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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Defense shines as Mustangs blank Tigerscots 38-0 Ponies drop final game to Weston By Rick Paullus Two fum bles returned for touchdowns in the final m inutes o f the fourth quarter broke a 12-12 tie and led to the Heppner Lady Cards compete at Dufur Tournament By Marie Key Mustang offense tries to move the ball up the field By Rick Paullus S enior Jode Coil picked off four passes and the rest o f the H eppner Mustangs defense allowed less than 100 total yards as they shut-out the visiting Weston-McEwen Tigerscots 38-0 on Friday, Oct 22 in Columbia Basin Conference play The Mustangs, 4 and 0 in the CBC and 4 and 3 overall, will be at Culver on Friday, Oct. 29 in a key CBC gam e against a to u g h Bulldog team that piled up 412 yards rushing against Stanfield last week The M ustangs stopped the Tigerscots on their first drive taking over at their own 17-yard line after forcing a punt. Tyler Boyer ran for 16 yards on first down, Matt Kenny ran twice for 12 yards, Boyer tw ice more for nine and Matthew VanCleave for one and a first dow n B oyer broke free for 20 yards, but a holding penalty brought the ball back to the 43-yard line. Boyer then broke a tackle, bounced outside and took off down the sideline for a touchdown The two-point conversion failed, but the M ustangs held a 6-0 lead midway through the first quarter The defense again stopped the Tigerscots with the Mustangs taking over on downs at their own 36-yard line and went back to work Boyer ran four times for 14 yards and taking a screen pass nine yards, Kenny ran tw ice for 18 yards and caught a pass from VanCleave for a four-yard gain, but co n se c u tiv e holding penalties killed the drive and the Tigerscots took over at their own 26-yard line early in the second quarter Coil then picked off a long pass and brought it back 25 yards to the Heppner 45-yard line. The M ustangs were unable to move the ball and had to punt, but held the Tigerscots, taking over at the Weston- McEwen 48-yard line. Boyer ran for seven, Kenny for two and VanCleave for four yards and a first down at the 35- yard line F ran cisco Escalante ran for two, Boyer for three and an offside penalty took it to the twenty- five Boyer ran twice for seven, Kenny for one and on fourth down, Kenny took it three yards to the 14-yard line. VanCleave then hit Brandon Seitz in the end zone for a touchdown and after the tw o -p o in t c o n v ersio n failed, the Mustangs held a 12-0 lead late in the second quarter. Coil picked off his second pass w ith seven seconds left and the Mustangs held onto their 12- 0 lead at the half, despite having eight penalties for 72 yards. The Mustangs took the second half kick off back to the 21 -yard line and went to work with Kenny running twice for 24 yards. Boyer ran for three, a holding penalty on the Tigerscots took the ball to the Weston-McEwen 4 1 -yard line, Kenny ran twice for nine yards and a face mask penalty took it to thetwenty-seve'n. Kenny ran four times for 12 yards to set up a 15-yard touchdow n pass from VanCleave to Seitz to give the Mustangs an 18-0 lead with 7:56 left in the third quarter The Tigerscots took over at their own twenty-one after the kick off, but Coil picked off his third pass at the 37-yard line and a personal foul penalty took it to the twenty-one Another personal foul penalty against the Tigerscots took it to the eleven, but the M ustangs couldn’t move the ball and had a fourth down at the seventeen, where Coil took a reverse h a n d -o ff from Boyer for the touchdown. The two-point conversion failed, but the Mustangs held a 24-0 lead late in the third The M ustangs got the ball back at the Tigerscot forty-nine after holding on downs. Escalante ran for three. Matt McCabe went for 15 yards, Quinn Peck hit Aaron Delveaux for a 27- yard gain, McCabe ran for 13 yards and after an offsides penalty, Peck took it in from the one for the touchdown. L ane B ailey hit Ju stin Gregory just inside the end zone for the tw o -p o in t co n version to give the Mustangs a 32-0 lead early in the fourth quarter On the Tigerscots next drive. Coil picked off his fourth pass and returned it 35 yards to the twelve where Justin Delveaux ran for six, then Escalante ran twice, the last one from two yards, to the end zone to make it 38-0 The team s traded possessions before Bailey picked o ff a pass and returned it to the Weston- McEwen 47-yard line Caleb M aben ran for three, Brendan McElligott for six, Bailey for eight, McCabe for eight more and Maben ran twice for 19 yards to run out the clock The defense was led by Coil with 23 defensive points with Aaron Delveaux and Kory Paullus adding 15 points each Casey Maben had 13 points, Rory K ilkenny had 12 points, Kenny had 10 points and Bailey had eight points Boyer ran 13 times for 105 yards, all but three in the first half. Kenny ran 20 tim es for 103 yards and McCabe picked up 36 yards cyi five carries VanCleave hit four of six passes for 42 yards and tw o touchdow ns with no in tercep tio n s with Seitz catching two passes for 29 yards both touchdowns Weston McEwen 0 0 0 0-0 Heppner 6 6 12 14- 38 First Q u arter: H eppner- Tyler B oyer 43 -y ard run (run failed) 5:59 Second Q uarter: Heppner- Brandon Seitz 14-yard pass from M atthew M cC abe (pass failed) :50 T hird Q u arter: Heppner- Seitz 15- yard pass from VanCleave (pass failed) 7:56 Heppner- Jode Coil 17-yard run (pass failed) 4:12 Fourth Q u arter: H eppner- Q uinn Peck one-yard run (Justin G regory pass from Lane Bailey) 10:48 Heppner- Francisco Escalante two-yard run (run failed) 8:37 I n d i v i d u a l Statistics R ushing: Weston- McEwen- Epi Brito 11-42, Robbin Sparks 1 -(-3), Jake Clark I-(-6), Tanner Froese 1-0 and Daniel Schroeder 1- 0; Heppner- Boyer 13-105, Matt Kenny 20-103, Matt McCabe 5-36, Coil 3-19, Bailey 1-12, Escalante 5-10, Caleb Maben 6-27, Brendan McElligott 1-6, VanCleave 3-(-l) and Peck 2-1. P assin g : W eston- McEwen- Jeff Duke 9-22-4 70 yards, Jake Clark 0-2-1 0 and S chroeder 0-1 -0 0, Heppner- VanCleave 4-6-0 42 yards, Peck 1-1-0 27 yards and Bailey 0-2-0 0 yards Receiving: Weston- McEwen- Jimmy King 3-31, Schroeder 1-23, Brito 2-17, Toby Jones 1-6, Sparks 1-0 and Tony Todd l-(-7 ); Heppner- Seitz 2-29, Aaron Delveaux 1-27, Boyer 1-8 and Kenny 1-5. CUSTOM BANNERS Any Size Lots of Colors Logos & Graphics Heppner Gazette 6769228 Wednesday, October 27,2004 - SEVEN lone traveled to a tournam ent at D ufur on Saturday, Oct 16 The Lady Cardinals tied with South Wasco, 20- 12, 12-20; lost to Sherman County, 9-20, 7-20; tied with Perrydale, 20-18, 16-20 and lost to Klickitat, 6-20, 6-20. Abby Key led the team with nine points, five dumps, three passes and 39 set assists S tephanie H olland and A lyssa Rietm ann follow ed with eight points each. Holland also had two aces, 36 passes, a dump and one set assist Rietmann had one ace, four dumps, 51 passes, one kill and four set assists Jenny Griffith had seven points, one ace, 37 passes, one kill, three blocks and tw o set assists Others adding to the win were: Ashly Grams with three points, two dumps, six passes and 69 set assists; Sara Peck with two points, four dumps, 50 passes, five kills, three set assists and three blocks, Kylee Svetich with two points, one ace, five passes and one dump; and Emily Rietmann with two points, one kill, nine passes and five set assists Barbara Holland had one kill, three blocks, 13 passes and tw o set assists Kim Morris had two kills arid 13 passes Kayla LaRue had one kill and six passes. Kaylee Palmateer had one dump, three passes and one set assist and B rittn ee D esB o u illo n s had tw o passes lone varsity edges past Condon By Marie Key The Lady Cardinals edged past Condon in five close games at home on Friday, Oct 15. The scores were: 18-25, 21-25, 25-20, 27-25 and 15-12 Ashly Grams led the team with 15 points, two aces, four dumps, 11 passes and 61 set assists. Jenny G riffith contributed nine points, four aces, one kill, 15 passes and one block S tephanie H olland supplied eight points, one ace, 25 passes and three blocks Alyssa Rietmann brought in seven points, four dumps, three kills, 29 passes, two blocks and three set assists. Abby Key added six points, one ace, two dumps, 11 passes and 36 set assists Sara Peck had three points, one ace, two dumps, 52 passes, two blocks and three set assists Emily Rietmann added three points and three set assists Others contributing were Barbara Holland with three dumps, eight kills, four passes, three blocks and two set assists, Kim Morris with nine passes and one set assist, Kylee Svetich with one pass and two set assists; Kaylee Palmateer with one pass and B rittn ee DesBouillons with one pass The team started slow, but came back in the third gam e and started playing good volleyball Ponies losing their final game driving b efo re C hris o f the season to the visiting W ellington picked up a Athena-Weston Panthers 26 fumble and returned it 40 to 12 on Friday, Oct 22 The yards to the Athena-Weston Ponies finished the year with 28-yard line Palmer broke a 4 and 1 record free for 23 yards, but a The team consisted fumble lost four as the third o f eighth graders Spencer q uarter came to an end Palm er, M att H olland, Palmer scored around right D alton W ellm an, Luke end on the first play o f the Y oung, E ddie W addell, fourth quarter, but failed on B raden B ritt, C hris the tw o-point conversion W ellington, Josh Shank, and the teams were tied at Grant Smith, Joe Pranger 12-12 and Brock H erbison and The Panthers drove seventh g ra d e rs Brent inside the Ponies 15-yard line Eckman, Bryan Holland, before the defense held when Jared Huddleston, Chance Bryan Holland and Wellman Day, Jordan Hatfield, Wacy tackled a runner for a loss on Coil, Richard Waddell, Jake third dow n and H olland G regory, Z ach M cC arl, sacked the quarterback on Drew Johnson, Lane Wright, fourth down to give Heppner Tomas Elguezabal, Mark the ball at their own 27-yard McCabe, Kyle Tayloe and line On second down, the M att Gillson They were Panthers forced a fumble and coached by Rick Paullus, ran it in from 16 yards out Jake Roy and Larry Palmer for the go-ahead score The The P an th ers two-point conversion was couldn’t move the ball on good to give the Panthers a their first possession and 20-12 lead late in the fourth after a short punt the Ponies quarter took over on the Athena- The Ponies took Weston 37-yard line. Chance over at their own sixteen Day ran for three, Spencer after the kick-off and Palmer Palm er ran tw ice for 12 went 16 yards on first down, yards, a fumble lost two but another fumble on the yards, Wacy Coil ran for five next play was picked up and and Palmer took a short pass retu rn ed 28 yards for a from Dalton Wellman 12 touchdown The two-point yards to the five. Day ran for conversion failed, but the three, Palmer for one and Panthers had a 26-12 lead after a loss, Palmer took it and held on for the win in from the tw o for the Weston 0 12 0 14-26 touchdown. The two-point Heppner 6 0 0 6-12 run failed, but the Ponies led First Q uarter: 6-0 after one Heppner- Spencer The P anthers Palmer two-yard run (run answ ered w ith tw o failed) touchdowns in the second Second Q uarter: quarter, the last with one A th e n a -W e s to n - second left, to take a 12-6 one-yard run (run failed) halftime lead. A th e n a - W e s to n - The Ponies took two-yard run (run failed) over at their own 37-yard Fourth Q u arter: line after Jordan Hatfield H eppner- Palm er returned the second half nine-yard run (run failed) kick-off 14-yards Patrrief ran (K i °Atfteria-We<>t(yri-lT6- for six'yards, Wellrtian-frif'1 ^ f i j i r f f l l e retiiM’Vrun four and a first down, but good) they were held on downs and Athena-Weston- 28- the Panthers took over yard fumble return (run The Panthers were failed) ABOUT THE HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES NEWSPAPER News articles The Heppner Ga/cltc welcomes news articles that arc of intcr- esl to the communities of lone. Lexington. Heppner and the sur rounding area. You can submit your article through mail. fax. email or bring it to our office (see below under how to contact us). 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