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🌱 Grant Union’s junior high B team breaks through for first win
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- Grant Union’s junior high B team breaks through for first win
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📰 News we're reading
• Junior High Prospectors B Team Overcomes Heppner Pressure for First Win (koin.com) — Grant Union’s junior high B basketball team earned its first win of the season in John Day on November 6, holding off Heppner’s second-half defensive pressure. Hank Giffin scored 10 points as the Prospectors turned a strong first-half lead into a victory. 
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