SPORTS
MyEagleNews.com
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Lady Prospectors rally for a win
over Stanfield on senior night
Lady Panthers fall to top-ranked Crane
Team faces Four Rivers
at district tournament
Thursday
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Grant Union girls
basketball team showed
great resilience and had the
packed Grant Union High
School gym on their feet
Friday in a close, 56-49 win
over the Stanfield Tigers on
senior night.
The Lady Prospectors
got off to a good start and
jumped out to a 14-9 lead
by the end of the first period
of play. Stanfield answered
back and put up 14 points in
the second quarter. Heading
into halftime, Grant Union
had a slim, 27-23 lead.
The rest of the game was
a seesaw battle with offen-
sive weapons on both teams.
Stanfield shooters Nyah
Tejeda and Savannah Sharp
scored 10 points and 12
points, respectively. Sharp
was 100% in free-throws,
hitting four out of four and
draining four field goals,
while Tejeda was four of
seven at the free throw line
with three field goals.
For the Lady Pros, senior
Baylee Combs led the offen-
sive attack with a game-high
15 points, two field goals
and pair of 3-point jump-
ers. Combs was also five of
seven at the free-throw line.
Senior Kaytlyn Wells
notched 13 points, shooting
four field goals and hitting
five out eight free throws.
Sophomore
Carson
Weaver came in with 12
points, knocking down four
field goals and going four
of 10 at the free throw line.
In a third quarter that
saw both teams scoring 11
points, the Lady Pros were
deeply in need of an offen-
sive breakthrough.
Combs, who hit her first
3-pointer in the third quar-
ter, nailed her second in
the fourth and shifted the
momentum.
Senior Tyler Blood,
sophomore Riley Robert-
son and Carson Weaver
all put up points to edge
out the Lady Tigers in the
By Steven Mitchell
Blue Mountain Eagle
The Prairie City girls basketball
team walked away from Saturday’s
game on senior night with their heads
held high after battling it out with
the top-ranked Crane girls basketball
team. The Lady Panthers fell to the
Lady Mustangs, 52-37.
But for the girls squad, holding
their own against a team some are
picking to win it all this year was a
victory in and of itself.
“They left nothing on the court,
and I am really proud of those girls,”
head coach Bo Workman said.
In a hard-fought game that saw
Prairie City leading the Lady Mus-
tangs by 3 at one point in the first
period, Crane head coach Stub Travis
was impressed.
“Prairie City came out and played
a great game against us today,” Tra-
vis said.
Freshman Betty Ann Wilson, in
perhaps her best game of the season,
led the team with 15 points, draining
three field goals and going three for
five at the free throw line.
Wilson also led the team with four
assists, seven steals and seven total
rebounds, and committed a single
turnover.
Senior Hailee Wall and junior
Samantha Workman piled on 8 and 9
points, respectively.
Samantha Workman had two
assists and a steal and was three of five
in free throw shooting. She grabbed
four rebounds, two on defense and
two on offense.
While the loss snapped the team’s
six-game win streak, the Lady Pan-
thers are confident as they head into
districts.
“Only a 2A team has come this
close to beating them (Lady Mus-
tangs),” Wilson said. “This shows
how much of a threat we can be in
districts.”
The team had other takeaways as
well.
“We took an early lead and played
really good defense,” senior Emily
Ennis said.
After taking Crane the distance in
true underdog fashion, the Lady Pan-
thers are confident should they face
the Lady Mustangs at the High Desert
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
Prairie City senior Hailee Wall (21) tips-off against Crane’s Riley Davis (20) as
Emily Ennis (22) and Aleah Johns (5) look on. The top-ranked Lady Mustangs
defeated Prairie City, 52-37.
1A-8 HIGH DESERT
LEAGUE GIRLS
STANDINGS
Crane, 8-0 league, 23-0 overall
Jordan Valley, 7-1, 17-7
Prairie City, 6-2, 15-6
Adrian, 5-3, 8-15
Dayville/Monument, 4-4, 7-14
Four Rivers, 3-5, 8-12
Harper Charter, 2-6, 5-11
Huntington, 1-7, 1-10
Ukiah/Long Creek, 0-8, 0-13
League Girls Tournament this week.
The Prairie City girls will tip off
against Four Rivers at 7 p.m. Thurs-
day, Feb. 20, at the HDL Tourney in
the Grant Union High School gym in
John Day.
The winner of that game will face
Jordan Valley at 1 p.m. Friday, with
the loser of the Jordan Valley game
going on to play for a chance at the
third seed to state at 11 a.m. Saturday
and the winner going on to the cham-
pionship game at 4 p.m. Saturday.
A13
The Eagle/Steven Mitchell
Prairie City senior Aleah Johns hugs
junior Abby Pfefferkorn during Prai-
rie City’s senior night ceremony be-
fore the Lady Panthers’ game against
Crane. The girls fell to the top-ranked
Lady Mustangs, 52-37.
2A-6 BLUE
MOUNTAIN
CONFERENCE
GIRLS
STANDINGS
Union, 12-0 league, 22-3
overall
Stanfield, 8-4, 18-6
Enterprise, 8-4, 16-5
Heppner, 6-6, 13-8
Grant Union, 6-6, 8-13
Pilot Rock, 2-10, 6-17
Weston-McEwen, 0-12,
2-21
fourth quarter.
“This is the best they
have ever played,” Grant
Union head coach Kristi
Moore said. “They do what
they’re supposed to do at
the right moment.”
Blood said she is proud
of the steps the team has
taken together this season.
“I am proud that we did
not let our emotions get
the best of us with it being
senior night,” Combs said.
“We stayed resilient and
never gave up.”
The Lady Prospectors
finished out the regular
season 8-13 overall and 6-6
in league play.
Grant Union heads to
the Blue Mountain District
Tournament Feb. 21-22 in
Pendleton. They will face
Heppner (6-6 league, 13-8
overall) at 6 p.m. Friday.
The winner of that game
will face the loser of Fri-
day’s game between Stan-
field and Enterprise for
third place at the dis-
trict tournament at 1 p.m.
Saturday.
The top two teams
from the district will auto-
matically qualify for the
state tournament, and four
at-large spots will go to the
four highest ranked teams
in the state who did not
automatically qualify for
the state tournament. Grant
Union is currently ranked
23rd.
SPORTS ROUNDUP
The
Dayville/Monu-
ment Tigers boys basket-
ball team fell to Jordan
Valley Friday 58-39, but
came back Saturday and
shut down Burnt River
73-18 to close out the regu-
lar season.
Dayville/Monument fin-
ished the season 5-4 and
7-15 overall, finishing
sixth in the 1A-8 High Des-
ert Boys League.
The Tigers will face Jor-
dan Valley at the High Des-
ert League Tournament
Thursday, Feb. 20, at Grant
Union High School. Tip off
is at 8:45 p.m.
Dayville/Monument
Ukiah/Long Creek girls
finish season
The Ukiah/Long Creek
girls basketball team lost
two over the weekend to
Four Rivers and Jordan
Valley, 37-68 and 65-25,
respectively.
Ukiah/Long Creek head
coach Amos Studtman
said, in the first game,
Four Rivers’ shooters
were successful from the
3-point line, and that cre-
ated a deficit from which
the Ukiah/Long Creek
girls could not come back.
“We played well,” he
said. “We passed the ball
well and played really
good defense.”
He said Jordan Val-
ley (17-7, 7-1) was much
more experienced and
had more depth than his
team.
Studtman said, despite
the score of the game, the
team never gave up.
“I told them that it’s not
what you have, it is what
you give,” Studtman said.
“Regardless of the score,
I feel like we took a win.”
Studtman said the girls
kept their heads up and
overall had a good season.
Ukiah/Long Creek
boys split wins over the
weekend
The Ukiah/Long Creek
boys basketball team eked
out a 66-60 victory over
Four Rivers Friday, but fell
to Jordan Valley 74-58 in
their final game of the regu-
lar season.
The boys team finished
the season 6-3 in league and
13-7 overall.
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