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B10 Sports/Outdoors Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Elk habitat to be improved in Grant County Blue Mountain Eagle Grant County is among the winners of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s $297,310 in grant funding to assist with 28 wildlife habitat, research and hunting heritage projects across 25,327 acres in Oregon. “There is a defi nite need for prescribed burning, thin- ning and other landscape work to maintain and spruce up elk habitat across Oregon,” said Blake Henning, RMEF Football and tacos benefi t GU gridders program Fans can relive the glory days at the Saturday, Oct. 8, Grant Union Alumni Foot- ball and Taco Feed. Dinner will be served at the Grant Union cafeteria from 5:30-6:30 p.m. with the game starting at 7 p.m. under the Three Flags Field lights. The cost of $10 a person covers dinner and the game. All proceeds benefi t the Grant Union football team. This is the second year the Prospectors and organiz- ers have hosted the event, and they plan to make it an annual activity. For tickets, contact a football player or coach Ja- son Miller at the school 541- 575-1799, ext. 22. PANTHERS Jones said the team played well. “A lot of things clicked for us today,” she said. “Every- body had good attitudes and we began to communicate, and it helped a lot.” Continued from Page B1 He said some of their younger players stepped up on the court. “The older girls are realiz- ing their leadership role, and it’s making a big difference,” he said. “I was particularly impressed with the team as a whole with their spot serving and coverage.” Panther player MaKenzie the Prairie City stats: Brianna Zweygardt: 100 percent on 17 serves (1 ace), 6 kills Cassie Hire: 86 percent on 14 serves (3 aces), 5 kills Sarah Ennis: 5 kills Sierra Dahlen: 4 kills Overall team serving was 85 percent Team kill percent was 31 percent corner’s HOT SH T EEK OF THE W WYATT WILLIAMS School: Prairie City Grade: 12 Parents: Brook & Ryan Williams Sport: Football Position: Quarterback What I like best about my sport: “I like being around all my buddies and friends and coming together to play football.” Coach’s Comment: “He’s our team leader. Today he had a couple defensive touchdowns and offensive touchdowns. He’s starting to understand how I want him to run the offense, and he’s getting that confidence he needs to succeed.” -Coach Darrel McKrola PROUD SPONSOR OF GRANT COUNTY ATHLETES 100 E. Main • Stoplight in John Day 541-792-0425 04586 chief conservation offi cer, in a statement. “We’re especial- ly grateful for our dedicated RMEF volunteers in Oregon who worked hard to raise this funding so it can be back on the ground in their home state.” The Grant County grant will continue a project aimed at improving important elk winter range and a critical migration corridor between the North Fork John Day Wil- derness and the Bridge Creek Wildlife Area by applying noxious weed treatments and planting 200 quaking aspens to benefi t elk and other wild- life on 754 acres of private land that allows public hunt- ing. Since 1986, RMEF and its partners completed 835 conservation and hunting her- itage outreach projects in Or- egon with a combined value of more than $55.2 million. These projects protected or enhanced 786,802 acres of habitat and opened or secured public access to 28,383 acres. LADY PROS BLOWOUT Continued from Page B1 Continued from Page B1 went on,” Speth said. “Offen- sively, we have been working on stronger ball control and winning transition rallies.” Earlier last week, the Pros- pectors claimed a 3-0 victory over the Crane Mustangs Tues- day, Sept. 20, in John Day. Grant Union’s 2A team powered through the game against the 1A senior-laden Mustangs with scores of 25- 14, 25-14 and 25-18. The Mustangs, led by head coach Raime Stoddart, have 10 seniors on their varsity team of 12. “Crane is always a very good team,” said Grant Union head coach Shae Speth. “They always do well in their league.” Grant Union junior Mariah Moulton had 15 kills and no errors for the night. Speth said her team’s pass- ing has improved, and she was happy to add junior varsity members into the mix during the fi nal set. “We’ve been working on getting back to fundamentals and being mindful about doing the right things,” Speth said. Speth said the game was good competition heading into league. Prospector senior Natalie Stearns said she was happy with the outcome of the game. “It really brought our con- fi dence up, and it shows what we can do together,” she said. Monument/Dayville made a fi nal stop on fourth down as the Panther/Bulls neared another touchdown at the 5-yard line as the game came to a close. Monument/Dayville head coach Nathaniel Ash- ley said he was happy with his team’s effort. “They are in a tough sit- uation, having only one sub- stitute, and they keep push- ing till the end of the game — it shows a lot of heart and determination,” he said. “We had some guys step up in the game,” he added. “GW Clark stepped up big, getting people in the right position and setting a great example by playing 110 percent every down, and the rest of the team followed suit. Even the banged up players just kept coming back in the game.” Prairie City/Burnt River head coach Darrel McKrola said the key to their win was the team’s “determination and execution.” “I feel like our defense stepped up, and played re- ally well — we had four defensive touchdowns,” he said. “The boys really want- ed to win this game, so they executed the plays we drew up, and now we need to get ready for our next big game against Jordan Valley. “All in all, Monument/ Dayville, for only having nine players, did well, and I wish them luck with the rest of their season.” Monument/Dayville will face the Antelopes at 6 p.m. on Friday in Adrian. Prairie City/Burnt River is also on the road, meeting up with the Jordan Valley Mustangs at 12 p.m. Grant Union stats, Enterprise and Elgin combined: Mariah Moulton: 25 kills, 5 aces, 100 percent serving, 13 digs Whitney McClellan: 6 aces, 10 digs Reagan Shelley: 3 kills Chelsie Kodesh: 11 kills, 2 aces, 28 digs Hailie Wright: 3 kills, 2 aces, 100 percent serving, 4 digs, 1 block assist Natalie Stearns: 8 aces, 18 digs Kaylee Wright: 12 kills, 3 digs, 1 block assist Heather Mosley: 24 kills, 3 aces, 4 digs, 3 solo blocks ROUNDUP The Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter Mariah Moulton keeps the ball in play with her teammates Whitney McClellan, left, Natalie Stearns (12) and Chelsie Kodesh (9) in the action. Grant Union Prospector Natalie Stearns makes a save in the game against Crane. Grant Union Prospectors Heather Mosley and Mariah Moulton jump up to block, facing Mustang opponent Taylor Crafts (11). ning at 3 p.m. and varsity at 4 p.m. Continued from Page B1 M o n u m e n t / D a y v i l l e ’s scores against Jordan Valley were 25-22, 17-25 and 13-15. “Overall, we had a good weekend of volleyball,” Schmadeka said. “We just need to work out a few kinks still.” Monument/Dayville trav- els to Adrian Friday with ju- nior varsity volleyball begin- Lady Panthers fall 0-2 to Mustangs at tournament After Friday’s win over Monument/Dayville in Burnt River, the Prairie City Pan- thers volleyball players hit the road to the Crane Tournament on Saturday. The Tigers fell 0-2 to the Crane Mustangs in bracket play with scores of 13-25 and 22-25. “Saturday was the cul- mination of a long week for us, and we were missing a few players as well,” said Panther co-coach Louanne Zweygardt. “We came close C h i l d C a r e O p e n i n g s ! • D AILY S CHEDULE • A GE A PPROPRIATE C URRICULUM • C OMFORTABLE H OME S ETTING • M ONTHLY T HEMES • M EAL P LAN & M ENUS • L OCATED IN J OHN D AY Call or text 971-271-3304 for more information. with Crane in bracket play, but I think ran out of gas. We look forward to meeting them in league play.” Prairie City varsity faces Burnt River in Unity at 4:30 p.m. Friday and travels to Jordan Valley for games at 2 p.m., beginning with junior varsity, followed by varsity. Long Creek volleyball fi res up A volleyball team has been formed at Long Creek School, and the Mountaineers will host junior varsity teams on Saturday for Long Creek’s fi rst games of the season. They’ll face Burnt River at 1 p.m., followed by Prairie City at 3 p.m. Saturday. The Mountaineers are led by head coach Linda Studt- mann. The most valuable and respected source of local news, advertising and information for our communities. eomediagroup.com
