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HHS girl tracksters bring home district championship Ih r Heppner G a u Ite Times. Heppner (begun U rd n rM l« Ma* li. l » í H I H V meter dashes but didn't make it into the linals ol those events Wayne Wilbers ran into difficulty in the lumpint! events and although he. too jumped 5' 61 missed out of a place due to more misses Other place finishers for the girls included l>oth relay teams McFI hany, Padbcrg, him Sager. and Pavne ran a season's lies! of U I in the too meter relav to place third \ spring concluded Conklin With Ihnr talent and leadership we have tieen able to »in two district cham pmnships and earn runner up p**M lion the other l»o >ears they have been m hitth school That 1 » a leal that no other school in this district can conic close to maichinK This » cekend * state meet liegins Friday with preliminaries on Friday concludint! »ith finals on Saturday IMS) meter relay tram ol Sager. Stacey Kennedy. McF.lhany and Padherg placed fifth »ith 4 41 5 Martin earned the other place finish as she »as third at Last meters »ith a 5 23 4 time Also competing at district »ere Shannon Md-iughlin C'herne lla ger and Kerri Thompson "Boy, are »e going to miss these senior girls »hen they graduate this make their dayM/wilh these graduation gifts » CLOCK RADIOS * SPORTING GOODS The Heppnor High School girls trackslers are the 19K5 District 7 A track and field champions "The girls literally ran their way to second district championship in three years."' said head coach Dale Conklin as the locals scored all of their team points in the running events " We figured we had a shot going into the meet." Conklin said Hut I gave up on our chances as the meet went along and the results of the field events were slow to come in It wasn t until the final team scores were announces! that we knew we were the team winners Tlie final team scores were Hepp ner 76. Sherman County 75. Weston McFwen 61 Wasco County 17. Pilot Hock 35. Fcho 34, Wahtonka 33, l.'matilla 32. Dufur 2H. Stanfield Id Kiverside 13. lone 10. Arlington 9. Helix I and Condon 0 "We asked a lot out of our girls, and they responded,” said Conklin The girls qualified four to the state track meet this weekend at Ml Hood Community College in Gresham in seven different events Stephanie Payne and Jodi Pad herg led the way as both were multiple qualifiers Payne won the 100 in 12 6 and the 21 x 1 m 26 0 and was second in the 4(X) meters with Ibefg Stephanie The «'r|s bolding Ihany. and Cathy including Ihsirict weekend I 03 5 She »ill concentrate in the too and 31 m in the stale meet »here she is lied for state's bests ho» ever, she »ill forgo running the 4ou Padherg earned second place in the 1300 meter run »ith a season's best lime of 5 22 :l anil »as the meet » inner at Olio meters docking 2 34 7 The other t»o state qualifiers »ere Janelle MiFlhany in the lisi meter high hurdles »here she turned in a season s best 17 3 time and freshman Cathy Martin »ho »as second at l.ixxi meters running 12 05 07 The lone hov ler was Trent Harrison who turned in a season's best time of 10 02 o4 in the .1 imhi meters to place second lank of experience and maturity of the young boys' probably contrih uted to their 1:1th plac e finish in the district meet You certainly cannot fault the boys." Conklin said "They gave it their lies! shot But. we only had one junior, three sophomores and a freshman on this year s team going up against stiff competition from hungry seniors from the other schools Jason Palmer threw 126 I " in the discus to place fifth in that event It was his second best effort of the 3 IHS tracksters qualify for state competition By \SHI.FY ( ONKI.IS lone's track teams qualifier! three jjeople for the state track meet, at the District 7 A track meet, on Friday . May 10 and Saturday . May It The stale meet will tie held at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham on Friday, May 17 and Saturday May 1H Cmatilla won the boys competi lion for the second straight year with 73'j points The Heppner girls captured their second title in the last three years w ith 76 points The lone hoys placed fifth with 54 jxnnts. while the lone lone girl placed 11th as a team, scoring ten (joints Randy McCabe earned the right to compete in four events at the state meet He won the pole vault at 10" 6" He leaped 41' 10V in the triple jump for second and a new school record The previous school record of 41' 31«" was set by Craig Hams a year ago McCabe also placed second in the long jump with a leap of 20' 10" and in the discus with a throw of 131' 6 Shot putter Donnie Doherty pul the shot 47" 6'«" placing second and earning a trip to state Deena Hams won the javelin with a throw of 121'9", also earning a trip to state She also made the finals of the discus, hut did not place In the tlo meter high hurdles. Brian Douglas placed fourth with a lime of 16 H He was on the fifth place 1600 meter relay team of Eric Pointer. Chris Kea. and Jerry An derson that ran 3 54 8 Douglas also competed in the preliminaries of the 300 meter intermediate hurdles, hut did not make the finals Anderson placed third in the 3. odd meter run with a time of 10 04 7, taking almost nine seconds off his previous best He missed qualifying for stale by Just over two seconds In the javelin. Cook increased his personal best by nearly 14 feet, with a throw of 127' 4", just missing the finals In the 4tw meter dash, he qualified sr the finals, but fell short of placing Kea ran a personal best 45 2 in the preliminaries of the intermedi ate hurdles, hut did not make the finals He also ran in the prehmin arirs of the high hurdles and com * PORTABLE TVs season and »ould have taken a lifetime best to earn a trip to state The other place finish for the Mus tangs was Scott liuschke who tied ho sixth in the high jump with a leap ol 5' 6 'j" Chris Mdatughlin earned a per sonal record in the high hurdles with a 17 6 dis king hut failed to make the finals of that event He also completed in the ion hurdles Jason IkHigherty also turned in personal records in lioth the too and 200 * WATCHES * CALCULATORS WVr« har« All M ens Good Thru g u e s s m y w eigh t & take me H om e w r a p p e d Free Guess The Pigs Weight To The Nearest Ounce W . i s to help you. SQ UEALIN ' PIG DAYS ...G o in ’ on Now a t L a s Schw ab G u e s s P o r k y ’s W e i g h t jveteil in Ihe pole vault In the triple jump Ashley Conklin leaped 37' 0" for a personal best He also long jumped 17' 31 *" Gary Rea competed in the prelim inanes of both the shot put and discus He put the shot 30 7" Tim Beeson ran in the Hoo meter preliminaries where he ran 2 31 t and the 1,500 meter finals Kierin Doherty ran in the finals of the I U00 meter At the stale track meet competi tion tiegins at 12 30 p m on Friday and 12 noon on Saturday Hams will throw the javelin on Friday, as McCabe will the discus McCabe also triple jumps and jsile vaults on Friday On Saturday McCabe will long jump and Ikiherty w ill compete in the shot put Final team scores for the boys were Cmatilla 73'. Wahtonka 72 Helix 5«. Sherman County 55. lone 54. Kiverside 50. Pilot Bock 3:1. Wasco County and Weston Me Fwcn 3!. Stanfield 20, Arlington and Wheeler County 15. 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