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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
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By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union
Grant Union is sporting a
full boys varsity cross coun-
try team this season under the
leadership of volunteer head
coach Sonna Smith.
This is her second year as
head coach, but she did previ-
ously start a cross country team
in 1995. By 1996, she had a
full girls and boys varsity team.
“In 1996, I took the girls
team to state,” she said.
Smith continued coach-
the
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ing at Grant Union until 2000
when she began working in
Unity.
When she returned to Grant
Union in 2002 she started a
small team, then took a break
from coaching until 2014,
now with a high school and
junior high program and as-
sistant coaching from Richard
Thompson and Eric Lougee.
“We have three juniors and
two freshmen on our boys
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to run as a team, so keeping ev-
eryone healthy and eligible is a
priority.”
Four are returning runners
from last year’s team, with one
new athlete joining the team.
In the off-season, the run-
ners take on a lot of miles, but
because of high school poli-
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What I like best about my sport: “I like the energy and adrenaline
of the game, and I like being with my teammates and how we have to
work together to be successful.”
Coach’s Comment: “She’s definitely picked up the leadership role
and has run with it. She made a difference in how the team acted and
played in our last two games.”
– Coach Reagan Enriquez
Maya
Thomas
Dinorha
Vidrio
Landin
are a small, but fun, team.”
Coach Thomas said Maya
has improved through the sea-
son.
“She’ll just go out and run
The Eagle/Kristina Kreger
6-7 miles,” he said. “She really
Grant Union’s cross country runners include, from left, Sam Bentz, Tanner
puts her heart into it and seems
Elliott, Trejan Speth, Bo Olson, and Brogan McKrola (not pictured).
to enjoy it.”
He said Landin also works
cies, the running is all on their park in the grass, follows the son.
hard.
Maya joined the team as a
own.
“She puts 100 percent into
trail along the river to the west
Smith said that early in boundary of the park, loops freshman and said she’s enjoy- it, and she’s easy to coach and
the season the team takes on around the pond and returns ing the fact that she’s running a good kid,” he said.
Coach Thomas also has
hills and works on tempo, and on a different portion of the without any injuries this year.
“This year, the meets seem three middle school runners:
mid-season they focus on qual- trail to the starting area,” Smith
ity speed and race pace inter- said. “The junior high will do more fun,” she said. “You gain Mark Thomas, Miranda Cook
vals two days a week, one race one loop and high school will FRQ¿GHQFHLQ\RXUVHOIEHFDXVH and Aubreianna Osborne.
The coach said Mark has
day and three easy runs.
do two loops to equal a 5K, you know you can conquer
“Championship
season the standard distance for high courses that are hard – racing done well on the team, and
is what we are in now – two school cross country races in for three miles is not the easi- Cook and Osborne have also
improved since the start of the
est.
weeks before district – this is Oregon.”
She said the toughness of year.
our peaking season,” she said.
Monument
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the sport shows the character
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with one race to allow fresh cross country run as individ-
uals, since there are only two dad coach me since my fresh- attends.
legs for district.”
Coach Thomas said all the
Grant Union is hosting the out for the team, senior Maya man year,” she said.
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Run the River Race on Friday Thomas and junior Dinorha
“They’re here every night
running as a high school ath-
at Clyde Holliday State Park Vidrio Landin.
ready to practice,” he said.
They are led by head coach lete.
in Mt. Vernon with Burns and
Chuck Thomas.
“The courses are fun like “To put in 100 percent and to
Trinity Lutheran attending.
Both girls have raced in the Union meet – we got to run improve through the year and
“It will be a 2.5K loop that
starts at the east end of the each scheduled meet this sea- through mud,” she said. “We have fun, that’s our main goal.”
Tiger gridders feel Hornet’s sting
Home team keeps no-quit attitude
quarter include Tiger Hayden
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DAYVILLE – The Tiger
Tiger Garrett Warner fol-
football players may have lowed it up with a success-
been on the losing end of last ful catch and run for 20-plus
week’s homecoming game yards, then quarterback Dako-
against
Harper/Hunting- ta Emerson rushed the ball in
ton, but the team persevered for a touchdown. Gabe Walk-
through the challenges.
er got the conversion points,
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The Hornets scored on
their next possession, but
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a score on the conversion.
Harper/Huntington
added
eight more points to end the
quarter with the 34-16 lead.
Emerson was out with an
injury in the second quarter,
and the team’s only score
came when Schafer connected
with Warner for a touchdown
and the two extra points.
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Head coach Nathaniel
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fairly well despite the loss.
“We did some things really
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determination of this team
when the game is going like
that one was in the second
half.”
He said having Emerson
out with an injury is a big
loss. “We ask a lot of the
quarterback, and when he is
out, it’s a game changer for
sure,” he said. “We are hoping
to get Tanner Walczyk back
this week which will be a big
help.”
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