A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022
SPORTS
POWDER VALLEY FOOTBALL
Badgers renew rivalry with Cove in Class 1A quarterfinal
Unbeaten Powder Valley hasn’t
played Cove since 2019
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Powder Valley will put its perfect record on
the line Friday night, Nov. 11 with a berth in
the Class 1A football semifinals at stake, and
the Badgers’ opponent is a familiar one.
But not as familiar as they used to be.
Powder Valley, 9-0 and the second seed in
the playoffs, will play host to the Cove Leop-
ards (6-4, 10th seed) at 6 p.m.
Although the two schools are separated
by just 25 miles of Highway 237, they haven’t
competed against each other on the gridiron
for more than three years.
The Badgers won 54-0 at Cove on Oct. 18,
2019.
“It’s gonna be fun reigniting the Cove/Pow-
der Valley rivalry,” Badgers coach Josh Cobb
said. “It’s been a while. Nice having two teams
in Union County representing in the quarter-
finals.”
Powder Valley earned a bye in the first
round of the playoffs by virtue of its unbeaten
record.
Cove has won three straight, including a 30-
24 win over Enterprise in a first-round playoff
game Nov. 4 at Enterprise.
“Cove beat a solid team in Enterprise the
first round of the playoffs, so their confidence
is going to be high coming into the game,”
Powder assistant coach Dan Townsend said.
“We are gonna be playing a tough physical
Cove team that has been getting better each
week. They have shown that they can play
physical with some of the toughest teams in
the league. It should be a good quarterfinal
matchup.”
Although the Badgers and the Leopards
didn’t play this season, the teams do have four
common opponents: Adrian, Union, Enter-
prise and Ione/Arlington.
Cove went 3-1 against that quartet, while
Powder Valley was 4-0.
The one exception is Adrian, and the differ-
ence between the two teams’ results is stark.
Cove lost to the Antelopes 50-0 on Sept. 16,
while Powder Valley pounded Adrian 46-14
on Oct. 21.
Results against other common opponents:
Union
• Cove won 50-34
• Powder Valley won 64-20
Enterprise
• Cove won 30-24
• Powder Valley won 60-12
Ione/Arlington
• Cove won 30-26
• Powder Valley won 44-20
If the Badgers win Friday night they could
earn a rematch in the semifinals with Adrian.
The Antelopes, seeded sixth, will travel to
third-seed Lost River, in Merrill near Klam-
ath Falls, for a quarterfinal game Saturday at
1 p.m.
The semifinal games are scheduled for Nov.
18, time and place to be determined.
The Class 1A state championship game will
take place Saturday, Nov. 26.
OREGON BASKETBALL
Ian Crawford/Baker City Herald
Powder Valley’s Tucker Martin heads for the end zone against
Dufur on Sept. 29, 2022, at North Powder.
OREGON STATE BASKETBALL
No. 21 Ducks romp past Rattlers in opener Beavers rally to
win season opener
BY ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
EUGENE — N’Faly Dante
had 16 points and 10 rebounds
as No. 21 Oregon opened with
an 80-45 victory Monday night,
Nov. 7 over Florida A&M.
Keeshawn Barthelemy added
13 points for the Ducks, ranked
to begin the season for the ninth
straight year.
Dante, guard Will Richard-
son and forward Quincy Guer-
rier are all returning starters for
the Ducks, who finished last
season 20-15 overall.
“I feel great. Since I’ve been
at Oregon, I haven’t had a sum-
mer to work out with the team
and practice with the team,” said
Dante, hampered by injuries in
2020-21 and at the start of last
season. “I was glad to have that,
and glad to have a team that
trusts me and picks me up every
single day when I’m down. It
Sean Meagher/The Oregonian
feels great.”
Oregon forward Quincy Guerrier drives baseline for a two-handed dunk as the No. 21 Ducks face the Florida
It was Dante’s fifth career
A&M Rattlers in a men’s college basketball game at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Oregon on Monday,
double-double. He also made
Nov. 7, 2022.
four steals.
Richardson led Oregon with
14.1 points and 3.6 assists last
43-31 with just over 16 minutes ter competition and education
season. He flirted with going
left. Barthelemy’s 3-pointer ex-
around issues of anti-racism and
pro but withdrew his name
tended the lead to 54-35, and
social justice. Oregon’s game
from the NBA draft in early
Oregon rolled to the win.
against Florida A&M, among
June to instead use an extra year
Barthelemy transferred from
the HBCUs in the SWAC, was
of eligibility with the Ducks this Colorado.
the first of 12 men’s and women’s
season. He had
“We didn’t have Legacy Series games for Pac-12
“We didn’t
11 p oints in the
as many commu-
teams this season.
opener.
nication
mistakes
have as many
Jordan Tillmon
as we’ve had in our Big picture
communication two scrimmages
and Jordan Chat-
Florida A&M: Rattlers coach
man scored eight
before
tonight,
”
Robert
McCullum was on Al-
mistakes as we’ve Oregon coach
points apiece for
tman’s staff from 2014-17. ...
had in our two
the Rattlers, who
Dana Altman said. Florida A&M visits eight Power
lost seven top
I was pleased
Five teams on its non-conference
scrimmages before “So
players from last
with the rebounds. schedule, including Oregon State,
season when they
Pleased with the
Miami, Florida, Georgia, Louis-
tonight.”
went 13-17 over-
defense, especially ville, Kentucky and Purdue. The
— Oregon coach
all. Florida A&M
in the second half, team plays 11 of its 13 non-con-
Dana Altman
has 11 new play-
but Cal-Irvine on
ference games on the road.
ers, including ju-
Friday will be re-
Oregon: Opened the season
nior college transfers Tillmon,
ally good, Montana State is an
without guard Jermaine Couis-
Byron Smith and Jaylen Bates.
NCAA Tournament team. Ob-
nard, who had lower body sur-
Oregon began to pull away
viously, Houston in 10-11 days
gery last week. A transfer from
midway through the first half.
will be really tough. We’ve got a
South Carolina, he averaged 12
Dante hit a pair of layups and
lot of work to do to be ready for points and 3.2 assists last sea-
junior college transfer Tyrone
those folks.”
son. ... Oregon also won the pre-
Williams added another to put
vious three meetings with Flor-
Legacy series
the Ducks up 27-13.
ida A&M. The Ducks will visit
Hantz Louis-Jeune got the
The game was part of the Pac- Florida A&M in Tallahassee
Rattlers within 33-26 on a
12 s basketball partnership with next season.
3-pointer with 1:42 left in the
the Southwestern Athletic Con-
Up Next
half, but the Ducks led 36-26 at
ference that debuts this season.
the break.
The Legacy Series between the
Oregon: Will host UC Irvine
Dante’s dunk put Oregon up
two conferences seeks to fos-
on Friday, Nov. 11.
CORVALLIS (AP) — Jor-
dan Pope had 19 points, Dex-
ter Akanno scored 18 and
Oregon State overcame a
19-point deficit to beat Tulsa
73-70 in a season opener on
Monday night, Nov. 7.
Two free throws by Bryant
Selebangue gave Tulsa a 41-22
lead with 2:45 remaining in
the first half.
Anthony Pritchard closed
out the scoring with a three-
point play and the Golden
Hurricane led 44-28 at inter-
mission.
Pope hit a 3-pointer to
open the second half for Ore-
gon State and then fed Glenn
Taylor Jr. for a layup off a
Tulsa turnover. Pope, Dzmitry
Ryuny and Dexter Akanno
followed with back-to-back-
to-back 3-pointers to cap a
14-0 run and the Beavers
trailed 44-42 with 15:27 left
to play.
The Golden Hurricane
stayed in front until Pope
sank four straight free throws
to knot the score at 59 with
5:31 remaining after Tulsa’s
Sterling Gaston-Chapman
was charged with a foul and a
Class A Technical.
The lead went back and
forth until Akanno sank two
free throws and followed a
Pope layup with one of his
own, giving OSU a 70-64 lead
with 2:28 left.
The Beavers never trailed
again in upping their record to
9-0 in season openers under
Wayne Tinkle.
Taylor finished with 16
points for the Beavers, while
Ryuny scored 11.
Sam Griffin hit five
3-pointers and led Tulsa with
29 points. Selebangue added
15 points and nine rebounds,
while Brandon Betson scored
13.
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