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SPORTS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
SPORTS ROUNDUP
contest is slated for 4 p.m.
By JUSTIN DAVIS
Blue Mountain Eagle
Tigers, Panthers fall
to Adrian on same day
ADRIAN — Both the Prairie City and
Dayville/Monument volleyball teams trav-
GRANT COUNTY — Grant County eled to Adrian for High Desert League con-
football teams were all on the road this past tests on Saturday, Sept. 24, with both suffer-
week, finishing 1-2 in games played over the ing 0-3 losses to the Lady Antelopes.
Scores for the Dayville/Monument
weekend.
The first game of the week was on Thurs- match were 25-8, 25-13 and 25-5. The Prai-
rie City match was quite a
day, Sept. 22, and saw the
bit more competitive, with
Prairie City/Burnt River
scores of 25-22, 25-10 and
Panthers head to Joseph
25-17.
for a High Desert League
The young Dayville/
showdown. The Panthers
Monument team fell to
found themselves back in
3-6 on the season with a
the win column following
THURSDAY, SEPT. 29
1-2 league mark following
two straight losses after a
Grant Union volleyball vs.
the loss. The Lady Tigers
48-32 victory.
Weston-McEwen, 4 p.m.
will look to rebound when
The Panthers improved
they host Jordan Valley and
to 2-2 on the season with an
FRIDAY, SEPT. 30
Prairie City on Saturday,
identical 2-2 league record
Prairie City volleyball vs. Hun-
Oct. 1, at Monument High
following the win.
tington, 5 p.m.
School. Tipoff for the Jor-
Two Grant County prep
Grant Union football vs. Lyle/
dan Valley match is sched-
football squads played on
Wishram (WA), 6 p.m.
uled for noon, while the
Friday, Sept. 23.
Prairie City football vs. Hun-
Prairie City match has a
In the first matchup, the
tington, 7 p.m.
3 p.m. tipoff.
Dayville/Monument Tigers
Dayville/Monument football
Sixth-ranked Prairie
traveled to Echo to take
vs. South Wasco County @
City fell to 13-4 on the sea-
on the Cougars in another
Monument HS, 1 p.m.
son and hold an 0-1 league
High Desert League con-
Grant Union cross country @
test. Echo was just too
record. The Lady Panthers
Baker Invitational, Baker City Golf
much for the Tigers, who
will look to return to their
Course, time TBA
fell 58-13 on the road.
winning ways on Friday,
The loss drops the
Sept. 30, when they host
SATURDAY, OCT. 1
Tigers’ season mark to 1-3
Huntington. Tipoff for that
Grant Union volleyball @ Enter-
with a 1-3 league record
contest is scheduled for
prise, noon
5 p.m.
thus far.
The last football game Grant Union volleyball vs. Hep-
pner @ Enterprise HS, 2 p.m
GU girls place
of the weekend had the
Prairie City volleyball vs.
second, boys eighth at
Grant Union Prospectors
Jordan Valley @ Monument
Champs Invite
travel to Hermiston High
HS, 1:30 p.m.
LEBANON — The
School looking to enter
Prairie City volleyball @ Dayville/
Grant Union boys and girls
the win column for the first
Monument, 3 p.m.
cross country teams headed
time this season as they
to Lebanon to participate
took on another winless Dayville/Monument volleyball
vs. Jordan Valley @ Monument
in the Champs Invite and
team in the Irrigon Knights
HS, Noon
left with a pair of Top 10
in a Blue Mountain Confer-
ence game.
team finishes in a field that
Dayville/Monument volleyball
vs. Prairie City @ Monument
included more than 40 Ore-
The Pros would come
HS, 3 p.m.
gon high schools.
up just short of that goal,
The Lady Pros placed
falling to the Knights in a
TUESDAY, OCT. 4
second in the 3,000 meter
close contest that ended
Grant Union volleyball @ Crane,
event with 28 points, los-
with them on the wrong
6:30 p.m.
ing out to eventual winners
side of a 32-28 scoreboard.
Home games in bold
Oregon Episcopal by a sin-
The loss keeps Grant Union
gle team point.
winless on the season at
Sophomore Maddie
0-4, with an 0-2 mark in the
Bailey paced the Lady Pros with a time of
Blue Mountain Conference.
All three Grant County teams are at 14:15.18, good enough for third place over-
home this week following their road trips. all. Fellow sophomore Abby Justice fin-
Prairie City/Burnt River will look to keep ished eighth with a time of 15:35.00.
The Lady Pros had another Top 10 fin-
its momentum going against Huntington on
Friday, Sept. 30, at Prairie City High School. isher in junior Aliciana Archibald, who
finished ninth with a time of 15:41.10.
Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Dayville/Monument will be looking for Sophomore Macy Carter finished just
its second win of the season on Friday when outside the Top 10 at 11th with a time of
the Tigers host South Wasco County. Kick- 15:47.38.
off is scheduled for 1 p.m.
The Grant Union boys finished eighth
Grant Union will have another chance in the 5,000 meter race with 254 team
to get into the win column on Friday when points. The Pros were just behind sev-
Lyle/Wishram makes the trip from Washing- enth-place Vernonia, which finished with
ton state to John Day. Kickoff is scheduled 242 team points, and ahead of ninth-place
Banks, which finished with 271.
for 6 p.m.
Senior Brady Dole was the top finisher
Lady Pros pick up 3-1 win
for the Prospector cross country team, fin-
over Irrigon
ishing 12th out of 183 runners with a time
IRRIGON — The eighth-ranked Grant of 18:01.12. Grant Union’s second-fastest
Union volleyball team traveled to Irrigon on runner on the afternoon was senior Quinn
Wednesday, Sept. 21, for a Blue Mountain Larson, who finished 41st with a time of
19:22.89.
Conference match and left with a 3-1 win.
Sophomore Logan Randleas had a
The contest was the first league match of
the season for the Lady Pros, who pushed respectable showing in Lebanon, finishing
80th with a time of 20:48.93. Junior Sky-
their record to 10-5 following the victory.
Scores for the match were 25-17, 15-25, lor Boyd was the final Grant Union runner
to place inside the top 100, finishing 92nd
25-19 and 25-18.
Grant Union was scheduled to host Burns with a time of 21:13.25.
The Grant Union cross country teams
in a non-conference matchup on Tuesday,
Sept. 27, with a 6 p.m. start time (after press will look for another strong showing when
time for the Blue Mountain Eagle). The Lady they head to the Baker Invitational on Fri-
Pros will look to add another league win to day, Sept. 30. The meet is being held at the
their record when they host Weston-McE- Baker City Golf Course, with a start time
wen on Thursday, Sept. 29. Tipoff for that to be determined.
Grant County football teams
finish the week 1-2
SPORTS
SCHEDULE
Kathy Aney/East Oregonian
Jesse Brown of Baker City wrestles his steer on Sept. 15, 2022, at the Pendleton Round-Up.
Champing at the bit
Baker steer wrestler
preps for berth in
National Finals Rodeo
By JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
“THAT’S THE NUMBER ONE GOAL.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE THERE.”
— Steer wrestler Jesse Brown, referring to the National Finals Rodeo
spot in the National Finals without
any great drama. In 2021 Brown
was ranked second in earnings at
the end of the season.
But 2020 was quite a differ-
ent situation — and not only
because the pandemic inter-
rupted the rodeo schedule at
times.
In late September of that year,
just before he competed in his
final rodeo in Texas, Brown was
in 16th place, just $500 out of
15th and a berth in the National
Finals.
One of his two closest compet-
itors was at a rodeo in New Jersey.
The other was in South Dakota.
with his biggest paycheck by far.
Brown won $100,000 as
ow that the pres-
the steer wrestling champion
sure’s off, Jesse
on March 6 at The American, a
Brown only has to
rodeo in Arlington, Texas.
worry about leaping
Although that rodeo didn’t
off a horse galloping
count toward qualifying for the
at 25 mph and landing on a quar-
National Finals, the payout easily
ter-ton of uncooperative muscle
boosted Brown’s earnings above
and bone.
his previous record from 2021.
But in the rodeo arena, at least,
He’s earned another $91,000
he has a level of control.
from “official” events this year.
Waiting on elements over
Brown said he’s generally
which he has no influence is a
happy with his performance this
different matter — tougher than
season.
wrestling a steer to the ground.
He spent much of the year
Tougher mentally, anyway.
traveling with fellow steer wres-
tler J.D. Struxness of Minnesota.
Watching helplessly as results
Struxness is ranked
from his competitors
appear on a cellphone HAINES STEER WRESTLER RANKED 20TH
fifth.
“We’ve pushed each
screen is exhausting in Mike McGinn of Haines is the 20th-ranked steer wrestler
other,”
Brown said.
its way.
in the world, with earnings this year of $63,557.
But a cellphone isn’t
Most recently, he
likely to crack your ribs
placed fifth at the Pend-
Brown, who played foot- leton Round-Up.
or rearrange your vertebrae.
Brown, a professional steer ball at Washington State Univer-
“Probably my favorite rodeo
wrestler from Baker City, knows sity before transferring to Mon- of the year,” Brown said.
about having his nerves wracked tana State University — where
In 2019 he set the Round-Up’s
while he waits to find out if his he competed in team roping steer wrestling record, bringing
months of toil — dozens of hours and earned a degree in busi- down his steer in 3.7 seconds.
driving through the night, seconds ness management — before tak-
Getting ready for Vegas
of exquisite focus as his horse ing up rodeo full time, had to
As a National Finals veteran,
pulls beside a steer — will pay off monitor results on his phone
that day.
Brown said he feels confident
with the ultimate reward.
That’s a berth in the National
When the numbers were that he knows how to prepare for
Finals Rodeo, the annual 10-day finally tallied he had made it — the event, set for Dec. 1-10.
event in early December at the by a margin of $1,650.
“I know how it works now,”
Thomas and Mack Center in Las
“When you’re close to 15th he said.
Vegas.
it’s kind of an uneasy feeling,”
In particular, Brown said he
The Super Bowl of rodeo.
Brown said. “You don’t want to understands how busy he’ll be,
“That’s the number one goal,” be on the other side of it.”
with sponsor commitments and
Brown, 30, said in a phone inter-
The 2020 season was differ- other tasks, each day leading up
view on Sept. 20. “Everybody ent in another sense.
to the evening performance.
That year, due to the pan-
wants to be there.”
“Knowing that routine will be
And for the third straight year, demic, the National Finals were nice,” he said.
Brown will be there.
moved from Las Vegas to Texas.
He’s also looking forward to
With the season wrapping up Brown was grateful to qual- having family among the 20,000
at the end of this month, Brown is ify, but he was disappointed that spectators.
11th in the world steer wrestling he didn’t get to compete in the
He said his parents, Jim and
standings, comfortably within Thomas and Mack Center.
Vicki Brown, plan to attend all
He finally had that chance in 10 nights, and other relatives and
the top 15 who qualify for the
December 2021.
National Finals.
friends probably will attend some
“I’m safe right now,” he said.
Brown finished the year performances.
This is the second straight year ranked sixth, with yearly earn-
“It’s always a blast to see
that Brown, a 2011 Baker High ings of $165,000.
everybody,” he said. “It’s a fun
He kicked off the 2022 season time.”
School graduate, has solidified his
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