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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
4-man GU golf team ends season
with 373 for Day One and 349 for Day
2, for a 722 total; Wallowa, second, 394
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PENDLETON – The Grant Union 398, 774; Vale, fourth, 386 and 394,
golf team was four strokes away from 780; and Grant Union, fifth, 405 and
a trip to state after the May 11-12 Dis- 379, 784.
trict 3 Golf Championship at Pendleton
Low medalist was Riley Langford of
Country Club.
Nixyaawii with 156.
Day One of the event had the Prospec-
Grant Union’s Matt Broemeling
tors in sixth place, and left to wonder if finished at 183 for 10th place. Nathan
they had a chance to make it to the state Gehley was 187 for 13th, Duane Stokes
championships – the top four teams, and was 199 for 19th, and Chance Barrietua
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The team’s hopes rose on Day Two
Both Broemeling and Barrietua set
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ever, averaging the scores out, the Pros
“I was really proud of the way the
ended four strokes off their goal.
boys played this week,” Lundbom said.
The district meet drew 12 boys teams “After being in sixth on Day One, to re-
and six girls teams, with over 98 players bound back on Day Two to have the third
battling the challenging par 72 course.
best score of the day was impressive.”
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when you get it on the green it rolls and to miss the state championship by just
rolls,” said coach Ron Lundbom.
four strokes, but added, “With only four
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holes, and the Prospectors did well.
ment with how we played these last two Grant Union’s four-man golf team: Duane Stokes, left, Nathan Gehley, Chance Barrietua
and Matt Broemeling.
The winning team was Nixyaawii days.”
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
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“We’re really strong
in the field events going
to state, but weak in run-
ning,” Smith said. “If the
girls place where they are
seeded, we have a chance
of placing fifth – there is
a good chance the girls
will be leading after the
first day, since only field
events are played the first
day.”
Preliminary events begin
on Thursday.
Smith’s goal for next year
is to have a better balance of
events for the girls team to
improve their chances for
winning state.
She’s looking forward
Tor those who
have gone before
to protect and defend
to having most of the
girls back next year – and
also to having this year’s
eighth-graders join the high
school team.
“We have two eighth-
grade girls who can already
high jump 5 feet, and we
have another javelin throw-
er and some sprinters,” she
said.
The boys team will
still be in a major rebuild-
ing phase, but she expects
a couple of exceptional
eighth-grade runners to join
the ranks.
She’s
looking
for
more students, and es-
pecially runners, to take
an interest in track and
field.
“When you have a small
school, you need athletes
who want to work hard
and compete, and they
can always find an event
that they can excel in,”
she said. “Our special-
the
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ity instruction in all their
events.”
She said she’s noticed
that when one athlete lets
up in practice it has a
negative impact on other
team members – and the
opposite is true; when one
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For the boys, Prestin Ed-
mundson had a season record
in discus.
Peter Bogardus leads the
Dayville team as head coach
with assistance from Taylor
Schmadeka in all the events.
There are 18 athletes on the
middle school and high school
teams, but no seniors.
Bogardus said that while
coaching such an array of
events has been challenging,
he’s enjoyed seeing the team
work to improve.
“The athletes consistent-
ly (reached) personal records,
and several experimented with
a variety of events instead of
only doing the most popular –
throwing and sprints.”
Long Creek
The Long Creek School ath-
letes competing in the district
championship worked for per-
sonal records. On the boys team,
that included Massimo Basconi,
100, discus and long jump; Timo
Goebel, 400; and Alvaro Lopez,
discus and long jump; and for the
girls, Maria Cabral, discus.
Mandy Blackburn coached
this year’s team.
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athlete starts working hard-
er, others will follow suit.
Smith said while indi-
viduals on the team cer-
tainly work to improve
personally, track and field
is a team sport – “you have
to work hard and do your
part.”
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Nick Springer
5, shot put, 35-07.00
4, high jump, 5-08.00
Dillon Maley
4, discus, 98-06 (prelims)
Andrew Copenhaver
2, pole vault, 11-00.00
Michael Ashmead
2, long jump, 18-11.75
Antonio Dancer
5, long jump, 17-07.50
5, triple jump, 35-08.50
Michael Ashmead, Antonio Dancer,
Philipp Jaletzky, Andrew Copenhaver
4, 4x100 relay, 48.13
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5, 4x400 relay, 4:14.37
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