FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Heppner Jr. High wrestlers qualify for state
T he H e p p n e r Jr.
High Wrestling team trav­
eled to Boardman on March
1 to compete in the Eastern
Oregon Regional Qualifier.
The tournament was a quali­
fier for the state wrestling
tournament. Since there are
no size classifications for
middle school, all schools
from the region with wres­
tling programs were present
including teams from Baker,
Hermiston, Pendleton, Hood
River, The Dalles, Board-
amn, Milton Freewater, La
G rande, O ntario, Joseph,
lrrigon. Vale, North Powder
and Union.
Austin Harris, Jar­
ed Lemmon, Curtis M ar­
tin, John Nelson and Zech
H intz all m ade it to the
cham pionship semifinals.
Josh Williams made it to
the consolation semifinals.
Under last year’s criteria,
where the top six placers
advanced to state, all six
would have qualified for the
state tournament. This year
the standards were changed
to allow only the top four
placers to advance to state,
making it necessary for the
six M ustangs to continue
Austin Harris (top photo) and Jarred Lemmon (bottom photo)
qualified for the state competition this past weekend. -Photos by
Alitu Nelson
winning to qualify.
At the end o f the
day, A u stin H a rris, 75
pounds, and Jared Lem ­
mon, 80 pounds, stood on
the podium to receive med­
als for fourth place and third
place respectively in their
weight classes. Those two
will travel to Woodbum to
com pete against the best
middle school wrestlers in
Oregon on March 8. Harris,
7th grade, and Lemmon, 6th
grade, being close in size
and age have been work out
lone team travels watch WSU women’s team
for t-shirts and beads for
each player, game tickets,
fuel, lunch and dinner. The
team departed early Sun­
day morning for Pullman
and got a behind the scenes
tour from one o f the WSU
athletic departm ents per­
sonal trainers, attended the
basketball game sitting in
the third row and ate dinner
together at Olive Garden in
Tri-Cities on the way home.
"It was a unique experience
for many o f these girls to set
foot on a division one school
cam pus,” said coach Erin
Heideman. "It was really
enjoyable for me to have the
opportunity to help provide
this chance.”
Thanks to a gener­
ous grant from the lone
Booster Club, players from
the m iddle school g irls ’
basketball team attended a
Washington State Universi­
ty Women's basketball game
in Pullman. The Cougs took
on Standford. “i t was really
fun getting to go to a college
game,” said eighth grader
Jordan Peterson. “Everyone
got along well and I hope to
get to go again sometime.”
The middles school
g irls team applied for a
grant from the booster club
and also did a bake raffle at Standing: Be i t a Jepsen and Lacey Thompson
one o f the home basketball Kneeling/Seated L-R: Shadow Kendrick, Jordan Peterson,
games to raise fund to go. Mary Rietmann and Lily Sandtbrd
The m oney earned paid
Featuring Hunting, Fishing and
Outdoor Sports At the Pendleton
Convention Center March 7th - 9th
Organized by the Pendleton City Club.
All proceeds go to local youth activities.
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partners all year and have
pushed each other to become
state caliber w restlers.
They are only the
second and third wrestlers
ever from Heppner to qual­
ify for the state tournament,
but with the growth o f the
program and the progress
o f the young team, expect
to see state qualifiers and
state placers in the coming
years from the high school.
When the Jr. High wrestlers
move up to the high school
team, the experience they’ve
gained at the middle school
level will prepare them well
to com pete against other
2A schools. B esides the
budding Jr. High and High
School teams, Heppner has
also been offering a Colt
wrestling club for the past
three years that includes
kids from first through fifth
grade.
Also competing in
the tournament for the Mus­
tangs were Aidan Wright,
Cody Nelson, Alex Smith,
Justyn Peck, Earl Proph-
eter, Treston Maben, Justin
Smith, Andrew Bara, Con­
ner Pappas, Tim Nelson and
Garrett Gibbs.
By Mark Lemmon
Mustang girls take sixth place in
state tournament
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Katie Kilkenny (2nd Team All Tournament) and Aftan Betsing-
er defend the basket against the Glendale Pirates. The Hep­
pner Mustangs were defeated 43-37 in a tight battled game.
The Mustangs took home the 6th place State Trophy. -Photo by
Sandy Matthews
-Glendale 43, Heppner 37
Heppner (18-7)
VanCleave,Kristen 5-8 1-6 11; Kilkenny,Katie 2-10 3-6
7; Orr,Megan 2-12 1-2
7; Betsinger,Aftan 3-8 0-0 6; McElligott,Catherine 2-2
0-
2 4; Kempas,Taylor
1- 10 0-2 2; Price,Erin 0-1 0-0 0; Doherty,Kylie 0-0 0-0
0; Hughes,Jessica
0-0 0-0 0. Totals 15-51 5-18 37.
Glendale (22-4)
Owens,Gretchen 8-18 6-9 23; Marriott,Ashley 6-13 6-6
18; Lovemark.Rori 1-9
0-0 2; Phelps,Shelby 0-2 0-0 0; Brown,Zoe 0-4 0-0 0;
Lovelady,Lexii 0-1 0-0
0; Prock,Samantha 0-0 0-0 0; Henry,Jenna 0-0 0-0 0.
Totals 15-47 12-15 43.
Heppner........................ 13 8 6 10 - 37
Glendale....................... 9 10 10 14 - 43
3-point goals—Heppner 2-12 (Orr,Megan 2-8;
Betsinger,Aftan 0-1;
Kempas,Taylor 0-3), Glendale 1-9 (Owens,Gretchen
1-4; Lovemark,Rori 0-2;
Phelps,Shelby 0-1; Brown,Zoe 0-2). Fouled out—Hepp-
ner-Orr,Megan,
Glendale-None. Rebounds—Heppner 45
(VanCleave.Kristen 13), Glendale 33
(Owens,Gretchen 10). Assists—Heppner 8
(Kempas,Taylor 3; Orr,Megan 3),
Glendale 8 (Owens,Gretchen 4; Brown,Zoe 4). Total
fouls—Heppner 12,
Glendale 15. Technical fouls—Heppner-None, Glendale-
None.
2008 OSAA / U.S. Bank / Les Schwab Tires
2A Girls Basketball State Championship
Qwest Players o f the Game: Gretchen Owens, Glendale
Qwest Players o f the Game: Kristine Van Cleave, Hep­
pner
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