A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
SPORTS
BAKER VOLLEYBALL
BAKER GIRLS SOCCER
Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Jaycee Gray (in black), seen here in an earlier match, had
two of Baker’s three goals in a 3-2 win at Weiser on Sept. 26, 2022.
Bulldogs top Weiser
Wolverines 3-2
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Baker’s Jozie Ramos tips the ball against the defense of Vale’s Kinsey Meisinger on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in the Baker gym. Baker swept the
Vikings in three sets.
Bulldogs sweep past Vale
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Baker had no intention of
playing another marathon vol-
leyball match against Vale.
The Bulldogs avoided re-
peating that fate on Tuesday
evening, Sept. 27 in the Baker
gym with a convincing sweep
of the visiting Vikings in a
nonleague match, 25-23, 25-
19, 25-16.
“Sweeping a team like Vale
is very hard,” Baker coach Ali
Abrego said. “They’re good.
They don’t make many mis-
takes and they swing hard.”
The Bulldogs knew well
what Vale was capable of after
an Aug. 30 match, also in the
Baker gym.
That night Baker rallied from
a 2-1 set deficit to nip the Vi-
kings 17-15 in the decisive fifth
set of a nearly two-hour match.
Nothing so dramatic hap-
pened on Tuesday, as Baker
controlled the match from the
start in improving its season
record to 11-2.
Vale, a Class 3A school, fell
to 6-10. The Vikings swept La
Grande, Baker’s league rival,
on Sept. 13.
Baker led 8-1 in the first set,
prompting Vale coach Shan-
non Steele to call timeout.
But the break didn’t inter-
rupt the Bulldogs’ momen-
tum, as Vale struggled to
handle senior Taylor Dalton’s
well-placed serves. Baker in-
creased its lead to 10-1, and
the Bulldogs led 20-10 after a
kill by senior Jozie Ramos that
led to a second Vale timeout.
This time, though, the Vi-
kings rallied, closing to within
23-20, and Abrego called tim-
eout.
With Vale junior Joey
Cleaver serving, the Vikings
continued the rally, tying the
score at 23.
But a Vale attack error gave
Baker the lead at 24-23,
and sophomore Taylor
Churchfield’s ace serve fin-
play, although she was disap-
ished the set.
Baker started fast in the sec- pointed with Vale’s rally in the
first set.
ond set, leading 7-3, but Vale
“The first set shouldn’t have
came back to take its first lead
been 25-23,”
of the match,
she said. “But
16-15, on a
“Sweeping
a
team
like
we overcame
block of a Ra-
Vale is very hard. They’re mentally and
mos kill at-
it.”
tempt. Abrego
good. They don’t make finished
Abrego said
called timeout
after Vale led
many mistakes and they one of her
main chal-
18-16.
swing hard.”
lenges is con-
It was the
vincing her
last time the
— Ali Abrego, Baker coach
team to play
Vikings were
with confi-
ahead.
dence, to trust their abilities.
Baker scored five straight
“We have a problem with
points, taking a 19-18 lead on
Ramos’ kill and extending the lacking confidence in our-
selves even when we’re doing
lead to 23-18 before closing
good things,” she said.
out the set.
Abrego was gratified by the
The third set was anticli-
mactic, as Baker never trailed. raucous Baker crowd, in par-
ticular the student section at
Vale got as close as 14-13,
the southwest corner of the
but Baker scored five straight
points and cruised from there. gym.
“I haven’t seen a student
Abrego said she was gen-
section that big,” she said.
erally pleased with Baker’s
FEEL THE SPEED,
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“People are investing in what
we’re doing, and that’s a trib-
ute to the girls.”
Those fans will have to wait
a couple weeks to see the Bull-
dogs in action at home again,
though, as Baker’s next three
matches are on the road —
Thursday, Sept. 29 at Ontario,
Oct. 6 at La Grande and Oct. 8
at Burns. Baker returns home
on Oct. 13 to take on Pendle-
ton at 6:30 p.m.
In the earlier matches on
Tuesday, the Baker JV won the
first set against Vale, 25-15,
but lost the next three, 25-21,
25-4 and 25-18.
Baker won the JV2 match,
25-17, 25-20.
The Baker girls soccer
team’s second match this
season against Weiser was a
lot tougher than the first.
The Bulldogs blanked
Weiser 4-0 on Sept. 19 at the
Sports Complex.
But the rematch on Mon-
day, Sept. 26 at Weiser was
quite different, with the
teams playing to a scoreless
tie until late in the first half.
And when the first shot
found the net, it was the
home Wolverines taking a
1-0 lead.
“Played almost the whole
half before anyone made it
onto the scoreboard, with
Weiser taking a great shot
that couldn’t be stopped,”
Baker coach Robbie Langrell
said.
But Baker rebounded in
the second half.
Senior Brooklyn Jaca
scored first to tie the score,
and freshman Jaycee Gray
scored twice.
Langrell said one of Gray’s
goals was on an assist from a
corner kick by senior Sydnee
Pierce.
Gray netted her other goal
on a breakaway.
While Baker’s offense was
taking control in the second
half, Langrell said the Bull-
dog defenders, including
seniors Skye Smith, Maddy
Yencopal and Kaci Ander-
son, and freshman Mary
Schwartz were stellar.
Langrell also praised
sophomore Oakley Ander-
son, who has moved into the
goalie position after an in-
jury to Neah Thomas.
“Oakley Anderson has
stepped up as our new goalie
and is playing fantastic de-
spite the trial by fire and
coming into the position so
unexpectedly,” Langrell said.
“She had some great saves
this game, but that one was
impossible to get to.”
Weiser added a second
goal in the second half but
the Bulldogs held on for the
win to improve to 4-3-1 on
the season.
Baker returns to Greater
Oregon League play on
Thursday, Sept. 29, taking
on the Pendleton Buckaroos
at 6 p.m. at the Sports Com-
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