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A10 Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, December 27, 2017 WEDNESDAY December 27, 2017 17 2017 sports highlights from By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle Many Grant County athletes soared above the competition, providing thrills for their fans during 2017. There were plenty of exciting moments along the way, and here are 17 highlights from throughout the year, presented in chronological order. Eagle file photo 1. Prairie City Panther Devin Packard (20) scores over the reach of Echo player Morgan Mecham, Panther teammates Dorran Wilson (3) and Wyatt Williams in the action. 1. Prairie City boys rise to second round at state basketball playoff 4. Grant Union girls golf team places third at home tourney The Grant Union golf team placed third The Prairie City at their home tour- nament on April 14 Panthers, led by at the John Day Golf head coach Jonathan Club. For individuals, Gill, beat Echo at the Grant Union’s Tiana Prairie City court in Allen earned third the round one state Eagle file photo place for the girls, and playoff, then fell 55- she went on to place 33 to No. 3-ranked 5. Grant Union Prospector Kaylee Wright won first place 13th at the May 8-9 Hosanna Christian at the OSAA Track and Field State Championship in district tournament in Klamath Falls javelin. The photo shows her competing at a track meet in Pendleton. Grant Feb. 24 in the sec- in John Day earlier in the season. ond round. Union’s Duane Stokes placed third for the boys, and he 2. Grant Union wrestler 3. Grant Union Lady Pros went on to place 15th at the district tournament. The team was led by Clay Johnson earns 2nd compete at state basket- head coach Ron Lundbom. at state ball championships Grant Union Prospector se- nior wrestler Clay Johnson (138) had a second-place finish at state, and Drew Lusco (220) wrestled for fourth place. Toby Boatwright and Dillon Maley also competed at the state cham- pionships Feb. 24-25. The Grant Union wrestling team, led by head coach Andy Lusco, claimed the Wapiti District championship title. After beating Pilot Rock in the state playoffs, the Grant Union Prospector girls basket- ball team, led last season by head coach Mark Mosley, fell to Kennedy in the quarterfinals at the championships in Pendleton. Grant Union had a 45-29 loss March 3 to East Linn Christian in the first-round consolation match. 5. Prospector girls track team soars to 2nd at state Led by head coach Sonna Smith, the Grant Union Prospec- tors girls track team, including Kaylee Wright, Trinity Hutchison, Jozie Rude, Sydney Brockway and Sierra Cates, finished second at the OSAA State Track and Field See SPORTS, Page A13 Eagle file photo 4. Grant Union’s Tiana Allen putts the ball at an invitational tournament in John Day, surrounded by, from left, Saralyn Dalton of Nyssa, Sophie Grant of Heppner, Addison Phillips of Vale and Gaby Gibbons of Burns. EO Media Group/Kathy Aney 5. Trinity Hutchison, of Grant Union, triple jumps at the OSAA State Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene. Hutchison won the event with a jump of 34 feet, 10 inches.
