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Prairie City edges
Dayville/Monument
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
Prospectors head coach Jason Miller gives the team a pep talk on Friday, Oct. 15, against the Heppner
Mustangs.
A ROUGH HOMECOMING
overall and 3-1 in league play.
Down 36-0, the Pros managed
to crack the scoring column before
the fi rst half was in the books on
a 60-yard kickoff return by Justin
Hodge. Late in the game, Hodge
had a touchdown called back on a
holding penalty.
Grant Union’s head football
coach, Jason Miller, said his team
did not perform as well as it should
have against top-ranked team in
the state.
“We did not play tough or dis-
ciplined,” Miller said. “Heppner is
a quality football team.”
Quarterback Maverick Miller,
a senior, said the team knows they
could have played better.
“I think we were all pretty ner-
vous,” Maverick said. “We were
playing the best team in the state.”
Toward the end of the game,
however, that nervousness seemed
to have disappeared.
With one second left on the
Grant Union Pros go
down swinging against
No. 1 Heppner
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union’s football team
had a tall task in front of them Fri-
day, Oct. 15, in the form of the No.
1-ranked Heppner Mustangs.
The Mustangs were not only
undefeated, they were ranked fi rst
in the state in Division 2A head-
ing into Friday’s matchup. In fact,
no team in the Division 2A Spe-
cial District 5 league had scored a
point against them all year.
The Prospectors put up a fi ght
but came up short, falling 36-12
to the powerful Heppner squad on
homecoming night at Grant Union
High School.
The loss left Grant Union 3-2
clock, Tanler Fuller caught a TD
pass from Miller, a never-say-die
eff ort in what may have been his
fi nal play in a Prospector uniform
at Grant Union.
“It came down to the end of
the game,” Fuller said. “At half-
time, we built up a lot of intensity.
We were losing pretty badly, but
we decided to come out (strong),
this being our last home game, and
Maverick threw a perfect ball, and I
went up and got it and got to score
a touchdown as a senior on home-
coming night.”
All in all, Hodge thought the
team did a good job. “We made
mistakes, but we kept playing,” he
said.
If the Prospectors win one of
their next two games, against Uma-
tilla and Weston-McEwen, they
will be in the playoff s, Miller said.
And if the Pros win two play-
off games, then Grant Union could
play at home again, Hodge added.
PRAIRIE CITY — Dayville/Mon-
ument and Prairie City were neck and
neck at times in a three-set thriller
Wednesday, Oct. 13, but the Panthers
pulled away to beat the Tigers 3-0.
Dayville/Monument played strong
in the fi rst set and at one point jumped
out to a 24-19 lead, but Prairie City
capitalized on a couple of errors and
outscored the Tigers down the stretch
to win 26-24.
In the second set, the Panthers estab-
lished the tempo early on and took a
17-11 lead. But while the Tigers clawed
their way back at one point to get
within four, Prairie City ran away with
the win, 25-18.
In the fi nal set, Prairie City got into
form quickly and extended an early
lead. The Tigers chipped away at the
defi cit to get within fi ve points midway
through the set, but the Panthers went
on to win 25-13.
Despite the loss, Dayville/Monu-
ment head coach Treila Smith told the
Eagle after the game that her team was
peaking at the right time.
Smith said the team had excellent
serves, blocked well and provided great
coverage. But in the end, Smith noted,
minor errors cost the team points.
Nonetheless, Smith said she was
proud of her players and that as the sea-
son has progressed, so has her team.
“We’re inexperienced,” Smith
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
Hannah Wall (left) leaps to hit the ball.
said. “But if you watch our fresh-
men from the beginning of the sea-
son until the end, we have been
amazing.”
Jordan Bass, Prairie City’s head
coach, told the newspaper the Panthers
had a long day of volleyball. Wednes-
day’s match against Dayville/Monu-
ment was the team’s second.
The Panthers played Adrian and lost
25-22, 25-21, and 29-27. Adrian also
bested the Tigers ahead of the team’s
game against the Panthers, 25-11, 25-21,
and 25-17.
SPORTS ROUNDUP
overall, with freshman Mad-
die Bailey right behind in fi fth
with a time of 25:57. Katelyn
Hughes was eighth with a time
of 27:53, while fellow senior
Paige Weaver clocked in at
28:50 to fi nish ninth.
Two more Grant Union girls
fi nished in the top 20. Riley
Robertson, a senior, logged a
time of 29:38 to secure 13th
place, and freshman Eliza Ash-
ley fi nished 18th with a time of
38:19.
Smith said the team is
excited for Grant Union’s home
meet, the Gold Rush Run, on
Thursday, Oct. 21.
Smith noted that the boys’
race would have over 100
competitors and the girls’ race
would have between 80 and 90.
“It will be a good chance for
us to highlight Seventh Street
Park and the river running trail
to those not from the area,”
Smith said. “The runners are
also aiming for their best times
of the season.”
Prairie City football wins
fourth consecutive game
The Panthers beat Echo
44-22 on Friday, Oct. 15, in
what Prairie City head coach
Nick Thompson said was a
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union’s girls’ cross
country team fi nished in sec-
ond place at the Idlewild cross
country meet in Burns, while
the boys’ team was edged out of
second place by just one point.
Sonna Smith, Grant Union’s
head coach, said the team per-
formed great in the four-way
meet.
Two Grant Union boys fi n-
ished in the top 10 overall.
Brady Dole took sixth place
with a time of 19:33, while fel-
low junior Quinn Larson posted
a time of 21:14 to fi nish 10th.
Junior Max Bailey fi nished
14th with a time of 22:46. He
was followed by sophomore
Landon Boyd in 15th place
with a time of 23:01, fresh-
man Logan Randleas in 18th at
23:33, sophomore Skylor Boyd
in 20th at 23:48 and freshman
Reid Dole in 22nd with a time
of 24:54.
For the girls, four runners
placed in the top 10 overall.
Sophomore
Aliciana
Archibald fi nished the 5,000-
meter course with a time of
25:03, good for fourth place
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in Grant
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and
County expressed concerns
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hopes for the future freeze on
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many activities.
Gov. Kate Brown announced
on Nov. 13,
the two-week freeze
on
which will place limitations
many businesses.
scheduled
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The freeze, which
will restrict
for Nov. 18 to Dec. 2, only serv-
to
restaurants and bars
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of 1188
owner
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frustrating, it
said, while this is the rise of
was expected with more activ-
COVID-19 cases and
ities taking place indoors.
weeks,
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only two weeks,” Adair
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and had not heard that
people in quarantine
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the lack of personnel
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Chester’s will pay the and can get reimbursed through a tax
are out due to quarantine
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20
Grant Union volleyball @ Nyssa, 4:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, OCT. 21
Grant Union cross country, Gold Rush Run, Seventh Street
Sports Complex, 4:30 p.m.
Prairie City football vs. Joseph, 7 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCT. 22
Grant Union football @ Umatilla, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCT. 23
Grant Union volleyball, Blue Mountain Conference District
Tournament, Grant Union, noon
High Desert League District Volleyball Tournament @ Prai-
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quarter, which saw the Pan-
thers run away with the game.
The
diff erence-maker,
Thompson said, was the
team’s physicality and exe-
cution in running the football
down the fi eld.
Thompson gave credit
where credit was due, recog-
nizing that Echo was a formi-
dable foe. He said the Cou-
gars are one of the few teams
his squad faced this year that
threw the football predom-
inantly and predicted their
trouble for opposing teams in
the coming years.
Thompson said the Pan-
thers’ off ensive line opened
up lanes for running back
Cole Teal, who came into the
game just 92 yards away from
reaching the 1,000-yard rush-
ing mark on the season.
Teal easily surpassed that
milestone, carrying the ball 28
times for 318 yards and three
touchdowns in Friday’s game.
With one league game left,
Teal is at 1,226 yards and 15
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touchdowns on the season.
“(Teal) has continually
proven himself every week,”
Thompson said, adding that
his star running back “needs to
be in the conversation” about
the top players in the High
Desert League.
Quarterback Wes Voigt
was six of 13 for 100 yards
and had two passing touch-
downs with one interception,
Thompson said. John Titus
had one carry for a three-yard
touchdown. Eli Wright had
three receptions for 50 yards
and a touchdown. Wright’s
touchdown, Thompson added,
was the icebreaker at the end
of the game that catalyzed his
team’s turnaround.
Defensively, Wright had
six and a half tackles, inlud-
ing three sacks and another
tackle for a loss. Cody Reagan
had three and a half tackles
and one tackle for loss. Tucker
Wright had six tackles, Voigt
had fi ve, and Trey Brown had
two sacks and one solo tackle.
“Those guys were fl ying
around,” Thompson said. “It
was a great performance from
them.”
The Panthers improved to
5-1 in their division and face
Joseph on Thursday, Oct. 21, at
7 p.m. in Prairie City.
Dayville/Monument foot-
ball team falls to Pine Eagle
The Tigers fell to Pine Eagle
57-6 in their fi nal game of the
season. The newspaper was
unable to reach Tigers head
coach Tim Auty for comment.
Dayville/Monument vol-
leyball team defeats Harper
Charter
The Dayville/Monument
volleyball team defeated Harper
Charter 3-0 to improve to 3-8
overall and 2-4 in league play.
Grant Union volleyball
team wins two in a row
The Lady Pros picked up
a pair of wins on Saturday,
Oct. 16, beating both Enter-
prise and Pilot Rock by identi-
cal 3-0 scores to improve their
record to 18-9 overall and 10-2
in league play.
Prairie City volleyball
team drops two in a row
Prairie City’s volleyball
team lost to Crane and Jordan
Valley, dropping both matches
by a score of 3-0. The Lady
Panthers’ overall record is
5-9, and they are 2-3 in league
play.
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