•TWO - Heppner Gazette-Time)*, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 19, 1990
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Cardinals defeat Honkers Heppner uses late-game
heroics to win
By Anne Morter
The lone Cardinals evened their
season record at 1-1 by defeating the
Arlington Honkers on the gridiron
last Friday. The cards scored on
their second play from scrimmage
and never looked back, racking up
a 58-28 final score. The game was
played in Arlington.
The outcome was never in doubt
with lone holding a 28-12 edge at
halftime. The Cards chalked up 351
total yards, 300 on the ground and
the remaining 51 in the air. Arl
ington managed just 150 total yards
lone had 17 first downs.
Leading rusher for lone was Brian
Holtz with 10 rushes for 60 yards
and one touchdown Mac Lovett car
ried the ball six times for 57 yards
and two touchdowns and Jim Holtz
contributed 53 yards on four carries
and ran for three touchdowns. Car
dinal quarterback David Wagenblast
carried the ball seven times for 10
yards and was 6-8 in the passing
department for 51 yards.
Coach Gregg Rietmann was pleas
ed with the win. ' ‘AH the guys
played well. Everyone played in the
game and the younger kids played
really well,” he said. He did com
mend the Arlington team for play
ing hard the whole game despite the
lopsided score.
Next up for the Cardinals are the
Condon Blue Devils. The league
rivals will square off this Friday at
7 p.m. in Condon. The Cards hope
to be ready. ‘‘The Arlington game
was a good one to prepare for Con
don,” says Rietmann.
The lone Lady Cards played their
way to a second place finish in the
Wahtonka Tournament last Saturday
in The Dalles. The tournament was
set up in a round-robin format where
each team played a full match against
all the other teams. The Cardinals
defeated the host team. Wahtonka.
in two games to kick off the tourna
ment. They then defeated league
rival, Condon, in two games before
falling to Goldendale. WA., in two
games.
“ The tournament went really
well,” said lone coach Jocelyn
Jones. ‘‘We did a lot of good things
and just a few bad things, and the
bad things are very correctable. I
was pleased with our performance,”
she added.
The loss to Goldendale came at the
end of a long day of volleyball. Jones
thought her team may have been
mentally tired by the time they
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reached that game. “ We weren’t
tired physically but our mental
stamina was down. Volleyball is
such a head gam e-it requires a lot
of thinking,” said Jones.
Junior Nancy Morter was named
to the tournament All-Star team.
Jones credits her with smart play at
the net and good work reading the
defense.
Jones also commended junior Kari
Morgan with a very consistent tour
nament. Her passing statistics were
the best on the team and she had 100
percent serving. She also played well
at the net, chalking up two
stuff-blocks.
The Lady Cards have a busy week
of volleyball ahead of them. Besides
a league game against Echo (which
was played after press time) they
take on Heppner in a non-league
contest in lone on Thursday and then
travel to Condon on Friday for
another league match.
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Brandon Pedro (84) carries the ball against Ritzville.
The Heppner Mustangs used a
seesaw battle and late game heroics
to fashion a 23-21 victory over the
visiting Ritzville, Washington, Bron
cos Friday, Sept. 14 at the Morrow
County Fairgrounds. The win,
Heppner’s second against no losses,
was a cliffhanger against a small,
young, but hardworking Ritzville
team.
The fourth quarter produced
several swings of momentum and
wasn’t decided until Travis Greenup
returned a Bronco fumble 59 yards
to the Heppner 26-yard-line as time
ran out.
The Mustangs got themselves back
into the game with a 74-yard
touchdown gallop by Cory Graybeel
with 9:36 left in the game. Graybeel.
a transfer from Stanfield, was see
ing his first action of the year and
rushed for 198 yards on 13 carries.
The TD brought Heppner within
21-20 and coach Grant went for the
lead with a two point pat. It failed
and white knuckle time set in.
The Mustangs tried an outside
kick and recovered it, only to fum
ble it away three plays later. The
Broncos were ripping off big chucks
of yardage and heading for the score
that would have put the game out of
reach when Bob Krein made a cir
cus catch interception of a deep Ritz
ville pass.
The Mustangs took over on their
own 14-yard line with 5:26 left in the
game. They stormed down the field
with big gainers of 35 yards by
Graybeel and 24 yards by Doug
Devin. Devin had a nifty touchdown
run called back and the drive stall
ed. With the ball on the Ritzville
16-yard line, Rick Osmin lined up
for a field goal attempt. Osmin, with
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September 11, 1990
Flight A: low gross-Lois Hunt;
low net-a tie between Martha Peter
son and Eileen Padberg; least putts-
Bev Wilson; chip in-Lois Hunt and
Carol Norris #3 and Eileen Padberg
#2; birdie-Maggie Izzett #4; most
specs-Martha Peterson.
Flight B: low gross-Neoma
Bailey; low net-Jo Pettyjohn; least
putts-Lucille Massey; most specs-
Maggie Izzett.
Flight C: low gross-Maude
Hughes; low net-Lori Straley; most
specs-Maude Hughes and Lori
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an injured elbow making it impossi
ble for him to do anything but kick
for the evening, booted a 32-yard
field goal. The perfect kick, with
1:46 left, gave Heppner a 23-21 lead
and the apparent victory. Someone
forgot to tell the Broncos.
Ritzville started from their own
25-yard line and marched down to
the Heppner 8-yard line on two long
runs by Bronco Jason Hilzer and two
major penalties by the Mustangs.
With 20 seconds remaining and the
Broncos having a dandy kicker of
their own, it looked like only a
miracle could save Heppner. Enter
Jim Kindle. Ritzville, instead of lin
ing up and kicking a game-winning
field goal, called a pass play. Kin
dle blitzed and separated the Bron
co quarterback from the ball.
Greenup picked it up and the game
was over.
The game was a seesaw battle
from the beginning. The Mustangs
drove 80 yards in nine plays, all on
the ground, to open the scoring.
Graybeel, Devin and Kindle all ran
with authority.
Bob Krein snuck in from the one-
yard-line for the score and Osmin
booted the pat. Heppner led after the
first quarter 7-0.
The Broncos answered back with
a mixture of runs and passes and
with 40 seconds gone in the second
quarter tied it up on a quarterback
sneak by Darin Danekas and a Hilzer
pat.
Heppner scored again after a
Brandon Pedro interception and
30-yard return. Krein scored again
and the pat was good, making it
14-7, Heppner. With 43 seconds left
in the half, the Broncos scored again
to tie it up, 14-14.
Ritzville took their only lead of the
game after a six-minute drive to open
the third quarter with a third and
goal, 18-yard touchdown pass from
Danekas to Matt Hille. Hilzer kick
ed the pat and it was 21 -14 Broncos.
That set up the exciting finish.
The Mustangs, playing without
Osmin and Scott Coe who are both
possibles for next week, were led by
Bubba Burt and Kevin Bond on the
defensive line and Devin and Jason
Britt in the secondary. The defense
had trouble with the Ritzville runn
ing and passing attacks at different
times of the game.
Coach Grant said that “ the
Mustangs executed much better than
against Union last week. The thing
we must work on is mental
discipline.” Cutting major penalties
at the wrong times and over-pursuit
by the defense. Grant said the
Mustangs “ did enough things right
to win but did enough things wrong
to lose.”
Next up for Heppner is LaPine
High School, a 2A school from Cen
tral Oregon. LaPine stomped Cres
cent 58-6, Friday and should be the
Mustangs toughest test before the
league season begins. The game will
start at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Sept. 21,
at the Morrow County Fairgrounds.
Heppner
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39/357 Rushes/Yards
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0-0-0 Att/Comp/INt
323 Total Yards Net
3-2
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7/65 Penalties/Yds.
Heppner
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G a rd e n B ugs
By Delpha Jones
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at the home of Dorothy Burcham I
the regular meeting and to plan t
fall activities. The annual plant si
is planned for Sept. 22 at the Li
ington City Hall with bulbs a
plants for sale. There will be a fo
sale in conjunction with the pis
sale. Those present for the meeti
were Marie Steagall, Anne!
Padberg. Lois A llyn, Katl
Tellechea and the hostess. Mai
Steagall won the door prize.
It’s kind of ironic, really, that warm-
water fish should be named as such.
During the early spring, eastern Oregon
bass and crappie enthusiasts thank their
lucky stars for each fish they manage
to pull from still-frigid waters, and
eagerly await the warm air and water
temperatures of summer. After all,
these are warm-water fish they seek.
Fishing picks up as the water con
tinues to warm and, for a brief period
just before and during the spawn, it
would seem as though anyone could
catch these fish. But just as fishing conditions begin to get comfortable,
the hot bite tapers off. (In all fairness, we have to exclude the Brownlee
Reservoir crappie fishery from this summation, as this dynamite fishery
typically remains strong from early spring through early winter; the bass
there, on the other hand, are quite a different story.)
This brings us to the present point in time-late summer. Not only are
the fish still lazily caught up in their summer doldrums, low water levels
in most of the region’s reservoirs have reduced the once-fertile shorelines
to sterile, stinking expanses of exposed lake bottom. To make matters
worse, hot weather coupled with the lack of fresh, incoming water often
results in dangerously low levels of dissolved oxygen . Hence, fish activi
ty is restricted even further.
But as dismal as the situation seems, astute anglers who recognize these
problems can actually use them to point the way to concentrations of
fish. For example, where low oxygen is a factor, fishing the windy side
of a reservoir—especially where a steep, rocky bank falls into deeper
water-can often be more productive. Waves crashing onto shoreline rock
forces oxygen back into the water, while the surface current circulates
it down the contours of the bank and into deeper water. Fish will tend
to congregate here since increased oxygen levels extend into cooler,
deeper water, and also because the wind and surface current concen
trates nutrients and baitfish along the shore.
When warmwater fish—especially bass—do come to shallow water to
feed (usually during early morning,) the lack of shoreline cover (due
to low water levels) simply means that any existing structure will often
hold that many more fish. A lone stump along an otherwise barren bank
is a good example, as is a large boulder or bluff amid a profusion of
smaller rock.
While fishing Phillips Reservoir in Baker County recently, I found
a large, partially submerged root wad sticking up from a shoreline break
that drops into 25 feet of water. After taking a nice largemouth from
the woody tangle on a topwater bait (a Zara Spook ) I returned several
times during the course of the day and fished it with grubs, each time
nailing a fish or two.
A similar situation happened at a Prineville Reservoir bass tournament
earlier this month. Since the reservoir is extremely low, most of the com
peting anglers plied basically the only remaining structure-chunk rock-
-with grubs, and caught some average-sized smallmouths The winning
angler, however, managed to find a logjam. The fish he took from this
distinctly different structure—including two six-pound largemouths—
clinched his bid fo the top prize.
Crappies, too, can be frustrating during periods of warm, low water.
Use a fish finder to for look tightly clustered schools in fairly deep water
where sloping banks meet the flat lake bottom. Once found, they can
still take a fair amount of coaxing before they’ll hit, but for some reason,
once you’ve snared one or two, the others seem to turn on.
The fact that the leaves on the willows and quakies have begun to turn
colors doesn’t mean the fish have been launched headlong into their fall
feeding frenzy. But identifying areas of relief among otherwise stressful
conditions can still put plenty of warm-water fish in your boat._____
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