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The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May 25, 1978 FIVE
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Healy high jump champ
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Five Heppner thinclads score
points at state track meet
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Standing tall after good showings at state and district golf tourneys are, from left, Cindy Kerr,
Tom Day, Shelly Grace, Kathy Wolff, and Kristi Edmundson.
Mustang girls first
in state 'A 5 golf
Heppner High's girls' golf
team topped all state class-A
teams last week for the third
consecutive year, during state
tournament play at Portland's
Glendoveer golf course.
The Mustang squad placed
eleventh in statewide competi
tion for girls from both A,
double-A and triple-A schools.
Their showing at the Portland
tourney included a six-point
margin over Bend, which
edged out Heppner for first
place in the district during the
Mustang nine lose playoff berth
to Condon in season closer
A heartbreaking 1-4 loss to
Condon Friday dashed the
Heppner Mustangs' hopes for
district baseball playoff ac
tion. The loss brought Heppner's
season record to 6-2 in
conference play, leaving the
Mustangs in a conference
championship tie with Con
don. However, Condon scored
nine more AZZI points during
the season than Heppner, and
will go on to face Riverside for
the sub-district title. AZZI
points are tabulated by the
amount of runs by which a
teams wins or loses.
Friday's game was a classic
pitching duel between Hepp
ner's Randy Worden and
Condon's Brian Shaffer. Both
teams were held scoreless
Awards night held
for HHS sports
. Heppner High School stand
outs in track, baseball and golf
were honpred Monday night
during the school's annual
Spring Sports Award Dessert.
Awards ranged from
plaques for top performers in
each event, to letters for
varsity regulars, to certifi
cates of merit for jayvee
competitors.
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All children, parents & interested persons are
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previous week. Bend finished
13th in the state.
Cindy Kerr had the best
individual showing for the
Heppner girls competing at
Glendoveer, completing the
tournament in 177 strokes. The
first-place individual titalist
at the tourney was South
Salem's Susan Sanders, with
157. Cindy was 16th in indivi
dual standings.
Next best on the Heppner
roster was Kristi Edmundson
with 209, followed by Kathy
until the sixth inning, when
Condon batters drove two runs
across the plate.
Heppner came back with
one run in its half of the sixth,
with Dennis Peck reaching
first on an error, moving to
third on a second Condon
mistake, then scoring on a
base hit by Lionel Woods.
Condon blasted out its final
two runs in the seventh, before
Peck relieved Worden of
duties at the mound. Worden
was charged with all four
Condon runs only one of
them earned.
Bruce Young tagged two
hits in as many trips to the
plate, while fellow Mustangs
Dale Holland and Lionel
Woods each got one hit in
three attempts. Heppner tal
Baseball plaques were
awarded Dale Holland, the
Mustangs' leading hitter, with
a .386 average for the 1978
season, and to first baseman
Mike Stookey, the team's most
improved player. Named to
the 300 club for holding batting
averages above the .300 mark
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Wolff, 216; Joanie Warren,
217; and Shelly Grace, 274.
Lake Oswego's team placed
first in the girls' state tourna
ment. Heppner qualified for the
state competition by placing
second in district competition
at the Bend Country Club.
Maximizing a home links
advantage, Bend outdistanced
second-place Heppner by 13
strokes. The lady Mustangs
edged Redmond by one stroke
to take second in district play.
lied two errors, compared
with four Condon.
"I think we probably had the
better team," reflected coach
Dale Holland after the game.
"I know we are a better team
defensively. But they just
outhit us Friday."
Heppner's only other loss
during conference play came
during the first game, against
Sherman. The Mustangs went
on to win the next six staight,
including a win over Condon,
until last Friday's season
ender.
The Mustangs logged a
first-rate .944 fielding average
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Joanie Warren, coach
In individual statistics at the
district tourney, Cindy Kerr
earned a fourth-place tie with
a final tally of 196, while Kristi
Edmundson placed sixth with
208, and Joanie Warren tied
for seventh with Kathy Wolff
at 213. Shelly Grace shot a 272
during the Bend tourney.
Mustang girls' may be
hard-pressed to match this
season's showing during the
coming year, since all varsity
girls except Cindy Kerr will
graduate.
during the season, averaging
only about one error per game
in conference play.
Heppner -moundsman
Randy Worden finished the
season with a 1.99 earned run
average, logging a 3-1 win-loss
record. Reliever Dennis Peck
tallied an ERA of 3.10, with a
4-3 record. Despite a 1-3
win-loss record, Lionel Wood
was credited with a 1.62 ERA.
Mustang catcher Dale Hol
land topped the team's season
batting statistics, with an
average of .386. Peck was next
with .341, followed by Mike
Stookey with .318.
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Heppner's District 7-A
champion track team made its
final appearance of the year
last weekend, when it placed
13th at the State Class A meet
at Lewis and Clark College in
Portland.
Despite Heppner's 13th
place showing, the Mustangs'
19 points earned at the state
finals were only 9 points away
from a second place finish.
Gilchrist won the meet with 37
points.
But the weekend was not
, without its brighter moments
for the Heppner representa
tives. Maureen Healy, the
Mustangs' lone girl qualifier
for the Portland meet, won the
state championship in the high
jump with a leap of 5 feet 4
inches. After making her
first-place winning jump,
Maureen had to prepare for a
running event. "If she would
have had time to continue
jumping, she may well have
broken the 5 foot 434 inch meet
record," said coach Dale
Conklin.
Richard Schmidt took sec
ond place in the triple jump,
soaring 42 feet 1134 inches,
after leading the field in that
event during the prelimina
ries. Schmidt was upset by a
44 foot leap by Tim Beckley of
Elkton a new meet record.
Schmidt had broken the 43 foot
mark in district competition.
Heppner weightman Marty
Smith placed third in the shot
put, with a heave of 28 feet 8
inches the best throw of his
Mustang baserunners
showed good speed, with Jim
Kinney leading the club in
steals with 8, followed by Petk
with 7.
Only three players Jim
Kinney. Bruce Young, and
Dave Jones will graduate
this year.
"I think we'll be real tough
next year," said coach Hol
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Congratulations
Grads!
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y key to the
future
You've got the key to success right in your hands.
Here's hoping that diploma opens many doors
for you! We know you'll go far Grads!
GOOD LUCK
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life. Smith hurled the weight
more than 50 feet during the
weekend meet, but scratched.
Other Heppner pointwinners
were Sam Myers, fifth in the
300 intermediate hurdles with
a time of 40.7 seconds, and
Schmidt, again, in the high
jump, placing fifth with a 6
foot 3 inch leap. Schmidt
cleared the bar at 6-5 in
district competition. David
Piper was sixth in the high
jump, soaring 6 feet 1 inch.
"If we would have had a few
more breaks, we would have
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Fireball from Mustang
pitcher Randy Worden arcs
toward . plate during last
week's game with Condon.
Worden held Condon scoreless
for five innings.
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been right in there," commen
ted Conklin. "A quarter inch
here, a tenth of a second
there we were that close. ..I
guess we got all our breaks at
the district."
But, the track coach added,
"you've got to be pleased any
time you get people placing at
the state meet."
Ione's Robin LaRue ran the
110 high hurdles in 16.2
seconds in preliminary com
petition at the state meet a
better time than several other
qualifiers for the finals. How-
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his heat in the preliminaries,
he did not qualify for competi
tion in the finals. The Cardi
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and Leslie Thompson, both
failed to place.
Nearly 70 high schools from
across the state were repre
sented at the Portland meet.
Finishing behind first-place
Gilchrist were Weston-Mc-Ewen,
Elkton and North
Douglas, all with 28 points.
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