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October 23, 2019
Prairie City netters rout Dayville/Monument 3-0
Teams face off
again at district
tournament at
9 a.m. Saturday
in John Day
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Energized by their home-
coming and senior recogni-
tion celebrations, the Prairie
City Panther volleyball team
made a statement on their
court, sweeping the cross-
county Dayville/Monument
Tigers.
It was also the Panthers’
Dig Pink Rally, and they won
with scores of 25-16, 25-20
and 25-11.
The Panthers and Tigers
will face each other again in
Game One at the 1A High
Desert District Tournament
at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26,
at Grant Union Junior-Senior
High School in John Day.
Although the Tigers had
younger players step up to
the plate and battle, they
were missing their power-
house senior Aubrey Bowlus.
Prairie City senior Hailee
Wall had 100% serving for
the night with 10 aces for the
Panthers.
Panther Katie Hire had six
aces and five kills for Prai-
rie City, and Rilee Emmel
and Emily Ennis had six kills
each.
Prairie City pulled away
with an early lead in the
first set and were ahead 12-7
when Dayville/Monument
started narrowing the lead.
The Tigers trailed 15-12
when Wall spiked the ball
and a Tiger block attempt
went out.
Hire scored on two aces
to extend Prairie City’s lead,
Ennis added a couple big
swings for kills and Wall fin-
ished the match with a couple
strong serves.
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Shaine Madden, a Prairie
City senior on the volleyball
team, held a Miracle Minute
fundraiser and organized
the Panthers’ Dig Pink Rally,
which was held Friday, Oct.
18, in Prairie City.
1A HIGH
DESERT LEAGUE
VOLLEYBALL
Crane, 7-0 league, 13-9
overall, ranked No. 12
Adrian, 6-1, 9-17, No. 31
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Prairie City Panther Samantha Workman (12) and Dayville/Monument Tiger Miranda Cook battle at the net in Friday’s
homecoming/Dig Pink Rally in Prairie City.
Set two saw a lot of back
and forth between the teams.
This time Dayville/Monu-
ment had an 8-2 lead. Then
Wall had a serving run with a
couple aces, and the Panthers
tied it 8-8.
The teams knotted up the
score four more times before
Prairie City began moving
ahead, from 17-17 to 23-17
as Hire served and added two
aces.
Prairie City finished
strong with a 14-point win in
the third set.
After Friday’s game, Day-
ville/Monument head coach
Treila Osborne said they
were heartbroken, but added
her team blocked exception-
ally well.
She said Prairie City was
“on,” and it was the little
things that cost them points.
“We started hitting the
net, and we missed a crucial
serve,” Osborne said.
She said Hannah Hand
and Haylee Collins did a
great job stepping up with
Bowlus missing.
The coach added that their
big middles, Aubreianna
Osborne and Miranda Cook
blocked well. Each had four
kills and two solo blocks.
Denali Twehues had four
aces, and Brooklyn Near had
two aces. Hannah Hand had
one kill.
“I was really proud of
them,” coach Osborne said.
“We’re grateful that we got
to celebrate their Dig Pink
night and their homecoming,
so we’re thankful that they
had us for that.”
Prairie City head coach
Jordan Bass said she saw
some exciting things from
her team.
“Hailee Wall’s been
working really hard to be
more aggressive in the mid-
dle, and it’s showing,” Bass
said. “Same thing with Emily
Ennis — she’s really trying
to control that power and put
it to good use.”
She said Aleah Johns also
performed well.
“She went in there and
acted like she’s been in there
all season,” Bass said. “That
was great to see, from all of
our seniors.”
Between the first and
second sets, Panther senior
Shaine Madden held a “Mir-
acle Minute” in which cheer-
leaders and volleyball play-
ers gathered money from the
crowd in 60 seconds to raise
money for those fighting
breast cancer.
Over $465 was raised in
that time.
Half of the money will
help local patients at Blue
Mountain Hospital, and the
other half will be donated
to the Side Out Foundation,
Madden said.
She said she’s seen sev-
eral family members and
friends of her family battle
breast cancer.
“I thought this would be
a good way to support them,
and raise money for those
who are fighting,” Madden
said.
She expressed gratitude
for HECS stealthscreen gar-
ments, which donated their
pink uniforms, and Sharrie
Slinkard for donating a gift
basket for a drawing.
Bass said, “It was fun to
Jordan Valley, 5-2, 11-13,
No. 29
Prairie City, 4-3, 11-7,
No. 33
Dayville/Monument, 3-4,
9-10, No. 46
Huntington, 2-5, 4-5,
No. 55
see everybody come together
for such a good cause.”
Now they’re prepar-
ing for Saturday’s district
tournament.
“We implemented some
new things this week,” Bass
said. “We’re still learning
and trying to work out some
bugs, but tonight was a good
test for that, and I thought it
looked really good.
“We’re just going to keep
plugging away, the way that
we normally do, trying to get
better throughout the week
and hopefully come out
100% on Saturday.”
Panther football advances to
playoffs with win over Tigers
Dayville/
Monument to
compete at six-
man classic
Friday, Prairie
City at Saturday’s
semifinals
1A Special District 5, six-
man football
Joseph, 5-0 district, 5-0
overall
Prairie City/Burnt River,
3-0, 4-2
South Wasco County,
3-2, 4-2
Sherman/Condon, 2-2,
5-2
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Prairie City/Burnt
River Panthers claimed a
39-28 victory Friday over the
Dayville/Monument Tigers
in a battle for a spot at the
state playoffs for 1A six-man
football.
Prairie City/Burnt River,
as league champions of the
south region in Special Dis-
trict 5, will compete in the
semifinals, facing the Joseph
Eagles at 3 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 26, at Sherman High
School in Moro.
Win or lose, the Pan-
thers will face Triangle Lake
or South Wasco on Sat-
urday, Nov. 2, at Madras
High School, the time to be
determined.
Dayville/Monument will
compete in the six-man clas-
sic, battling the Echo Cougars
at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at
Sherman.
To start off Prairie City/
Burnt River’s Oct. 18 home-
coming game, several Prairie
City American Legion Post
106 members stood on the
field with flags flying for the
national anthem.
Dayville/Monument
scored on the first drive of
the game with Tiger quarter-
back Donovan Schafer con-
necting with JT Hand for a
touchdown.
Bouncing back, Prai-
Echo, 2-2, 3-2
Huntington/Harper Char-
ter, 1-2, 1-3
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Dayville/Monument Tiger JT Hand (3) blazes a path in Friday
night’s game against the Prairie City Panthers, his teammate
Mark Thomas (22) moving in to block.
rie City’s Declan Zweygardt
rushed from the 7-yard line to
score a touchdown, and Opie
McDaniel added 2 points on
the conversion kick.
Later in the first, Pan-
ther Marcus Judd made some
gains rushing, then scored on
an 18-yard touchdown pass.
The Panthers led 27-22 at
the half, and each team scored
a touchdown in the third, Prai-
rie City leading 33-28.
Tiger running back JT
Hand was sidelined with an
injury in the third, and the
Tigers were held scoreless in
the fourth.
The Panthers had 303
yards rushing and 103
passing.
Prairie City/Burnt River
head coach Scott Dean said
they had concerns over Day-
ville/Monument’s successful
deep passing.
“We maintained ball con-
trol, finally, in the second
half with our running game,”
Dean said.
Dayville/Monument head
coach Kyle Hand said his
team played hard, with Scha-
fer throwing well.
Dayville/Monument, 1-3,
2-3
Mitchell/Spray/Wheeler,
0-6, 0-7
EO Media Group/Kathy Aney
Former Long Creek resident Richard Boyer, now of
Pendleton, does burpees as part of his Spartan Race
workout.
Inside each of
us is a Spartan
Former Long Creek residents face
obstacles in extreme races
The Eagle/Angel Carpenter
Prairie City Panther quarterback
Jayden Winegar (5) is pursued
by Dayville/Monument Tiger DJ
Howell (55).
“Prairie City stopped our
running game, and all we
could do is pass,” coach Hand
said.
“Wesley Adams played a
heck of a game and blocked
well and on defense got a
lot of good stops,” he said.
“Tell Cox played with a lot of
heart.”
Hand said, when JT Hand
went down with an injury,
Zach Ferguison “came up
big” and helped the team.
“Mark Thomas played
well defensively and made
great catches,” coach Hand
said.
Dean said it was a “great
lesson to learn, to grow and
know they can compete with
anyone they want,” he said.
He said his guys played
physical.
“We ran the ball really
well, and we overran them,”
he said. “Got a couple guys
nicked up. We don’t mind
running over the top of people
— that’s our M.O.”
Dean
said
Winegar,
Zweygardt, McDaniel, Aus-
tin Catron and Jake McHatton
led in the team effort, adding
he couldn’t ask for more from
his young men than they got
out of them that night.
“I’m thrilled for our kids.
I really think they’re the ones
that have taken it,” Dean said.
“The world’s ours right now,
and our kids are starting to
believe.”
By Annie Fowler
EO Media Group
Richard Boyer has
always been competitive.
He competed in football,
basketball and track at
Long Creek High School,
and was selected to play in
the 1982 East-West Shrine
Game.
Then life happens —
work and family — and the
next thing you know, you
are are in your mid-50s.
The 55-year-old Pend-
leton man rediscovered his
competitive nature three
years ago, when his high
school buddy, Doug Gird-
ner of La Grande, encour-
aged him to train for a
Spartan race.
“I love it,” Boyer said.
“When I started out, I
hadn’t done monkey bars
for 30 years, or climbed a
rope. We made a training
deal in the shop. I carry a
5-gallon pail of rocks up
and down the road. The
neighbors must think I’m
nuts.”
Boyer’s hard work has
paid off. He recently placed
seventh in the 55-59 age
group at the Spartan World
Championship in North
Lake Tahoe. He finished
the 13.8-mile, 37-obstacle
course in 4 hours, 24 min-
utes and 56 seconds.
“Seventh in the world
— I’m happy with that,”
Boyer said. “In the 55-59
age group, there were guys
who beat me who were 54
(entry is based on birth-
day). I ran with some real
youngsters out there.”
Not for the weak
Spartan races combine
running (Boyer prefers
the term power hike) and
a number of obstacles that
a competitor must accom-
plish. If you cannot com-
plete an obstacle, you are
taxed with burpees.
See Spartan, Page A10