Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 20, 1991 - FIVE
Cardinals chances for state
tourney berth slip away
By Anne Mortar
The lone Cardinals saw their
chances for a state tournament trip
slip away in the final minutes of the
second place game of the Big Sky
D istrict Tournament held last
weekend at Umatilla High School.
The Cards lost in the champion
ship game to Sherman County
Huskies on Friday night, Feb. IS,
and lost again on Saturday, Feb. 16
to rallying Condon in the final four
minutes. The Cards ended their
season with a 14-7 record.
On the bright side, three Cardinals
were named to the district All-Star
team. Mike Garrett was a first team
selection, Gabe Garcia was named
to the second team and David
Wagenblast made the honorable
mention list.
On Friday night, the Cards ran up
against hot-shooting Joe Justeson and
the Sherman County Huskies, fall
ing 72-83. Justeson scored a game-
high 40 points including seven three-
pointers and was the main reason for
the Huskies stretching a five-point
halftime lead into a 16-point third
quarter lead. “ I think that the only
way we could have stopped Justeson
was to keep him out of the gym,”
said coach Del LaRue. "It seemed
like the farther back we pushed him,
the better he got,” he added.
Mike Garrett led the Cardinal
scorers with 26 points. Gabe Garcia
added IS, David Wagenblast had 12
and Ryan Halvorsen chipped in with
11. The Huskies edged the Cards in
the rebounding department, 38-37.
Ryan Halvorsen led the Cardinal at
tack with 15 boards followed by
Garrett with 12. Deacon Heideman
had five blocked shots for lone.
David Wagenblast had eight assists
Photo by Wayne Hams
David Wagenblast (22) looks for passing room against Huskies.
and Garcia added seven more while
Garrett paced the Cards with two
steals.
The Cardinals had a good shooting
night, hitting 27 of 45 for 60 percent
from the floor. From the line, they
shot 11 of 20 for 50 percent. The
Huskies didn’t do so badly in that
department either, shooting 29 of 59
for 49 percent from the floor and 16
of 26 for 62 percent from the line.
The Cardinals had seven three-point
buckets with Gabe Garcia hitting
four and Wagenblast adding three.
“ I wasn’t displeased with the
game,” said coach LaRue. “ I
thought we played well.” He noted
that Sherman County "out-quicked”
his team and that Sherman's tourney
experience proved to be too much
for the Cardinals.
M ustangs cap successful season
with 92-71 victory over Redsides
The Heppner Mustangs traveled to
Wasco County and capped a very
successful league campaign with a
92-71 victory over the Wasco Coun
ty Redsides. The win brought the
Mustangs’ record to 11-1 in league
play and 17-3 for the regular season.
The Redsides, who finished league
pl?y in second place and are always
tough at home, started quickly
behind Scon Lacey’s nine points to
lead 23-19 at the first break.
Heppner’s press started taking its
toll in the second quarter and the
Mustangs outscored Wasco County,
27-12, in the second stanza to lead
by 11 at the half. Jason Brin scored
15 points in the quarter and 22 in the
first half, on his way to a 33-point
night, the highest point total of his
season and career.
Heppner rotated nine players for
most of the game and Wasco Coun
ty played six players for the majori
ty of the game. That difference,
along with the constant full court
pressure, wore down the Redsides.
The Mustangs outscored Wasco
County by four points in the third
quarter and six points in the fourth
quarter for the 21-point victory. The
loss for Wasco County was their first
at home this year'.
Britt was red-hot from the field,
making 11-18, including five three-
pointers enroute to his total of 33
points. Bob Krein, continuing his
late season surge, scored 17 points.
Rick Osmin added 13 ponits and six
rebounds and Doug Devin had 23 for
Heppner.
Brandon Pedro, showing good an
ticipation as the deep man on the
press, had seven steals to go with his
seven rebounds and eight points on
the evening.
Kawika Wilcox, easily a league
allstar, scored 20 points for Wasco
County. Scott Lacey had 18 and
Scott Gardner contributed 14 for the
Redsides.
The Mustangs head into district
play Friday and Saturday, February
22 and 23, in Pendleton. Details of
the tournament can be found on page
one of this week's paper.
Heppner
19 27 25 21 92
Wasco County 23 12 21 15 71
Heppner: Currin, Maben, Krein 80-2 17;
Britt 11 6-9 33; Osmin 5 2-3 13; Pedro 3
2-2 8; Johnston, Grabeel 1 1-3 3; Rathbun
2 0-2 4; Devin 5 1-3 12. Bond. kofTler 1 2.
Totals 36 12-23 92.
Wasco County: la c e ' 7 3-4 18; Mahoney,
Cox 0 3-4 3; Dodge 3 i-4 7; Gardner 5 2-3
14; Ellis 2 4; Coburn 2 1-2 5; Wilcox 9 2-3
20; Wilson, Lockwood. Totals 28 12-2071.
Team fouls Heppner 19 Wasco County
22
.
Three-point goals: Britt 5, Krein, Osmin,
Devin, Lacey, Gardner 2.
Cards lose championship game
By Anne Morter
On Saturday, Feb. 16 the lady Cards
matched up with the tall Sherman
County Huskies with the district’s
second state berth on the line. The
Cardinals held a five-point lead in
the second quarter and it was still
anybody’s ball game with a minute
‘v'to go but lone couldn’t get around
• 5’ 11 ” Michelle Sather and her team
mates, falling 39-47 in the closing
seconds.
Kari Morgan was the Cards'
leading scorer with 14 points. Brandi
' Ball added eight. S herm an's
Michelle Sather was the game’s high
scorer with 22 points. Morgan was
also the leading rebounder with nine
boards but the Cards were outre-
bounded by the Huskies. Brandi Ball
and Danielle Stefani each had three
steals to pace the team. lone had a
*- tough shooting night, making just 12
. of 45 from the floor for 27 percent
' and 14 of 28 from the line for 50 per
cent. The Huskies hit 18 of 45 for
40 percent from the floor and 11 of
22 from the line for 50 percent.
''T he kids hustled and worked
hard but every shot was like shooting
into Christmas trees,” said coach
Dana Heideman. He noted that Kari
Morgan played hard, shooting four
of eight from the field and six of 12
from the line, even while being
double-teamed the whole game. He
also noted that Crystal Minster and
April Taylor played aggressively in-
the second quarter and caused a lot
of Sherman turnovers, but the Cards
were not able to capitalize
Heideman is already looking for
ward to next year since he will lose
just one player, senior Wendy
Anderson. He predicts a three-way
J race between lone. Sherman Coun
ty and Condon and he expects to be
right back in the heat of the race
again. “ No one expected us to even
get as far as we did this year with
five new players," said Heideman
Cards lose to Blue Devils in last quarter
Anne
By
Morter
On Saturday, Feb. 16, the Car
dinals were up against the Condon
Blue Devils for the fourth time this
season and led the entire game
before suffering an untimely lapse in
the last four minutes, allowing the
Condon Blue Devils to take the lead
and win, 58-54. The Cards held an
eight-point lead going into the fourth
quarter but Condon outscored them,
19-7, in that quarter and outscored
them, 14-2 in the final four minutes.
Mike Garrett led all scorers in the
game with 2$ points. Ryan
Halvorsen was the only other Car
dinal in double figures with 10
points. The Cards held a 38-31 re
bounding advantage with Garrett
leading the way with 13 boards.
Deacon Heideman and Halvorsen
each added another 10. David
Wagenblast dished out six assists and
Gabe Garcia contributed four while
Halvorsen and Heideman each had
three steals. Heideman also had six
blocked shots. In the shooting
department, lone shot 34 percent
from the floor, making 19 of 55
while Condon hit 25 of 49 for 51
percent. The Cards could only
capitalize on 14 of their 26 free
throw attempts for 53 percent, a fac
tor ‘‘that killed us” especially in the
closing minutes of the game, accor
ding to coach Del LaRue. Condon
had only four free throw tries but
made three for 75 percent.
“ It was a good game until the last
four minutes,” said coach LaRue.
“ I don’t know what happened to us-
-it was like we went into some kind
of trance,” he added.
Of course, there’s always next
year which “ looks good for us,”
said LaRue. Since the Cards won’t
graduate anyone off this year’s team,
they have high hopes for next year.
Photo by Wayne Hams
Mike Garrett (45) shoots over Condon player
lone JV girls end season
with two wins
By Anne Morter
JV Fillies end
season with a
loss to Weston
-McEwen
4-H horse training sessions Feb. 24
By Lisa Willman
The Heppner JV Fillies entkd''
their season on a sad note, p l^ in g ^
Weston-McEwen Friday afternoon
in Heppner. The Fillies lost, 42-51.
The first quarter started out well
for the Fillies as Donita Sharp stole
the ball and went down court for a
layup. The Fillies pulled together as
a team to score a few more points
and lead the game. With 3:38 left,
Weston-McEwen scored and tied the
game up at 8 points. With 2:50 on
the clock they pulled ahead to lead at
the end of the first quarter 9-17.
In the second quarter there, were
a lot of lane violations during foul
shots for both teams. Weston-
McEwen played a full court press
that the Fillies couldn’t overcome.
They also had trouble hanging on to
the ball and allowed Weston-
McEwen to keep the lead at halftime
20-29.
Coming back from the half the
Fillies made it obvious that they
weren’t quitting, but still had pro
blems with Weston-McEwen’s full
court press. A few times in the se
cond half the Fillies were able to
steal the ball to score but just
couldn’t pull it off and lost 42-51.
The JV Fillies ended their season
with 10 wins and eight losses, which
wasn’t bad for the young Fillies con
sisting of five sophomores and seven
freshmen.
Jennie Ashbeck and Jodi Johnston
each rallied for nine points to lead
the scorers. Sophomores Chrissy
Schultz and Donita Sharp tossed in
five points apiece. Sharp had nine re
bounds with Schultz pulling down
six. Johnston, with her quick hands,
stole the ball eight times and had four
assists.
Kristine Bedortha leading the way
with 10 boards. The team nabbed a
total of 17 steals with Crystal
Minster accounting for six.
The Cards shot 13 of 50 from the
floor for 26 percent while Condon
was just nine of 42 for 21 percent.
At the line, lone capitalized on six
of their 13 free throws for 46 per
cent while Condon only got two tries
and made one for 50 percent.
“ 1 was really pleased,” said coach
Tom Bedortha. “ It was g6od
teamwork-everyone scored,” he
added. Bedortha commented that
Amy Pointer had a good offensive
game and Kristine Bedortha had a
good defensive game.
The lone JV girls team wrapped
up their season with two wins over
the weekend of February 8 and 9.
Finishing their season with a 9-2
record, the young lady Cards downd
Condon for the fourth time this
season on Friday and defeated
Cascade Locks on the road Saturday.
The lady Cardinals had some trou
ble mustering the motivation to do
much high scoring against Condon,
a team they had beaten four times
previously, but they ended up
prevailing easily, 32-19. Amy
Pointer was the high scorer for the
game with eight points. The Cards
outrebounded Condon. 36-34, with
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He also noted that a lot of the girls
improved dramatically during the
Photo by Wayne Hams
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