A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022
SPORTS
POWDER VALLEY VOLLEYBALL
BAKER CROSS-COUNTRY
AT DISTRICT
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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 sweep their way into
second round of the playoffs
level against Perrydale, a trend she’s seen in the latter
part of the season after Powder struggled at times earlier
Powder Valley volleyball fans will have another
in the season with what she called the “roller coaster,”
chance to cheer in their home gym after the Badgers
playing well in one set but making a lot of errors in the
swept Perrydale on Wednesday, Oct. 26 to advance to
next. Having a second straight match on their home
the second round of the Class 1A state playoffs.
gym is a major benefit for the Badgers, Lind said.
Powder Valley will play host to South Wasco County
“Travel always takes it out of you no matter how well
on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. The winner advances to
you prepare,” she said. “We are super fortunate and ex-
the eight-team state tournament Nov. 4-5 at Ridgeview cited that we get to stay home and have our crowd with
High School in Redmond.
us, which is always great.”
“The girls are really excited — they set that goal early
The Badgers, who improved to 23-7 on the sea-
on of playing (in the state tournament),” Powder Valley son with the win over Perrydale, haven’t played South
coach Marji Lind said. “Saturday is the final step, the
Wasco County this year. The Redsides are 23-6, and
one they’ve waited for.”
they advanced by sweeping Southwest Christian on
The Badgers dominated from the start on Wednes-
Wednesday, 25-11, 25-20, 25-11. Like Powder, South
day against Perrydale, which is near Amity, west of Sa-
Wasco went undefeated in its league schedule.
lem.
The two teams had five common opponents this sea-
Powder Valley won the first set 25-4.
son — Joseph, Echo, Stanfield, Weston-McEwen and
The Pirates played tougher in the second and third
Open Door Christian Academy. Powder Valley had a
sets, but they never really threatened as Powder won 25- 9-1 record against those five teams.
12, 25-15.
South Wasco County went 1-4 against that quin-
Lind said the Badgers played consistently at a high
tet.
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
The results: Joseph
• Powder Valley won all four matches, 2-1, 3-1, 3-1
and 3-2
• South Wasco County won, 3-0
Echo
• Powder Valley went 2-1, winning 3-0 and 3-1,
and losing 2-0.
• South Wasco County lost, 3-0
Stanfield
• Powder Valley won 3-0
• South Wasco County lost 3-1
Weston-McEwen
• Powder Valley won 3-2
• South Wasco County lost 3-2
Open Door Christian Academy
• Powder Valley won 2-0
• South Wasco County lost 3-2
Baker’s Daniel Brown won the boys JV race
at the Crosby Invitational on Thursday,
Oct. 6, 2022, at Treasure Valley Commu-
nity College in Ontario. He also placed first
in the district varsity meet, on the same
course, on Friday, Oct. 28.
Girls and boys
advance to state
Baker City Herald
ONTARIO — Both the Baker girls
and boys cross-country teams qualified
for the Class 4A state meet with their
performances at the district meet Fri-
day, Oct. 28 at Treasure Valley Commu-
nity College.
The top two teams in the four-team
league advanced to the state meet
Nov. 5 at Eugene.
In the boys district race, Baker soph-
omore Daniel Brown finished first
overall, senior Thaddeus Pepera was
fourth, senior Angel DeArcos was sixth,
and senior Jordan Mills was seventh.
The Baker boys were first in the team
standings in unofficial results, Baker
coach Suzy Cole said.
The Baker girls placed second at the
district meet, led by sophomore Sofie
Kaaen’s fourth-place finish. Freshman
Gwen Rasmussen placed seventh.
Complete official results weren’t
available by press time Friday after-
noon, but will be published in the
Tuesday, Nov. 1 issue of the Baker City
Herald
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