Blue
Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
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WEDNESDAY
April 13, 2016
GU golfers swing to third at home invite
Team hosts
fundraiser
scramble set
for Friday
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
ABOVE: Grant Union golfer Connor White putts the ball at the Grant Union Invitational at the John Day Golf Club with competitors
from Wallowa, Enterprise, Vale and Heppner looking on. BELOW: Grant Union golfer Nathan Gehley competes at the invitational at
John Day Golf Club.
Grant Union golfers
hope state is in cards
Lundbom in 11th year as
GU’s head golf coach
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — Grant Union golfers are
hopeful for a run at state this year.
Last year, the boys came within four
strokes of qualifying for state.
The Prospectors have four golfers on the
boys team and two on the girls team.
Head coach Ron Lundbom has led the
team for 11 years, and this year he has Jeff
Allen as assistant coach. Allen is a fourth-
grade teacher at Humbolt Elementary
School.
A few junior high golfers have joined
the pack — they don’t compete until high
school but are allowed to practice alongside
the varsity players. Lundbom said this will
give those players experience and help them
decide if they’d like to continue in the sport.
He said he’s working on course manage-
ment with the experienced varsity players.
“They can hit the ball anywhere they
want it,” he said.
From there, he said the golfers need to
know where the trouble spots are, such as
sand traps, and how to avoid them.
With the beginning golfers, he teaches
grip, stance and posture until it becomes
second nature, as well as getting the ball
down the fairway. He also teaches the rules
of the game and works on the basics.
JOHN DAY — Grant
Union’s boys golfers earned
409 for third at their home
tournament last Friday at the
John Day Golf Club.
The Prospectors were just
six strokes away from Burns
which took second with 403.
Vale won the event with
384 on the challenging par 71
course.
Heppner came in fourth
with 411, Enterprise was fi fth
with 418 and Wallowa had
422.
There were 56 golfers,
boys and girls, competing at
the event.
Low medalist for the boys
was Daniel Bretsch of Hep-
pner with 85. Alex Falley of
Burns was second with 88,
and Nathan Gehley of Grant
Union was third with 90.
Gehley was followed by
RJ Raven of Vale with 91.
Grant Union’s Duane
Stokes earned seventh with
96. Teammate Jay Goldblatt
fi nished with a 109 and Con-
nor White, 114.
For the girls teams, Enter-
prise fi nished in fi rst with 514,
Vale second with 533 and
Burns third with 594.
Low medalist was Aman-
da Rea of Heppner, 87. The
next best scores were Stefani
Christman of Enterprise, 118;
Jackie Jenson of Enterprise,
119; and Grant Union’s Tiana
Allen, 122. Gaby Gibbons of
Burns had a 124.
Grant Union head coach
Ron Lundbom said members
of the John Day Ladies Golf
Club “spoiled” the group with
a hamburger feed afterward.
Pendleton Invitational
Prospector golfers traveled
to the 2A Invitational at the
Pendleton Country Club on
April 1, where over 100 boys
and girls competed on what
Lundbom said was a “tough
par 72 course.”
See STATE, Page A10
See INVITE, Page A10
Grant County track teams on fi re at Burns
Grant Union,
Prairie City,
Dayville, Long
Creek compete
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Eagle/Robby Bullock
Grant Union’s Zack Deiter pitches in the first game
of a doubleheader against La Grande Saturday
in John Day. Deiter struck out three and gave up
three runs in the Prospectors’ 3-2 loss in the first
game. The Prospectors lost the second game 17-4.
GU boys swept
in doubleheader
against La Grande
By Robby Bullock
Blue Mountain Eagle
John Day — It was a
tough week for Grant Union
baseball.
The team hosted the La
Grande Tigers for a dou-
bleheader Saturday, losing
both games by scores of 3-2
and 17-4.
The fi rst game was a
low-scoring affair in which
both sides struggled to
score more than a few runs.
Coach Brian Delaney
said he was very pleased
with the pitching of Zack
Deiter in this game. Deiter
started out on the mound
for the Prospectors and
wound up going six sol-
id innings. Deiter gave
up three runs while strik-
ing out three and keeping
Grant Union close until
the seventh inning, when
Hayden Young took over
pitching and finished the
inning with no runs al-
lowed. Delaney said Young
finished out the game well.
See BASEBALL, Page A10
BURNS — Four Grant
County track and fi eld teams
competed at Oster’s Burns
Lions Invitational April 9, in-
cluding Grant Union, Prairie
City, Long Creek and Dayville.
The teams also competed
in the April 5 Grant Union
Small Schools Invitational in
John Day.
Grant Union
The 2A Grant Union girls
fi nished in second place be-
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Prairie City’s Wyatt Williams, left, competes in a
combined boys and girls hurdling event at the
Grant Union Small Schools Invitational.
hind 4A Ontario, and the On-
tario boys also won with 2A
Burns in second.
“I was very happy with our
ladies’ performance at Burns,”
said Grant Union head coach
Sonna Smith. “We had less
than half our girls team pres-
ent for the meet, but they did
an excellent job. All of our
girls improved their perfor-
mance for this year in at least
one of the events they compet-
ed in. All coaches are excited
with their progress. We only
had three men able to attend
and they worked hard at their
events.”
A few highlights from the
event include Kaylee Wright
winning fi rst in the 200-meter
run, the javelin and the 200.
She fi nished third in the 100.
Chelsie Kodesh had a fi rst-
place fi nish in discus.
Sydney Brockway took
second in the long jump, with
Samantha Brock in third.
Kenzie Wilson had second
place in the triple jump, with
Samantha Brock in third.
See TRACK, Page A10
Grant Union Lady Pros dominate Bulldogs
Grant Union
hosts Nyssa on
Tuesday, April 19
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — The Grant
Union softball team made
quick work of it April 5 as they
earned two 11-1 wins against
the Culver Bulldogs.
The Prospectors team won
both games with the 10-run
rule.
Grant Union head coach
DeAnna Nash said she was
pleased with the pitching per-
formances of Cody Jo Mad-
den in Game One and Mariah
Moulton in Game Two, each
pitching a full game.
The Prospectors’ bats were
hot from the start, earning six
runs in the fi rst inning. Culver’s
only run came in the fi fth, and
Grant Union ended it in fi ve.
Multiple hits came from Bri-
anna Zweygardt, who also had
a home run in each game, and
Ravyn Walker, Jocelynn Smith,
Railey Namitz and Madden.
“Defensively, we had no er-
rors,” Nash said.
Madden had fi ve strikeouts,
giving up two walks and two
hits.
The Lady Pros fi nished their
work in six innings for Game
Two.
“Offensively, we had more
walks and fewer hits, but that
is showing our discipline at the
plate,” Nash said.
Grant Union again got off
to a quick start with fi ve runs in
the fi rst.
Moulton had six strikeouts
and allowed one walk and two
hits. Grant Union had one er-
ror.
Both games ended with
walk-off runs to allow the 10-
run rule to end the games.
Grant Union hosts Nyssa
for a doubleheader next Tues-
day with games beginning at
1 p.m.