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Mustangs to start basketball
season with high expectations
TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 1, 1993
The Heppner Mustangs began
basketball practice two weeks ago
amid great expectations and big
question marks as coach Lee
Padberg welcomed a veteran,
talented squad to practice.
Padberg, in his ninth season of
coaching basketball and fourth as
the varsity boys’ coach, greeted
three returning starters from last
year’s league championship
squad.
Returning are seniors Rick
Koffler and Len Brittner and
junior Trent Hughes and top
reserves Austin Coiner and Joe
Healy. The balance of the varsi
ty squad includes seniors, Sam
Sumner, Dwayne Dunaway, Jeff
Botefuhr and Joe Lindsay, and
junior Chris Dickenson.
The question marks? Both
Dwayne Dunaway and Chris
Dickenson are joining the squad
after taking last year off because
of major knee surgeries, Dicken
son with a football injury and
Dunaway with a basketball injury
suffered in the early part of last
season. Sam Sumner, who had a
sensational summer basketball
season, hasn’t played since his
freshman year due to knee pro
blems. Both Trent Hughes and
Joe Healy just started practice
Monday as they are both recover
ing from ankle sprains. If those
players can get healthy and stay
healthy the Mustangs will have a
chance for a sensational season.
Besides boasting a veteran
roster of eight seniors and two
juniors, the Mustangs have a
good size roster. Both Dunaway
and Coiner are 6 ’3” and the two
best leapers on the team, Sumner
and Brittner are 6’2” and 6’ 1 ”
respectively.
Asked what goals the Mustangs
have, Padberg quickly replied,
“ The state tournament.” The
Mustangs have won the league
championship two of the last
three years but have been bounc
ed from the Regional Tournament
in each instance.
Conventional wisdom says that
Weston-McEwen. Sherman and
Pilot Rock should be in the first
division with the Mustangs with
Stanfield, Umatilla and Wahtonka
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in the second division.
Heppner will be helped by a
tough preseason with two 3A
teams, the Riverside Pirates and
the Milton-Freewater Pioneers,
playing home and home games
with the Mustangs. Heppner will
also play the lone Cardinals three
times and the Condon Blue Devils
once.
Their season will start Friday,
Dec. 3 with a road game in
Boardman and December 4 with
a home date with lone. Both
games begin with the Junior Var
sity girls and boys, Friday at 3
p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m.
followed by the girls and boys
varsity games.
The Mustangs junior varsity
squad will be coached by Bob
Ployhar. Ployhar and Greg Grant
switched jobs this winter with
Grant coaching the C team.
Ployhar will be starting the
season with a mixture of
sophomores and juniors on the
roster. The juniors include Chad
Skroch, Brent Wright, Ethan
Burnside, Troy Wilson and Bill
Schlaich. Both Skroch and
Wright will be floaters with the
varsity team. Sophomores include
Ben Ewing, Rod Zumwalt, Chris
Sykes, Shaun Hisler, Casey Bet-
zold, Brian Struckmeier and Dan
Burnside.
Grant will start with 13
freshmen on the C team for their
14 game season. They are Brian
Koffler, Jerid Ployhar, Jim
Schlaich, Eric Schonbachler,
Lonnie Rill, Brent Gunderson,
David M ichael, Damien
Wilhelm, Jeff Wilson, Chris
Jones, Josh Coiner, Rick Worden
and Jeff Watkins.
Church has a full schedule of ac
tivities and services planned for
the Advent season.
Sunday, Dec. 5 families,
children and adults are invited to
an Advent Festival from 2 to 4
p.m. People attending will be
make tree decorations for families
and gifts. All the supplies will be
available. The afternoon will also
include carol singing and
refreshments. “ The festival is a
wonderful way to herald the
season of the birth of Jesus
Christ,” said the Rev. Bob
Dowrey.
On Dec. 5, service for the se
cond Sunday of Advent will begin
at 10:30 a.m. A selection based
on an old French carol, “ Ding
Dong Merrily On High” will be
sung by the choir. The choir is
under the direction of Geneva
Mathews.
Practice for the Christmas pro
gram will be held Wed., Dec. 8
at 5:30 p.m. People will gather
to put up the Christmas tree Sat.
Dec. 11. Time will be
announced.
The Christmas program entitl
ed “ WTiat Can I Give” , will
begin at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec.
12. A potluck will follow at the
church. Families and friends are
invited to attend.
A Christmas Eve service will
be held Friday, Dec. 24 at 7 p.m.
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The 1993-94 basketball season
gets underway this weekend for
the Cardinals. The Cards will
host Umatilla this Friday, Dec. 3
with the Junior Varsity games
beginning at 3 p.m. Other
weekend action includes the Car
dinals on the road to Heppner on
Saturday. The games are schedul
ed to begin at 1 p.m.
Head girls’ coach. Dana
Heideman, in his sixth year at the
helm, forsees a good year ahead
for his lady Cardinals. He feels
that the Cards’ level of play is
about where they left off last
year, when they won the Big Sky
Conference and finished fifth in
the state tournament.
Heideman notes that he has a
lot of experienced players retur
ning but still has a young team
with just one senior and the bulk
of the team made up of juniors
and sophomores. The lady Cards
will hit the court with outstanding
quickness, however. Heideman
looks to that speed to run the fast
break and killer pressure defense.
“We’ve never had so many quick
players,” said Heideman.
Not all the starting spots are
certain, with heavy competition
at the wing position. Becky
Wagenblast and Kim Bedortha.
part time starters last year, will
battle it out with Mary Jane
McCarty, a transfer from Echo,
Lynde Minster and Heidi Orem,
who spent last year as an ex
change student in Germany.
Melissa McElIigott and Jamie
Lovett, both second team picks in
th Big Sky, will take the starting
spots at low post. Tanja Ander
son and Suzie Heideman, a
5’ IOI/ 2 ” freshman will provide
backup. The team’s only senior
and first team Big Sky pick. April
Taylor will run the offense in the
point guard position.
The preseason should be
challenging with nine of the 10
opponents coming from the 2A
ranks. Once league play begins,
Heideman expects Condon and
Wheeler to be the main competi
tion on this side of the league with
Wasco County, Culver and Dufur
battling for the top spot on the
other side.
Veteran head boys’ coach, Del
LaRue, starts his 33rd year of
coaching and his 23rd year in
lone with 25 boys out for the
team. But the tremendous depth
that graced the Cardinal's roster
last year is gone. With three
starters and three key reserves
lost to graduation, LaRue expects
his six returning varsity players
to carry the bulk of the load.
Aaron Heideman and Jim Logan
are returning starters. Jared
Ashbeck. Jake Bacon, Jason Pro-
udfoot and Jason Halvorsen are
the other players returning with
varsity playing time under their
belts. Rounding out the roster will
be Lars Krechting a 6 ’7” ex
change student, Nathan
Heideman, Jim Garrett, Rodney
Ehrmantraut and Steve Allen.
LaRue expects the final spot on
the varsity roster to be determin
ed on a weekly basis from the JV
ranks.
LaRue notes that the team is
basically the same size as last
year as far as the starters are con
cerned, but much of the height off
the bench has been lost.
LaRue knows that the depth
situation will make it imperative
for the starters to stay out of foul
trouble. He plans to “ up-tempo”
both the offense and defense.
“ The problem will be if we run
out of gas,” says LaRue.
LaRue says he expects the
competition on this side of the
league to come primarily from
Helix and Wheeler, with the
possibility of Arlington making a
showing. He expects Dufur and
Wasco to dominate on the other
side of the league.
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beginning at 7 p.m. at the Hepp
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a unique Christmas experience
you will treasure all season, said
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