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
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the game 60 to 43.
During the varsity
game, the boys took the lead
from the start, scoring 12
points to Elgin's eight.
The boys did not let
Elgin get within 17 points
the second and third quar
ter. At the end o f the fourth
quarter Heppner had a 24
point lead, putting the final
score Heppner 65 and Elgin
41.
L eading the team
for the night was Nacho
E lq u e z a b a l s c o rin g 19
points. 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.
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mid-game letdown where
the Knights outscored them
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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.