SPORTS
SCHEDULE
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Football
WEDNESDAY
October 21, 2015
Grant Union
Thursday, Oct. 22
Grant Union
vs. Pend-
leton JV in
John Day, 6
p.m.
B1
Friday, Oct. 23
Dayville/Monument @
Crane in Crane, 1 p.m.
Prairie City vs. Harper/
Huntington in Prairie City,
7 p.m.
Andrew Copenhaver
Antonio Dancer
Garrett McConnell
Clayton Vaughan
Wyatt Weaver
Grant Union builds on experience
Grant Union Old Man
Football in John Day, taco
feed 5 p.m., game 7 p.m.
Team is hopeful for
chance at playoffs
Volleyball
Wednes-
day,
Oct. 21
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Dayville/Monument
Dayville/
Monument
@ Grant Union junior var-
sity in John Day, 5 p.m.
JOHN DAY – The Grant Union
Prospector football team is break-
ing out a better record this season,
building on last year’s lessons.
“Play fast, play hard” is a chant
the fans will often hear the team
shout during the games – the
theme has carried them to a 4-3
overall record, 2-1 in league.
“Our goals for this season are
to continue to improve and make
the playoffs,” said head coach Ja-
son Miller.
Competition in the 2A class
Wapiti League includes: Im-
bler, Union/Cove, Enterprise and
Burns.
Grant Union soundly defeated
Union/Cove and Enterprise, but
had a let down in their contest
Grant Union @ Wapiti
District
Tourna-
ment in La
Grande at
EOU, 9 a.m.
Prairie City
Kimberly man takes on
worldwide hunts, year-round
Cross
Country
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
K
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
MT. VERNON – Last Friday
was the perfect day for a Grant
County cross country meet.
Grant Union hosted the Run
the River Meet last Friday af-
ternoon at Clyde Holliday State
Park in Mt. Vernon.
Runners had a setting of
bright fall colors and blue skies
with the running path beside the
John Day River.
John Day competed with
Burns, and another invited team
was unable to attend.
Top three boys varsity ¿ nish-
ers were Daniel Letham, Burns,
1, 17:53.19; Emmet Klus, Burns,
2, 19:14.87 (PR); and Tanner El-
liott, Grant Union, 3, 19:33.09
(PR).
Other Grant Union boys: Sam
Bentz, 6, 21:26.11; Bo Olson, 7,
21:54.40 (PR); and Trejan Speth,
10, 23:32.73.
See RUN, Page B10
Long Creek
Saturday, Oct. 24
Monument takes
on Kyle Burnside
Wildhorse Meet
See GU, Page B2
HUNT
Day/Mon,
Prairie City @ 1A High
Desert League District
Championship in John
Day, 9 a.m.
GU
hosts
Run the
River
with Burns.
The Prospectors will host Im-
bler for their final league game on
Friday, Oct. 30, after this week’s
nonleague matchup against Pend-
leton junior varsity 6 p.m. Thurs-
day at Grant Union.
ON THE
Saturday, Oct. 24
Grant
Union,
Monument
at 3A/2A/1A
District 5
Championships in Pend-
leton, 1 p.m.
Hayden Young
Contributed photo
IMBERLY – For Kimberly res-
ident Jerry Russell, hunting is a
way of life.
He’s called Grant County home for over
37 years, but his original stomping grounds
are in northern Michigan.
“People in that neck of the woods refer
to it as Jackpine Savages,” he said, adding
his father and grandfather taught him to
hunt and ¿ sh. “All my life, I was raised that
way – we didn’t buy meat out of the store.”
Hunting is a year-round activity, taking
Russell around the globe.
He hosts hunters at his 1,000-acre upland
game bird preserve, Great Expectations Hunt-
ing, from Sept. 1 through April 1, providing
guided hunts with his ¿ ve hunting dogs.
Spending those months working as a
guide leaves Russell little time to hunt lo-
cally, so he spends his off-season hunting
in areas of the world where they still have
an open season.
Since the seasons are opposite in plac-
es like Argentina, it allows him to hunt in
April, May and June.
Jerry Russell with a 39-inch Dall ram taken in the Brooks Range of the Arctic National
Wildlife Preserve in Northern Alaska.
See HUNT, Page B10
Lady Prospectors Dig Pink
Grant Union volleyball team
prepares for district meet
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY – The Grant Union Lady Pros-
pectors hosted their 7th Annual Dig Pink Rally
last Saturday, with proceeds from admission,
rafÀ e baskets, bake sale and T-shirt sales bene-
¿ ting the Side Out Foundation for breast cancer
research and the Blue Mountain Hospital Foun-
dation for mammograms.
Grant Union head coach Shae Speth said the
event was a success.
“We always have a great turnout for the event,
and this year was no exception,” she said. “Our
community is generous, and it is important for
the team to give back and provide awareness for
such a great cause.”
The Prospectors hosted the Cove Leopards
and Elgin Huskies and took the sweep in both
matches.
The scores against Cove were 25-15, 25-4
and 25-8, and scores against Elgin were 25-9,
25-11, 25-12.
She said Elgin has improved signi¿ cantly
since last year.
“We put up another solid performance on the
day,” she said. “Offensively, this is one of our
top matches in attack ef¿ ciency on the season.”
The Prospectors also had two road games last
week.
Tuesday, Oct. 13, they lost a tough match to
Burns 1-3.
The scores were 21-25, 18-25, 25-15, 18-25.
“Overall, we played a lot better than when we
met earlier in the season,” Speth said, adding the
team was tougher at the net with better defensive
coverage.
“We had early leads in all sets, but we tended
to allow Burns to make a run mid-set in each,”
she said. “We have to do better at minimizing
our opponents’ runs as we move into the post
season.”
On Friday, Grant Union beat the Union Bob-
cats 3-0 with scores of 25-4, 25-22, 25-12.
“We got off to a Tuick start in the ¿ rst set, but let
up in the second a bit,” Speth said. “We had a great
crowd in Union as all of our sports teams played
there that day – it helped create a fun atmosphere
for the team.”
She said the team is now working to limit er-
rors and create opportunities as they prepare for
the district championship on Saturday at East-
ern Oregon University in La Grande, where they
face Imbler at 9 a.m.
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Grant Union Prospector Kori Pentzer
(5) jumps up to spike the ball, her
teammates ready for the next move,
including Kenzie Wilson (4), Rheanna
Cartner (6) and Samantha Brock (3).
“If we win, we play later that day against
Burns for the district championship,” she said.
“If we lose, we play the winner of the Union-El-
gin game for the third state playoff spot from our
league – so our focus this week is preparation
for Imbler.”
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