COMMUNITY SPORTS

GUN CLUB HOSTS ANNUAL SUMMER SHOOT

About 130 trap shooters are expected in town this weekend for the La Grande Gun Clubs annual Summer Shoot.

The three-day Amateur Trapshooting Association event at the club, three miles east of La Grande on Highway 30, will feature singles, doubles and handicapped shooting.

Shooting starts at 8:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday. Trophies will be awarded to the winners in each event and class.

Fridays featured event is the 60-bird buddy, in which a perfect 60 score wins the Walker Pot, a pool that has $1,607 in it.

Saturdays main events are the Wildhorse Handicap and the Budweiser 100 16-yard Targets, with $500 added to each purse.

The Last Chance Handicap on Sunday also has $500 added to the purse.

A steak dinner Saturday night at the Gun Club costs $5 per person and starts at 6.

UNION COUNTY ASA TEAM STARTS SEASON 0-4

The Williams Brothers Road Warriors, a 12-younger ASA B softball team, went 0-4 last weekend at its first tournament.

The team, made up of 10-, 11- and 12-year-olds from throughout Union County, lost three games Saturday. The Hillsboro Thunder won the first game 9-6, with Williams Brothers Carrie Reynolds getting four strikeouts and two RBIs. Jennifer Brotherton, Katie Griffin, Mandi Griffin and Carrie Stratton each had a hit in that game.

The Dalles Crush crushed Williams Brothers 15-0 in the second game Saturday.

The David Douglas Red Hots won the third game 12-8. Reynolds got nine strikeouts in that game, and Adrienne Willis, Reynolds and Randa Williams each had two hits.

On Sunday, the Portland Extreme beat Williams Brothers 15-3.

Coach Teresa Stratton said the team made too many errors in its closer games. Were just learning, she said. Its a whole different game.

The team hopes to schedule a doubleheader against Hermiston before its next tournament, June 23 in Boise.

WEST LEADS RODEO CLUB AT WEEKEND EVENTS

Blake West of Union won the saddle bronc riding last weekend at the Malheur County High School Rodeo in Ontario.

Wests score of 71 points was the only qualified ride in Ontario. He also took fifth in the saddle bronc at the Oregon Trail High School Rodeo in Baker City with a score of 52.

Eastern Oregon High School Rodeo Club teammate Garrett Evans of Elgin split for all-around cowboy honors in Baker City. Evans was third in saddle bronc with a 57 and third with Elgins Brandon Evans in team roping at 12.48 seconds.

Brian Sanders of Elgin placed in the top four three times in two events at the two rodeos. He was third in bareback riding in Ontario with a 53, then split third and fourth place in bareback in Baker City with teammate Jared Bain of Haines; both had a 57. Sanders was also third in bull riding with another 57.

Elgins Kristi Case was in the top six in two events at the two rodeos. She was fourth in barrel racing (18.28 seconds) at Baker City after taking sixth in Ontario (17.80), and she teamed with La Grandes Travis Hampton to finish sixth in team roping in Baker City at 15.59.

Bain scored a 38 in bareback riding in Ontario, good for sixth place. Sally Jane Brown of Baker City was fourth in goat tying in Ontario (10.9 seconds) and seventh in Baker (11.98).

EASTERN COWBOYS COMPETE AT NEW RODEO IN UTAH

OGDEN, Utah Four members of the Eastern Oregon University rodeo team competed last weekend at the first College Rodeo Championship Series rodeo here.

The CRCS is a qualifier for the College National Finals Rodeo, which starts June 11 in Casper, Wyo.

None of the Mountaineers qualified for the CNFR at the Ogden rodeo, but a couple came close. Kurt Haueter rode one of his two bulls and advanced to the short-go, where the Sankey Rodeo Company stock bucked him and 10 others off. Haueter finished 12th out of 30 cowboys. George Gillespie rode one of his two saddle broncs but missed the short-go by four points. Gillespie was 16th out of 30.

Jake Seavert teamed with Kaiger Braseth of La Grande and the University of Idaho had one qualified run in team roping but missed the finals. Easterns David Temple and Tyler Bronkhorst of Walla Walla Community College failed to turn in a qualified run in team roping.