A6 — BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021
SPORTS
BAKER CROSS-COUNTRY
Baker boys, girls 9th in state meet
Baker’s second runner across
the line, placing 38th in a time of
Baker’s young and inexperienced 18:38.90.
Cole said Brown, as most runners
cross-country teams ran like veter-
tend to do at the state meet, started
ans at the biggest meet of the year,
with both the Bulldog boys and girls out faster than usual.
“It’s hard not to,” Cole said.
fi nishing ninth in the team stand-
She said Brown recovered well
ings at the Class 4A state meet on
Saturday, Nov. 6 at Lane Community from his unusually fast start and
kept a good pace into the second
College.
mile.
“I thought the kids did an excel-
“You never know how freshmen
lent job,” Baker coach Suzy Cole said.
“I felt like the kids really stepped up.” are going to do,” Cole said.
In the girls race, Baker’s two
On the boys side, Baker junior
seniors, Emma Baeth and Sydney
Thaddeus Pepera paced the Bull-
dogs, fi nishing 26th overall in a time Lamb, were close as usual, with
Baeth, despite dealing with health
of 18:05.80.
issues, taking the top spot for Baker,
“I thought Thaddeus ran really
fi nishing 36th overall in 21:31.80.
well,” Cole said.
Lamb was 40th in a time of
She was impressed with Pepera’s
ability to adjust to the large number 21:55.50.
Between the two seniors was
of runners in the state meet, a much
freshman Sofi a Kaaen, who placed
different experience than most of
37th overall in 21:34.90.
Baker’s events during the regular
Cole said she wasn’t surprised
season.
that the trio fi nished so close togeth-
Freshman Daniel Brown was
By JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
er, as they have had similar placings
throughout the year.
With most of the boys and girls
runners set to return next year, Cole
said she’s excited about the prospects
for a team that will have the invalu-
able experience of competing at the
state meet.
“It’s super exciting,” she said.
Cole said this year’s team was
an easy one to coach due to their
dedication.
“We have optional practices
Saturdays, and a majority of this
group runs on Saturdays too,” Cole
said. “They make it really easy when
you have that kind of passion for
each other as teammates and for the
sport.”
Other individual results for Baker
boys:
• Jordan Mills, junior, 58th,
19:23.10
• Seth Mastrude, junior, 68th,
19:46
• River Clark, junior, 78th, 20:18
• Peyton Waters, freshman,
20:29.90
• Reeve Damschen, sophomore,
82nd, 20:34.60.
Other Baker girls individual
results:
• Katie Spaugh, sophomore, 56th,
23:12
•Emma Timm, sophomore, 60th,
23:54.50
• Annastasia Johnson, freshman,
62nd, 23:41.50
• Paige Marlia, sophomore, 71st,
24:20.10
The Bulldogs who traveled
home on the team bus had to spend
Saturday night in a Pendleton motel
after Interstate 84 was closed due
to weather and crashes in the Blue
Mountains.
Cole said she and her husband,
Brian, were in a separate vehicle not
far ahead of the bus and they were
able to get through before the freeway
closed. Assistant coach Ethan Wolston
stayed with the team.
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
Baker’s Thaddeus Pepera sprints
to the fi nish line of the OSAA
Class 4A boys cross country
championship, Saturday Nov.
6, 2021, at Lane Community
College in Eugene.
POWDER VALLEY FOOTBALL
Badgers pound Perrydale,
advance in Class 1A playoffs
this Friday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m.
against Myrtle Point in the
quarterfi nal round.
NORTH POWDER — It
Against Perrydale, Powder
was business as usual for the
Valley senior quarterback
Powder Valley High School
football team in round one of Reece Dixon was in top form,
the Class 1A state playoffs as throwing for 317 yards and
the Badgers cruised past Per- fi ve touchdowns in the fi rst
rydale, 70-34 on Friday, Nov. 5. half alone. Senior wide re-
ceiver Kaden Krieger hauled
The Badgers scored
in big chunks of yardage
early and often, building an
early on and scored a 15-yard
insurmountable lead in the
fi rst half. The game shifted to touchdown reception in the
a running clock in the second second quarter.
Freshman running back
half as the outcome of the
game was all but settled in the Tucker Martin scored two
long rushing touchdowns,
fi rst two quarters.
fi nding the end zone from 56
The Badgers will have
and 59 yards. Senior Clay
another home playoff game,
By DAVIS CARBAUGH
The (La Grande) Observer
Alex Wittwer/The (La Grande) Observer, File
Powder Valley’s Reece Dixon scores a touchdown
against Elgin during the Badgers’ 42-14 win on
Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021.
Martin found similar success
on the ground, rushing for a
fi ve-yard touchdown run to
open the game’s scoring.
Junior Cole Martin and
senior Case Olson both scored
on Dixon passes, with Martin
taking a deep ball 75 yards
and Olson converting from
eight yards out.
The Badgers’ offense was
a well-oiled machine, as it
has been all season, but head
coach Josh Cobb emphasized
that the team used the game
to work on its defensive ef-
forts.
“They had a pretty good
offense, I was impressed with
their blocking scheme,” Cobb
said of Perrydale.
Moving forward into the
matchup with No. 7 Myrtle
Point (9-2), defense will be the
key element at practice this
week for Powder Valley.
“They’ve got very athletic,
strong kids,” he said. “We feel
that they have as many
straight-up athletes as us.”
The Bobcats are averaging
44.6 points per game and have
won their last six matchups.
“We are expecting them to
throw the ball a lot and we’re
going to spend a fair amount
of time working on pass cover-
age this week,” Cobb said.
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