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Heppner Heppner Gazette-Tim Gazette-Tim es, es, Heppi Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 13 , 1999 - THREE Mustangs down Eagles 58-44 Mustang boys rally to beat Rockets S K h C* -««w H n .. m .i. n By Rick Paullus The Heppner Mustangs boys’ basketball team rallied to beat the Pilot Rock Rockets, 45-39, in the Colum bia Basin C onference opener for both teams on Friday, Jan. 8. The Mustangs led 12-10 after one, but fell behind 23-20 at half time. Heppner rallied in the sec ond half, outscoring the Rockets 25-16, to pull away for the win. Heppner was led by Jared Eckman with 13 points and 10 re bounds. Ryan Matteson hit for nine points and Casey Evans and Tim Dickenson each scored eight le n Vta/4 fru ir ct<»alc points. Pi/anc Evans a also had four steals and two blocked shots. Craig Scott dished out six assists. The Mustangs moved to 6-4 overall and 1-0 in the CBC. n n in t c I ÜBfflUfflBISl Statistics: Heppner 12-8-14-11 45 Pilot Rock: 10-13-10-6 39 Heppner: Jared Eckman 5 3-6 13. Ryan Matteson 4 0-2 9, Tim Dickenson 4 0-0 8. Casey Evans 4 0-0 8, Craig Scott 1 3-5 5, Derek Gunderson 1 0-2 2. Bias Elguezabal Riley Tingue. Blake Knowles. Joe Papineau. 196-15 45 Three-pointer: Matteson. Pilot Rock: Labrousse 5 1-215, Stelk 2 2-4 6, Alderman 2 0-0 5, Humphreys 1 2-2 4, Galle 3 0-0 6, Bensel 1 0-0 2. Van Pelt 0 1-2 1, Nash, Hinkle, McLaughlin, Zamudio. 14 6-10 39 Three-pointers: Labrousse (4), Alderman lone Cardinals host Australian team phot by Joyc* HughM Jos Papineau (23) play* defense against the Eagles. No. 5 is Shane Matheny By Rick Paullus The Heppner Mustangs trav eled to The Dalles on Saturday, Jan. 9 and beat the Wahtonka Eagles, 58-44, in Columbia Basin Conference play. The win moved the Mustangs to 2-0 and in first place in the CBC and 7-4 overall. Ryan Matteson scored nine of the Mustangs’ 13 first quarter points. Heppner led 13-9 after one and another basket by Matteson plus a nice pass to Tim Dickenson gave Heppner a 17-9 lead. If it were not for the Eagles’ Seth Nicholson coming off the bench to hit three three-pointers and score 12 points, the Mustangs may have blown the game open in the first half. Hepp ner did outscore Wahtonka 18-13 to take a 31 -22 lead at halftime. The Eagles came out red-hot in the third quarter, outscoring the Mustangs 12-2 to takp their only lead.of the game at 34-33. But a basket by Dickenson and a steal Mustang JVs split over weekend By Rick Paullus The Heppner JV boys’ basket ball team moved to 6-0 by run ning away from Pilot Rock, 64- 39, on Friday, Jan. 8. However, the next night, at Wahtonka, the Mustangs let a big first-half lead slip away and lost their first game of the year, 56-54, to the Eagles. Against the Rockets, the Mus tangs raced out to a 16-4 lead af ter one, and 35-16 at halftime. Heppner led 49-20 after three quarters before settling for the 25 point win. Stefan Matheny scored 12 points to lead a balanced scoring attack as all the Mustangs scored at least two points. Joe Papineau scored 11 points, M ichael McCabe nine and Chris Bowman finished with eight points. At The Dalles, the Mustangs led 19-14 after one and 33-23 at halftime. But Wahtonka fought back within one after three. The game was tied with time running out and the Eagles hit a basket with three seconds left. A long three-point attempt by Matheny at the buzzer just missed the mark. Blake Knowles and Papineau led the Mustangs with 16 points each. Matheny and McCabe each had 10 points. Statistics: Heppner: 16-19-14-15 64 Pilot Rock: 4-12-4-19 39 Heppner: Stefan Matheny 5 2-3 12, Joe Papineau 5 1 -2 1 1 , Michael McCabe 3 3-5 9, Chris Bowman 4 0-0 8, Blake Knowles 2 2-6 6, Mitch Matthews 1 3-4 5. Cody Bellamy 1 2-6 4, Chip Piper 2 0-0 4, Clint Bellamy 0 3 -4 3. Darin Ployhar 1 0- 2 2. 24 16-32 64 Three-pointers: none Heppner: 19-14-8-13 54 Wahtonka: 14-9-17-16 56 Heppner: Knowles 7 2-816, Papineau 7 2-4 16, Matheny 4 2-2 10. McCabe 2 5- 910. Clint Bellamy 1 04) 2. Cody Bellamy. Piper, Matthews, Ployhar, Bowman. 21 1 1 -2 3 54. Three-pointers: M atheny, McCabe Copies 101 and lay-in by Derek Gunderson gave Heppner the lead again. A rebound basket by Bias Elguezabal gave the Mustangs a 39-36 lead after three quarters. The fourth quarter began with the Eagles gaining a 40-40 tie, but a basket by Elguezabal gave the Mustangs back the lead for good. Jared Eckman hit two free throws and a basket for a 46-40 lead. An Eagle basket was followed by Dickenson’s basket and two free throws for a 50-42 lead. After Wahtonka scored their final points, Casey Evans hit two free throws and Eckman hit four straight on a Wahtonka foul and technical foul. Dickenson scored the final basket to make it 58-44 at the buzzer. The Mustangs hit 11 of 12 free throws in the fourth quarter alone, and finished 17 of 24 for the game. “It was a good win, we had opportunities to lose, but we gut ted it out fot the win. The defense won the game for us and we made our free throws,” coach Chuck Matteson said after the game. Dickenson led the Mustangs with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Matteson finished with 11 points. Eckman had eight points, eight rebounds and two steals. Craig Scott came off the bench to score eight points and dish out three as sists. Gunderson had five assists and three steals. Heppner will stay at home this as Stanfield visits on Friday night, Jan. 15 and Sherman County will visit on Saturday, Jan. 16, in key CBC games. Statistics: Heppner 13-18-8-19 58 Wahtonka 9-13-14-8 44 H epp n er: D ickenson 6 5 -6 17, Matteson 5 0 -0 1 1 , Eckman 1 6-6 8, Scott 2 4-6 8. Elguezabal 3 0-3 6. Evans 1 2-2 4, Gunderson 1 0 -0 2, Blake Knowles 1 0-1 2, Riley Tingue. Joe Papineau. 20 17- 24-58. Three-pointer: Matteson. W ah to nka: N icholson 4 3-4 14, Hinatsu 2 4-4 8, Baird 2 3-4 7, Stockett 2 2-3 6, Porter 1 2-2 4, Garcia 1 2-2 3, Snyder 1 0-0 2, Yanez. 13 15-19 44 Three-pointer: Nicholson (3). The lone Cardinal boys basketball teams hosted an Australian Touring Team, the Wildcats, at IHS on Jan. 7. The Wildcat team is made up of 18 boys aged 15 through 18 who live within a 200-mile radius of Sydney, Australia. The Wildcats have been traveling in the Northwestern United States since Dec. 26. The Aussies played Condon and Hermiston prior to arriving in lone and left on January 8 to play Arlington. Tough defense and flawless passing prevented the Cardinal Varsity team from gaining on the Australian team. The Australian Wildcats defeated the Cardinals 57-25. Cardinal scoring was led by Mark McElligott and Korey Morgan with six points each. McElligott was also the leading rebounder for lone. Allan Gribskov scored the only four points in the first quarter in what seemed to be the start of a low scoring game. Australia led the Cardinals 9-4 at the end of the first quarter. The Wildcats began to warm up during the second quarter, leading the Cardinals, 23-10, by halftime. Dufur defeats lone in double overtime lone traveled to Dufur on Saturday, Jan. 9, taking on the Rangers in four games. The girls' JV team played only two quarters as Dufur did not have the number of girls needed to field a full team. Dufur topped the Lady Cardinals at the end of double overtime, 11-10. Both teams were evenly matched, ending the first quarter with two points. Following suit, both teams scored three points each in the second quarter. Free throws helped put the Rangers ahead of the Cardinals 11-7 with just three seconds left in the game when freshman, Salli McElligott showed spunk, canning a shot from the three point line, ending the game 11- 10 . Coach Duane Neiffer said he was pleased with the defensive play of the Lady Cardinals and noted that his team had lots of shots but they just wouldn't fall in. photo by Joyc« Hughes C a se y E v a n s (22) g o e s u p f o r th e s h o t a g a in s t P ilo t R o ck. No. 31 is J a re d E ckm a n Dufur out scores lone I ¿4 boys’ varsity the game, getting several shots In boys’ varsity action, Dufur outscored lone, 54-33. Dufur took control of the ball at tip off and continued to control the game until the bitter end. Mark McElligott scored the first lone basket from the top of the key with only three minutes left in the first quarter and followed it up with another bucket. Brad Burright grabbed a misguided offensive shot and went back up for two, ending the first quarter 6-15. Mark McElligott wouldn't give up without a fight and retaliated with a shot at the beginning of the second quarter from the three-point line. lone allowed Dufur to score only five points the second quarter, ending the first half, 11-20. Brad Burright led lone scoring with 14 points, followed by Mark McElligott with 10 points. Alan Gnbskov struggled most of up but the ball just wouldn't fall in. Just a few minutes before the game ended, the cloud that seemed to keep Gribskov from sinking the ball seemed to lift and Gribskov was able to sink two at the very end and was able to score seven points before the game ended. Burright hit the boards, leading the Cardinals in rebounds and also led the team in steals. Although lone made a praiseworthy attempt to shut down the Rangers, Dufur was quick offensively, tough defensively and was able to shoot from most anywhere on the court. Lady Cardinals varsity shuts down Rangers The Lady Cardinal Varsity team shut down the Dufur Rangers, 31-20, despite injuries and illness. The injury-plagued team was shy Camie Burright and Sybil Krebs due to injuries. Niki Sullivan was not able to play on Saturday because of illness while Brandi Brantley, with an injured knee, was limited to play. Nikki McElligott made a strong showing at Dufur with six points in the first three minutes of the first quarter. lone played a tough defensive game the first quarter, allowing the Rangers to score only one point. Dufur come out the second quarter and canned a basket 15 seconds into the second quarter Strategies meeting set A North Central Oregon Regional Strategies meeting will be held Thursday, January 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Columbia Gorge Community College at The Dalles. to announce that they were not going to go down without a fight. At halftime the score was 5-14 with lone ahead by nine. 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