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T W O - Heppner Gazette- Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 16, 1991 lone Cardinals move into first in Big Sky League East division By Anne Morter The lone Cardinals added to their winning streak and strolled into first place in the East Division of the Big Sky League, defeating Condon on Saturday and downing Arlington on Monday. The Cards league record now stands at 4-0 and their season mark moves to 7-4. On Saturday, Jan. 12 the Cards traveled to Condon for the second time this season, downing them 80-52. Condon, playing without the services of high-scoring Ryan Johnson who sprained an ankle the night before, was no match for the high-flying Cards. lone dominated almost every aspect of the game, in cluding shooting a sizzling 47 per cent from the field. Mike Garrett led all scorers with 24 points. Gabe Garcia tacked on another 22 and David Wagenblast added II. Garcia, Wagenblast and Brent Sheirbon each hit a three- pointer in the game. The Cards outrebounded the Blue Devils, 35-26, led by Mike Garrett with 13 and Deacon Heideman with nine. Heideman also had four blocked shots, giving him a total of 10 in the last two games. “ Deacon is getting his timing down and that is really helping us,” commented coach Del LaRue. David Wagenblast dished out seven assists while Gabe Garcia nabbed five steals and Ryan Halvorsen added four to lead the Cardinal attack. The Cards finally got their shots to fall, hitting 32 of 68 from the field for a fine 47 percent. At the free throw line, they were 13 of 21 for Photo by Pam Minster 62 percent. Condon was 19 of 59 from the floor for 32 percent and R yan H a lvo rsen goes up for shot ag a in s t C o n d o n 9-20 for 45 percent from the free The Heppner Mustangs traveled to badly and that hurt us.” throw line. Pilot Rock to face a Rocket team So did cold shooting. The “ Our intensity was excellent. The with one of the worst pre-season Mustangs were 17-76 from the field, kids focused on the task at hand and win-loss marks in the league. On 22 percent. They are averaging 36 got the job done,” said coach paper it looked like an easy win for percent for the year. LaRue. He noted that Deacon the Mustangs. The Rockets turned Doug Devin led Heppner with 19 Heideman had an impressive perfor the tables on the over confident and points and nine rebounds. Brandon stone cold Mustangs and won the mance on the boards and on defense. Pedro had 10 points, 10 rebounds “ This was by far Deacon’s best game 66-47. and seven steals. The first two quarters ended in a game,” he said. He also commend Jereme Rasico, a transfer student, ed David Wagenblast and Gabe Gar dead heat with a 26-26 tie. Doug had 26 points to top the Rockets. Devin kept the Mustangs in the game cia for a good effort, saying that they Rob Quaempts added 13 points. with 13 of his team high 19 points were instrumental in holding the tur They, along with Tyler Tresham and before halftime. novers to an almost unbelievable 11. Bill Murphy, controlled the boards The third quarter proved to be the “ They all played real well,” said a for Pilot Rock. pleased LaRue. turning point of the game. Tile The loss brought Heppners’ Rockets outscored Heppner 11-1 in The JV team avenged an earlier record to 2-1 in league and ties them the first 4:30 of the quarter to take eight-point loss to Condon, squeak with the Rockets for second place. a 37-27 lead that they never ing by them 52-51. Heppner 13 13 10 11 47 relinquished. Pilot Rock 15 11 17 23 66 The Mustangs were able to get Heppner: Pettyjohn 1 3, Krein I 0-4 2, Britt 1 2, Osmin 2 4, Pedro 3 4-7 10, within five points at 41-35 but Pilot Grabeel 1 2, Rathbun 0-2 0, Devin 6 “M l Rock pulled away in the last quarter 19, Bond, Currin 2 t-2 5, Koffler 0-1 0, for the win. Totals 17 12-27 47 Coach Padberg said he, “ thought Pilot Rock: Hemphill 1 2, Thacker 1 2, the kids played hard. I can’t fault Miller 1 2-2 4, Rasico 10 5-8 26, Murphy 2 5-6 8, Erickson 2 2-2 6, Quaempts 6 1-3 their desire. We got outrebounded Heppner JVs beat Pilot Rock 13, Tresham 1 2-5, Totals 24 17-26 66 By Pete Pearson The Heppner JV boys beat Pilot Rock’s JV boys 68-61 Friday night to improve their record to 7-2. Shane Munkers again led the Mustangs in scoring this time with 18 points. Scott Coe added 12. Travis Driskel led Pilot Rock with 16. The Mustangs led 41-22 at halftime but the Rockets fought their way back into the game in the second half, shooting 13 of 16 from the free throw line, and outscoring Heppner. 22-12, in the fourth quarter. Heppner’s next games are Jan. 25 in Athena against Weston-McEwen at 4:30 p.m. and at home against Wahtonka, Jan. 26 at 2:30 p.m. Heppner JV boys win tw o, record now 6-1 By Pete Pearson The Heppner JV boys won two games last weekend against Wahtonka’s and Umatilla’s JV boys team s. The M ustangs routed Wahtonka, 60-38, and held off a Umatilla rally to win, 45-40. In the Wahtonka game Heppner started off slow. But in the second half the Mustangs started rolling and cruised to an easy victory over the Eagles. Kevin Payne made three ELIMINATE HARD PAN IMPROVE WATER RETENTION --pointers and led Heppner with 15 points. Against Umatilla. Scott Coe got the Mustangs off and running with two 3-pointers to start the game. Heppner jumped out to an early lead, and led 25-10 at halftime. In the second half Umatilla came roaring back with a full court press and got some quick points. But the young Mustangs held off the rally to win. Scott Coe led Heppner with 15 points. The JV boys next game is Friday, Jan. 11 in Pilot Rock at 4:30 p.m. Look over our large assortment of Hallmark VALENTINE CARDS Stock up on HEART CANDY for your "sweeties” . Lady Cards upended in back see-saw battle, 37-41 JV Fillies lose two back to By Lisa Witlman The JV Fillies started the new year off on the wrong foot, losing two games back to back. On January 4 they traveled to The Dalles to Play Wahtonka losing 19-35. It was an off day for Hepp ner as they had trouble making their shots count and were unable to ever get ahead. On Jan. 5 the Fillies played at home against Umatilla in a much better played game, however they still lost 36 to 41. The first quarter went by with neither team able to score many points. Heppner got into foul trou ble with 33 seconds left but manag ed to lag by only one point at the end of the quarter. In the second quarter defense got really tough on both teams. There were quite a few steals and turnovers before Umatilla started to sink their shots. At halftime the scoreboard read Fillies, 13, Umatilla, 19. In the third quarter both teams played man to man but Umatilla got open for shots to outscore the Fillies once again. With two minute.« left. Heppner was in foul trouble and Umatilla was ahead by 11 points. Heppner started to make a com eback in the fourth quarter. They picked up the tempo to run some fast breaks and forced Umatilla to turn over the ball ,ci«ti times. With four minutes left, two of Heppner’s players had fouled out and several others had four fouls each. The Fillies continued to battle back, on ly to lose by five points with an en ding score of Heppner, 36, Umatilla, 41. Jenni Ashbeck led the Fillies with 14 points and eight rebounds. Chrissy Schultz tossed in eight points and pulled down six rebounds. Lon Adams was high scorer for Umatilla with 16 points. Heppner coach Lana Orr was pleased with her girls. “ This was the best defensive game we have played all year. Getting into foul trouble did hurt us, but overall the v iole team pulled together to play very well ” Cards down Dufur 6-47 By Anne Morter On Saturday, January 5, the Cards took an early 14-3 lead and never let Dufur get much closer, going on to win 66-47. Both teams had trouble hitting the basket, both shooting in the neighborhood of 30 percent but the Card’s fast-paced game eventual ly was the undoing of the Rangers. High scorer for the Cardinals was Ryan Halvorsen with 19 points. Mike Garrett added 18 and Deacon Heideman had 13. The rebounds were plentiful for both teams with the Cards holding a 51-47 edge. Gar rett and Halvorsen each had 15 and Heideman added 10. In the assist department, David Wagenblast had eight and Gabe Garcia added seven while Ryan Halvorsen had five steals to pace the Cardinals. lone was 23 of 74 from the floor for 31 percent and managed just 18 of 42 free throw attempts for 43 per cent. Dufur was 19 of 64 from the field for 30 percent and eight of 17 from the line for 47 percent. “ Neither one of us shot very well,” said coach LaRue, especial ly noting the sub-par performance from the free throw line. He was pleased with other aspects of the game, namely that everyone played and almost everyone made it into the scoring column. This weekend, the Cards face Arl ington at home on Friday and travel to Condon on Saturday. The boys’ JV team won two games last week also, defeating Helix, 67-42, and slipping by Dufur, 53-48. Justin Miller hit three three- point shots against Helix and led the scoring with 22 points. Jake Deputy added 10. Miller shared scoring honors with Aaron Heideman against Dufur with each scoring 18 points, the JV team now boasts a 3-1 season record. Photo by Pam Minster N a n c y M o rter plays tight d e fen s e ag ain st C o n d o n By Anne Morter ding attack with seven boards and The Condon girls squelched the idea of an lone sweep, upending the Lady Cardinals, 37-41, in a game played in Condon last Saturday. As most lone-Condon games are, it was an emotional and sometimes con troversial, touch-and-go battle until the end. The Lady Cards’ league mark now stands at 2-1 and their season record moved to 8-4. Condon prevailed early in the game, leading until the third quarter. At the end of the third period, the Cards held a 30-29 lead. From there, the game see-sawed back and forth. With a minute to go, the score was tied. Condon then scored and lone was unable to capitalize on any scor ing opportunities. Condon ended up getting the ball back and the Lady Cards were forced to foul, giving the Blue Devils the final four-point margin. Nancy Morter was the Cardinal's high scorer with nine points. Kari Morgan and Danielle Stefani each added eight. Tana Shannon of Con don was the high scorer for the game with 14 points. Condon’s tall backcourt, led by 6 ’ Mardie Durfie and 5’ 11“ Shanna Wilkins, controll ed the boards, coming up with a lop sided 42-24 rebounding edge. Nan cy Morter led the Cardinal reboun Janie Cupps grabbed five. Brandi Ball had two assists and Janie Cupps had three steals to pace the Cardinals. The Lady Cards had a cold shooting night, hitting just 16 of 61 from the floor for 26 percent. The story was worse from the free throw line where they hit just 25 percent of their shots, making just three of 12. Condon hit 14 of 47 from the field for 30 percent and 13 of 22 from the free throw line for 59 percent. Despite the poor performance at the free throw line, coach Dana Heideman was happy with the Lady C ards’ perform ance. “ It was anybody’s game until the last 15 seconds,” commented Heideman. “ The team played very aggressive ball-they played their hearts out,” he added. Next up for the lone team is a tough game with Wheeler in Fossil. Wheeler started the season ranked number-one in the class 1A coaches’ poll but has dropped to number two in the latest release of that poll. In any event, the Lady Cards expect a tough match from the perennial powerhouse Falcons, especially when the game is on their home court. Game time is 6 p.m. Mustangs run past Columbia Burbank 88-73 The Heppner Mustangs ran past the visiting Columbia-Burbank Coyotes 88-73 in a non league basketball contest Tuesday, January 8. The game was a makeup from the Christmas Tournament game at Mac-Hi that was cancelled in December. Heppner exploded for 28 points in the second quarter with Bob Krein and Doug Devin each getting eight in the quarter. The Mustangs led 44-33 at the half in a pressing, tur nover filled half. The lead shrank to as little as four points in the third quarter but the Mustangs’ relentless pressure wore down the visitors from Washington. Heppner scored 27 points in the last quarter to win All five of the Mustang starters scored in double figures. Bob Krein scored a season high 16 points along with five assists while Jason Britt also had 16 counters. Doug Devin, 12, and Brandon Pedro had 12 points and a season high 12 rebounds. Rick Osmin tallied 10 points. Andony Amorebieta scored a game high 19 points for the Coyotes, a 3A team in Washington hoops. Aaron Rowe had 18 and Benji Debord had 14. Heppner 16 28 17 27 88 Columbia-Burbank 12 21 24 16 73 Heppner: Koffler 2-2 2, Currin 1-2 1, Pettyjohn 2 1-2 6. Maben, Krein 7 2-5 16, Britt 4 6-6 16. Osmin 5 0-1 10. 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