DUFUR – The four-year magic carpet ride known as the Dufur football team has been the benchmark for many 1A programs.
During their four consecutive title runs, the Rangers have gone 49-3 over the last four years, including 33 winds in, a row and dominated the Big Sky Conference with seven wins and one forfeit, and outscored opponents by a combined 330-82 margin to take league-championship honors.
Looking to earn their first Baker City bid since 2004, the Dufur Rangers fell behind by a lopsided 16-3 score through one quarter and trailed 51-30 after three periods in what was a season-ending 66-49 loss to Prairie City (25-2) in tonight’s state second round boys hoops contest Friday in Prairie City.
Jacob Justesen scored 28 points, Treve Martin added 24, and Luke Martin rattled off 17 points to move the No. 2-ranked Huskies ahead for an 86-53 trouncing of Condon-Wheeler Friday in a league matchup held in Fossil.
After holding Bryce Harrison and Hunter Winslow to nine first-half points, things looked promising for the South Wasco County Redsides, as they were down 30-16 at the half. Harrison, Winslow and Cooper Johnson then scored a combined 25 points in Condon-Wheeler’s 36-18 second-half spurt to pick up a 66-34 road victory Friday in Maupin.
MORO – In what was a showdown between two of the best teams in the Big Sky Conference, No. 12-ranked Condon-Wheeler was no match for the No. 2 Sherman Huskies.
