BAKER CITY HERALD • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2022 A5
SPORTS
BAKER GIRLS BASKETBALL
Bulldogs finish perfect GOL season
Baker routs
Ontario, 63-15
scoreless in the first quarter
and to just 2 points in the first
half en route to a 63-15 win.
The victory clinched a per-
BY JAYSON JACOBY
fect 6-0 record in the Greater
Oregon League for the Bull-
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
The likelihood of the Baker dogs, who improved to 17-5
girls basketball team losing
overall. Baker is ranked
at Ontario on Friday, Feb. 11, fourth in the Class 4A stand-
was quite low.
ings statewide.
Baker coach Jason Ramos
Nine of the 10 Bulldogs
wouldn’t deny that.
who played got on the score-
The Tigers haven’t won this board.
season, and in the first match
Jozie Ramos led Baker with
up with Baker, on Jan. 21, at
15 points. Rylee Elms added
Baker, the Bulldogs won 69-
12, Katie Wilde had eight,
16.
Brooklyn Jaca seven and Syd-
“It’s a tough game to get up nee Pierce six.
for,” he said. “The challenge
Baker now prepares for
for us was to go out and exe-
much more formidable oppo-
cute and play basketball at our nents ahead in the GOL and
level, which for the most part then state playoffs.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald we did.”
Even before the win at On-
Baker’s Rylee Elms, middle, here against La Grande on Feb. 8, 2022,
Baker dominated, especially tario, Baker had clinched the
regular season GOL title by
had 12 points in the Bulldogs’ 63-15 win over Ontario on Feb. 11, 2022. on defense, holding Ontario
Stadler qualifies for 2 state events
Baker City Herald
BY DAVIS CARBAUGH
The (La Grande) Observer
WILSONVILLE — The 4A state
basketball tournaments are on the
move.
The Oregon School Activi-
ties Association announced on
Wednesday, Feb. 9, that the boys
and girls state tournaments will be
moved to the Coos Bay area. After
Forest Grove requested not to host
the event this year, Marshfield and
North Bend high schools will be
holding the state tournaments.
“We’ll travel wherever we need
to go in order to play,” La Grande
Athletic Director Darren Good-
man said.
Goodman noted that La Grande
teams have often had to travel
far for tournament play in the
past. The Tigers tied for first in
the Greater Oregon League boys
standings and were second on the
girls side.
Baker won the regular season
GOL girls title with a 6-0 record.
The Baker and La Grande boys
tied at 5-1.
Forest Grove cited COVID-19
issues as the reason for not hold-
ing the tournament, stating that the
community has been hit hard by
the pandemic. Additionally, OSAA
reported that the matchups would
likely see a fan restriction at the For-
est Grove facilities.
Marshfield and North Bend
stepped up to host the event, in ad-
dition to also hosting the 3A state
tournament finals. Pendleton was
considered as a top location to host
the event, according to OSAA, but
there are more schools on the west
side of the state that would have to
travel to Eastern Oregon.
Contributed Photo
Baker swimmers who competed at the district meet on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, at Madras.
Back, Gabe Bott. Next row, left, Silas Carter, right, Angel DeArcos. Left center, Brianna Stadler.
Front row, left, Caitlin Lien and Addy Macy.
Adrienne Tam of Catlin Ga-
bel just beat her to the wall.
Randy Stadler said Bri-
anna Stadler (who is his
daughter) and Tam are
arch rivals but also friends.
“They have a lot of re-
spect for each other,”
• Girls 50-yard freestyle
Randy Stadler said.
Caitlin Lien, 7th, 30.18.
Other Baker results:
• Boys 50-yard freestyle
• Boys 100-yard butterfly
DeArcos, 8th, 26.60;
Angel DeArcos, 8th,
Carter, 9th, 27.15.
1:08.73; Gabe Bott, 10th,
• Girls 100-yard butterfly
1:17.29.
Caitlin Lien, 6th, 1:21.39.
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BAKER (63)
Elms 5 2-2 12, Flanagan 1 0-0 2,
Wilde 4 0-0 8, Gyllenberg 2 1-1
5, Pierce 3 0-0 6, Ramos 7 1-2
15, Roy 2 0-0 2 4, Jaca 3 1-2 7,
Robb 0 0-0 0, Moore 1 2-3 4. To-
tals 28 7-12 63.
ONTARIO (15)
Ortega 5 1-4 13, Wilson 1 0-2 2,
Esquivel 0 0-2 0, Evans 0 0-1 0,
Oester 0 0-0 0, Womack 0 0-0 0,
Eidson 0 0-0 0. Totals 4 1-9 15.
Baker 19 13 23 8 — 63
Ontario 0
2 7 6 — 15
have a home game in the first
round of the playoffs. Baker
also has a strong chance of
hosting a first-round game
even if they lose.
“We’re in good shape,” Ra-
mos said.
OSAA moves Class 4A
basketball tournaments
to Coos Bay area
BAKER SWIMMING
Baker’s Brianna Stadler
will have a chance to cap
her high school swim-
ming career with her fifth
and sixth individual state
championships.
Stadler, a senior, qual-
ified for the state meet in
two events — the 100-yard
butterfly and 100-yard
backstroke.
Stadler won the back-
stroke at the district meet
Saturday, Feb. 12, at Ma-
dras, and she finished sec-
ond in the butterfly.
The state meet is set
for Saturday, Feb. 19, at
the Tualatin Hills Aquatic
Center in Beaverton.
One other Baker swim-
mer, Silas Carter, could
potentially qualify for state
depending on results from
other districts, Baker coach
Randy Stadler said.
Carter placed fifth in the
boys 100-yard freestyle at
the district meet.
“That’s pretty impres-
sive, with Silas being a
rookie with just three
months of training,”
Randy Stadler said.
Overall, Stadler said he
was pleased with Baker’s per-
formance at the district meet.
“They just swam great,”
he said. “It’s a very impres-
sive group.”
In the girls 100 back-
stroke, Stadler finished in
1:00.74, more than 5 seconds
ahead of runner up Alyssa
Sanchez of Catlin Gabel.
In the 100-yard butterfly,
Stadler was in the lead un-
til the final 25 yards, when
virtue of the 43-25 win over
La Grande on Feb. 8 in the
Baker gym.
Baker will play host to the
GOL championship game,
which affects seeding in the
Class 4A state playoffs, on Sat-
urday, Feb. 19, at 5 p.m.
The opponent hasn’t been
decided, but Ramos is antic-
ipating a third game against
La Grande.
The winner of an Ontario
vs. Mac-Hi game will play at
La Grande on Thursday, Feb.
17, with the winner playing at
Baker.
Jason Ramos said Baker will
prepare this week as usual, but
he’ll also look to add plays, on
both ends of the court, that
the Bulldogs have yet to show
this season.
If Baker wins Saturday, Feb.
19, the Bulldogs will definitely
The 4A boys and girls tournament
final rounds are set to be held from
March 10-12. The first-round match-
ups the week prior will still be held at
the higher-seeded high schools.
La Grande and Baker teams that
qualify for the tournament will
likely face a nearly eight-hour drive,
as opposed to about four and a half
hours to Forest Grove.
Boys quarterfinal matchups are
slated to be held throughout the
afternoon at North Bend High
School, while the remaining rounds
will be played at Marshfield High
School. The 4A boys champion-
ship game is scheduled for 3:15 p.m.
March 12 at Marshfield High
School, according to OSAA.
On the girls side, the quarterfinals
through championship matchup
will take place at Marshfield High
School. The girls final is slated for
8:30 p.m. March 12 at Marshfield.
Marshfield is a 4A school that
will likely qualify for the state tour-
nament on both sides, with its boys
team currently standing at 17-4 and
the girls team at 15-6. Host schools
typically do not play in the tour-
nament, which is a concern OSAA
Executive Director Peter Weber ad-
dressed in the release by OSAA.
“Obviously, it’s not an ideal sit-
uation,” Weber told John Gunther
of The World newspaper in Coos
Bay. “We’ve had it come up in a
few other circumstances.”
Forest Grove was previously slated
to host the 3A and 4A volleyball
tournaments in the fall, but the tour-
naments were moved to Corvallis.
First-round matchups of the
4A OSAA playoffs are set to begin
on March 4 for boys and March 5
for girls.
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