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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.”
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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