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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 12, 2000 lone 'C' team loses to Spray M ustang girls fall to Rockets Mustang boys fall to Cardinals By Rick Paullus By Rick Paullus photo by Debbie Radie C ody E rickso n (34) and Mike Radie (fro n t) play defense The lone "C" team hosted the Spray Eagles on Thursday, January 6. Spray walked away victorious, defeating lone ,39-28. Mike Radie, Koby Rea and Cayle Krebs played outstanding defense. Colin McElligott surprised Spray when the 5'2" sophomore drove through the middle o f the key to score. Andrew Rietmann led the lone men with 10 points, seven rebounds, two checked shots and two steals. Koby Rea robbed four balls from Spray and handed out three assists. The lone men shot 62 percent from the line. Coach Jim Swanson said he was pleased with the level of play that the Cardinal men displayed on Thursday. "They are a good bunch of kids and give 110 percent at all times," said Swanson. M ustang boys lose to Rockets The Pilot Rock Rockets made 16 of 22 free throws in the fourth quarter to come away with a 58- 55 win over the visiting Heppner Mustangs on Friday, Jan. 7. The Mustangs controlled the game for 32 minutes, leading 51-50, with a minute left but the Rockets made 8-10 free throws in the last minute to get the win. The Mustangs took a 14-11 lead after one, getting two three- pointers from Ashley Ropp, a three-point play from Casey Ingraham and a three-pointer from Lacey Matteson. The Mustangs led 25-16 after a three-point play by Meghan Bailey and led 28-23 at halftime after a three-pointer by Marissa McCabe. Shelley Rietmann began the third quarter with two rebound baskets, and a free throw by Ingraham gave the Mustangs their biggest lead at 33-23 early in the ’ third. TheMfotangs'led 37-31 on a lay-in by Trisha Adams but a Rocket three-pointer at the buzzer closed the gap to 40-36. The Rockets took a 48-45 lead, but Ropp hit a three-pointer with JV girls split over the weekend 2:25 left to tie it and Matteson scored on a three-point play to give the Mustangs a 51-48 lead with 1:49 left. Rietmann hit two free throws after the Rockets had taken a 55-51 lead to get within two, but the Mustangs couldn't overcome the Rocket free throws. Matteson finished with 12 points to lead a balanced scoring attack. Ropp had nine points, three assists and two steals. Ingraham had nine points despite limited playing time due to foul trouble. Rietmann had eight points and seven rebounds while Amy Papineau had five points and seven rebounds. Statistics Heppner: 14 14 12 15 - 55 Pilot Rock: 11 12 13 22 - 58 Heppner: Lacey Matteson 3 5-5 12, Casey Ingraham 3 3-5 9. Ashley Ropp 3 0-0 9, Shelley Rietmann 3 2-2 8. Amy Papineau 2 1-4 5, Marissa McCabe 1 2-2 5, Meghan Bailey 11 -13 , Trisha Adams 1 0-0 2, Brett Barber 0 2-3 2. San Juanita Elguezabal 0 0-0 0. 17 16-22 55 Three- pointers: Ropp (3), Matteson, McCabe Pilot Rock: Copeland 3 10-12 16, A Doherty 4 3-3 12. Brachler 3 4-7 10, McLaughlin 3 1-3 7, Greene 2 1-2 6. Mitchell 2 1-2 5, S. Doherty 1 0-2 2. Christensen 0 0-1 0, Krosting 0 0-1 0 18 20-33 58. Three-pointers: A. Doherty, Greene. Wo Print BUSINESS CARDS Heppner Gazette- Times Host lone Cardinalsjumped out to a seven point lead in the first quarter and held it at the end, beating the Heppner Mustang boys’ varsity 58-51 on Jan. 4 in the final pre-season game for both teams. The Cardinals led 13-6 after one and built their lead to 19-8 before the Mustangs got a basket from Joe Papineau, a rebound basket from Craig Scott, a jumper from Stefan Matheny and a re bound basket from Ryan Matteson to cut the lead to 19-16. The Mustangs could get no closer as the Cardinals took a 26-21 lead at halftime. The Cardinals held a 32-25 lead midway through the third before Blake Knowles hit on a rebound basket, Matheny hit a jumper and Scott scored on a steal and lay-in to make it 32-31 with two min utes left. lone hit two free throws but Papineau came back with a rebound basket to make it 34-33. The Cardinals pulled away in the fourth quarter as they made 12 of 21 free throws and led by as much as 11 points. The Mus tangs cut the lead to four points a couple of times but couldn't get the shots to fall when they needed them. Matheny led the Mustangs with 14 points and three assists. Knowles had 10 points, nine re bounds and two steals. McCabe had eight points, six rebounds and three steals. Papineau had eight points and five rebounds. Matteson had five rebounds and two assists. lone was led by Brad Bumght with 20 points, including 7-7 free throws in the fourth quarter. Mark McElligott had 15 points. Statistics Heppner: 6 15 12 18 - 51 lone: 13 13 10 22 - 58 Heppner: Stefan Matheny 6 2-4 14. Blake Knowles 5 0-1 10, Joe Papineau 4 0-1 8, Michael McCabe 4 0-0 8, Craig Scott 2 2-2 6, Ryan Matteson 1 1-2 3, Clint Bellamy 1 0-0 2, Kevin Drake, Brad Adams. 23 5-10 51. Three-pointer: none. lone: Burright 510-11 20, McElligott 7 1-6 15, Mansfic’d 51-311, Bennetto 21 - 2 5. Morgan 1 1-4 3. A. Neiffer 1 0-0 2, J. Neiffer 1 0-0 2. Gribskov. Three-pointer: none JV boys beat Tigers ^et split By Rick Paullus The Heppner Mustang JV boys hung on to beat the Stanfield Ti gers, 41-39, to get a split of their weekend games on Saturday, Jan. 8. The Mustangs held a 27-13 lead at halftime as David Piper had two three-pointers and 15 points. The Mustangs still led by 12 after three, but the Tigers battled back to within one with two minutes left. Kevin Drake hit a three-pointer to make it 40-36 and the Mustangs held on to win 41-39. Piper fin ished with 18 points, Drake, nine, and Justin Wood had six. On Friday night, Jan. 7, the Mustangs fell behind 21-9 after one and could never get into the game as they lost in Pilot Rock to the Rockets, 64-45. Piper had 13 points, Wood, seven, and Brad Adams and Sam Van Liew each scored six. Brad Bowman hit 4-5 free throws. The Mustangs’ record now stands at 6-4 with games this weekend in Heppner against Weston-McEwen and at Moro against Sherman County. Statistics Heppner: 9 14 8 14 - 45 Pilot Rock: 21 18 11 1 5 - 6 4 Heppner: David Piper 6 1-2 13, Justin Wood 2 3-6 7, Brad Adams 2 2-3 6, Sam Van Liew 3 0-0 6, Brian Rust 1 1-6 4, Kevin Drake 2 0-2 4, Brad Bowman 0 4-5 4. Brandon Young 0 1-2 1. 16 12-26 45. Three-pointer: Rust. Heppner: 9 18 8 6 - 41 Stanfield: 5 8 10 16 - 39 Heppner: Piper 8 0-0 18, Drake 4 0-0 9, Wood 3 0-0 6, Van Liew 2 0-0 4, Rust 1 1-3 3, Adams 0 1-2 1. Young, Bowman. 182-541. Three-pointers: Piper (2). Drake. SCRATCH PADS £1.00 lb. Heppner Gazette-Times Pioneer Memorial Clinic and Irrigon Clinic w ill be closed Monday, Jan. 17th in observance o f Martin Luther King, Jr. Day HiQual Calving Products SALE Bv Rick Paullus C lint B ellam y keeps ball aw ay fro m P ilo t Rock defender fourth. The Rockets tied it on two By Rick Paullus free throws but Matheny scored The Heppner Mustang boys to make it 57-55. Two free throws had just a little letdown in the third each by Matteson and McCabe quarter and it was all host Pilot gave the Mustangs a 62-59 lead Rock needed to eke out a 76-71 but the Rockets came right back win in a fast-paced game on Fri to retake the lead 63-62. day, Jan. 7. McCabe hit a driving lay-in The Rockets ran out to a 16-7 with 2:08 left to give the Mustangs lead midway through the first a 68-66 lead. McCabe drove the quarter but the Mustangs came lane and scored again with 1:30 back with a Blake Knowles left to give the Mustangs a 70-68 jumper. Michael McCabe lay-in, lead. The Rockets then went on a a Stefan Matheny runningjumper 8-1 run to end the game. and three-pointer to tie it at 16- McCabe led the Mustangs with lb. McCabe hit two free throws 23 points, seven rebounds and four to end the first w ith the Rockets steals. Matheny finished with 16 on top, 19-18. points and dished out three assists. Clint Bellamy opened the sec Scott had 10 points, five assists ond quarter scoring on a nice pass and seven rebounds. Papineau had from Matheny and Matheny hit nine rebounds. Matteson finished another three-pointer to give the with eight points and three steals. M ustangs a 23-19 lead. The Statistics Heppner: 18 19 14 20 - 71 Rockets came back to take a 25- Pilot R o c k 19 13 21 23 - 78 24 lead, but Bellamy hit a free Heppner: Michael McCabe 6 10-14 23. throw . Joe Papineau scored on a Stefan Matheny 7 0-0 16. Craig Scott 5 0- rebound basket and Craig Scott 010, Ryan Matteson 2 3-4 8. Joe Papineau scored to make it 29-25. The 2 0-0 4, Clint Bellamy 01 -21 . Brian Rust. David Piper. Sam Van Liew. 26 15-21 71 Mustangs controlled the rest of the Three-pointers: Matheny (2). Matteson Pilot Rock: Humphreys 12 6-11 30. quarter and led 37-32 at halftime on a Matheny jumper just before Labrousse 11 2-6 26. Van Pelt 3 2-2 8. Sohappy 3 0-3 6, Alderman 1 1-2 3, the buzzer. Erickson t 0-1 3 Sampson. Christensen. The Mustangs got three-point McLaughlin. 31 11-25 76 Three-pointers: ers from McCabe and Ryan Labrousse (2), Erickson Matteson in the third and a bas Lex. fire dept, ket by Scott cut the Rockets' lead to 53-51 after three as the Rock aux. to meet ets outscored to Mustangs 21-14 The Lexington Fire in the quarter. Department Auxiliary will Matteson and McCabe each hit meeting on Thursday, January free throws to tie the score, then 13, at 7 p.m at Lexington City Matteson scored again to give the Hall. . Mustangs a 55-53 lead early in the Everyone is invited to attend. The Heppner Mustangs JV girls thrashed the Stanfield Tigers, 61 - 23, on Saturday, Jan. 8, to get a split of their weekend games. On Friday, Jan. 7, the girls were de feated, 64-34, in Pilot Rock against the Rockets. The Mustangs trailed 11-9 af ter one and 23-17 at halftime against the Rockets but were outscored 22-6 in the third and couldn’t recover. Brett Barber led the Mustangs with 11 points, including a three- pointer. Jodie Carlson made 7-8 free throws and finished w ith nine points. At Stanfield, the Mustangs jumped out to a 16-2 lead after one and never looked back, lead ing 31-10 at halftime and 44-15 after three quarters. Barber hit three three-pointers and finished with 17 points as all of the Mustangs scored at least three points. Jenni Patton scored 12 points, had 13 rebounds and five steals. Carlson scored eight points and had five steals. Kelsey Greenup scored seven points and pulled down seven rebounds. Jesse Gutierrez had seven points and Sarah Eckman had six re bounds. The girls’ record now stands at 6-3 on the year, with their next game against Weston-McEwen at 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 14. Statistics Heppner: 9 8 6 11 - 34 Pilot Rock: 11 12 22 19 - 64 Heppner Brett Barber 5 0-011, Jodie Carlson 1 7-8 9. Meghan Bailey 2 1-2 5, Jenm Patton 2 0-2 4. Jesse Kempas 1 1- 4 3. Marcy Miller 1 0-0 2. Sarah Eckman 0 0-2 0. Jesse Gutierrez 12 9-18 34 Three-pointer Barber Heppner: 16 15 13 17 - 61 Stanfield 2 8 5 8 - 23 Heppner Barber 7 0-0 17, Patton 5 1- 4 12, Carlson 4 0-1 8, Gutierrez 3 0-0 7, Greenup 15-117, Paula Spicerkuhn 1 2- 4 4 Bailey 0 3-4 3. Eckman 1 1-3 3 22 12-27 61 Three-pointers: Barber (3). 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