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Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Golf
SHOOTING THE BREEZE
Myth of the
brushbuster
Continued from Page A10
golf balls rolling off the edge
and sometimes downhill.
For freshman Billy Radi-
novich, it was her third tour-
nament of the season, and
it’s her first year competing
in the sport.
“I never imagined myself
playing golf, but I enjoy it
and the people and coach
Ron,” she said.
Springer said she’d
golfed with some of the
girls in her group in previ-
ous years, including Cait-
lyn Scrivner of Heppner and
Miranda Raven of Vale.
“I love this group,”
Springer said.
The golfers enjoyed ham-
burgers and cookies after
the tournament outside the
clubhouse, and Lenz was
recognized as a senior this
year.
On
Saturday,
Lenz
headed up an 18-hole scram-
ble at the John Day Golf
Club for his senior project
with 12 teams competing.
Roundup
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For the Prairie City girls,
Mikiah Kimble set personal
records in both the 100 and
200.
Barber said Kimble has
been working hard with
teammate Abbey Pfeffer-
korn as a training partner.
Pfefferkorn set a season
record in the 100.
Rilee set a personal
record in javelin, adding
nearly 8 feet to her throw
for a mark of 74-06.
“We’ve had a few inju-
ries, and hopefully, they’ll
be healed up in time for
Nyssa,” Barber said.
Grant Union, Prairie
City and Long Creek will
compete at the Don Walker
track meet which begins
at 1 p.m. (MT) Friday in
Nyssa.
It is one of the biggest
track meets of the season
for the Grant County teams,
drawing athletes from Ore-
gon and Idaho.
Grant Union was sched-
uled to hold their small
school meet on Tues-
day, past press time, with
Grant Union, Prairie City,
Long Creek and Dayville
competing.
Dayville, Long Creek,
Monument compete at
C-W Invitational
Three 1A Grant County
track teams enjoyed good
weather conditions at Fri-
day’s C-W Invitational at
Condon High School.
The Dayville, Monu-
ment and Long Creek teams
competed with seven other
schools at the event.
“It was a beautiful day
for a track meet over in
Condon,” said Dayville
head coach Josh Williams.
Dayville freshman Zach
Ferguison said, “It was a lot
of fun.”
Williams said he’s happy
with the improvements all
the athletes have made.
“We were missing Aus-
tin Walker for our (4x100)
relay team, but his younger
brother Ethan stepped in
and did super well,” the
coach said. “Our handoffs
are improving, and I would
like to see the boys try the
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The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Grant Union Prospector Devon Stokes drives the ball at the start of Friday’s Grant Union
Invitational held at the John Day Golf Club. Behind Stokes is Cason Mitchell of Heppner, and
far right is Grant Union head coach Ron Lundbom.
The Ugly Truth Bar &
Grill hosted a taco feed.
The event, which is a
Grant Union golf fundraiser,
was Lenz’s senior project,
and most of the proceeds
were donated to the Stuart
Mosier kidney transplant
fund.
4x400 relay at least once
this year.”
The 4x100 boys team of
Ethan Walker, Zach Fer-
guison, Jaydon Hoffman
and Gabe Walker-Hopkins
placed fifth with a time of
53.54.
Hoffman set three per-
sonal records in the 100-
meter dash, shot put and
discus, and Walker-Hop-
kins set season records
in the 100 and 300-meter
hurdles.
Haylee Collins and Hal-
lee Rhoda each set two per-
sonal records. Both girls
improved on their shot put.
Collins shaved time off her
100, and Rhoda added 4
feet to her discus throw.
Williams said, although
the sun was shining when
they left, their bus encoun-
tered a significant thunder-
storm on the way home.
The Monument team, led
by head coach Jeff Schafer,
had a stellar performance.
The boys team, with
three athletes, placed fifth
out of 10 teams.
Four out of five of the
Monument athletes set per-
sonal records for the day.
Mark Thomas shaved
time off his 800 and 1,500,
placing second in both
events behind runners from
2A Heppner.
Donovan
Schafer
improved his javelin throw
for third place and tri-
ple jump for sixth place.
He also placed second in
discus.
For the girls, Fay-
the Schafer set a per-
sonal record in the 100,
and Aubreianna Osborne
improved her mark in
javelin.
Linda Studtmann, head
coach for Long Creek, said
the team performed well
Friday in Condon, and
Thursday at the Husky Twi-
light Invitational in Moro.
She said her athletes set
several personal and season
records.
“Cherie Lee had a phe-
nomenal PR in the discus
at Moro,” Studtmann said,
improving her throw by
over 8 feet.
Henry Grannis set a per-
sonal record in discus at
the Condon-Wheeler event,
adding over 6 feet to his
throw with a mark of 92-5.
“It’s the same as always.
They are all working on
learning or improving in
their events,” Studtmann
said.
Long Creek and Dayville
were scheduled to compete
at the Grant Union Small
School Meet Tuesday, past
press time.
Long Creek will com-
pete at the Don Walker meet
at 1 p.m. (MT) Friday in
Nyssa.
Dayville and Monument
will compete at 11 a.m. Sat-
urday at the Sherman Invi-
tational in Moro.
Grant Union head coach
Doug Sharp said, since the
team had a bye last week-
end, it was important to
give McCluskey some game
experience, “even though
Warner was cruising.”
Sharp said it was simply a
well-played game.
“All the way through the
line up, the kids hit the ball
hard,” he said. “Their base
running was exceptional as
well. The kids took extra
bases all game on Heppner
mistakes.”
“Defensively, they were
very sharp,” he said. “It’s
nice when they do the little
things right.”
He said he spoke with
the team about “respect 90,”
which he heard from another
coach in the past.
“The length of the bases
is 90 feet,” Sharp said. “It
means when you are on the
field, you respect all aspects
of the game.”
The Prospectors now
prepare to host Sherman/
Arlington/Condon at noon
and 2 p.m. Saturday at
Malone Field.
“It seems like they always
have the athletes, though we
can only worry about our-
selves,” Sharp said. “Our
plan is to limit our mis-
takes and take advantage of
theirs.”
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Prospector baseball
plays sharp for 15-1
win in Heppner
The Grant Union/Prai-
rie City Prospector baseball
team had a 15-1 rout over
the Heppner/Ione Mustangs
April 16 in Heppner.
Prospector junior War-
ner Robertson pitched four
innings with junior Logan
McCluskey closing out the
game.
95 percent of the time, a
e have all heard
it in one iteration deflected bullet results in
or another, that is a clean miss or a wounded
animal. Nobody wants that.
the legend of the indeflect-
able bullet. Usually, said
Years ago, I drew a
fertilizer is accompanied
Sumpter Unit buck tag.
with a yarn of greater than
The area I hunted in was
or equal to proportions. It
quite thick in brush and
likely goes something to the trees. After hunting a cou-
ple of days, I came across
effect of: “Uncle Joe had
chased that buck for a week, a younger whitetail buck
standing not 50
night and day.
yards away through
When he jumped
some pine sap-
him it was a 200
lings. Obscured as
yard shot through a
his body was, it was
pole patch at a dead
to be a headshot
run. That bullet had
or nothing. Tak-
to travel through a
ing a standing rest, I
dozen trees before
Dale Valade
squeezed off a shot.
it hit that old buck.
I could’ve sworn I
Good thing he was
had hit him, as he appeared
shooting his .30-30 that
to drop at the shot. As I
day, it won’t glance off like
neared his location, it was
those new guns do.”
apparent to me that my bul-
I suppose this fable has
let had missed its mark. A
been around since nearly
green branch I had not seen
the beginning of time or
midway between myself
at least with the advent of
and the buck was shot right
muzzleloading firearms.
in half, barely hanging by
The funny thing about pro-
jectiles is they all can be
a thread. Luckily the buck
deflected by obstacles
had only ran a short way
encountered on their flight
down hill, and taking a
plan. Traditionally, the
much better shot through a
clear alley in the trees, I got
heavier and slower-moving
bullets were thought to have my venison. The buck had
done better at busting brush been completely unscathed
by my first shot.
than lighter ones flying at
The real reason the old
much higher velocity.
timers preferred large-cal-
Even in today’s hunt-
iber, slow-moving bul-
ing camps, it’s surprising
lets was for their pene-
to see just how many hunt-
tration and knockdown,
ers still buy into this the-
ory as fact. The truth is, any of course. When jack-
eted bullets were a rather
bullet of any caliber at any
new notion, the controlled
velocity stands the chance
expansion science we enjoy
of deflection in any brush.
Everything from the dimin- today had not yet been con-
utive rimfires all the way up ceived. In short, the best
way to keep from having to
through the cavern-esque
Elephant rifles are subject to track wounded animals in
the brush was to put them
the laws of physics. There
down right there, something
are rare occasions where
larger calibers have always
your bullet can go through
excelled at. That’s still a
brush without glancing too
far off target. This has more good idea today, if you ask
me.
to do with the relative dis-
tance between the obsta-
Whatever size of gun
cle and your intended target you shoot, take the time
than bullet’s size, speed or
to pick a clear shot. Your
construction. These excep-
freezer will fill up much
tions can give the impres-
faster that way.
sion that one’s bullet could
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brush successfully when in
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been deflected) made con-
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get before it could veer too
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