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SPORTS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Pros sweep track invitational
By JUSTIN DAVIS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union/Prairie City’s Halle Parsons slides into home on Saturday, May 7, 2022, during the
fi rst game of a doubleheader against Weston-McEwen. The Lady Pros won the fi rst game 7-6 in
extra innings and took the second game 22-9.
Winning a close one
calm and executing the game
plan was key to the squad
winning Saturday’s tight
fi rst game. Also, he said, the
team did the “little things”
right and stayed disciplined
at the plate.
Williams said that with
Saturday being senior rec-
ognition day, emotions were
high. Not only that, but he
said it was also team picture
day. Thus, there were many
distractions.
“(Senior recognition day)
is always an emotional day
and generally it is hard to fl ip
that switch back to the focus
of our game plan,” Williams
said. “And while it took lon-
ger than usual, I think the
girls did a good job consider-
ing the weather.”
The Lady Pros racked up
12 hits in the fi rst game, with
freshman Savannah Wat-
terson hitting a home run.
Anderson and Robertson
both had had extra-base hits,
as did Addy Northway, Paige
Gerry, Drew Williams and
Sivanna Hodge, while Harli
Grove had a sacrifi ce and an
RBI.
Drew Williams, the win-
ning pitcher, gave up nine
hits and three earned runs
while fanning seven over
eight innings.
The squad rode the
momentum of the fi rst game
into the second contest, dom-
inating the Tigerscots in a
22-9 shellacking.
Halle Parsons, said Wil-
liams, was solid on the
mound, while the team hit
seven home runs and had an
eye-popping 20 hits overall.
With three more regular
season games left, Williams
said the unbeaten Lady Pros
need to keep doing what they
have done all season long and
not let “the moments get too
big.”
Lady Pro softball
team gets a walk-off
hit to stay unbeaten
By STEVEN MITCHELL
Blue Mountain Eagle
T
he Grant Union/
Prairie City soft-
ball team remains
undefeated after
picking up a pair
of wins Saturday, May 7,
in a doubleheader at home
against Weston-McEwen.
The fi rst half of Satur-
day’s twin bill saw the top-
ranked 2A Lady Pros win
their closest game of the sea-
son in an eight-inning thriller.
With the game knotted up
at 6-6 in the eighth inning, a
double by senior Riley Rob-
ertson put her in scoring posi-
tion for junior Raney Ander-
son to rope a line-drive single
to centerfi eld for a 7-6 walk-
off win.
Anderson said the win
was a team eff ort and that
while she and her teammates
felt the pressure, they also
had fun.
“We battled hard,” she
said. “Battling in a game like
that is so fun.”
Close games, she said, are
much more intense and keep
the team engaged.
“There is a lot of pres-
sure,” Anderson said, “but
you just have to stay calm and
do your best. You just have to
remember it’s one play at a
time. You can’t think about
errors or what’s going to hap-
pen next. You just have to
focus on the present.”
Zach Williams, Grant
Union/Prairie City’s head
coach, said rain was a fac-
tor in the game. The wet
weather, he said, made it hard
to grip the ball.
Steven Mitchell/Blue Mountain Eagle
Grant Union/Prairie City’s
Raney Anderson, a junior,
roped a walk-off single in
the eighth inning to win
the fi rst game of the Lady
Pros’ doubleheader against
Weston-McEwen.
He said the rain made
it particularly hard for a
velocity pitcher like Drew
Williams.
There were a few innings,
he said, where Drew did not
have the grip to throw any-
thing but a fastball, which
was questionable.
The wet weather also
impacted the Lady Pros’
defense. Williams said rou-
tine plays became toss-ups
of whether they could make
a throw to get the out.
Games like Saturday’s,
he said, came down to the
squad having patience at the
plate.
Williams said the team
was swinging at pitches out
of the strike zone in the early
going. However, he said, the
players adjusted, allowing
them to work the count and
see pitches later on.
“We left too many girls
on base the fi rst few innings,”
he said, “which is unlike our
girls, and I really felt like we
would break through at some
point.”
Williams said that staying
JOHN DAY — Grant Union’s boys and girls
track teams swept the Grant Union Invitational
Track Meet on Friday, May 6, in their fi nal action
before the district track meet.
The invitational honored outgoing seniors and
was the fi nal home meet of their careers. Both the
boys’ and girls’ competitions featured six teams,
including the winning Grant Union squads. The
boys fi nished with 194 points, followed by sec-
ond-place Enterprise, which fi nished with 140. The
girls fi nished the day with 185 points. Burns was
second in the girls’ fi eld with 153.
Grant County teams Monument and Long
Creek also took part in the meet. Long Creek didn’t
log a score in the girls’ competition but fi nished
with 8 points among the boys. Monument fi nished
with 5 points in the girls’ competition but didn’t
register a score in the boys’ competition.
The Pros ended the meet with 14 top fi ve fi n-
ishes in the 17 events contested on the afternoon
in the boys competition. Seniors Justin Hodge,
Luke Jackson and Mason Morris led the way for
the boys.
Hodge picked up fi rst-place fi nishes in the 100
meter race, 4x100 relay and javelin and fi nished
second in the discus. Jackson picked up a pair of
fi rst-place fi nishes in the 200 meter race and 4x100
relay with Hodge and teammates Cashton Wheeler
and Morris. Jackson also picked up a second-place
fi nish in the 100 meter race. Morris had fi rst-place
fi nishes in the long jump and triple jump to go
along with his fi rst-place fi nish in the 4x100 relay.
Distance runners Brady Dole and Logan Rand-
leas left the meet with top four fi nishes in the two
distance races. Dole fi nished second in the 1,500
meter race and Randleas was fourth in the 3,000
meters.
Field events saw the Pros record a top fi ve fi n-
isher in every event contested at the meet. Three of
the top four fi nishers in the high jump were Grant
Union athletes. The lone outlier was Long Creek’s
Nolan Garinger, who fi nished second in the event.
Freshman Mason Benge won the event, and fellow
freshmen Ryan Coombs and Logan Randleas fi n-
ished third and fourth in the event, respectively.
Grant Union paired a third-place fi nish in the
shot put by Tucker Carpenter with a fi fth-place fi n-
ish by Alex Finley in the same event. Lucas Wolf
added a fi fth-place fi nish in the discus to Hodge’s
previously mentioned fi rst-place fi nish in that
event.
Pole vault didn’t produce a fi rst-place fi nisher
for the Pros but did produce two top three fi nishers
with Max Bailey’s second-place fi nish and Quinn
Larson’s third. The long jump added two more
top fi ve fi nishers to Grant Union’s tally. Riddick
Hitchison and Ryan Coombs placed fourth and
fi fth in the event.
The Pros continued the trend of multiple top
fi ve event fi nishers in the triple jump. Wheeler
placed fourth and Benge placed fi fth to go along
with the fi rst-place fi nish Morris picked up in the
event.
The Lady Pros were just as dominant as the
boys. Despite scoring fewer points than the boys
squad, the girls had a top fi ve placer in every event
contested at the meet.
Grant Union’s seniors fl exed their muscles on a
day that was meant to honor them. Carson Weaver,
Lauryn Pettyjohn and Katelyn Hughes each had
three top fi ve fi nishes on the afternoon.
Weaver placed second in the javelin and
recorded third-place fi nishes in the 100 meter dash
and 4x100 meter relay. Pettyjohn fi nished the after-
noon with a second-place result in the 100 meter
hurdles, a third-place fi nish in the 4x100 relay and
a fourth-place result in the 200 meter dash.
Hughes won the javelin and picked up a pair of
third-place fi nishes in the 300 meter hurdles and
4x100 relay with teammates Weaver, Pettyjohn
and freshman Morgan Randleas.
Lady Pro freshmen and sophomores made their
presences known in fi eld events, with lowerclass-
men placing in all but the javelin.
Mallory Lusco’s throws were good for fourth
in the shot put and second in the discus. Teammate
Morgan Walker was right behind Lusco in the dis-
cus, placing third. Randleas notched second-place
fi nishes in the triple jump and long jump along with
a third-place fi nish in the high jump.
The Lady Pros picked up a pair of wins to go
along with Hughes’ fi rst-place fi nish in the javelin
with Macy Carter winning the pole vault and Katie
Rigby winning the triple jump.
Grant Union now prepares for the 2A Special
District 5 Championship meet at Weston-McEwen
on Friday, May 13. Events start at 11 a.m.
Pros split pair with Weston-McEwen
By JUSTIN DAVIS
Blue Mountain Eagle
ATHENA
—
Grant
Union’s baseball team split
a pair of close games with
No. 6-ranked Weston-McE-
wen in Athena on Saturday,
May 7, to stay at .500 on the
season.
The fi rst game saw
Weston-McEwen score two
runs in the fi rst inning and a
third in the sixth while hold-
ing the Pros scoreless for a
3-0 loss.
In the second game, the
Grant Union off ense found
its rhythm and a little bit of
luck to eke out an 11-10 vic-
tory. Weston-McEwen built
a 6-2 lead heading into the
fi fth before the Pros started
chipping away. Grant Union
would add a run in the fi fth
inning and respond to a two-
run sixth by Weston-McE-
wen with four runs of their
own to tie the game at 8
headed into the seventh
inning. The Pros would sur-
render two runs in the eighth
inning only to score three of
their own and leave with the
11-10 win.
Syrus Workman hit the
game-winning single with
two strikes and the team
down to its fi nal out. The win-
ning run scored after a throw-
ing error by the Weston-McE-
wen shortstop to fi rst in an
attempt to throw Workman
out and end the game.
The Pros’ win marks
only the second loss on
Weston-McEwen’s record
and their fi rst loss to an Ore-
gon team on the season. The
win also snapped a two-game
losing streak for the Pros and
pushed their record back to
.500 on the season at 9-9.
The team will be in action
next on Saturday, May 14, at
Pilot Rock. The game starts
at 4 p.m.
SPORTS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, MAY 12
3 p.m.: Grant Union soft-
ball, doubleheader @ Pilot
Rock/Nixyaawii
FRIDAY, MAY 13
11a.m.: Grant Union track,
League Championship Meet
@Weston-McEwen Track
SATURDAY, MAY 14
11a.m.: Grant Union
baseball, doubleheader @
Sherman
TUESDAY, MAY 17
2 p.m.: Grant Union
baseball, doubleheader vs.
Lyle
4 p.m.: Grant Union Soft-
ball @ LaGrande
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18
4 p.m.: Grant Union
baseball vs. Baker/Powder
Valley
Home games in bold
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6pm
Monday
- Thursday
7am-
6pm
Friday
8am
- 5pm
Friday Sharpe
8am - 5pm
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FNP
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Sharpe FNP
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