WEDNESDAY
May 17, 2017
Pettit
wins four
district
track titles
Emerson, Humphreys,
Landin, Schafer earn firsts
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant County’s 1A track and fi eld ath-
letes powered through cold, wet weather at
Friday’s Special District 4 District Track
Meet in Baker City, some
bringing their best perfor-
mances of the season.
Monument sophomore
Sophie Pettit brought Get full track
home four fi rst-place meet results
medals for her 100- and online at My
200-meter sprints, where EagleNews.
she fi nished 12.93 and com/sports
27.77, respectively, and
her
15-09.50
leap
in the long jump. Pettit, along with Kyla
Emerson, Dinorha Vidrio Landin and
Faythe Schafer, also won the 4x100-meter
relay in a time of 54.80.
More
online
See TRACK, Page B2
Contributed photo/LindseyWyllie.com
The Grant Union girls track team gathers for a photo after winning the 2A-6 Wapiti League Districts. From left, front row: Megan
McManama, Sammi Buckhaults, Reitta Wyllie, Jozie Rude, Erika Dickens and Ellie Justice; back row: Sierra Cates, Sydney
Brockway, Kaylee Wright, Trinity Hutchison and Annie Wall. Not pictured Chelsie Kodesh.
Grant Union girls track wins
Wapiti League District Meet
Team earns six titles,
sends six athletes to state
Lady Pros
softball
sweeps
Enterprise
Grant Union girls,
second in league,
play Friday in Vale
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union Prospector girls track
team claimed victory, as well as six titles, at
Friday’s 2A-6 Wapiti League District Meet in
Union.
The Grant Union girls racked up 186 points
for their win, followed by Enterprise (168),
Union (151), Imbler (50) and Elgin (18).
“The girls team has had back-to-back dis-
trict championships in track and fi eld,” said
Grant Union head coach Sonna Smith. “We
are fi ne tuning the athletes this week to make
another run at the state championship.”
Helping the Prospector girls take home the
fi rst-place trophy was the 4x100-meter relay
team, including Sydney Brockway, Trinity
Hutchison, Sierra Cates and Kaylee Wright,
winning with a time of 51.94.
Wright had two other victories, earning
fi rst in the 100 meter (12.62) and javelin
(125-07.25), along with a second-place fi nish
in high jump (5-01.00).
Contributed photo/LindseyWyllie.com
The Grant Union Prospector softball
team fi nished second in league after taking
the sweep, 16-12 and 12-5, in Enterprise
Monday afternoon.
Grant Union will move on to the district
playoffs at 1 p.m. MDT (12 p.m. PDT) Fri-
day in Vale, where they will play the winner
of Wednesday’s game between Burns (No.
4) and Enterprise (No. 3) in Enterprise. The
winner of Friday’s game will face No. 1
Vale later that day.
Vale and the team they play on Friday
will advance to the state playoffs, and there
are two at-large spots for teams ranked in
the top 16 in the state that don’t automati-
cally qualify through district play.
See GU GIRLS, Page B10
Grant Union Prospector Sydney Brockway competes in the 100 hurdles for third place
at the district meet. She was also part of the first-place 4x100-meter relay team.
See SOFTBALL, Page B10
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union Pros
baseball team closes
season with a sweep
Grant Union
beat Weston-
McEwen at
Malone Field
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union Pros-
pector baseball team ended
the regular season with a
doubleheader sweep over
the Weston-McEwen Tiger-
Scots, winning 5-4 and 4-2.
Prospector Billy Co-
penhaver, a senior, pitched
the majority of game one
at Malone Field in John
Day. He held the TigerScots
to one run until the sev-
enth inning, the score 5-1,
when
Weston-McEwen
started a comeback with two
singles.
Warner Robertson re-
lieved Copenhaver at the
mound, getting the needed
outs for the win. The Tiger-
Scots scored three before
Prospector Cameron Hall-
garth caught the fi nal out.
Prospector Zack Deiter
pitched a complete game
two for the win.
“It was good to end the
season on a win,” Deiter
said. “We learned a lot over
the season and improved.”
Grant Union head coach
Dusty Williams was pleased
his team ended the season
with six consecutive league
wins.
“It was a great way to
end the season for the pro-
gram and especially for the
seniors,” said head coach
Dusty Williams. “I’m really
proud of (seniors) Billy Co-
penhaver and Brogan McK-
rola. They did a great job for
us and we’re going to miss
them.”
See BASEBALL, Page B2
Prospector golfers
improve season
averages at district
tournament
Contributed photo/LindseyWyllie.com
Monument High School senior GW Clark team ropes at
the May 6-7 Prineville High School Rodeo. His roping
partner is Lexee Harrell, and they won the event on the
second day of the rodeo with a time of 8.60.
GW Clark wins round
two of team roping
Blue Mountain Eagle
Monument High School
senior GW Clark and his
partner Lexee Harrell won
the team roping event with
a time of 8.60 at day two of
the May 6-7 Prineville High
School Rodeo. Clark also
earned fourth place in steer
wrestling.
Clark, who rides with the
Burns High School rodeo
club, will compete at the
May 20-21 high school ro-
deo in Burns and the State
Finals Rodeo, scheduled for
June 7-10 in Prineville.
Coach says
players will
return next year
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union Pros-
pector boys and girls golf
teams were among 96 com-
petitors at the May 8-9 dis-
trict 1A/2A/3A tournament
at the Pendleton Country
Club, taking on a tough par
72 course.
For the Grant Union
boys, Duane Stokes ended
the two days with a score of
186 in 15th place, and, on
the girls side, Tiana Allen
fi nished the two days with
224 in 13th place.
Grant Union won’t be
advancing to state compe-
tition, but Prospector head
coach Ron Lundbom said he
was pleased with his play-
ers’ attitudes at the tourna-
ment.
“I was happy with how
our kids played this week
and all season long,” he
said. “Although we fi nished
10th for the boys and fi fth
for the girls, we improved
on our season averages and
improved each day at Pend-
leton Country Club. We had
the least experience of any
team in the fi eld, and we had
three personal-best scores
this week.”
On the boys side, Hep-
pner won the meet with a
two-day score of 698, La
Pine placed second with a
total of 726 and Burns fi n-
ished third with 756.
See GOLF, Page B10