SPORTS
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019
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SPORTS ROUNDUP
Grant Union Gold
dancers practice for
Pendleton
The Grant Union Gold
dance team competed at the
Stayton competition on Feb.
2-3, but were held off from
competing in Tigard last
weekend as school offi cials
canceled the event due to
inclement weather.
In Stayton, Grant Union
was the only 2A team to per-
form, vying against 3A and
4A schools.
“We received higher
scores than the same time last
year, and the judges’ com-
ments were very hopeful,”
said Grant Union head coach
Kattie Piazza.
Grant Union is perform-
ing a contemporary-style rou-
tine to “Whatever it takes”
by Imagine Dragons with a
theme of Breaking Free.
Piazza said she has an
alternate routine they are
practicing and will decide
which one to take to state in
early March.
The team will next com-
pete in Pendleton on Satur-
day, Feb. 24.
Grant Union wrestlers
prepare for district
battle
After competing at Sat-
urday’s Cougar Classic in
Echo, hosted by Echo/Stan-
fi eld, the Grant Union Pros-
pector wrestling team is now
preparing for this week’s
2A/1A Special District 4
tournament at 2 p.m. Fri-
day and 10 a.m. Saturday in
Halfway.
“We’re looking forward
to the challenge,” said Grant
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter/
Grant Union Gold dancer sophomore Brianna Majors and her team entertain the crowd
during halftime at the Prospector basketball game versus Heppner in John Day.
Union head coach Andy
Lusco.
He said half of the teams
expected at the Cougar Clas-
sic couldn’t attend due to
inclement weather, but 13 of
his wrestlers had matches in
the round robin, earning 108
points as a team.
Lakeview with 10 wres-
tlers earned 59 points, Echo/
Stanfi eld with four wrestlers
had 35 points and Union/
Cove with fi ve wrestlers had
26.5 points.
Lusco said senior Damion
Young and freshman Justin
Hodge, both wrestling at 152,
“had a competitive bracket,
and they wrestled well.”
Hodge, who has a 33-13
season record, placed fi rst
with 15.5 points. He won by
a 1-0 decision over Dylan
Julian of Lakeview (26-
16 record) and won by tech
fall over Mychael Pointer of
Echo/Stanfi eld (25-8 record).
Young (26-14 record)
placed third with 7 points,
losing to Pointer by a 6-2
decision, then defeating
Julian by a 10-4 decision.
Long Creek/Ukiah
teams will not advance
to district tourney
The Long Creek/Ukiah
Mountain Lions boys team
came just short of advancing
to the 1A High Desert Dis-
trict Tournament.
Six teams advance to the
Feb. 14-16 tournament —
the top three teams from the
west, and the top three teams
from the east.
Although the Mountain
Lions fi nished with a 6-7
league record (8-13 over-
all), they were in fourth place
for west-side teams, behind
Crane (12-1), Prairie City
(11-2) and Dayville/Monu-
ment (7-6). Competing from
the east side will be Jordan
Valley (12-1), Adrian (8-5)
and Huntington (4-9).
Even though Long Creek/
Ukiah beat the Huntington
Locomotives 67-39 on Jan.
19, the Locomotives advance
because they are in third on
the east side of the league.
“If you look at it, there
is no perfect way to decide
who goes,” said Mountain
Lion coach Amos Studt-
mann. “If we wanted to win,
we shouldn’t have let it come
down to the last game.”
Still, Studtmann said
his focus is on learning and
growing when it comes to his
boys and girls teams.
The Long Creek/Ukiah
boys wrapped up the season
with two tough losses, falling
89-46 to Prairie City on Fri-
day in Long Creek and 62-46
to Dayville/Monument on
Saturday in Monument.
Studtmann said Prairie
City performed well with
great rebounding and scoring
several 3-point shots.
“While we did a lot of
things right, Prairie City
deserves the win,” the coach
said.
He noted that in the game
against Dayville/Monument
junior Ben Combs insisted
on playing through an ankle
injury and didn’t let it slow
him down.
“James Kreamier (a
junior) kept his head up and
did a good job of leading the
team and despite the defense
targeting him he led the team
with 18 points in the Day-
ville/Monument game,” the
coach said. “Thomas Kream-
ier (a sophomore) led the
team with rebounding and
blocking shots and stellar
defense.”
Studtmann said he’s
hosted Mathéo Buchart this
school year, a foreign student
from France who played on
the basketball team.
“It’s been a double bless-
ing to watch him grow from
having never played basket-
ball to being one of the top
players on my team, averag-
ing 14-points in the past seven
games,” Studtmann said.
The coach said he’ll have
three strong starters from the
boys team back next year,
including Combs and the
Kreamiers.
The Mountain Lion girls,
4-9 in league and 8-13 over-
all, also had two losses, fall-
ing 51-20 to Prairie City
and 47-22 to Dayville/
Monument.
Studtmann,
who’s
coached both teams with TC
Conner, said the girls bat-
tled hard against Dayville/
Monument.
“We were up there to give
our best and end our season
strong,” he said.
At the half, Dayville/
Monument was up 19-14.
“We had a chance to win
it, but the momentum shifted
in the second half,” he said.
“We fought hard, and we
never gave up.”
“Lucchese Douglas (soph-
omore) was a good team
leader,” he said. “Gladys
Johnson (senior) was infl u-
ential when she was out there
— she was unable to fi nish
the game due to injury.”
Studtmann said he began
coaching basketball three
years ago, and Johnson will
be his fi rst player he’ll lose to
graduation.
He said the athletes on
both teams are “really good
kids.”
“We got a lot of compli-
ments from referees and audi-
ences on their sportsman-
ship,” he said. “I’m really
proud of them for that.”
SPORTS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, FEB. 14
Dayville/Monument girls basketball
vs. Harper at the 1A High Desert
League Tournament in John Day,
1 p.m.
at the 1A High Desert League Tour-
nament in John Day, 7 p.m.
Union at the 2A Blue Mountain Con-
ference in Pendleton, 1 p.m.
Dayville/Monument boys basketball
vs. Adrian at the 1A High Desert
League Tournament in John Day,
8:45 p.m.
Grant Union boys wrestling at the
2A/1A Special District 4 Tournament
in Halfway, 2 p.m.
in John Day, third place to state at 11
a.m girls, 12:45 p.m. boys; champi-
onship game 4 p.m. girls, 5:45 p.m.
boys
Prairie City boys basketball vs.
Huntington at the 1A High Desert
League Tournament in John Day,
2:45 p.m.
1A High Desert League Tournament
in John Day
Grant Union boys wrestling at the
2A/1A Special District 4 Tournament
in Halfway, 10 a.m.
Grant Union girls basketball at
the 2A Blue Mountain Conference
championship game in Pendleton
at 7:45 p.m. (championship game,
playing the winner of Enterprise vs.
Heppner, Friday 2:45 p.m.)
Prairie City girls basketball vs. Adrian
Grant Union boys basketball vs.
1A High Desert League Tournament
Boys basketball 2A Blue Mountain
FRIDAY, FEB. 15
SATURDAY, FEB. 16
Conference in Pendleton (game for
third place at 1 p.m., championship
game at 6 p.m.)
TUESDAY, FEB. 19
1A girls basketball round one state
playoff , TBD
Wednesday, Feb. 20
1A boys basketball round one state
playoff , TBD
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