WEDNESDAY
September 2, 2015
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Blue Mountain Hospital
The Blue Mountain Healthcare
Foundation’s ninth annual fundraiser
Golf Scramble 2015 raised $8,688 net,
more than last year’s receipts.
The Aug. 23 fundraiser at the John
Day Golf Course attracted 63 players.
The money raised will help to
purchase an automated medication
dispensing system, which is essen-
tial in efficiently managing, storing
and dispensing medications. Because
automated dispensing systems can
track who has access to medications
and what medications are dispensed,
drug inventories can be improved. The
system also will add to patient safety,
reduce staff time and decrease medi-
cation errors.
The hospital’s Chief ([ecutive 2f¿ -
cer, Randall Mee, praised the foundation
and the volunteers involved in organiz-
ing the fundraiser for doing an “out-
The Eagle/Marissa Williams
Mitch Saul, of Oster Professional
Group, puts in a birdie on hole 14
during the healthcare scramble.
The Oster Professional Group
golf team won first place net.
standing job.” He said he was impressed
with the turnout from several area com-
munities.
In addition, Mee thanked the do-
nors. “They went above and beyond this
year,” Mee said.
Winners include:
1st Gross: Ed McCrary, Mike Kem-
per, Alex Finlayson, Ben Holliday
1st Net: Mitch Saul, Laura Saul, Ma-
rissa Williams, Zach Williams
2nd Gross: Matt Wennick, Jay Ken-
yon, Brad Smith, Toren Foster
2nd Net: Ryan Torland, Jandy Tor-
land, Kathleen Lee, Chuck Coffman
Final Gross: Tiffany Southwell,
Joan Shaw, Tim Dentler
Final Net: Brenda Mosier, Rayne
Houser, Denise Houser, Wanda Winegar
Long Drive Men: Trevor Simmons
Long Drive Ladies: Amanda
Courchesne
KP Men: Mike Kemper
KP Ladies: Nita VanVoorhis
50/50: Ryan & Jandy Torland
Grant Union takes
tourney by storm
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
The Prospectors gather on the court after winning their home invitational tournament.
Nine other teams compete at JD invite
By Angel Carpenter
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Blue Mountain Eagle
OHN DAY — The Grant Union
Prospectors went undefeated at
their invitational tournament Sat-
urday, toppling the Weston-McE-
wen Tigerscots, 25-13 and 25-11, for the
championship title.
Baker edged out Powder Valley for
third place.
Other teams competing in the tour-
nament held at Grant Union Junior-Se-
nior High School in John Day include:
Dayville-Monument, Crane, Pilot Rock,
Crane, Heppner and Jordan Valley.
Prairie City Panthers were also invit-
ed but had to forfeit the tournament due
to the Canyon Creek Complex ¿ re af-
fecting Prairie City.
The Dayville/Monument Tigers,
coached by Tiffnie Schmadeka and
Kristi Emerson, played with a lot of
enthusiasm, but grabbed only one
win in pool play at the tournament
against Jordan Valley, 25-20, and lost
to Crane in the consolation game.
Grant Union head coach Shae
Speth said her team didn’t play well
in its ¿ rst pool play match against Pi-
lot Rock.
See VB, Page B12
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Dayville/Monument Tiger Kendall Hettinga and
her teammates face Powder Valley at Saturday’s
tournament in John Day.
Young Tiger team
sets goals high
New coach
leads Dayville/
Monument
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
DAYVILLE — The Day-
ville/Monument Tigers vol-
leyball team is hopeful that
hard work and young talent
will push them through to a
successful season.
The varsity team, coached
by Tiffnie Schmadeka and
Kristi Emerson, consists of
two seniors — plus a senior
manager — four juniors, one
sophomore and two freshmen.
“We have a lot of girls,
and it’s a young team, but it’s
going well,” said head coach
Schmadeka who took over
coaching duties where Patti
Wright left off.
Schmadeka said the team
attended a summer volleyball
camp, which gave the team
a nice jump start to the sea-
son. Team members are plan-
ning team building nights to
strengthen the unit on and off
the court, she added.
“Our older girls are helping
out a lot, pushing the younger
ones along,” she said.
She said the team has high
hopes for league this season.
Dayville/Monument will
be up against Crane, Jordan
Valley, Adrian, Burnt River,
Harper/Huntington, Prairie
City and Long Creek/Ukiah.
Emerson, whose daugh-
ter, Kyla, is on the team as a
freshman this year, said she
enjoys coaching the team.
“It’s great to be with the
girls,”
she
said.
Seniors on
the team are
Emma Hettin-
ga and Jamie
Waltenburg,
Emma
and Hannah
Hettinga Flower, who
is
dealing
with an injury,
is team man-
ager.
“Every-
one’s working
really hard,”
said Hettinga,
Jamie
who’s played
Waltenburg v o l l e y b a l l
since junior
high. “We’re
working with
two
new
freshmen with
a lot of ath-
letic ability.
We have high
Hannah
personal and
Flower
team goals.”
This
is
Waltenburg’s second year
playing volleyball in high
school.
She said she enjoys work-
ing with Schmadeka, who is
pushing the team to do their
best, and she appreciates help
she’s getting on the court from
her teammates.
“I think it’s going to be a
good year,” she said. “The
freshmen are doing a good job
¿ lling their positions.”
Flower, who’s played vol-
leyball since junior high, said
the team is working well to-
gether.
“We have a new coach this
year, and I’m really excited to
work with her,” she said.
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
The Grant Union football team breaks out of huddle
during a recent practice. The team is preparing for
its Friday, Sept. 4 game, against Weston-McEwen in
Athena.
Grant County sports
teams get into fall action
Football teams compete this week
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union’s Mariah Moulton
(2) drives the ball over the net at
the championship game at the
Prospectors volleyball invitational
tournament. Grant Union toppled
Weston-McEwen 25-13 and 25-11
for the win.
The Grant Union Prospectors watch the final moments of a game
while the Dayville/Monument Tigers prepare to take the court.
Tidewater sponsors guessing game at fair
How many rocks
can a dump
truck hold?
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — Tidewater
had a small guessing game
involving a big dump truck at
this year’s Grant County Fair.
How many rocks can a
dump truck hold?
Using a method to es-
timate within a close mar-
gin, Tidewater had the an-
swer: The dump truck held
2,557,707 rocks.
The closest to the mark
was Deborah Baker, who
guessed 2,560,000.
Tidewater
employees
were impressed that she was
so close to the actual amount.
Hugh Gray was next with
2,700,000.
For the younger groups,
Wyatt Williams, 16, guessed
3,741,678 in the 11-16 age
division; Max Bailey, 10,
guessed 1,000,000 in the
7-10 division; Chloe Smith,
6, guessed 500,324 in the 6
and under division.
Prizes for the youth were
Dairy 4ueen gift certi¿ cates
donated by the restaurant’s
owner Pete Teague, and the
adults also received prizes.
PRAIRIE CITY — In
Grant County sports, Prai-
rie City/Burnt River gets its
start to the football season on
Thursday this week.
The Panthers, coached
by Darrel McKrola and John
Belveal, will take on Spray/
Mitchell at the Prairie City
football ¿ eld at 7 p.m. Thurs-
day.
The Grant Union Prospec-
tors, led by head coach Jason
Miller, get into action at 7
p.m. Friday in Athena facing
Weston-McEwen.
Miller is assisted by defen-
sive coordinator Andy Lusco,
as well as Zeke Langum (ju-
nior varsity coach – defense),
Casey Hallgarth (junior high
head coach, junior varsity
assistant), Jeff Allen (junior
high coach, junior varsity as-
sistant) and Garret Gardner, a
volunteer assistant.
Dayville/Monument grid-
ders take the ¿ eld at the Du-
fur Classic at 1 p.m. Saturday
against Alsea.
Head coach Nathaniel
Ashley is leading the team
with assistant coach Darrin
Dailey this season.
In volleyball, Grant Union
will compete at the Heppner
Invitational Tournament at 9
a.m. Saturday in Heppner.
D a y v i l l e / M o n u m e n t ’s
team faces Long Creek/Ukiah
at 5 p.m. Thursday in Long
Creek.
The Panthers will host the
Prairie City Tournament at 9
a.m. Thursday.