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' r' f " v -f " if 0, 0, v 0f 1 f - f f,- f T - r i r r r-r"-ry-i wrr r- . 0 4 P , The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore., Thursday. May 19, 1977 SEVEN 4 Saturday opens k :3L J s from the G-T sports desk S r f'AW Love those Blazers. Having recently arrived here from Portland, I can attest to the fact that those 12 guys who, "just happen to play basketball," as Walton would put it, have brilliantly succeeded in turning on an entire city. And judging from early indications, I'd have to say that repercussions of the electricity being generated at Memorial .Coliseum are being felt quite strongly here in my new home. I had the pleasure of attending a party for 12,000 a couple of weeks ago at the MC when the Blazers sent the Nuggets spinning in bewilderment back to the Rockies. There's something special about hearing an arena choir, shouting a refrain of "Luke," guide one of the big man's double-pump jumpers through the net. Or watching Johnny D. make a lightning-quick steal at mid-court and barely touch the floor on his way to a sweeping, glass-rattling slam dunk. Or the Chief himself, threading the needle with passes calling for the precision of a watchmaker and the timing of the finest chronometer in the shop. Or Lionel, floating all over the court, controlling the action with such intensity and poise it appears he's been doing it forever. Or the list goes on and on. That was the game when Johnny D. was given his first starting shot and almost made everyone forget about the guy with the funny last name. Almost, but not quite. All year long, Twardzik was one of the most consistent performers in the game of basketball. Until Lionel started coming on like gang busters, it was Twardzik who set the pace and made the Blazers click. When a mangled ankle set him down, there was someone else on deck to take his place. And that's the way it is with this team everybody gets a piece of the action. No Marquette star system on this club, thank you. Gilliam comes off the bench to throw in 10 of 12. Neal and Jones fill up the middle in fine style. Wally tosses in some timely beauties. BG roars out of the pack on occasion. Each game it's a different face, but the story's the same. Just ask the Bulls, Nuggets and Lakers who they're picking in the finals. You can have Jabbar going one-on-one with the Western Conference. Or Dr. J. giving the Philly dunk junkies a fix now and then (a sight to behold nonetheless ) . Or David Thompson blasting off while the rest of the Nuggets run and hide. It may be exciting, but it doesn't win games. Team ball is where it's at and the Blazers know it. Bring on those 76'ers or bring on those Rockets, it doesn't matter, those Blazers are Red Hot and Rollin'. lone Jr. High leads track meet lone dominated the cross country run, with Martin fin ishing in first place, followed by Shawn LaRue in second, Craig Ray in third, Brett Shear in fourth and Roger Morter in fifth place. In the 220-yard run, Peter son, Rietmann and Murray swept to a 1, 2, 3 finish. Paul Snow placed fifth in the 440. Both the 70-yard high hur dles and the 100-yard low hur dles were won by Thompson. Scott LaRue took third in the highs and Fetsch was second in the lows. The 100-yard dash was won by Murray, and Fetsch fin ished in third place. Coach Jerry Martin will next take his team to the county meet scheduled for Thursday, May 19, at Blue Mountain Community College. Two school records and first place finishes in eight of ten events helped the lone Junior High School boys' track team score a victory in a meet held Thursday at Echo. Ione's total of 75 points led the field of five teams and was followed by Pleasant Valley with 62, Oregon Trail with 35, Umatilla with 26 and Helix with eight points. Leslie Thompson's winning high jump of 5'5" set a new school standard and Richard Ladd's second place shot put of 34'6" also broke the old record. In the high jump, Ione's Scott Martin and Gregg Rietmann placed third and fourth, respectively. Relay wins were recorded by lone in both the 440 and the 880-yard events. The 440 relay team included John Murray, Duane Fetsch, Rietmann and Treve Peterson, while Riet mann, Peterson, Martin and Thompson teamed for the 880 win. The lone Junior High School girls' track team took first place honors in the 880 yard medley relay and one member set a new school high jump record en route to a second place finish out of five teams during a meet held last Thurs day at Echo. Also competing in the meet were teams from Oregon Trail, Pleasant View, Helix and Umapine. The lone team, coached by Robert Beitel, won the relay event with a team consisting of Tina Lindstrom, Lori Mey ers, Margaret Kincaid and Kris Pettyjohn. In the high jump, Kincaid took second place with a new record and season best of 47". Michelle LaRue placed third in the event. In other events, lone placed third in the 4x100 relay with a team of Margaret Doherty, Diane Morter, LaRue and Kincaid. In the 100 yard dash, Doherty tied for second and Kincaid tied for fifth place. Kris Pettyjohn placed sec ond in the cross country run, followed by Lisa Meyers in third, Diane Morter in fifth and Lori Prock in seventh. Doherty and Kincaid placed second and third, respective ly, in the 220 yard run. Tina Lindstrom tied for fifth Variety of Colors and Sizes Cathy scarves $2o to $500 676-5561 Heppner 1 " V " Heppner's Dale Holland looks Condon. The Mustangs lost the Wasco County on May 12. Hi state tourney Heppner High School golfer Vicki Edmundson led the field by a one-shot margin after the in the 70-yard low hurdles and Kincaid threw the shot for a fourth place finish. In the long jump, Kincaid placed fifth. The fourth best throws of the afternoon were turned in by Lindstrom in the discus and Kincaid in the softball toss. The team will compete at the county meet on Thursday, May 19, at Blue Mountain Community College. The meet will include teams from both Morrow and Umatilla Coun ties and will be broken into four categories seventh grade girls, seventh grade boys, eighth grade girls, and eighth grade boys. lone runners top decathlon lone junior high athletes John Murray and Leslie Thompson placed first and second in their age groups in an all-comers decathlon for seventh and eighth graders Saturday in Hermiston. Murray's total of 3921 points for Graduation Shop early gU-JR. 11 wr r is Lebush Shoppe r for a steal opportunity during baseball action Tuesday with game 7-2 and the loss comes on the heels of a 5-1 defeat by S golfers in first round of the Oregon high school girls' golf champion ship at Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland. Edmundson put together a round of 41-4384 and leads three other golfers tied for second at 85. The group includes defending state champion Nancy Peck, Dis trict 7 tournament medalist Robin Teater of Richmond and Greta Thompson of Astor ia. Charlie Rawlins of Heppner shot a round of 36-3874 to finish as low medalist in the District 7 AA and A golf tournament at McNary Golf Course Monday. By finishing among the top four individuals, Rawlins ad vances to the state champ ionship next Monday and Tuesday at McNary Golf Course in Portland. Rawlins finished three strokes ahead of the second place golfer, Steve Talue, of Grant Union. With Rawlins, the Heppner team of Jeff Edmundson, 42-4486; Mark Sargent, was nearly 400 points ahead of the runnerup in the seventh grade division. Thompson set a meet record in the 110-yard hurdles on his way to a second place finish behind George Fraga of Ken newick. fm m for a good selection! TOPS $995 t0$1295 4 X 3 38-5492, and Jerry Cutsforth, 49-55104 combined for a third place team finish. r Business MEDICAL SUPPLIES HERMISTON DRUG Free prescription Mail Service. Open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Gifts for all occasions. Snack Bar FURNITURE WILCOX FURNITURE AND APPLIANCES See us before you buy your color TV or stereo system. 254 W. Hermiston Ave. 5C7-2201 Hermiston CONSTRUCTION Circle "D" Trenching Licensed & Bonded Vermeer Trencher 14" wide x 8' deep 680 Case Hoe Septic Tanks, Etc. Dump Truck for Hire Robert Duncan 989-8493 AUTOMOTIVE Serving all this area for over 20 years. JONES RADIATOR SERVICE 1315 North 1st St. Hermiston, OR 97838 Ph. 567-6916 OPTOMETRIST DR. E.K. SCHAFFITZ Optometrist Next to Hotel Heppner entrance. 678-9465 Heppner Angling season in Eastern Oregon opens Saturday, May 21, and early reports indicate there will be plenty of activity, according to Glen Wood of the State Game Commission. Willow and Rhea Creeks and Cutsforth Pond will each be stocked on May 18 with 1,000 Mustang thinclads qualify for The Heppner High School track team qualified three boys in six individual events, two girls in five individual events and one girls' relay team for the state champion ship during District 7A track action Saturday at Blue Moun tain Community College. In team scoring, Heppner finished a strong second to Helix in the boys' bracket while the Heppner girls came home with a third place stand ing. Marty Smith took district honors in two events, with first place throws in both the discus and shot. Smith threw the discus 124'1" and won the shot put with a toss of 45'7'2". Dave Allstott was second in all three jumping events. His 43'11?." triple jump set a new school record and was the second best Class A jump recorded in the state this year. Allstott's 6'5'4" high jump also set a new school mark C.B. SERVICE Terry's CB Consulting Service 155 Rock Street P.O. Box 356 Heppner "Fox Hunter" Ch. 19 Terry Carter 676-5192 GLASS COMMERCIAL GLASS & ALUMINUM. INC. Store Front Systems Gyro-Tech Automatic Doors Glass Sales & Service MICK BURCH pq Phone (503) f IVjLHI 922-4136 CT P.O. Box 1413 Wfl"1 Umatilla, Ore. GYROr- MONUMENTS SWEENEY MORTUARY Cemetery, grave markers. Granite, Marble, Bronze 24-Hr. phone 676-9600 or 676-9226 Also serving lone & Lexington Heppner P.O. Box 97 MEDICAL SUPPLIES MEDICAL CENTER PHARMACY Free mailing service on prescriptions. Hospital Supplies Open Mon.-Fri.,9-6p.m. Sat. 9-1 p.m. Located in the Medical Center, llOOSouthgate, Pendleton 276-1531 AUTOMOTIVE SHERRELL CHEVROLET INC. Complete Sales & Service 3rd & Main Hermiston legal-size Rainbow in the 9-10 inch range. More fish will be added later on in the season, Ward said. Angling appears to be good at Wineland and Bull Prairie Lakes. The outlook at Lake Penland appears fair, with some carry over from last season. Some and he added a 20'9-V long jump. Carl Christman earned a trip to the state champion ships this Friday and Satur day at Lewis and Clark College in Portland with 10'6" pole vault, which was good for a second place finish. Other scorers for the Hep pner boys included Bryan Marlin's third place long jump, Christman's third place javelin throw and fifth place 100-yard dash, Steve Mc Laughlin's fourth place finish in the 120-yard high hurdles and Richard Schmidt's fifth place long jump. Also scoring were Danny Nix, who placed third in the two-mile and sixth in the mile, Jim Parker with a fifth place discus throw and a sixth in the shot, Larry Palmer's fourth place in the two-mile and David Piper, who tallied with a sixth in the 880 and a fifth in the high jump. 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Bass fishing reports are fair to good at the mouth of Willow Creek and at John Day River below Spray, where fish up to 4 lbs. are reported. state State Championship quali fiers for the Heppner girls included the 440-yard relay team of Tammy Lucas, Jackie Mollahan, Laurie Harrison and Maureen Healy, which placed second at the district meet with a time of 53.5. Maureen Healy qualified in three events, setting a new school and new district record along the way. Her winning time of 62.3 in the 440 set a new district mark, while her sec ond place high jump of 5'4" topped the old school record. She also took a second in the 220 in a time of 26.4. Diane Holland's 94'2V dis cus throw was good for a second place finish and her 104'3" javelin throw also placed her in second. Laurie Harrison and Tam my Lucas both scored in indi vidual events, but missed qualifying. Harrison was sixth in the 110-yard high hurdles and Lucas was fifth in the 100-yard dash. 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