THE GAZFTTE-TIMES, Heppner, OR, Thursday, Jan. 13, 1977, Page 7
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Icy shooting, worse
board work dooms HHS
. It was a bad day to start the
conference off. The skies were
dark, the roads were slick and
Pilot Rock was in the mood to
destroy opponents.
Heppner slid into Pilot
Rock, looking for their first
conference win and an upset
over the pre-season favorite
Rockets.
What they got was a cold
welcome and a sad goodbye,
to the tune of 56-35. It was
lowest point total by Heppner
this season.
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Griebs pace win
Heppner's Fil'y junior var
sity remained undefeated
ursday, with a 26-23 tri-
mph over visiting Pendleton.
It was the sixth win in a row
without a loss for the Hal
Whitaker-coached Fillies.
-. But this one wasn't as
mundane as the five previous
contests. The closest any team
had come before the Bucks
was a 36-29 win two weeks ago
over Dayville.
Pendleton held an edge late
in the game, but a fourth
period rally, sparked by a pair
of fielders from Julie Grieb
and five free throws, boosted
the Fillies past their foes.
"c Heppner slipped to a one
point edge after a quarter,
paced by Grieb's four point
effort. At the end of the half,
the Fillies had corralled the
Bucks for a 13-9 intermission
lead.
Julie Grieb scored six of her
game high ten points in the
first half.
f A slow third period plagued
the Fillies and they dropped
their lead and trailed by two
heading into the final stanza.
The Bucks outscored Hep
pner, 10-4, in the third when
Geri Grieb and Jana Steagall
came up with the lone Hep
pner buckets.
Julie Grieb canned two
fielders and Steagall and
Laurie Harrison each sunk a
pair of free throws to pace
Heppner in the fourth and
rally quarter.
The Bucks could muster one
fielder and two gift tosses in
that fourth period.
The Fillies won the game at
the line. Pendleton outshot
Heppner from the field, 10-9,
The big problem wasn't the
cold gym or the icy roads. It
was rebounds.
The Rockets rode the
boards all night, blasting off
for 57 rebounds to Heppner's
23. Coupled with chilly field
goal shooting, the Mustangs
couldn't climb out.
Heppner dropped behind,
16-8, after a period and didn't
see the light of hope again. At
the half, the score was 30-17
and at the end of three, it was
doubled at 44-21.
The Mustangs fired 5 for 64
Come ffrom behind
falls short, 52-50
A desperation, final second
shot hit the hoop a moment
after the buzzer and a second
half charge fell short to yank
Heppner's Filly girls into the
loser's column this week.
Heppner dropped to 2-5
overall and 1-3 in league with
back to back two point losses
to Pendleton and Pilot Rock.
Pilot Rock was a league game
and moved Heppner into third
behind Weston-McEwen and
Pilot Rock.
According to Heppner head
coach Rebecca Randall, if
Pilot Rock would have beaten
them much worse, they would
have gained five auzi points
and the Fillies would be out of
the action. But the close loss
savored a couple auzi points
for Heppner and they are still
in the running. They will have
to win the rest of the con
ference games, however, Ran
dall" said, starting with Ore
gon Trail next week. , ?:
Heppner came from behind
with Jackie Mollahan leading
the way to have a shot at Pilot
Rock in the waning seconds.
With :21 remaining on the
but the Fillies canned eight of
20 gift toss tries to four eight
for Pendleton.
Julie Grieb paced the scor
ers with ten points, followed
by Geri Grieb with five,
Steagall and Harrison with
four, Cindy Kerr with two and
Lynne Gochnauer with one
point.
Stephanie Centre scored ten
points for the Bucks.
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from the field, a lowly 23 per
cent. The Rockets, led by Jeff
Lavender with 20, hit 21 of 59
tries for 35 per cent.
Pilot Rock earned another
nine point difference at the
line. The Rockets canned 14 of
24 free throws to five of 10 for
the visiting Mustangs.
Jerry Cutsforth paced Hep
- pner with nine points, hitting
four of nine attempts from the
field. Ken Grieb added six,
Brian Marlin had five.
The game, which knocked
Heppner to 0-1 in league and
clock, Heppner had erased a
12 point halftime deficit and
til Tiger-Scots
Saturday at 8.
Oregon Trail,
Friday at 8.
Grieb are leading junior
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1-7 overall, was without much
consequence for the Heppner
unit. Except in turnovers
where the Mustangs cut their
mistakes to 17 while PR
goofed 26 times, it was a cool
night.
Lavender paced PR with
20, followed by Curt Ward
with 11 and Marty Perrine
with nine.
On the boards, Heppner's
leading rebounder was Cuts
forth and Kevin Haguewood,
each grabbing four.
trailed, 52-50. Even though
they had the ball, the score
ended that way.
The Fillies started off cool
and trailed by six at the end of
one quarter, 12-6. Teri Con
nor, who led all scorers with
17, had four in the first period. (
Connor didn't let up, can
ning three fielders and a free
throw to pace the Rockettes
to a 15-9 second period edge
and a 12 point intermission
lead.
Heppner sliced two points
off the margin in the third
quarter, when Julie Grieb
came off the bench to score six
points and lead Heppner,
15-13, over PR.
Maureen Healy, scoring 12
points in the contest, had five
in the third stanza.
Then Mollahan cut loose.
The sophomore guard dump
ed in 12 fourth period points
to spark a Filly rally that
pulled to within a single
bucket before the final buzzer
cut the effort short.
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adras spoils weekend
After seeing them trounced
in their league opener, it
wasn't a real welcome sight
for Heppner fans to see Mad
ras on the Mustangs' schedule
the next night.
Madras, an AA school,
jumped past a first period
scrapping with Heppner and
exploded in the final three
periods to take a 75-50 win.
Heppner dropped to 1-8 with
the loss.
Heppner looked good in the
first period, but after that, it
came only in short spurts.
The Mustangs stayed with
Fourth quarter
rally sparks
Ukiah over lone
A fourth quarter rally,
brought on by scrappy re
bounding, boosted Ukiah past
a stubborn lone Cardinal
female hoop scjuad lat week,
22-14.
lone held a 10-9 edge after
three quarters, but were out
scored in the fourth stanza,
13-4. Part of the rally that
Pirates
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Umapine
Bouncing back from two
conference setbacks this
weekend, Riverside bombed
Umapine 79-26 in non-league
basketball action Tuesday
night at Boardman.
Four Pirate players hit for
double figures as Riverside
shot 50 per cent (37-74) from
the field.
Steve Wilkie led the Pirate
scoring attack with 15 points
and Doug Price added 12.
Luke Maynard and Scott Witt
both contributed 10 points.
Maynard and Witt grabbed
13 rebounds each as Riverside
dominated the boards 67-29.
Riverside is now 6-4 on the
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the lane for two against
inthe taller, more physical Mad
ras in the first period, trailing
15-11 at the eight minute
mark.
Ken Grieb, who led Hep
pner with nine points, had five
in the first period.
Madras shut Heppner down
in the second period, pound
ing them 21-8 to hold a
commanding, 36-19 intermis
sion edge. The story was the
same in the third period, 20-8,
and Madras took a 56-27 lead.
The biggest lead in the
contest was 31 points early in
the fourth period. But the
Mustangs came on strong in
produced more points for
Ukiah in the fourth period
than in the other three com
bined, was due to board work.
According to Martha Doher
ty, lone coach, two Cardinal
girls fouled out in the fourth
period and Ukiah 's big girls
went to work.
Ukiah threw a front line at
lone that included girls 5-11,
5-10 and 5-8. The definite
height advantage, coupled
with the fouls, produced the
untimely fourth period rally.
lone was whistled for 17
fouls to seven for Ukiah.
Despite the difference there,
Ukiah had a poor night at the
line, hitting two of 13 tries,
lone sunk zero of two at
tempts. Ukiah blanked lone in the
first period, trailing 3-0 after
one quarter. By halftime, lone
was within a fielder at 6-4 and
had taken a slim one point
edge by the end of three.
Martha McEIligott and Ar
ietta Aldrich paced lone with
six points each. Carol Mc
EIligott added two.
Mabbott had six for Ukiah,
followed by Tice with five,
Barber and Munger with four
and Monoghan with three.
lone had seven field goals to
Ukiah's 10.
The Cards host Heppner
today at 6 and 8 p.m.
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Madras Saturday.
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the latter minutes.'outscoring'
the Madras' relief, 23-19.
Heppner was outshot from
the field, 17-28. At the line,
Heppner hit 16 of 29 tries
while Madras' White Buffalo
stampeded the charity stripe
for 19 of 27 attempts.
Following Grieb for the
lone junior high
stomps Arlington
Ione's junior high netters
pounded Arlington in a pair of
contests last week. The 'A'
squad blasted the Honkers,
40-25, behind the 23 point
performance by Scott Martin.
jerry Martin, coach of the
eighth grade hardwood team,
praised his high point player,
Martin, for a "fine all-around
game."
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eppner, lone
youths
Three boys and two girls
from lone and Heppner will
represent the Heppner Elks'
Lodge on Jan . 22 at the district
Elks' free throw shoot compe
tition in Hermiston.
The local competition, di
rected by George Koffler and
sponsored by the local Elks'
Club, saw a turnout of 65
contestants, including 51 boys
and 14 girls.
There were three age divis
ions for both boys and girls.
Winner of the 8-9 age group for
boys was Todd Gorham, Hep
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58-50
Heppner's junior varsity
Mustangs were a step behind
Pilot Rock all night last
Friday, falling behind by four
at halftime and ending up
eight points short of their
hosts, 58-50.
Despite a hearty effort by
Howard Huddleston in the
first half, Heppner fell back
by one at the end of one
quarter and by four at half
time. PR picked up one more
point in the third period and
three more in the final stanza.
It was somewhat of a return
of Huddleston's expected per-
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formance. The lanky, 6-5
sophomore was aggressive
and powerful in the first half,
but admitted tiring in the
second half.
Huddleston came up with
12 points to pace Heppner,
followed by Mark Piper with
11 and Dave Piper with 10.
Curtis Sweek and Bob Miller
each had seven and Randy
Warden added three.
Christonson led the Rockets
with 19 and Britt had 15.
Heppner was outshot from
the floor. 22-19. At the line,
the Mustangs hit 12 of 32
while PR made 14 of 26 tries.
' Mustangs, Jerry Cutsforth
had eight and Dennis Peck
had seven. Cosgrove had 14
and Brooks 10 in Madras' 10
man scoring attack.
The Mustangs shot 30 per
cent while Madras hit 39. Carl
Christman led Heppner with
five assists in the contest.
Following Martin, Ralph
Morter had six points, fol
lowed by Mark Patton with
four, Gregg Rietmann with
three, Treve Peterson and
Sean La Rue with two each.
In the 'B' game, lone
crunched their foes, 28-16.
John Murray scored eight
points to lead scorers.
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pner, who hit 12 of 25 gift toss
tries. There were no girls in
that age group.
In the 10-11 age group, Mark
Meyers, lone, hit 12 of 25 and
Annie Murray, lone, hit five of
25 to take top honors.
Mike Walsingham, Hep
pner, connected on 18 of 25
tries and Ione's Lori Prock
dropped 10 of 25 to win the
12-13 age group.
Twenty-one shooters com
peted from lone and 44 from
Heppner.
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