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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
HUNT
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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.”
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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.
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to eastern Russia is usually a
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of Russia.
“It’s a huge country,” he said.
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to northern Alaska in the Arctic
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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att Weaver to add conversion
points. McConnell added anoth-
er six points, with Young gain-
ing the conversion points.
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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.
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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
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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.
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of 146 girls, and Landin was
139 and shaved over one
minute off her time.
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ished fourth.
The top 10 runners re-
ceived medals.
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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
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