WEDNESDAY
April 27, 2016
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Running the 100-meter dash, Monument’s Sophie Pettit, right, takes first place with a time of 12.87. Grant Union’s Kaylee Wright, left, finishes
second (13.32), and Prairie City’s Amaya Zweygardt, second from left, is fifth (14.37) at the April 19 Grant Union Small Schools Meet.
GC athletes tear up tracks
Prairie City girls place third at Crane contest
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
CRANE — The Prairie City and Long Creek
track and ¿ eld teams competed at last Friday’s
Ranchers Invitational against ¿ ve other small
schools.
Prairie City and Monument schools also trav-
eled to Saturday’s 10th Annual Pepsi Invitational
in Union where they faced 18 other competitors,
including 4A schools.
Rancher’s Invitational — Crane
Prairie City track and ¿ eld head coach Joe
Weymouth said his team’s best performance was
at Crane’s Ranchers Invitational last Friday.
“We had ¿ ve of si[ athletes with personal re-
cords,” he said.
The Prairie City girls team placed third out of
seven teams.
Beating their personal best scores were Haley
Pfefferkorn in the 100-meter dash and javelin, Me-
gan Camarena in shot put and Amaya Zweygardt
in the triple jump.
For the boys, Wyatt Williams made a personal
record in the 100, and Garrett Hitz also increased
his time in the 300 high hurdle and his mark in the
high jump, clearing the bar at 6 feet.
The Long Creek boys and girls each ¿ nished
¿ fth in Crane.
See TRACK, Page B10
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Long Creek 4x100 runners Adam Rajabaliev, left, and
Aaron Yeung place third in their event, along with
relay teammates Philipp Dessau and Kirill Borisov.
GU baseball gaining momentum Lady Prospectors have sweep
and loss in softball action
GU confident
about second
half of season
Grant Union
hosts Umatilla
on Friday
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
By Angel Carpenter
JOHN DAY — The Grant
Union Prospectors hope to keep
their momentum swinging in the
right direction after a shaky start
to the season.
With two league games
down — both wins — the Pros-
pectors stand with a 7-8 overall
record.
In most of their losses this
season, Grant Union was down
by two to three runs.
“The season didn’t start the
way we wanted, and part of that
was ¿ nding our identity and
combinations that work,” said
head coach Brian Delaney. “I
feel that we’ve taken a turn for
the better and no better time than
¿ rst week of league.”
Delaney said his team is full
of talent but sometimes strug-
gles with con¿ dence.
“When these boys are fo-
cused, it seems like all three as-
pects of the game go well,” he
said. “On offense, we swing the
bat well, we play good defense
and we pitch well.”
Delaney has been the team’s
head coach for seven years, with
his assistant coach Kyle Myers
there for those seven years, and
David Blood for two years.
See BASEBALL, Page B2
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Seniors on the Grant Union baseball team, from
left: Wyatt Weaver, Brady Burch, Garrett McConnell,
Hayden Young, Clayton Vaughan and Ricky Weickum.
Grant Union Prospectors
shut out Union 12-0
GU wins home
game in five
innings
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JOHN DAY — Grant
Union Prospector Zack De-
iter had an impressive day
at the mound and the plate
in Friday’s game against
Union/Cove.
The Prospectors won
the game - in ¿ ve in-
nings.
From the mound, Deiter
put the game away in ¿ ve
innings, striking out ¿ ve
and allowing no runs on
four hits.
Deiter also doubled
in the second inning and
tripled in the fourth, and
scored twice in the game.
See SHUTOUT, Page B2
JOHN DAY — The Grant
Union/Dayville/Prairie City
softball team battled against
Echo/Stan¿ eld last Friday, but
fell 2-8.
Game Two was canceled
due to lightning, and the make-
up game is scheduled for 2
p.m. Saturday in John Day.
Grant Union head coach
DeAnna Nash said they will
evaluate prevented the team
from playing solid defense.
“I’m still encouraged that
we play the No. 3-ranked team
in the state, don’t play as well
as we have been, and yet we
were never out of the game,”
she said. “We will rebound and
play better through the ¿ nal
three weeks of league.”
Echo/Stan¿ eld, as of Tues-
day morning, ranks No. 4 and
Grant Union No. 19.
Prospector Cody Jo Mad-
den pitched the ¿ rst four in-
nings with Mariah Moulton
taking over in the ¿ fth.
Grant Union had four hits
and eight walks, giving up sev-
en hits, ¿ ve walks, one hit bat-
ter and ¿ ve errors.
The Prospectors scored in
the second inning and again in
the si[th.
Grant Union’s Tuesday,
April 19, game was a different
story, the Prospectors dominat-
ing in a 14-4 and 12-2 sweep
over the Nyssa Bulldogs.
But it wasn’t without a
¿ ght.
Nyssa threatened with
three runs in the third inning of
Game One, but the Prospectors
put their foot on the gas.
See SOFTBALL, Page B2
GU golfers take on Buffalo Peaks competition
Stokes and
Vandehey shoot
season bests
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
UNION — Last Friday, the
Grant Union golfers competed
in the Buffalo Peaks Invitation-
al in Union.
Twelve teams with over
100 boys and girls took on the
windy par 72 championship
course.
The Vale boys team won
with a score of 359, followed
by Heppner with 373, Ni[y-
aawii with 380 and Burns with
388.
Low medalist was Riley
Lankford of Ni[yaawii with
82.
Grant Union’s Duane
Stokes was tied for seventh
with 87.
On the girls side, Heppner
was the low team with a 431,
followed by Baker with 447,
Enterprise with 502 and Burns
with 529.
The ladies low medalist
was Trinity McCarthy of La
Grande with 86.
Grant Union’s Tiana Allen
tied for eighth place with 113,
and Grant Union’s Rose Van-
dehey had 130.
“I was happy with the way
the team played,” said head
coach Ron Lundbom. “Al-
though we were unable to ¿ eld
a boys team this week, Duane
shot his season best by 10
strokes and out of ¿ rst by only
¿ ve strokes.”
He added, “Tiana was only
nine strokes out of placing, and
Rose shot her personal best this
season also. The girls had nev-
er played there, and it was only
Duane’s second time. So, all in
all, we were right in there, and
it was a cool, windy day which
made scoring a challenge.”