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TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 12, 1994 Mustangs make clean sweep over Cards The Heppner Mustangs played at home after the holidays Friday, Jan. 7 and beat the lone Cardinals for the third time this pre-season 73-56. The game was hard fought and the M ustangs slowly and methodically wore down the IA C ardinals with defensive pressure. Both teams started like a house afire and Heppner led 23-19 after the first period. Heppner increas ed its lead to five points at the half and slowly pulled away from lone in the second half. Rick Koffler had his best offen sive output of the year with 23 points on 9 -18 shooting and four three pointers from the field. Leonard Brittner added 19 points and six steals off the press. Joe Healy added 12 points and seven rebounds while Sam Sumner chipped in eight points and five rebounds. Junior Jason Halvorsen had another strong game against the Mustangs, scoring 16 points and grabbing nine rebounds. Jared Ashbeckhad 16 points and six re- bounds. Jake Bacon and Jim Logan added nine and eight respectively. The win got the Mustangs (5-3) BOWLING Thursday Night la d ie s Decem ber JO W L K)*/S OSEA #59 4IV4 21 Kinzua 31 22 Lancer Lanes 30 30 Team #1 22 B & C Repair 19*4 32 Vi 40 Oetlin' Better 12 High Game: Dianna Hoeft 203. High Series: Dianna Hoeft 504. Splits converted: Katie McRoberts 4-5-7. January 6 W L livi 44 Vi OSEA #59 21 35 Kin/ua 23 33 Lancer Lanes 23 33 Team #1 20 Vi 35 Vi B & C Repair 44 12 Gettin’ Better High game: Phyllis Piper 192. High series Phyllis Piper 517. Splits converted: Michele Hams 5-7-9; Pat Hyatt 2-7: Noia Binschus 4 8 10. Market Report Compliments of the Morrow County Grain Growers — ~ Photo by Joyce Hughes Mustang guard Trent Hughes (15) passes past Cardinal Jim Logan ready to defend their league CBC cham pionship against the Umatilla Vikings Saturday night. Tuesday, January 1 1 , 1 9 9 4 Soft White Jan. *3.62 Feb. *3.64/*3.66 March *3.68/‘3.69 April *3.71 New crop July *3.62 Aug. *360 Bariev Jan. ‘ 103/* 105 Feb.-March *106 Mac Hi outlasts Heppner lone MS girls beat Echo The lone Middle School girls beat the Echo Cougars 28-16 December 11 at lone. This was their second basketball game for the season. The game started out slow with the score 11 to eight at the halftime. After a halftime pep talk from coach Schaber, the girls came out and put on the pressure. The Cardinals scored the first Mustangs sink Vikings 81-37 Heppner’s premier jumper Leonard Brittner makes one of two slam dunks for the night. The Heppner Mustangs ex ploded for 81 points Saturday night January 8 as they over whelmed the visiting Umatilla Vikings 81-37. The Mustangs, toughened by a schedule of four preseason games against 3A Mac Hi and Riverside and three games against a talented Cardinal 1A team, found the go ing easy against a Viking team that had enjoyed some success in the preseason. Heppner used an effective full court and half court press and an aggressive man-to-man defense to completely take the Vikings out of their game. The Mustangs scored 54 points in the second and third quarters to put the game out of reach. basket of the second half with an easy lay-in by Kara Miller, assisted by Jenni Sullivan. The Cards came roaring back and won 28-16. The win was a team effort with everyone con tributing steals, points and rebounds. The Cards will travel to Echo in a rematch Jan. 16. The ‘B’ girls lost their game. Eleven of the 12 Mustangs suited down scored with Leonard Brittner, Sam Sumner and Rick Koffler scoring 18, 17 and 16 points. As expected. Heppner dominated the boards with Dwayne Dunaway snaring nin,e rebounds and Joe Healy and Chris Dickenson each grabbing six. Koffler had six assists and five steals and Jeff Botefuhr had five steals. Russell Proctor had 11 points for Umatilla and Shawn Tracy had nine counters. This weekend’s action has the Mustangs traveling to Wahtonka Friday night. January 14 to face the Eagles and to Stanfield Satur day Jan. 15 to play the Stanfield Tigers. i 4 St. Patrick’s Senior Center Bulletin Board Photo by Joyce Hughes Leonard Brittner jumps high to block shot. The Mac Hi Pioneers beat the Heppner Mustangs for the second time this season 59-48 as the Mustangs traveled to Milton- Freewater Tuesday, January 4. Heppner started fast and held a first quarter and halftime leads of 16-13 and 29-23. The Pioneers came back and led 36-34 going into the last stanza. Mac Hi put the game away late in the fourth quarter as the Mustangs were forced to foul. The Pioneers hit eight of 12 from the line in the last quarter to hit 16-23 for the game for 70 percent. Senior Leonard Brittner had a strong game for the Mustangs with 20 points on 8-17 shooting from the field to go with six re bounds. Rick Koffler added 10 points before fouling out in the fourth quarter. Sam Sumner, who was seeing his first action of the season, grabbed nine rebounds and Joe Healy added six boards. Joe Parks and Alex Meza hit for 16 points and 10 points respectively for the class 3A Pioneers. The loss gave the Mustangs a 4-3 record heading into weekend play. Amy Wagenblast earns scholarship 100,000 miles per year, 1,500 revolutions per minute, 75 explosions per second. Your engines drive your m ost im p o rtan t investm ents. Amy Wagenblast of Lexington, has received a $1,000 scholarship from the Pendleton Flour Mills as part of the agricultural honors program at Oregon State University. 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M orrow C ou n ty G ra in G row ers ,c Phone 9891221 1 900 452 7396 LEXINGTON OREGON 97839 P 0 Box 367 S h a u n H isler The Heppner Booster Club is proud to announce an Inspirational Player o f the Week Award This award features a hoy and girl athlete at Heppner High School who has demonstrated a positive attitude, desire dedication and extra effort Players are selected by the coaches from the prior weeks garnets) and practices The ad is sponsored hy different businesses each week Ninety people were in attendance at the senior meal January 5. Four meals were taken out. Members of the Mormon church serv ed. Kathryn Lindstrom won the meal ticket. Liz Miller the door prize and Jim Bruns received the guest prize. Rose Marie Buschke and Irene Swanson are the hostesses for January. Callie Huddleston and Doll Campbell were the hostesses for December. The meal site com mittee met following the meal. Julia Fowler and Eva Mabbot of CAPECO attended the meeting. Jim Bruns of Willoughby Hearing Aide Service was at the site to help seniors with hearing problems and the health nurse took blood pressures. Due to an emergency at the hospital Molly Rhea cancell ed the foot clinic. The transportation committee also met January 5. The menu for Wednesday, Jan. 19 will be baked beans with franks, macaroni salad, carrots, roll, fruit and cookies. Members of the Seventh Day Adventist and Nazarene churches will serve. The Senior Board will meet following the meal, as their meeting was postponed Jan. 12. Rose Marie Buschke has been appointed to be the new represen tative from the senior center to the AAA. The bus will go to Weston for the February meeting of the AAA. The date will be announced later. The St. Patrick's quilt is on display and tickets are available at the senior center. The drawing will be held at the St. Patrick's Day celebration. Proceeds go to the upkeep of the center. Dates to remember: Monday-quilting 1 p.m.. Bible study, 1:30 p.m.; Tues. and Thurs.-exercise 10 a m.; Wednesday-dinner, noon; Friday-cards, 2:30 p.m.; Saturday-dance at Hermiston; Sunday- movie, 6 p.m. There were not enough people to take the bus to the dance Saturday, Jan. 8. Anyone wishing to to go by bus should con tact Irene Schroeder 676-9132. If enough people are interested the bus can make the trip. There was one table of pinochle in play Friday, Jan. 7. Several others were visiting and enjoying the refreshments. Flo Holt served cookies and coffee. The Sunday movie "Dennis the Menace” was enjoyed by 10 seniors Irene Swanson and Eleanor Gonty served popcorn. i J
