M ustang V a rs ity plays in to u rn a m e n t
Huskies lick wounds after Mustang beating
by Molly Rhea
The Mustang netters traveled
to Moro on Thursday, September
25, and left the Sherman County
Huskies licking their wounds, as
all Heppner teams three teams
came away with the win.
The Mustang varsity won the
match in two games with
identical scores o f l 5-9, 15-9. In
game one the Mustangs led from
start to finish, but the game was
anything but quick as the teams
went a full three rotations before
it was complete.
Game two started out closer
with the teams trading the lead a
few times. With the score tied at
eight, Petra Elguezabal went
behind the service line to score
points nine through 13, then
Annie Hisler finished up the
serving by scoring the last two
points.
Service percentage in game one
was an outstanding 92 percent
(22/24); in game two the
Mustangs posted only a 79
percent success rate (26/33).
Jill Barber makes a spike while Annie Hisler looks on
with four kills and multiple
blocks and dinks. Jill Barber hit
10/10 with four kills, while
Elguezabal was 6/6 with three
kills. VanWinkle played tough at
the net with several blocks and
4/4 tips with three of those
marked as kills. Hisler performs
the main setting duties, but was
marked as hitting 4/6 with two
kills.
Although they don't show up
often in the stats, juniors Amber
One hundred percent servers for
the match include Jessica
VanWinkle (11/11) and Brooke
Boyer, while Hisler went 11/12
and Elguezabal 10/11.
Delivering at the net for the
Mustangs were Mindy Binschus,
successfully hitting eight of 12
lone Cards lose to Washington's best
Cardinal runner picks up yardage
lone got off to a rough start,
but battled back only to come up
short with a score of 48-30
against the Touchet Indians on
Friday, Sept. 26, in non-league
football play.
Touchet kicked off first, but
regained the ball to score an
early touchdown. lone couldn't
get anything going in the first
quarter which caused a 27-0 lead
for Touchet.
The Cardinals
scored 14 unanswered points in
the second quarter to cut
Touchet's lead in half.
The third quarter ended
similarly to the first, with lone
scoreless, and Touchet tacked on
21 points to their original 27, to
extend their lead to 48-14.
lone dominated the fourth
quarter with 16 unanswered
points but came up short, the
game ending with a Touchet win
over the lone Cardinals, 48-30.
Sophomore Dan Scott led the
Cardinals in rushing with 73
yards on 20 carries.
Cory
Bennetto rushed for 40 yards on
nine carries.
Mark McElligott was eight-for-
16 for a total of 146 yards on the
day. Korey Morgan had one
touchdown
pass
to
Jake
McElligott who had eight
receptions for 184 yards as well
as several touchdowns and two
point conversions.
lone
Touchet
0 14 0 1 6 -3 0
27 0 21 0 -48
Rushing-lone: Dan Scott 20-73. Cory
Bennetto 9-40, Allan Gribskov 6-16,
Mark Orem 1-1, Mark McElligott 6-(-
13).
Totals: 42-117.
Touchet's
rushing statistics were unavailable.
Passing-lone: Mark McElligott 8-16-
2,146 Korey Morgan 2-6-72-1
Touchet's passing statistics were
unavailable.
Receiving-lone: Jake McElligott 8-
184, Dan Scott 1-27, Mark Orem
1-7. Touchet's receiving statistics
were also unavailable.
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Peck and Jaci Hughes are
Heppner's
"back
row
specialists". Back row players
are responsible for passing the
serve receive to the setter and
digging out the spikes.
"This team is really coming
together well," states coach Terri
Gentry.
"They are playing
unselfish, team ball."
The junior varsity Mustangs
won in two games, 18-16, 15-4,
against
a
much-improved
Sherman County. Game one was
long and intense with 10
Heppner players shuffled in and
out of the lineup, and the Huskies
playing "ruff' and tough. Game
two was a Mustang stampede as
Heppner won easily, 15-4.
The JVs served 53/56 for 95
percent success with Brooke
Boyer, Abby Kahl, Leah Denton,
Kathleen Greenup, Stephanie
Clough, Amy Papineau, Ashley
Ropp, Allison Sykes and Jayme
Hansen all serving 100 percent.
Ashley Ropp, Leah Denton,
Jayme Hansen and Brooke Boyer
shared the JV setting duties. Hot
hitters were Amy Drake with 14
successful hits for 15 attempts
with five kills. Kim Pointer was
10/15 with four kills and Jayme
Hansen went 6/7 with three kills.
Strong net play was seen from
Casey Ingraham, Trisha Adams
and Macy Rhea. Good back row
performance was turned in by
Allison Sykes, Pointer and Amy
Papineau.
"This was an enjoyable game to
watch," said JV coach Susie
Hisler. "Sherman County has
really improved, but our ability
to consistently perform the basic
fundamentals showed through."
The C team capped off the day
winning their match, 15-13,5-15,
12-15. “This was our team’s best
game of the year,” said C team
coach Dana Reid. “These girls
demonstrated what they have
been learning and put out an
excellent team effort.”
All of the Heppner squads saw
action at home against Weston-
McEwen on Tuesday, September
30.
The varsity takes on
Umatilla and Stanfield in
Umatilla on Tuesday, October 7.
The next home match will be
against on Thursday, October 9,
when the Mustangs take on
Wahtonka.
Pie sale on
Friday, Oct. 3
All Saints Episcopal Church
and the United Methodist Church
in Heppner will hold their annual
pie sale Friday, Oct. 3, starting at
8:30 a.m. at Cal's BP Station in
Heppner.
Pies will be sold for $6 and up
until they run out.
by Molly Rhea
The Heppner varsity volleyball
team went to Athena on
Saturday, September 27, to play
in
the
Weston-McEwen
Tournament. Teams playing in
the tourney were: Heppner,
Imbler, Pilot Rock, Wallowa,
Elgin, Weston-McEwen, Union
and
Waitsburg.
This tournament divides the
participating teams into two
brackets for the traditional match
play to 15. One pool played out
their bracket in the high school
gym, while the other played in
the junior high gym.
The
Mustangs
had
the
misfortune of being pitted
against the eventual tournament
champs, Wallowa, for the first
match and, though they gave it
their best shot, went down, 10-
15, 19-17, 3-15.
With this loss Heppner was
bracketed to play Pilot Rock.
The Mustangs took only two
games to defuel the Rockets, 15-
11, 15-12.
For their final match of the day
P
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Heppner went up against Union
who had also lost their first L-R Lexi Matteson, Linsey Ropp and Petra Elguezabal
match and won their second to
advance from the opposing championship round by defeating 15, 15-9, 15-10) to advance into
bracket. The Mustangs took this Imbler, 15-10, 15-3. In the championship play. Wallowa
match in two games also, opposing bracket Waitsburg defeated Waitsburg in two
winning
15-1,
17-15. defeated Union (15-11, 10-15, games, 15-8, 16-14, to win the
Wallowa advanced to the 15-13) and Weston-McEwen (4- tournament.
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Mustangs disables Pilot Rock Rockets
by Molly Rhea
The three Heppner High School
volleyball teams traveled to Pilot
Rock Tuesday, September 23,
and left the Rockets looking
more like the disabled MIR space
station, as the Mustangs won all
three matches.
The Heppner Cs started out the
action with a quick six-point lead
in game one before the Rockets
got fueled up and into the game.
It was back and forth with the
Mustangs taking the win, 18-16.
Game two was over quickly with
the young Mustang squad
winning 15-8.
Maja Dietiker, the Swiss
exchange student, entered the
contest late in game one to
dominate the net and help cap the
win.
The junior varsity Mustang
netters needed three games to
jettison the Rockets. Game one
was back and forth until Pilot
Rock managed to establish a 14-
7 advantage. The Mustangs
battled back, but ended up losing
the first game, 10-15.
Game two was close with the
JVs dashing to a 7-1, lead only to
allow the Rockets come back and
pull ahead, 8-7, then 11-9. Just
as it looked as though the match
was going to jet away, coach
Susie Hisler was able to change
the team
dynamics
with
substitutions and the JVs won
game two, 15-12.
In the final game Pilot Rock
earned a 2-0 lead with their first
two servers and, although their
next four servers were unable to
put the ball in play, the Rockets
did not allow the Mustangs to
score either. After a complete
rotation Ashley Ropp stepped
behind the line and served up
four Mustang points.
The
Rockets was able to tie the score
with four points apiece, but from
that point onward it was all
Heppner with the setter, Leah
Denton, scoring points five and
six,
then
Amy
Papineau
slamming in five points to
effectively defuel the Rockets.
The Heppner team won the
game, 15-8, to take the match.
The JVs served 84 percent for
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the match with 100 percent
serving coming from Jayme
Hansen (7/7), Leah Denton (7/7)
and Kim Pointer successfully
serving 11 for 12. Setters for the
match included Leah Denton,
Brooke Boyer, Ashley Ropp, and
Jayme Hansen.
Kim Pointer was once again the
hot hitter with 20 successful hits
for 25 attempts and seven kills.
Trisha Adams was eight for eight
with four kills while Amy Drake
successfully hit 10 of 13 with
three kills scored. Showing good
consistency at the net were
Jayme Hansen (8/8), Stephanie
Clough (8/8) and Allison Sykes
( 2 / 2 ).
"It felt good to pull that one
out," said Hisler. "Macy (Rhea)
and Allison (Sykes) came in at a
crucial time in the second game
and were able to give us the lift
we needed."
The Heppner varsity squad also
won in three games, 10-15, 15-7,
15-5. Game one looked like
Mustang runaway with a 10-3
lead, but turned into rock slide as
Pilot Rock ricocheted back and
took game one 15-10.
The Rockets blasted to the lead
in game two, leading 4-0, then 7-
2, before the Mustangs reared up,
and,
by using consistent
teamwork, won 15-7. Game
three the Rockets looked like
they were suffering from jet lag
as the Mustangs galloped to a 12-
1 lead. The Mustangs won the
game to take the match, 15-5.
Varsity served at 87 percent,
making 59 of 68. Brooke Boyer
served 8/8, Amber Peck was
14/15, while Jessie VanWinkle
and Petra Elguezabal were both
10/11. Playing strong at the net
were Annie Hisler with six kills,
Elguezabal with five kills, Lexi
Matteson with three kills and
Mindy Binschus with three kills,
two tip kills and two block kills.
"I am pleased with the win,"
said coach Tern Gentry. "In this
league every win is important."
photo by Joyce Hughes
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