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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
WEDNESDAY
April 24, 2019
Grant Union
golfers host
invitational
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
“It’s a great day for a
game of golf,” said Pros-
pector senior Garrett Lenz
at Friday’s Grant Union
Invitational at the John
Day Golf Club.
The sun was shining as
a total of 55 golfers com-
peting on teams from six
high schools took on the
par 71 course.
The Heppner boys and
girls teams came out on
top for the tournament.
The Heppner boys shot
348 with Grant Union in
second with 394 followed
by Enterprise with 405.
Grant Union head
coach Ron Lundbom said
he was pleased with the
boys making it their best
team score of the season.
Last year at their home
invitational, Grant Union
shot a 408.
He was also happy with
four of his athletes — one
boy and three girls — set-
ting season records.
Kellen Grant of Hep-
pner was the medalist for
the boys with 81. Gavin
Hanna of Heppner was
second with 85 and Lenz
was in third with 86.
Sophomore
Devon
Stokes shot a 95, and soph-
omore Parker Manitsas set
a season record with 96.
Freshman Logan Namitz
shot a 106, and freshman
Maverick Miller had 108.
For the girls, Heppner
shot a 375 for the win.
Medalist was Nicole
Propheter of Heppner with
85. Also from Heppner
were Sasha Keown, 85, in
second, and Claire Grieb,
101, in third.
Grant Union junior
Kaytlyn Wells shot a sea-
son-best 102.
Also
setting
sea-
son records for Grant
Union were juniors Emily
Springer with 112 and
Maddy Way with 117.
“I was extremely proud
of the way we played over
the last two weeks,” said
Grant Union head coach
Ron Lundbom.
He said, even though
they’d had cancellations
and challenging weather
to compete in recently,
his athletes played well
Friday.
He added, “We have
three matches before dis-
trict, and we seem to be
where we want to be.”
Throughout the tourna-
ment, golfers commented
on the sunny weather.
“It’s a nice day to golf
with a good turnout,”
Stokes said. “It’s always
cut nice, thanks to Mike. I
couldn’t be happier.”
Enterprise
Outlaw
Jacob Amaro said, “The
greens are a lot stiffer, so
it’s harder to keep it on the
greens.”
Some of the athletes
putted a little too hard with
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Grant Union Prospectors Billy Radinovich, left, and Maddy
Way give each other a high fi ve after chipping their golf
balls onto the putting green in Friday’s competition.
SPORTS
SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 24
Grant Union softball @ Pilot
Rock/Nixyaawii, 3 p.m., 5 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 26
Grant Union golf @ Enterprise
Invitational at Alpine Meadows
Golf Course, 11 a.m.
Grant Union softball vs. Echo/
Stanfi eld, 1 p.m., 3 p.m.
Grant Union, Prairie City, Long
Creek track and fi eld @ Nyssa,
1 p.m. (MT)
SATURDAY, APRIL 27
Monument, Dayville track and
fi eld @ Sherman Invitational in
Moro, 11 a.m.
Grant Union baseball vs. Sher-
man/Arlington/Condon, noon,
2 p.m.
TUESDAY, APRIL 30
Prairie City, Long Creek track
and fi eld @ Ranchers Invita-
tional in Crane, 3:30 p.m.
Contributed photo
Kate Page competes in stock saw on 16-inch diameter white pine with a Stihl 660 chainsaw at the Sydney Easter Royal Show
in Australia. In the event, competitors cut one cookie down and one cookie up within 4 inches, not touching the line that goes
around the block. Everyone cuts with the same chainsaws.
Kate Page competes in
timbersports overseas
Grant Union grad chops
wood down under
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
ate Page competed April
12-23 in the woodchop-
ping and sawing compe-
tition at the Sydney Eas-
ter Royal Show in Australia.
Page, who graduated from Grant
Union High School in John Day
in 2009, competed in timbersports
while attending the University of
Montana in Missoula.
Since graduating from the univer-
sity, she works as a fi refi ghter for the
Forest Service in Montana and still
enjoys competing in the sport nation-
ally — and now internationally.
“I love the hard work that goes
into it,” Page said. “I love the his-
tory of the equipment they used for
logging.”
This was Page’s fi rst time travel-
ing out of the country to compete.
During her April 9-17 stay, she
took fourth in her heat in the under-
hand championship chop, but only
the top three advanced.
Chopping underhand involves a
log placed horizontally on a clamp
with two foot holes cut into the log
for the competitor to stand on. The
competitor cuts through their log
while standing on it, fi rst cutting
one side, then turning around to cut
through the other side.
In her handicap underhand chop,
she had a mark of 8. She took sec-
ond place, beating the third-place
fi nisher by 10 seconds, but was
disqualifi ed.
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Contributed photo
Kate Page competes in the single
buck event on 16-inch diameter white
pine with a 5-foot-by-10-inch saw.
Each competitor cuts one cookie, and
everyone has diff erent lengths and
styles of saws.
“I learned that their blocks down
here are much harder,” she said on
April 17, while in Sydney.
She said the women cut and saw
on wood commonly called “wooly-
butt,” which is a type of eucalyptus,
belonging to the myrtle family that
is native to Australia.
She and Arden Cogar Jr. took
seventh overall in the Jack and Jill
event.
The Easter Royal Show, celebrat-
ing rural traditions as well as mod-
ern-day lifestyles, is Australia’s
largest ticketed event.
Revenue from the show allows
the Royal Agricultural Society to
invest in agricultural programs,
competitions, education, youth and
rural communities.
Page isn’t taking a break from
timbersports now that she’s back in
the states.
On Friday-Saturday, April 26-27,
she’ll face off with U.S. opponents at
the Pro-Amateur Show in Missoula.
Then she’ll prepare for the Western
Professional Men’s and Women’s
Qualifi er held Saturday and Sunday,
June 1-2, in Shelton, Washington.
Ten women and 20 men will
compete in Shelton, and the top
three women and top fi ve men will
advance to the July 26-29 Stihl Tim-
bersports U.S. Professional Men’s,
Women’s and Collegiate Champion-
ship in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Page, who is the daughter of Rick
Page and Donna Speakman, both
of Mt. Vernon, was in the top eight
for women Stihl competitors in the
nation last year.
“Right now, I’m a U.S competi-
tor,” Kate Page said. “They do not
have a women’s world series yet,
only men’s. I hope one day there is a
women’s world series, and hopefully
I’ll be in it.”
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Grant Union teams win
Pepsi Invitational in Union
The Grant Union boys and girls
track and fi eld teams won Satur-
day’s Pepsi Invitational in Union.
“This is the fi rst time our boys
have won the Pepsi (Invitational),
and Union has been hosting the
meet for 13 years,” said Grant
Union head coach Sonna Smith.
“Our girls defended their title
from last year. All the coaches are
extremely happy.”
The Prairie City Panthers, led
by head coach Nate Barber, also
competed in Union.
Both coaches noted weather was
a challenge with everything from a
drizzle to steady rain throughout
the event.
Helping the Grant Union boys
achieve the top spot at the meet
was the 4x100-meter relay team
with Jordan Hall, Quaid Brandon,
Mason Morris and Justin Hodge
earning fi rst place with a time of
47.05.
Morris set a personal record in
the triple jump with 42-2, better-
ing his previous mark by about 2.5
feet. He also set personal records
in the 200, placing third, and jave-
lin, placing fourth.
Contributed photo
The Grant Union Prospector boys track and fi eld team, led by head coach
Sonna Smith, poses with their fi rst-place trophy won at Saturday’s Pepsi
Invitational in Union. Front, from left: Gage Brandon, Cole Ashley, Quaid
Brandon, CJ Glimpse, Nathan Hodge, Donavan Smith, Jacob Smith and
Quinten Hallgarth; back row, Justin Hodge, Mason Morris, Jordan Hall,
Mason Gerry, Drew Lusco, Tanner Elliott, Braden Spencer and Jesse Randleas.
The Grant Union girls team also won the meet, defending their title.
“Sydney Brockway, in her fi rst
competition at pole vault, had a
performance of 7-6, moving her to
second in our league,” Smith said.
In the girls 4x100, the team of
Sierra Cates, Trinity Hutchison,
Carson Weaver and Kaylee Wright
had a fi rst-place fi nish.
Wright earned 30.5 points for
her team and was the high-point
athlete for the girls competing in
Union.
Wright set a personal record in
javelin with 144-09, beating the
state record she set last year for
the second time this season. She
had a fi rst-place fi nish in the 100-
meter dash with 13.13 for a sea-
son record. She also earned sec-
ond place in the high jump, behind
Karli Bedard of Enterprise — both
girls cleared the bar at 5-00.
For Prairie City, Levi Burke set
a personal record in the 100 with a
time of 12.01. He also placed fi rst
in the high jump, second in long
jump and sixth in javelin.
“Levi is just being Levi,” Bar-
ber said. “It was nice to see the
PRs.”
Lane Williams set three per-
sonal records in the 400, shot put
and javelin and a season record in
the 100.
“Lane tried a new technique in
shot put and that helped him out,”
Barber said. “He had a good week
of practice.”
Jake McHatton placed second
out of the 1A competitors in discus
with a throw of 101-03.
See Roundup, Page A13