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The Heppner Gazette-Times, Ileppner, Oregon, Thursday, December 20, 1979 NINE xt- vifWO I 7f-y.tr . I Parker's shot gives Heppner last second victory c 1 AX i v W Wife. I- ., . .3" 9.1 l rhJ e: 1 mL ' :,.",s:"''?,! Heppner's Dorian P'orrar (2?) goes up for a rebound with lone Cardinals flying around him. Identifiable players are Mim Laimer, Mark Patton, Jim Parker and Shawn I.aKue. Jim Parker swished in a 15 fooler with in seconds remain ing in the game as ,Heppner heal lone in a thriller 38-37. II looked like Heppner might walk away from the game empty-handed when Dennis Stefani drove down the lane and sank a running five-foot shot over three defenders to put lone ahead for only the third time in the game with 25 seconds left 37-3fi. Curt Day then missed a shot with 15 seconds remaining but Heppner got the ball back selling the stage for Parker's heroics. Heppner led most of the way as the team posted a 14-4 lead at the buzzer ending the first quarter. Cardinal fouls aided the Heppner cause as the Mustangs made 6-of-8 free throw shots. Stefani. who is Tone's leading scorer, was cold the first quarter as he was 0-for-5. The Mustangs led 23-12 at halftime as Parker took the second quarter tip-off and passed to Day for an easy two points as things continued to City teams break for Xmas Ron Green scored 20 points to lead Mike Smith's team to a 59-32 win over Don Barber's team in Heppner City League basketball action. Dan Comer led the losers with 10 points. Bill Meyers hit two free throws with 10 seconds re maining to ice the game as Steve Powell's team edged Roger Britt's squad 52-49. Meyers scored 19 points and Powell added 14 for the winners. Britt led his team with 12 points and Dick Devin added 10. Dan Greenfield scored 14 points. Mark Huddleston 12 and Mike Stookey 10 to lead LaVerne Van Marter's team to a 52-33 win over Les Schwab. .John Boyer led the losers wilh 10 points. Jim Lankford's team beat Rick Johnston's team 56-30 behind the shooting of Lank ford with 16 points. Dave Allstott with 10 points and Dave McLealen with 20 points. Gary Watkins led the losers with 18. Bowling Thursday League Four teams are battling it out for first place in the Thursday Night Ladies Bowl ing League. Ray Boyce Insurance and the Blackhorse Tavern are tied for first place with identical 34-22 records but the Blackhorse Tavern team is ahead on total pins 36.107 to 35,777. The Kinzua Corp. team is 33-23 and Columbia Basin is not far behind the leaders eigher with a 32lr221L' mark. Toyota is 25-31, Krolls Dept. Store is 23-33, Cal's Cafe is 22-34 and Heppner Bowl is 18''..-37'2. Kinzua is first in total pins with 36,407 and Blackhorse Tavern and Toyota are tied for second with 36,107. Columbia Basin is fourth with 35,964 and Boyce Insurance is fifth. Cal's Cafe is next at 34,995 and Heppner Bowl is seventh at 34,853. Krolls is last at 33,189. Carol Norris bowled the high game of the week with a 182 and Harriet Evans had the high series with 472 pins. Blackhorse Tavern had the high team game with a 927 and the high team series with a 2,680. Sparetimers League Hazel Reid bowled a 225 for the high game of the week of the Sparetimers Bowling League ' Jackie Allstott had the high series with 532 and Reid had 510 and Phyllis Cole 502. ; Coast-to-Coast had the high team game with 858 and the high team series with 2,330. Irene Samples made the 4-7-10 split, Vicki Miller picked up the 5-10 and Harriet Evans made the 2-7-10 combination. f Morrow County Grain Growers is in first place in the league standings with a 41 '- second at 39'2-20'i. and Peter sons is third at 37-23. Jerry's Mobil is in fourth place at 29-31 and Bucknums is next at 28'-31'2. Central Market is 24-36, Gardners is 23' 2-36' 2 and Sears is 17-43. In the total pins race, Coast-to-Coast is first at 32.248 and Petersons second at 31,774. The M.C.G.G. team is third at 31,126 and Central Market fourth at 29,298. Bucknums is next at 27,571, Gardners is sixth at 27.041, Jerry's Mobil has 27,007 total, pins and Sears is last with l8i2 record. Coast-to-Coast is 25.846. Koffee Kup League The Pytts are in first place in ihe Koffee Kup Keglers League with a 40'L-15'2 re cord. In second place is the Three L's team at 36-20 and the Hi Hp's team is third at 32 -2. Weary Wives is 30-26 and the Gutter Dusters team is 29-27. The Three Holers and the Dregs teams are tied .with 19-37 records and the New comers are last at 18' 2-37' . The Weary Wives team is first in total pins standings with 21,969. The Three L's team is second in the evenly balanced league with 21.957 and the Pytts are third with 21.916. The Gutter Dusters are next at 21,483 and the Hi Ho's are fifth at 21,310. The Three Holers team is sixth at 21,218, the Newcomers seventh at 21.131 and the Dregs last at 21.019. Only 950 pins separate the first place team from the last over the 56-game season. Linda Schultz rolled the high game of the week with a 179 and she also had the high individualseries with 517 pins. The Gutter Dusters had the high team game with 584 and the Three L's had the high team series with 1,593. Iris Campbell picked up the 4-9 split. Because of the holidays, (here will be no games for two weeks until Jan. 5. lone Jr. High beats Heppner lone Junior High's boys basketball team beat the team from Heppner 36-33 last week. lone led at halftime 20-17 but Heppner came back in the third period to take the lead 25-23. Craig Hams and Mark Meyers led lone with 10 points each and Way, Orr and Plocharsky all had eight points for the Ponies. Heppner JV team now 3-0 The Heppner High School JV basketball team has been dominating its games so far this year with a 79-37 win over Condon, a 74-37 win over Ionea and a 77-27 win over lone. In the game with lone last week. Greg Sweeney came off the bench to score 21 points. Brett Shere had 11 and Don Lott 10. All 11 players on the team scored in the game. Sweeney had seven re bounds and Brian Thompson had five steals. Heppner made 35-of-55 shots from the field for .630 percent. "We had an outstanding defensive effort, especially when the first string played, as the team held lone to four points total in the first and third periods," said Brent Eggers, JV coach. After three games, Ken Stookey leads the team in scoring with a 12 point per game average. Lott averages 11.3, Sweeney 11, Sherer 9, Thompson 8, Earl Hammond 7, Kelly Crewse 6.3, Cliff Doughterty 5, Robert ier Bier 4, Joe Mollahan 2 and Joe Struthers 1 point a game. Stookey leads in rebounding with 21 and Hammond has 16. Lott leads in assists with six and Thompson leads in steals with six. Coach Eggers has a rating system with players receiving points for scoring points, making steals, etc. and losing points for turnovers, missed shots, etc. Stookey leads the point system with 39 .and Thompson has 32 and Lott 30. The next JV game is tonight at 8 in Hermiston. "It will be our first tough game no question about that." Eggers said. go Heppner's way. Stefani hit for this first points of the game wilh two minutes left in the half. Parker led Heppner at halftime wilh nine points and Day added six. Stefani and Mark Patton led lone with four each. The crucial period was the third stanza as lone came back to lead at the end of three quarters 31-30. Heppner started the second half playing its second unit and lone scored eight quick points. Treve Peterson started the string and Stefani got hot and made two baskets on fastbreak lay-ins and another basket on a 10-foot side shot off Ihe fastbreak as the Cardinals pulled to within three points at 23-20. John Murray hit a bucket to put Heppner in front 25-20 but Patton came back to make it 25-21 on a free throw. Dorian Forrar hit two free throws to pul the Mustangs in front 27-23 but Shawn LaRue came right back with a two-pointer for lone to make it 27-25. Heppner Coach Dale Hol land put his first string back into the game but that was not enough to stop the on-rushing Cardinals as Patton got an offensive rebond and put it up and in to tie the score at 27. Patton later got another offensive rebound and put it in for another score to give Ioe ils first lead 29-28 with one minute left in the third quarter. Parker put Heppner hack in front with an offensive re bound and put -back shot of his own but Palton pul lone ahead at Ihe end of the period ori another two-pointer. lone got its biggest lead of the night when LaRue made a shot off another offensive rebound to put lone in front 33-30. ileppner then ran off six straight points on shots by Dale Holland. John Bier and Dy on an assist pass from Holland. Leading 36-33. Hepp ner gave up a basket to Gregg Riclmann to make it 36-35 setting up Stefani's shot and then Parker's clincher. "We let them back into the game hut we played pretty good defense." Coach Holland said, "lone did a good job defensively on us too." Heppner made only 14-of-50 shots from the field while lone made 17-of-63. The Mustangs won the game at the foul line making 10-of-20 while lone was only 3-of-7. "We have not fouled that much all year and that has helped us." Holland said. Heppner was led in scoring by Parker with 16 followed by Day with eight. Bier with four. Doug Holland with four. Dale Holland wilh three. Murray wilh two. Forrar with two and Brett Sherer with one. lone was led by Patton with 13 points. Stefani had 12. and Free throw champs crowned Kincaid leads Fillies Mary Kincaid scored 11 points to lead the Heppner Fillies to a 44-24 win over lone last week. The Fillies next action will be tomorrow afternoon at 2 when they take on Hermiston in the Pilot Rock Invitational Basketball Tournament. The other girls teams in the tourney are Pilot Rock and Pendleton. Coach Sheri Brock pla tooned her players during the game. Heppner led 9-5 at the end of the first quarter and 22-11 at halftime. The score was 32-19 at the end of three periods. Two baskets by Ione's Sandra Thompson brought the Cardinals as close as they were going to come in the fourth period at 34-23 as Heppner ran off 10 straight points to end the game. Ileppner had more than twice as many rebounds as the much smaller Cardinal team as the Fillies had 54 to 24 for the visitors. Alice Abrams had 15 for the winners and Dee Ann Conner had 11. Kellie Hammond had seven points for Heppner. Lynn Dee Devin five. Geir Grieb four, Lotlie Laughlin four. Abrams four. Sandra Ward two. Cindy Bowman two. Shelley Mann two and Conner one. Martha McRlligott led lone wilh five. Sandra Thompson had four. Lisa Meyers three. Tammy Holtz three, Diann Morter two. Margaret Doher Iv two. Lori Edwards two. Anita Palmer two and Kim Pettyjohn had one. Ione's leading scorer Michelle La Hue did not score in the game bul she was injured in the middle of the second half. Jill Conklin of lone won the girls eight and nine year old division at the Elks free throw competition last Saturday. Dana Reid won the 10 and 11 girls competition and Stepha nie Payne won the 12 and 13 year old division. Both girls are from Heppner. Russel Britt won the eight and nine year old boys competition and Todd Lindsay beat the other 10 and 11 year old competitors. Dave Green was the 12 and 13 year old champ. All three boys are from Heppner. The winners will go to the district competition in Her miston Jan. 19. Rielmann. LaRue and Peter son all had four. Patton was the leading rehounder in the game with 11 and Day and Holland had seven each for Heppner. The next game for Heppner is against Riverside in the Pilot Rock Invitational at the Pendleton Armory. Heppner will play tomorrow night at 8:30 against the Pirates. The olher boys game will match Pilot Rock against White Salmon. After four games, the Mus tangs are 3-1 and Parker leads the team in scoring with a 13.5 average. Day is averaging nine and game and Holland eight. Heppner is shooting 40 percent from the field and has made 50-of-77 from the foul line while opponents have made only 12-of-30. Heppner has 172 rebounds to 111 and has won its games by an average of 15 points. 58-43. 4 -J i rf' Doug Holland U2 puts up a shot over I.es Thompson of lone (24). Watching the action are left to right Jim Parker (35), Dennis Stefani (13), John Bier (12) and Mark Patton (41). 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