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Schedule woes
Here we go springtime. At least spring sports are right
around the corner whether the area is socked with a couple
snovvflakes or not.
Baseball, track and golf, (this writer's favorite), are slated
to begin in the Columbia Basin Conference during April and
March. And again, the CBC schedule is messed up.
But we must be objective. Nobody in his right mind,
except maybe Jim Scoggins of the Yakima Herald Republic,
could look negatively on something as inanimate as a
baseball schedule.
There are bad points to the slate and there are "no big
deal' points to the schedule, and there aren't really any
great points.
The biggest drawback in
this year's diamond nine cal-
endar is the Mustangs play
only six league games. Couple
that with the fact that Hep
pner was dumped into the
western CBC half with per
ennial powerhouse Sherman
County and that doesn't leave
a heck of a lot of room for
losses.
College teams boast that if
they can win 30 of their games
this year, they'll have a suc
cessful season. And most
other AA high schools can list
14 games on a schedule of
league contenders.
But not the CBC. Six games in the west since lone won't be
fielding a team this year. In the East, each team will have
eight games.
From Mt. Angel at John F. Kennedy High School we find an
example. Alan Howard, former Stanfield basketball coach, is
assistant football and next year to be head basketball coach
at the AA school. That team's schedule, Howard said, slates
14 league games. At Stanfield last year, the Tigers had 12
league games. It is a comparable-sized school in a tighter
knit league.
One must wonder only why and how. Why did the league
coaches and league administrators who made up the
schedule decide to switch Riverside and Heppner in league
halves? And how do they expect a team to compete with a six
league game schedule?
Here's where the objectionalism comes out. The answers
are easy.
Maybe.
At least the second one is easy. All Heppner must do to
have a successful championship bid in the CBC west against
the likes of the Huskies is win. Just win. There will be no
room for losses, so they'll simply have to win.
Not a bad attitude. And it always works.
But back to the schedule.
The west CBC now consists of Sherman County, lone,
Wasco County, Condon and Heppner. Scratch lone from the
list, because they won't field a team this year.
And that leaves four teams. If each team plays the other
three twice, that's six league contests.
The full schedule lists 17 games. All are single headers
except during an Apr. 2 tourney in Pilot Rock. Heppner will
play all five East division squads in non-conference
classification, according to Heppner Athletic Director John
Sporseen.
"We got stuck in the middle," Sporseen says, trying to
answer the first question, "Why?"
Sporseen figures it this way: Riverside and Heppner are
about as inbetween in the league as anybody, mileage-wise.
And anybody who plays against Sherman County and Wasco
has to travel more. So maybe league officials decided they'd
split up the cost between the two schools. During basketball,
Riverside has to play in the league with Sherman and Wasco.
During baseball, Heppner does.
There are more than a couple things wrong with that
theory.
For the first and, of course, most important to fans is this :
it doesn't make a doodley squat whether Riverside or
Heppner plays against Sherman when we talk of dollars. I
mean, both Riverside and Heppner High School are part of
Morrow County Schools. Your dollars in school taxes will
spend just as good in Boardman as they will in Heppner, and
on the road in Sherman and Wasco counties, too.
Since Riverside will undoubtedly play Sherman County at
least once this year, they'll either travel or host. We haven't
seen a Pirate schedule yet, but let's hope the game was
scheduled in Boardman.
Beneficial? Maybe to the players, if they don't have to
travel quite so long. Sometimes a player would just as soon
have that extra 50 miles to sleep if he's comfortable.
Sometimes.
The CBC is a funny league. It stretches from Wasco County
in the west to Weston-McEwen in the east. Not really funny.
From those two spots, there are 130 miles, the way the crow
flies. Unfortunately, as anybody that travels the CBC circuit
knows, the highways in the conference aren't too straight. In
fact, they aren't straight at all.
Look at this fact : Riverside and Heppner are about as close
as you can get and still be 50 miles away from one another.
From RHS to Wasco County is about 73 miles; from Heppner
to Wasco County is about 68. From Riverside to
Weston-McEwen is about 57 miles; from Heppner to WM is
about 60. The way the crow flies isn't really representative,
either. Riverside does have a freeway nearby to travel.
It seems more and more senseless to argue the point,
whatever it is.
Heppner will play six league games and a schedule of 17
games. The main objective to the schedule is that the
Mustangs win all six league games and all 17 on the schedule.
Weighing both sides, it doesn't seem to make that much
difference where the Mustangs are, either, except that it
doesn't seem to make much difference if they'd have stayed
in the east.
To go all the way, the Mustangs would have to face
Sherman anyway, sometime. This way, they get it over in
league play. And all their non-conference openers against
west foes will give them insight as far as playoffs are
concerned, and let's hope they are concerned.
For a guy who has played golf all through school, I sure can
get rattled over a baseball schedule.
W7L PHINNEY
Jackie Mollahan leads a group of six Heppner High School
hoopsters in all-star selections. Ms. Mollahan, a sophomore
guard, was named to the Columbia Basin Conference east
all-stars.
Maureen Healy was named to the second team of CBC east
stars.
Gaining honorable mention status were Deb Holland, Vicki
Edmundson, Guy Kenny, and Ken Grieb in the boys' group.
Mollahan finished the season as Heppner's top point getter
with 138 and an 8.6 average. She was listed tenth in the CBC final
season stats.
She also was seventh in steals, with an average of 3.2 per
game, hawking the ball away 50 times during the season.
Mollahan was sixth in the conference in assists with a 3.1
average and had the highest Filly field goal percentage at 46.
Mollahan was 62 for 134 from the field and canned 24 of 46 tries
from the charity stripe.
Healy, another sophomore Filly, was ranked number two in
conference rebounding, yanking down 210 caroms for a 13.1
average. Kathy Monjay of Riverside had 237 rebounds this year.
Healy was also 14th in scoring with 122 points and a 7.6
average. She was a step ahead of Mollahan with a 3.8 steal
average for fifth place in the league.
Healy was the Fillies' leading rebounder with 210 for the year.
She led the squad with 28 assists and 56 steals.
CBC all-stars for boys and girls follow:
CBC boys1 first team: Jeff Lavender, Pilot Rock, forward;
Dave Simantel, Sherman County, forward; Rich Snow, Oregon
Trail, center; Mike Brown, Umatilla, guard; Doug Warner,
Weston-McEwen, guard; and Bert Baunach, Sherman County,
forward.
Second team: Lyle Brittain, Jeff Woodside, Wasco County;
Craig Colquitt, Sherman County; Marty Perrine, Pilot Rock;
Luke Maynard, Riverside; Don Sutton, Oregon Trail.
Honorable mention: Bert Thayer, Condon; Teri King,
Weston-McEwen; Tim Puckett, Wasco County; Brian Harris,
Condon; Charlie Alford, Weston-McEwen; Chris Haberstick,
Riverside; Tim Sams, Weston-McEwen; Doug Price, River-
Mustangs, Filly s
finish strong
Heppner High School hoop
sters, both boys and girls,
finished high in Columbia
Basin Conference statistics
this season.
The highest spot was achiev
ed by Maureen Healy in re
bounding. Healy, a sophomore
named to the second team
all-stars this week, finished
with 210 caroms for a second
place ranking in the CBC.
Riverside's Kathy Monjay
was first with 237 rebounds.
Healy was fifth in steals
with 56 and 19th in scoring
with an 8.1 point average.
Riverside slates
Donkey basketball
Riverside High School's
Lettermen's Club will wage
Donkey Basketball against a
Boardman civic group, to be
announced, March 9 at 7:30
p.m. The event, comprising 24
burro straddled players, will
be held in the Riverside gym.
Admission is: adults $1.50,
students $1 in advance and
$1.50 at the door, children 11
and under $.75 and pre-schoolers
are free.
Following the (eat of skill
and daring, the Girls Athletic
Stubblefield, Monjay
on tvest CBC stars
Cheryl Stubblefield and
Kathy Monjay of Riverside
were selected to the first
team CBC West Subdistrict
all-conference squad by the
conference coaches last week
end. Stubblefield was sixth in
the league in scoring with a
13.1 average and Monjay led
the league in rebounds, pull
ing down an average of 16.9
Jackie Mollahan, a first team
CBC'er, was sixth in assists
with 50 and 3.1 average; was
seventh in steals with a 3.2
average; and was 10th in
scoring with an 8.6 average.
Other Heppner girls achiev
ing high rankings were Wendy
Meyers, 15th in rebounding
with a 7.2 average; Janice
Healy, 17th in rebounding with
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a 6.1 average; Deb Holland in
rebounding with a 5.1 aver
age; Vicki Edmundson, 15th in
Association ami the Letter
men's Club will sponsor a
slave auction. Buyers can
purchase a slave for an eight
hour day on the Saturday of
their choice. All proceeds will
go toward the purchase of
new athletic uniforms and
equipment.
Halftime entertainment will
feature student magician Jack
Donovan. Donovan will at
tempt an escape stunt while
handcuffed, wrapped in a bag
and hung from a basketball
hoop.
per game.
Joining them on the West
Subdistrict first team was
high-scoring Kelly Lindell of
Wasco County, who scored
nearly 20 points per game.
Also on the first team were
Karla Von Borstal of Sherman
County, Helen Kelly of Wasco
County and Karen Skull of
Sherman.
side; Rick Kurz, Umatilla; KEN GRIEB, Heppner.
CBC east girls' first team : Liz Cahill, Weston-McEwen ; Terry
Connor, Pilot Rock; Sheryl Licht, Weston-McEwen; Cindy
Hamilton, Pilot Rock; JACKIE MOLLAHAN, Heppner.
Second team : Newbold, Weston-McEwen ; Hopkins, Umatilla ;
MAUREEN HEALY, Heppner; Janice Weinke, Pilot Rock;
Kathy Ward, Pilot Rock.
Honorable mention: Cindy Doherty, Pilot Rock; VICKI
EDMUNDSON, Heppner; DEB HOLLAND, Heppner; Trainer,
Umatilla; Kathy Cahill, Weston-McEwen; GUY KENNY,
Heppner; Trudeau, Umatilla; Cook, Oregon Trail; Brown,
Oregon Trail.
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Jackie Mollahan, sophomore guard, drives to the bucket in the
manner that won her first team CBC honors. (G-T Photo)
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Maureen Healy, sophomore forward, was named to the second
CBC team. "Mo" gained a reputation as a leading rebounder.
(G-T Photo)
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