Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 18,2006 - FIVE
M ustang girls win against HJHS girls win three at Sherman Lady Cards win by two at
Nixyaawii
County tournament
Rockets and Bulldogs
Emily Rietmann with four,
(Back Row L-R): Kristen VanCleave, Emily Thompson. Torri
Lovgren and Lindsay Cutsforth; (Front Row L-R): Brvnna Rust,
Erin Price, Catherine McElligott, Brandi Hong, Taighler
Dougherty and Jessica Hughes.
Megan Orr makes an easy lay in a tight games against the
Pilot Rock Rockets on Friday, Jan. 13. The Mustangs battled
from behind to win the game 50 to 46. Photo by Sandy Matthews.
Regi Seitz is fouled as she goes up for the shot in Culver on
Saturday, Jan. 14. The Mustangs had three players in double
digits with Katie Kilkenny as high scores with 15 points. The
Mustangs won 46-35. Photo by Sandy Matthews.
Oregon East Symphony to hold
concert
Alex Bernstein
On Jan. 22 at 3:15 in
the Vert A u d ito riu m in
Pendleton, the Oregon East
Symphony, under the baton
of Kenneth Woods, conduc
tor, will present a concert of
Wagner, Beethoven and Si
belius.
The soloist in the
Beethoven Piano Concerto
No. 3 will be Walla Walla
resident 17-year-old Alex
ander Bernstein. At age 10,
after only three years of pi
ano lessons, Bernstein made
his symphony debut with the
O regon E ast S ym phony
playing the Haydn Concerto
in C Major. Since then he has
won many Northwest com
petitions, been the youngest
piano student accepted at the
Aspen Music School, and at
age 15 performed the Shos
takovich Piano C oncerto
No. 2 with the Walla Walla
Symphony.
Also on the program
will be Richard W agner’s
“Prelude to Die Meistersing-
er von Nuremberg" and the
Sibelius Symphony No. 1.
Tickets are Adults
$20, Seniors $15, and Stu
dents free. They are available
at the Oregon East Sympho
ny o ffice and A rm ch air
Books in Pendleton, at the
Hcrmiston Chamber office,
and at the door.
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seven points. Van Cleave,
H ughes,
T aig h ler
Dougherty, Brynna Rust and
Torri Lovgren also scored in
the win.
In their final game,
the Ponies faced a very
physical Dufur Ranger team.
The Rangers led after the
first quarter, but the Ponies
held the Rangers scoreless in
the second quarter to take
the lead at the half, 17-8.
In the second half,
the Ponies applied pressure
to the Ranger wings and got
easy fast break points. Erin
P rice , B rynna R ust and
Brandi Hong caused Dufur
turnovers in the second half
that got the Pony offense
rolling.
E ight o f the nine
Pony p lay ers scored.
McElligott led the team with
12 points and Price added
10 .
C oach
M elissa
Coiner was pleased with the
te am ’s effort. “We faced
some tough, physical teams
to d ay and we cam e out
stronger in the end. I was
pleased that our defense
could sfill cause turnovers at
the end of the final game.
Every girl stepped up for us
at some point today,” Coiner
said.
varsity turned what was
supposed to be a close game
into anything but playing on
the road against Nixyaawii
on Tuesday, Jan. 10, blowing
out their hosts 94-54. The
C ards shot a sizzling 55
percent from the floor and
followed that up with great
ball handling to keep the
Golden Eagles completely
out of their normal game.
The Cardinals hit the
ground running, outscoring
Nixyaawii 24-12 in the first
quarter and built the lead to
20 at the half, 45-25. lone
kept up their scoring pace in
the third with 22 points and
in the fourth with 27, most
of the points coming from
the bench players.
Tyler Brown was the
high scorer for the game
with 20 points. Three other
Cards hit double figures,
including Tony Bolin with
16, Kelly Thompson with 15
and Nick Kamp with 14.
Also scoring for lone was
Dan Long with eight. Clay
Hams and Derek Davidson
with four each and John
Walton and Kip Krebs with
th ree p o in ts each. The
C ard in als co n n ected 39
times on 71 shots for one of
their best shooting efforts
this season. Individually,
K am p shot 7-9 for 78
percent and Thompson made
7-11 for 64 percent to pace
the team.
Brown led the Cards
in reb o u n d s w ith nine,
followed by Krebs with eight
and Bolin with seven. lone
out
reb o u n d ed
th eir
opponent 52-37. Bolin and
Brown each had five assists
and Bolin led the team in
steals with three.
C oach
D ennis
Stefani was happy with the
effort, noting that the team
put together an outstanding
team effo rt. “ I thought
everyone played really well,
including the bench players
who came in very strongly
in the fourth quarter," he
said.
Kaylee Palmateer with two
and Stephanie Holland with
one.
lone out rebounded
the Golden Eagles 49-25, led
by Patton w ith nine and
Holland and Rietmann with
seven each. G riffith and
Rietmann had three assists
each and Grams had five
steals to pace the team.
“This was a good
win for us. Winning league
gam es on the road is
important if we want to get
to District and beyond,” said
Coach Ryan Rudolf. “The
game was very physical and
we held our own against the
Golden Eagles. They made
a run late in the fo urth
quarter to make the score
close. I was pleased with our
effort and how we found a
way to get to victory.”
Lady Cards drop by three to
Condon-Wheeler
The lone Lady
Cardinals suffered a tough,
double overtime league loss
against Condon-Wheeler on
Saturday, Jan. 14, falling 44-
41. lone’s record now stands
at 6-5 overall, 3-1 in the Big
Sky Conference.
The game was tight
from the start w ith the
Knights maintaining a slight
advantage through most of
the game. Yet, when the final
seconds of regulation ticked
away, the Lady Cards had
evened the score to force the
game into overtime. With
four minutes on the clock,
the team s c o n tin u e d to
battle. Again as time was
running out, the Cards were
down by two. After lone had
put back a co u p le o f
offensive rebounds. Amber
Patton sank a shot to tie the
score again and send the
game to a second overtime.
Fouls started to take their
toll in the final OT, with
E m ily R ietm an n , K ylee
S v etich and S tep h an ie
H olland fouling out. The
Knights hit enough of their
free throws to open a lead
that the C ards could not
overcome.
Patton was lo n e ’s
leading scorer with 19 points
followed by Ashly Grams
with 13. Patton also had 16
re b o u n d s fo llo w ed by
H o llan d
w ith
eig h t.
Rietmann had five assists.
“T his was a very
tough lo ss,” said C oach
Ryan Rudolf. “The game
went back and forth all night
and unfortunately, we came
up short. The girls battled
hard the entire game but we
couldn't overcome too many
m istak es and m issed
opportunities. We didn't play
w ell enough to w in.
Hopefully we can leam from
this loss and continue to
work on getting better.”
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The Heppner girls’
A team traveled to Sherman
C ounty for a tournam ent
Saturday, Jan. 14.
The Ponies faced the
Sherman County Huskies in
their first game. The girls
came out ready to play and
ap p lied tough fu ll-co u rt
pressure that Sherman could
not break.
Kristen Van Cleave
and Catherine M cElligott
each had six points in the first
q uarter to lead the Pony
attack. The Ponies led 25-8
at the h alf. T hey found
themselves in foul trouble in
the second half, but pulled
out a 41-21 win.
Van Cleave finished
the game with 12 points to
lead the Ponies. McElligott
ad d ed seven p o in ts and
Jessica Hughes chipped in
six points.
The P o n ies then
played the Wasco County
Redsides. The Ponies again
applied strong pressure on
defense, but came out sloppy
on offense. Turnovers and
missed shots cost the Ponies
in the game. However, the
Ponies pulled away in the
third quarter to hold on to a
22-13 victory.
McElligott again led
the team in scoring with
T he lo n e g ir ls ’
varsity team escaped with a
victory at N ixyaaw ii on
Tuesday, Jan. 10, narrowly
defeating the Golden Eagles
46-44. The Golden Eagles
made it interesting down the
stretch by hitting five three-
pointers in the last three
minutes of the game but the
Cardinals were able to hold
them off for the win.
lone led 8-4 at the
end of the first quarter and
20-9 at the half. The Lady
Cards needed that entire
buffer to withstand being
outscored in the second half
35-26.
Ashly Grams led the
Lady Cardinals in scoring
with a 20-point outing. Also
scoring for lone was Jenny
G riffith w ith 10 p o in ts,
Amber Patton with nine.
The Willow Creek
Valley
E conom ic
Developm ent G roup will
hold its annual m eeting
Thursday, Jan. 26 at 12 noon
at John’s Place in Heppner.
G uest speaker for
the m eeting will be Dan
Desler of Western States
Land Reliance Trust.
Desler is the owner
of a Eugene development
com pany and will speak
about his plans for
development at the South
M orrow In d u strial Park
(formerly Kinzua mill site)
near Heppner.
Western States Land
R eliance is a non-profit
organization, which is close
to purchasing the industrial
park from the Port o f
Morrow. The trust plans to
operate the co-generation
electric plant at the site and
has also indicated it may site
other compatible businesses
there as well.
In other business at
the annual m eeting, the
current WCVEDG president
David Sykes will be turning
over the gavel to next year's
president George Koffler
and all m em bers are
welcome to attend and vote
for next year’s president and
a board of directors, as well
as discuss any business they
wish to bring before the
group.
In other business,
there will be a review of
W CVEDG’s current effort
to apply for tax-exem pt
statu s w ith the Internal
Revenue Service. Becoming
tax exem pt w ill allow
WCVEDG to accept a wider
range of grants to be used for
local
eco n o m ic
development.
The lunch will be
h o sted by W C V E D G ,
however, those wishing to
attend should be sure to
RS VP to secretary /treasurer
Marcia Kemp by Tuesday,
Jan. 24 at 676-2100.
St. Patrick’s Senior Center news
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St. Patrick's Catholic Church volunteers are hosts
on Jan. 25 for the noon meal served each Wednesday at the
senior center on the corn of Main and Willow streets. The
menu of the day is baked chicken, roasted potatoes, carrots
and onions, fruit salad, biscuits and fruit cobbler.
The Sentimentalists, a women’s singing group, have
begun rehearsing in the common room at the center. Molly
Day accompanies them. Rehearsal time is 4:30 p.m.,
Wednesdays.
CAPECO has closed their Heppner office in the
Gilliam and Bisbec building. They donated their office
equipment and furniture to the senior center. The Les
Schwab Tires crew, with their lift truck, donated time and
effort to move the furniture to the center.
The center's original office desk has been moved
to the dining room for the people who are in charge of
registrations and donations to use and store their equipment.
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