SPORTS
MyEagleNews.com
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
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SPORTS ROUNDUP
Grant Union boys fall to Crane
The Grant Union boys basketball team dropped
its third straight game of the season, falling to Crane
60-34 June 3.
Prospectors head coach RC Huerta told the Eagle
Friday that too many turnovers allowed the Mus-
tangs to run away with the game.
Huerta said Crane is a well-coached, athletic
squad, and they earned the win. However, he said
the Pros have another shot on their turf on June 9.
He said the team is working on getting prepared for
the rematch.
“Most of the time, you learn more from a loss
than you do a win,” he said. “It’s about understand-
ing that you have to take care of the basketball.”
He said ultimately the program is progressing in
positive ways that go beyond the win-loss record.
“It doesn’t look like it on the wins and loss side,
but the program is moving in the right direction,” he
said. “I want them to continue to take what they’ve
learned here and take it into the classroom and
continue to be better students and members of the
community.”
Lady Pros showed hustle
and grit in 52-17 loss to Crane
The Grant Union girls basketball team dropped
its second game of the season Thursday but contin-
ued to improve and showed hustle the entire game,
according to Lady Pros head coach Jason Miller.
Miller said the Mustangs had many players return
from last year’s 2A state championship team. Mean-
while, he said, the Lady Pros are a young team.
“I have a lot of faith in our girls,” he said. “Good
athletes, they just learn how to work together to win
a basketball game.”
The Lady Pros will face Crane Wednesday at
4:30 p.m. at Grant Union.
Contributed photo
Columnist Dale Valade poses with his cow elk from 2018.
SHOOTING THE BREEZE
UNDER PRESSURE
I
t’s amazing the pressure that even a bit
of stress can create. This is universal
no matter which phylum you belong
to. Duress can cause us to freeze up, per-
form super extraordinary feats, make good
decisions or poor ones, miscalculate or just
shut down. I think folks in high stress jobs
can most easily relate, and it seems that
no matter your training or experience
you’ll sometime, someday ﬁ nd yourself
in a situation that catches you oﬀ guard.
It doesn’t necessarily take some-
thing of fairly epic proportions to get us
to ﬂ ub. A few years back, a coworker
and I were traveling on the ranch where
we were working and happened upon a
ﬂ ock of turkeys feeding along a creek
bed. No sooner had we happened along
than a cougar pounced from the brush in
an attempt to grab a turkey for dinner.
When I saw him, he saw me; he stared at
me while I stared at him, both of us fro-
zen. It was the ﬁ rst time I had ever got-
ten a good look at a mountain lion. Had
my friend not shook me back into real-
ity, while placing my riﬂ e into my dumb-
founded hands, the cougar would’ve
doubtlessly gotten away.
I have never froze up
like that before, but I
sure did that day.
Another time I was
riding shotgun in a
pickup truck headed out
Dale Valade
to go elk hunting on a
friend’s private land.
Half asleep I managed to keep up a con-
versation with the other passengers.
Through the fog and snow, just ahead
a bunch of elk exploded into view. It
was chaos. Brakes screeched as we slid
on the snow to a halt and evacuated the
road in pursuit of the ﬂ eeing herd. Hast-
ily I attempted not one but two hurried
oﬀ hand shots. Poorly attempted as they
were, I of course missed both times, my
bullets making insultingly large splashes
in the snow. After advancing to another
vantage point, I was rewarded with a shot
at a standing animal. This time I took a
steady rest and was able to squeeze oﬀ a
good shot, getting my cow elk tag ﬁ lled.
Coyotes can be a head trip as well. If
they’ve spotted you, they trot along shift-
ing gears with an ease that would make
any Detroit automaker cry shamefully.
Out of the blue they will stop, and if
you’d been leading them for the running
shot, they hit the breaks about the same
time you’ve squeezed oﬀ a shot, causing
a miss. Or you hastily adjust when they
stop, and not knowing when they’ll hit
the gas pedal again, you rush your shot
and pull the shot high, low or wide. The
pressure is as tangible as
can be.
Quite frequently I’ve seen shots
rushed, pulled or other mistakes made in
the heat of the moment, even by skilled
and experienced hunters. The best thing
one can do is to practice as much as pos-
sible, and keep your head in the moment
of truth. Knowing our limitations can be
a big help in selecting makeable shots and
throwing fewer Hail Marys. In short, hunt-
ing is exciting. Just don’t get too excited.
Write to us at shootingthebreezebme@
gmail.com!
Dale Valade is a local country gent
with a love for the outdoors, handload-
ing, hunting and shooting.
Grant Union wrestling team competes
in first meet of the season
Andy Lusco, Prospectors wrestling head coach,
told the Eagle that with athletes moving on to
other responsibilities and opportunities, the team is
“light” in numbers.
“I’m proud of the guys who showed up to wrestle
at Burns and toughed it out to get in a few matches,”
Lusco said.
Wrestling as an extra in the 152 weight bracket,
Jack Strong pinned Adrian Prado and Jae Rojas of
Nyssa. Jessi Douglass lost to Briley Rios and Jayden
Madrid of Nyssa.
In the 170 extra brackets, Sam McCracken
downed North Lake’s Dani Bates while Prospec-
tor’s Alex Finley in the 182 division made quick
work of Trevor Williams from North Lake, pinning
him in less than 50 seconds.
In the 220 division, Tucker Carpenter fell to
Jesse Aragon of Nyssa. Zach Ostberg fell to Aragon
in a later match.
Lusco said he is looking forward to the Pine
Eagle Invitational on June 12 as another chance to
improve before the district tournament the follow-
ing week.
SPORTS SCHEDULE
1:30 p.m.
Grant Union basketball vs.
Crane, girls 4:30 p.m., boys
6 p.m.
Grant Union wrestling @ Pine
Eagle Invitational, 10 a.m.
Thursday, June 10
Grant Union basketball vs.
Joseph, girls 2 p.m., boys
3:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 12
Grant Union basketball vs.
Pilot Rock, girls noon, boys
Monday, June 14
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