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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner, Oregon Wednesday. January 9, 2008 Four Mustangs earn podium placements at Riverside Rumble By Mark Lemmon The Mustang wres tling team traveled to Board- man to compete in the Riv erside Rumble on Saturday, January 5. The tournament was a 13 team event with team s from 1A through 5A, including a team from Granger, WA that won the tournament. The M ustangs im proved on last year’s per formance at the same tour nament when no wrestlers made it to the placing rounds for Heppner. This year four Mustangs earned places on the podium at the end of the night. S p e n c e r P a lm e r was the highest placer for Heppner, earning a bronze medal for third place at 152 pounds. Palmer’s only loss on the day was to Trevor Hess o f Colton, the number two ranked wrestler in Or- egon class 3A and runner up in the state tournament last year. Chance Day finished fourth for the M ustangs. Grant Smith and Wacy Coil each placed fifth in their weight classes. Dillon Lutcher also earned team points for Hep pner with a pin over his opponent from Liberty high school, a 5Aschool in Hills boro. Also competing for the M ustangs w ere Jar- reid Miller, Tyler Robinson, Tomás Elguezabal, Justin Yocom and Alex Fuentes. It was Fuentes’ first competi tion as a wrestler. The Mustangs will have two home meets in January. The first will be on Tuesday evening, January 15, and the second will be on Saturday, January 26. It was an all day event for the Heppner wrestler who participated in the Riverside Rumber. Four wrestlers earned places on the podium at the end of the day. -Photos by Autumn Morgan Heppner varsity teams follow JV lead with wins By Alita Nelson Heppner FFA to host taco feed The Heppner FFA Chapter will be hosting a taco feed during the basketball games on Saturday, January 12. The feed will begin at 2:30 p.m. and will go through half time of the varsity boys’ game. The cost is $5 and includes tacos, all the fixings, dessert and a drink. HJH Wrestling Schedule January 1 7 - 4 p.m. at Pendleton. January 2 4 - 4 p.m. at Riverside. February 2 - 9 a.m. at The Dalles Tourney. February 8 - 4 p.m. at Armand Larive. February 12 - 4:30 p.m. at Irrigon. February 2 1 - 4 p.m. at The Dalles. February 2 6 - 4 p.m. at Heppner. March 1 - Regional Qualifier (TBA). Mustang Wrestling Schedule Jan. 14 - at Irrigon at 4 p.m. Jan. 19 - Justin Harjo Invitational at Irrigon at 9 a.m. Jan. 24 - Elgin-Irrigon at 6 p.m. Jan. 26 - Enterprise-League Dual at noon. Feb. 2 - Pine Eagle Tourney at 10 a.m. Feb 8-9 - District Championship at Enterprise/Joseph, TBA. The Mustang varsity girls basketball team kept it a tight first quarter with the score Elgin 11 and Heppner nine. By h a lftim e th e Heppner girls took the lead scoring 20 points and only letting Elgin score six. The girls continued the scoring run ending the third quarter with a fourteen point lead over Elgin. K a tie K ilk e n n y sco red 14 p o in ts, A ftan B etsinger follow ed with 13, and Megan Orr had 10. Kristen VanCleave scored eight for the night, followed by Catherine McElligott and Jessica Hughes with four each, Taylor Kempas had three, and Kylie Doherty and Brynna Rust rounded it up with two each. The girls took the lead from Elgin in the second quarter and never let Elgin regain it, winning Advertise with the Heppner Gazette-Times 676-922Ô HELPING APPRAISAL If you have arranged an ap ronmental conditions in your praisal o f your home, whether home (such as a test for ra it be for legal, tax or pre-sale don); and a home inspector’s reasons, you can make the report if you have one. Also list major improve appraiser's job quicker, more accurate and more efficient ments you have made with if you have some documents invoices that document their ready before the appraiser cost. If your house is fairly new, note any special features arrives. 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Jared H uddleston follow ed with 14, B rent Eckman had 13, AJ Rauch had eight. Lane Bailey had seven, Bryan Holland had three and Braden Britt had one. By Alita Nelson T he H e p p n e r JV girls made a comeback in the second quarter o f Satur day’s game after Elgin took the lead in the first. Elgin had the girls by five points at the beginning o f the second quarter. But at the end of the second quarter Heppner had Elgin by six points and never looked back. Heppner ended the third quarter w ith an 18 point lead. Kaylee Helfrecht led the team in scoring with seven, Tori Lovgren had six, Mercedes Garrett and Taighler Dougherty had five, Emily Thompson with four, and the rest o f girls scored two points each. The girls finished their game 39-16, with a 4-2 season. T he H e p p n er JV boys came out strong the first q u arter, scoring 19 points to Elgin’s two. And Elgin was not able to catch up in the second quarter with Heppner having 26 points to Elgin's eight. B r y a n H o lla n d scored nine points, Chris Lien was right behind him w ith e ig h t, Joe P ran g er scored seven, Kyle Fuchs and F ran k M ey er each scored six, Jordan Hatfield sunk four and Jared Hed- man, Alex Pickles, Ian Mur ray and Devin Robinson all contributed two points to the win o f 48 to 23. lone JV boys win one, lose one The lone boys’ JV team split in weekend ac tion, dropping their F ri day match with Condon- Wheeler and pulling off an exciting win on the road at Cascade Locks on Saturday to notch their second win o f the season. A g a in st C o n d o n / W heeler, the J V ’s had a mid-game letdown where the Knights outscored them COME IN AND NAVE A JACK FROST ESPRESSO! We W edding Table Heppner JV takes the win over Elgin Aíyssa R ictmann & Tyler Brown Weddinq - January 27 , 2008 ^ M umuj ' j D/uuj „INC. 217 North Main • Heppner Phone 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 Serving the Willow Creek Valley Heppner Lexington A lone 35-13 in the second and third quarter. The first and fourth quarters were played almost even but the second and third quarter deficit was too much to overcome. The final score was 56-33 in favor o f the Knights. T anner R ietm an n and RJ Ramos shared team sco rin g h o n o rs w ith 11 points each. Alex Rietmann added Five, Kevin LaRue had four and Dalton Camp bell and Gunner Jessen each had one. RJ Ramos led the team with three assists while Gunner Jessen and Tanner R ietm ann each had four steals. Rietmann also led the rebounding effort w ith sev en. Alex Rietmann helped out with five and Luke Brad- field had four. “It was a good team effort on both ends,” said Coach Jim Swanson. “ We had good defense, rebound ing, hustle and passing.” He was especially pleased that the team kept their turnovers down in the game. An exciting finish brought the crowd to its feet as the JV team won their first game o f the New' Year at Cascade Locks on Janu ary 6. With under a minute to go, Marco Juarez went to the line to shoot two. Con- necting on one, the score was a seemingly safe 36-32. However, the Pirates hustled to their end o f the court and connected on a three pointer to make it a one point game, 36-35. With 2.6 seconds on the clock, G unner Jessen was fouled as he tried to hold the ball until time ex pired. Jessen made the first but it was Thomas Holland crashing the boards for a picture perfect offensive rebound and putback at the buzzer that sealed the young Cardinals’39-35 win. G unner Jessen led the team in scoring with 11. Also scoring for lone was Tanner Rietmann with ten, RJ Ramos with nine, Kevin LaRue with four, Alex Riet mann and Thomas Holland with two each and Marco Juarez with one. In other statistical categories. Tanner Rietmann led the team with eight re bounds and RJ Ramos and Marco Juarez each had four assists. “ It was a great win,” said Coach Jim Swanson. “ We needed this game to get back on track." He was delighted that the team con trolled the tempo and han dled the ball well with just 14 turnovers in the contest.
