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By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
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Tanler Fuller (1) runs the ball for a touchdown in the third quarter Thursday, Sept. 24, against the Irrigon Knights.
Grant Union wins big in home opener
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — After scoring on
a fumble in the early going, Grant
Union’s football team never looked
back in a 46-6 shellacking of Irrigon
in the squad’s fi rst game at home on
Thursday, Sept. 23.
The victory was a confi dence
booster for the Prospectors after a
51-26 loss to Lost River on Sept. 18.
Prospector Sheldon Lenz, a soph-
omore linebacker and running back
who had several big hits and a touch-
down, said the win will serve as a
motivator as the team moves forward.
“It should be a good season,” he
said.
For his part, Justin Hodge, Grant
Union senior running back and line-
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SPORTS
SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29
Grant Union volleyball @
Burns, 6 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCT. 1
Grant Union football @
Riverside, 7 p.m.
Grant Union cross coun-
try @ Baker Invite, 4 p.m.
Prairie City football @
Huntington, 2 p.m.
Prairie City volleyball @
Huntington, 4 p.m.
Dayville volleyball @
South Wasco, 5 p.m.
Dayville football @ South
Wasco, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCT. 2
Grant Union volleyball vs
Enterprise, 2 p.m., 5 p.m.
Hodge ran back a punt for a touch-
down within the fi rst couple of min-
utes of the second quarter.
Before the end of the fi rst half,
Irrigon’s Carson Parrish, a junior,
scored the Knights’ only touchdown
on an interception.
The Pros put 18 more points on
the board with touchdowns from
Hodge, Lenz and senior Tanler Fuller
to close out the game.
Jason Miller, Grant Union’s foot-
ball coach, said while the team is a
great bunch of kids and he was proud
of the win, the Pros still have things
to work on in practice before they
face Riverside in league play on Fri-
day, Oct. 1.
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
“We have a lot more games to
play and a lot more improvements to School mascot Colton Lyman, aka “John
Prospector”
make,” Miller said.
Games postponed by COVID, schedule confl icts
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union runner Paige
Weaver crosses the fi nish line
on Friday, Sept. 24, at the
Champs Invite in Lebanon.
backer, said the game was a lot of fun.
“Everybody knew what they were
doing, and we all worked as a good
team together.”
Indeed, the Prospectors came out
of the gate hitting on all cylinders.
After a short possession on
off ense, the Pros defense stopped Irri-
gon and scored on a fumbled punt by
that was picked up by Andrew Hunt
within the fi rst few minutes of the
fi rst quarter. Grant Union completed
a 2-point conversion to go up 8-0.
With less than fi ve minutes left
in the period, Hodge scored a touch-
down to put the Pros up 14-0.
At the 2½-minute mark, soph-
omore defensive back Talon Van-
Cleave scored on an interception, and
Lenz ran the ball into the Knights’
end zone for a 2-point conversion.
PRAIRIE CITY — Prairie City
High School tentatively postponed its
volleyball and football games this past
weekend to Oct. 22.
Billy Colson, Prairie City’s ath-
letic director, and the principal told the
Eagle that the school’s Friday, Sept. 24,
football game against Joseph was can-
celed due to scheduling confl icts and
COVID-19 concerns on Joseph’s end.
Colson added that Prairie City also
had to postpone its Friday volleyball
game against Elgin due to an FFA event
that would have taken most of its team.
Nick Thompson, Prairie City’s foot-
ball coach, told the Eagle that his team
is no stranger to cancellations, post-
ponements or game delays.
In addition to COVID cancellations,
the team had a nearly three-hour delay
before its Sept. 17 game against South
Wasco due to a shortage of referees.
According to Thompson, the team
has not had to quarantine this season.
However, he noted the team lost its
entire spring season due to COVID-19.
This season, Thompson said he is try-
ing to remind his players that what they
do off the fi eld directly impacts the team
on the fi eld — now, more than ever.
He said the analogy he likes to use
with the squad is that if they had owned
a nice sports car, they would want to use
the best fuel to get the best performance
out of the vehicle. Their bodies, he said,
should be no diff erent.
“I’ve been trying to get these kids to
realize that their body is a machine,” he
said, “and how they treat them is how
they are going to perform.”
He said they must be hearing his
message because they have not had
anyone get sick so far.
In addition to COVID cancellations,
Thompson said the league is dealing
with a referee shortage, which some-
times makes it challenging to keep
players motivated.
“It’s been a real challenge trying to
keep the kids motivated week to week
when you know they’re starting to fi g-
ure out that there may or may not be a
game.”
He said the team has fi lled the time
with watching fi lm, conditioning in
Prairie City’s recently renovated gym
and doing team-building activities. In
many cases, he added, the team has
taken the initiative to put together activ-
ities themselves.
Last week, Thompson said, the team
scheduled a team fi shing trip. Earlier
this month, he said the crew unloaded
the moving truck of a family that
recently moved to Prairie City. Thomp-
son said it took six hours to load the
truck and less than an hour for the Pan-
thers to unload.
“I’m pretty thankful,” Thompson
said. “We’ve got a good group of guys.”
Prairie City volleyball team not
taking anything for granted
Jordan Bass, Prairie City’s volley-
ball coach, said her team has a collec-
tive sense of gratitude for every chance
they get to play and practice in the gym
together, knowing there is always the
possibility of COVID-19 cancellations.
“I think there is this feeling of being
happy to be together and not taking
any competition or new practice that
we get for granted,” she said. “Which,
maybe before COVID, it was easier to
do sometimes.”
Volleyball team wins two of three Area youth take part in
ODFW pheasant hunt
Blue Mountain Eagle
STANFIELD — The
Grant Union Volleyball team
won two out of three games
last week.
During their weekend road
trip to Stanfi eld on Saturday,
Sept. 27, which saw the Lady
Pros play two games, the
squad dropped their fi rst game
to Stanfi eld 3-1 but came back
to blank Weston-McEwen 3-0.
Earlier in the week, on
Tuesday, Sept. 22, Grant
Union downed Union 3-0.
Ranked third in their divi-
sion overall, the Lady Pros are
11-6 and 3-1 in league play as
of Monday, Sept. 27.
Shanna Northway, Grant
Union’s volleyball coach, did
not immediately respond to
Blue Mountain Eagle
Eagle fi le photo
Grant Union’s volleyball team poses for a photo last month af-
ter beating Jordan Valley for the top spot at the Grant Union
Invitational Tournament in John Day.
PRAIRIE CITY — Nearly
50 young people participated
in the Oregon Department
of Fish & Wildlife’s annual
free youth pheasant hunt in
Grant County, the agency
announced in a press release.
The event took place
Sept. 18 and 19 on private
lands in the Prairie City area.
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LEBANON — With the
boys team missing their top run-
ner and the girls’ team short two
runners, Grant Union’s cross
country team’s athletes put up
some of their best times of the
season at the Champs Invite on
Friday, Sept. 24.
For the boys team, Sonna
Smith, Grant Union’s cross
country coach, told the Eagle
that junior Quinn Larson led
the team with his best time of
the season, fi nishing 33rd out
of 155 runners in the 5K run at
the Lebanon meet with a time
of 19:29. Max Bailey, who also
logged his season’s best, fi n-
ished with a time of 21:14.
The team’s two freshmen,
Reid Dole and Logan Randleas
fi nished with times of 23:27 and
23:35 respectively, while soph-
omores Landon Boyd and Sky-
lor Boyd fi nished with times of
22:42 and 23:24.
Smith said the girls had a
great race. She said because the
team was two girls short, the
squad ran in the junior varsity
race, and instead of a 5K, the
girls ran a 3K race.
She said Maddie Bailey
placed fi rst, with a time of 13:49,
beating out 21 other runners.
Finishing third for the Pros was
Alici Archibald at 14:10. Riley
Robertson fi nished sixth, with a
time of 16.0, followed by Paige
Weaver with a time 16:12.
Smith said all four girls set
personal records at the race.