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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Athletes over the top at league meet
Dayville School’s boys
and girls teams also competed
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the Burnt River teams placed
By Angel Carpenter
third.
Blue Mountain Eagle
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School’s boys and girls track 300 hurdles, javelin and pole
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the 400, and was third in the
The Crane boys and girls long jump.
took the top spots.
For the Panther girls, Ama-
PC takes 2nd,
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the 100 and triple jump, and
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second in the 100 hurdles and
third in javelin.
On Dayville’s girls team,
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the long jump.
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the high jump, fourth in long
jump and fourth in the 200.
For the Dayville boys, Bud
Farmer was fourth in long
jump, and Tanner Walczyk
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in discus.
Clearing hurdles
at the May 1 Grant
Union Invitational
are Prairie City’s
Michel Hitz, left, and
Monument’s Emily
Dailey.
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Angel Carpenter
Track teams compete at Baker Invite
Athletes set personal
records at event
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
BAKER CITY – Three
Grant County track and
field teams – Grant Union,
Monument and Long Creek
– competed in the May 8
Baker Invitational.
The Grant Union girls
placed eighth out of 16
teams.
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Grant Union head coach
Sonna Smith highlighted
athletes who showed im-
provement at the meet.
“Kori Pentzer improved
in the long and triple jumps
and ran her best 100-hur-
dle race of the year,” Smith
said.
Also achieving personal
bests: Antonio Dancer in
the long jump, triple jump
and 800 meters; Philipp Ja-
letzky in 300 hurdles and
javelin; Dillon Maley in
discus; Daniel Carpenter
in 1,500; and Trace Gill in
javelin.
Monument head coach
Earl Pettit said his team
continues to improve week-
ly.
“It is a very excit-
ing season for our small
five-member track team,”
he said.
He said Hayden Schafer
has improved in javelin and
discus.
Long Creek head coach
Mandy Blackburn said her
team had a few personal re-
cords, with Timo Goebel in
long jump, gaining almost a
foot; Se Weon Park in shot
put and discus; and Bow
Rattanakulwattana in the
long jump, 100 meter and
300 hurdles.
“Overall, it was a pretty
good day,” Blackburn said.
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Pole vaulters warm up at the May 1 Grant Union
Invitational.
Elliott hosts online show
about ‘all things rodeo’
GU graduate
still making
rodeo waves
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
NORTH PLATTE, Neb.
– Locals know Dustin El-
liott, formerly of John Day,
for his success in the rodeo
world – and he’s still leaving
his stamp on the sport.
The 1999 Grant Union
High School graduate went
on to become a 2004 PRCA
World Champion bull rider.
He now coaches rodeo for
Mid-Plains Community Col-
lege in North Platte, Neb.,
and recently started “The
Dustin Elliott Show” online
at www.bullridercoach.com.
“My show is hosted by
the website and is free to
listeners,” Elliott said. “It’s
simply my thoughts and
opinion on the latest happen-
ings in rodeo and bull riding,
from junior high to profes-
sional ranks.”
The website includes free
videos on everything from
boots and spurs to how to tie
a bull rope.
The online store offers
books and videos for pur-
chase.
Visitors to the site can
sign up for The Dustin El-
liott Show.
He said the show is about
“all things rodeo,” and his
first episode discusses hel-
mets in bull riding, and re-
cent rules and rule changes.
“I’m going to try to
do them weekly,” he
said.
Elliott is also online at
facebook/Dustin Elliott and
Twitter @DustinElliott81.
Boyd, Bonnie and the crew
would like to say
THANK YOU!
BOYD BRITTON
WELDING, INC.
841 W. Hwy 26
John Day, Oregon
541.575.0763