A6 — BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2021
SPORTS
BAKER SWIMMING
Stadler wins two events at swim meet
Baker City Herald
Contributed Photo, 2019
Brianna Stadler, top, shown here in a 2019 meet, won two events at the La Grande
Invitational on Dec. 11. Stadler, a Baker High School senior, is a four-time state
champion.
BMS boys hoops
season continues
The Baker Middle School
intramural boys basketball
team continued their season
this month, including a trip to
Milton-Freewater.
On Dec. 1, coach Bryan
Dalke’s team fi nally beat
coach Jimmy Howerton’s
team in a game that was close
throughout.
Logan Crawford made
three 3-pointers for How-
erton’s team in the fourth
quarter to narrow the lead to
one point at 32-31, but Dalke’s
team held on for the win by
that score.
William Spriet led Dalke’s
team with 16 points. Tyler
Wirth had 14 points and
Colton Shank had two.
Howerton’s team was led
by Logan Crawford with 11
points. Braiden Whitebread
had 10 points, Damien Knie
six, and Connor Norton and
Cade Hearne two points each.
In the second game, How-
erton’s team won 18-15, with
Dallin Stocks leading the way
with eight points, followed by
Anthony Mack with six points
and Kyran Payne with two.
Dalke’s team was led by
Colton Shank with six points.
Tristan Klecker had three
points, and Caden Ballou, Ca-
edemon Myers and Johndale
Buniag each had two points.
On Dec. 7 the intramural
teams traveled to Milton-
Freewater and beat Central
Middle School, 27-0.
Every Baker player had at
least one point.
William Spriet had six
points, Logan Crawford, Tyler
Wirth and Isaac Berry each
had four, Johndale Buniag
had three, Danny Maldonado
and Dallin Stocks two each,
and Nolan Briels and Parker
Phillippi each had one point.
On Dec. 10 the intramural
and BMS traveling teams
played three games.
In the fi rst, the seventh-
grade traveling team played
the intramural team. The
traveling team won by more
than 10 points, but no individ-
ual statistics were available.
In the second game, the
Baker intramural team beat
the Burns B team, 35-28.
Baker led 10-4 after one
quarter, but Burns rallied
to cut the lead to 18-17 at
halftime. Baker had a strong
second half, outscoring Burns
17-9. Baker was led by Kyran
Payne with 10 points. Connor
Norton had eight points,
Brayden Anderson fi ve, Dean
Jobes and Carson Karolski
four each, and Cade Hearne
and Lane Wever each had two
points.
In the fi nal game, the
Baker eighth-grade traveling
team beat the Burns A team,
62-46. Baker controlled the
game from the beginning.
Rasean Jones led Baker
with 29 points. Eli Long had
18 points, Jake McClaughry
had two 3-pointers and eight
points total, Jack Joseph
had three points and Connor
Martin had two points.
LA GRANDE — Baker senior swimmer
Brianna Stadler won two races to lead the
Bulldog girls to a fourth-place fi nish in the
fi ve-team La Grande Invitational on Saturday,
Dec. 11.
The Baker boys placed fi fth.
Stadler, a four-time state champion, won
the 100-meter freestyle and 100-meter back-
stroke.
In the freestyle race, Stadler fi nished just
more than nine seconds ahead of runner-up
Chloe Lynch, a La Grande junior.
Stadler’s senior teammate, Caitlin Lien,
fi nished fi fth.
In the 100 backstroke, Stadler touched the
wall 12 seconds ahead of second-place Ken-
nedy Abbas, a junior from The Dalles.
Other Baker results:
Girls
• 50 freestyle: Lien, fi fth; Addy Macy, fresh-
man, 23rd
• 50 backstroke, JV: Macy, fi rst
Boys
• 50 freestyle: Gabriel Bott, junior, third;
Silas Carter, senior, fourth
• 100 butterfl y: Angel De Arcos, junior, 4th
• 100 freestyle: Gabriel Bott, fi fth
• 100 backstroke, Angel De Arcos, fourth
• 50 backstroke, JV: Silas Carter, fi rst
Ayton returns to pace Suns in
111-107 win over Blazers in OT
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Dean-
dre Ayton had 28 points
and 13 rebounds in his
return from a non-CO-
VID-19 illness, and the
Phoenix Suns held off the
Portland Trail Blazers
111-107 in overtime Tues-
day night, Dec. 14.
Chris Paul, who made
the jumper that forced
overtime, added 24 points
and 14 assists for a
Phoenix team still miss-
ing leading scorer Devin
Booker because of a ham-
string injury.
“That’s a big-time win
for us. We’ve got a lot of
guys down. Deandre Ayton
being back in the lineup
was huge for us,” Paul
said.
Damian Lillard had 31
points and 10 assists for
the Blazers, who lost their
sixth straight.
The Suns have just fi ve
losses this season, but one
of them came the night
before against the Los
Angeles Clippers. Phoenix
had lost two of four before
facing the struggling Blaz-
ers.
Cam Johnson’s deep
3-pointer gave the Suns a
107-104 lead in overtime,
but Norman Powell’s long
jumper got Portland within
one. Ayton’s basket kept
the Suns in front 109-106.
Lillard missed the fi rst
of two free throws with
11.9 seconds left and the
Blazers couldn’t catch up.
“I told the guys it was
a lot of character and
integrity to be able to play
on a back-to-back with
that kind of energy against
a team that was sitting
there waiting for us,” Suns
coach Monty Williams
said.
After trailing by 14 in
the fi rst half, Portland ral-
lied to go up 86-81 on Tony
Snell’s 3-pointer in the
fourth quarter.
It was tight the rest of
the way. Cameron Payne’s
3-pointer briefl y gave
Phoenix a 94-93 lead with
2:30 left, but Lillard an-
swered with a 3 of his own.
The Suns tied it at 100
with 40.5 seconds left after
Payne and Chris Powell
each made a basket. Jusuf
Nurkic missed the second
of two free throws for the
Blazers.
After a jump ball, a call
that was challenged by the
Suns, leaving them with
no timeouts, Paul fouled
Powell, who missed his
fi rst free throw but hit the
second to make it 102-100.
Paul’s jumper tied it at
102 with 8.2 seconds to go
in regulation.
“Nobody likes losing. I
don’t like losing. Nobody in
the locker room likes los-
ing, so obviously, nobody’s
happy,” Blazers fi rst-year
coach Chauncey Billups
said. ”However, we’re in
this thing together. We
know that. We’ve talked
about that. And just like
we dug ourselves into this
hole, no one person can do
it and bring us out. We’ve
got to just stick together
and keep scrapping.”
Injuries have plagued
Portland in recent weeks,
and starting guard CJ Mc-
Collum remained out with
a punctured lung.
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