A8 BAKER CITY HERALD • TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2022
SPORTS
BAKER TENNIS AT SUBREGIONALS
Four Bulldogs qualify for regionals
Baker players will
have a chance to
advance to state
tournament
Schools in the other sub-
region are Arlington, Con-
don, Ione/Heppner, Irrigon,
Mac-Hi, Riverside, Sherman,
Stanfield/Echo, Umatilla and
Weston-McEwen/Griswold.
The regional tournament
BY IAN CRAWFORD
will include eight boys and
eight girls singles players, and
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
Two singles players and one eight girls and boys doubles
doubles team from the Baker
teams, from special district 4.
High School tennis squad have
The top four boys and girls
qualified for the regional tour- singles players, and top four
nament Friday and Saturday,
girls and boys doubles teams,
May 13-14, at the Ash Grove
will advance to the state tour-
courts near BHS, with berths in nament May 20-21 at Corvallis.
the state tournament at stake.
Singles players Sarah Plum- Subregional at Ontario
mer and Danny Cunningham, Friday, May 6
along with the girls doubles
team of Maya Smith and Ol-
Boys
ivia Jacoby, each advanced by
Cunningham won both of
placing in the top four at the
his matches on Friday, May 6,
subregional tournament on
to advance to matches the next
May 6-7 at Ontario.
day and ensure a berth in the
Cunningham placed second, regional tournament.
while Plummer, along with
Cunningham beat Brady
Smith and Jacoby, finished third. Cooper of Nyssa, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2,
The top four singles players and then beat Henry Garret of On-
doubles teams qualified for the tario, 6-2, 6-2.
regional tournament at BHS.
In other boys singles
The subregional tourna-
matches, Baker’s Ashton Le-
ment included Baker, Four
Tourneau won the first set
Rivers, La Grande, Nyssa, On- against Ontario’s Martin
tario and Vale.
Benites but couldn’t finish off
The regional event at BHS
the match, losing 2-6, 7-6, 6-3.
is for special district 4, which
Baker’s Caleb Hills lost his
includes 16 schools from two
opening match to Jorge Marti-
regions, spanning the Class 1A, nez of Four Rivers, 6-4, 6-2.
In boys doubles, Baker’s
2A, 3A and 4A ranks.
Esplin, 6-2, 6-3.
Baker’s Campbell Vander-
wiele lost her opening set to
Erin Hawker of Four Rivers,
6-3, 6-0.
In girls doubles, Smith and
Jacoby won their opening
match in straight sets over La
Grande’s Shanti Langidrik and
Vega Merino Sampedro, 6-0,
6-1, and then had to rally in
the second round against Belle
Wagstaff and London Hartley
of Nyssa, winning 6-1, 6-7 (7-
5), 6-1.
Saturday, May 7
Boys
Cunningham won a back-
and-forth match against Ontar-
io’s Dallon Berg to advance to
the championship match against
Nyssa’s Dawson Richards.
Richards prevailed, 6-3, 6-3.
Girls
Plummer lost her first match
to Mary Esplin of Nyssa, 7-6,
6-4, but rebounded to beat
Erin Hawker of Four Rivers
Girls
in the third-place match, 6-3,
In girls singles, Plummer
2-6, 6-4.
won both matches in straight
In doubles, Smith and
sets. She beat Mia Clayton of
Jacoby lost their first match
Four Rivers, 6-1, 6-0, then beat to Vale’s Brenda Ramirez and
Nyssa’s Brenna Kelser, 6-3, 6-2. Elise Seals, 7-6, 6-4, but then
Isabel Cunningham opened won the third-place match
by beating Alexandria Juarez, against Emily Wilson and
6-2, 6-2, but then lost in the
Collette Larvik of La Grande,
second round to Nyssa’s Mary 6-1, 6-3.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Sarah Plummer returns a shot against La Grande’s Laura Mingrone on Monday, April 25, 2022, at
the Ash Grove courts in Baker City. Plummer qualified for the regional tournament May 13-14, 2022, in
Baker City.
Jayden Yencopal and Ethan
Hills won their opening match
in straight sets over Humberto
Gonzalez and John Paul Bar-
rido of Ontario, 6-2, 6-3. But
Yencopal and Hills were elim-
inated by Four Rivers’ Koda
Alvarez and Marcus Grimaldo,
6-1, 6-2.
Baker’s Weston Downing
and Noah Lien rallied to win
the second set but ending up
falling to Ontario’s Bryan Ale-
jandro and Pablo Ponce, 6-2,
4-6, 6-1.
Anthony Christopher and
Diego Jones-Bedolla lost their
opening match to Ontario’s
Jared Halley and Eduardo Na-
varro, 6-1, 6-0.
Alex Ritter signs letter to play football at Pacific Lutheran
years, and I decided I wanted
to play college football,” said
Former Baker football line- Ritter, a standout on both the
offensive and defensive lines. “I
man Alex Ritter, who will
graduate next month, recently got five offers. I went on visits,
and decided this (Pacific Lu-
signed a four-year commit-
theran) was the best school.”
ment letter to play at Pacific
Ritter, who is an alternate
Lutheran University in Ta-
on the East squad for the East-
coma, Washington.
Ritter was joined by his par- West Shrine All Star Football
ents, Rick and Mysti Ritter, sib- game this August at Baker
lings Reagan and Sam, friends, Bulldog Memorial Stadium,
said the commitment he made
teammates, and BHS coaches
on April 21 in the Baker gym. to Pacific Lutheran is a signifi-
cant one.
Many, including Ritter, were
“It’s definitely more involved,
wearing Lutes apparel as he
I’ll have practice daily from
signed the letter of intent.
5:45 (a.m.) to 7 (a.m.), and
“I played for Baker for four
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
then again from 5:15 to 9:30,”
he said.
In addition to the six hours
of physical work, Ritter will
have a full classload as he in-
tends to study pre-law. He said
he would be the first member
of his family to pursue a career
in law.
During his signing cere-
mony, Ritter thanked his many
coaches, teammates and fans
from Baker City.
“Especially for the amazing
energy they brought on Friday
nights,” he said.
Classes at PLU start on
Sept. 7.
Buell Gonzales Jr./Contributed Photo
The Ritters, (left to right) Reagan,
Mysti, Sam and Rick join Alex
wearing some their new team
colors as Alex signs his letter of
intent to play football at Pacific
Lutheran University in Tacoma,
Washington.
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