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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
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“The boys overcame a
lot of adversity all week,
and it was good to see them
respond so well and play a
great game together,” said
Grant Union head coach
Steve Speth.
“What we lack in height,
we try to make up for in ef-
fort, energy and execution,”
he added. “We have to out-
work our opponent and beat
them playing ‘small ball.’”
Grant Union’s starting
lineup in Saturday’s game
included: Ricky Weickum,
Trace Gill, Zack Deiter,
Wade Reimers and Brady
Burch.
Grant Union started slow
in Saturday’s game and end-
ed the first quarter trailing,
9-16.
The Pros were behind by
5 points going into halftime,
but refueled for an exciting
third quarter.
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Grant Union’s Trace Gill (10) aims for
the basket, his teammates Blake Stone Grant Union’s Wade Reimers fights
(0) and Wade Reimers (12) in the action for a rebound in Saturday’s win over
against Elgin.
the Elgin Huskies.
Grant Union convert-
ed rebounds and steals into
points on the board, capital-
izing on their opponents’ er-
rors.
Deiter sank a shot for
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Duby complimented the
Tiger team for a great job.
“They took the ball out of
our hands,” he said.
“We saw a lot of im-
provement in the season,”
Duby said.
He noted that a senior on
his team has played basket-
ball for four years, and this
is the first year the team
has won any games. They
won five this season.
D/M girls ready
for play-in game
The Dayville/Monument
Lady Tigers took the Bulls
by the horns with a 46-21
win last Friday, and went
on to beat Harper/Hunting-
ton 50-38.
That put the girls in fifth
place in league over Harp-
er/Huntington.
Those teams will have a
play-in game to determine
which team will contin-
ue in the Feb 20-21 dis-
trict tournament in John
Day.
The Tigers are sched-
uled to face Harper/Hun-
tington at Grant Union in
John Day on Wednesday at
6 p.m.
Senior team members
Treiquella Osborne and
Mary Yankee said the team
worked hard for Friday’s
win.
“My last home game
was the funnest that we’ve
played this season,” Os-
borne said. “Our team
knew how much it meant to
us, so they played hard for
us.”
“We moved the ball well
and executed plays, and ev-
eryone worked hard for our
last league game,” Yankee
said.
Head coach Jay Ken-
yon was pleased with
the weekend’s wins and
ready to forge on to the
districts.
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By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
HALFWAY – Com-
peting against 17 teams
last weekend, the Grant
Union wrestlers finished
in 10th place at the Pine
Eagle tournament.
“It
was
pretty
good
competition,”
said head coach Andy
Lusco.
Notable performances
came from Clay Johnson,
who finished second in
his weight class, 2-1; An-
drew Copenhaver, fifth,
3-1; and Dillon Maley,
fifth, 2-1.
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to surprise at
district meet
The People Mover
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through the
Highly Rural Transportation
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of Grant County Veterans to
medical appointments free of charge.
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Grapplers take on
Pine Eagle tourney
fifth place, Lusco said.
“Andrew and Dillon
wrestled very well, they
just didn’t get a chance to
wrestle for third,” Lusco
said.
“Clay is really shap-
ing up to be a com-
petitor at the district
level,” he added. “We
are excited to wrestle
next week at districts and
look to surprise a few
people with our younger
wrestlers.”
For the junior high
team, Russell Hodge fin-
ished 3-0.
Ethan Moore, Zach
Hayzlett, Roen Langum,
Drew Lusco all went 2-1.
Angelo Towers and
Braden Spencer each won
one match.
“The kids wrestled
tough,”
Lusco
said.
“We have an exciting
group of junior high
wrestlers.”
Several athletic suspen-
sions were blamed on an
off-campus gathering where
alcohol was present, a situa-
tion that stirred vigorous de-
bate among parents and other
community members on the
sidelines and in an online fo-
rum.
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tiality, District 3 Super-
intendent Mark Witty de-
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said the school is following
long-standing policies which
are spelled out in the stu-
dents’ handbooks.
“We have our athletic pol-
icies, and we do our best to
enforce them as consistently
as possible,” he said. “Those
policies were put in place
with the hope that they will
help students avoid these
types of situations and help
them make better choices.”
While the team is now
playing with a smaller roster,
fans last weekend saw the re-
maining players prove their
mettle on the court.
Dancers
shine for
second-place
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
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South Albany Dance Competi-
tion. The girls, led by head coach
Shannon Adair, earned a score
of 70 and second place, just 3.5
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and Bandon in fourth, 48.94.
“After several changes to our
routine and lots of practice time
over the last two weeks, we were
able to improve our score from
the Canby competition (65.06),”
Adair said.
She said that over the next two
weeks the team will add the last 40
seconds of the dance to the routine.
“We’ll continue to work on
technique and expression,” she
said. “I’m so proud of this team –
they have a great work ethic and
a positive attitude and continue to
impress me everyday.”
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2 points and Reimers hit a
3-pointer to tie the score at
26, then Cauy Weaver scored
2 more to put the Prospectors
in the lead, which they re-
fused to relinquish.
Three more team mem-
bers also contributed to the
23-point quarter for Grant
Union, including a 3-point
shot from Blake Stone and 5
points from Weickum. Gill’s
2-point throw at the buzz-
er brought a cheer from the
crowd.
Grant Union went into the
fourth quarter, 44-31, keep-
ing Elgin to 5 points, then
road out the storm for the
15-point win.
“It was a great win for our
team, and a team effort all the
way – great defense and great
teamwork on offense,” Speth
said. “Our kids are excited to
have the opportunity to play
at the district tournament; it
will be a great experience for
our very young team.”
Since a 62-65 loss to
Union on Feb. 7, the Pros-
pectors have been competing
without four players, includ-
ing three who often scored in
the double-digit range.
Dorran Wilson, who had been
out with an injury for several
weeks.
Triston Emmel has also been
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back in recent weeks after re-
Panthers 48, Bulls 40
covering from an injury.
The Panther boys, tied for
Burnt River started the sec-
sixth place in league with Burnt ond quarter by converting some
River, won a close playoff game rebounds to take a 13-10 lead,
with the Bulls on Monday at but a few steals restored Prairie
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City to the plus side.
The teams kept the scoring
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ended tied at 10 points.
Prairie City hit the court row and had another 2-point
strong in the second quarter, out- basket to close out the quar-
ter, 26-17.
shooting the Bulls 16-7.
Burnt River came within
The Panthers had help from
4 points of Prairie City in the
third quarter, the Bulls gain-
ing points from Steven Duby
and a 3-pointer from Arman-
do Garcia, but the Panthers
pulled away for a 27-37 lead.
Multiple Panthers contrib-
uted down the stretch – several
shot from the free-throw line,
7-4 to the Bulls’ 1-3.
Panther player Garrett Hitz
said the win was good, but he
was disappointed with some
missed shots.
“Rebounds were good,” he
said, adding it also helped to
have Wilson back.
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going to have to play hard (in
the tournament) and hope ev-
erything clicks.”
Head coach Mark Wood-
bury said the game was a little
too close, but his players shot
well from the outside and in-
side.
“Garrett Hitz did a real-
ly good job tonight, staying
in control and did a lot of the
dirty work,” he said, adding,
“It was nice to have Dorran
back – it was a good emotional
lift, and the crowd was fun.”
Last week, the Panther
boys lost 32-55 to Harper/
Huntington on Friday and beat
Long Creek/Ukiah, 49-36, on
Saturday.
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PC girls notch wins
The Prairie City Lady Pan-
thers added two blowout wins
to their league record last week,
beating Harper/Huntington 52-
28 on Friday and Long Creek/
Ukiah 41-11 Saturday.