A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
SPORTS
BAKER FOOTBALL
Bulldogs dominate
Vale Vikings, 33-14
Baker City Herald
Baker’s response to its first loss on
the young football season was em-
phatic.
The Bulldogs traveled to Vale on
Friday, Sept. 16 and dominated the
Vikings from the start.
Baker, coming off a 41-14 loss to
Homedale, Idaho, on Sept. 9, led 20-0
at halftime and cruised to a 33-14
win to improve to 2-1 on the season.
Junior quarterback Paul Hobson
was involved in each of Baker’s first
four touchdowns.
After a scoreless first quarter, Hob-
son scored on a 5-yard rush early in
the second quarter and Baker led 7-0.
Hobson then found one his favor-
ite targets, wide receiver and fellow
junior Hudson Spike, for a pair of
touchdown passes, from 13 and 30
yards, to extend the lead to 20-0.
Baker then opened the third quar-
ter with another Hobson scoring
toss, this one to freshman Rasean
Jones from 18 yards, to lead 27-0.
“We played pretty well for the
most part,” Baker coach Jason Ramos
said. “We threw the ball well again.
Paul had another good game, mak-
ing great throws and our guys were
catching the ball and making plays.”
Hobson finished 17 for 25 passing
for 225 yards with the three touch-
downs and no interceptions.
Spike had seven catches for 115
yards. Jones had five grabs for 50
yards, junior Malaki Myer had three
catches for 24 yards, and senior Tate
Powell caught two passes for 27
yards.
“We got off to a slow start, maybe
a little sloppy with some execution,
offensively,” Ramos said. “But once
we got going, we got that momentum
late in the first quarter, then main-
tained that through the second quar-
ter, we were able to drive the ball and
score.”
Ramos said Baker still needs to im-
prove its running game.
Sophomore Jaxon Logsdon led the
Bulldogs with 57 yards on 15 carries.
Junior Kayden Garvin had 18 yards
on seven carries, including a 3-yard
touchdown run in the third quarter
that gave Baker a 33-7 lead.
On defense the Bulldogs kept Vale
scoreless until late in the third quar-
ter.
The Vikings actually outgained
Baker, 324 yards to 309, but Vale
gained many of its yards after the
game was all but decided. Baker held
the Vikings to six of 15 on third-
down conversions, and more import-
Pat Caldwell/Malheur Enterprise
Baker quarterback Paul Hobson carries the ball against Vale on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022.
ant, the Bulldogs forced three turn-
overs.
“Defense played pretty well, they
pretty much were able to make Vale
work pretty hard to get what they got
in the second half,” Ramos said.
Myer had one interception in the
first half which he returned to the
Vale 30 to set up a Baker touchdown.
Hobson and senior David Shaw had
the other interceptions.
“Defense stepped up when they
needed to,” Ramos said.
The Bulldogs not only re-
gained momentum after the loss to
Homedale, but they avenged a 34-13
loss to Vale in October 2021.
Baker returns to the road for its fi-
nal nonleague game, traveling to On-
tario on Friday, Sept. 23.
The Tigers, formerly a Greater
Oregon League opponent, have left
the league for football this fall, along
with Mac-Hi.
Ontario is 2-1, with wins over
Caldwell (48-28) and Mac-Hi (57-
8) sandwiched around a loss to La
Grande (62-30).
Ramos said a goal this week is to
have more players ready to contrib-
ute against Ontario.
“That’s going to be an emphasis
this week, getting more guys on the
field, giving the other guys a break,”
he said.
Baker begins its schedule in the
newly constituted GOL on Friday,
Sept. 30, traveling to La Grande for
a 7 p.m. kickoff at Community Sta-
dium.
The Bulldogs return to Baker Bull-
dog Memorial Stadium for the first
time in almost a month, playing host
to The Dalles, one of the new league
members, on Friday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Ducks roll past No. 12 Beavers down Montana State, 68-28
BYU, extending streak
BY ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
EUGENE — Bo Nix lik-
ened himself to a point guard
for Oregon.
He certainly scored like one.
Nix threw for two touchdowns
and ran for three more to lead
No. 25 Oregon to a 41-20 vic-
tory over No. 12 BYU on Sat-
urday, Sept. 17.
The victory extended Or-
egon’s winning streak at Aut-
zen Stadium to 21 games, the
third-longest in the nation.
Nix, a transfer from Au-
burn, completed 13 of 18
passes for 222 yards and ran
for 35 yards on nine carries.
Terrance Ferguson caught
both of Nix’s touchdown
passes and finished with 24
yards receiving.
“I felt like I didn’t do any-
thing different, just went out
there and played the game, let
it come to me,” Nix said. “At
the end of the day I’m a point
guard, with some great posi-
tions around me, great skill
players. So my job is kind of
easy: Knowing what to do
with the ball, knowing who to
give the ball to, and then let-
ting those guys do their thing.”
Jaren Hall threw for 305
yards and two scores for BYU
(2-1), which was coming off a
big win at home over then-No.
9 Baylor that moved the Cou-
gars up nine spots in the AP
Top 25. They struggled on the
ground against the Ducks,
mustering just 61 rushing
yards.
“We just didn’t play as good
as we should have starting
off. Had a good first play, had
some momentum, just didn’t
finish the drive, and just kind
of let things get out of hand
offensively the next couple of
drives,” Hall said.
The Ducks (2-1) rebounded
from a season-opening loss to
Georgia with a 70-14 win at
home over Eastern Washing-
ton last weekend.
Nix ran two yards for a
touchdown to give the Ducks
an early lead. Camden Lewis
added a 28-yard field goal to
give Oregon a 10-0 lead after
the opening quarter.
Isaac Rex hauled down a
pass from quarterback Jaren
Hall for a 28-yard BYU touch-
down early in the second. Or-
egon answered on the next
drive when Nix found Troy
Franklin with a 50-yard pass
to get close, then ran on an-
other 2-yard keeper to make
it 17-7.
Nix fired a 15-yard TD pass
to Ferguson in the end zone to
give Oregon a 24-7 lead head-
ing into halftime. Nix added a
6-yard keeper early in the sec-
ond half and found Ferguson
for a 9-yard scoring pass to
make it 38-7.
Ty Thompson replaced Nix
late in the third quarter.
BYU closed to within 38-14
on Hall’s 18-yard scoring pass
to Kody Epps — Epps’ first
touchdown as a Cougar.
BYU intercepted Thomp-
son on the Oregon 30 and
were helped by a pass inter-
ference call, leading to Hall’s
2-yard scoring pass to Chris
Brooks. A 2-point conversion
attempt failed.
Nix returned on Oregon’s
next series and the drive was
capped by Lewis’ 25-yard field
goal to cap scoring.
“One of my past coaches
told me that pressure is a
privilege, and so I’ve re-
ally taken that to heart, and
there’s nothing more true in
my opinion,” Nix said. “When
you have a lot of pressure it
means that people believe in
you, people believe you can
do it, or you wouldn’t have
pressure at all.”
UP NEXT
BYU: The Cougars host
Wyoming next Saturday, Sept.
24.
Oregon: The Ducks visit
Washington State next Satur-
day, Sept. 24.
PORTLAND (AP) —
Chance Nolan threw for 276
yards and four touchdowns
and Oregon State remained
undefeated with a 68-28 vic-
tory over Montana State at
Portland’s Providence Park
on Saturday night, Sept. 17.
Anthony Gould caught a
pair of touchdown passes and
returned a punt for another
score for the Beavers, who are
3-0 to open the season for the
first time since 2014.
“It was fun,” Gould said.
“But it’s even better when you
get to enjoy it with your team.
Getting a quality team win,
it’s fun to be able to go out
there and get it.”
Providence Park is nor-
mally home to Major
League Soccer’s Portland
Timbers and the Portland
Thorns of the National
Women’s Soccer League.
Oregon State hadn’t played
in Portland since 1986.
Montana State is using
a two-quarterback system
this season, with Tommy
Mellott and Wyoming
transfer Sean Chambers.
Mellott threw for 101 yards
with three interceptions,
while running for 135
yards. Chambers ran for
35 yards and three touch-
downs.
The Bobcats (2-1) —
who haven’t defeated an
FBS team since 2006, when
they beat current Pac-12
member Colorado 19-10
— were coming off a 63-13
victory over Morehead State
in Bozeman.
“We wanted to come in
here and compete, and we
didn’t do that,” Montana
State coach Brent Vigen
said.
Deshawn Fenwick gave
the Beavers the early lead
with a 25-yard scoring run
up the middle. Montana
State answered with Cham-
bers’ 7-yard keeper on the
Bobcats’ first series of the
game.
Nolan hit Tre’Shaun Har-
rison with a 6-yard scoring
pass to give the Beavers a
14-7 lead.
Mellott was intercepted on
Montana State’s subsequent
drive and Oregon State took
advantage, scoring on Nolan’s
1-yard keeper. But Marqui
Johnson scored for the Bob-
cats on a 98-yard kickoff re-
turn to close the gap to 21-14.
Silas Bolden scored for the
Beavers on a 24-yard pass
from Nolan midway though
the second quarter. Nolan
added a 9-yard scoring pass
to Gould to make it 34-14 go-
ing into halftime.
Gould returned a punt 80
yards for a touchdown early
in the second half.
Chambers had and 8-yard
run to close the gap to 40-21,
but Damien Martinez ran
for a 7-yard score and Gould
caught a 17-yard TD pass
from Nolan to extend the
lead to 54-21.
Jam Griffin ran for 23
yards for another Oregon
State touchdown early in
the fourth quarter, after the
Beavers pulled many of their
starters.
Chambers added a 1-yard
keeper for the Bobcats
with 7:55 left but Kanoa
Shannon ran for a 3-yard
Beavers touchdown in the
final minutes.
“The multiple quarter-
back thing is not easy, espe-
cially when they’re capable
of really throwing it,” Or-
egon State coach Jonathan
Smith said. “And some of the
stuff they were giving us was
unique in regards to motion
from the backfield. But we’re
going to continue to face
good quarterbacks and we’ve
got to be ready for it.”
UP NEXT
Montana State: The Bob-
cats visit Eastern Washington
next Saturday, Sept. 24.
Oregon State: The Beavers
host the USC Trojans next
Saturday night, Sept. 24.
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