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B10 Sports Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, October 17, 2018 PROS UNDEFEATED Continued from Page B1 Continued from Page B1 in the third quarter. Starting senior quarter- back Garrett Lenz scored in the opening moments of the game, and sophomore Taylor Hunt also scored a touchdown run in the second quarter. Sophomores Devon Stokes and Jordan Hall and freshman Parker Neault snagged inter- ceptions in the shutout. The Prospectors led 44-0 going into halftime, and younger Grant Union players took the field for most of the second half, including fresh- man quarterback Maverick Miller. Grant Union rushed for 422 yards. Lenz connected with Russell Hodge on a 33- yard pass, and Miller threw to Tanler Fuller for a 19-yard pass. Prospector head coach Ja- son Miller said his starters performed well in the first half. “They did exactly what they were asked to do, so it was a great game all around,” he said. “Defense came up big with some turnovers, and offense just marched the ball down the field. There were no big mistakes there.” The coach said he’s been pleased with Lenz throughout the season. “Garrett Lenz has done a great job as a leader for us, both on and off the field, by doing it the right way and tell- ing other guys how to do it the right way,” he said. Lenz said he was happy with how the defense gave the push Grant Union ahead going down the stretch. Kaylee Wright led with 14 kills and three aces. Brockway had nine kills and two aces, Trini- ty Hutchison had six kills and four blocks and Hailie Wright had five kills, three aces and 13 assists. The Eagle/Angel Carpenter Abrego said it was fun to see so many team members Grant Union Prospector Kaylee Wright delivers another kill shot in Saturday’s match against Pilot Rock, contribute to the win. “Our bench is super Prospector Hailie Wright at left. deep,” she said. “You can put anyone anywhere and get the same results. It’s really a 2A-6 Blue Mountain Conference special team.” Team: league record/overall record, sets won/sets lost, Prospector Trinity Hutchi- OSAA Ranking son, a senior, said she felt her Grant Union: 12-0/23-4, 64/18, No. 2 team played well together for Weston-McEwen: 8-3/21-5, 60/24, No. 4 the day, and they anticipate Heppner: 7-4/14-11, 45/37, No. 12 exciting games ahead. Union: 5-6/11-9, 34/29, No. 11 “We’re league champions, Pilot Rock: 4-7/10-12, 33/39, No. 16 and we’re looking forward to Stanfield: 2-9/13-13, 38/44, No. 25 taking on some champion- Enterprise: 1-10/6-14, 25/45, No. 26 ships this year,” she said. Prospector Hailie Wright said it felt great to gain the Trinity Hutchison: 3 kills, 2 blocks league victory. to earn every point that we Alcie Moore: 2 aces, 7 assists “We worked hard all sea- get,” Abrego said. “Our girls Yui Asami: 5 aces, 5 digs son to get where we are now,” have so much drive to win Kaytlyn Wells: 3 kills, 1 assist Taylor Allen: 3 kills, 1 assist she said, adding the team has that sometimes our emotions McKeely Miller: 1 ace big shoes to fill after last get the best of us.” Baylee Combs: 4 digs, 2 assists year’s championship win at Grant Union was sched- Aidan Broemeling: 4 digs Grant Union vs. Pilot Rock uled to host the 1A Crane state. “We need to keep rolling,” Mustangs Tuesday past press Kaylee Wright: 14 kills, 3 aces, 4 digs, time for senior night honor- 1 assist she said. Brockway: 9 kills, 2 aces, 1 assist, On Oct. 9, Grant Union ing the nine on the team. 6 digs The Prospectors compete Hutchison: 6 kills, 4 blocks beat Union on the road with scores of 25-13, 25-22, 21- at the Blue Mountain Confer- Hailie Wright: 5 kills, 3 aces, 13 25 and 26-24. It was the only ence Tournament on Satur- assists, 4 digs Moore: 1 kill, 2 aces, 12 assists, 1 dig time the Prospectors were day, Oct. 20, in Stanfield. Asami: 2 aces, 1 assist, 3 digs Grant Union vs. Enterprise pushed to four sets all season Wells: 1 ace, 1 dig Sydney Brockway: 9 kills, 12 digs, in league play. Allen: 1 block, 1 assist 1 assist “I think it was a humbling Kaylee Wright: 9 kills, 3 aces, 4 digs Miller: 1 kill experience for our team, Hailie Wright: 5 kills, 2 aces, 20 Broemeling: 6 digs Combs: 1 dig showing that we need to work assists, 2 digs The Eagle/Angel Carpenter Grant Union quarterback Garrett Lenz led the Prospectors in their 50-0 win over the Riverside Pirates Friday night in John Day. 2A Special District 6 standings Team: league record/overall record, points scored/points allowed, OSAA ranking Heppner: 2-0/5-2, 187/102, No. 9 Grant Union: 2-0/4-3, 172/119, No. 18 Weston-McEwen: 2-1/2-4, 147/154, No. 28 Stanfield: 0-2/0-6, 68/220, No. 35 Riverside: 0-3/0-6, 12/320, No. 34 team a “goose-egg” win. “We had some really good drives, and I want to thank my linemen for getting the blocks that we needed,” he said. Grant Union lineman ju- nior Drew Lusco said he’s happy with the outcome. “We made few mistakes, and our secondaries played well,” he said. Grant Union, ranked No. 18 among 2A OSAA teams, has a 4-3 overall record, 2-0 in the Blue Mountain Confer- ence. The Prospectors will face the Heppner Mustangs (5-2, 2-0), a team that has tradition- ally presented a challenge for the Prospectors, at 7 p.m. Fri- day on the road. “That’s going to be a tough one, and we’ve got to show up and play with some intensity and hopefully get that league win,” coach Miller said. Grant Union will host the Weston-McEwen TigerScots for the Prospectors’ final reg- ular season game on Friday, Oct. 26. S PORTS R OUNDUP Grant Union middle school cross country team places first A sighting of “Bigfoot” along the Idlewild Invitational course at a campground near Burns on Saturday was a thrill for cross country competitors, but an even bigger thrill for the Grant Union Prospectors was seeing their middle school boys team place first. Grant Union seventh-grad- er Grant Hall earned a sec- ond-place medal with a time of 11:55 in the 3,000-meter race, and eighth-grader Brady Dole earned a fourth-place medal and set a personal record with a time of 11:59. Grant Union head coach Sonna Smith said they were short on runners for both the boys and girls high school teams. For the Prospector varsity boys, junior Gage Brandon fin- ished 20th out of 50 with a time of 20:48. The boys team also in- cluded senior Braden Spencer 21:37.83, senior Tanner Elliott 21:39, sophomore Jacob Smith 23:10 and freshman Gavin Lo- pez 25:36. Grant Union girls varsity did not have a full team com- peting, but Rylee Browning fin- ished 13th out of 30 with a time of 24:27. “We are starting our peaking phase for all of our athletes,” said coach Smith. The Middle School East Championships will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Pendleton Community Park. The District 5 Champion- ships for high school cross country will be at 4 p.m. Satur- day, Oct. 27, Pendleton Com- munity Park. Dayville/ Monument volleyball falls to Crane in final league contest The Dayville/Monument Tigers volleyball team pushed Crane to four sets on Saturday in Monument, but the Mus- tangs claimed the win with scores of 26-24, 13-25, 25-18 and 25-14. Tiger head coach Kris- ti Emerson said Crane has a solid team. She said her team had some great volley sets and served well. She added that freshman Aubreianna Osborne made some exciting blocks. The younger players joined in for a junior varsity game against Long Creek/Ukiah lat- er that day. Dayville/Monument took a 25-15, 25-17, 21-25 and 25-23 victory. “It was good for the young- er kids to play, and they played the entire time,” Emerson said. “I’m very proud of them. They’re coming right along.” Long Creek/Ukiah head coach Linda Studtmann said her team had hoped to win the fourth set but “couldn’t quite keep the pace.” Studtmann said she was en- couraged the team “didn’t give up and kept trying right up to the end.” “It was a good day — chal- lenging but fun,” she said. Mission Statement: CENTRAL OREGON MOBILE VET CENTER WHEN/WHERE To welcome home and honor those who served, those still serving, and their families by reaching out to them, engaging their communities, and providing them with quali- ty readjustment counsel- ing and timely referral. READJUSTMENT COUNSELING Long Creek/ Ukiah JV beats Crane JV 2-1 Long Creek/Ukiah junior varsity head coach Linda Studtmann said her team was thrilled with their 2-1 win over the Crane Mustangs on Satur- day in Monument. The Mountaineer/Cougars lost the first set 20-25 but made a comeback to win the final sets 25-14 and 15-8. Studtmann said she had to juggle players around with one starter out with an injury. “They’re getting used to the new line-up and responding well to each other as a team,” she said. Studtmann said she has seen improvements in the play- ers but is identifying areas to work on. “Team spirit has been high this year, and that makes our job as coaches easier,” Studt- mann said. Long Creek/Ukiah hosts the Huntington Locomotives on Thursday for the Mountaineer/ Cougars’ homecoming match at 4:30 p.m. Long Creek/Ukiah soccer improves against Riverside a.m. in John Day. Last week, the Panthers had one win and two losses on the road. On Tuesday, Oct. 9, most of the Prairie City team saw play- ing time against Burnt River, rolling to a 25-19, 25-10 and 25-16 win. Assistant coach Louanne Zweygardt said they “saw some big improvements in game situ- ation confidence” in the match. Prairie City faced Adrian in Unity on Thursday, falling 3-1 to the Antelopes. The Panthers’ serving was 92 percent with Hailee Wall, Rilee Emmel and Samantha Workman all serving 100 per- cent. Emily Ennis led with 11 kills for Prairie City, and Rilee Emmel had nine kills. “Offensively we played well,” Zweygardt said. “Our defense broke down a little, which gave Adrian the edge.” Saturday, Prairie City faced the Jordan Valley Mustangs on the road. The Mustangs made the sweep with scores of 25-19, 25-13 and 25-18. Samantha Workman served 100 percent, and Rilee Emmel had seven kills. Long Creek/Ukiah soccer player Mathéo Buchart scored 2 points in his team’s 6-2 loss to Riverside Pirates Oct. 10 in Long Creek. Although it was a loss, the team made strides compared with their last meeting with the Pirates when they lost 11-0 on Oct. 2 in Boardman. “We had much improved re- sults,” said Long Creek/Ukiah head coach Amos Studtmann. “My team put in more effort than I’ve seen so far this sea- son. When you get beat one time, you have to go back and just keep playing the ball.” He said his goalie Sitong “Tiger” Zeng made a couple impressive stops. Team captain Ricardo Peña showed leader- ship on the field, Studtmann said. Studtmann said his team is looking forward to hosting the Nyssa Bulldogs at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Long Creek. “They’re pretty fired up now,” he said. Prairie City strikers go 1-2 in three final league matches 1A High Desert League volleyball standings Team: league record/overall record, sets won/sets lost, OSAA ranking Jordan Valley: 7-0/13-7, 40/21, No. 19 Crane: 6-1/12-13, 43/42, No. 22 Adrian: 5-2/16-10, 46/32, No. 16 Prairie City: 4-3/9-12, 28/28, No. 36 Dayville/Monument: 3-4/6-5, 19/19, No. 42 Harper Charter: 2-5/3-7, 9/24, No. 52 Burnt River: 1-6/2-8, 10/26, No. 60 Huntington: 0-7/0-8, 3/24, No. 67 The Prairie City Panthers are looking forward to Satur- day’s 1A High Desert League Volleyball Tournament set for 9 WANTED Civilians...they just don’t get it! 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