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FOUR The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September 14, 1978 r The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES Mustangs nose past Pilot Rock 7-0 in first game of Season The Heppner Mustangs be gan the 1978 grid season the right way entering the win column in Friday night's season opener against Pilot Rock. The only scoring in the contest came in the early moments of the second quar ter, on a quarterback sneak by Mustang helmsman John Bier from one yard out. Doug Holland kicked the conversion point, making it 7-0. The score remained static for the re mainder of the game, but not without a few close calls. Pilot Rock drove to Hep pner's one yard line in the closing minutes of the first half, and was within the Mustang ten on one other ocassion. "We moved the ball pretty well throughout the game," commented Heppner Head Coach John Sporseen, "but a couple of our drives got stopped by penalties. . . We had offsides called against us something like four plays in a row during one series." Heppner's attack was al most entirely on the ground, with Bier attempting only three passes one of them complete to Brian Marlin for a 12-yard gain. The Mustangs logged a total of 231 yards in rushing, compared with 146 for the Rockets. Heppner running backs had sticky fingers during the Pilot Rock contest, not once fumbling the pigskin in their 51 rushing plays. The Mustang defense show ed its spine during the Rockets' two close calls near the Heppner goal line. Hep pner defenders held Pilot Rock , to .146 yards on thei ground and 36 in the air. Defensemen forced and reco vered a fumble, and Brian Marlin and Lionel Wood each picked off Rocket passes Marlin running his intercep tion back for 11 yards'. Marlin booted the ball four times during the game, his punts averaging a respectable 36.5 yards. Runbacks on the punts by the Rockets were limited to a total of four yards. In other statistics, Marlin led the Mustangs in rushing, tallying 140 yards in 24 carries for a 5.8 yard average gain. Dennis Peck was next with 77 yards on the ground in 17 carries, averaging 4.5 yards per scramble Heppner's team rushing average during the game. Coach Sporseen singled out Marlin, Parker, Dale Holland and Jody Marlatt for praise for thejr defensive efforts during the game. This Friday, Heppner will make another road trip, this time to Stanfield. The Tigers of Stanfield were upset last Friday 7-0 by Wasco County, in a contest that ended a 24-game losing streak by the Redsides. Game time is 8 p.m. Heppner's first home game will come Sept. 22 against Riverside. The Pirates suffer ed a 17-0 loss to Wahtonka during their opening game last Friday. Come-from-behind thriller gives Cards 24-20 win over Touchet Adrenalin was flowing in lone Friday evening, when the hometown Cardnials pulled off a stunning 24-20 come-from-behind win over Touchet of Washington in the closing minutes of their season open er Touchet overpowered lone during the first half of the game, enjoying a 20-0 lead over the Cardinals going into the end of the third quarter. The larger Washington team scored on an explosive 85-yard run by 190-pound senior Mike Stanley, and a pair of 20-yard passes. The Indians muffed two conversion attempts. But the pattern changed in the closing minutes of the third period when Greg Riet mann scrambled five yards to paydirt, with quarterback Dennis Stefani picking up the conversion points on a pass to Robin La Rue. Ione's defense stiffened dur ing the fourth quarter. Then diaster appeared to strike. As lone regained control of the ball and began a drive to the Touchet goal, an Indian de fender intercepted a Stefani pass. Luckily, holding was called on Touchet during the play, giving the Cards a 15-yard bonus. lone capital ized on the next play, as Kevin McCabe ran 12 yards for the second Cardinal TD. A Stefani to Dan McElligott pass added two more to the scoreboard, leaving lone with a deficit of only four points. With 3:34 remaining on the clock, Stefani stepped back to pass. Unable to find a recei ver, he broke through a gap in the Touchet line, sprinting 40 yards to the goal line. The lone quarterback ran in the conver sion points, creating a four point Touchet deficit. The Cardinals prevented Touchet from sustaining a drive, then took over control of the ball, and allowed the remaining seconds of the game to tick away. lone defenders held Touchet to77 yards and no points during the final quarter, although during the earlier part of the game, they had diificulity controlling the pas sing game of Indian quarter back Rocky Pisca, who con nected for 263 yards in the air. The eight Cardinal defense men took down their oppon ents nine more times, with half of the Card defenders logging more than 10 tackles. "That's team defense," said lone coach Gordon Meyers, noting that it took "a great effort by everybody" to shake off first-game jitters and capture a come-from-behind win. On Friday, the Cardinals will face North Powder in another home game, starting at 7:30 p.m. Last week, the Badgers overpowered Echo 36-6. The Willows Grange will meet Thursday, Sept. 21 for a potluck dinner at 12 noon, Willow Grange Hall. STUB N! To b tan off bjr om of Am Botrd Member -p SPECIAL ELECTION BALLOT For the Irrlgon Rural Fire Protection District Tuesday, September 19, 1978 from 8:00 AM. to 8.00 PM. At the Morrow County Building, Irrigon, Oregon To Establish a Serial Levy for tho District Effective 1 July 1979 The Amount of the Serial Levy Is S12.S00.00 for Seven Years Mark a Cross (X) or a Check Mark (,) in the voting square after the word "YES" or after the word "NO" for the answer voted for Notice is hereby given that an election will be held September 19, 1978 from 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. at the Morrow County Building for Ihe purpose of submitting to the qualified voters of the Irrigon Rural Fire Protection District the question of establishing a Serial Levy for Seven years for the district . effective 1 July 1979, pursuant to the Oregon Constitution. v, C ' The reasons for mis Serial , Levy, are: , 1 To purchase a new 2000 gallon tank fire truck with equipment. 2. To increase the water capacity of our trucks to the rural areas. 3. To help provide better fire protection to all the fire district.' , . . f " I VOTE F0 Till SERIAL LEVY YES I VOTE AGAHST TK1 SOIM IEYY NO POLLING PLACES FOX ELECTION Morrow County Office Bldg. - Irrigon, Oregon Published Sept. 14, 1978 Rainbow Flea Mkt. Stop and visit us. Buyers 4 Sellers Welcome Every Sat. and Sun. Doors open to sellers, 7 a.m. Open to buyers, 9 a.m. -5 p.m. 2 miles North of Hermiston Look for signs, 567-2889 COURT STREET MARKET Under Hew Management MAY0N BROKEN $no SHRIMP SHADY GLEN MUSHROOMS BOLOGNA 299c 09c BLADE ROAST oj;c CROSS ARM ROAST 1.0$ POTATOES USNOI't 10-ft. Ba 89c LETTUCE APPLES RED ft 6019 BEUCI0US 4?c OOD OCaQ S(aOQFIlDDg GODBGl And lm s got a lot of oaro flliiogs planned for your enjoyment. Jim Roger's West of Willow Restaurant is once again 'on call' to serve your banquet needs-either at the restaurant's newly remodeled upstairs banquet room, or wherever you would like to have the food catered to. .tic A new addition to Jim's famous foods banquets ,y$C" are mixed drinks and cocktails-available to special groups wherever your banquet is held , ...call for more information. fn isrs Here's a special invitation to join the West of Willow Diners Club for the special price of $10 annually Each month the West of Willow will prepare a specia meal at a special low price-for Club members only. Included in the meal will be the special showing of MOVIE ENTERTAINMENT a new and great movie each month. In addition, anytime you and your guests eatjunch or dinner at the West of Willow, there will be a .25-cent discount for each sandwich or dinner ordered. 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