A6 BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
SPORTS
POWDER VALLEY FOOTBALL
Badgers brace for No. 3 Lost River
Powder Valley seeks
berth in second straight
state title game
BY JAYSON JACOBY
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
Josh Cobb could be describ-
ing a mythical beast rather than
a football team when he talks
about the Lost River Raiders.
“Big.”
“Solid.”
“Stout.”
But then Cobb’s adjectives
wouldn’t be inappropriate if ap-
plied to his own team, the Pow-
der Valley Badgers.
These two Class 1A powers
will collide Saturday, Nov. 19
at 4:30 p.m. at Caldera High
School in Bend with a berth in
the state championship game
at stake.
Also on the line is Powder
Valley’s perfect record.
The Badgers, seeded second
in the playoffs, are 10-0.
Lost River, from Merrill in
Klamath County, is 9-1 and
seeded third.
“Just like it’s supposed to be
— the number two and number
three ranked teams,” Cobb said.
The Badgers, which lost 46-
38 to Adrian in the 2021 state
championship game, advanced
to the semifinal round for the
second straight year by routing
Cove 46-8 on Nov. 11 at North
Powder.
Lost River, meanwhile, dom-
inated Adrian 44-8 in a quarter-
final game Nov. 12.
Adrian is one of two oppo-
nents that Lost River and Pow-
der Valley have in common this
season.
The Raiders beat Adrian
twice — the first win was 44-28
in their season-opener on Sept.
2. Cobb said Lost River was
missing one of its top players in
that game due to injury.
Powder Valley romped over
the Antelopes, 46-14, on Oct.
21.
The other common foe is
Camas Valley.
Powder Valley beat Camas
Valley in the Badgers’ first game,
40-36 on Sept. 2.
Lost River blanked Camas
Valley, 54-0, on Oct. 7.
The Raiders’ one loss this
season, 42-36, was at St. Paul
on Sept. 17. Lost River hasn’t
yielded more than 8 points in
a game since, winning seven
straight games, two in shutouts.
Cobb said Lost River poses a
more daunting challenge than
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Powder Valley’s Cooper Secl, right, tackles an Adrian Antelope with help from Cole Martin and Braxton Golar
on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, at North Powder.
the Badgers’ other opponents.
“We cannot compare them
to anybody we’ve played yet,”
he said. “It’s going to take four
quarters of good football.”
Cobb said the Raiders em-
ploy a power running game that
they’ll stick with so long as it
works.
“They like to run it in your
face,” he said.
The Badgers, too, rely heavily
on their running attack, led by
senior quarterback Cole Martin
and sophomore tailback Tucker
Martin.
Cole Martin rushed for 253
yards and three touchdowns as
the Badgers piled up more than
300 yards on the ground in the
quarterfinal rout of Cove.
“We play old school, funda-
mental, hard football,” Cobb
said.
After the heartbreaking loss
to Adrian in last year’s title
game, and the loss of several key
seniors, Cobb said he’s gratified
that the Badgers are once again
competing for a championship.
“I feel very good about being
in back to back semifinals,” he
said. “I’ll feel even better if we
make it back to the champion-
ship.”
BAKER BOYS SOCCER
Six Bulldogs named to all-league team
BY IAN CRAWFORD
icrawford@bakercityherald.com
Six players from the Baker boys soccer team have
been named to all-league teams for the Greater Ore-
gon League.
Senior Diego Quintela and junior Giacomo
Rigueiro were Baker’s representatives on the first
team. Both were consistent scorers for Baker, which
advanced to the postseason and lost 3-0 to Molalla in
a Class 4A play-in game on Oct. 29.
Baker had four players named to the second team:
• Aldo Duran, sophomore midfielder/forward.
• Jayden Yencopal, junior defensive midfielder.
• Austin Hayes, senior midfielder/forward.
• Noah Lien, goalkeeper.
Jamis Gonzalez and Jaaziel Chaves were co-play-
ers of the year, both from Ontario, which won the
Class 4A state championship. Ontario coach Daniel
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