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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, lleppner, OK. Thursday, Dec. 9. I9TS, Pag i U nion dniis ran THK GAZETTE-TIMES Heppner in opener i O) o) ill JV's falter The only thing the lleppner High School Junior varsity did different than the vanity was get beat earlier in the evening Grant Union's JV pounded Heppner In back to bark con testa this weekend. 75 40 and 61 35. Grant Union, an AA team which is boasting a varsity that is rated sixth in the state, didn't I" beck- after the initial tip off In the first contest on Friday. lleppner picked up ten point performances from Cur tis Sweek and Mark Piper, but never saw daylight as GU jumped out to a 19 i first period edge The lead stretched to 20 by half time when Grant Union outscored the Mustangs. 42 22 An appearance by Howard Huddleston juM lcfore half time seemed to add a spark of life to the Mustang unit and they whittled thei' deficit to IC at the end of the third period Hut. in the fourth quarter. Grant Union outucored llep pner. lid. to regain an even Urger lead for the win. After Swerk and Piper, who also led the squad with eight ant! 10 rebound, respectively. Rob Miller had nine points and five rebounds. Huddleston had ,ve points and four rebound. Hon Ward had three points and Handy Warden added ln Sweck came up with two assists. I' Saturday was no sweeter Instead of 19 J first period core. Ileper had muired sit pm performance and IN. 9 edge Tte btggrr ami lrnngrr f;rant Union built a Ji 1 halftime edge ami ctt ed lo l win Muddlestrtn paced lh Wiw langs with 10 p"' '"ur rrUximH .Sweek followed tttih seven ptnU ami five reUtumt. ptpef with Sis pmnts ami seven retHmt, Warden with five pmnl and even feNnimtt. ami Ward with four points ami as many retmumt (,rast l"ntn, wms (terror Kail. ws ied by rl"e lf 1 JVt tk en Gil hrit m a f'rvi b tV" nrm n lono girts win fti4 "' 's e From the initial tip-off, Mustang fans knew their Heppner basketball unit was in trouble Friday when sixth rated Grant Union of John Day bounced in. Grant Union upheld the fans' belief, blowing Heppner away in back-to-back weekend contests, 85 56 and 78-38. Turnovers by the Mustangs produced many of the GU lay-ins and the win. Heppner fell behind by 14 in the first period and never saw the light again. Grant Union led by quarter scores of 21-7. 42-23. 58-34 and finally the 85-56 final in the Friday game. The Mustangs shot a poor percentage on Friday, hitting 16 of 37 attempts for 43 per cent. GU hit on about 50 per cent of their shots, canning 32 of 65. Tom Dieker, an all-state selection last year, paced the Prospectors with 26 points. Dieker hit nine field goals and eight free throws. The Mustangs were led by sophomore Dennis Peck, who had nine points. Mark Huddleston added eight, while Carl Christman and Wayne Seitz and Mike Smith each had seven. Dieker had eight points in the first period, many on lay-ins, to lead the Prospectors to a 21-7 first period lead. Their lead lengthened in the second period, despite a five point effort by Christman. The Mustangs trailed by 19 at intermission, 42-23. The second half wasn't any better. GU outscored the Mustangs, 43 33 in the second half, hitting 18 fielders to Ileppncr's 11. Grant Union capitalized on 21 of 32 free throw attempts while the Mustangs hit 24 of 40 tries. Kevin Haguewood led the Mustangs on the boards, jerking down nine rebounds as GU outrebounded Heppner, 50-40. HEPPNER (561 FG 3 1 1 3 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 16 FG 4 1 9 6 0 - 4 I 0 Peck Christman Haguewood Huddleston Seitz Marlin Myers , Young ( Skow Cutsforth Rauch Grieb, v Smith TOTALS GRANT UNION (85) i Talus Stout Dicker Porter Duffy Moulton We'tir Lsdd McKmniss Fillys opening gome, 61 - If first game victories are any omen of things to come this year, then Heppner Filly fans should start buying stale . tournament tickets today v. I - f I a; l" - V (i k: it Dion. Holland dflvel lo buchol at ""' Vw"dr- (CT Photo FT 3 F 4 1 4 4 1 2 2 1 1 1 3 2 0 26 F 1 2 4 5 5 2 2 I 5 TP 8 7 3 3 7 3 5 0 4 1 2 0 7 56 TP 8 5 26 14 0 6 10 2 1 2 1 1 3 0 2 0 0 5 24 FT 0 3 8 2 0 t 2 0 1 crush Riverside in Heppner's Filly brigade drove a hapless, basketball skilled inept Riverside into the hardwood last Thursday, 61 28. following a 68 point 1 . Hi - o i j ( ' h ! H i I t I V J Denney Baack TOTAL 0 5 32 Saturday's loss didn't produce any more smiles from the Mustang crowd. Grant Union used Heppner turnovers and sharp shooting to command a 78-38 win. Heppner stayed with the Prospectors for a few minutes in the game, holding a 6-5 lead at one point. But by the time the quarter had ended, GU held a 194 edge they wouldn't relinquish. Dieker again paced the winners, this time with 28 points on 12 field goals and four gift tosses. Mark Huddleston was the first Mustang to hit double figures, adding 11 point to the Heppner cause. Huddleston also led the Mustangs on the boards, with nine rebounds, while Seitz had seven. Turnovers cost Heppner the game. While Heppner couldn't get the ball to the hoop, Grant Union was busy canning 31 of 68 tries from the field. The Mustangs got 48 chances and connected on 10 of them. GU held Heppner to just 16 first half points, leading at the intermission, 37-16. In the third period, Heppner mustered a ten point attack while their stronger AA foe turned in a 24 point quarter to hold a commanding, 61-28 lead. Heppner fell by 42 on field goals but hit two more free throws. The Mustangs were 18 for 32 from the line while GU hit 16 of 28 tries. Talus Stout Dieker Porter Duffy Moulton Sheets Ladd McKinnis Denny Baack TOTAL HEPPNER (38) Marlin Peck Christman Young Haguewood Huddleston Cutsforth Rauch Grieb Smith Seitz Skow TOTAL performance by the Filly jun ior varsity. Riverside's 28 points equal led that of many high school girls' roundball teams. But at times, the Fillies looked as if they could take on many boys' squads and not bat an eye in doing it. lleppner outshot their foes, 28 13 from the field, hitting 38 per cent. Riverside hit 25 per cent, most of those from Stubblcfield from the top of the key. A strong zone defense push ed Riverside outside. They never got under the bucket, lleppner gave up one shot from inside the key. The runaway resembled a thoroughbred taking on a mule in a racing derby. Hep pner raced to a 102 first period lead, stretched that to 23 points by halftime and drove Riverside out of the gym with a fourth period barrage of buckets. A balanced scoring atl k told the story. Riverside didn't know who to defend and the Filly tone more than the Ptrettcs could handle. Jackie Mollahan and Vickl Fdmundson paced the Fillies with nit points .h, fuJtuwed by Wendy Meyers and Teresa Thurmond with eight each. SluMilrfield led all scorers with 12 points. The battle on the boards was all Heppner. loo Paced by a li rrlxnind effort from Maureen Healy, lleppner pounded the board for IS caroms lo Just 23 for the kwers. epner led Riverside in every category. Including turnovers, but the one TO deference wan't enough lo mke up for the 31 point difference 0 3 21 0 5 34 0 13 85 FG FT F TP 2 3 4 7 1 0 2 2 12 4 2 28 4 2 5 10 2 10 5 3 0 5 6 5 4 2 U 1 0 2 2 0 0 5 0 10 3 2 0 2 4 2 31 16 34 78 FG FT F TP 0 3 2 3 10 5 2 2 1 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 5 0 3 5 2 11 1 2 0 4 0 0 1 0 3 2 3 8 0 0 2 0 0 5 2 5 0 0 0 0 10 18 28 38 28 Meyers put up four points in the first period as the Fillies took a 10-2 lead. In the second period, Thurmond hit three fielders to pace Heppner to a 29-8 halftime lead. It was no looking back. In the third period. Stubblefield found her range banging in six points as Riverside slipped past Heppner and whittled a point from their deficit. But In the final eight minutes. Lori Rhea paced Heppner with five point and the Fillies countered River side's eight points with 19 of their own. Meyers. Mollahan and Ed mundson all hit 66 per cent of their field goal, each hitting four of six trie. Maureen Healy led the re bounder with IJ, followed by an U carom effort from Darla Cooper and eight from Diane Holland. HEPPNER (611 fg ft f tp Kenny 10 2 2 Mollahan 4 10 1 Meyer 4 0 Holland. Deb 10 11 Healy, Janice 10 12 Thompson 10 0 1 Rhea 1 I 0 S Edmundson 4 111 Holland, Diane J 0 t I Cooper 1 I I Thurmond 4 0 0 1 Healy. Mauf. 1 1 0 TOTAL 23 I 11 l RIVERSIDE ( H n I tp Hellberg 1 0 S 4 Monjay Jill Stubblefield 1 II Johnson I 2 1 rrag 0 I lUacall Rayner 1 I Daine 0 0 I Hecker 1 1 TOTAL 13 1 14 M k Huddleston Mar and eight Friday Fillys blast Vikings for scond win, 55-21 It was close, .till the tip off. Heppners Filly brigade, scoring record 61 and 55 points in their first two games, de stroyed Umatilla Tuesday. Umatilla, the Fillies' second victim out of the Columbia Basin Conference after River side, bowed to Heppner, 55-21. Heppner jumped out to a 16-2 first period lead and despite Coach Rebecca Ran dall emptying her bench by the end of the second period, Heppner built leads of 35 points before settling for the 34 point difference. Heppner put two girls in Frosh drop tilt Heppner freshmen shot poorly from the line, played good defense, but fell to Riverside's freshmen last week in a see saw battle. 32 31 The Mustangs hit just seven of J3 shots from the gift toss line. Heppner fell behind 8 S at the end of the first eight minute period, bounced back 10 trail I'V one halftime. 14 13 The two squads tradvd buck ets In the second half, each scoring 18 points. Jim Parker led the Mus tangs with 16 po'nls and 12 rebounds. A box anJ one de fense stymied the Mustangs for awhile, but Ron Young got untracked with eight points, followed by Dale Holland's five and Jody Murlatt with two, Holland also had 14 rebounds l lead the Mu tang. Daulton led Riverside with 11 point. Dale Holland, frosh roach, cited "excellent" team de fense and rarker and Young for good performance More sports jnsido t paced Mustangs with double figures that added to gether, would have stopped Umatilla by four points. Vicki Edmundson was the high point with 13 and sophomore Jackie Mollahan, with a soft touch under the bucket, added 12. A 334 halftime edge was aided by the Filly defense and an eight point effort from Ed mundson. By the end of the third period. Heppner's lead was 35 at 47-12. The Viks outscored the Filly girls in the final stama. 9 8. Heppner outshot Umatilla 21 9 from the field. The Fillies hit 12 of 26 free throws while the Viking girls settled for three of 14. Maureen Healy came off the bench to lead the Fillies with rebounds and added eight I, s . II Jacklo Mollahan (10) didn't hi the defender slow her down, lho tophom ore guard scored 12 poinfi Tuestioy V ii ' n 24 1 1 points Saturday (G-T Photo) points on four fielders. Dt-b Holland added six and Shelley Thompson had five. Stacie Simpson and Shelly Trainer had eight points each for Umatilla. Heppner faces their tough- est competition this wees. today at Dayvule. HEPPNER (55 211 fg ft t tp G.Kenny 110 3 J. Mollahan 6 0 3 12 W.Meyers 0 10 1 Deb Holland 2 2 2 6 J. Healy 10 3 2 S.Thompson 2 0 4 5 J. Grieb 0 111 V. Edmundson 4 5 1 IJ D. Holland 0 2 12 D. Cooper 10 0 2 T. Thurmond 0 0 I 0 M. Healy 4 0 18 TOTAL 21 12 17 55 i J. . 5 : 1 .7 I
