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    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2021
BAKER CITY HERALD — A5
SPORTS
Pepera, Kaaen lead Baker to cross-country state meet
 Boys, girls
teams to compete
Saturday, Nov. 6
Katie Lamb/Contributed photo
Emma Baeth placed seventh in the district cross-country meet held Oct. 29 at Milton-
Freewater. The girls placed second, and the boys team placed first. Both teams
qualified for the state championship meet on Nov. 6 in Eugene.
Baker junior Thaddeus
Pepera won the individual
title with a time of 17:22.30.
Baker freshman Daniel
Brown was next across the
line in 18:13.38.
Junior Jordan Mills
Baker City Herald
placed fourth overall in
Baker’s boys and girls
18:31.82, and fellow junior
cross-country teams each
had multiple runners place Seth Mastrude was sixth in
in the top 10 at the district 18:58.10.
Other Baker boys run-
meet Friday, Oct. 29 at
Milton-Freewater, and both ners:
teams qualified for the state
• Reeve Damschen,
championship meet Nov. 6
sophomore, 11th, 20:06.05
at Lane Community College
• Peyton Waters, fresh-
in Eugene.
man, 13th, 20:43.33
The Baker boys won the
• Tanner Lucas, sopho-
district team title with 24
more, 16th, 20:58.61
points, easily outdistancing
In the girls race, La
runner up La Grande with Grande had the top four
49 points.
finishers to win the team
Mac-Hi was third with
title with 22 points.
67 points, and Ontario
Baker was second with
fourth with 92.
35 points, and the Bulldogs
had the fifth- through ninth-
place finishers.
Freshman Sofia Kaaen
was the top Baker run-
ner, placing fifth overall in
20:40.35.
Other Baker girls run-
ners:
• Sydney Lamb, senior,
sixth, 21:14.18
• Emma Baeth, senior,
seventh, 21:52.37
• Emma Timm, sopho-
more, eighth, 22:35.15
• Katie Spaugh, sopho-
more, ninth, 22:40.67
• Annastasia Johnson,
freshman, 11th, 24:02.88
• Paige Marlia, sopho-
more, 12th, 24:40
At the state champion-
ship meet, the Class 4A girls
race will start at 11:45 a.m.,
followed by the boys race at
12:20 p.m.
Brown throws for 3
TDs and No. 7 Oregon
downs Colorado, 52-29
 Ducks amass
season-high 568
yards of offense
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
EUGENE — Over the
course of three weeks it’s been
coming together for Oregon
quarterback Anthony Brown
Jr.
Brown threw for a career-
high 307 yards and three
touchdowns and No. 7 Oregon
had a season-high 568 yards
of offense in a 52-29 victory
over Colorado on Saturday,
Oct. 30.
Travis Dye ran for two
touchdowns and caught a
scoring pass to help Oregon
(7-1, 6-1 Pac-12) extend its
winning streak at Autzen
Stadium to 17 games.
“Efficiency, consistency and
just making the right reads
all around the board,” Brown
said about his progress. “And
it came from a lot of things,
but just staying in the groove
and continuing to do what I do
throughout the week, continu-
ing my process, watching ex-
tra film and doing extra things
and just continuing that.”
Brendon Lewis threw for
224 yards and three TDs for
the Buffaloes (2-5, 1-4). Bren-
den Rice, the son of former
San Francisco 49ers great
Jerry Rice, had 102 yards
receiving and a touchdown.
Although he was met by
some boos from the home
crowd early against Cal on
Oct. 15, Brown shook off the
critics and rallied Oregon with
two straight touchdowns in
the fourth quarter for a 24-17
victory. The final touchdown
was Brown’s 11-yard keeper.
Brown did it again last
weekend in a 34-31 victory at
UCLA with a 43-yard, fourth-
quarter touchdown run that
ultimately kept the game out
of reach for the Bruins. He fin-
ished with 296 yards passing
and 85 yards rushing.
“The supporting cast
continues to elevate their play,
which, in turn, as Anthony
continues to elevate his play,
his attention to detail, his ac-
curacy, his decision making —
all those things cumulatively
add up the better play as an
offense,” Oregon coach Mario
Cristobal said.
Colorado was coming off
a 26-3 loss at California. The
Buffaloes went into the game
in Eugene ranked second-to-
last in the Pac-12 for touch-
downs and points per game.
The Buffaloes were with-
out All-American linebacker
Nate Landman because of a
soft-tissue injury. Last week
in a loss to Cal, Landman
became just the sixth player in
Buffs’ history with 400 career
tackles.
“I felt that this team played
hard overall,” Colorado coach
Karl Dorrell said. “I thought
offensively we made some
tough plays in some critical
moments. We had some fourth
downs we had to go for, had
to extend some plays and we
made those plays. The receiv-
ers, tight ends, backs, all, I
thought they played hard, ran
hard.”
Dye caught a touchdown
pass and ran for another in
the opening half as Oregon
built a 31-14 lead.
Colorado scored a pair
of touchdowns in the fourth
quarter to close the gap to
45-29, but the Ducks ended it
on freshman Seven McGee’s
1-yard touchdown run with 50
seconds left.
“I think we showed that
when we’re playing our
starters, and when we play
and execute, we’re really
good football team, can be a
really good football team. And
I think what makes us good is
that we know we can get a lot
better,” Cristobal said. “That’s
the best way to put it: It’s a
A Smarter
Way to Power
Your Home.
hungry driven team. We did
some really good things today,
some other things that we can
do better.”
Targeting calls
Ducks receiver Johnny
Johnson III was ejected in the
third quarter for targeting
on Rice on a kickoff return.
Colorado’s Tyrin Taylor was
also flagged for targeting and
ejected during the quarter.
Rice’s big game
Rice had his second career
100-yard receiving game. He
also had 162 kickoff return
yards and his 281 all-purpose
yards rank him 13th on
Colorado’s career list for all-
purpose years in a game.
“The first one I thought
I was going to take it to the
house, but out of nowhere, I
just saw a flash or green or
yellow or whatever they are.
And I just got hit. I was very
disappointed. I was trying to
get in the end zone all day,” he
said about his returns.
The takeaway
Colorado: Earlier this week
Colorado coach Karl Dor-
rell announced that he had
relieved offensive line coach
Mitch Rodrigue of his duties.
Colorado said it would honor
the terms of his contract.
Oregon: Former Oregon
quarterback Marcus Mariota,
now with the NFL’s Raid-
ers, was at the homecoming
game and received an ovation
when he was introduced to
the crowd. It was Mariota’s
28th birthday. ... The Ducks
also honored WNBA players
Sabrina Ionescu and Satou
Sabally, both former Ducks. ...
Oregon center Alex Forsyth
missed his fourth game with
back spasms.
Up next
Colorado: Hosts Oregon
State next Saturday, Nov. 6.
Oregon: At Washington
next Saturday, Nov. 6.
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