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Wednesday, December 8, 2021
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Lady Panthers down Enterprise
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
PRAIRIE CITY — The Prairie City
girls basketball team opened the 2021-22
season in thrilling fashion, fi ghting off a
gritty Enterprise squad to claim a 56-53
double-overtime victory Friday, Dec. 3,
in front of a packed gymnasium of home-
town fans after a nearly two-year hiatus
due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was a back-and-forth game that saw
the Lady Panthers up by four points early
in the fi rst quarter after juniors Betty Ann
Wilson, Laken McKay and Kaitlynne Ash-
ley scored a combined 12 points. However,
the Lady Outlaws would not go away qui-
etly. They battled back and trailed at the
end of the fi rst quarter by one point.
The game tipped back into Enter-
prise’s favor when the squad jumped
ahead by as much as three points, but
the Lady Panthers knotted up the score
31-31 to end the fi rst half.
The teams remained deadlocked at
39-39 as the game headed into overtime.
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
Prairie City junior Betty Ann Wilson
drives to the hole during the Lady Pan-
thers’ season opener Friday, Dec. 3,
against Enterprise. Prairie City’s girls
basketball team won the contest in dou-
ble overtime, 56-53.
In the fi rst overtime, neither team led by
more than a point and ended the extra
period at 47 points apiece. Then, how-
ever, the game tipped Prairie’s way as the
squad jumped ahead 51-47 due to Wil-
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
son, who scored a game-high 30 points,
putting up four points before fouling out
with less than two minutes left to play.
While Enterprise tied the game with
a little over a minute left to play, clutch
free throws by freshmen Savanah Wat-
terson and Reece Jacobs, McKay and
sophomore Jaycee Winegar allowed the
squad to pull out the win.
Prairie’s head coach, Bo Workman,
said Friday’s victory was a genuine team
eff ort and showed the rest of the girls that
even with Wilson on the bench, they still
had what it took to pull out the victory.
Workman noted that Wilson is the
team leader.
“She know’s how to play basket-
ball, makes everybody better, and every-
body’s ready.”
Wilson said the team’s freshmen have
great attitudes and are eager to learn, and
added that it meant a lot to her that they
stepped up to pull out the win.
“Everybody had a good game,” Wil-
son said, “and everybody played a big
role.”
Panthers topple Outlaws in opener
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
PRAIRIE CITY — After
a nearly two-year hiatus due
to the pandemic, Prairie City’s
boys’ basketball team domi-
nated Enterprise 63-45 on Fri-
day, Dec. 3, in the Panthers’ sea-
son opener.
Bo Workman, the Panthers’
head coach, said he did not
know what to expect after two
years.
“I have an almost brand new
team,” Workman said. Accord-
ing to Workman, just a few of
the players on the squad had
played varsity.
One returning varsity player,
senior Marcus Judd, said it has
been nice to be back.
“It’s been too long without
the sport,” Judd said. “I really
missed it, and that’s why we put
a lot out there tonight.”
Judd added that while he
missed playing, he had some
pre-game jitters, but after the
Prairie girls’ dramatic dou-
ble-overtime win, he forgot
about them and was pumped to
get back on the court.
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
Prairie City sophomore Wes Voigt goes for a layup Friday, Dec.
3, during the team’s season opener against Enterprise. Voigt
fi nished the game with 10 points in Prairie’s 63-45 win over the
Outlaws.
“That girls game and the
double-OT win really got it
(nervousness) out of me,” Judd
said. “After that, I was excited,
roaring and ready to go.”
Indeed,
the
Panthers
exploded out of the gate. At the
end of the fi rst quarter, the squad
had a commanding 14-7 lead.
Eli Wright nailed fi ve of his
10 fi eld goals in the fi rst quar-
ter. The 6-foot-3 junior fi nished
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the game with 21 points, while
Wes Voigt, a sophomore, con-
nected on two of his three fi eld
goals in the fi rst quarter. In the
fi rst game of his high school
career, Voigt was four of seven
at the free-throw line, for a total
of 10 points.
Doyal Lawrence, a junior,
put on a shooting clinic in
the third quarter in his varsity
debut, draining four consecutive
three-pointers and sinking both
of his free throws to fi nish the
game with 14 points.
Workman said Lawrence’s
performance played a signifi -
cant role in the Panthers’ victory.
“That was a huge deal,”
Workman said. “He’s just lights
out. When he is on, he is just
on.”
Lawrence said the win was a
team eff ort.
“We play together, we work
hard together, and we just do our
best,” Lawrence said.
For his part, Judd scored
nine points on three fi eld goals
and was one of two at the free-
throw line, while Tucker Wright
fi nished the game with six
points on two fi eld goals and
connected on two of his three
free-throw attempts. In addition,
John Titus, a senior, scored three
points from beyond the arc.
While Workman liked what
he saw from his brand new team
Friday, he said the team has a lot
of basketball ahead of them.
“It’s going to be a work
in progress,” Workman said.
“We’re just going to stay hum-
ble. We got a ways to go.”
On Friday and Satur-
day, Grant Union’s boys
basketball team won one
and lost one at the Elgin
Lions Tourney.
The Pros decisively
defeated Elgin 61-3 in
Saturday’s game.
Elgin,
a
younger,
smaller team, allowed the
Pros to work on build-
ing various skills, accord-
ing to RC Huerta, Grant
Union’s boys basketball
coach.
Huerta said the Pros
held their own in Friday’s
50-42 loss to Baker.
After Baker put up 20
points in the first quar-
ter, Grant Union clawed
their way back and got
within four points. But
ultimately, Baker beat
the Prospectors with free
throws down the stretch.
Nonetheless,
Huerta
said he was proud of how
the team stayed scrappy
until the final buzzer.
“We were on the
ground for balls, and we
were hustling and crash-
ing the boards,” Huerta
said.
The Pros, he said,
rebounded the ball very
well for an undersized
team.
Huerta said he has a
young team this season,
and his most important
message to them is to play
hard on defense, work
on the little things, and
communicate with one
another.
“We have a young
team,” Huerta said. “And
they’re hardworking, and
they’re going to continue
to get better and learn.”
Grant Union girls win
one of two
The Lady Pros won one
out of two over the week-
end at the Elgin Tourney.
On Saturday, Dec. 4,
the girls team fell to La
Grande, 49-27, after pick-
ing up a 48-38 win over
Baker. The Lady Pros are
1-1 on the season.
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THURSDAY, DEC. 9
Grant Union basketball @ Umatilla, Columbia River Clash, 5,
6:30 p.m.
Prairie City basketball @ Union, Calvin Hiatt Memorial Tourna-
ment 4, 5:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, DEC. 10
Grant Union basketball @ Umatilla, Columbia River Clash, 4,
5:30 p.m.
Grant Union wrestling @ Culver Invitational, 2 p.m.
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Dayville/Monument basketball @ South Wasco County, John
Howey Memorial, 6, 7:30 p.m.
Prairie City Basketball @ Powder Valley, Calvin Hiatt Memorial
Tournament, 6, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 11, 2021,
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Grant Union’s wres-
tling season got off to a
busy start with competi-
tions in Burns on Friday,
Dec. 3, and Baker on Sat-
urday, Dec. 4.
The Prospectors went
on the road to compete
at the Baker Duals tour-
nament with three other
teams, Baker, Imbler, and
Nampa Christian/Garden
Valley.
Grant Union fell twice
to Baker, 60-18 and
42-24. The Prospector
grapplers were defeated
by Imbler, 24-18, but pre-
vailed against Nampa
Christian/Garden Valley,
36-21.
At Friday’s Woodfin
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the Pros faced Vale, Crane
and Burns.
Grant Union lost to
Burns, 42-21, tied Crane,
24-24, and fell to Vale,
46-27.
Andy Lusco, Prospec-
tors wrestling coach, said
he was pleased with the
team’s effort.
“Our roster was pretty
short of where it needs
to be to compete consis-
tently,” Lusco said. “We
will need to get eligible,
healthy, and down to com-
petition weight.”
Lusco told the Eagle
Grant Union has a
young team, and this
week the squad would
be working on wrestling
fundamentals.
“This is a young team
and we will get better
fast,” Lusco said.
Lusco said it is great to
be back on the mat during
the sport’s regular time of
year and season after pan-
demic protocols forced
the program to compete in
the late spring and sum-
mer months.
“We have a great turn-
out on both the boys’
and girls’ sides,” Lusco
said. “And we’re excited
to see them grow and
compete.”
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