Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 12, 2001 - THREE
Mustang JV girls beat Joseph
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner Mustang JV girls'
team traveled to Joseph on Friday,
Dec. 7, and beat the Eagles, 46-37,
to improve their record to 2 and 0
on the young season.
The Mustangs took a 10-4 lead
after one, getting five points from
Chelsea Britt and a three-pointer
from Madison Bailey. The Mustangs
increased their lead to 26-17 at
halftime with the help of seven points
from Stefanie Hanson and four by
Shanna Rietmann. Bailey hit another
three in the third and Rietmann added
six more for the win.
B ntt led the Mustangs with 12
points, 11 rebounds and two steals,
with Rietmann adding 10 points,
six rebounds, two steals and two
assists. Bailey added eight points
and three assists and Hanson had
seven points, five steals and four
rebounds. Brooke Rust and Blair
Keithley each pulled down seven
rebounds. M arcy M iller had six
rebounds and three steals. Tiffany
Piper had five rebounds and three
steals while Nikki Sisk had two
steals.
The Mustangs out-rebounded the
Eagles, 48-36, and had 19 steals.
Statistics
Meppner: 10 16 8 12 - 46
Joseph: 4 13 5 14 - 37
Heppner Chelsea Britt36-1012, Shanna
Rietmann 4 2-2 10, Madison Bailey 3 0-1
8. Stefanie Hanson 3 1-2 7, Brooke Rust
2 0-1 4, Marcy Miller 1 0 -0 2, Tiffany Piper
1 0-0 2. Blair Keithley 0 1-4 1 , Nikki Sisk.
Cara Kennedy. 1710-20 46. Three-pointers
Madison (2).
Joseph: Yost 4 7-11 15. Parker 2 1-2
5, Jones 0 4 -8 4 , Carpenter 2 0 -2 4 , Zimmef
0 3-4 3, Micka 1 0-0 2, Baynes 1 0-0 2,
Broadbont 1 0-0 2. Larson, Girtz, McClaran
Stroebel. 11 15-27 37. Three-pointers, none
Mustang 'C' team drops two
By Rick Paullus
The Heppner Mustang boys' "C"
team dropped their first two games
last week, losing 32-28 at Weston-
McEwen on Tuesday and 52-37 at
home against Mac-Hi on Thursday.
The M ustangs trailed 15-11 at
halftime against the Tigerscots, then
rallied to take an 18-17 lead going
into the fourth quarter, but couldn't
hold on for the win.
Zack Skaggs led the Mustangs
with eight points, with Aaron
Delveaux adding seven and Brandon
Seitz adding six.
Too many turnovers and missed
free throws were the difference
against Mac-Hi, as the M ustangs
fell behind 7-0 before Delveaux
scored with three minutes left in the
first quarter. The Pioneers took a
13-4 lead after one, but Delveaux
added six points in the second to
get the M ustangs to within 25-20
Enterprise downs lone JVs
lone junior varsity men were
handed a 9-64 loss in their game
against Enterprise on Friday, Dec
7 at the Wallowa Junior Varsity
Tournament. Enterprise was efficient
getting the ball to the inside for the
basket and denied the lone men few
chances to get shots off during the
game.
Til Tullis led the team with four
points and brought down five
• rebounds. Jeff Hunt donated three
points and led the team on the boards
with nine rebounds. Freshman Nick
Chnstman led the team in steals and
scored two points.
The junior varsity men lost their
second game o f the tournament to
Wallowa on Dec. 8. The Cougars
defeated the Cardinals, 34-64
Tyler Raible was the leading point
generator with nine points. Raible
also apprehended five rebounds and
swiped one Cougar possession.
Curtis Thom pson aided the team
with six points, three rebounds and
one steal. Til Tullis contributed four
points, led the team with six
rebounds and captured one steal.
Gene Ball added four points and
three rebounds to the team's cause.
Nick Chnstman added three points,
seized four rebounds, one assist and
led the team with two steals. Cody
Bergstrom canned three points and
apprehended one steal. Johnny Collin
scored two points, brought down
one rebound and delivered one assist.
Arthur Ekstrom scored one point
at the free throw line, snared two
rebounds and one steal.
Santa and his elves make Heppner trip
at halftime.
Seitz scored eight points in the
third but the Pioneers till led 40-34
after three and put the game away
in the fourth, outscoring the
M ustangs, 12-3.
Seitz finished with 12 points and
Delveaux added 11 points. Josh
Gutierrez added five point and Tyler
Boyer, three.
Statistics
G ame One
Heppner: 6 5 7 10 - 28
Weston-M cEwen: 7 8 2 15 - 32
Heppner: Zack Skaggs 4 0-0 8, Aaron
Delveaux 3 1-3 7, Brandon Seitz 3 0-0 6,
Kiel Naims 1 0-2 2, Josh Gutierrez 1 0-0 2,
Judd Lemmon 0 2-2 2, Kyle Huddleston 0
1-21. Darin Skaggs, Tyler Boyer, Adam Wight,
Matt Young, Robert McElligott. 12 4-9 28.
Three-pointers: none.
G ame Two
Mac-Hi: 13 12 15 12 - 52
Heppner: 4 16 14 3 - 37
Heppner Seitz 6 0 -2 1 2 , Delveaux 4 3-7
11. Gutierrez 2 1 -3 5, Boyer 1 1-3 3, Naims
1 0-1 2, Z. Skaggs 1 0-0 2, Wight 1 0-0 2,
Lemmon 0 0-2 0, Huddleston 0 0-2 0, D.
Skaggs 0 0-1 0, Young, McElligott. 16 5-21
37. Three-pointers: none.
Holiday Schedule
The Heppner Elementary
School program . "Christm as
Traditions in Am erica," will be
held this Thursday, Dec. 13, at
the elem entary school beginning
at 7 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 14, the
M orrow
County
basketball
tournam ent will be held in lone
beginning at 3 p.m. The
tournam ent will get underway
Saturday at 1 p.m.
Also Friday, Dec. 14, a
iom bined Christmas concert will
be held at 7 p.m. at the United
Church o f Christ in lone.
Downtown
Heppner
m erchants will be open this
Sunday, Dec. 16, from noon to 4
for C hristm as shopping.
Heppner Daycare will
offer free babysitting for children
one to 12 years old from noon to
4 p.m. that day. Those interested
should
call
ahead
for
reservations.
Also Dec. 16, Colt
basketball sign-ups will be held
from 2-3 p.m.
The lone Schools K-12
Christm as concert will be held
Monday, Dec. 17. at 6:30 p.m.
The town o f Lexington
lighting contest will be held
Tuesday, Dec. 18.
The
Heppner
High
School winter concert will be
held in the high school cafeteria
on Thursday, Dec. 20, beginning
at 7 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 21, the
Heppner lighting contest will be
held, sponsored by the Heppner
Cham ber o f Commerce.
Downtown
Heppner
merchants will be open for
Christmas shopping on Sunday,
Dec. 23.
Christmas vacation for
county schools is from Dec. 24
to Jan. 2.
The M orrow County
Alumni Basketball Tournament
will be held Friday, Dec. 28, and
Saturday, Dec. 29, at Heppner
High School.
steal. Eva Chitty donated one point
from the free throw line and added
four rebounds and two steals to her
arsenal. Sara Peck aided the team
with two rebounds and aided the
team larceny w ith two steals.
The Cardinals were aided on the
boards by M issy Baker with two
rebounds. Kim M orris with two
rebounds, Em ily Key with one
rebound and Katie Hams with two
rebounds. Emily Key grabbed two
steals and was aided by Jam ie
VandenBrink and Megan E. McCabe
with one steal each.
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Santa, with the help of elves W hitney Matthews and Baiftie k'eif^tey,
and Pastor Duane Jones, mades another visit to the Heppner
community Sunday at Murray's Drug.
Live N ativity
A Colt Basketball clinic
and sign-ups will be held for
children in grades three through
six this Sunday, Dec. 16, from 2-
3 p.m. at Heppner High School.
Cost is $10 per child or
$25 for a family. Scholarships
are available.
Interested coaches and
parents will m eet at the same
time.
For m ore information
contact Lon Seitz, 989-8477.
spent. It reflects the Department o f
Agriculture's commitment to flexible,
effective and voluntary conservation
programs on pn vately owned lands.
EQIP is USDA's largest
conservation program on land in
production, agriculture. EQIP is
authorized through 2002, and
nationally, one-half of the funds are
targeted to livestock-related natural
resource needs while the remainder
goes to other significant conservation
priorities. Farmers and ranchers who
agree to address the pnmary concerns
in the priority areas will be given
preference for an EQIP contract.
The program is limited to persons
who are engaged in livestock or
agncultural production. The contracts
can run from five to 10 years. Total
cost-share and incentive payments
are limited to $10.000 per person
per year and $50.000 for the length
o f the contract.
Statewide natural resource concern
priority areas available for Eastern
Oregon are the M id-Columbia
Plateau. Healthy W atersheds and
Salmon Habitat.
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For more information or to sign
up. contact a local USDA Service
Center. Additional information is
also available on the NRCS home
page at www .nrcs.usda.gov.
Sign-up for the Environmental
Quality Incentive Program (EiQIP)
in the John Day/Umatilla Basin
(JDU), which includes Morrow,
Gilliam, Wheeler. Umatilla and Grant
counties, has been set as Dec. 3
through Jan. 11.
The program, created by the 19%
Farm Bill, combined several USDA
programs to streamline and improv e
federal conservation programs
creating a new approach to help
private landowners solve natural
resource priorities on their farm or
ranch.
EQIP provides a single, voluntary
program to address senous soil, water
and related natural resource concerns.
Program funds will be targeted
primarily to identified priority areas.
USDA's
Natural
Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) leads
the program, partnering with Soil
and Water Conservation Districts
in the basin and USDA's Farm
Services Agency (FSA), to set
priorities, program policies, and
guidelines.
EQIP focuses on priority
environm entalconcem sidentified
through a locally led conservation
process. It is designed to maximize
environmental benefits per dollar
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Sunday, Dec. 16th - 12 noon to 4 p.m.
lone junior varsity women were
also handed a defeat on Tuesday,
losing to the Rangers, 17-29.
Meghan M cCabe was the only
lone team member to score during
the first quarter for a score o f 2-9
at the beginning o f quarter two. Eva
Colt clinic, sign
ups scheduled
communities in the region. Heppner,
lone, Hermiston, Condon, Pendleton,
Pilot Rock, Echo, Patterson and
W alla Walla.
They will perform a variety o f
music,
including
traditional
Chnstmas selections, classical pieces
and fiddle tunes. Instruments include
violin, viola, bass, cello and guitar
w hich will be played in various
groups or as solo performances with
piano accom panim ent.
Refreshments will be served after
the program. The concert is free and
everyone is welcome to attend.
Fiddle players prepare for concert
Some 50 area string players from
the studios o f two teachers will
combine their talents in a Chnstmas
concert on Fnday, Dec. 14, at 7 p.m.
at the United Church o f Christ in
lone.
The musicians, who range in age
from five years old through adult,
are students o f April Hall Cutting
o f Hermiston and Peg Willis of
Pendleton. The players will gather
together from nine different
( ) /ir is /m a s J io fid a u ¡S c h e d u le
lone JV girls
lose to Rangers
C hitty led the C ardinals on the
scoreboard with a total o f seven
points. C hitty was the only lone
m em ber to score in the second
quarter but also sided the team
larceny with five steals.
Barbara Holland scored two points
in the third quarter and captured one
rebound for the game. Sara Peck
scored two points, apprehended two
rebounds, three steals and delivered
one assist. Emily Key led the team
with six steals, tw o points, two
rebounds and one assist. Kim Moms
added four points in the fourth
quarter and captured one rebound.
Also aiding the team on steals
were Jamie VandenBrink and Missy
Baker, each with one steal. Helping
the lone squad on the board were
Katie Hams, Am anda Emery,
Macarena Esposito and Missy Baker
with one rebound each.
The junior varsity women were
plagued with m isguided shots,
shooting 20 percent from the free
throw line and 20 percent from the
field.
local players
Sign up now for EQUIP
Ione JV girls lose tourney
games to Enterprise
lone Cardinals junior varsity girls
squared o ff against Enterprise for
the first game o f the Wallowa TV
tourney on Dec. 7. lone was unable
to gain ground against the much more
aggressive Enterprise team, losing
their first game, 7-46.
Enterprise kept the Cardinals
scoreless in the first half and early
into the third quarter until Meghan
McCabe was fouled and canned two
shots from the free throw line.
Barbara Holland scored two
points, seized four rebounds and
one steal. Alyssa Rietmann scored
two points and apprehended one
C hristm as concert to feature
Heppner DayCare w ill provide free daycare from 12 -4 p.m.
Vc jd
(call ahead for reservations)
Sunday, Dec. 23rd - 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 24th - Christmas Eve, closing at 5 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 25th - MERRY CHRISTMAS!
lA/ednesday, Dec. 26 th - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Dan Van Liew (left) and James Van Liew presented a live nativity
scene in downtown Heppner Sunday afternoon.
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