Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 28, 2001 - FIVE
Mustang boys advance to state tournament
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner Mustang boys used
a stifling defense to advance to the
OSAA 2A State Tournament by
winning two games at the District
7 Basketball Tournament on Friday,
Feb. 23, and Saturday, Feb. 24. With
the two wins, the Mustangs earned
the second seed from the Columbia
Basin Conference and were to play
Dayton, the second ranked team
in the state, on Tuesday, Feb. 27.
(The Mustangs lost to Dayton in
a close game.)
The Mustangs beat Sherman
County on Fnday, 44-33, and Culver
on Saturday, 54-35, to improve to
19 and five on the year.
The Sherman County Huskies
took an early 2-0 lead before Ryan
Matteson hit a three-pointer and
Craig Scott hit a short jumper to
make it 5-2. Joe Papineau scored
off a pass from Michael McCabe
and David Piper scored off a
rebound to end the first quarter with
the Mustangs leading, 9-4.
Scott hit one of two free throws
and Stefan Matheny scored off a
pass from Blake Knowles to make
it 12-5. Bnan Rust hit a jumper to
make it 14-5. Papineau hit a free
throw to close out the first half
scoring with the Mustangs leading,
15-9.
Neither team could find the mark
in the first three minutes of the
second half until Scott made a lay-in
and Matheny hit a three-pointer,
but the Huskies came back to get
within 20-15. Matheny hit a long
jumper and Matteson hit a three-
pointer to make it 25-17. Matheny
hit two more three-pointers to make
it 31-21 and Knowles scored on a
rebound to make it 33-21. The
Huskies scored at the end of the
third to cut the lead to 33-23.
Matheny hit a long jumper to
open the fourth to make it 35-23.
Papineau made a free throw and
Knowles hit a long jumper, but the
Huskies came back to get within
38-30. Matheny hit another long
jumper, Scott made two free throws
to make it 42-30, and Brad Adams
hit two more free throws to make
it 44-31. Piper hit a jumper to end
the game with the Mustangs taking
the win, 46-33.
Matheny hit seven of 11 from
the field, including three of three
from the three-point range, to finish
with 17 points to lead all scorers.
He also had three steals. Scott had
seven points, five rebounds and two
steals. Matteson had six points and
Knowles pulled down 11 rebounds.
McCabe had four rebounds and two
steals. Papineau had four rebounds.
The Mustangs fell behind 2-0
to the Culver Bulldogs early in
Saturday's game, but McCabe came
back with a three-pointer, Matheny
fed Knowles for a lay-in and
Knowles scored off a rebound to
make it 8-2. Matteson hit a three-
pointer from the comer and Scott
scored on a nice pass from McCabe
to make it 12-4. Papineau then
scored off a nice pass from Knowles
to end the first quarter with the
Mustangs leading, 14-6.
Matheny hit a running jumper
and Rust put in a rebound basket
to start the second to increase to
lead to 18-6. After a Bulldog three-
pointer, Rust hit a short jumper to
make it 20-9. After another Bulldog
three-pointer, Knowles scored on
a pass from Piper and Papineau
scored on a fast break off a nice pass
from Scott to make it 24-12. Chuy
Elguezabal hit a three-pointer to
close out the first half with the
Mustangs ahead, 27-14.
Scott hit a short jumper off a
rebound to make it 29-15 to start
off the third, then Matteson hit a
three-pointer, Piper scored off a
drive, Knowles hit a rebound basket
and Piper hit a jumper from the free
throw line to make it 38-16. Piper
scored off a rebound. Rust hit two
free throws to make it 42-21 and
Piper scored off his own miss to
end the third with the Mustangs out
in front, 44-24.
McCabe hit a short jumper from
the baseline and Matteson scored
on an inbounds play on a nice pass
from Matheny to open the fourth,
giving the Mustangs a 48-26 lead.
Then Khowles came up with the
defensive play of the night hustling
down the court and blocking a shot
off the backboard on a breakaway.
The Bulldogs got to within 48-33,
but Rust hit three of four free throws
and Adams hit one of two down
the stretch. Elguezabal got a steal
and lay-in to close out the scoring,
giving the Mustangs the 54-35 win.
Rust hit five of seven free throws
to lead the Mustangs with nine
points and added three rebounds.
Knowles had eight points and pulled
Mustang girls fall short against
Tiger-Scots in district tournament
By M olly Rhea
David Piper looks for rebound in d istrict playoff game
Papineau
down 11 rebounds. Piper had eight
points and six rebounds. Matteson
had six points and McCabe had five
points and five rebounds. Scott had
three steals and two assists. Matheny
had two assists and Elguezabal had
five points.
Statistics
Game One
Sherman County: 4 5 14 10 - 33
Heppner: 9 6 13 13 - 46
Sherman County (33): Welk 4 2-4 10,
Kaseberg 31-27, Yourchek 3 0 0 6, Langston
2 1 -2 5, Shelton 2 1-2 5, Sanchez 0 0-2 0,
Relten, Ketchum Totals 14-47 5-12 33
Three-pointers: none
Heppner (46): Stefan Matheny 7 0-017
Craig Scott 2 3-4 7, Ryan Matteson 2 0-0
35 is Joe
6. Blake Knowles 2 0-0 4. David Piper 2
0-0 4. Joe Papineau 1 2-4 4. Brian Rust 1
0-0 2, Brad Adams 0 2-3 2. Michael McCabe.
Sam Van Liew, Chuy Elguezabal Totals
17-52 7-11 46. Three-pointers: Matheny
(3), Matteson (2).
Game Two
Culver: 6 8 10 11 - 35
Heppner: 14 13 17 10 - 54
Culver (35): Cruz 3 2-4 9, Sosa 3 2-2
8. Macy 2 1 -2 6, Lewis 1 2-3 4. Cloud 2 0-0
4, Herman 1 1-2 3, Dix 0 1-2 1, Z McKim.
Whitaker. J. McKim. Pollock, Say. Totals
12-63 9-15 35. Three-pointers Macy, Cruz
Heppner (54): Rust 2 5-7 9, Knowles
4 0-1 8, Piper 4 0-0 8, Matteson 2 0-0 6,
McCabe 2 04) 5, Elguezabal 20-15. Matheny
2 0-0 4, Scott 2 0-0 4. Papineau 2 0-0 4
Adams 0 1-21, Van Liew Totals 22-68 6-11
54 Three-pointers Matteson (2). McCabe.
Elguezabal.
Health district contracts
new billing system will
By Molly Rhea
“If it’s not broke - Don’t fix it.”
Right? Well, Pioneer Memorial
Clinic’s billing system through
Good Shepherd Medical Group
wasn’t "broke", it just never
worked in the first place.
As of March 1, the billing and
collections for the Morrow
County Health District clinics is
being contracted out to Vidian
Services, a company based in
West Richland, specializing in
billing for clinics and physician
practices.
“Vidian has the software ability
to extract the data from both
software systems the clinics are
currently running and transfer it
to their billing system,” said
MCHD CEO Victor VanderDoes.
Vidian will be reimbursed 6.75
percent of their collections. As
part of the service they will
provide and install computer
terminals (or just the software if
the PCs are already in place) at
both the Heppner and Irrigon
clinics. Each provider’s office,
nurse's desk, as well as the office
manager's and the receptionists’
desks
sport a computer
terminal.
The software package includes
patient scheduling, which all
clinic staff will be accessing.
Vidian is providing off-site as
well as on-site staff training
within the first week of March.
Monica Swanson is joining the
clinic staff as office manager of
both the Heppner and Irrigon
clinics. Swanson brings 15 years
of office management experience
with her, albeit in the dental
field.
“I’m excited to be coming back
to work for the health district,”
said Swanson, “And looking
forward to learning the medical
aspects of this position.”
Swanson
joins
PMC
receptionist Nola Binchus, clinic
nurses Linda Dunaway and Trish
Maben, as well as Shelly
Rietmann and Susan Thompson,
who fill in on an “as needed”
basis.
The clinic staff in Irrigon
includes Physician Assistant,
Nancy
Drinkwalter,
R.N.,
receptionist Maria Romero, and
medical assistant Michelle Jung.
It'S ^ n 9 e "
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VO TE
The Mustang girls put up a
valiant effort on Friday, February
23, but fell short, losing 44-51 to
Weston-McEwen in their first
game of the loser-out Columbia
Basin
Conference
district
tournament held at the Pendletor
Convention Center over the
weekend.
Marissa McCabe started the
evening’s scoring by hitting from
the baseline, and the Mustangs
immediately transitioned to full
court pressure. The TigerScotte
Chelsie Bomfer sunk one to tin
up the score, then back oil
offense, San Juanita Elguezabae
scooped a rebound and put tin-
ball in the bucket to put Heppm
back on top. Becky Sparks hi
the front end of a one-plus-om.
freethrow. Mustang Shelley
Rietmann grabbed the rebound
and the Mustangs raced down the
court. When Elguezabal was
unable to penetrate the key, she
passed the ball back out to Lacey
Matteson who swooshed in a
three point shot to put the
Mustangs up 7-3.
goes up for
After another trip down the SanJuanitaElguezabal
is Shelley Rietmann.
floor with the TigerScots scoring
a basket, Jodie Carlson slipped Elguezabal nabbed a rebound,
her defender to hit a jumper from passed to Matteson, who was
the side, again increasing then fouled on the breakaway.
Heppner’s lead to four points. Matteson hit the second of her
McCabe and Matteson forced a two shot freethrow attempts, then
Weston-McEwen
turnover. Weston-McEwen’s
Darlene
Elguezabal was fouled and went Thompson hit her only bucket of
to the line to sink the first half of the night to finish the first half's
a one-and-one. Carlson grabbed scoring, Heppner trailing 21-28.
the rebound, but wasn’t able to
Elguezabal started the third
convert the basket.
Two quarter as she had the second, by
TigerScots hit for another four converting an offensive rebound
points, to end the first quarter into two points for the Mustangs.
with the Mustangs leading by Then Weston-McEwen’s Beckys
one, 10-9.
(Sparks and Brito) went to work,
Elguezabal started out the scoring all of 10 of the
second quarter by putting back TigerScots' third quarter points.
an offensive rebound to increase It was 23-36 when Barber again
the Mustang lead to three. At went inside to score. Next
that point Weston-McEwen’s Matteson stole the ball and put it
Sparks went into a scoring in for another two points,
frenzy, hitting 11 of her eventual bringing the score to 27-36.
20 points in this period. The Sparks hit for two at the other
Mustangs were down 12-16 end, and Rietmann scored from
when Matteson hit a short jumper the outside to post another two
to narrow the gap to two. points for the Mustangs and end
TigerScot Renee Robertson hit a the third period, 29-38.
Sparks scored the first four
trey, again stretching the lead.
Elguezabal slipped through the points of the final quarter,
Weston-McEwen’s
key to put in another two for the widening
The Mustangs
Mustangs. Bomfer hit the back lead to 13.
end of a two shot freethrow and buckled down to narrow the
the Heppner squad went back margin. Rietmann scored with
down the court. Matteson passed her patented finger roll for two
the ball to Brett Barber for two and Matteson hit a trey. Brito
points from inside the key, and scored the final field goal for the
the Mustangs trailed by two, 18- TigerScots to extend their lead
20.
Sparks and Robertson back to 10. 34-44. Matteson
combined for six quick points for again drove the key to score two
Weston-McEwen, then Barber points and went back on defense
took matters into her own hands, to force a turnover. Elguezabal
dribbled through the key to score pulled down an offensive board
another bucket for the Mustangs. and dished off to Rietmann for
Down in TigerScot territory another Mustang bucket. Barber
then stole the ball and passed the
ball to Elguezabal for another
score, bringing the Heppner fans
to their feet and the Mustangs
within four. 40-44.
With only a few minutes
remaining, the Mustangs turned
up the heat, but the TigerScots
were able to counter this pressure
by converting seven of nine
freethrows. Although Meghan
Bailey hit an outside shot and
Elguezabal scored another, the
Mustangs ran out of time and
came up short to end their
season.
Elguezabal scrapped her way
through the game to lead the
Morrow County School Board Zone #2
shot in district play Friday. No 32
team with 13 points and 11
rebounds. Matteson scored 13
points, made four steals and was
credited with two assists.
Rietmann scored six points,
pulled down 11 boards and made
one assist, while Barber ended
with six points, two steals and
two rebounds. Carlson made two
points and scooped four boards,
McCabe also had two points,
along with two rebounds, three
steals and an assist.
Bailey
finished with two points, two
rebounds and one assist.
Once again the outcome of the
game came down to freethrows.
While Heppner went to the line
only six times to score two
points, WestonMcEwen went
behind the charity stripe 16
times, converting 10. Although
the
Mustangs outscored the
TigerScots from the field, the
Heppner squad shot a miserable
28
percent,
whereas
WestonMcEwen hit for 43
percent.
. n
Becky Sparks ended with 20
points and 10 rebounds for the
TigerScots. Individually Sparks
shot 64 percent from the field
WestonMcEwen 9 19
Heppner
10 II
10 13 - 51
8 15 - 44
Weston-McEwen (51) Harrison,
Thompson, Brito 5 4-5 14, Bomfer 2
1-2 5, Robertson 3 2-3 9, Allen,
Winn 0 1-2 1, Bennett, Sparks 9 2-4
20 .
Totals 19 10-16 51.
H eppner (44) Barber 3 0-0 6,
Elguezabal 6 1-3 13, Matteson 5 1-2
13, McCabe 1 0-0 2, Patton, Bailey
10-12, Rietmann 3 0-0 6, Carlson 1
0-0 2, Greenup. Totals 20 2-6 44
Three point goals - Weston McEwen
1 (Robertson), Heppner 2
(Matteson 2). Fouled out -
Barber.
MS Walk set
The annual MS Walk &
Roll, Rain or Shine has been
scheduled for Saturday, April 21.
Last year the MS Walk
raised over $360,000 in the fight
against
multiple
sclerosis
statewide and in Clark County,
WA. This year's state-wide goal
is $500,000.
Local chair is Menlee
McDowell.
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