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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 14,2007 Heppner wrestlers on a roll at first home meet 1 * By Larry Palmer Heppner High rolled out the welcome mat and hosted its first ever wrestling meet against the Sherman C ounty H uskies, Irrigon Knights, Umatilla Vikings, and the Riverside Pirates. The Heppner squad was pumped and ready to go and the nearly packed house responded accordingly. Dillon Lutcher (130) pinned his Irrigon opponent in the first period. Tyler R obinson (125) cam e through, working an opponent from R iverside w ith a 12-9 decision in the third period. Tom as E lguezahal was pinned in the second period. Chance Day (140) took on a highly favored Pirate, sixth in the state for 3A, but he Heppner Wrestler Dillon Lutcher. -Photo by Snudi Matthews eluded his grasp and was pinned in the third period. Matt Holland (152), just back from an injury, was valiant in effort but came up short and was pinned in the second period. S p en cer Palmer (160) brought the crow d back into it and pinned his Pirate in the first period. Finally, Trent Miles (171) came through with his first pin of the season in the second period and capped off a remarkable first round with the Mustangs taking four out of seven matches in the history making event. This was by far the best-attended and noisiest m eet that H eppner has participated in. HHS second quarter honor roll Heppner High School announces their honor roll for the second quarter. To be on the honor roll, students must maintain a 3.5 to 4.0 GPA. The following students achieved that goal: Seventh grade: Justin Pranger4.0, Justin Bailey, Camron Day, Zechariah Hintz, Carrie Haguewood, Seth Palmer, Ashlee Ames, Cody Orr, and Natalie Rauch. Eighth grade: Willy Gentry 4.0, Justin Gutierrez 4.0, Brett Harrison 4.0, Ian Murray 4.0. Kelsi Putman 4.0, Devin Robinson 4.0, Brooke Thompson 4.0, Joseph Armato, Julia Meyer. Donald Matthews, KeshawnaTalamantes, Daisy Victorio, Lindsay Cutsforth, and Amber Gray. Ninth grade: Emily Thompson 4.0, Lane Wright 4.0, Jared Huddleston, Ashley Wolff, Christopher Lien, Curtis Harper, Keenan Jack. Brynna Rust, Frank Meyer, Jodessa Chapa, and Jordan Hatfield. Tenth grade: Maggie Armato 4.0,.Sarah Ballard 4.0, Spencer Palmer 4.0, Sherilyn Peck 4.0, Jordan Shepherd 4.0, Joseph Pranger. Joshua Shank, Grant Smith, Kathryn Moore, Stephanie Rill, Luke Young, and Quinn Chick. Eleventh grade: Latosha Bowles 4.0, Whitney Matthews 4.0, Sean Murray 4.0, Kelsey Wolff, Ignacio Elguezahal. Keshia Richmond, Luke Basile, Katie Kilkenny, Baillie Keithley, Kendra Rayburn, Taylor Kempas, Jessica Connor, Aftan Betsinger, Jenna Bowman, Cyde Coil, and Megan Orr. Twelfth grade: Aaron Allstott 4.0, Justin Delveaux 4.0, Sarah Price 4.0, Regina Seitz 4.0, Brendan McElligott, Quinn Peck. Lyndi Patton, Mahaley Huddleston, Casey O ’Neal, Kylie Tasker, Tony Haguewood, Roland Farrens, and Ambrosia Patton. In the second round. Matt Holland (152) took and pinned a Knight from Irrigon in the first period. In the third round Heppner took a couple of wins as Chance Day flipped his Viking for a pin in the first period. Spencer Palmer then toppled his Knight with a pin in the first period. In round four, Spencer Palm er went up against and Husky from Sherman County who he pinned in the second period. The meet came full circle when Dillon Lutcher secured a win with a 7-0 decision in the third period against a Riverside Pirate. A fter 50 league matches, several Junior High Exhibition matches, and one Coach’s Exhibition match, the Mustangs finished with a 9 for 21 match record and an enthusiastic home crowd. Mustang boys win at Irrigon By Rick Paullus The Heppner Mustang boys took a 70-46 win over the Irrigon Knights on Tuesday, February 6, in Irrigon in Blue Mountain Conference play. The Mustangs, 8-5 in the BMC and 12-8 overall, will be in Pendleton on Friday to play Pilot Rock at around 3 p.m. with the winner to play Union on Saturday night for the district championship. The loser will play Saturday afternoon to determine the third and fourth seeds to the state tournament. The Mustangs took a 20-9 lead after one getting eight points from Lane Bailey and four each from Nacho Elguezahal and Matt McCabe and stretched it to 32-21 at the half. Andre Rauch had five second-quarter points. Bailey had eight points and Elguezahal seven in the third as they took a 51-33 lead after three. Bailey and Aaron Allstott each had five points and RJ Farrens four in the fourth as they cruised to the win. Bailey led the Mustangs with 23 points, three steals, and three assists. Elguezahal added 13 points, five rebounds, and two steals, Farrens had nine rebounds, nine assists, and three steals, and Rauch had nine points, six rebounds, two steals, and two blocked shots. McCabe had five steals, four assists and two blocked shots, Jared Huddleston had five assists and Justin Delveaux had two steals. Heppner 20 12 19 19-70 Irrigon 9 12 12 13-46 H eppner - Lane B ailey 10 0 -0 23, N acho Elguezahal 6 1-4 13, A.J. Rauch 4 1-3 9, Aaron Allstott 3 1 -2 7, RJ Farrens 2 1-2 6, Matt McCabe 3 0-0 6, Sam King Morrow County 1 1-2 3, Tim Hauer 1 0-0 2, Jared Huddleston 0 1-2 1, Justin Delveaux, Dalton Wellman. 30 6- 16 70. Three- Gun Club news pointers - Bailey with three and Farrens with one. Twelve shooters did Irrigon - Griffin 5 2-2 14, White 4 1-5 10, McKeon not mind a rainy day at the 3 0-0 8, Rivera 3 2-3 8. Burnett 3 0-0 6. 18 5-10 46. Three- club. pointers - Griffin with two. McKeon with two, and White S in g les - H arvy with one. C h ild ers, 21; D ick G oodhead, 21; G arrett Mustang girls take win at Irrigon Wilhelm, 21; Rob Ashbeck, 20; and Gene Harris, 19. By Kick Paullus nine points, five rebounds Ladies - Deona Hodges, 18. The H eppner and five steals, Orr had eight S u b -ju n io rs - Kirk M ustang girls outscored assists and three steals, Katie H augew ood, 12; John Irrigon in every quarter as K ilkenny had seven W ilson, 11; and b ailey they took a 64-39 win over rebounds and four assists, Haugewood, 8. the K nights on Tuesday, Taylor Kempas had three Two A nnies were F eb ru ary 6, in Blue steals, and Sherilyn Peck had shot w ith D. G oodhead Mountain Conference play. two assists. winning both. Heppner 14 11 24 The Mustangs, now 12-1 in The next shoot will the BMC and 18-3 overall, 15-64 be Sunday, February 18, at will be the first place seed at Irrigon 7 9 13 10-39 noon. H eppner - Regi the district tournament and w ill play for the Seitz 4 4-4 12, A ftan championship on Saturday, Betsinger 5 2-5 12, Amber February 17, at 6 p.m. in P atton 3 3-5 9, K atie then four, then two points in Pendleton. Kilkenny 3 1-2 7, Megan Orr the fourth quarter. As the The Mustangs took 2 0-0 4, Kylie Doherty 2 0-0 game w ound down, lone a 14-7 lead after one, getting 4, Taylor Kempas 1 2-4 4, created several opportunities five points from Regi Seitz Sarah Price 1 2-2 4, Sherilyn to take the lead, including a and extended it to 25-16 at Peck 0 3-4 3, Kristen Van shot in the final seconds but the half. Aftan Betsinger had C leave 1 1-2 3, Jessica fell short in the end, 42-44. seven points, Seitz had five H ughes 1 0-0 2, Lyndi Kip Krebs led the points, and Amber Patton Patton. 23 18-29 64. Three- team in scoring with 13 and Megan Orr each had pointers - none. points. Clay Morter was also four points as they took a 49- Irrigon - Coffman 6 in double figures with ten. 29 lead after three. Patton 0-0 12, A ngelo 4 0-0 9, The C ardinals were out- added four m ore in the DeBoise 3 0-0 7, Johnson 3 reb o u n d ed 43-32 by fourth as they cruised to the 0-0 7, T olar 1 0-2 2, H orizon, who had three win. Gutierrez 1 0-2 2. 18 0-4 39. players 6’3” and over in the Seitz finished with Three-pointers - Angelo, game most of the time. Justin 12 points, seven rebounds DeBoise, and Johnson with Archer and Kip Krebs led the and two steals. Betsinger one each. C a rd in a l's re b o u n d in g scored 12 points, Patton had charge with eight each and Kevin Fow ler had seven. Wrestlers take to the mat at districts Paul Hams paced the team By Larry Palmer R obinson (1 2 5 ), D.illon with five steals and four The H eppner L u tch er (1 3 0 ), Tom ás assists and the team had Mustangs trekked through E lg u ezah al (1 3 5 ), M att another good night taking the Blues to compete at the H olland (1 5 2 ), S p en cer care of the ball, tallying just D istric t 4 W restling Palm er (160), and Trent 12 turnovers. Championships for 2A-1A in Miles (171) were pinned in “ Even though we Imbler. The competition was their opening rounds. lost, I think we gained a ton tough as the fight for state In the second round. of experience,” said Coach bound spots were up for Matt Holland pinned Justin Dennis Stefani. “This was g rab s. The d istric t is Davis of Crane in the second the first game we actually did com prised of teams from period and moved up in the not fold when behind. We Adrian, Crane Elgin/Imbler, consolation bracket. Dustin made a great comeback in Enterprise. Heppner, Joseph, Moreland of Union/North the second half and actually Pine Eagle, U nion/N orth Powder then pinned him out had the looks to win the Powder, and Wallowa. in the next round. game.” The p relim in ary C hance Day, in a Coach Stefani was rounds did not fair to well quarterfinal round, went up happy with the team's efforts with the Mustangs as they against Tim Cox of Union/ and ball h an d lin g . “ We suffered some takedowns, N orth P ow der and was played disciplined ball again reversals, escapes, and pins. pinned in the second period. with only 12 turnovers.” C hance Day (140) did That moved Day down to “I’m proud of how advance to the championship the th ird /fo u rth place far this team has come. They bracket with a pin in the b racket and into a get better each and every second period over Gage quarterfinal match against day.” Nebel of Enterprise. Tyler Chancy Warnock of Joseph in which he pinned for the win in the third period. This Morroui County Livestock Growers set up a rem atch against n-IANK! would like to thank the following businesses Gage Nebel who he defeated iYO U 1 in the second round. Day for th eir generosity in donating door prizes defeated the Outlaw for the for our Annual M eeting second time and claimed the third place medal at 140 l Pettyjohn's Buildiny Supply pounds. This set up a wrestle Les Schwab fire Center against Tim Cox for the second spot to go to state. Morrow County Grain Growers/Green feed Day was pinned with D l L's • M urray Druys two seconds left in the third Dick Temple, DVM period. This brought an end to Heppner’s first wrestling l Vi A ffM cUXt yOM season. Cardinals take second place in their division night. Helix hung in early, trailing just 14-15 after one and 25-31 at the half. But the Cardinals tenacious defense made the difference in the second half, holding the frustrated Grizzlies to just ten points. The Hams brothers had a terrific offensive effort. Paul Hams led the team in scoring w ith 13 po in ts, shooting 63% from the floor inclu d in g three three- pointers. Freshman Matt Hams added 11 points, hitting 57% of his shots. Paul Hams also had seven assists and three steals. Also scoring for lone was Alan Rietmann and Clay Morter with nine each. Kip Krebs with eight, Justin Archer with seven and Kevin Fowler with five. A lthough the Grizzlies held a significant height advantage, the Cards fought their way to a 29-27 The lone Cardinals locked up second place in the East, Division of the Big Sky Conference last weekend, soundly beating Helix on Friday night. The Cards concluded th e ir regular season with a two-point loss to Horizon Christian on the road in Hood R iver the following night. lone advances to the District Tournament where they will take on Cascade Locks, the num ber three team from the West Division, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 15 at U m atilla High School. On Friday, February 2, the C ardinals had just eight turnovers for the game and shot 46% from the floor to put Helix away 62-35. In their last m eeting. Helix defeated lone by nearly the same score but it was a different, inspired team that took the floor in lone Friday ----------------------- -— .— ■— ■— — — -— -— ------------------------------------ — F e b ru ary E sp re s so S p e c ia l: S p r in G SPRING MERGMNDISt NON IN! » LU N C H IS SERVED! E a t In ! rebounding edge led by Clay Morter with ten boards. “This was a terrific w in,” said Coach Dennis Stefani. “The kids came out and play ed the m ost disciplined game of the year. I think we finally grew up as a team.” Coach Stefani was pleased with the overall defensive effort from the team and was especially happy to see the team commit so few turnovers. The win over Helix assured the Cardinals of the second place spot in the East D iv isio n but the team traveled to Hood River to play the red-hot Horizon Christian team with winning on their m inds. H orizon jumped out to an early lead, 14-6 after one and 24-14 at the half behind some hot outside shooting. The Cards got moving in the second h a lf th o u g h , slow ly narrowing the lead to six, o r Take O u t . '\ Chocolate Covered , C h e rry M o c h a s .25C off See O ur S e le c tio n of YOCREAM S t . P a tric k 's D a y TRY OUR NEW Ite m s ! F R O Z E N N O N -F A T F R O Z E N YO SUNDAES YO M O CH AS YO LATTES YO SHAKES YO FLOATS 217 North M ain. H eppne r P h o n e 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 1 ---------- Serving the Heppner. Lexington and lone communities - - - - - - — — • V O G U R T YO G U R T TREATS! ^ Mmy'i Ikuj * Bubblequm Frappe’ 1 any size, 1/2 off! Soup $ Two Bteadsticks foe $3 : NOW IN! HALLM ARK SINGING CARDS j Morrow County Livestock Growers — — I
