A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2022
POWDER VALLEY VOLLEYBALL
SPORTS
OREGON FOOTBALL
Ducks hand UCLA first loss
Bo Nix throws
5 touchdown
passes in 45-30
win over Bruins
BY ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Powder Valley’s Sky Nesser, left, and Ayla Bingham combine for a block
against Echo in the championship match at the District 7 tournament on
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022, in the Baker High School gym.
Badgers advance
to playoffs after
tournament win
Powder will host Perrydale on Oct. 26
Baker City Herald
Powder Valley enters the Class 1A state volleyball playoffs on a
roll after beating Joseph and Echo to claim the District 7 tournament
championship on Saturday, Oct. 22 at Baker High School.
The Badgers, 22-7 overall, will play host to Perrydale on Wednesday,
Oct. 26 at 6 p.m.
Powder Valley, which had a bye in the opening round of Saturday’s
district tournament, drew Joseph in the second round.
The Badgers beat the Eagles in four sets in their two regular season
meetings, but Joseph proved a formidable foe in the district tourna-
ment with a berth in the state playoffs on the line.
Powder Valley prevailed in five sets.
“Joseph was just as tough as we had anticipated, with both teams
playing well,” Powder coach Marji Lind said. “We fell off our game in
the third set but could not be prouder of the girls bouncing back and
fighting to finish that match.”
The championship against Echo was the rubber match in the
teams’ season series. Powder swept the Cougars on Sept. 24, but Echo
avenged that loss with a 2-0 win on Oct. 1.
On Saturday the Badgers won in four sets, 21-25, 31-29, 25-14, 25-
21.
“Echo has such great hustle and court coverage it is hard to get the
ball to the ground,” Lind said. “But again, after dropping a set, the
girls refocused and played great volleyball to take the district cham-
pionship. We are so proud of this group of young women, they fight
through adversity and challenges as a true team.”
If the Badgers beat Perrydale on Wednesday, they will play the win-
ner of a match between South Wasco County and Southwest Christian
in the second round on Saturday, Oct. 29, also at North Powder. The
time for that match would be determined after Wednesday’s matches.
EUGENE — Bo Nix made
Oregon’s win over UCLA
look nearly effortless. He
said it felt that way, too.
Nix threw for 283 yards
and five touchdowns and
No. 10 Oregon handed No. 9
UCLA its first loss of the sea-
son with a 45-30 victory Sat-
urday, Oct. 22 in a highly an-
ticipated showdown for the
top of the Pac-12 standings.
“To be honest, when I’m
out there it feels like I’m not
doing a whole lot because
I don’t have to,” Nix said. “I
just have to get the ball to the
playmakers around me.”
The win extended Ore-
gon’s winning streak at Au-
tzen Stadium to 23 games,
matching a school record. It
is the third-best active home
streak in the nation. The
Ducks (6-1, 4-0 Pac-12) have
won six straight since a sea-
son-opening loss to Georgia
and are the lone remaining
undefeated team in Pac-12
conference play.
The loss snapped a nine-
game winning streak for the
Bruins, who have not won
in Eugene since 2004. UCLA
(6-1, 3-1) hasn’t defeated the
Ducks since 2017.
Nix, a transfer from Au-
burn, is a mobile threat who
has thrown for 17 touch-
downs and rushed for eight
this season. He completed
21 of 28 passes against the
Bruins. His favorite target on
Saturday was Troy Franklin,
who had eight catches for
132 yards and two scores.
“He’s making great deci-
sions with the ball, he’s not
putting the ball in jeopardy,”
Oregon coach Dan Lanning
said about Nix. “He’s playing
really smart football, unself-
ish football. That’s going to
lead to opportunities for us
to win. If he continues to do
that, I think we’ll continue to
see success.”
Sean Meagher/The Oregonian
Oregon quarterback Bo Nix (No. 10) rolls out to avoid pressure as the No. 10 Ducks face the No. 9
UCLA Bruins in a Pac-12 college football game at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday,
Oct. 22, 2022.
UCLA’s Dorian Thomp-
son-Robinson, who was
completing nearly 75% of his
passes going into the game,
threw for 262 yards and two
touchdowns and an inter-
ception. Zach Charbonnet
rushed for 151 yards and a
score.
Oregon slowed UCLA’s
ground game, allowing 186
rushing yards. The Bruins
were ranked second in the
Pac-12 with an average of
211.5 yards. In contrast, the
Ducks piled up 262 rushing
yards.
“He’s making great
decisions with the ball,
he’s not putting the ball in
jeopardy.”
— Dan Lanning, Oregon coach
“I came back with expec-
tations being very high for
myself as well as this team,”
Thompson-Robinson said.
“When you don’t meet those
expectations, obviously it
hurts. I think it will fuel us
stronger than ever.”
The Ducks went up 10-3
early in the second quarter on
Nix’s 17-yard touchdown pass
to Terrance Ferguson. UCLA
answered with Thomp-
son-Robinson’s 36-yard scor-
ing pass to Keegan Jones.
Franklin caught a 51-yard
scoring pass from Nix to put
the Ducks back in front. Or-
egon recovered an onside
kick and went on to extend
its lead with Jordan James’
2-yard touchdown carry.
After Nicholas Barr-Mira
kicked a 44 yard field goal
for the Bruins, the Ducks’
final drive before halftime
was pushed back by a pair
of penalties but Franklin
caught a 2-yard touchdown
pass for a 31-13 lead at the
break.
The Ducks padded their
lead with Nix’s 17-yard scor-
ing pass to tight end Cam
McCormick. Charbonnet
rushed for a 1-yard touch-
down to open the final quar-
ter but the Nix found Bucky
Irving with a 37-yard touch-
down catch. Irving finished
with 19 carries for 108 yards.
Nix became the third
Oregon quarterback since
at least 1996 with multiple
games of five or more touch-
downs in a season. He joins
Justin Herbert (2019) and
Marcus Mariota (2014).
UCLA added a late touch-
down on Thompson-Rob-
inson’s 22-yard pass to Jake
Bobo, who finished with
eight catches for 101 yards.
“It was just a complete
team win, as we’ve been do-
ing,” Nix said. “I thought of-
fensively we were just great
on all cylinders, running,
throwing. Everything was
just kind of working for us
today. When you can stay
balanced like that, usually
you put a lot of points up. ”
IN THE TOP 10
The last time a UCLA
team ranked in the top 10
played a top-10 opponent
was on Oct. 13, 2001, when
the No. 7 Bruins beat No. 10
Washington 35-13 in Pasa-
dena, California.
It was the first meeting be-
tween two top-10 teams at
Autzen since No. 3 Oregon
beat No. 7 Michigan State
in 2014. The last matchup
between two Pac-12 teams
in the top 10 was No. 4 Ore-
gon’s victory over No. 9 Stan-
ford in 2010.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
UCLA, which rose in
the polls to No. 13 last sea-
son, had not been ranked
in the top 10 since 2015 be-
fore this past week. Oregon
opened the season ranked
No. 11, but the loss to Geor-
gia dropped them out of the
poll. The Ducks were ranked
as high as No. 3 last season.
SHANE ALDERSON
FOR
BAKER COUNTY COMMISSION CHAIR
My family has called Baker County home since 1935. We are enjoying raising our young daughter in this
beautiful community surrounded by small town values.
I promise to work hard for all citizens, do the work that needs to be done and
to provide the vital services taxpayer deserve.
I want to be your Baker County Commission Chair to mend the relationship
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I pledge to:
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offenders accountable for their actions
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• Continue to work with all local entities (Chambers, Baker City Downtown,
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provide resources to enhance our local tourism industry.
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force housing in our community.
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I am not beholden to any special interest groups and will bring honest and open
communication to the County Commission. Please vote for Shane Alderson for Baker County
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