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Grant Union JV bests Dayville/Monument
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
Layla
Wenick
Katelyn
Barker
Monument’s head volleyball
coach, said her team has good
instincts but needs more play-
ing time.
Smith told the newspaper
that Grant Union’s junior var-
sity team is fun to play and
she was glad her team had the
chance to play the Lady Pros.
Katelyn Barker, Dayville/
Monument senior, said the
Aubreianna
Osborne
Bethany
Wilburn
Tigers made
good serves but struggled with
their transitioning. By the time
they made adjustments and got
into a groove, it was too late to
bring the matches back.
Barker said the team
learned some important les-
sons the Tigers can bring to the
squad’s next couple of games.
Aubreianna Osborne, a
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
The Dayville/Monument varsity volleyball team gets into posi-
tion Sept. 28 during the squad’s game against Grant Union’s ju-
nior varsity team.
senior, said the Tigers are
a young team and the most
important thing for the team is
to keep learning. The Tigers,
Lady Pros win big as Dig Pink returns
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
JOHN DAY — Grant Union’s vol-
leyball team picked up a pair of wins
on Saturday, Oct. 2, putting down
both Enterprise and
Pilot Rock by identi-
cal 3-0 scores in front
of a packed gym that
was a sea of pink rib-
bons, pink balloons
and pink uniforms as
the team brought back Grace Taylor
its annual Dig Pink
event after a one-year hiatus due to
COVID-19.
The year, according to Principal
Ryan Gerry, the annual rally donates all
of the funds from ticket sales and a raf-
fl e basket with donated items from local
businesses to the Blue Mountain Hospi-
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union senior Paige Gerry jumps up
to spike the ball Saturday, Oct. 2, during
the Lady Pros’ Dig Pink game.
tal Foundation to help purchase a 3-D
mammogram machine.
Gerry said volleyball teams around
the state have their own versions of a
Dig Pink game to help raise awareness
of breast cancer and raise money to
fi ght the disease. What sets Grant Union
apart, he said, is that the school has made
the game an event with colorful deco-
rations and recognition of community
members who have been impacted by
breast cancer.
Gerry said the volleyball team and a
group of parents and coaches decorate the
gym for the event every year.
Grant Union head volleyball coach
Shanna Northway facilitates and organizes
the entire event and recruits people to help
support the process.
Northway declined the Eagle’s request
for comment.
Gerry said Grant Union would have the
drawing for the fundraiser baskets on Oct.
19, during the Lady Pros’ fi nal home game
against Burns.
The Oct. 19 matchup at home will be
a rematch for Grant Union after falling
to Burns 3-1 on Sept. 28.
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ished the boys varsity 5,000
meters with a time of 19.51.
Junior Brady Dole fi nished
with a time of 20.19; Max
Bailey, a junior, fi nished in
21.39; Skylor Boyd, a sopho-
more, 22.21; Landon Boyd, a
sophomore, 22.28; and fresh-
man Logan Randleas followed
with a time of 23.16.
Smith said the girls team
still did not have enough run-
ners to be considered a full
team. However, Smith said,
the absent runners would be
back ahead of the Oct. 16
Burns meet.
Nonetheless,
freshman
Maddie Bailey ran in the girls
5,000 meters, clocking a time
of 26:28. Riley Robertson, a
senior, logged a time of 29:03,
and senior Paige Weaver fi n-
ished with a time of 30:14.
Smith said a group of par-
ents made the trek to Baker
City to cheer on the Pros run-
ners, and they made an impact
on the athletes and coaches.
“We had great support at
the Baker meet from parents
and want to let them know
how much it means to the ath-
letes and coaches,” Smith said
in a Monday email.
Smith said overall the boys
team is running well, but the
squad needs to improve over
the next two weeks for upcom-
ing meets.
Grant Union’s Oct. 27 home
meet, the Gold Rush Run, fol-
lowed two days later by the
Special District 3XC, both will
be held at the Seventh Street
Complex in John Day.
For now, though, Smith
said the runners are focusing
on preparing for the Heppner
meet on Thursday, Oct. 7.
Thursday’s meet in Hep-
pner, Smith noted, is where
athletes can have a breakout
performance for the season.
Dayville/Monument vol-
leyball drops two going into
busy stretchAfter back-to-
back losses on the road, the
Dayville/Monument volleyball
team is looking ahead to games
against
Mitchell/Wheeler/
Spray and Ukiah this week.
The Tigers fell to Crane 3-0
on Saturday, Oct. 2, and South
Wasco County 3-1 on Friday,
Oct. 1.
Treila Smith, Dayville/
Monument head volleyball
coach, could not be reached for
comment.
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Grant Union volleyball @
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Prairie City football vs. Pine
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Prairie City volleyball vs.
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Dayville/Monument volley-
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A Grant Union High
School student took the top
spot in barrel racing and sec-
ond in pole bending in the
state, as the Oregon High
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saddled up the season.
Bailey McCracken, a soph-
omore, fi nished fi rst out of a
pool of 24 other riders in bar-
rel racing. Barrel racing is
when a horse and rider attempt
to run a pattern around barrels
in the fastest time.
McCracken fi nished with a
cumulative score of 24, while
fi nishing pole-bending in the
No. 2 spot with a score of 41,
beating out 23 other riders.
Pole bending is a timed event,
where a rider runs the horse
through a weaving or ser-
pentine path around six poles
arranged in a line.
Another Grant Union stu-
dent, Sarah Clark, took the no.
15 spot, with a pole-bending
cumulative score of 4.
In the fi nal rodeo of the sea-
son in Condon on Sept. 24-25,
McCracken placed fi fth in the
top 10 in barrel racing with a
time of 18.3 and fi fth in pole
bending with a time of 21.6.
Clark placed seventh out of
the top 10 with a time of 21.9
in pole bending.
On the fi rst day of the Con-
don Rodeo, Rowdy Israel,
from Dayville, had a 5.83 time
in the breakaway roping event.
Over the summer, Bailey
McCracken and her brother
Sam competed at the National
High School Finals Rodeo in
Lincoln, Nebraska. Bailey fi n-
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Grant Union football
wins two in a row Grant
Union’s football team picked
up a win on the road on Fri-
day, Oct. 1, a 56-6 shellack-
ing of the Riverside Pirates in
Boardman. It was the Prospec-
tors’ second straight win. The
team is 2-1 overall and 2-0 in
league play.
Jason Miller, Grant Union’s
head football coach, said in an
email Tuesday that the Pros-
pectors’ big win at home over
Irrigon Sept. 23 helped build
momentum for the team’s road
game at Riverside.
The Pros played well in all
aspects of the game, accord-
ing to Miller. Miller noted
the passing game improved
substantially. Meanwhile, the
squad’s defense created three
turnovers.
“Weekly improvement is
the goal,” Miller said, “and it
looks like we are taking steps
in the right direction.”
Miller said Friday’s game
against Stanfi eld, a team he
called “a quality opponent,”
will test the Pros’ toughness.
Panthers pounce Hun-
tington, 53-0Prairie City’s
football team blew out the
Huntington Locomotives 53-0
on Friday, Oct. 1, and went up
3-1 overall and in league play.
Nick Thompson, Panthers
head football coach, said Sun-
day that his team scored 47
points in the fi rst half.
Thompson said 13 players
on the team got a tackle; those
players included Lane Clark,
with fi ve and a half tackles,
and Bo Workman, with three
tackles, all for a loss of yards.
According to Thompson,
the Panther defense forced
a total of six turnovers. Wes
Voigt recovered one fumble,
while Tucker Wright forced a
fumble and then later recov-
ered another.
Thompson noted that
Doyal Lawrence played a sig-
nifi cant factor defensively
and picked up four and a half
tackles.
Having an early and sub-
stantial lead allowed younger
players more playing time
and gave others on the team
opportunities to play diff erent
positions.
“I was really impressed
by quite a few of these guys
that haven’t played a bunch
of minutes yet this year,”
Thompson said. “They defi -
nitely took advantage of (the
opportunity).”
GUHS cross country in
top 10 at Baker Invite Grant
Union’s cross country team
took seventh place at the
Baker Invite Saturday, Oct. 1.
Quinn Larsen, a junior, fi n-
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Osborne said, are not yet at a
level where they can win many
games against teams like Grant
Union’s junior varsity.
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JOHN DAY — Grant
Union’s junior varsity volley-
ball team defeated the Day-
ville/Monument varsity squad
3-1 on Tuesday, Sept. 28, in a
nonconference tilt.
Grant Union is a 2A school
that plays in the Blue Mountain
Conference, while 1A Day-
ville/Monument competes in
the High Desert League.
In a seesaw game where the
Tigers were up by as much as
fi ve points, the Lady Pros came
away from the match with the
win.
Triela Smith, Dayville/
“Learning and improv-
ing is what’s most important,”
Osborne said.
With a team culture that val-
ues learning and growing over
winning and losing, Barker and
Osborne said, the team’s fresh-
men are eager to improve.
“They do the best they
can, and they try really hard,”
Osborne said.
For her part, Bethany Wil-
burn, a freshman, said the
seniors have been very sup-
portive and she is learning and
growing with the team.
“We try to be the older sis-
ters,” Barker said, “like what
we wish we had when we were
freshmen.”
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