BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2022 A5
SPORTS
BAKER GIRLS BASKETBALL
Defense keys Baker’s rout over Vale
Bulldogs hold
Vikings scoreless
in third quarter
ing the fourth quarter.
Vale’s scoreless stretch,
which started late in the
second quarter, ultimately
spanned almost 14 minutes
of game time — nearly half of
BY JAYSON JACOBY
the 32-minute contest.
The Vikings didn’t reach
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Vale scored nine points
double figures in any quarter.
in the first eight minutes of
When Halle Peterson
their girls basketball game at ended the scoring drought
Baker on Tuesday evening,
with a bank shot from the key
Jan. 18.
with 4:16 left in the game,
But it took the Vikings al- Baker was still ahead 51-17.
most the whole rest of the
Fittingly, Sydnee Pierce
game to double their point
swished a 15-footer from
total to 18.
the baseline at the buzzer for
Baker, meanwhile, passed
Baker’s final two points.
that threshold less than half-
But it was defense, not
way through the second
shooting, that keyed the Bull-
quarter.
dogs’ rout, Ramos said.
That simple equation
“When you put pressure
yielded a blowout, as the
on the other team’s guards,
Bulldogs dominated the latter they’re going to have trouble
three quarters en route to a
getting into their offense,” he
57-21 romp over the Class 3A said. “Offense comes from
Vikings.
the defense — the energy that
Baker, ranked fifth in the
comes from playing really
state in the Class 4A divi-
good defense. And that’s how
sion, improved to 11-4 with
we want to play.”
its fifth win in the past six
Ramos, formerly the assis-
games.
tant coach who took over as
Vale scored the first four
head coach from Buell Gon-
points of the game.
zales Jr. in mid December,
And after Baker scored 10 said that over the past month,
straight, the Vikings rallied
as he’s become more familiar
to forge a 12-12 tie on Kailey with his team’s strengths, he’s
McGourty’s 15-foot jumper
realized that the Bulldogs ex-
just 42 seconds into the sec-
cel at playing pressure defense
ond quarter.
in the half court.
To that point the game had
Baker didn’t use its full
been the competitive chal-
court press much against Vale.
lenge that Baker coach Jason
The Bulldogs didn’t need to.
Ramos expected.
“We know what Baker bas-
ketball needs to be about,
“We knew it was going to
and we’re now getting to that
be a battle because they’re a
point,” Ramos said. “We’re on
scrappy team,” Ramos said.
a great path.”
“And in the first quarter it
With Taylor Gyllenberg,
was a battle.”
Although Vale entered the Sydnee Pierce, Macey Moore,
Brooklyn Jaca, Skylar Roy,
game with a 5-7 record, five
of those losses were to strong Katie Wilde and Maken-
zie Flanagan smothering
Idaho teams, Weiser, Fruit-
the Vale guards, the Vikings
land and Homedale.
struggled to find open shots
The Vikings also lost just
outside.
36-31 to La Grande, Baker’s
The pressure defense
top rival for the Greater Or-
yielded more than a dozen
egon League championship,
steals, several of which led to
and has wins over both On-
easy breakaway layins.
tario (37-22), also from the
And in the key, Jozie Ra-
GOL, and Burns (38-33), a
top Class 3A team that Baker mos and Rylee Elms made
sure the Vikings had few sec-
beat 43-31 on Dec. 29.
But after McGourty’s shot ond chances from offensive
rebounds.
tied the score, the contest in
Baker had one of its most
the Baker gym was anything
balanced offensive games,
but competitive.
The Bulldogs scored 39 of with eight players scoring.
Moore led the way with 15
the next 42 points, a stretch
points. Jozie Ramos added
that extended well into the
12, and Elms and Flanagan
fourth quarter.
This period of dominance eight each.
Baker also had one of its
was distinguished by a few
best games of the season at
notable statistics.
Baker outscored Vale 20-3 the free throw line, making
10 of 14 shots. Jozie Ramos
over the final seven minutes
of the second quarter to lead made all four of her tries, and
Moore both of her shots.
32-15 at halftime.
The defensive dominance,
The Bulldogs followed that
though, was not only the de-
with the rare feat of holding
fining characteristic of the
the Vikings scoreless in the
game, Jason Ramos said, but
third quarter, while scoring
also something that could
15 points themselves to ex-
tend the lead to 47-15 enter- serve the Bulldogs well in
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Makenzie Flanagan goes to the hoop for one of her four baskets
during Baker’s 57-21 win over Vale on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, in the
Baker gym.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Macey Moore goes to the basket against Vale on Tuesday, Jan. 18,
2022, in the Baker gym. Moore led Baker with 15 points in a 57-21 win.
“Offense comes from the defense — the
energy that comes from playing really good
defense. And that’s how we want to play.”
— Baker coach Jason Ramos
coming games, some of
which will almost certainly
be much closer.
Teams can rely on defense
to keep them in a game even
on nights — and every team
has them — when shots sim-
ply won’t fall, Ramos said.
“If you’re having an off
night, that’s when you have
to focus your energy on de-
fense,” he said. “That’s some-
thing we’ll lean on.”
In the JV game against
Vale, Baker won 46-23.
Baker, 1-0 in the GOL after
beating Mac-Hi 66-10 on Jan.
14, is scheduled to resume its
league schedule by playing
host to Ontario Friday, Jan.
21 at 6 p.m.
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Elms 3 2-4 8, Flanagan 4 0-0
8, Wilde 0 0-0 0, Gyllenberg 2
0-0 4, Pierce 2 1-2 5, Ramos 4
4-4 12, Roy 1 1-2 3, Jaca 1 0-0
2, Robb 0 0-0 0, Moore 6 2-2
15. Totals 23 10-14 57.
Vale
9 6 0 6 — 21
Baker 12 20 15 10 — 57
Sydnee Pierce dribbles during Baker’s 57-21 win over Vale on Tuesday,
Jan. 18, 2022, in the Baker gym.
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