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Shawn LaRue, lone, the Oregon State Champion Racewalker
in Junior Olympics will represent the State Friday night at
the Regional Junior Olympics meet in Yakima. LaRue hopes
to finish in the top two for entry into the National
Championship at Lincoln, Nebraska.
lone race walker
enters regionals
Junior Olympics State
Champion Shawn LaRue, lone
in racewalking will compete in
the regional competition Fri
day at 7 p.m. in Yakima.
Shawn, 5'11", 160 lbs., has
been race walking for about 6
years and walks about 4 miles
every day through the city
limits and frequently on the
highway from the Jordan
grain elevator to his home.
There are very few race
walkers in Morrow County
and when Shawn first quali
fied for the state meet at the
Arlington Junior Olympics, he
was the lone competitor.
Starting in the fifth grade,
Shawn set a record as state
champion last year in the 12-13
year old age division and won
the 14-15 year old division this
year in Portland, racewalking
the mile course in 8:12.3.
Should he place in the top 2
racewalkers at Yakima, La
Rue would be eligible to
compete in the national Junior
Olympic Championship at
Lincoln, Nebraska.
The regionals are extremely
competitive with athletes
Ladies slate three golf
tourneys this summer
The ladies of the Willow
Creek Golf Club plan three
tournaments this summer.
The tournaments have been
planned to give all women
golfers, beginners and exper
ienced alike a chance to have
fun and a chance to win.
The first will be an 18 hole
Partners' Scramble on July
26. An 18 hole medal play
tournament for partners will
be held August 16. Ladies are
encouraged to find a partner
for both tournaments and sign
Over the
By Cindy Kerr
The Willow Creek Country
Club held its annual Fourth of
July Flag Tournament, field
ing 60 golfers, one of the
largest turnouts in its history.
John Edmundson and Lois
Hunt won the event placing
their flag ahead of the field.
Roland Bergstrom finished
second' for the men and C.C.
Carmichael finished third.
Marcel Jones was fourth and
Ed Hiemstra, fifth.
Linda Shaw was the second
place winner for the women
while Juanita Carmichael fin
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coming from Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, British Col
umbia and California.
Shawn described racewalk
ing as "sprint walking", in a
heel to toe fashion with one
foot on the ground at all times.
The knees have to be locked
and strict rules followed on the
track.
A high school athlete in
football and basketball,
Shawn says he used to run the
mile, but because he wasn't a
fast runner, found a strong
interest in racewalking.
To avoid blisters, he wears
two pair of socks with his
Addidas shoes.
Asked what he eats before
his racewalking, Shawn said
strawberry pancakes which
has been a tradition since he's
been involved in the sport.
When he practices his race
walking in lone, the LaRue's
dog, Heidi, follows him.
Ione's hopes for a Regional
Racewalking Champion in the
Junior Olympics lie with the 15
year old IHS student, coached
by his father, Del ton, the high
school basketball coach.
up at the clubhouse.
A match play tournament
will run for several weeks
during July and August.
Players will be arranged in
flights according to handi
caps, with persons of similar
abilities competing. Matches
may be played at the competi
tors' convenience during a
given week.
Please sign up by July 16.
For more information, call
Linda Shaw, 676-5283, or
Sharon Harrison, 989-8496.
Tee Cup
ished third. Pat Edmundson
finished fourth and Ben Wilson
was fifth.
Dick Bigelow and Pat Hyatt
were the long drivers while
Jim Wishart and Bill McLeod
won closest to the pin.
The last place finishers
were Dale Holland and Carol
Kerr.
Results from men's play
July 1 were John Edmundson,
low gross, Charlie Starks, low
net. Bob Jepsen won the least
putts and closest to the pin
while John Shaw claimed
honors as the long driver.
The Mayor of Heppner has
taken up the sport of parachut
ing and made his first jump
July 4 at 3,500 ft. above a
Condon ranch.
Jerry Sweeney, the father of
six and grandfather of five,
made his first jump about
10:30 a.m. from a 180 Cessna
with two other jumpers, and a
jump master. Because he was
sitting closest to the door
which was removed for the
planned jump, Sweeney had
the honor of being the first to
jump out of the stalled plane,
placing his left foot on the lip
of the aircraft or boarding
step and holding both hands on
the wing strut.
On a signal from Jump
Master Mike Marthaller, the
Mayor let go and within three
seconds the static line opened
his oval chute. To train for
future skydiving attempts,
Sweeney went into an arch
position for his flight down
wards. His reactions of his first try:
"I was scared when I first
went up but once I was
airborne, I was okay. It was a
serene, extremely free feel
ing. "."It was a therapeutic
value to the middle-age syn-'
drome," he added.
While floating down from
the 3,000 ft. elevation wearing
a crash helmet, googles, a
skydiving suit and a reserve
chute, the Mayor described
the feeling of leaving your
stomach in the plane and when
nearing the ground, the rush
of the earth towards him.
When he landed, he was
dragged about ten feet by the
chute and coming to a stop,
Sweeney collapsed his chute
and brought it under control,
200 meters short of the giant X
designed as a target for the
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Two of the many swimmers entered in Sunday's Heppner Invitational
girls freestyle competition. Individual Heppner team members
was Kelli Bergstrom with five first place victories.
Bergsrtrom win
titles at invitation
John Day swimmers won
the Heppner Invitational
Swim Meet Sunday with 441
points trailed by Prineville
with 328, Heppner 316 and
White Salmon, 75.
Heppner Swim Team Coach
Diane Holland said the team
had lost some of its members
to vacation time.
In the 60 meter freestyle for
girls aged 9-10, Beth Forrar,
Heppner, swam second to
Katy Fitzgerald of Prineville
in a time of 1 : 07.9 compared to
the winner's 56.6. Babbette
Angell was fourth in the race
in a time of 1:11.4.
Duane Ball, Heppner,
placed third in a large field of
9-10 boys in the 60 meter
freestyle with a time of 60:9.
Kelli Bergstrom captured
five events to lead the team in
all-around honors, winning the
60 meter freestyle in a time of
45:3, the 60 meter breast
stroke in a time of 58:2, the 60
meter backstroke in a time of
beginning jumpers to hit.
As he ascended under his 35
ft. olive green canopy, Sween
ey guided his chute with
toggle handles towards the
jump target quite a feat for a
fledgling jumper.
Family members and.
friends rushed to where the
Mayor landed and congratu
lated him on his safe landing
one of 5 static line jumps he
will make before free-falling
and pulling his own ripcord.
Before making his first
jump, the Mayor underwent 15
hours of ground training under
the direction of Jump Master
Marthaller, an accomplished
sports parachutist who train
ed Vietnam War paratroopers
and had 1,893 jumps. A
veteran of World War II action
in the European Theater and
holder of the Purple Heart,
Sweeney has set a personal
goal of becoming a jump
master someday in the newly
formed Condon Skydivers
Club.
To ready him for his first
jump, the Mayor practiced
jumping from a ladder to a
mattress.
His only disappointment on
the Fourth was not being able
to jump with his son Pat.
owner of a Condon funeral
home and father of three of
Jerry's grandchildren. High
winds in the afternoon forced
cancellation of the jumping
after the Mayor's successful
leap with the other two
jumpers.
Asked what the reaction of
friends and neighbors to his
new sports interest, Sweeney
said people are surprised and
don't believe it at first.
But he says his family
"thinks it's great" and must
family members were present
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55.4, the 60 meter butterfly in
52:4 and the 120 meter I.M.
race in 1:58.0.
Beth Forrar won the '50
meter breaststroke for 9-10
girls in 1 : 12.2 and the 60 meter
butterfly for girls aged 9-10,
was second in the fiO meter
freestyle and second in the no
meter backstroke in a time ot
1:17 and the 120 meter I.M.
race in a time of 2:40.7.
Terry Gray captured two
events, a first in the 60 meter
backstroke for boys aged 13-14
in a time of 1:02.2 and a first in
the 60 meter freestyle, 45.4
seconds. Gray was second in
the 120 meter race in a time of
2:02.7.
Cindi Bergstrom was first in
the 60 meter girls brrasi
stroke, 15-17, in a time of 55.3.
Cam George was first in the
11-12 boys, 60 meter breast
stroke in a time of 1:01.8 and
third in two events, the tin
meter butterfly and the 120
meter distance.
to watch his first leap. His son,
Dan, captured iiis Dad on film
and another son, Mike, his
oldest, was the first to run up
to him on the ground.
His next jump is scheduled
for Toledo, Oregon.
Carrsikliael '
wins low gross
C.C. Carmichael scored first
tow
gioss in men's golf play
Jul 8
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course.
John Edmundson
was
second low gross.
Scoring (lie first low net was
Dick Bigelow. Second was Lee
I'adberg and F.J. Doherty
was first in the least putts.
Clini McQuarrie was second in
the least pulls.
McQuarrie also scored the
honor ot closest to the pin and
Boh K iley posted the long
dri v-e of the day Sunday.
'otifi athlete
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Jeff Ward, son of Bob and
Abhio Ward of Dallas. Ore., is
a l(t',9 U.S. Wrestling Federa
tion national champion.
Hi- won Inis title' after
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poling June 22 and 23 at
Kelso. Wash. lie was un
defeated in the tournament,
havi: g only ene point scored
against him. Jeff wrestled in
the 1.; an.i 11 year old, 85
poll!
bracket, competing
against
western
.) IT is
and i'llr:
of lone.
wrestlers from 11
the grandson of Mr.
. Clarence Mcintosh
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Swim Meet competed in the
excelled :md leading the group
Placing third in the GO meter
backstroke was Heidi Sam
ples, fourth, Andrea Ball and
Ellen Arbogast.
Duane Ball and Craig Angell
picked up first and second in
the 9-10 boys division.
A large group of volunteers
donated their time Sunday
timing and recording the
all day event at the pool.
A line Murray
receives first
place silver tray
in
Dodger shortstop Mike Rietmann throws the ball' to Third Baseman Dean Rill as a BPOE Brave
heads for the sack. The Dodger fielders combined to put the Brave out late in the game Monday
night at the Morrow County Fairgrounds but the Braves held on to their 5-0 lead and won the Little
League Championship.
raves claim league
against struggling Dodgers
The Heppner Elks Braves
won Monday's Little League
Championship game against
the Dodgers at the County
Fairgrounds, shutting out the
second half champion 5-0.
The first half champion
Braves clinched the Little
League title at the end of
regular league games.
Braves pitcher Tom Ham
men struck out 12 Dodger
batters allowing only one hit
as the Braves come back from
the 0-5 deficit. In the bottom of
the fourth inning, the Dodgers
threatened with the bases
loaded but Hammen held on to
the Brave lead by striking out
the batting order.
College
students
win rodeo
money
Prize money totalling $4,900
to be used for college scholar
ships was won by Blue
Mountain Community Col
lege's Rodeo Team recently at
the College National Rodeo
Finals in Lake Charles, Louis
iana. Mike Beers, of Rufus,
placed first in the nation in
team roping. Casey Cox, of
White Water, Montana, took
second in team roping, runner-up
for the national calf
roping title, as well as
runner-up for all-around
honors.
Blue Mountain's team
placed third in the nation in
overall competition. All sizes
of colleges compete against
each other which puts the
two-year colleges against the
much larger four-year col
leges and universities. South
eastern Oklahoma Stale and
Southern Idaho placed first
and second, respectively
ahead of BMCC.
The nine BMCC rodeo team
members making the trip
included: Beers, Cox; Mike
Fuller, Aaron McCall and Tim
Roeser, Pendleton ; Randy
Bonifer, Milton-Freewater ;
Ron Currin, Heppner; David
Inman, Rufus; Shane Cross
ley, Lewiston, Idaho and Tony
Lang, Leesburg, Florida.
Cindy Dougherty, also of
Heppner, represented the
Walla Walla Community Col
lege team.
Anne Murray, riding Benji,
received a first place silver
tray in the children's Hunters
Class age 12-17 at the annual
Country Classic horse show
benefitting the Portland
Opera Association held last
weekend.
Horses and riders from
around the nation and Canada
compete in jumper and hunter
classes at Sir James
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Sure thing
Dodger pitcher Steve
Crewse also collected 12
strikeouts and walked only
one for the Dodgers.
Jason Mullineaux was 4 for 4
at the plate with two doubles
for the Braves. Tom Hammen
added a solo homer in the
third inning.
Dean Rill collected the only
hit for the Dodgers.
There were no stolen bases
for the Dodgers with Stan
Sporseen as the Brave catch
er. In the final standings, the
Dodgers ended the season
with an 11-7 record, the
Braves posted a 10-8 mark,
Angels had 10-8 and the Giants
were 5-13.
In the first inning, the
Monday Morning
Quarterback
By Jim
When the fishing slows down at Lake Penland and Bull
Prairie, take heart anglers. There's an opportunity to catch
more when the fall rains arrive.
According to Glen Ward, of the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife Commission, 25,000 rainbow trout from two
to four inches in length were planted at Lake Penland this
spring and should have grown to legal size by this fall.
That planting was in addition to the 4,000 legal sized trout
planted in the lake at the same time.
There were 2,000 legal sized trout (9-12") planted in
Willow Creek and 1,200 at Cutsforth Park.
If you haven't been very lucky at your favorite fishing
hole yet this summer, maybe you should keep trying. After
this year, you may be limited to 5 trout per day on streams
instead of the present 10 if staff recommendations are
followed by the State Fish and Game Commission.
However, limitations on the number of fish caught may
help the state fisheries and ensure a long future for
trout-fishing in the state.
Through our correspondence this week, I received an
interesting letter from Jim Young, vice president of Oregon
Bow Hunters Inc. Young said rifle hunters should consider
hunting with the bow this year with the bow season running
from August 11th through September 26 for one deer, either
sex and one elk, either sex in the entire state with a few
exceptions. Says Young, "If you choose to stay with the rifle,
hopefully this plan will help put some quality back in your
hunt. Each person who chooses the bow makes it just a little
less crowded in the rifle season."
"Due to the ever increasing number of hunters and less
game due to loss of habitat, the day will come when rifle
hunting will be highly restricted. If the single weapon law
attains its desired results, that day will have been put off a
little farther into the law."
Good luck to Ione's Shawn LaRue, who as state champion
in race walking in the Junior Olympics Program, will be a
competitior in the Regionals at Yakima starting this Friday.
Otherwise, get away from the newspaper and television
watching and enjoy some athletics this weekend.
McDonald's Inchinnan Fram
at Wilsonville during this
event.
Anne placed fifth in the
pre-green working hunter
class at the Lake Oswego Hunt
Club earlier this summer.
Anne has been visiting her
aunt and uncle, Russ and
Joanna Shook, who live near
Hillsboro.
iff
title
Braves scored two runs, one in
the second, one in the third
and one in the fifth.
All stars have been selected
to play in the District Little
League Tournament at Red
mond, July 25-28.
Named for the Dodgers
were Steve Crewse, Dean Rill,
Todd Lindsay and Loren
Hayes; from the Braves,
Jason Mullineux, Tom Ham
men, Stan Sporseen and Keith
Kennison; Giants, Dave
Green, Travis Hyatt, Jeff
Ball; Angels, Kirk Rothwell,
Greta LaRue, David Anderson
and alternatives, Cam George
and Kevin Teeman.
The team manager is
Ployhar and Coach,
Greene.
Bob
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