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SIX The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday Decembei Becky Fulleton competing in National Finals Cards cagCFS split Rodeo barrel racing ; ranked 11th opening weekend Becky Fulleton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roice Fulleton of Heppner is currently in 11th place in standings for barrel racing in the national Girls' Rodeo Association (GRA). The GRA consists of about 2,000 professional cowgirls from every state in the nation and from Canada. Becky and her gelding, Sol which she trained, will be competing with the top 15 pro barrel racers in the U.S. during the National finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Okla., from now until Dec. 10. While competing on the Blue Mountain Community College rodeo team, Becky won the National Intercollegiate Bar rel Fiaeing title in 1973. Becky will be joined by four other Oregonians at the Nat ional finals. They are bull rider Jody Tatone of Board man, sadle bronc rider David IBothum of Redmond, calf iroper and steer wrestler 'Danny Torricellas of Eugene (currently number three in all-around standings), and Heidi Indermuhl of Beaver creek, barrel racer. The national rodeo event is expected to be televised later this month. The Heppner GAZETTE-TIMES HHS topples Helix, edges past lone '. By Janet McElligott After outdistancing the lone Cardinals in a not-too-decisive six-point victory Friday night, the Heppner Mustangs came on strong Saturday to beat Helix 57-41 in the first road trip of the season. Mustang guards Dennis Peck and Jim Parker opened up the margin ot victory for the Heppner team, with Peck scoring 15 points and Parker 14. Heppner's scoring mach-, ine opened up in the fourth quarter, when the Mustangs tallied 17 points while limiting Helix to eight. At the end of the third. Helix trailed by only seven points. Helix connected on only 14 of 51 field goal shots, with fouls taking a toll on the Grizzlies throughout the contest. Helix scored only 1 1 points in each of the first three quarters, and was held to only eight in the final period. Mustangs scoring points in addition to Peck and Parker included Curtis Day with six; Dale Holland, six; Darrell Bigelow, five; Mike Stookey, four; Scot Sherer, two; John Bier, four; Rod Cole, one. Stookey led the Mustangs in scoring during the lone game, racking up 18 of Heppner's 72 points. Peck was good for 12 points during that outing, with Parker scoring 11 and Howard Huddleston 12. Huddleston was also a dominating figure at the backboards, where he and teammate Holland each brought down 11 rebounds. The Mustangs were credited with 44 rebounds to 22 for the Cards. lone, with only two days of practice behind them follow ing their drive to the state Class B football crown, was leading Heppner by a point going into the second quarter. Heppner gained a point advantage over the Cards by the end of the half, increased the lead by another point in the third, then picked up another four points in the final period to ice the game. On Friday, the Mustangs will travel to Condon to take part in a four-way tourney with Condon, Cove and Umatilla. Ease in... Becky Fulleton ranked 11th in the nation in barrel racing --is competing in the National Rodeo Finals in Oklahoma City this week on her horse, Sol. The Cardinal Varsity Basketball boys split games this weekend with the Hep pner Mustangs 66-72, and triumphed over the Ukiah Cougars 54-38. Coach Del La Rue said of his team, "We tried to touch a bit of everything. Pretty much the basics, man-to-man defense, zone defense, and a bit of shooting, but we only had two days of practice." Many of the lone roundballers are members of the State Class B champion football title team. "We weren't in real good condition either, and that hurt us. Being in condition for football is really a lot different than being in good basketball condition. Basketball has a lot of quick constant movement," said the lone coach. The Cards spurted ahead in the first quarter 13-12, but the Mustangs came back to take the lead going into the locker room at half-time, 31-30. "They outscored us one point in the third quarter and four points in the fourth quarter," said Coach LaRue. Even though the Cardinals went down, Coach LaRue was pleased with their style of play. "We had four players in double figures and that's really good. The guys who came off the bench kept us (flceooccocoocooosccocsoo going. I think that it was a real overall team effort," said the coach. Top scorers for the Cards were Dennis Stefani with 13, Kevin McCabe with 12, Danny McElligott with 12 and Robin LaRue with 10. Heppner showed the same kind of versatility with four hitting double figures. Mike Stookey led the victors with 18, followed by Dennis Peck and Howard Huddleston with 12, and Jim Parker with 11. "The bench was vital for us. Any time that the bench can score 13 points for you it's real good," said LaRue. Was the coach discouraged by the loss? "Losing by six to a much larger school, when you've had only two days of practice is not discouraging at all," he said. The Cards shot 29 for 79 on field goals to the Mustangs' 27 for 81, a 37 per cent showing to a 33 per cent showing. Freethrows is where the story lies. "That's where we lost the game," confided Coach LaRue. The Cards were 8 for 20 for 40 per cent and the Mustangs were 18 for 27 for 6 per cent. "To win the game I think your team should have to shoot about a 70 per cent. We just haven't had the time to work much on it," said Coach LaRue. The Cards fared much better against the Ukiah Cougars, where they led "from start tp finish" as lone coach LaRue put it. "We were in command all the time," he said, "but it would have been an entirely different ball game if wa had shot very well." The half-time score saw the Cards ahead 26-20. "We changed our defense at half-time because they were just scoring too much on us," commented Coach LaRue. The strategy obviously work ed for the Redbirds, as they outscored the opponent 28-18 in the second half. "What was really nice about both of the games was that the people came off the bench and scored. It's critical that they can do that," emphasized lone Coach Del LaRue. "Our freethrows were a lot better too," he pointed out. The Cards shot 14 for 22 from the line amassing a 64 per cent average, to Ukiah's 6 for 13 for 46 per cent. The Cards hit on 20 of 69 fieldgoals for 29 per cent, compared with 16 for 48 and 33 per cent for Ukiah. Although the Cardinals scor ing technique was a little rusty in Saturday night's game, they out-rebounded their op ponents 36-25. Cont. on page 7 EES Fall Sports Awards Football... Vollevluill Awards for excellent per lorniani'c went to members of lli-ppner !lifh School's foot ball and volleyball teams last Tuesday evening at the Annual fall Sports Dessert. Head football coach John Spni MTH said that 2H players were awarded letters, includ ing three freshman. The Mus laims ended their season at 8-2 and capped the Columbia I'.aMii Conference Champion ship. In Volleyball. Coach Sheri Brock lettered eight players as her Fillies went to a 13-4 srason record. iirvan Marlin was named tin- Mustang's Most Valuable Player and. also picked up the Outstanding Defensive Back award. Scott McEwen and John Bier shared the Most Improved Player award and Most Inspirational Player went to Joedy Marlalt. Outstanding Offensive Back went to Dennis Peck and Outstanding Lineman awards went to Jim Parker on offense and Dale Holland on defense. 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