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A10 SPORTS Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Prairie City Boys basketball team named OSAA Team of the Month By Steven Mitchell Blue Mountain Eagle The Prairie City Boys Bas- ketball team put another tro- phy on their shelf last month as the Oregon School Activ- ities Association awarded them Les Schwab Tires “Team of the Month.” Each month throughout the school year, Les Schwab and the OSAA recognizes a varsity team and pres- ents them with a trophy and a donation of $100 to the team’s program. The team is selected based on performance, dedication in the classroom and service to the community. This year’s boys basket- ball team, who took sixth in the state in their fourth con- secutive appearance, will go down as some of the great- est players in the High Des- ert Basketball League, but what they do off the court in their community is just as significant. “Our kids are very active in FFA and hold several jobs as well during school,” Prairie City School District Superin- tendent Casey Hallgarth said. Hallgarth said senior Cole Deiter raised money for the basketball program by orga- nizing a three-on-three bas- ketball tournament. Hallgarth said Opie Contributed photo/Tanni Wenger Photography The Prairie City boys basketball team was named the Les Schwab Tires Team of the Month. McDaniel made several deco- rative tables and boards using different types and colors of epoxy for the Prairie City FFA Banquet. Kaden Madden, said Hal- garth, used a computer-con- trolled cutting machine to make large-scale metal signs for families and businesses in the area. Lucas McKinley and Car- son McKay, who both earned Oregon FFA’s Agricultural Proficiency Award, have built businesses in the area in addi- tion to busy school and sports schedules. McKinley, a fencing con- tractor, and McKay, a licensed auctioneer, have developed, applied and achieved success in their respective fields. McKinley, this year’s FFA State Star in Agribusiness, said he recently registered his business as a Limited Liabil- ity Corporation and has two employees. He said he has always been an entrepreneur. “I started mowing lawns when I was 13 years old, and right after I started, I was mowing 25 lawns a week,” he said. McKinley said what drew him to owning his own busi- ness was the freedom to set his own schedule and make his own decisions. He said, as an employer, he wants his workers to want to work and take initiative while they are on the job. “I want them to think for themselves,” he said. Mckinley and McKay, longtime friends who have grown up together, have part- nered on fencing jobs in the past. McKinley said he would like McKay to work with him as he grows the business. McKay said he found his Blood and Wells sign with Blue Mountain Community College to play basketball calling when he was intro- duced to auctioneering in FFA. Mckay, along with friend and aspiring auctioneer Cinch Anderson, a senior at Grant Union High School, made the trek to the Midwest for an intense two-week crash course to hone their craft. McKay said the course covered everything from developing an auction chant to voice control, care and effectiveness. Mckay, 16 years old when he earned his auctioneers license, said he has freelanced for the last two years, working both charity events, like the CASA St. Patricks Day Din- ner at the Elks Lodge and live- stock auctions in and around Grant County. “I love what I do, so I don’t mind doing it for free,” McKay said. As the state slowly eases back into normal day-to-day life, McKay said he has not led an auction in over a month and that two that he had lined up were forced to cancel. In the meantime, he said it looks like auctions are going online. Mckay said he is not upset about the abrupt end to his high school career. Like other seniors with passing grades across the state, March 13 was the last day of his high school career. McKinley said, except for shop class, where he and other students fixed four wheelers and built go-carts, he is ready to move on with his life as well. “I’ll miss seeing everyone all the time out in the shop,” McKinley said. For McKay, it is the FFA livestock auctions, with friends and family in the audi- ence, that he misses the most and where he has the most fun. “It is always so much fun, McKay said. “I know every- one, and we are all close.” SHOOTING THE BREEZE The rookie season A ll of us had to start somewhere. over the years. Once in Idaho, I had been Some folks I know get into hunt- hitting it hard, putting in the miles try- ing and shooting at a very young ing to find a mule deer buck. On my way down a steep mountain I took a spill, age, while others — my mother, for tumbling like Chris Farley for some dis- instance — don’t get their start until tance before landing in a pathetic heap. later in life. Each of us has a rookie After inspecting my poor rifle I con- season to endure before we learn the cluded that it was OK and went about nuances it takes to become a pro. hunting. The next day a nice I know of no one who claims symmetrical 4x4 muley stood up to be the perfect hunter, and no out of his bed at 150 yards and matter how long you do it, hunt- ing and shooting will teach the posed real pretty for me. After truly humble of heart that there shooting at him five times to no is always more to master, more avail he simply turned and trot- ted off unamused. At the range, to learn. Everyone has to make my rifle was shooting two feet mistakes along the way to learn, adapt or change. And boy have I Dale Valade high and two feet to the left. Cheechako. made my share of them. Lest this be reduced to some kind My first year I was so gangly that of contemptible confessional, I digress. even a light-kicking .300 Savage had There is a point to my dubious disclo- me flinching now and again. I spent too sure; it’s easy to get overwhelmed. It’s much time looking for sign, which isn’t easy to give up because it seems too a bad thing to look for but ultimately hard. But hunting and shooting, like only tells you where the game used to life itself, is an effort. You’ll get what be, not where it currently is. I walked you give. The triumphs I have experi- too fast, made too much noise, usually only seeing deer moving out. After miss- enced have far outweighed the tragedies ing four or five bucks, I got very dis- I’ve endured. The friendships forged couraged but eventually did it right, and memories made last a lifetime and shooting a 2x3 buck at about 50 yards. It beyond if properly recorded and shared. was the fall of 1997, and I was 13 years The most experienced and effective old. hunter or huntress out there was once a Since then I’ve made many more greenhorn. An awkward, stumbling, con- fused but driven neophyte. Use these mistakes. Racking a round noisily into mistakes and failures to make a better the chamber, or struggling to get the informed decision next time. Don’t quit, safety disengaged has cost me a cou- ple of animals. Equipment failures, poor build. Someday you’ll be glad you did. planning and oversights have been expe- What was your rookie season like? rienced by every veteran hunter I know. Write us at shootingthebreezebme@ Hastily taken shots, misjudging the gmail.com! 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