The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 11, 1978 NINE
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It's all smiles in lone, as Cardinals' track team members show off trophy for winning the Big Sky Invitational. From
left to right in front row are Larry Snyder, Robin LaRue, Gregg Rietmann, and Bruce Millman. In back row are Terry
Starr, Les Thompson, Treve Peterson, and coach Gordon Meyers. Not pictured are team members Gari Gaustad, Shawn
LaRue, Jerry Rietmann and Duane Fetsch.
ustang thinclads win
Pendleton track meet
No less than five Heppner
High thinclads logged per
sonal bests to help the
Mustangs muscle their way to.
a first-place finish in the May
4 Pendleton Invitational.
A 400 meter relay time of
46.37 set a district landmark
for the Mustangs, thanks to
the efforts of sprinters Sam
Myers, Jim Kenney, Bryan
Marlin and Dennis Peck.
The Mustangs pared off 15
seconds from their previous
best time in the 1600 relay,
racing to a 3:38.9 second-place
finish, with anchorman Myers
scoring a hot 52.9-second leg.
Distance runner Dan Nix
trimmed 7 seconds from his
previous best showing to win
the 3,000 meter run in 9:51
believed to be the second-best
time in the district.
Other personal bests were
achieved by Todd Sherer, who
strided his way to a 4 : 31 win in
the 1,500, and Dennis Peck,
who won the 100 meter in 11.52.
In field events, Jim Parker
logged a personal best in the
discus, with a 129 foot, 8 inch
toss to place third. Bryan
Marlin bested his personal
record in the long jump,
soaring 20 feet, 8 inches for
second place honors, two
inches behind the Mustangs'
Richard Schmidt.
Other first-place showings
were recorded by Myers, with
a 52.75 win in the 400, and
Marty Smith, who put the shot
a winning 47 feet, 9V2 inches,
and won the discus with a 143
foot, 2lA inch hurl.
Other second-place finishers
included Schmidt, with a 40
foot, 3 inch triple jump, and a 6
foot, 4 inch high jump.
Parker's 42 foot, 11 inch effort
in the shot put earned him a
second, as did Smith's 133-foot
javelin toss. Nix placed sec
ond in the 1,500, five seconds
behind Todd Sherer.
Other third place showings
included David Piper's 6 foot,
2 inch mark in the high jump.
Fourth places were logged by
Todd Sherer in the 800, Jim
Kenny in the 200, and Jim
Parker in javelin competition.
The Mustangs faced Pilot
Rock, Weston-McEwen, Pen
dleton's JV and frosh squads,
and JV teams from Hermiston
and Kennewick.
Pennant looms within reach as
eppner nine outclass Sherman
Heppner's varsity baseball
team won a 3-2 thriller during
a May 5 road trip to Sherman
County, bringing the Mus
tangs within one game of first
place in the conference pen
nant race.
Sherman got off to a 2-0 lead
in the third inning, scoring on
two base hits, a sacrifice fly
snd an infield out.
Heppner countered with
three runs in the sixth, on hits
by Randy Worden, Jim Ken
ny, Dale Holland, Lionel Wood
and Bryan Marlin.
Sherman threatened again
in the seventh, but a threw
from Wood cut down a Husky
runner at home plate to end
the game.
Both Mustang pitchers Ran
dy Worden and Dennis Peck
had respectable outings at the
mound, giving up a total of
only five hits. Peck was
credited with the win, reliev
ing Worden in the fifth, with
two men on base and one out.
The Mustang reliever struck
out the first batter he faced,
then forced the next to ground
out, ending the inning.
Heppner hitters fared well,
with Marlin slugging two hits
in three trips to the plate.
Peck went one for two, while
Wood, Groshen and Worden
each got one hit in three
attempts.
Heppner ended the day with
8 hits, 3 runs and two errors,
compared with Sherman's 5
hits, 2 runs and 2 miscues.
Thus far this season, the
Mustangs have logged a 3-1
win-loss record, one place
below league-leading Con
don's 4-1 mark. Sherman is in
third place with 2-2, followed
by Wasco at 1-3 and a hapless
lone with no wins and four
losses. The Mustangs are
scheduled to meet lone at 4
p.m. today.
The lone boys' track squad
took home its first trophy in
more than 10 years, by
upsetting eight other teams to
win the Big Sky Conference
track meet May 6 in Arlington.
Cardinals thinclads chalked
up eight first-place showings,
and scored points in every
event. School records were set
in both the 440 and mile relays.
"Everybody performed up
to capacity," commented an
ecstatic coach Gordon Mey
ers, "we got performance
from everyone."
The record-setting 440 relay
team, consisting of Duane
Fetsch, Treve Peterson, Ro
bin LaRue and Gary Gaustad
took first place with a time of
48.9 seconds.
Fetsch and Peterson
teamed up with Gregg Riet
mann and Leslie Thompson to
win the mile relay in 3:58.1.
Sophomore Jerry Rietmann
soared 10 feet in the pole vault,
to score a personal best and
win first place. Hurler Terry
Starr uncorked a 120 foot 1
inch throw in the discus and a
144 foot 10 inch javelin toss to
take top honors in both events.
Other firsts went to Robin
LaRue, clocked at 16.9 in the
120 high hurdles, and Leslie
Thompson, who won the 330
intermediate hurdles in 45.8.
Thompson finished second
in the pole vault, with a 9 foot 6
inch jump. Other seconds
went to Terry Starr in the shot
put, Shawn LaRue in the mile
run, Robin LaRue in the 330
intermediates, and Larry Sni
der in the two-mile run.
Third place showings were
recorded by Robin LaRue in
the high jump, and Gary
Gaustad in the shot put.
Finishing fourth were Gaus
tad in the long jump and
Shawn LaRue in the high
hurdles. LaRue finished fifth
in high jump competition, as
did Duane Fetsch in the 100
meter and Peterson in both
the 440 and 200 meter runs.
Sixth place Cardinals were
Bruce Millman in the discus
and Gregg Rietmann in the
440.
All totaled, the lone squad
logged 151 points at the
Arlington meet, with Culver
finishing second, a whopping
35 points behind. Other teams
competing were Cascade
Locks, Dufur, Helix, Uma
pine, Wheeler and Arlington.
In lone girls' action at the
Arlington meet, first-place
showings were made by Janet
McElligott with a 95 foot 7 inch
javelin throw, and Grace
McElligott in the two mile run,
to help bring the lady Cards to
a fourth-place finish.
Distance runner Grace took
second in the mile run, and
second-place honors also went
to the 440 relay combo of Janet
McElligott, Lisa Meyers, Mar
garet Kincaid and Brenda
Patton.
Kincaid also took third in
the 220 and fourth in the long
jump. Janet McElligott placed
third in discus competition,
and Lisa Meyers captured
third in the 880. The Cardinal
mile relay team of Kincaid,
Patton, Meyers and Tina
Liiidstrom also finished third
with a time of 4:55.
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Card netters tie,
suffer defeat
Despite singles victories by
Cardinal tennis powers Rick
Gilbert and Susan Thompson,
a May 2 lone road trip to
Umatilla resulted in a 2-2 tie in
boys' competition and a 2-4
loss for the lady Cards.
Gilbert defeated the Vik
ings' Lester Martin 6-2 and 6-0,
while teammate Mike Leavitt
chalked up a 6-4, 6-1 loss to
Umatilla's Tim Maag.
In boys' doubles action,
Ione's Dennis Stefani and Dan
McElligott paired up to hand
Richard Landau and Dave
- Carlson a 6-3, 6-3 defeat, while
fellow Cards Clint Carlson and
Stuart Keene were edged by
Maag and Martin 7-6 and 7-5.
In girls' action, Thompson
overpowered Umatilla's
Maria Churchill 6-1 and 6-3,
while teammates Jeanie Pien
ing and Natalie Tews lost to
Local horse
to run in
Cal. race
"Roemark", the two-year-old
Quarterhorse owned and
raised by Mary Ann and Max
Barclay oi Heppner, has
qualified for the $160,000 Bay
Meadows Futurity to be run
May 14 at the San Mateo,
Calif., racetrack.
The Morrow County horse
placed sixth out of 68 entrants
to qualify for the Futurity
during May 4 time trials in
San Mateo.
Oregon roads face ruin
Pleasure woo critical
Oregon roads many of
them old are losing a
disastrous battle against in
flation, weather, pounding
traffic, and lack of funds to
keep them repaired and
maintained.
Measure S YES can save
roads
Passage of Measure 5 will
accomplish two vitally im
portant road-saving tasks:
1. Measure 5 DEMANDS
that highway funds be
used FIRST for repair and
maintenance to reverse
deterioration.
2. The modest 2c gas tax
increase and the fair 12
percent weight-mile tax
increase for trucks and
buses will assure funds
for vitally necessary
repair and maintenance.
Highway experts warn that
road deterioration is
serious. If road-ruin is not
reversed now, the cost to
replace roads may be almost
prohibitive within a few
years. Already maintenance
and operation costs are up
73 since 1970.
Our roads need HELP.
Vote Measure 5 YES
Ptld fof by Highway Improvwnont Commute, Warwi A. McMlnlm, Chairman, 1000 Caacada Bldg.,
520 S.W. Sixth Avanua, Portland, Or agon 07204, Phona 221-1470
ANNOUNCING
BASEBALL
All kids from 13 to 15,
from all Morrow County
are urged to try out.
First practice and
tryouts will be held
2 p.m. Saturday, May
13 at the Heppner
rodeo grounds, and
Saturday May 20 at noon
in lone.
For More Information
Bob Ployhar 676-9649
Jim Swanson 422-7162'
Jrj I
Therese DeCan and Marci
Greenwalt.
The lady Cards' Tews fared
better in doubles competition,
when she teamed up with Kim
Cofenas to overpower the
Vikings' Cindy Roxbury and
Dorothy Churchill 8-1.
Roger Martin believes that
land use planning will not be
practical until it is brought
back to the county level.
RogerMartin
FOR GOVERNOR
Paid By The Roger Martin For
Governor Committee, Morrow
County S.K. Peck Bon 4010
Lexington
printing
676-9228
RE-ELECT
JUDGE
WM W. WELLS
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE
Dept 1
NON-PARTISAN
JUDGE WELLS as a practising
attorney and Circuit Court Judge for
25 years serves as proof of his
legal knowledge and sense of
fairness.
JUDGE WELLS has done and will
continue to do an excellent job as
Circuit Court Judge.
Gene Pierce Matthew P. Doherty
Poid for by committee to Re-Elect Judge Wells; Henry Barhom, Treas., 1324 N.W. King, Pendleton, Oegon 97801
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Heppner Bowl
limner Liiis
6 Weeks In June and July
Monday
Mixed Doubles
7 p.m.
Starts June 5 th
Wednesday
Ladies
7 p.m.
Starts June 7th
Tuesday
Men's Team
9 a.m. & 7 p.m.
Starts June 6th
Thursday
Ladies Team
9 a.m.
Starts June 8th
(3 per team)
Evening League If Enough Sign Up
Heppner Bowl will be closed Friday, Saturday & Sunday,
starting May 26 until July 25th
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