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Members of Grant County Baseball pose with the pitching staff from
the College of Southern Idaho at a winter camp in December: front,
Andrew Hunt; second row, Warner Robertson, Justin Hodge, Logan
McCluskey, Taylor Hunt, Peyton Neault and Russell Hodge. Grant
County Baseball is open to children 12 through 14. Winter workouts
began Dec. 15 and continue Mondays and Wednesdays at an indoor
practice facility. Shaun Robertson is the manager, and Pat McCluskey,
Robert Hunt and Lorin Hodge are coaches. For more information, call
541-620-0211 or visit Grant County Baseball on Facebook.
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Grant Union boys
Prospector boys head
coach Steve Speth said they
knew Elgin, holding their se-
nior recognition night, would
be ready to play.
“They have been playing
well at home, challenging the
top teams in the league when
they play at home, so we pre-
pared and knew we would
have to play hard and play
well,” he said. “We played
fairly well, playing excellent
defense, allowing us to get
the lead and slowly increase
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Grant Union Prospector Andrew Copenhaver
(152) wrestles Joseph’s Raymond Seal in the
semifinal round, later pinning his opponent.
Copenhaver qualified for state in second place.
sophomore.
“It was awesome,” John-
son said of Saturday’s suc-
cess. “I’m more excited
about Andrew and Antonio
going to state with me.”
He said he was happy
their young team did so well.
It was the ¿rst time Grant
Union hosted the district
tournament since 2006.
“A special thanks to all
the coaches and wrestlers
for all the support,” Johnson
said.
Maley expressed his ex-
citement at the team’s suc-
cess this season.
“Everybody
improved
tremendously,” he said. “I’m
excited to see what our team
it throughout the game.”
He said the team is play-
ing well and are excited for
the district tournament.
The Grant Union boys
won two games against Im-
bler earlier in the season, 52-
28 on Feb. 2, and 55-53 on
Jan. 15.
“We know it will be a
tough challenge to try and
beat a very good Imbler team
for a third straight time,” he
said. “They have been play-
ing well also, as they just
beat Burns Saturday night
by 12. If we win the game,
we would play Burns for the
district title on Saturday eve-
ning.”
becomes next year, and I’m
thankful for the team I have.”
The Oregon State Activ-
ities Association Wrestling
State Championships is Fri-
day, Feb. 26, and Saturday,
Feb. 27, at the Veterans Me-
morial Coliseum in Portland.
District Tournament results:
Irrigon, 1st, 171.5
Grant Union, 2nd, 158.5
Burns, 3rd, 133.5
Elgin, 4th, 109
Enterprise, 5th, 104
Union/Cove, 6th, 97
Pine Eagle, 7th, 88.5
Crane, 8th, 87
Heppner, 9th, 76
Joseph, 10th, 71.5
Adrian, 11th, 69
Imbler, 12th, 52
Wallowa, 13th, 26.5
If the Panther boys win,
they’ll face No. 1 Jordan Val-
ley at 8:45 p.m. Friday.
“We’re preparing for our
Thursday matchup with Day-
ville/Monument and putting
our whole game together so
we can play Crane on Friday,”
said Lady Panther head coach
Penny Black.
She said her team played
tough against Crane at their
last game with them, but add-
ed all ¿ve of their starters are
outstanding.
“We’re going to play our
best, do our best and see how
the outcome is,” Black said.
She added her team is ex-
cited for the upcoming games.
“They haven’t locked in
the ranking, but the team was
pretty excited to be ranked
above
(Dayville/Monu-
ment),” Black said. “They
feel good about their position
and pretty positive that we
can play the top teams pretty
tough.”
Cassie Hire had a good
offensive showing at last Fri-
day’s 47-31 win over Harper/
Huntington.
Hire was the high point
scorer for the Panthers with
14, including two three-point-
ers. She also had seven re-
bounds, three steals and two
assists.
Brianna Zweygardt scored
12 with six rebounds, ¿ve
steals and ¿ve assists.
Sarah Ennis scored seven
points with three rebounds,
three steals and four assists.
Amaya Zweygardt scored
four points with eight re-
bounds, four steals and one
assist. Lindsay Wall scored
six.
“I was able to play every-
body, with more than a cou-
ple of minutes,” Black said.
“Harper/Huntington has im-
proved, and they played us
pretty tough. They’re not a
team to look past at district.”
Prairie City boys
Prairie City boys head
coach Jonathon Gill said their
48-35 win over Harper/Hun-
tington came at a cost.
Two key players, senior
Ethan Camarena and soph-
omore Dorran Wilson, were
injured in the game.
“We’re monitoring it day
to day, and we have hopes
they’ll return at some point in
the tournament — both have
to be cleared by doctor to re-
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“That contest may have
been the most exciting of the
day,” said Bob Van Voorhis
who is chairman of the John
Day Elks Lodge.
Stokes made it a close
contest, shooting perfectly in
a few of the series.
Talon Van Cleave, a Hum-
bolt student in the boys 10-11
group, tied for fourth.
Two Grant County girls
¿nished third, including
Humbolt student Lauren
Wenger tying with an oppo-
nent before losing by one in
the second set for the 10-11
age group. Alexys Hull of
Monument School, also in-
volved in a tie breaker, com-
peting in the 8-9 girls group.
Kelly Stokes, Devon’s
father and Grant School
District No. 3 school board
member, said the county was
well represented at the dis-
trict event.
“These kids were good,”
he said. “They competed
quite well — just to be there
meant they did well.”
turn to play,” Gill said.
He said the game contin-
ued with other players step-
ping up for the win.
Gill said he was proud of
how his team played for se-
nior recognition day last Sat-
urday in their 58-41 win over
the Long Creek/Ukiah junior
varsity team.
Scoring was fairly even
among the top scorers with
Levi Burke earning 13, Gar-
rett Hitz 12 and Brandon Gil-
lihan 11.
“Brandon has made the
biggest improvement by leaps
and bounds in his game this
season,” Gill said.
He added, “Our motto
is ‘One team, one family,
one love, Prairie City’ — I
couldn’t be more proud to be
a coach over a group of kids
like that.”
He said Hitz has been
standing out as a leader for
the team.
“He rallies the troops and
cares more about the brother-
hood and seeing others suc-
ceed,” Gill said. “He really
brought that out this week-
end.”
Gill expects their ¿rst
game of this week’s tourna-
ment, against Adrian, to be a
nail-biter.
The teams’ last meeting
had the Panthers winning 60-
51 at home, and, earlier in the
season, Prairie City lost 55-57
on the road to the Antelopes.
“It’s going to be a tough
game,” Gill said. “Our goal
was to make it to districts and
be one of the top three teams
to represent the league for the
state tournament. We end-
ed the regular season as the
fourth team, so we have an
uphill battle.”
He said he hopes the com-
munity will show up to cheer
their team on at the tourna-
ment.
“All the work that we put
in starting back in November
leads up to this moment on
Thursday night,” he said.
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Van Voorhis echoed the
sentiment.
“These kids are a credit to
their respective schools, their
parents and teachers, and to
our county,” he said. “The fu-
ture is in good hands.”
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Jesse Paulson (106), Con-
nor White (113) and Garrett
Lenz (145) also battled it out
on the mat, falling just short
of medaling.
Johnson faced Moroni
Jensen of Pine Eagle for his
¿nal match, winning by a
fall. Dancer also took Jayson
Blackburn of Union/Cove by
a fall.
Copenhaver took second
to Hayden Kuta of Pine Ea-
gle after pinning Riley Bruce
of Union/Cove in a hard-
fought match in the quarter¿-
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of Joseph in the semi¿nals.
“We did extremely well
as a team,” Copenhaver said.
“It surpassed all of my ex-
pectations at the beginning
of the year. I’m extremely
happy to have this group of
guys around me and go on to
state.”
“I’m really proud of this
kid (Andrew),” Boethin said.
“He’s done a really good job
this year.”
“We did really great to-
day,” Dancer said. “Every-
one won one more match
than the coach thought we’d
win. It will be my ¿rst time
going to state, and I hope to
place.”
This will be the ¿rst trip
to state for seniors Copen-
haver and Dancer, and John-
son’s third trip to state — last
year, he placed third as a
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