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B10 Sports Blue Mountain Eagle SEASON Continued from Page B1 Moulton doubled in the bottom of the inning, sending Wright home, then Zweygardt hit the 2-run homer for a 4-1 lead. Clatskanie scored 2 runs in the fourth, but left two runners on base, then led 5-4 after scor- ing 2 more runs in the fifth. Grant Union tied the score in the sixth 5-5, when Wright singled, sending Strong home. Strong caught for the first out of the seventh. Then the Tigers scored and one was walked. After a 30-minute lightning delay, Clatskanie came back to score another run. The Tigers had a 7-5 lead when another lightning de- lay was followed by a heavy downpour, and the game was the paused until Saturday morn- ing. Williams said he’d expe- rienced rainouts before, but nothing like this game. “To go home, sleep on it, think about it, and think of how your season will end if you don’t get 2 runs in one in- ning is rough,” he said. “These girls came back ready to go this morning — just felt com- mitted and ready to go.” Madden came in to pitch, picking up where the game left off. “She threw a drop ball on the inside corner, then a change up down in the zone for a swinging strike, then hanging to the outside cor- ner again for strike three with a drop ball,” Williams said. “Then Bri comes up and hits a home run, just how I thought about it.” But the Tigers were able to corner’s HOT SH T EEK OF THE W KAYLEE WRIGHT School: Grant Union Grade: 11 Parents: Kelsy Wright and Raelynn Cearns Sport: Track and Field Events: Javelin, high jump, 100-meter dash and 4x100 relay What I like best about my sport: “I love competing and showing people that I love the sport. My teammates are really encouraging, and they bring out the best in my abilities.” 60178 Coach’s Comment: “Kaylee has three state titles in track and field. She has consistently done the work she needs to do to be ready to compete at a high level. She finished district with a hamstring strain and rehabbed all week to be ready for state, and it paid off. I am honored to be her coach.” -Coach Sonna Smith PROUD SPONSOR OF GRANT COUNTY ATHLETES 100 E. MAIN • Stoplight in John Day 541-792-0425 field the final outs of the game. Williams said the Tigers are young with six starting fresh- men, and are a well-coached team. “The girls have been play- ing ASA travel ball together since they were 7 — those freshmen didn’t play like freshmen at all,” he said. “The pitcher threw low to mid- 60s which is collegiate-level speed.” Williams said his team played hard and never gave up. “It’s a great group of girls,” he said. “They deserve better. I wish things would have ended differently.” He added, “Softball’s a great game because it’s a team sport, and you’ve gotta put the whole thing together. You’ve got to play every pitch every inning all game long. Little things add up to big things, and these girls fought hard, and we had some great senior leaders.” This year’s seniors were Madden, Zweygardt (a Prairie City student athlete), McClel- lan, Moulton, Tressa Ranft and Reagan Shelley. Williams said he felt they were competitive enough for the state title as a 3A team. Next year, they’ll drop to the 2A class. “We’ll have good teams,” he said. “We’re always going to put out a competitive team because we’re going to work hard.” Madden, who was Pitcher of the Year for Special District 2, said her team had an awe- some season. “It was a season other teams only dream about, with only two losses,” she said. “I want to wish the best of luck to the underclassmen the rest of their high school ball years.” WIN strikeouts, and Strong also caught for an out. “We played solid defense, we hit the ball OK and pitched well,” Williams said. “They all did a good job.” He said some of the girls struggled in the lineup. “That’s a tough pitcher,” Williams said. “That’s the thing with Riverside, that girl’s certainly a No. 1 pitch- er — she’s a good thrower. We knew how it was going to be — we had to hit the ball — if we put it in play hard, we could win that game.” Moulton said she was glad to see a big local crowd out for the game. “We came to play and just grinded it out,” she said. “I was super happy to see every- one show up.” McClellan said the team is excited. “I knew we could get this far, so now we just need to play like we can,” she said, looking forward to their quar- terfinal match against Clats- kanie. “Each at-bat someone was getting good hits and powering through.” The win advanced Grant Union to the state quarterfinal match against the Clatskanie Tigers. Continued from Page B1 relieved in the fifth and Brian- na Zweygardt closed it in the seventh. “Cody, as she always does, gave us a great opportunity by coming out and throwing strikes and getting ahead of hitters and getting outs,” Wil- liams said. A team effort in the top of the third left three Pirates on base. Prospector first baseman Macy Strong caught for an out, and then Riverside loaded the bases. Right fielder Taylor Allen caught for an out, and Tressa Ranft, at center, fol- lowed for the final out of the inning. Grant Union came back to life in the bottom of the fifth after a lull in offense. Zweygardt singled to score Hailie Wright, to give the Prospectors a 3-0 lead. In the sixth, Wright dou- bled, sending Madi McK- rola and Strong home, and Zweygardt again singled for another RBI, with Wright making it home. This brought the score to 6-0. Zweygardt finished things off in the seventh with two Wednesday, May 30, 2018 P RAIRIE C ITY 1A BASKETBALL A LL -S TATE HONORS Levi Burke Junior, first team Brianna Zweygardt Senior, second team Dorran Wilson Senior, first team Co-Player of the Year The Eagle/Angel Carpenter Grant Union head coach Casey Hallgarth instructs his team in practice earlier this year, including, from left, Fallon Weaver, Makenna Culley, Kaylee Wright and Marissa Smith. Basketball coach and player to participate in All Stars Blue Mountain Eagle Grant Union Prospector girls basketball head coach Casey Hallgarth was select- ed to coach at the 2018 Se- nior All-Star Series. Hallgarth, one of three coaches, will coach the East All Stars, and Grant Union basketball player senior Ma- riah Moulton was selected to play on one of the teams at the series, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, June 15-16, at West Salem High School. The teams are composed of outstanding senior play- ers from Oregon’s 2A, 3A, and 4A OSAA divisions. Each division will be com- bined to include players from all regions of the state, north, south, east and west. Hallgarth led the Pros- pectors to fourth place at the state championship tourna- ment this year. It was his first and final year as head of the girls varsity team, as Hallgarth will take a position in Prai- rie City next school year as the district superintendent/ principal. 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