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SPORTS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
SHOOTING THE BREEZE
Cult of the
one-shot kill
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Riley Robertson rounds the bases in the bottom of the first last week after hitting a home run versus Rogue River.
Softball
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as well, but they were happy that
the team stayed relaxed and had
fun the whole time.
Robertson said Grant Union’s
head coach Zach Williams’ favor-
ite quote is to stay in the game for
every pitch, “all game long.”
Robertson said it was special
to share the team’s postseason
run with the seniors.
“We’ve all been playing
together for so long,” she said.
“We’ve all looked up to (the
seniors) since we were in the
sixth grade.”
Halle Parsons, one half of
the Lady Pros’ starting pitching
rotation, said the team’s success
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Girls
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Grant
Union
freshman
Drewsey Williams pitches
against Rogue River last week.
this year was significant given
that she and fellow pitching ace
Drewsey Williams are freshmen.
Drewsey Williams concurred
and said the pressure at times
could be “nerve-wracking.”
Williams said the team
became a family throughout the
season. Williams said Young, her
cousin, took her under her wing
when her older sister Taylor
Allen — a former Grant Union
softball standout — went off to
college earlier this year.
Family, Parsons said, was the
overriding theme in the Lady
Pros success this year.
“We just worked as a fam-
ily and looked at each other as a
family,” she said. “And we had
each other’s back.”
High jump
Eighth place: Carson
Weaver
Triple jump
12th place: Katie Rigby
10th place: Luke Jackson
800 meters
12th place: Brady Dole
3,000 meters
Ninth place: Brady Dole
110-meter hurdles
First place: Jordan Hall
13th place: Quinn Larson
300-meter hurdles
Seventh place: Eli Wright
Shotput
Third place: Justin Hodge
Javelin
Third place: Eli Wright
Fifth place: Jordan Hall
High jump
10th place (tie): Drake Eut-
ing and Eli Wright
Long jump
Fourth place: Jordan Hall
Triple jump
Third place: Jordan Hall
11th place: CJ Glimpse
14th place: Eli Wright
4x100 relay
First place: Quaid Brandon,
Justin Hodge, CJ Glimpse and
Luke Jackson
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Harli Grove slides into third on a triple against Rogue River.
100 meters
11th place: Carson Weaver,
13.95a
300-meter hurdles
15th place: Katelyn Hughes
4x100 relay
10th place: Sydney Bran-
don, Lauryn Pettyjohn, Carson
Weaver and Katelyn Hughes
Boys
100 meters
Seventh place: Justin Hodge
Ninth place: Quaid Brandon
200 meters
Seventh place: Justin Hodge
10th place: Quaid Brandon
400 meters
wasn’t, but because she felt
deally, every time we
she had failed to deliver
take aim on a game ani-
mal we would squeeze
the quick, single-shot death
off the perfect shot, the bul-
that she feels every animal
let would execute abso-
is entitled to. After making
lute perfect per-
a less than ideal first
formance upon
hit, the buck was pur-
sued in short order
impact and our
and dispatched. Her
quarry would pass
heart was still heavy
on to that great big
as the buck had to
alfalfa field in the
suffer awaiting the
sky, hardly aware
second, finishing
that any transporta-
Dale Valade
tion between here
shot.
and there had taken
This was a good
place. Unfortunately the
experience for her for
reality is, how we imagine it
many reasons. First, it’s a
going in our heads and how
reminder to take that extra
it really goes seldom are the
bit of time when pulling
same thing.
the trigger. Secondly, it’s
One of the main rea-
a reminder that we need to
sons I wax contrarian to the
have a conscience whenever
taking a life. The fact that it
increasingly popular prac-
tice of extreme long-range
pulled on her heart strings is
shooting in hunting appli-
proof that she has the proper
cations is because a lot
respect for the game she
pursues. Thirdly, we need to
can happen in between the
be prepared. As I mentioned
time you trip the trigger
at the outset, sometimes
and when the bullet makes
despite our best plans things
impact. Animals are living,
go wrong. Sometimes, it
moving, eating and breath-
ing. Regularly they make
simply takes more than one
course adjustments, which
shot. Having the respect to
finish the job rather than just
to our eyes may be com-
pletely senseless and alto-
moving on is the difference
gether unanticipated in any
between an ethical hunter
possible way. These unex-
and a dime store yahoo in
pected movements can and
my book.
regularly do happen to hunt-
The binary bottom line
ers even at more regular
here is to work to always
hunting distances as well.
sharpen your skills but to
Nobody wants a wounded
operate within your limita-
animal making tracks for the tions while making every
effort to make one-shot kills
brush. Sometimes supple-
mental bullets are needed to
yet being fully prepared to
seal the deal.
place additional shots if nec-
essary. Learn from mistakes
Sure it’s our egos telling
you make and grow from
us that we never miss, and
them. We owe it to the crea-
we never need more than
tures we pursue to be the
one shot. Anyone who has
hunted very long knows that very best we can at our craft.
Anything less than our best
is a stinky, sticky substance
efforts should always be
not to be confused with Shi-
nola shoe polish. A relative
eschewed.
of mine, who is quite new
We want to hear from you!
Write to us at shootingthebree-
to hunting, recently took her
first buck. When relating the zebme@gmail.com!
Dale Valade is a local
story to me she was sheep-
ish and a bit nervous. Not
country gent with a love for
because the buck was some-
the outdoors, handloading,
thing to be teased about, it
hunting and shooting.
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