SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 21,2007
Cold bats lead to Mustang loss Heppner softball team
The Heppner Mus
tang baseball team could not
get their bats going as they
opened the 2007 season with
a loss to Pendleton’s J.V.
team by a score of 5-3 on
Tuesday. M arch 13. The
Mustangs, coached again by
Rick Johnston, jump right
into league with a double-
header at Stanfield on Sat
urday, March 24. and then
will have a non-league game
at home against Kennedy on
Tuesday, March 27.
The Mustangs took
an early 1-0 lead when jun
ior Nacho Elguezabal sin
gled and would eventually
score on a wild pitch. They
would add another run in the
third when ju n io r Andre
Rauch reached on an error
and eventually scored on
another wild pitch.
The Bucks would tie
it with two runs in the bot
tom of the fourth and added
three more runs in the sixth
to take a 5-2 lead. The Mus
tangs added a run in the sev
enth when senior Quinn
Peck singled and scored on
a passed ball and they had the
tying runs on second and
third but could not score
them.
Peck pitched three
shutout innings with Rauch
taking the loss in relief.
Heppner 011 000 1-
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Pendleton 000 203 The Heppner Mustang Softball team began their year playing
against Heppner’s Alumni Team. The Alumni took the win by
4-5 6 4
one.
- Photo by Sandy Matthews
Quinn Peck, Andre
Rauch (4) and Robbie Smith;
Hutch, Dietz (4), Stanley (6)
and Schachstick. W-Stanley.
L-Rauch. 2B-Schachstick,
Whitten (P). 3B-none. HR-
“In the Company of was in and her own travel
none.
Mules" a story by Jody Foss experiences.
In Bill B a lfre y ’s
o f Kimberly can now be
purchased at Murray’s Drug review of her book for Top
of the State Unit he wrote “I
Inc.
The sto ry takes was really pleased by her
readers from Clark Fork, ID descriptions o f the warm
600 m iles on a m ule to receptions and aid given her
Newport in 60 days. In her by ran ch ers, old m ule
book, Foss writes about the skinners and the rural folks
towns she traveled through in gen eral. The book is
with her two mules, such as augm ented by delightful
Pullman and Walla Walla, drawings by the mule artist
WA, Pendleton-Pilot Rock, Bonny Shields. It was a book
Heppner, Antelope, Madras, I found hard to put down and
and Corvallis.
didn’t want it to end.”
She relates stories
Bill Balfrey is the
she would hear from people president of Top of the State
in the towns she stopped in, Unit.
Harold Holtz presents winner of the raffle for the Marlin Rifle
the history of the areas she
begins season
Murray’s selling book about author
who traveled 600 miles on a mule
Texas Hold’em Night a success
Local photographer’s work to
be exhibited
An
ex h ib it
of
p h o to g rap h y by D enise
Sm ith o f H ep p n er and
Charlene Collins of Seattle,
WA, will be held at U&I
Framing and Gallery at 214
W 1st Street in Kennewick,
WA, on Thursday, April 5,
from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. A
portion of the proceeds will
go to the H ardm an
Community Center.
Denise Smith does
computer-enhanced images.
Sm ith says a lot o f her
information comes from the
Morrow County Museum.
Charlene Collins is
an artist who specializes in
Polaroid transfers.
The ex h ib it is
entitled “Two Women One
Ghosttown.”
MCGG donates to the
M orrow County OHV Park
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Justin Heller shows JC Putman (left) and brother Weston the
new Predator donated to OHV park.
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