The Heppner Gazette-Times, Ileppner, Oregon, Thursday, December 20, 1979 NINE
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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.
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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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