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SPORTS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Grant Union
softball pounds
out three wins
The Grant Union/Prairie City
Prospectors are leading the pack
of Oregon’s 2A softball teams,
No. 1 in the OSAA rankings.
The Prospectors notched three
more wins Thursday and Satur-
day, giving the team a 12-2 over-
all record and 3-1 in league.
Grant Union beat the non-
league Knights on Thursday
10-8 in Irrigon and, on Sat-
urday, topped league oppo-
nent
the
Weston-McEwen
TigerScots 13-7 and 7-6 in
Athena.
Prospector
Macy
Strong
pitched three innings against the
Knights with Taylor Allen pitch-
ing the next three. Harli Grove
closed the game in the seventh
for the 10-8 win.
Grant Union’s Madi McKrola
was 3 for 4 with seven RBIs.
Strong pitched all seven
innings in Saturday’s first game.
She was 4 for 5, Kori Jo Gir-
vin was 3 for 3 and Allen was 2
for 2.
Allen pitched three innings in
game two with Strong finishing.
“The game ended after five
innings due to rain,” said Grant
Union head coach Zach Wil-
liams. “It counts as a complete
game.”
Hailie Wright, Marissa Smith
and McKrola combined for 5 for
7.
Long Creek meets
at ‘River’s Edge’
for track and field
competition
The Long Creek track and field
team got a look at four District 3
opponents at Friday’s River’s Edge
Invitational in Umatilla where a
total of 19 teams competed.
Long Creek head coach Linda
Studtmann said she and assistant
coach Peter Case are pleased with
the team’s progress.
“They all did well,” she said.
“The weather was beautiful.”
For the girls, sophomores Luc-
chese Douglas and Dorotha John-
SPORTS
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 18
Long Creek track and field @ Hus-
ky Invitational in Moro, 4 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 19
Grant Union golf hosts GUHS
Invitational in John Day, 11 a.m.
Monument, Dayville, Long Creek
track and field @ C/W Invitational
in Condon, 11 a.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 20
Grant Union softball @ Pilot Rock,
11 a.m., 1 p.m.
Grant Union, Prairie City track
and field @ Pepsi Invitational in
Union, 11 a.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 23
Grant Union, Long Creek, Prairie
City track and field @ Grant Union
Small School Meet, 4 p.m.
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Grant Union 4x100-relay team member Sydney Brockway hands off the baton to Trinity Hutchison in the first leg
of the race at a previous meet.
son and senior Gladys Johnson
each set personal records in shot
put.
Douglas placed sixth in shot put
in a field of 36 competitors. She
finished seventh in the 400-meter
run, placing second among the
1A runners and setting a personal
record.
Dorotha placed 11th in the long
jump and was third out of the 1A
competitors. She also set a season
record in the triple jump.
For the boys, Thomas Kream-
ier, Henry Grannis, Carter Burnette
and James Kreamier placed fifth in
the 4x100-meter relay and were in
second place for 1A runners.
“Thomas did great in his 400 —
the first time he competed in this
event,” Studtmann said, adding she
was pleased to see Gladys improve
on her records in shot put and jav-
elin after a year off from the sport.
Long Creek will compete at
4 p.m. Thursday at the Husky Twi-
light Meet in Moro at Sherman
County High School.
Four Grant County
teams compete at
Burns meet
Grant Union, Prairie City, Monu-
ment and Dayville track teams faced
off with six other teams, 1A through
3A, at Burn Lions/Oster Track Meet
on Friday in Burns.
Grant County was still reeling
from areas that were flooded.
Dayville head coach Josh Wil-
liams said several of his team mem-
bers stayed behind to help with relief
efforts, and only three of his athletes
attended the meet.
Williams said he was happy to see
the three continue improving on their
personal records.
For the boys, Zach Ferguison
placed ninth in the 3,000-meter run,
shaving over 22 seconds off his time.
He was fourth among the 1A runners.
“Zach is starting to get his pacing
down and was able to kick the last bit
of the 3,000 really hard,” Williams
said. “Haylee (Collins) and Hal-
lie (Rhoda) did well in the throwing
events, and both will compete in the
javelin for our next match this com-
ing Friday in Condon.”
Collins set personal records in shot
put and the 100-meter dash.
Williams expects to have the rest
of the team join in for Friday’s C-W
Invitational which starts at 11 a.m.
The Monument track team will also
compete in Condon.
Several of the 1A Monument ath-
letes beat their previous records,
including Donovan Schafer, who set
records in all his throwing events. He
placed second in discus, fifth in shot
put and 10th in javelin.
Mark Thomas placed third in the
1,500 behind two 3A Burns Hilanders
runners. He shaved about 16 seconds
off his previous time with a finish of
4:34.15.
Nic Ciochetti also set a personal
record in javelin.
For the girls, Faythe Schafer fin-
ished 10th in the 100, and was sec-
ond among the 1A sprinters.
Aubreianna Osborne also set a
personal record in javelin.
Prairie City had five athletes who
outdid their previous records, includ-
ing Levi Burke for the 100 and long
jump and Paige Moore in the 100
and shot put.
Burke won the high jump with a
season record mark of 6-04, and he
placed third in javelin.
Twenty-four Grant Union ath-
letes set personal bests, some in mul-
tiple events.
Tanner Elliott placed second in
the 800 for a season record, 8.80 sec-
onds behind Hilander Emmett Klus.
Mason Gerry won the javelin
event, about 3 feet shy of his season
record.
Katelyn Hughes set personal
records in the 100 and 300 hur-
dles, placing sixth and third
respectively.
Kaylee Wright won three of four
of her events. She placed second in
the high jump behind 3A Nyssa ath-
lete Britain Hartley — those two
athletes and one other cleared the
bar at 4-10.
Wright placed first with relay
team members Sydney Brockway,
Sierra Cates and Trinity Hutchison
with a time of 52.09.
Grant Union and Prairie City
will compete at 11 a.m. at Satur-
day’s 13th annual Pepsi Invita-
tional in Union.
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