Sports
Blue Mountain Eagle
ROUNDUP
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Emerson also beat her
previous season records
in the 100-meter hurdles,
where she placed fi rst, and
the 300 hurdles, where she
fi nished second. She also
had a personal record in dis-
cus, placing fourth with a
mark of 76-07.
Pettit had fi rst-place fi n-
ishes in the 100-meter dash
and long jump.
Faythe Schafer had a
personal record in the 200,
placing second with a time
of 29.64. She was also fi fth
in javelin and seventh in dis-
cus.
For the Monument boys,
Jess Hoodenpyl fi nished
second in the 1,500-meter
run and sixth in the 800.
He fi nished fourth in the
300-meter hurdles — his
fi rst time trying the event.
Monument’s
Hayden
Schafer fi nished second in
javelin with a mark of 132-
09 and sixth in shot put and
discus.
Prairie City’s Devin
Packard fi nished third in
javelin, about 3 feet behind
Schafer, achieving a person-
al record. Packard was also
fourth in discus and 11th in
shot put.
For the Prairie City girls,
Rilee Emmel was 13th in the
100 with a time of 16.31 and
a personal record. She was
fourth in the 200.
The Long Creek boys
4x100 relay team, including
Nathan Galmiche, James
Kreamier, Matheus Gamba
and Emile Stainier, fi nished
second with a time of 50.29.
Long Creek head coach
Linda Studtmann said it was
a personal record for the
group.
“I hope to see continued
improvement on their time
and would love to see them
get fi rst one of these times,”
she said.
Several Long Creek boys
placed well in their events
with each achieving at least
one personal record.
Gamba and Stainier both
tied for second in the high
jump, and Galmiche was
third in the long jump.
Stainier tried the long
jump for the fi rst time,
placing third, and plans to
continue competing in the
event.
All four girls on the Long
Creek team earned a person-
al record in at least one of
their events, including Ya-
Chi Hsueh who broke her
records in the 100 and shot
put.
Studtmann said, although
she likes to see her athletes
succeed and win, “success
is not always measured by
a score on a sheet of paper.”
“My goal for all our ath-
letes is that they learn, im-
prove, and do their best,”
she said. “Then when they
SOFTBALL
achieve that, let’s take that
and learn and improve some
more, and make their best
even better.”
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Moulton said it was a good
feeling to get the home run af-
ter struggling at the beginning
of the second game.
Stearns said she was
pleased with the day’s games.
“I think it shows what we
can really do as a team once
we get focused and work
hard,” she said.
Grant Union scored 11
runs on nine hits and two
walks . The Prospectors had
15 hits and drew three walks
in the game.
Prospectors Whitney Mc-
Clellan, Wright and Stearns
each had two hits, and Walker
and Moulton each had three,
as well as two doubles. Mad-
den pitched the fi ve innings,
giving up two hits and had
two strikeouts.
“This was a good test for
us this weekend,” Nash said.
“Echo/Stanfi eld is a quality
team, and we knew we would
need to play well to fi nish on
top.”
Grant Union was sched-
uled to host Nyssa for a dou-
bleheader on Tuesday, past
press time, in their league
opener. The games were
to make up for those can-
celed last week due to bad
weather.
The Prospectors also host
league opponent Vale at 1
p.m. and 3 p.m. on Friday.
Grant Union is 11-1 in
nonleague play, and Nash said
it will be “critical” to win this
week’s games as they start
league action.
Grant Union
girls roar to
second at Burns
Lions meet
Athletes from Grant
Union, Prairie City and Day-
ville competed at Saturday’s
Burns Lions Arlie Oster
Track Meet.
Grant Union’s Jozie Rude
amazed her coach Sonna
Smith Saturday as she tied
the school record in shot put
at the event. She earned fi rst
in shot put with a distance of
37-7.5 at Burns High School.
“The previous record she
now shares was set in 1995
by Jess Zinn,” Smith said.
Rude also set a personal
record of 22 feet in discus
with a throw of 115-5 and
placed third in javelin.
Four Grant Union girls
entered in javelin, discus and
shot put made it to fi nals,
Smith said.
Kaylee Wright had a sea-
son record throw of 126-00
in javelin for fi rst place, fol-
lowed by Rude with a throw
of 114-11. Dayville’s Kristi-
na Humphreys placed third
with a mark of 114-00.
Wright also placed fi rst in
the high jump with a leap of
5-00 and was fi rst in the 100
with a time of 13.13.
Smith also highlighted
Trinity Hutchison and Sierra
Cates who had their fi rst offi -
cial triple jumps at the meet
and are now fi rst and second
in league. Erika Dickens also
set new personal records in
the 1,500 and 800.
Chelsie Kodesh had a sea-
son record in discus where
she placed second with 100-
05, and she was followed
by Reitta Wyllie who placed
third with 89-06.
For the Grant Union boys,
Mason Gerry had a 20-foot
personal record in javelin,
placing fourth in the fi nals
with a throw of 133-09. Nick
Springer set a season record
in the high jump with a mark
of 5-10.00 and a personal
record in javelin, where he
placed eighth out of 31 com-
petitors.
Several Prairie City ath-
letes set personal records,
including Emily Ennis for
the 100 and 200 and Jessica
Reames in javelin and long
jump.
Setting personal records
for the Prairie City boys
were Jake McHatton in
discus and javelin, placing
eighth and 10th, respective-
ly; Devin Packard, fi fth in
discus; and Lane Williams
for long jump.
For the Dayville boys,
Gabe Walker had person-
al records in three of four
events, the 200, 110 hurdles
and long jump.
ABOVE: Grant
Union’s Tressa
Ranft gets a base
hit in Saturday’s
game against Echo/
Stanfield. RIGHT:
Grant Union first
baseman Dauna
Bishop tags for an
out in Saturday’s
game against Echo/
Stanfield. In back
left, head coach
DeAnna Nash and
assistant coach
Les DeHaven.
Eagle photos/
Angel Carpenter
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
the
SPORTS
SCHEDULE
Friday,
April 21
Grant Union golf @
Hermiston Invite at
Big River Country
Club, 10 a.m.
Monument track
and fi eld @ Viking
Invitational in Vale,
3:30 p.m.
Grant Union soft-
ball vs. Vale (2), 1
p.m., 3 p.m.
Saturday,
April 22
Grant Union track
and fi eld @ Pep-
si Invitational in
Union, 11 a.m.
Grant Union base-
ball @ Sherman
County in Moro (2),
11 a.m., 1 p.m.
Thursday,
April 27
Grant Union soft-
ball @ Pilot Rock/
Nixyaawii in Pilot
Rock (1), 4:30 p.m.
corner’s
HOT
SH T
EEK
OF THE W
DUANE STOKES
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Grant Union golfer Fallen Bolman, right, stands with her
mother, Dovie, as a hailstorm moves over the John Day
Golf Club course during Friday’s GUHS Invitational.
GOLF
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The weather included sun-
shine with a brief hailstorm
that made the fairway look
like a winter wonderland.
For the boys teams, Hep-
pner placed fi rst with 337,
Burn 394 and Enterprise
409. Logan Grieb of Heppner
placed fi rst with 79, followed
by Dan Bretsch of Heppner
with 81 and Stokes.
For the girls teams, Hep-
pner fi nished fi rst with 426,
followed by Grant Union with
521, Vale with 528 and Burns
with 549. Nicole Propheter
of Heppner posted the low-
est score at 100, followed by
Amanda Rea of Heppner with
103 and Allen.
Other Grant Union girls
competing
were
Emily
Springer, 127; Makenna Cul-
ley, 134; Fallen Bolman, 135;
Kaytlyn Wells, 146; Maddy
Way, 146; and Andrea Comer,
167.
“It was a great day for
girls golf at GU,” Lundbom
said. “It was their fi rst 18-hole
match on a very challenging
day to play golf. The kids ex-
ceeded my expectations for
their fi rst 18 holes in these
conditions, and I’m very
proud of them.”
School: Grant Union
Grade: 11
Parents: Kelly and Lori Stokes
Sport: Golf
What I like best about my sport: “I like that I
can go out there and play a calm sport with kids
from other schools and still be friendly about it.”
Coach’s Comment: “Although
everyone had a goal, Duane
has put in a lot of work with
a swing change this year. He
wanted to shoot mid-80’s
and he did that at our
home match.”
- Coach Ron Lundbom
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