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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2017
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Mustangs run to quarterfi nals
HEPPNER
Heppner’s
Beau
Wolters
fi nds
a hole
during
Satur-
day’s
Class
2A First
Round
playoff
game
against
Neah-
Kah-Nie
in Hep-
pner.
Wolters
helped
the Mus-
tangs pile
up 286
rushing
yards as
the team
won its
ninth con-
secutive
playoff
game at
home.
Staff photo by
Kathy Aney
Heppner rolls over Neah-Kah-Nie, wins 9th straight home playoff game
By ERIC SINGER
East Oregonian
2A First Round
HEPPNER — In what has
become a yearly tradition in
Heppner, the Heppner High football
team hosted a fi rst round 2A state
playoff game at Les Payne Field on
Saturday afternoon.
It marks the sixth consecutive
year of opening up the playoffs at
home, and this year the No. 8 seed
Mustangs welcomed the No. 9 seed
Neah-Kah-Nie Pirates to town and
the game played out to a familiar
result. Heppner dominated both
sides of the football and earned
a 54-22 victory, the team’s sixth
consecutive victory overall and
ninth consecutive home win in the
postseason.
“It feels absolutely great,”
Heppner senior Wyatt Steagall said
of the win. “It feels amazing to win
for our fans. This is a football town
and we love winning for our fans.
It’s pretty awesome.”
“Being able to have this for four
years is great and I love it,” senior
Neah-Kah-Nie
Heppner
22
54
Coby Dougherty added. “There’s
no other place I’d rather be right
now than in Heppner, Oregon.”
The win moves Heppner (6-2
overall) into the quarterfi nals next
weekend for a rematch with No.
1 St. Paul, a team that handed the
Mustangs a 40-0 defeat at home in
Week 1. Mustang players said after
the game that they are excited for
the rematch.
“We’re a lot better than we were
back then,” Steagall said. “We’ve
made a lot of changes and I think
it’s going to be one heck of a game
to be honest.”
Heppner’s fi rst offensive drive
resulted in a quick three-and-out,
but the Mustangs made adjust-
ments and thrived. Heppner piled
up 321 yards of total offense and
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Heppner’s Coby Dougherty fi nd a hole during Saturday’s Class 2A
First Round playoff game against Neah-Kah-Nie in Heppner.
forced four turnovers on defense
to help put the Pirates (7-2) away.
All but 35 of those yards came
on the ground, as the Mustang
offensive line continually opened
up holes for running backs Coby
Dougherty and Beau Wolters and
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Saturday Prep Roundup
Locals run
well at
state cross
country
meet
East Oregonian
EUGENE — The 2017
cross country season came to
a close on Saturday afternoon
as all classifi cations ran in the
state championship meet at
Lane Community College.
In the 3A/2A/1A boys
championship,
Heppner’s
Hunter Nichols squeezed onto
the podium with an eighth
place fi nish in the race with a
time of 16 minutes, 50 seconds.
Nichols’ and Heppner’s district
foe, the Union Bobcats, won
the team championship with
42 points and a huge cushion
over second-place Bandon
(124). Union’s Alex Graf-
funder claimed the individual
title with a time of 15:33 and
teammate Tim Stevens was
second place with a time of
15:48, the only two sub-16
minute times of the race.
In 5A girls, Hermiston’s
team fi nished it’s fi nal
OSAA championship race
eighth place with 235 points.
Freshman Amanda Nygard
capped off her standout debut
season as the Bulldogs’ top
fi nisher, coming in 29th place
with a time of 20:13 and senior
Melany Solorio was 43rd with
a time of 20:31. Rounding out
Hermiston’s competitors were
Julianna Joyce in 56th (20:48),
Sidney Tovey 71st (21:34),
Sheila Solorio 72nd (21:41),
Morgan Hancock 78th (22:00)
and Faith Bartch in 91st
(23:05).
The Summit Storm won the
team title in blowout fashion,
as the Storm fi nished with six
runners in the top nine spots.
Summit’s Taylor Vandenborn
won the individual title with a
time of 18:28.
In 5A boys, Hermiston’s
Isaac Sanchez ended his career
as one of the top runners in
school history with a 25th
place fi nish after running a
time of 16:34, and fellow
Bulldog senior Emanuel Ibarra
came in 74th with a time of
17:57.
Crater’s Andy Monroe won
the individual title with a blaz-
ing-fast time of 15:19, helping
his Crater team win the team
title as well.
And in the 4A girls race,
Mac-Hi sophomore Mekenna
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Pro Football
Short week gives Seahawks little time
to lament their growing list of issues
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
RENTON, Wash. —
Maybe it’s best the Seattle
Seahawks don’t have time to
dwell on what went wrong.
By the time Monday
afternoon rolled around, the
Seahawks were trying to put
the mistakes of Sunday’s
17-14 loss to Washington
behind them, knowing
they had barely 72 hours to
prepare for Thursday’s divi-
sional game at Arizona.
But it was hard to ignore
such a sloppy performance
by the Seahawks that featured
16 penalties, two turnovers,
three missed fi eld goals and
Washington scoring with less
than a minute remaining to
walk out of Seattle with an
unlikely victory.
“We’ve got some real
serious stuff we’ve got to get
better at,” Seattle coach Pete
Carroll said.
Carroll was not in the best
of moods Monday, with the
continued penalty problems
at the top of the list. But he
also was irritated by Blair
Walsh’s three missed fi eld
goals, quarterback Russell
Wilson sometimes escaping
the pocket too early, and his
defense surrendering two big
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AP Photo/Stephen Brashear
Seattle Seahawks kicker Blair Walsh (7) walks off the
fi eld after Sunday’s game against Washington in Seattle.
Sports shorts
Stafford helps Lions snap losing
streak with win in Green Bay
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Matthew Staf-
ford passed for 361 yards and two touchdowns
to Marvin Jones, and the Detroit Lions snapped
a three-game losing streak with a 30-17 win on
Monday night over the offensively
challenged Green Bay Packers.
Stafford was 26 of 33,
including 12 of 14 in the fi rst half
with a 25-yard touchdown pass to
Jones. Ameer Abdullah added a
4-yard touchdown run for Detroit
(4-4).
Stafford
Green Bay (4-4) fi nally got
in the end zone on Brett Hundley’s 1-yard
quarterback sneak with 9:52 left.
The Lions answered with Stafford’s 11-yard
touchdown pass to Jones with 8:06 remaining,
putting the game out of reach with a 17-point
lead. Jones had seven catches for 107 yards.
The Packers have lost three straight games.
“We would stay at the team
hotel, and then players
are allowed to go back
home, get what they need
and then go to the game.
So I’d leave the hotel
early morning, go home,
eat breakfast, do my little
ritual, whatever it may be,
some weed, some alcohol
and then go to the game.”
— Josh Gordon
Cleveland Browns WR in a story from
GQ magazine saying that he used
drugs or alchohol before every NFL
game he played. Gordon was recently
reinstated to the NFL after serving
more than a year suspension.
EOU women’s soccer defeats
Northwest to claim CCC title
SPRINGFIELD — With the 2017 Cascade
Collegiate Conference’s regular season title
already in its back pocket, the
Eastern Oregon women’s soccer
team added the CCC tournament
title to its haul on Monday.
The Mountaineers pitched
their third shutout in the last four
days to defeat Northwest 2-0 to
capture the title.
CCC Newcomer of the Year Taylor Boyer
and freshman Morgan Farrington each netted
goals in the game for EOU (13-3-2), with
sophomore goalkeeper Cydni Cottrell making
fi ve saves to notch her 11th shutout.
The win advances EOU to the NAIA
Championships, which starts on Nov. 18. The
Mountaineers will fi nd out their seeding during
the NAIA Women’s Soccer Selection Show on
Nov. 13 at 9 a.m.
THIS DATE IN SPORTS
2007 — Dallas center Mike
Modano breaks Phil Hous-
ley’s NHL record for career
points by an American-born
player with two quick goals
in the opening minutes of the
Stars’ 3-1 victory against San
Jose. Modano, with 1,233
points and 511 goals in 1,253
regular-season games, does
it in 242 fewer games than
Housley.
2010 — Peyton Manning
starts his 200th consecutive
game, a 26-24 loss for
the Colts at Philadelphia.
Manning joins Brett Favre as
the only quarterbacks in NFL
history to start 200 consecu-
tive games.
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