WEDNESDAY
November 9, 2016
Stepping up: Grant Union advances in playoffs
Pros play in Heppner
Saturday at 1 p.m.
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union Prospector foot-
ball team had two key players down
with injuries in Saturday’s fi rst-
round state playoff game, but the
team overcame the adversity with
a 30-12 victory over the Reedsport
Braves.
Grant Union will face the Hep-
pner Mustangs in the quarterfi nal
round at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12,
in Heppner at the Morrow County
Fairgrounds .
Grant Union head coach Jason
Miller said the team worked through
the challenges well.
“We had a couple injured players,
and the guys had to step up and fi ll
positions they’re not used to,” he
said. “We don’t have a lot of subs,
and it took awhile to get them in the
right spot and do the right thing, but
eventually we got them there and
they came through.”
The Prospectors, hosting the
Braves at Three Flags Field, had a
commanding 16-0 lead in the fi rst
quarter before the injuries.
Prospector quarterback Wade
Reimers scored on a 44-yard touch-
down run in the fi rst minute and a
half of play, and running back Cam-
eron Hallgarth scored the two-point
conversion.
The ball back in the Braves’
hands, Grant Union’s Cauy Weaver
sacked the Reedsport quarterback on
third down.
On Grant Union’s next posses-
sion, Hallgarth scored a 30-yard
touchdown run with Reimers keep-
ing the ball for the two-point conver-
sion.
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See PROS, Page B3
Grant Union Prospector quarterback Zack Deiter finds an opening
with blocking help from Russell Hodge (1) and Elijah Humbird (69).
Area high school
spikers honored
Mariah
Moulton
Heather
Mosley
Hailie
Wright
Grant Union All-State Tourney players honored
Three Grant Union volleyball
players were named to All-State
Tournament teams.
Mariah Moulton, junior, outside hitter, fi rst team
Heather Mosley, senior, middle blocker, second
team
Hailie Wright, sophomore, setter, second team
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Grant Union Prospector Mariah Moulton goes up for a kill in Friday’s quarterfinal game
against St. Paul. More photos available online at BlueMountainEagle.com/sports
Lady Prospectors cap season
with third at state tourney
Coach: All eight
players executed well
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union Prospectors
soared to new heights this season.
On Friday, the No. 2-seed Pros-
pectors brought home a third-place
trophy after beating the No. 1-seed
Culver Bulldogs at the Nov. 4-5
OSAA/Les Schwab/U.S. Bank 2A
Volleyball State Championships at
Ridgeview High School in Red-
mond.
The Weston-McEwen TigerScots
won the state title, 3-0, over the Im-
bler Panthers.
Third place out of 41 teams in
the state is an extraordinary feat, and
although the Prospectors had their
sights set on winning it all, head
coach Shae Speth said she deems it a
successful season.
Cassie
Hire
Brianna
Zweygardt
Sarah
Ennis
Prairie City All-League volleyball
Three Prairie City volleyball
players were named to All-Tourna-
ment and All-League teams.
Cassie Hire, junior, middle blocker, second
team
All-League
Brianna Zweygardt, fi rst team
Cassie Hire, second team
Sarah Ennis, outside hitter, honorable mention
“
All-Tournament
Brianna Zweygardt, junior, setter, fi rst team
Shae Speth
Prospectors head volleyball coach and Wapiti League’s Coach of the Year
Monument/Dayville volleyball honors
We were league and district champions, had
the best record in 2A at 28-4.”
“We were league and district
champions” and “had the best record
in 2A at 28-4,” she said, adding the
team beat Weston-McEwen earlier in
the season.
Speth was named Wapiti League
Coach of the Year. She had help from
assistant coaches Shanna Northway,
Rhonda McCumber and Steve Speth.
In Friday’s quarterfi nal round,
Grant Union defeated the St. Paul
Buckaroos with scores of 24-26, 25-
17, 25-17 and 25-12.
Speth, describing St. Paul as a
tough team, said her athletes played
tight at the beginning, and once they
loosened up “we started to play our
game.”
“I’m proud of our team, that we
pulled it out at the end,” said Prospec-
tor senior Heather Mosley.
Getting to the championship game
hinged on defeating a team Grant
Union had met up with four times.
The Prospectors had one loss to
Imbler early on at a nonleague tour-
nament, then beat them on the road
and at home 3-2 both times in league
games.
At the Wapiti District Tournament,
the Prospectors swept Imbler for the
championship title in a hard-fought
match.
Saturday evening’s semifi nal
round was the fi fth battle between the
teams.
All-District Tour-
nament and All-
League honorees were
announced for Monu-
ment/Dayville volley-
ball players.
All-District Tournament
Kendall Hettinga, senior,
outside hitter, second team
All-League
Kendall Hettinga, second
team
Faythe Schafer, front row hit-
ter, setter, honorable mention
Kendall
Hettinga
Faythe
Schafer
Contributed photos/Tanni Wenger
See LADY PROS, Page B10
Contributed photo
Grant County Youth Wrestling club members gather for a
photo at Monday’s practice this week, some holding medals
earned at Saturday’s Baker Tournament.
GC youth wrestlers
show winning ways
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
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The Grant Union Prospector volleyball team celebrates a successful rally at Friday’s state
championship semifinals against Imbler in Redmond.
Members of the Grant County
Youth Wrestling Club are back in
the swing of things after starting
practice in mid-October.
There were 15 of the grapplers,
who range in age from 5 to 12 years
old, competing at the Baker City
Tournament, several coming home
with medals.
There are 28 youth wrestlers in
the local club, which practices at
Grant Union Junior-Senior High
School.
See CLUB, Page B2