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Article: Fur flies when these rivals meet.(Sports)(Myrtle Point and Gold Beach are the class of Big Fir League girls teams this season)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2004
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Byline: Curtis Anderson The Register-Guard
Each time the Myrtle Point girls basketball team played Big Fir League rival Gold Beach last year, head coach Marty Stallard walked to a chalkboard after the game, drew the number `4' and circled it.
`The fourth one is the one that counts,' Stallard told his team. `Anybody that doesn't believe it can leave right now.'
He went through that process after losing twice to the Panthers in conference play, and again after losing to Gold Beach in a seeding game for the OSAA Class 2A state tournament in Pendleton.
`I held my breath each time, hoping nobody would walk out of the locker room,' Stallard ...