Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
WEDNESDAY
November 2, 2016
B1
Lady Pros
punch ticket to
volleyball state
championships
Team stays
focused to
overtake
Kennedy
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
NO HOLDING BACK
GU gridders are Wapiti League champs
The Grant Union Lady
Prospectors met yet another
goal this season, sweeping
the Kennedy Trojans 3-0 in
Saturday’s fi rst-round state
playoff game.
The win means Grant
Union, led by head coach
Shae Speth, is on its way to
the Nov. 4-5 OSAA volley-
ball state championships.
They’ll face the St. Paul
Buckaroos at 3:15 on Friday,
Nov. 4, at Ridgeview High
School in Redmond.
“Making it back to Red-
mond for the third straight
year is another of our goals
we reached this year,” Speth
said. “We are focused on
bringing home a state cham-
pionship, but know we have
a tough road ahead of us to
do so. We are taking it one
game at a time, starting with
St. Paul in the quarterfi nal
game on Friday.”
The Prospectors, Wapi-
ti League champions, won
Saturday’s game against
Kennedy at the Grant Union
court with scores of 25-12,
25-18 and 25-22.
Kennedy, of Mt. An-
gel School District and the
Who’s next?
Friday
Grant Union volleyball
vs. St. Paul, state quarter-
fi nals at Ridgeview High
School in Redmond,
Court 2, 3:15 p.m.
Volleyball semifi nals in
Redmond, Court 1, 8:30
p.m.
Saturday
Volleyball consolation
game, Court 1, 10 a.m.
Volleyball third/fi fth
place game, Court 1,
2:15 p.m.
Volleyball championship
game, Court 1, 8:30 p.m.
Tri-River Conference, are
coached by Laura Beyer.
The Prospectors won
the fi rst two sets handily
on Saturday, staying ahead
throughout both sets, for the
most part.
Grant Union’s Natalie
Stearns kicked things off
with a 12-0 serving run in
the fi rst set.
In the second set, the
Prospectors stayed ahead
until Kennedy’s Hannah
Arritola went on a serving
run and the Trojans tied the
score 13-13.
Grant Union stayed on top
after that for a 7-point win.
Kennedy gained momen-
tum in the third, tying the
score a few times and mid-
way taking a 19-16 lead.
See LADY PROS, Page B10
Prospectors battle for
blowout win over Bobcats
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union Prospector football team,
undefeated in league, claimed the Wapiti
League championship title after a 48-18 victo-
ry over the Union Bob-
cats on Friday.
Grant Union hosts
the Reedsport Braves at
1 p.m. Saturday in John
Saturday
Day for the Round 1
Grant Union
state playoff game.
football vs. Reed-
Head coach Jason
sport in John Day,
Miller
said he’s happy
fi rst-round state
with
the
opportunity of
playoff, 1 p.m.
a home-fi eld advantage.
The Prospectors en-
tered last week’s game ranked No. 7 for OSAA
2A teams with a 4-3 record, while Union was
ranked No. 12 with a 4-2 record.
Miller was looking for a fast start Friday,
and his team delivered.
Who’s
next?
The Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
TOP: Grant Union Prospector quarterback Wade Reimers twists
and jumps out of several Union tackle attempts en route to a
touchdown in Friday night’s 48-18 win. ABOVE: Grant Union
Prospector Cauy Weaver works to shake off Union’s Seth Stone
in Friday’s game, Dillon Maley (75) in back.
See FOOTBALL, Page B10
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Grant Union Prospector Chelsie Kodesh sends
the ball over the reach of Kennedy blockers in the
Round 1 state playoff game in John Day. In back,
many students in the fan section are dressed in
Halloween costumes or school colors.
Local Chicago Cubs fan witnesses
Rodeo youth
celebrate season, historic World Series Game 5 win
Teacher Doug
top competitors
Sharp cheers
Top contestants
receive prizes
at awards
banquet
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Youth rodeo contestants
wrapped up their Cinnabar
Mountain Playdays season
with a year-end awards ban-
quet.
Family and friends joined
in for the dinner and awards
ceremony Oct. 23 at the Mt.
Vernon Community Hall.
Youth were awarded for
their summer rodeo events
held at the Grant County
Fairgrounds rodeo arena in
John Day.
team to win
More inside
See full results from
2016 on page B10.
The cowboys and cow-
girls competed in events, in-
cluding pole bending, fi gure
eight, barrel racing, dummy
roping and other contests.
Season results were an-
nounced with the top six in
each division receiving priz-
es.
First-place winners re-
ceived buckles; second, rope
cans with leather covers by
Clair Kehrberg; third, head
stalls by KO Trading; fourth,
spurs; fi fth, Pendleton blan-
kets with leather CMP cor-
ners; and sixth, rope halters
by Severe Brothers Saddlery.
See RODEO, Page B10
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photo
Chicago Cubs fans Doug Sharp of John Day and
his uncle John “Butch” Kirchner of Canyon City
are all smiles as they await the start of the World
Series Game 5.
John Day resident Doug
Sharp had the opportunity of
a lifetime to attend two World
Series games last week, in-
cluding the Chicago Cubs’
3-2 win over the Cleveland
Indians in Sunday’s Game 5
at Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
He enjoyed the game with
his uncle John “Butch” Kirch-
ner of Canyon City by his
side.
Sharp’s friends, co-work-
ers and PE students at Grant
Union Junior-Senior High
School know he’s a die-hard
Chicago Cubs fan.
He said his students write
notes about the Cubs on the
dry erase board that hangs on
his door at school.
All in good fun, they either
cheer on his team, or tease
about the Cubs’ previous los-
ing streak or the “billy goat
curse.”
“They like giving me a
hard time,” he said.
So, how did a John Day
native become such a big Chi-
cago Cubs fan?
Sharp said he was born
in John Day, but his family
moved to Ransom, Illinois,
when he was 2 years old,
moving back to Grant County
when he was in eighth grade.
He said during his time in
Illinois, his family would of-
ten venture to Chicago to vis-
it a museum or take in a ball
game.
“As long as I knew what
the Cubs were, I’ve been a
fan,” he said.
Twenty years ago, he put
his name on the waiting list
See FAN, Page B2