“We want to play well in front
The Ducks’ 35-28 vic-
of our people. We know it’s
tory over the Buckeyes was
unquestionably signifi cant for important to our community.
the program. It was the eighth We know it’s important to our
win over a team ranked in the fanbase. It sure as heck is im-
portant to play good football
top fi ve in program history.
and keep improving.”
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