FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 10,2006
Mustang softball team splits
against Echo/Stanfield
lone students compete in OSAA
Heppner High students attend
band festivals
Amy Jepsen at the piano.
Trumpets players (L-R): Devin Robinson, Justin Gutierrez, Ian
Murray and Brett Harrison. Photo by Deb Gutierrez.
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Whitney Matthews pitches during the first Echo/Stanfield game
on Saturday, May 6. The Mustangs split the douhleheader, with
Matthews taking the loss in the first game and Allan Betsinger
pitching the second.
Bad inning costs Mustang JVs
By Kick Paullus
A seven-run third
inning for the v isitin g
Umatilla Vikings was too
m uch for the H eppner
Mustang J V baseball team as
they took an 8-3 loss on
T h ursday, May 4. The
Mustangs, now 5-5 on the
year, will finish the season at
Pendleton on Thursday, May
11 for a d o u b leh ead er
beginning at 4 p.m. against
the Buck freshmen.
The
M ustangs
trailed 8-0 before they finally
got on the board in the fifth
when Sean Murray got hit by
a pitch, stole second, went
to third on a Quinn Chick
groundout and scored as
Ricky Martin grounded out.
They added two
m ore in the sixth when
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Dalton Wellman reached on
an error, Ju stin A rch er
singled and Murray came
through w ith a tw o -o u t
single to score both.
Murray went one for
two with two RBI, Cody
Hollis went one for two and
Josh Shank went one for
three as the Mustangs could
muster just four hits on the
day.
Shank pitched well
in relief going four innings
not allow ing a hit w hile
strik in g out three and
walking one.
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Heppner 000 012 0-3 4
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Quillen and McLine;
Justin Archer, Josh Shank (4) and
Dalton Wellman. W- Quillen. L-
Archer. 2B- K. Wilson (U). 3B-
none. HR- none.
Niklas Kamp with his clarinet.
Two lo n e H igh
School Seniors, Amy Jepsen
and Niklas Kamp, recently
competed in the 2006 OSAA
S tate
Solo
M usic
C om petition. There were
444 vocal and instrumental
music soloists representing
108 Oregon high schools in
the state finals this year. The
com petition was held at
Corban College in Salem the
last weekend in April. Jepsen
and Kamp qualified for the
state finals by winning first
place, and also earning a
superior “ 1” rating in their
instrument category at the
d istric t co m p etitio n on
March 4 at Hermiston High
School.
State finalists were
given 10 minutes to perform.
There were three judges for
each event and they
independently scored each
contestant on a score sheet
w orth 330 points. There
w ere 990 to tal p o in ts
possible. The five performers
with the highest scores in
each category were awarded
medals. Jepsen finished in
second place out of 22 piano
finalists with a score of 929,
which was only five points
behind the first place winner,
Bennita Ki from Tigard High
School. Jepsen performed
three pieces: Toccata by
Khachaturian, Sonata in D
M ajor by S c a rla tti and
Chopin Etude #4, Opus 10
by Chopin.
K am p. who is an
ex ch an g e stu d en t from
G erm any attending lone
High School this year, was
one of 16 finalists in the
clarinet competition. He did
an excellent job, but didn't
make it into the top five.
Kamp performed the Third
Movement of the Concerto
in D Flat by A ntonin
Kozeluh and Aria by Karl
S tam itz.
He
was
accompanied on piano by
Michelle Stone, lone music
teacher. B oth stu d en ts
p e rfo rm ed one o f th eir
contest pieces for the lone
Spring Music Concert this
past week.
Saxophone players (I.-Rl: (»rant Smith, Kelsey Wolff and Sean
Murray. Photo by Scott Mallory of the Blue Mountain Eagle.
On
W ednesday,
April 12, the Heppner High
School Band attended the
T ri-C ounty High School
Band F estiv al at G rant-
Union High School in John
Day. Small schools from all
over the district attended to
p erform for the guest
conductor and clinician, Dr.
Ed
C arw ith en
(A ffectionately known as
“ Dr. C ” ). The H eppner
group gave a great
perform ance o f a V ictor
Lopez jazz chart “Cosmic
Bb” for the clinician, and
was chosen to perform on
the evening's concert. After
bands performed for Dr. C,
all p lay ers g ath ered to
practice four pieces as a
m ass en sem b le fo r an
evening concert. Four bands
were chosen to play before
the mass band, as well as a
Heppner schools present spring
recorders, Orff percussion,
programs
The
H eppner
Elementary School will be
p re sen tin g its Spring
Program on May 16 at 6:30
p.m. in the HES gym. All
grades will be performing.
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baritone ukuleles and music
by the fifth and sixth grade
bands.
The Heppner High
School Spring Program will
be May 23 at 7 p.m. at the
high school. The choir and
junior high and high school
bands will be perform ing
co n cert m usic in varied
styles, including, “Flourish
for Wind Band," by Ralph
Vaughan W illiam s, “ In a
M ellow Tone," by Duke
Ellington and music from the
movies, “O, Brother Where
Art T h o u ?” and P eter
Jackson’s “Fellowship of the
Ring.”
Academic all-
state awards
given
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Director's ensemble playing
a couple Dixieland pieces.
On
W ednesday,
April 26, the Heppner JH
Band atten d ed the Tri-
County Junior High Band
Festival at Stanfield Junior/
Senior High School. Small
bands from around the
district attended, and each
band performed a piece for
the clinician, Devin Otto
from Eastern W ashington
University. The Heppner JH
Band performed “Flourish
for Wind Band” by Ralph
Vaughan Williams. Then the
students were split into two
mass ensembles to prepare
for an evening concert. The
advanced
group
was
rehearsed and conducted by
the c lin ic ian , w hile the
younger group was directed
by some of the area band
directors.
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OSAA and the Dairy
Farmers of Oregon recently
announced
the
2006
Academic All-State awards.
Locally, lone placed 10,h in
1A girls' track and field with
a 3.56 gpa. Teams placing in
the Top 10 were awarded
pins.
lone also placed 18,h
in girls’ tennis for 3 A/2A/1A
schools with a gpa of 3.44
and 12,h in boys’ track and
field for 1A schools with a
gpa of 3.02.
R iv ersid e
High
School (a 3A school) placed
23rd in girls’ tennis for 3A/
2A/1A schools with a gpa of
3.37; 18lh for 3A /2A /1A
schools in boys' tennis with
a gpa of 3.14; 15th in girls’
softball for 3A schools with
a gpa 3.40; 30lh for boys’
track and field in 3A schools
with a gpa of 3.04; and 21"
for girls' track in 3A schools
with a gpa of 3.47.