WEDNESDAY
May 3, 2017
Grant Union boys on
four-game win streak
G RANT C OUNTY
S PORTS R OUNDUP
Contributed photo
Grant Union track and field athletes show their
medals earned at the Meet of Champions in Salem,
posing at the Grant Union field. Front: Danielle Girvin.
Back, from left: Kaylee Wright, Trinity Hutchison, Nick
Springer, Jozie Rude and Sydney Brockway.
Grant
Union track
athletes show
‘Champion’
strength
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Grant Union’s Cole Deiter slides in safe at home Tuesday, April 25, in game two against Heppner at
Malone Field. Find more photos from the game online at MyEagleNews.com/sports
Prospector boys
play final league
games May 13
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union Prospectors baseball
team is back to the business of winning,
claiming four victories last week.
Grant Union’s win streak started Tuesday,
April 25, when they livened up Malone Field
in John Day with a 5-1 and 13-3 doublehead-
er sweep over Heppner. They were Grant
Union’s fi rst league wins of the season.
Game one had Zack Deiter starting at the
mound for the fi rst inning, and Warner Rob-
ertson pitching the remainder of the game.
After the success of the fi rst game, the
Prospectors went on a hitting rampage for
game two, ending it in fi ve innings with a
mercy-rule win.
Prospector Cauy Weaver had the fi rst
run after stealing third and scoring on a
throwing error, and Taylor Hunt, courtesy
runner for Ty McDaniel who singled, also
reached home plate.
Prospector Hadley Boethin batted in
Warner Robertson and Cameron Hallgarth
off a single to give Grant Union a 4-0 early
lead.
See BASEBALL, Page B10
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Grant Union’s Billy Copenhaver took the mound in game
two against Heppner at Malone Field.
High school athletes sign letters of intent
Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photo/Lindsey Wyllie
Grant Union senior Reitta Wyllie signs
a letter of intent to attend Northwest
Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, and
join their track and field team.
Two Grant Union High
School athletes signed letters
of intent to attend college this
fall and join athletic teams.
Grant Union senior Reitta
Wyllie signed a letter of in-
tent to attend Northwest Naz-
arene University in Nampa,
Idaho, and has a spot on their
track and fi eld team. Wyllie,
who competes in throwing
and running events for Grant
Union, plans to continue in
throwing events as an NNU
Crusader, including the dis-
cus, hammer throw and
weighted throw.
Heather Mosley, a home
school senior and member
of the Grant Union basket-
ball team, signed a letter of
intent to attend Walla Walla
Community College in Wal-
la Walla, Washington, and
will join the Warriors bas-
ketball team.
Contributed photo
Grant Union basketball player and home
school senior Heather Mosley signs
a letter of intent to attend Walla Walla
Community College in Walla Walla,
Washington, and join their basketball team.
Grant Union junior Jozie
Rude broke the school
shot put record with a
throw of 38-3, beating the
previous mark by over a
foot and a half, at Saturday’s
Meet of Champions in Sa-
lem.
“She tied this at the
Burns meet (April 15),”
Grant Union head coach
Sonna Smith said.
Rude is leading at the
state 2A level in pole vault
after she set a personal re-
cord in Salem at a height of
9-8 — she’s also 1 inch from
breaking the school record
in that event.
“We had a great meet at
Salem,” Smith said.
Participants, which in-
cluded 45 teams from 1A
through 4A level schools,
had to qualify in order to
compete at the event.
The
Grant
Union
4x100-meter relay team of
Sydney Brockway, Trini-
ty Hutchison, Sierra Cates
and Kaylee Wright im-
proved their time, beating
the top-seeded 2A team
with a time of 52.10. They
placed fourth behind three
4A teams.
Hutchison and Brockway
also had personal bests in
the long jump at 16-7 and
16-2.25, respectively.
“They are now sitting
second and fourth in 2A
state,” Smith said.
Cates shaved 3 seconds
off her 400-meter dash for a
personal record, and Chelsie
Kodesh had a season’s best
throw in the javelin.
Two Grant Union boys
competed at the event, in-
cluding Tanner Elliott who
bettered his 800 by a sec-
ond, and Nick Springer who
competed in high jump,
placing fourth.
“Overall, we had a good
meet and good weather,”
Smith said. “We are on track
for the girls to make a run
at the district title in two
weeks.”
Girls
Kaylee Wright: javelin, second,
124-08; high jump, third, 4-10; 100,
eighth, 13.25
Jozie Rude: shot put, third, 38-08.00;
pole vault, third, 9-08.00; javelin,
sixth, 114-05; discus, eighth, 104.02
Trinity Hutchison: long jump, second,
16-07.00; triple jump, sixth, 33-03.50
Sydney Brockway: long jump, sixth,
16-02.25; triple jump, 13th, 30-10.00
Sierra Cates: 400 meter, 17th,
1:06.68
Reitta Wyllie: discus, 15th, 94-05
Chelsie Kodesh: javelin, 16th, 101-08
Danielle Girvin: javelin, 17th, 100-11
4x100 team, Brockway, Cates,
Hutchison, Wright, fourth, 52.10
Boys
Nick Springer: high jump, fourth,
5-10.00
Tanner Elliott: 800, 19th, 2:12.42
Grant Union
softball team
splits wins in
Burns
The Grant Union bats
were in a bit of a slump in
the softball team’s fi rst game
against Burns on Friday, but
the Prospectors straightened
them out for a big comeback
victory in game two.
The road games were
played in Burns, Grant
Union losing game one
3-15 and winning game two
17-3.
“We had three hits in
the fi rst game, and 22 hits
against the same pitcher
in the second game,” said
Grant Union head coach
DeAnna Nash. “Nothing
was different except the way
we hit the ball.”
In game two, Whitney
McClellan, Ravyn Walk-
er and Brianna Zweygardt
all had three hits. Na-
talie Stearns and Cody
Jo Madden were on base
with hits and a walk every
time, and Mariah Moulton
was 4-4.
“We just turned on in the
second game, which was a
strong mental adjustment for
them,” Nash said.
The Lady Prospectors
lost an 8-2 contest to Pilot
Rock/Nixyaawii, the 2016
1A state champions, on
Thursday.
Grant Union (3-3, No.
10) hosts Elgin/Imbler (0-6,
No. 37) for a doubleheader
at 1 p.m. Friday for senior
recognition day at Seventh
Street Complex.
Prairie City
hosts Twilight
Meet on
Thursday
Saturday’s Don Walker
Invitational in Nyssa was
“windy and competitive,”
said Prairie City head coach
Nate Barber.
He said the wind was
hampering some javelin
throwers, whose fl ights were
posting 20 to 30 feet short of
their usual marks.
“The highlight of the
meet was Jake McHatton,”
Barber said. “He had PR’s in
all three of his events. Over-
all, he has been able to con-
sistently set at least one to
three PR’s per track meet.”
In Nyssa, McHatton
threw discus 8 feet, 10 inch-
es farther at 104-10, and in
shot put, he was 1 inch shy
of a foot farther than his
previous record with 33-3.
The wind didn’t stop
McHatton from throwing
the javelin 6 feet 7 inches
farther at 77-3.
Prairie City’s Haley
Pfefferkorn set a personal
record in javelin at 86-00.
She placed sixth, with only
two 1A athletes out-throw-
ing her.
The 4x100-meter girls
team, including Aleah
Johns, Emily Ennis, Rilee
Emmel and Taci Perrenoud,
fi nished sixth behind three
3A-level teams and an Idaho
team. Adrian was the only
1A team to outpace them, by
about 5 seconds.
Prairie City will host the
High Desert Twilight Meet
at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Among the seven teams
competing with Prairie City
are Grant County’s Day-
ville, Long Creek and Mon-
ument teams.
See ROUNDUP, Page B10