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:'EN - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 7, 1998 Cardinals sleepwalk through tourney; still take second By Diana McElligott and Mika Radia The lone Cardinals were tired, but they still managed second place at the Condon Invitational Tournament, Sept. 12. lone was devastated by their lack of sleep, due to the bus troubles that kept them in Prairie City the night before till 12:30 a.m. It all began with a loss to Condon. The Blue Devils, not lacking anything from last year's season, pounded lone in two short games. The second game was a different story; the Cardinals seemed to show some kind of life. Junior Camie Burrighi had 94 percent serves, serving three aces and scoring a total of 14 points. Burright also lead in spiking with five kills and four spikes. lone pulled that game off, winning 15-12, 15-10. The Cards finished the tournament off with a 16-14, 15- 8 win over the Wahtonka Eagles. Erin Crowell led the way for the Cardinals, scoring nine points. Crowell and Chanssa Gates proved to be excellent setters, having a total of 24 perfect sets between them. Katie Tworek dominated the back row, digging up every ball that came her way. The Cardinals have a tough tournament ahead of them at Wahtonka next Saturday. lone stomps Cougars Tigers terrorize Cards By Koby Rea, Til Tullla, anJ Cameron Krebs At the end of the fourth quarter in the Cardinal football game against the Prescott Tigers, the score looked bad for lone. Even though Adam Neiffer had a 75 yard return for a touch-down, it wasn’t enough for a win. The Cardinals lost to the Tigers, 44- 12, in the 1A preseason football game Friday, September 18. lone was wrought with injuries early in the season which resulted in them playing four freshmen "I thought we had a good game despite the loss of four junior players out for injunes. We had several chances for some big plays, but failed to hook up on some passes," says coach Robin Graff. Prescott got on the board first with 8:17 left on the clock in the first quarter. No one else scored that quarter. But in the second quarter Korey Morgan came back with a 16-yard run for a touchdown, putting the Cardinals on the board 8-6, still Prescott's lead. lone had a number of interceptions throughout the game. The second ended with two more runs from Prescott's Zane Gray, but the run failed. They came back with a 55-yard interception by Nick Tompkins, to give Prescott 22 points on the board. lone fumbled the ball but recovered it to end the second quarter, 22-6, with Prescott in the lead. In the third quarter Tim Murry made a 13-yard run to give Prescott a 24-pomt lead over lone, 30-6. In the fourth quarter lone made a punt block to get the ball back but they had to turn it over to Prescott. Brian Lindstrom then had a pass connection to Brett Mayberry, which led to a score with one minute left in the fourth. Prescott then kicked the ball to Adam Neiffer, who ran the ball 75 yards for a touchdown. Brad Burright again broke the 100-yard barrier for the third consecutive game. A. Neiffer also ran over 200 yards. "We look forward to a good week of practice and getting a few guys off of the injury list. A lot of the younger kids got some experience these last few games. We start league this week, and we should do pretty good season," said head coach Robin Graff. The Cardinals take on Echo Friday, Oct. 25, at Echo at 7:30 p.m.. IMS downs Shermän By Andrew Rietmann, Krebs and Aaron Tworek lone's volleyball game against the Echo Cougars ended in a win for lone, 15-4, 15-1. Katie Tworek scored eight of the total points in the first quarter of the first game. Tworek again made eight of the total points for the second game. Erin Crowell made six points and Nikki McElligott made one. Friday's JV volleyball game against the Echo JV team started out slow . At one point the game had a score of 0 to 11 in the Cougars' favor. The lone JVs made a tremendous comeback however, with Amellia Peck making seven points, Salli McElligott making three, Shelby Krebs, three, and Jeanette Brantley, two more, to out-score the Cougars and take the game, 15 to 11. In the second game, the Cougars scored nine points before lone made a comeback. Adrienne Swanson made six points, and Samantha Wilhelm, Nonnee Walters and Salli McElligott each made three points to win the game, 15-9, and the match. Tworek said: "I was surprised. I heard they were tough, but I guess we caught them off guard." Baker on deployment Navy Airman Joseph R. Baker, son of Robin L. Baker of lone, and Robert Baker, Cecil, is currently halfway through a six- month deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Baker is one of more than 5,000 Sailors and Marines aboard the Ship which departed its home port of Everett, Wash., to lead the USS Abraham Lincoln Battle Group. The battle group is comprised of 10 tactical air squadrons, five surface combatants and two Submarines. During the deployment. Baker and crew members have had the opportunity to visit Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. While in Hong Hong, Sailors and Marines from Baker's ship participated in Project Handclasp providing humanitarian aid to a disaster relief organization, a school for the mentally handicapped and an international Christian school. In addition to providing food, hygienic items toys, books and paper to the recipients, members of Baker's ship cleaned, repaired and painted buildings. Aircraft carriers, like USS Abraham Lincoln, are forward deployed around the world to maintain a U.S. presence and provide rapid response in times of crisis. They serve as a highly visible deterrent to would-be aggressors and, if deterrence fails, offer the most versatile and powerful weapons available, said a newsrelease. The 1996 graduate of lone High School joined the Navy in June 1996. Singspiration at First Christian The First Christian Church will sponsor Singspiration this month on Sunday, October 11, at 7 p.m. at the church at 293 N. Gale in Heppner. This service is community wide and all the area churches are invited to "come and praise the Lord in worship and song". Anyone who would like to sing a special is welcome to do so as well. Everyone is invited to attend. Cookies, coffee and finger foods will be served following the service. S T 0R- 4 - U Mini-Storage MOVE IN SPECIAL Call For Details, 567-7317 • All Sizes Available Cayle lone Middle School Defeated Sherman at lone Friday, Sept. 18, 20 - 6 . It was a six-point game until the end of the fourth quarter, when Andrew Rietmann ran a 68- yard touchdown. lone had to kick off to Sherman County. After Sherman County's fourth down, lone had the ball. Rietmann ran an 18-yard touchdown and scored the first goal of the game with Koby Rea squeezing in a two-point conversion. Sherman came back two plays later with a score and then missed their two-point conversion. In the beginning of the second quarter Cayle Krebs and Billy Gates had a beautiful assisted sack. At halftime the score was 14-6 with lone in the lead. At the beginning o f the third quarter, the game slowed down and the two teams made very little progress. Then towards the end of the third quarter Sherman had an 87-yard touchdown run that was called back do to a clipping call, which set them back 15 yards and put them at the 10 yard line. They started the fourth quarter with a tremendous defense that caused them to punt. They put lone on the two-yard line. Then Andrew Rietmann ran a 98 yard touchdown run. This put lone ahead 20-6 and Sherman did not have enough time to catch up. "This team knows how to play like a team," said coach Dean Robinson. Mike Radie, lone Cardinals' fullback said, "It's been a long time since we beat Sherman County and it was a great feeling." IMS strikes honkers By Mike Radie and Cayle Krebs The lone Middle School football team overwhelmed the Arlington Honkers at Arlington, 60-40, Friday afternoon, Oct. 2. Due to the loss of players the Honkers had to play six-man football. In the first series of downs Andrew Rietmann ran in a touchdown for the Cardinals. Rietmann scored three touchdowns that game as well as one two-point conversion. Mike Radie scored two touchdowns throughout the game. In the fourth quarter Paul Neiffer fumbled, but luckily Cayle Krebs picked it up, smashed the line and got the ’’Journey of Faith” to begin St. Patrick's Parish is beginning a "Journey O f Faith" for those interested in learning more about the Catholic Church. This group will consider basic truths, sacraments and the commandments. They will meet The lone High School JV volleyball team beat Mitchell during the Cardinals' first game of the season on September 4 at lone. lone won in three tough games, 15-11, 8-15 and 15-9. The leading scorer for lone was Salli McElligott, who served over 10 points, followed by Jeanette Brantley with six. S. McElligott also led in spikes and kills. The Cardinals received tremendous setting by S. McElligott and Adrienne Swanson helped them to send over six kills to defeat the Loggers. Coach Cathy McCabe said, "This looks to be one of our top JV teams we've had for a few years. They showed an outstanding amount of hustle and enthusiasm." The JVs will play at Prairie City on September 11 at 4 p.m. The Willow Creek Park District Board meeting will be held Wed., Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. at lone city hall. correction A story in the September 30 G-t was in error. Mona Hardman, Heppner High School counselor, is one of six children, not five. HOURS: Monday-Saturday 6 a.m .-close Sunday 8 a.m .-close MCGG’s F a l l F e n c in g S a l e S ale G ood T hrough S aturday , O ctober T -P osts 24 th Barb W ire 5W #125 HvyWghts......2.19 6#125............................2.29 2 Pt. P/W.......... 31.95 4 Pt. P/W.......... 35.95 Barbless........... 30.95 RR T ies #1 .................... 10.50 # 2 .................... 9.00 meeting changed WCPD to meet at BUCKNUM'S TAVERN Come check out Bucknum's great new menu! School board The regularly scheduled Morrow County School Board meeting of October 12 has a time change. The board will not meet at their regular time of 7:30 p.m., but instead will meet for a board work session beginning at 7 p.m. to plan for the superintendent search. The regular Board meeting will begin at 8 p.m. at Heppner High School. each Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the parish office. The Adult Study Group will meet each Tuesday at the parish office at 7:30 p.m. This season they will study the Gospel of St. Mark. Everyone is welcome to attend. PATTY and her staff are ready to serve you BREAK FA ST & LUNCH lone beats Mitchell in season opener By Tracy Griffith two. "It was really fun playing six man football. It allowed us to try new things with our players," said Cameron Krebs. Towards the end lone's sixth grade string was put in to increase their playing experience as well as seventh-grade quarterback Paul Neiffer. Miss- tackles caused IMS to let Arlington score. Number 22 for Arlington proved to be an amazing runner and awesome tackier. 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