TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, November 15, 1995
Mustangs grab six CBC first team spots
Cards' playoff hopes dashed
By Kara Miller
i
Shaun Hisler
Chris Sykes Brent Gunderson Jim Schlaich
The Heppner M ustangs
grabbed six first team positions
on the Columbia Basin Con
ference All Star Team.
Senior Shaun Hisler was a
top pick as both a linebacker
and running back. Senior Chris
Sykes was a first team selection
at both defensive tackle and
punter. Junior Brent Gunder
son was selected as a first team
offense guard. Junior Jim
Schlaich was also a first teamer
at defensive back.
The Mustangs also had four
selections on the second team.
They include Sykes at offensive
tackle, seniors Ben Ewing at
tight end and Rod Zumwalt at
flanker, along with junior Brian
Koffler at quarterback.
Schlaich was also selected
honorable mention at the full
back position.
Weston-McEwen topped the
CBC AllStars with 25 selections
overall.
Following is a complete
listing of the All Star selections:
First team: quarterback (QB)-
Casey Perkins, Weston-Mc
Ewen (WM); fullbacks (FB)-
Kyle Frederickson, Umatilla,
Randy Perkins, WM; flanker
(F) -Lucas Pupo, WM; kicker
(K)-Brian Clark, WM; punter
(P)-Chris Sykes, Heppner;
defensive ends/linebackers
(DE)-Casey Perkins, Pilot Rock
(PR), Frederickson; center (C)-
Michael Zerba, WM; guards
(G) -Brent Gunderson, Hepp
ner, Lieuallen; tackles (T)-John
Glidewell, WM, McGregor
Lynde, WM; halfbacks (HB)-
Shaun Hisler, Heppner, Glen
Stillman, PR; tight end (TE)-
Matt Bailey, WM; split end
(SE)-J.J. Fuller, Sherman Co.;
linebackers (LB)-Iveson, Evans,
Lieuallen, Hisler; defensive line
(DL)-Femando Sanchez, Uma
tilla, Sykes, Glidewell; defen
sive backs (DB)-Mark New
man, Stanfield, Jim Schlaich,
Heppner, R. Perkins, Pupo.
Second team: QB-Brian Kof
fler, Heppner; FB-R. Perkins; F-
Rod Zumwalt, Heppner, K-
Mirek Marck, Stanfield; P-
Morgan Dunlap, WM, Jimmy
Kurtz, Umatilla; DE-Max Bebb,
WM, Dunlap; C-Steve Moe,
V
Ben Ewing
I
Rod Zumwalt
Umatilla; G-Evan Christiansen,
Sherman Co., Iveson; T-Lino
Garza, Umatilla, Sykes; HB-
Chris Grimes, WM, Bebb; TE-
Ben Ewing, Heppner; SE-Bill
Albert, WM; LB-Wes Ander
son, Sherman Co., Bailey
Stillman; DL-Raines Dunlap,
WM, John McBean, WM,
Mustangs lose heartbreaker to Nyssa, 34-26
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breath. A poem, written by
four members of the junior
class for the occasion as a good
bye to the senior girls, was read
by Suzy Heidemann.
It had to be the Halloween
evening. Something other than
the costumed spectators must
have cast a spell over the Car
dinals; not even cheers from
the "Glamorous Pumpkin",
alias Heidemann, recuperating
from a recent emergency sur
gery, could work the magic
lone needed to defeat the
Wheeler Falcons.
The Cardinals could not seem
to get synchronized or control
the ball and Wheeler County
played with the intensity that
the Cardinals, lacked. The
Cards lost 9-15 and 6-15, and
the Falcons won a well-deserv
ed second spot at the district
tournament.
In the first game, lone serv
ed the ball out of bounds, time
after time, through several rota
tions. The Falcons capitalized
and won the game 9-15.
The second game started
slowly, with both teams having
problems keeping the ball in
court. It looked like lone was
going to rally when Kara Miller
scored six straight points, but
the Falcons blocked Miller's
seventh serve at the net and
that finished off the Cardinals'
comeback attempt at 6-15.
There were some excellent
volleys and net plays in both
games. McElligott had five
spikes, four kills and two
blocks. Laree Anderson, Steph
anie Haguewood, Jenny Sulli
van and Miller each had several
spikes and kills.
Coach Charity McElligott re i
capped the year, saying "W e
have had a rebuilding year and
ball carrier.
hope to go farther next season.
We will have more players with
fourth and goal, D. Gunderson varsity experience on the floor
made an unbelievable catch of next season. We played ex
a Koffler pass deep in the end tremely well at times, but lack
zone to tie the game with one 0f experience showed up dur-
minute left in regulation. Hisler (ng key games. All in all, we
tried to win the game for Hepp had a fun, learning experi-
ner with a run to the goal line, enee.
but was stopped inches short.
Neither team did anything Hope-Valby Parish
with their first chances using
the Kansas Plan overtime from plan services
the 25 yard line. After Nyssa
scored, Heppner's last chance
Thanksgiving communion
for another tie faded away as
services
will be held at the
the Mustangs fumbled the ball
Hope-Valby
Lutheran Parish
out of bounds. The referees
on
Wednesday
evening and
should have marked the spot,
Thursday
morning,
Nov. 22
with Heppner possibly getting
and
23.
Pastor
Stan
Hoobing
another first down, but the en
tire crew hit the showers in will preach on the theme of
"Thanks Be To God", based on
record time.
Both the final scores and the scripture reading of St. Luke,
statistics showed the evenness 17:11-19.
Hope Lutheran Church in
of the game. Total yards were
Heppner
will have Thanksgiv
Heppner 375, Nyssa 358.
ing
service
at 7:30 p.m. on
Nyssa travels on to Sheridan
in the Quarterfinals of the foot Wednesday. Service at Valby in
lone will be at 9 a.m. Thanks
ball playoffs.
The Mustangs end another giving Day.
Visitors and friends are wel
very successful season with a
7-3 record, losing only to three come to attend services of
other playoff teams, Nyssa, Im- either Hope or Valby.
bler and Weston-McEwen.
Following tradition, the
senior girls on the lone volley
ball squad and their parents
were honored in a ceremony
before the last game of the
Brian Koffler
season on Oct. 31 against the
Wheeler County Falcons.
Christiansen; DB-Josh Dilley,
Melissa, Jeri and Joe McElli-
Umatilla, Marlin Bernabe, PR, gott; Marie, Lucy and Con
C. Perkins, Fuller.
Tworek; Angie, Marge and Jack
Honorable mention: QB- Ball, and exchange student
Dilley; FB-Anderson, Schlaich; Stephanie Lemieux with host
G-Paul Wizner, WM; TE-David parents, Marilyn and Cleo
Ellis, PR; LB-Canaan Dacus, Childers, were introduced and
Stanfield; DL-Kevin Springer, presented with bouquets of red
Wahtonka.
.rose buds and white baby's
Mustang defenders, lead by No. 84 Ben Ewing, go after Nyssa
The Heppner Mustangs were
eliminated from the Class 2A
State Football Playoffs by the
homestanding Nyssa Bulldogs,
34-26, in two overtimes. The
game, played Saturday after-
noon, Nov. 11, in Nyssa under
overcast skies, was a nail biter.
The Mustangs came back three
times in the game to tie the
score, only to lose the game in
the second overtime on a 25
yard touchdown pass from
Nyssa quarterback Cameron
Skeen to split end Lynn
Ellsworth on a fourth and 10
play.
Nyssa, champs of the Wapiti
League and hosting their first
ever playoff game, broke on top
with a six yard touchdown pass
from Skeen to Russell Zimmer
man. Paul Ellsworth caught a
two point conversion pass from
Skeen for a 8-0 Bulldog lead.
Heppner drove into Nyssa
territory on the next possession
on the running of senior half
back Shaun Hisler and a 23
yard pass completion from
quarterback Brian Koffler to
tight end Jeff Watkins. Hisler,
with 1,000 yards rushing on the
season, had 100 yards on the
afternoon on 29 carries.
The Bulldogs took over on
downs, but cornerback Eric
Schonbachler intercepted a
Skeen pass and returned it to
the Nyssa 15 yard line. Koffler
hit Hisler with a 15 yard screen
pass and Heppner trailed, 8-6,
after an unsuccessful pat
attempt.
Nyssa came right back and
scored on a Skeen to P. Ells
worth pass for the touchdown.
The big play in the drive was
a 22 yard gain by running back
Spencer Esplin.
With the first half winding
down, the Mustangs flew 75
yards in nine plays to tie the
game. Koffler dived the last
yard for the touchdown and hit
Jim Schlaich off a ricochet from
Jeff Watkins for the two point
pat. Freshman Derek Gunder
son scooted 55 yards with a flat
pass to get the Mustangs in
scoring possession. Gunderson
caught three passes for 95 yards
and a touchdown for Heppner.
The Mustangs could not get
their offense going in the se
cond and Nyssa took the lead
again on a three yard run by
senior Billy Montoya. Montoya
topped Bulldog rushers with 74
yards on 16 canies.
The Mustangs kept answer
ing the challenge as they mar
ched 69 yards in nine plays to
score a tying tpuchdovyq on a
Koffler tp Ben Ewing pass for
25 yards. Koffler was 10-23
passing for 212 yards and three
touchdowns without an inter
ception.
Schlaich ended the next Bull
dog drive with an interception.
The Mustang defense played
their hearts out as down line
men Chris Sykes and Randy
VanEtta, along with defensive
ends Ewing and Brian Struck-
meier, each made great defen
sive plays to frustrate the Nyssa
offense. Schlaich, Hisler and
linebacker Brent Gunderson
also filled many holes on the
afternoon.
Nyssa took the lead again as
the Mustangs were stopped on
fourth and one from their own
40 yard line with 6:46 remain
ing in the game. Skeen gained
24 yards on an option and
Montoya found the end zone
from 16 yards out. The Bull
dogs led 20-14 with 3:06 left in
regulation.
Koffler hit Hisler with a
screen pass for a 26 yard gain
on third down and then hit D.
Gunderson with a 31 yard com
pletion to the Nyssa eight yard
line with time running out. On
The H o lid ay s a r e n 't c o m p le te
w ith o u t t h a t S p e c ia l G i f t ...
Clash ends
in loss
By Kara Miller
The lone Cardinals traveled
to Condon for their second
meeting of the season and lost
to the Blue Devils in two
games, 6-15 and 12-15. Plagued
with poor serving and too
strong hits, the Cardinals
struggled to keep the ball in
court.
Even though the Cardinals
did not play as well as usual,
they had several excellent
defensive moves at the net.
Melissa McElligott had two
spikes, four kills, one stuff;
Suzy Heidemann, two spikes,
four kills, two blocks, two
stuffs; Jenny Sullivan, two
spikes and one block; Kara
Miller, three spikes, two blocks,
one stuff, and Stephanie
Haguewood, one spike and
one block. Sullivan had eight
assists and Miller, 12.
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