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• W U U .C II C I IllltiS , fieppner, Oregon Wednesday, August 5,1998 Willow Creek All-Stars take second at district The Official Newspaper o f the City o f Heppner and the County o f Morrow By Rick Paullus Heppner G A Z E T T E - T IM E S U S P S. 240-420 Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper Published weekly and entered as periodical matter at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon under the Act of March 3,1879 Penodical postage paid at Heppner, Oregon Office at 147 W Willow Street Telephone (541) 676-9228 Fax (541) 676-9211. E-mail: gt,u rapidserve net Postmaster send address changes to the Heppner Gazette-Times, P O Box 337, Heppner, Oregon 97836 Subscriptions: $18 in Morrow, Wheeler, Gilliam and Grant counties; $25 elsewhere David Sykes...........................................................................................................Publisher April Hillon-Sykes.................................................................................................... Editor Engagement Rick Osmin and Amy Hoeft The parents o f Amy Christina Hoeft and Rick Lee Osmin, both o f I.aGrande. announce their upcoming wedding Saturday, August 29, at Atkinson Memorial Church in Oregon City. Amy is the daughter o f Gerald and Diana Hoeft, Hermiston, and Chris and Iona Hansel, Tigard. She is a 1990 graduate o f Tigard High School. She attended Walla Walla Community College and Portland Com m unity College, where she received her associate's degree as a veterinary technician. She is employed as a certified veterinary technician with the Animal Health Center at LaGrande. Rick is the son o f A1 and Donna Osmin o f Heppner. He graduated from Heppner High School in 1991 and attended Eastern Oregon University at LaGrande. He is employed as a sales representative with LaGrande Ford New Holland. The community is invited to a reception Saturday, September 12, at 7 p.m. at the Heppner Elks Lodge. BMCC summer term coming to a close Summer term is coming to a close at Blue Mountain Community College and several special service departments will either close or change hours until fall term classes begin at the end o f September. The Basic * Skills and D evelopm ental Education Department, along with the computer lab will close July 3 1. The library will close August 24 through 31 and will reopen on September 1; hours will be 8 a m. to 5 p.m. The BMCC Bookstore and McCrae Activity Center are closed through the summer. Main campus offices, including the Advising and Testing Center, the Records/Business office, the Financial Aid office and the Family Support Act office are open throughout the summer. Students returning to BMCC are rem inded to call the Advising and Testing Center at 541/278- 5930 to make a registration appointment if they have not already done so. Students new to BMCC who plan to take nine credit hours or more must take a placement test before they can make a registration appointment. This includes students transferring from other colleges who have not had college level w nting or math. The ASSET placement test is given to help counselors and advisors assess student ability in reading, w nting and math, ensunng that students take the appropnate classes for their skill level. Regular testing times are Monday or Thursday, beginning at 9 a.m. Appointments are not necessary. Immediately following the test, results will be asserted by a counselor, and registration appointments for fall term will be made. The test is held in the BMCC Advising and Testing Center in Pioneer Hall and there is a S10 per person charge for the testing service. Scratch Pads 5<K lb . Gazette-Times Haw Fin In The Sun With A FOnPool T he W illo w C reek L ittle League A ll-Stars took second place at the District 5 tournament held at Boardman on July 11-18. Willow Creek went tlirough the tournament playing eight games in eight days and finished with a 6- win, 2-loss record. This is the highest finish ever for the Willow Creek All-Stars. W illow Creek started the tour nament off with a 10-6 win over a good Jefferson County team. Billy Gates got the complete game victory on the mound and led the all-stars at the plate going 4 for 4 and scoring three runs. Kory Paullus was 2 for 4 and scored twice. W illow Creek had a big fourth inning, sending nine play ers to the plate and scoring six runs. Game two on Sunday saw the team lose to Bend North, 5-1. Wil low Creek took a 1-0 lead in the first as Paullus led off the game with a single and later scored on a Luke M urray single. Willow Creek ended up with eight hits for the game, led by Gates and Jode Coil both going 2 for 3. The loss dropped Willow Creek into the lo ser’s bracket in the double elimination tournament and put them up against Sisters on Monday. Last year. Sisters put the team from Willow Creek out of the tour nament, which was held at Sis ters. Willow' Creek got some re venge this year by eliminating Sis ters 15-0 in a four-inning game. Zach Skaggs went the distance on the mound and pitched a no- hitter, allowing just one base run ner on a walk. Skaggs struck out seven o f the 13 batters he faced. Volunteers sought to assist seniors A state consumer protection program is looking for volunteers in Gilliam, Wheeler, Sherman, Morrow and Umatilla counties to help senior citizens with insurance information and counseling. Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance (SHIBA), a program of the Oregon Department o f Consumer and Business Services, wants volunteers with helpful attitudes and a willingness to learn about insurance services. Volunteers are trained to assist seniors with insurance-related questions and concerns. They provide one-on-one counseling covering Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare supplement insurance, long-term care and Medicare managed care organizations (MCOs). Assistance also includes claims filings, insurance policy comparisons and referrals to state and federal agencies. Most volunteers have little or no background in insurance. S tate‘officials provide in-depth volunteer training on SHIBA services, senior health insurance Willow Creek banged out 14 hits, and was led by Ben Turrell, who had a three-run home run in the first inning and finished the game going 3 for 4, adding a ground-rule double in the fourth inning. Kiel Naim s was 2 for 2, and Murray was 2 for 3, with a triple. Zach Lantis went 2 for 3 and scored three runs. W illo w C re e k cam e b ack Tuesday and faced a real good Hermiston team but held on for a 3-2 win. Gates went the distance to pick up his second win, striking out seven and walking none. W il low C reek’s defense played well again, committing just two errors. Lantis threw a runner out at home from deep in centerfield in the third inning to preserve a W illow Creek 1-0 lead. Turrell threw a runner out at third from his right field position, as Hermiston was ra lly in g from a 3-0 d e fic it. Hermiston was within 3-2 with the tying run at third base when sec ond baseman Coil backhanded a hard-hit ball up the middle and threw the batter out at first to pre serve the win. On Wednesday, Willow Creek again hung on to beat a very good R edm ond tea m , 5 -4 . L a n tis pitched three shut out innings be fore giving way to Skaggs, who finished the game. Willow Creek took a 1-0 lead in the first and added three more in the second to jum p out to a 4-0 lead. C on secutive singles by Naim s, Kyler Lovgren, Paullus and Coil did the damage. Mike Sallee led o ff the inning with a single. Willow Creek added an impor tant run in the fifth as M urray led off with a double, Gates singled, and Turrell hit a fielder’s choice to score Murray. Redmond closed the gap to 5-4 on a two-run home run by M att Leunen, but a diving catch o f a line drive in centerfield by Jerem y Rosenbalm and an other running catch by Rosenbalm ended the game. Gates, Murray and Paullus were all 2 for 3, as Willow Creek banged out 11 hits in the game. On Thursday, W illow Creek got revenge again by beating Bend North, 1 -0, as Gates picked up his third win o f the tournament. Gates gave up just three hits, struck out three and walked none. He did not allow a base runner after the sec ond inning. Led by Lovgren at third base. W illow Creek played error- free b a se b a ll. W illo w C reek scored the only run o f the game in the third inning as Coil singled with one out, then came home on a two-out single by Gates. Coil fin ished 2 for 3. Gates and Naims w ere each 2 for 2, as W illow Creek banged out nine hits for the game. W illow Creek then beat Crook County on Friday, 7-1, behind the complete game by Lantis. Lantis gave up just three hits, struck out seven and did not give up a walk. The defense again played strong, com m ittingjust one harmless er ror in the top o f the sixth inning. Willow Creek scored two runs in the first and two more in the second to take a 4-0 lead. Con s e c u tiv e sin g le s by M urray, Rosenbalm, Gates and a one-out double by Lantis tacked on three more runs to make it 7-0 after three innings. Willow' Creek had nine hits, led by Lantis going 2 for 2 and Gates going 2 for 3. Turrell went 1-2, w ith two RBIs. Willow Creek came back on Saturday for their eighth game in as many days to play perennial power The Dalles for the cham pionship, needing to win twice to advance to the state tournament. Willow Creek took an early 2-0 lead in the second inning and still led 2-1 in the sixth before The Dalles got their bats going and came back for the 5-2 win. 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