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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.