FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 14,2004
Heppner Jr. High track teams
participate in Umatilla meet
lon e girls’ tennis team wins M ustangs rally past Pirates
against Condon
By Rick Paullus
In the fifth, Jode Coil
The Heppner Jr. High
track team participated in the
Umatilla All-League meet on
Friday, April 2. Head Coach
S u san H isle r, w ho has
coached for 10 years, is once
again coachin g H eppner.
Hisler is assisted by new coach
David Melville who grew up
in Enterprise.
H e p p n e r to o k 44
athletes to the meet. This year
is the first year for including
sixth graders into the program
and they are a great addition
to the team said Coach Hisler.
The team is also proud to be
wearing new blue uniforms,
since the last uniforms were
purchased in 1991.
The sixth and seventh
g rad e g irls to o k Team
Champion honors winning with
143 points. Individual places
were: Catherine McElligott-
Champion 300m hurdles (56.3
seconds). Champion 800m (2
m inutes 56 seco n d s), 4 ,h
100m hurdles and 2nd high
jump; Nikki Fritz- Champion
high jump (4 feet 5 inches) and
6,h shot put; Ashley Wolff- 3rd
discus; Whitney Smith- 4lh
shot put and 4th high jum p;
B yrnna R ust- C h am p io n
100m h u rd le s (2 0 .4 6
seconds), Champion 100m
(13.99 seconds), Champion
200m (3 0 .1 9 s e c o n d s),
Champion long jump (13 feet
1 in c h ); and K riste n
VanCleave- Champion javelin
(85 feet 2 inches), 2nd 400m
and 3rd 300m.
The eighth grade girls
were the Runner Up team with
110 points, to Umatilla’s 118
points. Individual places were:
Cyde Coil- Champion high
ju m p (4 fe e t 8 in c h e s),
defending 2003 champion, 4th
javelin and 4th 4x100 relay #1;
Kelsey Fox- 5th shot put, 3rd
discus and 6lh 4x100 relay #2;
Afton Betsinger- 6th shot put,
lo n e te n n is team s
hosted Condon on Tuesday,
April 6. lone women took all
three matches, with Condon
winning the only men’s match.
Paul Neiffer narrowly
lost toTeren Humphrey taking
the first set 6-3, losing the
4dl discus and 6th 4x 100 relay
#2 \Taylor Kempas- 4th 300m
hurdles, 3rd long jum p, 4lh
4x 100 relay #1 and 2nd 8(X)m;
Kendra Rayburn- Champion
shot put (26 feet 3 inches) and
5,h high ju m p ; and K atie
Kilkenny- 4lh high jum p, 6'1'
4x100 relay #2 and 4th shot
put.
The sixth and seventh
grade boys placed third overall
with 91 points. Individual
places were: Jordan Hatfield-
C ham pion 4x200 relay (2
minutes 8 seconds), 5,h 100m
hurdles and 7th high jum p;
Jared Huddleston- 4,h high
jum p and 3rd 4x100 relay;
Brent Eckman- 3rd high jump
and 3rd 4x 100 relay; Spencer
Palmer- 3rd triple jum p, 2nd
1500m, 2nd 800m and T long
jump; Braden Britt- Champion
4x200 relay (2 m inutes 8
seconds) and 3rd high jum p;
Chris Wellington- Champion
against 8,h grade boys 800m
(2 m in u tes 31 seco n d s).
Champion 400m (1 minutes 3
se c o n d s ) and 2 nd 200m ;
Dalton W ellman-4,h 1500m,
4,h 800m and 3rd 4x100 relay;
Ben Wood- 3rd 4x100 relay;
Matt Holland- 4lh 400m, 7lh
800m and 4th triple jum p;
Bryan Holland- Champion
4x200 relay (2 m inutes 8
seconds) and 6,h 800m; and
Justin Pranger- Cham pion
4x200 relay (2 m inutes 8
seconds).
The eighth grade boys
were third overall. Individual
places were: Matt McCabe-
2nd high jump, 3rd 4x 100 relay,
4th shot put and 8lh discus;
Nathan VanCleave- 2nd shot
put, 3rd 4x100 relay and 6,h
javelin; Lane Bailey-^"1 javelin,
2nd 100m hurdles and 3rd
4x100
re la y ;
N ach o
Elguezabal- 3rd shot put, 3rd-
discus, 3rd- high jump and 3rd-
4 x 1 0 0 re la y ; and Jaso n
Houweling- 5,h 1500m.
Hardman to hold Spring Potluck
Hardman Hall will be
holding their annual Spring
Potluck Dinner and Annual
Meeting on Sunday, April 25
at 1 p.m. at the Hardman Hall.
The center will furnish a baked
ham.
On the agenda for the
meeting include, election of a
new tre a su re r, as B etty
Carlson is stepping down, and
of trustees; dates will be set
for mowing and placing the
Veterans markers and flags at
the cem etery; plans for an
alternate water supply for the
hall must be set and ready to
go before the plans for the
Oyster Feed can be set; and
input on how to keep the Hall
a supporter of the community.
All are welcome to
attend the dinner and meeting.
VOTE
second and third set, 5-7, 4-
6 .
M eg h an M cC ab e
defeated Kaila Kilgore 6-1,6-
0. Emily Key defeated Janet
McElligott 6-0,6-3. William
McNary posted his singles win
w ith an 8-2 victory over
Heather Lopez.
lone tennis teams declare win
against Weston-McEwen
lone te n n is team s
declared another win at home
on Thursday, April 8 against
Weston-McEwen. lone men
took six of seven matches
while the women won both
matches they played against
theTigerscots.
Tyler Raible played a
marathon match, coming back
from a 1 -4 deficit to narrowly
defeat Darrell Roberts 9-8,
with a tiebreaker score of 7-
4. Takom Khempila also went
into a tiebreaker defeating
Jason Kennedy, 9-8 with a
tiebreaker score of 7-5. Brian
Bunch easily defeated Josh
M cCullough, 8-2. William
M cN ary p o sted the only
m en’s loss, with a 4-5 score
against Jacob Ellis. Johnny
C o llin and T y ler B row n
d efea ted Rex U reno and
Kenny M cC ullough, 8-5.
Taylor M cElligott and Tyler
Brown crushed Josh Aldrich
and Cody Curtis, 8-4. Johnny
Collin teamed up with Robert
McElligott to conquer Calder
Alford and Mike Lindell.
For the girls, Tina
Tuzarova had no problem
defeating Molly Tucker 8-0.
Meghan McCabe and Emily
K ey w o rk ed h ard to
overthrow Kayla Parades and
Ashley Rideout with an 8-6
victory.
lone m en’s tennis
teams accepted the summons
to the Umatilla Invitational on
Saturday, April 10 coming
home with medals in the men’s
doubles category.
T akorn K hem pila
and Tyler Raible brought
home first place medals by
defeating Zach Agee and Ben
Strickland of Hermiston 8-1.
K h e m p ila /R a ib le th en
defeated Caleb Conlee and
Daniel Mitchell of Mac Hi, 8-
4 to ad v a n c e to the
championship against Josh
Paine and Rafael Torres of
Mac Hi. Raible/Khem pila
narrowly lost the first set, 6-
7, with a 4-7 tiebreaker, and
took the next two sets, 6-3,
6-2. Johnny Collin and Taylor
McElligott narrowly lost their
first match to Caleb Conlee
and Daniel Mitchell of Mac
Hi, 7-9. Collin/McElligott lost
to Pine/Eddy of Umatilla, 6-
7, 5-7 and then defeated
Adlrich/Curtis of Weston-
McEwen, 6-4.
lone women tennis
teams traveled to Stanfield to
participate in the Stanfield
Invitational. Tina Tuzarova
cruised to the championship
bracket and brought home a
first place medal. Tuzarova’s
hard serves were too hard for
Hanna Kaseberg, taking an
8-0 victory from her Sherman
County opponent. Tuzarova
then defeated a fellow Czech
Republic exchange student
from M ac H i, D an ila
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Smehlikova, 8-2. Tuzarova
advanced to the quarterfinals
to defeat Tiffany G ray of
Sherman County, 6-1, 6-1.
T uzarova defeated R enea
Sager of Mac Hi 6-0,6-4 for
the Championship.
Meghan McCabe and
Emily Key teamed up to post
a fourth place finish. McCabe/
Key easily defeated Lemmon/
Naugher o f Stanfield, 8-2.
Emily Key’s defense at the net
help ed to d efeat an o th er
S ta n fie ld team , K e e n e /
Alvarez, 8-2 to advance to the
tournam ent quarterfinals.
McCabe/Key lost to Alley/Hill
of Sherman County, 3-6,3-6
and then narrowly lost against
H ill/B re h m o f S h erm an
County, 5-7, 7-5, 6-7 with a
tiebreaker score of 5-7.
Local student
receives WSU
scholarship
C h a n te a
K.
Macaulay, a senior at Heppner
High School, was awarded a
Cougar Freshman Academic
A w ard fo r $ 5 5 0 0 from
Washington State University.
Macaulay plans to study pre
physical therapy.
M ac a u la y is the
daughter of Lizz and Bill Green
of Heppner.
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reached on an error, Gutierrez
sacrificed him to second,
Nairns had a two-out RBI
single, M urray had a RBI
double and Lovgren had a RBI
to make it 8-2.
The Pirates scored a
run in the sixth, but left five
runners on base in the last two
innings.
Elguezabal went the
distance on the mound striking
out 15 batters while scattering
five hits.
N aim s went two for
two with two RBI and scored
twice. Murray went two for
three with two doubles and
Lovgren had two RBI.
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D irk se n ,
D ustin Sw indler (4), Roy
N u n ez (5 ) and D erek
Hancock; Chuy Elguezabal
and Jode Coil. W- Elguezabal.
L- Dirksen. 2B- Dirksen 2
(R ); L u k e M u rray 2,
Elguezabal and Kyler Lovgren
(H). 3B- Kory Paullus. HR-
none.
lone tennis teams participate in
Umatilla and Stanfield invitationals Mustangs take two from Nyssa
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B E T T Y BURNS
After falling behind 2-
0 in the top of the first inning,
the Heppner Mustang baseball
team rallied to beat the visiting
R iv ersid e P irates 8-3 on
Tuesday, April 6 in a non
league baseball game. The
Mustangs improved to 6-0-1
on the year and will begin the
Columbia Basin Conference
sc h e d u le w ith a key
doubleheader at home against
the S ta n fie ld T ig e rs on
Saturday, April 17 then travel
to Pilot Rock on Tuesday,
April 20.
T ra ilin g 2 -0 , the
Mustangs rallied in the second
to tie the game at 2-2 when
Kiel Nairns singled, Luke
M urray doubled and both
scored as K yler L ovgren
reached on an error.
They took the lead in
the th ird w hen C huy
E lg u e z a b a l d o u b le d and
scored on a Josh Gutierrez
single. Kory Paullus tripled off
the right field wall to score
Gutierrez and came home on
a Naims groundout to make it
5-2.
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T he
H eppner
Mustang baseball team made
th e long trip to N y ssa
worthwhile by sweeping the
Bulldogs 10-0 in six innings and
16-8 on Saturday, April 10.
The Mustangs banged out 23
hits on the day to improve to
8-0-1 on the year and will
b e g in C o lu m b ia B asin
Conference play on Saturday,
A p ril 17 by h o stin g the
S ta n fie ld T ig e rs fo r a
doubleheader beginning at 12
noon and then will travel to Pilot
Rock on Tuesday, April 20 for
a 4:30 p.m. single game.
In the first game, the
teams were scoreless until the
top of the third when Nick
C hristm an w alked, Cody
Walton singled, Zach Skaggs
w alked to load the bases,
Chuy Elguezabal walked to
force in a run, Jode Coil had a
RBI single. Josh Gutierrez was
hit by a pitch to force in another
run and Kory Paullus cleared
the bases with a double to give
the Mustangs a 6-0 lead.
They added two more
in the fourth when Skaggs
walked, Gutierrez reached on
a fielder’s choice and Paullus
and Kiel Naims had two-out
RBI singles.
The Mustangs made it
a 10-run game in the sixth
when Gutierrez singled and
went to third on a Paullus
single. Gutierrez then scored
on a balk and Luke Murray
had a RBI single to make it 10-
0.
It would be more than
enough as Elguezabal shut the
Bulldogs down allowing no
runs on two hits while striking
out eight and walking two to
improve to 4 and 0 on the
year.
Paullus went three for
four with a double and four
RBI, with Murray going two
for four and Gutierrez scoring
three runs.
The Mustangs jumped
out in the second game getting
six runs in the first inning when
Elguezabal was hit by a pitch,
Coil singled, Gutierrez bunted
them over to second and third
and Paullus scored them with
a single. Murray then walked,
Christm an singled, N aim s
scored two with a double and
two more scored as Walton
reached on an error.
T hey ad d ed eig h t
more in the fourth as Walton
doubled, Elguezabal was hit by
a pitch, Gutierrez reached on
an error to score W alton,
Paullus had a RBI single,
M u rray w a lk e d , K y ler
Lovgren grounded out to
sc o re a ru n , C h ris tm a n
walked and came around to
score, Naims singled, Walton
reached on an error to score
another run and Elguezabal
scored two with a double to ,
make it 14-1. The Bulldogs
scored five runs in the bottom
of the fifth to get within 14-6, J
but the Mustangs came back
with one in the top of the sixth
when Lovgren singled and
came around to score on a
John Franzwa single.
The Bulldogs added
another run in the sixth but the
M ustangs answ ered in the
seventh as Coil singled, stole
second, went to third on a
passed ball and scored on a
P a u llu s g ro u n d o u t. T he
Bulldogs added a run in the
bottom half and had the bases
loaded but a groundout ended
the threat.
Christman went fo u r,
innings allowing one run on
one hit and no walks in picking
up his second win o f the ’
season.
Elguezabal and Naims
each went two for three with
a double scoring twice and
driving in tw o runs, with
Christman going two for two
and scoring twice. Paullus went
two for four with four RBI and
scored twice, Coil went two
for five with two runs scored
and Walton scored twice.
The
M u sta n g s
defense played well all day
committing just two errors.
Heppner 10, Nyssa 0
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Nyssa 000 000-0 2 1
Chuy Elguezabal and
Jode Coil; Leos, Hanson (3)
and Holiday. W- Elguezabal
(4-0). L- Leos. 2B- Kory
Paullus (H). 3B- none. HR-
none.
Heppner 16, Nyssa 8
Heppner 600 801 1-
16 13 2
Nyssa 100051 1-8 7
3
Nick Christman, Zach
Skaggs (5), Josh Gutierrez (5)
and Coil; Whitmire, Waldo (4)
and Holiday. W- Christman
(2 -0 ). L- W h itm ire. 2B-
Elguezabal, Cody Walton,
Kiel Naims (H). 3B- Holiday
(N). HR- Holiday (N).
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