A6 — BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2021
SPORTS
BAKER WRESTLING
Bulldogs take 2nd at Elgin tourney
 Pine Eagle
places third
Baker City Herald
The Baker wrestling team
fi nished second among 11
teams at the Elgin Memorial
Classic Friday and Saturday
Dec. 17 and 18, amassing
176.5 points behind only
Weiser, with 235 points.
Pine Eagle placed third
with 61 points.
Baker had three individ-
ual champions — freshman
Aldo Duran at 113 pounds,
senior Gauge Bloomer at 195
pounds, and senior Jaden
Martin at 285.
Gavin Stone, Marcus
Chamberlain, River Clark,
Cole Hester and Alex Ritter
placed second. Joey Duncan,
Sage Darlington and Adrian
Allen fi nished third.
Pine Eagle’s individual
champions are Hunter Buck
at 106 pounds, Giovanni
Cartwright at 132 and Will
Seggerman at 145.
In the girls tournament,
Baker’s Sarah Plummer
fi nished second, and Alena
Hills, Lilly Collins and Shey-
lin Karolski all placed third.
Baker coach Brandon
Young said Bulldog sopho-
more Ben Coburn was voted
outstanding wrestler for the
tournament.
Ronald Bond/Wallowa County Chieftain
Baker’s Jacob Mills, right, shown here Dec. 3 at the Enterprise tournament, placed
fourth at 182 pounds at the Elgin tournament Dec. 17 and 18.
“Ben has a great work ethic
and great attitude,” Young
said. “He scored on every one
of his opponents on the week-
end and won a hard fought
battle by earning a takedown,
right at the end of the third
period to win 3-2. Ben has re-
ally come a long way since the
beginning of the season. Ben
has a unique set of challenges,
and he does not let that get in
his way. Ben is a pretty amaz-
ing young man and watching
his determination while he
wrestles is truly inspiring.”
Young said the entire
Baker team has improved
considerably over the fi rst few
weeks of the season.
Martin, wrestling in the
heavyweight class, pinned all
fi ve of his opponents to claim
his fi rst individual title of the
season.
On Friday, Duran faced
Rafael Delgadillo of Weiser,
who fi nished sixth in the Idaho
state tournament last season.
Delgadillo hit a fi reman’s
carry and had a near fall at the
start, and at one point Duran
trailed by fi ve points.
“But he kept working and
attacking and was able to out-
work Delgadillo,” Young said.
Duran trailed 6-5 in the
fi nal period, and with about 45
seconds left, he gave Delgadillo
a one-point escape to give him-
self a chance for a takedown.
Duran did that with about 20
seconds left to send the match
into overtime, when he secured
another takedown to win 9-7.
Duran and Delgadillo had a
rematch for the individual title
on Saturday, and Duran won
by fall.
Bloomer, a two-time defend-
ing state champion, pinned
his fi rst fi ve opponents and
then won 10-1 in the fi nal over
Kaleb Grove of Weiser.
“He continued to dominate
all of his opponents,” Young
said of Bloomer.
Martin won his champion-
ship match by fall over Jesse
Lockett of Weiser.
In the girls tournament,
Young said Baker wrestled
well and had freshman Alena
Hills back in action after
missing the past couple
weeks.
“She is gritty and will be a
handful once we get her fi ne
tuned,” Young said of Hills.
Young said Baker’s JV
wrestlers also had a good
tournament, with Joey Dun-
can avenging a loss on Fri-
day to fi nish in third place.
“Michael Endersby
battled his way through the
consolation,” Young said. “At
one point he trailed 11-0, but
kept wrestling. His opponent
got tired and Michael kept
pushing, and earned the fall.
He fi nished with fourth place
(at 126 pounds) as did Jacob
Mills at 182 pounds.”
Baker individual results:
Boys
• 1st, Aldo Duran, fresh-
man, 113 pounds, 4-0
• 1st, Gauge Bloomer,
senior, 195, 6-0
• 1st, Jaden Martin,
senior, 285, 5-0
• 2nd, Marcus Chamber-
lain, sophomore, 106, 3-2
• 2nd, River Clark, junior,
120, 3-2
• 2nd, Cole Hester, sopho-
more, 138, 4-2
• 2nd, Gavin Stone, se-
nior, 152, 4-1
• 2nd, Alex Ritter, senior,
220, 4-2
• 3rd, Joey Duncan,
sophomore, 106, 1-4
• 3rd, Sage Darlington,
sophomore, 126, 5-1
• 3rd, Adrian Allen, senior,
182, 4-2
• 4th, Michael Endersby,
freshman, 126, 4-4
• 4th, Jacob Mills, junior,
182, 2-4
• Riley Martin, sopho-
more, 132, 3-4
• Samuel Nelson, fresh-
man, 132, 2-3
• Troy Bennett, junior,
138, 1-3
• Ben Coburn, sophomore,
160, 1-5
• Ryan Brown, junior, 170,
2-3
• Cody Eskew, junior, 182,
3-3
• Ethan Morgan, fresh-
man, 182, 5-2
• Billy Kargianis, senior,
220, 0-4
Girls
• 2nd, Sarah Plummer,
senior, 155, 2-1
• 3rd, Alena Hills, fresh-
man, 115, 1-2
• 3rd, Lilly Collins, fresh-
man, 135, 1-2
• 3rd, Sheylin Karolski,
freshman, 155, 1-2
The Baker boys varsity
and JV teams will wrestle
in Pendleton on Wednesday,
Dec. 22.
Young said he’s also trying
to schedule an event for the
Baker girls to compete in
during Christmas break.
LA BOWL
Legas comes off bench to lead Utah State past Oregon State
prior to kickoff due to a shoul-
der injury he suffered Nov. 26
against New Mexico.
INGLEWOOD, Calif.
Legas’ only action this
— Utah State third-string
season was late in the New
quarterback Cooper Legas
had a breakout performance Mexico game. Coach Blake
Saturday night, Dec. 18 in the Anderson said Legas had
received very limited team
inaugural LA Bowl.
snaps all season, but that
The sophomore came off
he has an extremely high
the bench to throw a touch-
football IQ.
down pass on his fi rst colle-
Legas showed that on his
giate attempt and helped lead
the Aggies to a 24-13 victory fi rst snap when he connected
with Deven Thompkins on
over Oregon State.
Legas came in when start- a 62-yard touchdown strike
to tie it at 7. Thompkins got
er Logan Bonner suffered a
a couple steps on defensive
knee injury during the fi rst
quarter. Andrew Peasley was back Jaydon Grant, hauled it
Bonner’s backup throughout in at the Oregon State 25 and
the season, but was ruled out was gone to the end zone.
By JOE REEDY
Associated Press
“It was a checked play by
him at the line of scrimmage
based off the look that he saw.
That is probably the fi rst time
he’s checked, physically check
to that particular play, and it
came at the most critical time
for us,” Anderson said.
Legas also had a 5-yard
scoring toss to Brandon Bowl-
ing with under four minutes
remaining in the third
quarter to extend the Aggies
lead to 24-13. He also had a
34-yard reception on a double
pass from Derek Wright.
“Nothing really changed
with the system today when
he went in. We stayed true
to form, we stayed with the
plan, and just put him in a
position where hopefully guys
could take the heavy lifting
off of him. But he exceeded
every expectation I had of
what he could do,” said An-
derson about Legas.
Legas was 11 of 20 for 171
yards and an interception.
Thompkins had six recep-
tions for 115 yards and set a
single-season school record
with 102 catches. The senior
— who was named the Offen-
sive MVP of the game — said
he had confi dence that Legas
would be able to step up
“I told all the wide receiv-
ers we got to help Coop, just
build that confi dence, play
good. And, honestly, he didn’t
even need it,” Thompkins
said. “He was ready to go,
and it showed the future he’s
going to have here as a Utah
State Aggie so I’m defi nitely
proud of him.”
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