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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
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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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