SPORTS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Defense keys Lady Pros’ win
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
W
hile
the
G r a n t
Union girls
basket-
ball team
was handed their fi rst loss in
league play Friday, Jan. 7,
falling to Enterprise 52-39,
the Lady Pros turned things
around and defeated Heppner
45-44 in front of a hometown
crowd Saturday, Jan. 8, to
even out their league record
at 1-1.
Short a couple of their
starting players, the Lady
Pros headed into Saturday’s
contest a little out of sorts.
“We were kind off -kilter
with some of our girls being
out,” Grant Union senior
Riley Robertson said. “But
we got back into it.”
Both teams battled back
and forth in the early going,
neither gaining the clear
advantage. However, with
just over a minute left to
play in the fi rst period, the
Mustangs nearly cut Grant
Union’s 12-6 lead in half, and
by the end of the fi rst half,
Heppner pulled ahead 23-20.
Grant Union senior Car-
son Weaver said they turned
the ball over in the fi rst half
but turned things around after
halftime and worked together
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union’s Carson Weaver (right) attempts to box out Heppner’s Zandra Masterson during
the Lady Pros’ 45-44 win over the Mustangs Saturday, Jan. 8.
to pull out the win.
“We worked together
to relieve the pressure and
spread the pressure out,”
Weaver said.
Senior Riley Robertson
said the team does not rely on
one player to carry the team.
“It’s not like we have a
star player,” Lady Pro senior
Lauryn Pettyjohn said.
Pettyjohn and Robert-
son combined for 18 points.
Meanwhile, senior Grace
Taylor led the team with
11 points and was seven
of eight at the free-throw
line, and Kate Hughes and
Paige Weaver (no relation
to Carson) combined for
10 points.
Grant Union boys split over the weekend
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
PRAIRIE CITY — After a
49-18 shellacking of Four Rivers
Grant Union’s head coach
RC Huerta shared the same
sentiment at the end of Sat-
urday’s game, but with one
addition.
“We have to do a bet-
ter job to execute our game
plan and play better defense,”
Huerta said. “As long as you
execute the game plan, things
are going to get better.”
As for Saturday’s game,
Huerta also noted that Hep-
pner is a big, strong, ath-
letic and well-coached team.
However, Huerta said, the
Pros still need to stick to their
game plan.
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Prairie City boys
split a pair
PRAIRE CITY — Like the
girls squad, Prairie City’s boys
team handily defeated Four Riv-
ers Friday, Jan. 7 at home, but
lost a close game to Jordan Val-
ley the following day.
In Friday’s matchup, the
Panthers downed Four Rivers
65-46, then dropped their Satur-
day matchup with Jordan Valley,
58-54.
The boys team is 1-2 in
league play and 7-4 overall.
The Eagle was unable to
reach boys and girls head coach
Bo Workman for comment.
Long Creek falls to Adrian
ADRIAN — Long Creek’s
boys basketball team fell to
Adrian 69-11 in a road game on
Friday, Jan. 7.
Friday’s game was Long
Creek’s third game of the sea-
son. The squad’s Jan. 4 game
against Dayville/Monument was
canceled.
The Eagle was unable to
reach coach TC Connor for
comment.
Dayville/Monument
girls drop two
DAYVILLE — The Day-
ville/Monument girls basketball
team faced stiff competition over
the weekend. In the squad’s Fri-
day, Jan. 7, matchup at home,
Jordan Valley handed the Lady
Tigers a 61-11 loss.
Dayville/Monument dropped
their second home matchup
against Crane 72-5.
The Eagle was unable to
reach Lady Tigers head coach
Andy Wilburn for comment.
D/M boys lose two
after hiatus
DAYVILLE — Dayville/
Monument’s boys basketball
team dropped two in a row at
home Friday and Saturday, Jan.
7 and 8, after a long break with
the holidays and two cancella-
tions on Dec. 30 and Jan. 4.
In Friday’s game the Tigers
fell to Jordan Valley 64-30, then
lost 85-14 to Crane on Saturday.
Tigers head coach Mike
Davis could not be reached for
comment.
“They (Heppner) executed
the game plan better than us
today,” Huerta said. “And we
have to get better at doing that
ourselves.”
Sophomore
Sheldon
Lenz and freshman Charley
Knowles combined for 18
points, with nine apiece, and
led the Pros’ off ensive eff ort.
Knowles, who entered
the game in the fourth quar-
ter, knocked down a pair of
three-pointers and a two-
point fi eld goal, and was one
of two at the free-throw line.
Meanwhile Lenz knocked
down three fi eld goals and
made three out of four free
throws, while Neault also
made three out of four free
throws and scored four from
the fi eld for a total of seven
points.
Freshmen Lukas Blood
and Ryland Beil fi nished the
game with four points apiece.
Blood scored all his points
at the free-throw line, while
Beil knocked down a pair of
fi eld goals.
Sophomores Talon Van-
Cleave and Eric Cul-
ley combined for four
points on a couple of fi eld
goals.
SPORTS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, JAN. 13
Prairie City Basketball vs. Adrian, boys 6, girls 7:30 p.m.
Grant Union Wrestling @ Madras, 5 p.m.
FRIDAY, JAN. 14
Grant Union Basketball @ Stanfi eld, girls 6 p.m., boys 7:30 p.m.
Long Creek/Ukiah Basketball vs. Four Rivers, boys 4 p.m.
Grant Union Wrestling @ Oregon Wrestling Classic, Redmond,
time TBD
SATURDAY, JAN. 15
Dayville/Monument vs. Huntington, girls 2, boys 3:30 p.m., Mon-
ument High School
Grant Union Basketball @ Weston-McEwen , girls 4, boys 5:30 p.m.
Grant Union Wrestling, Oregon Classic, Redmond, time TBD
TUESDAY, JAN. 18
Prairie City Basketball @ Dayville/Monument, girls 6, boys
7:30 p.m.
Long Creek/Ukiah Basketball vs. Huntington, boys 4:30 p.m.
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Grant Union’s Parker Neault (5), a senior, drives past Heppner’s Brock Hisler Saturday, Jan. 8, in
the second half of the Pros’ 68-37 loss to the Mustangs.
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JOSEPH — The Grant
Union girls wrestling team dom-
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Jan. 7-8, with three grapplers
taking fi rst place in their weight
classes and two fi nishing third.
Zoey Beam, June Wolf and
Mallory Lusco took fi rst in the
114-117, 127-128, and 204-228
weight divisions, respectively,
while Serenity Marcano and
Jaydika Anderson took third in
the 131-135 and 144-154 weight
classes.
Grant Union’s girls scored 56
points to take fi rst in the meet as
a team. The closest team behind
the Lady Pros was Imbler, with
30 points.
On the boys’ side, the team
took fi fth overall, with 92 team
points, only two points behind
Pine Eagle’s fourth-place fi nish.
Grant Union grappler Jus-
tin Hodge brought home a fi rst-
place medal in the 160 weight
division while Rolando Moreno
placed third in the 285 weight
class. Mason Benge, grappling
in the 132 weight class, fi nished
third.
Jack Strong, wrestling in
the 145 weight category, placed
fi fth. Riddick Hutchison fi nished
fourth in the 170 weight class,
while Sam McCracken placed
fi fth. Alex Finley, wrestling in
the 182 weight division, took
sixth.
Andy Lusco, Grant Union’s
head coach, said after a few
weeks off , the athletes came
back to wrestle and worked hard.
While some members of
the team were out with illness,
Lusco said that those who could
compete wrestled well.
Lusco said the assistant
coaches did an excellent job
of getting the athletes ready to
perform.
This week, Lusco said,
the team is preparing for Red-
mond’s Oregon Classic Wres-
tling Tournament.
The team’s preparation
will focus on conditioning and
skill improvement and getting
to proper weight to fi ll weight
classes, Lusco said.
Prairie City girls win
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JOHN DAY — After win-
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Friday, Jan. 7, a decisive
53-38 victory over Enter-
prise, the Grant Union boys
basketball team fell to Hep-
pner 68-37 on Saturday, Jan.
8.
Heading into Satur-
day’s game against the No.
7-ranked Mustangs, the Pros-
pectors had an uphill battle
ahead of them. Nonetheless,
the squad put up a fi ght.
“We tried,” Prospector
senior Parker Neault said
after the game. “They’re big,
fast and know what they’re
doing.”
Neault said the game got
off to an “OK” start, but the
team did not make shots they
needed and struggled to even
get the ball to the hoop.
In the fi rst period the Pros
held their own, and at one
point chipped away at Hep-
pner’s lead to get within four
points, but the Mustangs
opened it up and by the end
of the fi rst half, the score was
35-17.
Nonetheless, Neault said
the team had improved, get-
ting faster and fi nding them-
selves in the right spots
defensively.
Ultimately, the team’s
success in their next league
game on Tuesday, Jan. 11,
against Pilot Rock will need
to revolve around defense,
Neault said.
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