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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
WEDNESDAY
March 23, 2016
The Spotlight/Nicole Thill
The Grant Union Gold dance team competes at the OSAA Dance & Drill State Championships in Portland at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Adair’s last dance
Grant Union dancers take 11th place at championships
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Spotlight/Nicole Thill
The Grant Union Gold dance team
performs to “Paperlight Revisited” by
Loreen at the March 18 state competition
in Portland.
PORTLAND — The Class 2A Grant Union
Gold dancers gave “their best performance of
the season” at the 1A-4A OSAA Dance & Drill
State Championships, said head coach Shannon
Adair.
Their main obstacles included competing
against several Class 4A schools and being the
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crowd and judges were warmed up, she said.
The team placed 11th out of 13 schools earn-
ing 65.28 points in the preliminary round.
Winning the competition was 4A Valley
See DANCERS, Page A11
The Spotlight/Nicole Thill
Grant Union Gold dancer Mackenzie
Woodcock strikes a pose during the
team’s state routine at Portland’s Veterans
Memorial Coliseum.
Track and
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get feet wet
Three Grant County teams
travel to first meets of season
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
PRINEVILLE — Three Grant County track and
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son last week, including Grant Union, Monument and
Long Creek.
Contributed photo
Grant Union junior high wrestler Drew Lusco wins the
championship for the 220 weight class at the Oregon
Middle School Wrestling State Championships in
Woodburn.
GU junior high
wrestler is a champ
Drew Lusco
makes top of
podium at state
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
WOODBURN — Grant
Union junior high wrestler Drew
Lusco went the distance, win-
ning the state championship for
the 220 weight class at the March
12 Oregon Middle School State
Wrestling Championship.
Lusco, an eighth-grader,
and two other Grant Union
Junior-Senior High School
wrestlers, eighth-grader Rus-
sell Hodge and seventh-grader
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Riverside High School.
See LUSCO, Page A11
Grant Union
The Grant Union Prospectors competed at Crook
County School’s Breaking the Ice — Icebreaker last
Thursday.
Competing with a partial team, against 4A and 5A
schools, it was an opportunity for the team to get their
feet wet.
A few highlights for the team included, for the
boys, Andrew Copenhaver third in the pole vault, and
Nick Springer third in high jump.
Head coach Sonna Smith said Clay Johnson, new
to the team, was a welcome addition. He placed 13th
in the 200 out of 48 competitors.
On the girls side, Trinity Hutchison placed third
in the 400 and sixth in the high jump, and Sydney
Brockway was fourth in the 100-meter hurdles.
Kaylee Wright was sixth in the javelin and high
jump and eighth in the 100.
Chloe Bentz was eighth in the pole vault, and
Chelsie Kodesh was eighth in javelin.
“We were competing against 5A and 4A teams, so
this was outstanding,” Smith said. “I am looking forward
to our next meet when we should be at full strength.”
Grant Union competes at the Friday, April 1, Don
Walker Invitational in Nyssa. The team hosts the
Small Schools Invitational on Tuesday, April 5.
Monument
Monument’s track team, led by head coach Darrin
Dailey, is small but mighty.
See TRACK, Page A11
Eagle file photo
Grant Union Prospector Billy Copenhaver pitches
a game last season with second baseman Ricky
Weickum at the ready.
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GU hosts
annual baseball
fundraiser Friday
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
MORO — The Grant Union
Prospectors started with slow
bats in their doubleheader last
Friday against the Sherman
Huskies.
Although
they
nearly
mounted a comeback in both
games, they took a 6-9 loss in
Game One and followed up
with an 11-12 nail-biter.
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interesting, because you try
out your combination of pitch-
ers — you learn from it,” said
Prospector head coach Brian
Delaney. “In both games they
did a good job showing poise
See PROS, Page A11