FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Defense carries Mustangs over Tigers
By Rick Paullus
The stifling defense o f the Heppner Mustangs
held the visiting Stanfield Tigers to -32 total yards and
shut them out 43-0 on Friday, September 21, to open Blue
Mountain Conference play. The Mustangs, 1-0 in BMC
and 1-2 overall, will be at Union on Friday, September
18, beginning at 7 p.m.
The Mustangs got out of the gate quick getting
good field position at the Stanfield 45 yard line after a 36
yard kick return from Spencer Palmer. Dalton Wellman
picked up five, Lane Bailey ran twice for seven yards and
Palmer picked up 13 yards and a first down at the 21. Bai
ley ran twice more for 12 yards and Wellman hit Dennis
Kenny for five yards. But the drive stalled and the Tigers
took over at the two.
They were unable to move the ball and even though
an inadvertent whistle on a fumble in the end zone wiped
out a Heppner touchdown, the Mustang took over at the
Stanfield 31 after a short punt. This time they took ad
vantage o f the field position as Wellman kept for six, and
Bailey ran five straight times for 25 yards, the last from
three yards out, and a touchdown. Josh Shank kicked the
extra point for a 7-0 lead with 3:26 left in the first.
The Tigers were unable to move the ball and the
Mustangs took over at their 48 yard line after the punt.
Bailey ran twice fro 15 yards but the drive stalled there as
the Tigers picked off a pass and brought it back to midfield.
The defense held again and the Mustangs took over at their
own 47 after the punt. A fumble was then picked up and
returned to the Mustang three yard line and it looked as
though they were about to tie the game, but the defense
came up big. The Tigers lost nine yards in four plays,
including a seven yard loss on a sack by Kenny, and the
Mustangs took over at the 12.
After a slip in the backfield lost five, Bailey broke
free for a 42 yard again. Jordan Hatfield then took a pass
from Brent Eckman and raced 41 yards to the 10. After an
offside by the Tigers, Eckman picked up two then Bailey
punched it in from the three for the touchdown. Shank
kicked the extra point to make it 14-0 midway through
the second quarter.
The Mustangs struck quick as a fumble was picked
up by Kenny who took it to the end zone from 22 yards
out and Shank made it 21-0 with the extra point.
The defense held again and after a bad snap on the
punt, the Mustangs took over at the Stanfield nine. After an
incomplete pass, Bailey took it in for his third touchdown
o f the half. Shank booted the extra point to make it 28-0
with 3:06 left in the half.
The Tiger didn’t have much success with their next
possession when a sack by Andre Rauch and Ricky Martin
forced a punt. A big rush on the punter resulted on a six yard
loss with the Mustangs taking over at the 25 yard line.
Wellman ran for 11 yards and Eckman hit Kenny
for four but the drive stalled and the Mustangs took a 28-0
lead into the locker room at the half.
Stanfield took the second half kickoff and it was
more o f the same as Rauch had a tackle for a three yard
loss on third down to force a punt which was downed at
the Stanfield 41 yard line. Bailey ran twice for nine yards,
Palmer ran twice for 20 yards and a face mask penalty took
it to the nine. Bailey took it to the one where Palmer took
it in for the touchdown. Shank kicked the extra point to
make it 35-0 midway through the third.
The defense forced another punt as Martin had
another tackle for loss but a fumble gave the Tigers the
ball at their 36 yard line. Bailey had a sack for a 10 yard
loss and Jake Van Dorn had a sack for a loss o f six yards
to force another punt w ith the Mustangs taking over at the
Tiger 46 yard line. Eckman hit Shank on a short pass that
he took up the sideline for a touchdown but it was brought
back by a holding penalty.
The Tigers had good field position at the Hep
pner 28 after blocking a punt but were unable to move
the ball and the Mustangs took over again. The Mustangs
were forced to punt again but another Van Dorn sack and
fumbled snap on the punt gave the Mustangs the ball at the
26 yard line. Keenan Jack ran twice for 11 yards, Jordan
Wright ran for five and after a motion penalty Jack ran for
three, Willy Gentry ran for 11 yards to the one. Gentry then
took it in on second down for the touchdown then hit lan
Murray in the end zone for the two point conversion to
make it 43-0 late in the game.
Bailey ran 19 times for 131 yards and Palmer ran
seven times for 39 yards.
Eckman w as 4 o f eight for 47 yards with Hatfield
having two receptions for 43 yards.
The defense was led by Rauch and Martin with
15 points each with Wacy Coil adding 14 points, Nacho
Elguezabal 13 points, Sam King 12 points, Kenny had 11
points, Bailey nine points and Van Dorn eight points.
Stanfield 0 0 0 0-0
Heppner 7 2 1 7 8-43
First Quarter: Heppner - Lane Bailey three yard
run (Josh Shank kick) 3:26
Second Quarter: Heppner - Bailey three yard run
(Shank kick) 5:42; Dennis Kenny 22 yard fumble return
(Shank kick) 4:45; Bailey nine yard run (Shank kick)
3:06
Third Quarter: Spencer Palmer one yard run (Shank
kick) 7:12
Fourth Quarter: Willy Gentry one yard run (lan
Murray pass from Gentry) 2:28
Team Statistics
Heppner: 13 first downs; 40-229 rushes-yards; 52
passing yards; 5-12-1 passes; 3-2 fumbles-lost; and 4-45
penalties-yards.
Stanfield: 1 first down; 29-(-52) rushes-yards;
20 passing yards; 1-10-0 passes; 3-1 fumbles-lost; 7-30
penalties-yards.
Individual Statistics
Rushing - Stanfield: Marcus Williams 5-17, Trey
Blev ins 3-1, Brian Renshaw 4-0, Josh Grabeel 1 -0, Casey
Irving 2-(-2), D.J. Scott 5-(-23), Matt Ellis 9-(-45).
Heppner: Bailey 19-129, Palmer 7-39, Dalton Well
man 3-22, Keenan Jack 3-13, Gentry 2-12, Brent Eckman
2-9, Jordan Wright 1-5, Kenny 2-0, Murray 1-0.
Passing - Stanfield: Ellis 1 -9-0, 20 yards; Quintin
Grogan 0-1-0, 0 yards.
Heppner: Eckman 4-8-0,47 yards; Wellman 1 -4-1,
five yards.
Receiving - Stanfield: Irving 1-20.
Heppner: Jordan Hatfield 2-43, Kenny 2-9, Shank
1 - 0 .
Morrow County Economic Development Committee
makes Tippage Fee Award recommendations
T he s ix -m e m b e r
Morrow County Economic
D evelopm ent Com m ittee
met in Irrigon on Septem
ber 17 to prioritize projects
submitted through the Needs
and Issues Inventory pro
cess. The Morrow County
Court has set aside $235,000
in tippage fees for funding
assistance to com m unity
enhancement projects. The
Morrow County Court has
received the funding recom
mendations from the com
mittee and will make the
final decision on Tippage
Fee Awards.
T h is p ro g ram is
available to any group that
benefits the people o f Mor
row County. Projects most
likely to be selected for an
award are those that can
be com pleted within one
year, will be fully funded if
the requested award is re
ceived, have limited access
Estate
By D A V ID S Y K E S
REALTOR
to other sources of funding
and are requesting “smaller”
am ounts o f money. This
year, 41 different entities
submitted 81 project con
cepts for a total request of
$1,596,691.
Through discussion
and consensus, the commit
tee developed the list that
has been forwarded to the
county court with a recom
mendation for funding. A
total o f 22 projects were
selected by the committee.
In an effort to spread the
funds as widely as possible,
many of the projects were
funded at a lower level that
requested. These reductions
were made with the concur
rence o f the sponsoring or
ganizations. The committee
put a high priority on assur
ing that all Morrow County
communities would benefit
from these awards. Size of
recommended awards rang
es from $ 1,419 to $25,000.
Greater Eastern Or
egon Development Corpo
ration (GEODC) facilitated
this process for M orrow
County. More information is
available from Sondra Lino,
GEODC, at 541-575-2786
or via e-mail at slino@or-
egonvos.net. When the court
has made the final selection,
the list may be found on the
GEODC website at www,
geodc.org.
Mustangs Musings
The highlight o f last
week for Heppner Jr./Sr.
High School was the voting
for homecoming court. The
announcem ents for those
who made the court will be
announced Tuesday during
activity period. For those
who don’t know. Homecom
ing is October 13. Students
have already gotten their
dates picked out and are
making plans to go to the
dance.
M ust an gs took
victory on the home field
against the Stanfield Tigers
with the amazing score o f
43 to 0. Stanfield put up a
fight, but just didn’t have
w hat it took to beat the Mus
tangs. The Mustangs really
worked together to take the
score to where it was, and
bring in a good victory.
This week’s varsity football
games w ill be played on Fri
day, September 28, w ith the
Mustangs facing off against
Union in Union at 7:30 p.m.
In volleyball, this w eek’s
JV and varsity games are
Thursday the 27,h at Union
at 5 p.m. and Saturday the
29,h in Elgin at noon. Good
luck mustangs.
HHS horticulture class in full swing
Students in Beth Dickenson's horticulture class are already
cutting things up. They performed surgery on various mono
cots and dicots in class, including hut not limited to, their
roots, leaves, stems and seeds. Here Stephanie Rill takes a
cross section of the stem to check out the phloem and zylem
while Kelsie Fox looks on. Spencer Palmer is working on a
radish.
Chamber to host annual
Scarecrow Contest
It’s officially Fall and time for the annual Scare
crow Contest. Contestants need to start planning their
designs because the Heppner Chamber would like to see
the displays up by October 5.
The categories this year w ill be Residential, Com
mercial and Schools. Judging will take place during the
day on October 30.
There were some terrific scarecrows last year and
the Chamber looks forward to seeing even better ones this
year. A prize will be awarded for each category.
TAX BREAK OPPORTUNITIES
The family home is still
a sweet tax shelter with fan
tastic opportunities for tax
deductions. The biggest, o f
course, is the mortgage inter
est deduction. “Acquisition
indebtedness” is the tax term
describing money you borrow
to buy, build or substantially
improve your principal or
second home. You can deduct
all the interest you pay up to
$1 million dollars o f acquisi
tion debt.
Interest on up to $100,000
on home equity loan debt -
whether via refinancing, a
second mortgage or a home
equity line o f credit is fully de
ductible, no questions asked,
as long as the loan is secured
by your principal or second
home.
Now for the big bonanza!
The tax law now allows ho
meowners to avoid paying
taxes on the first $250,000
(for single filers) or $500,000
(for joint filers) o f profits from
a home sale at the time they
sell. Homeowners can use this
exemption repeatedly, as long
as they live in each home for
at least two years.
Property listings are available
at www.sykesrealestate.net
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