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B10 Sports Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, October 21, 2015 HUNT Continued from Page B1 Contributed photo/Brittani Hays Hayden Schafer (20) makes gains for the Dayville/Monument Tigers with Dakota Emerson (1) in the action. Tigers motor on after loss to Adrian Dayville/ Monument face Crane on Friday By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle DAYVILLE – The Day- ville/Monument Tiger foot- ball team is chalking up last Friday’s 24-82 loss to Adri- an to experience. Tiger head coach Na- thaniel Ashley said that while Adrian is a good team, his young team played well. “They never quit,” he said. The Tigers travel to Crane this week for a game on Friday at 1 p.m. “We cleaned some of the mistakes up from the week before and as long as we keep getting better, that’s all we can ask for,” coach Ashley said. “We are going to get ready for Crane and keep improving.” Visit us online at BlueMountainEagle.com the +27 corn e r’s In the United States, he’s enjoyed hunting in Alaska and Hawaii, and abroad, he’s hunted in areas such as Argentina, Bo- livia, New Zealand, Russia and Africa. Hunting in remote areas is what Russell likes best. One of his favorites was in Kamchatka, Russia, going after a Kamchatka bear. “It’s the largest bear in the world,” he said, adding the one he shot on Oct. 30, 2011, was over 1,300 pounds. He said it’s the farthest he’s traveled. A journey from Alaska to eastern Russia is usually a KRXU ÀLJKW EXW IRU WKLV WULS because of the time of year, he KDGWRÀ\WR1HZ<RUNWR0RV cow, and then to the other side of Russia. “It’s a huge country,” he said. Another memorable trip was to northern Alaska in the Arctic where he hunted a Dall sheep. +HZDVÀRZQWRWKHKXQWLQJ site, “an absolutely desolate and very beautiful area,” he said, adding hunters have to be in top physical shape to take on the hunt. “A lot of guys go in there and come right back out – you have to go straight up and straight down,” he said. Worldwide hunting has brought its share of dangerous moments. Contributed photo Avid hunter Jerry Russell of Kimberly shows a fallow buck taken on the south island of New Zealand. Russell recalls having a close shave with death two years ago, hunting in British Columbia. “I was going across in some tight scree, and it was 300 feet straight down,” he said. He noted the vegetation there is so thick, you can’t see 8 feet in front of you, until you come up to a sheer cliff. “It’s called the BC jungle,” he said. Russell said he lost his foot- ing, but a branch stopped his fall. He said he panicked and pushed his face into the ground so hard, it was swollen for three days. Another memorable hunt was one he organized for a Pros take on Bobcats 7 6+ for vital victory group to the Hawaiian island of Niihau, the “Forbidden Island.” His wife Kitty also joined him for the trip where he shot a trophy-sized aoudad ram, WKH ¿UVW WDNHQ RQ WKH SULYDWHO\ owned island in 18 years. Russell says he’s learned a lot about, and gained a respect for, the various animals he’s hunted over the years. While hunting bison last summer in Bozeman, Mont., he discovered a big gun is required to take one down; also if other bison smell the blood, they’ll drive hunters away. “It’s not like Hollywood,” he said. “All the movies showing bison taken in one shot are not true.” He said in the last six years it hasn’t taken him more than six shots to kill an animal. “I shot (the bison) seven times before he went down,” he said. “The next day my buddy, using a bigger caliber, shot his 18 times – since 1989, no one has taken a bison bull in one shot.” “I’ve gotten lots of education on all my hunts,” he said. “The American bison is truly a unique animal.” Russell’s next big adventure will take him to Zimbabwe in 2016 to hunt leopard. EEK OF THE W M AYA 7 +2MA6 School: Monument Grade: 12 Parents: Chuck and Maria Thomas Sport: Cross Country What I like best about my sport: “It’s a really good challenge and fun to do every week. You get to try to beat your personal records, and you form relationships with athletes from other teams on the course as well.” Coach’s Comment: “She’s very easy to coach. She gives 100 percent all the time. Sometimes I have to hold her back from running too far.” – Chuck Thomas Proud sponsor of Grant County athletes 100 E. Main ¬6WRSOiJKW in -RKn 'a\ 10 02874 Grant Union faces Imbler Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle The Eagle/Angel Carpenter UNION – The Grant Union Prospectors took their ambition on the road to Union last Friday, taking a 36-19 win. “I’m really happy with the effort and really impressed with the offensive line,” said head coach Jason Miller. “They blocked well and took it to them – it was a great running game.” The opponents kept each RWKHU IURP VFRULQJ LQ WKH ¿UVW quarter and the half ended with Grant Union in the lead, 12-7. Garrett McConnell and Hayden Young each made a touchdown, Young returning the kickoff to score. In the third quarter, Young rushed in for another touch- down, and quarterback Wade The Eagle/Angel Carpenter Grant Union Prospector Roen Langum (85) tackles the Union ball carrier Brooke Scantling (5) with Prospector Cauy Weaver (17) in on the action. Grant Union and Burns cross country runners compete in the Run the River Meet at Clyde Holliday State Park in Mt. Vernon last Friday. RUN Reimers connected with Wy- att Weaver to add conversion points. McConnell added anoth- er six points, with Young gain- ing the conversion points. <RXQJ DGGHG WKH ¿QDO VL[ points to the scoreboard and Re- imers added two points to close out the game for the win. The team has their sights set on a chance at the state playoffs, and their Oct. 30 game against league foes Imbler will decide their fate. “We’re one step closer to our goal,” Miller said. Grant Union hosts Pendleton junior varsity at 6 p.m. Thursday for a nonleague game. Continued from Page B1 Top three for the girls were: Mary Letham, Burns, 1, 22:23.40; Breaunna Ha- rader, 2, 22:39.11; and Syd- nee Shelman, 3, 24:32.85. Grant Union junior var- sity boys and girls runners competed with each other, as Burns only brought varsi- ty teams. Smith said it was great to host a meet and she appre- ciated the volunteers who helped make it happen. “It was a perfect day for a race,” said Grant Union head coach Sonna Smith. “We raced tougher than we A TTENTION G RANT C OUNTY V ETERANS : Did you know there may be VA benefits available for you as a result of your spouses’ military service? See your Grant County Veteran Services Officer today for more information, located at Grant County Court House. Call 541-575-1631 for an appointment Open: Mon, Wed, & Fri 10am-4pm by appointment. did last week, so hopefully they’re peaking and will be ready for districts next week in Pendleton.” Monument Monument girls Maya Thomas and Dinorha Vidrio Landin competed at the Kyle Burnside Wildhorse Invite in Pendleton last Thursday. 7KRPDV¿QLVKHGWKRXW of 146 girls, and Landin was 139 and shaved over one minute off her time. For the middle school UXQQHUV 0DUN 7KRPDV ¿Q ished fourth. The top 10 runners re- ceived medals. ³7KLV LV WKH ¿UVW UXQQHU I’ve had in the four years I’ve been coaching who end- ed up getting a medal,” said head coach Chuck Thomas. He added the competi- tion was tough with teams from The Dalles, Hood Riv- er, La Grande, and Tri-Cit- ies, Wash. “It was a competitive, good meet,” Thomas said. The 3A/2A/1A-SD5 District 5 Championships are set for Friday at McKay Park in Pendleton, with rac- es beginning at 1 p.m. We would like to thank the following parties that came to our assistance during the Canyon Creek Complex fire. First and foremost we want to thank Clint Walczyk, Sam Palmer and Sawyer for saving our home on Miller Mtn. Rd. You all went and put your lives way beyond what any one could have asked. There were a couple private pumper trucks (out of county) with crews that checked on us daily to see if we needed any help with spot fires or whatever we may have needed. Thank you for your support. Thank you Squeeze In for feeding a lot of us when we couldn’t get home. King’s for cutting cost on many items. Thanks to all for your generosity of donations made and brought to the pavilion, to Mary Weaver for organizing and the distribution of all donations and to all the volunteer at the pavilion. Thank you to Mark & Wife in Central Oregon for organizing the many loads of hay donated from various people in that area and to all the people from here and afar for the donations of hay. To Fred & Jim for taking the job of overseeing the storage and distribution of hay. Another big thank you to Joanne & Cork for lending us flat bed trailers to haul hay and for helping load and unload hay and to %illy ¬and Sam for helping with the hay also. Thank you to OTEC for getting our power restored in a timely manner and CenturyLink for getting our phone service back again. A BIG Thank you to all our friends, neighbors and family for your help. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for all you have done. God Bless you all, Rick & Sharon Brookshire 02869