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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Heppner Jr. High volleyball teams Cardinals take win over Sherman County The lone Cardinals Cards were forced to punt up the final scoring drive for got their league season off on a fourth and 10 from their the Cards. Tanner Rietmann to host weekend tournament to a good start, putting away own 45. An lone bounce scored on a three yard run. H eppner Jr. High volleyball teams have had a great start to this year’s season w ith a full roster for both their ‘A’ and ’B ’ teams with over 20 young ladies participating for the Mustangs. C o a c h e s, B ecky Cannin and Mindy Wilson started practice early this year, before school resumed and believe it has paid off in the team’s performance. The Mustangs have several home games with their next one this Friday, September 26, against Ir- rigon, and a tournament on Saturday, Septem ber 27, where Heppner will host several visiting team s for The Heppner Jr. High B team played at the Pendleton tournament on September 8. -Contributed Photo the day. ‘A’ team s will be at elementary gym and ‘B ’ team s at the high school gym. Games should start around 9 a.m. at both loca tions. The Mustangs par ticipated in a kick off tour nament in Pendleton, Sep tember 8, winning two out o f four games for the ‘A’ team. At their last gam e against Weston Panthers, they played into the evening hours with ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C ’ team matches winning their “B’ and ‘A’ team games. Come and support our young talent this week end. Go Mustangs! Football field snack shack a little less dusty I Football fans can now enjoy watching football with out worrying about the dust howl around the snack shack thanks to many volunteers. The Heppner Lions club purchased and spread gravel around the snack shack with help of the Heppner Volunteer Fire department and employees of the Morrow County School District. Billy Gentry furnished his time and tractor to help haul the gravel. Jay Coil Fabrication built new and safer steps up into the grand stand. Photo by Sandy Matthews The M ustangs are playing with a relatively new team this year, with only two returning seniors; Maggie Armato and Sherilyn Peck and two returning juniors, Brenna Rust and Jessica H ughes. They moved up several younger players that have picked up on the var sity plays and really added a lot to the game. Also foreign exchange stu d en t senior Lenka Dobozova brings a lot o f talent and experience. “(Heppner) has a lot o f hit ters. They just keep coming at you,” said U nion’s co head coach Mendy Clark. 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The M ustangs are hoping for a lot of commu nity support at their games. The M ustangs are ready to play volleyball, as states on their w arm up shirts “New Year, New Team." H e p p n e r H ig h School will participate in homecoming week activities September 29-October 3. Monday is Hill Bil lie Day with dodge ball will be played from 9:30-10:10 a.m. College Team Day is Tuesday with balloon bas ketball to be played during activity period. Nerd Day is Wednesday with an eat ing contest during activity period. The Mud Tug O War will be held on Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. at the ro deo grounds with a bonfire to be held afterwards. Thurs day is Blue and Gold Day with float decorating to be held after lunch and a parade at 2 p.m. The Friday football game will be played against Union at 7 p.m. Court pre sentation and crowning will be held at halftime. The com m unity is invited to attend the evening activities throughout the week. 2008 Volleyball Schedule lone Volleyball Schedule Sept. 25 - Irrigon at Irri gon at 5 p.m. (A/B teams). Sept. 27 - Enterprise at home at noon (A/B teams). Oct. 2 - Stanfield at home at 5 p.m. (A/B teams). Oct. 4 - 4 -Way Tourna ment in Enterprise at noon (A team). Sept. 26 - at Condon, 5 p.m. Sept. 27 - at Riverside, 1 p.m. Sept. 30 - at Arlington, 5 p.m. Oct. 3 - at Maupin, 5 p.m. Oct. 4 - Echo at lone, noon. Heppner Mustang volleyball starts off new year with a new team The Mustangs began their Blue Mountain confer ence play September 18th in Union. The Mustangs beat the 2A number three ranked Union Bobcats in an intense jr game match, 25-17,26- ■4, 18-25 and 25-20. T hey p la y ed tw o .tore conference games in Stanfield on Saturday, Sep tember 20, meeting Elgin ,nd Weston McEwen in a tour-way tournament. Play began with El gin, the Mustangs won after battling through five games, 20-25, 25-13, 23-25, 25- 12, 15-9. The M ustangs then immediately played 2A number one ranked Weston McEwen, playing hard but losing in an exhausting three game match, 23-25, 13-25, 20-25. a tenacious Sherman County squad 46-28 last Friday night in lone. S h e rm a n C o u n ty came ready to play and was able to record the first score o f the game after an lone m iscue on a Husky punt gave Sherman possession o f the ball on the lone five yard line. They scored two plays later to take an early 8-0 lead. Not long after that, lone’s Cory Peterson broke away for a 30 yard scoring run followed just 20 second later by a 55 yard touch dow n run. lone regained possession on an onside kick that bounced their way. The Cards led 14-8 with 2:53 re maining in the first quarter. Sherman County re sponded with another score early in the second quarter on a 75 yard breakaway run to even the score at 14. Gun ner Jessen came up with a key interception with under two minutes left in the half p u ttin g the C ard in als in great field position on the Husky 28 yard line. Four plays later RJ Ramos scored on a five yard quarterback keeper and then connected with Gunner Jessen on the point after to put the Cards back on top 22-14. S h e rm a n e v e n e d things up at 22 early in the third quarter before lone caught a lucky break. The Heppner Elks Lodge Fund Raiser for Meadowbrook Speech Cavnp and Renovations spotted the ball on the five yard line where the Hus kies fumbled on their first play from scrimmage and the Cards recovered. Cory Peterson punched in with a five yard touchdown run and also ran in the point after. lone took the lead 30-22. The Huskies put to gether a drive starting on the lone 20 that ended with a 34 yard touchdown run. How ever the Cardinal defense was able to stop the extra point giving them a slim, two point margin. T h e C a rd s th e n ground downfield and took almost six minutes oft' the clock for another score. Tan ner Rietmann took the ball to pay dirt with a one yard run and Cory Peterson ran in the extra point. A 10 point lead, 38-28 with 9:21 rem ain ing didn’t feel too secure but things finally started to swing lone’s way. Sherman started on the lone 25 and went backwards all the way to the lone seven with a de fensive stop and a couple of costly penalties before Clay M orter sacked the Husky quarterback in the end zone for a safety. With 6:01 left on the clock, the Cardinals finished off the Huskies when Clay Morter picked off a Sher man County pass, setting Cory Peterson con tinued to be the Cardinal’s workhorse, carrying the ball 40 times for 245 yards. “He worked hard all game” com mented Coach Dennis Ste- fani. Sherman County tallied more yards o f total offense (217 rushing and 115 pass ing) than lone, who totaled 287 with just eight yards coming from the pass. Defensively, Micah Stillm an had 11 tack les for the Cardinals. Gunner Jessen had nine while Alex Rietmann and Clay Morter each had eight, Alex Fet- terhoff had seven and Eric Jepsen had six. “Our tack ling was distributed around pretty good” said Stefani. “It was a hard hit ting game. Sherman County came ready to play,” said Coach Stefani. “Their coach said they had a terrific week o f practice and it was the best they had played by far. He noted that the Car dinals need to go back to work on the passing game but “was pleased with how we stayed in the game. I give the offensive line credit for controlling the line of scrim mage.” The C ard in als go on the road to face Condon/ Wheeler this Friday night in their second league con test. Game time in Condon is 7 p.m. Lady Cards lose two league matches The lone Lady Car- dinals had some shining moments in their volleyball co n tests during the past week but ultimately lost two league matches, falling to Echo on the road last Tues day and to Sherman County at home on Friday. In Echo, the Lady Card’s first game was punc tuated by missed serves and net errors as the Lady Cou gars took the 25-15 win. A revitalized lone team took control in the second game, at one point leading 15-3 before w inning 25-12. A mid game lapse in game th ree as co stly as Echo reeled off seven unanswered points. lone got as close as 22-23 before Echo closed in for the 25-22 win. Noth ing went very right in the fourth game as Echo won 25-19 took the match. Tianna C am arillo had seven aces and Tyree Svetich was 100% on serv ing (19-19.) “ We played tough we just weren’t really strong at the net and we were re- ally stru g g lin g w ith our passes” said Coach Dawn Eynetich. On Friday, the Lady C a rd s h o ste d S h erm an County and played the Lady Huskies close in the early going. After losing the first game 19-25, lone powered to a 25-18 second game win. A winnable third game got away from the lone team as Sherman came back to win 24-26 before the Lady Hus kies finished off the match with a 25-11 win. Brianna Peterson led the team at the net with eight kills and Sarah Stillman had a strong performance in the back row. “All in all I am very pleased with how the girls have been playing. We have been struggling with getting our hits over and in and that is something that we have been continually working on,” said Coach Eynetich. T he L ad y C a rd s travel to Condon for a 5 p.m. match on Friday nigh and travel to Riverside on Saturday for a match start ing at 1 p.m. Last Gasp Tournament to be held at Willow Creek Country Club Willow Creek Country Club will hold a Last Gasp Tournament at WCCC at 1 p.m. on Sunday, September 28. A barbecue will be held. Those attending are asked to bring salads or desserts and their own meat to grill. Heppner Mustangs begin conference play with win TEXAS HOU) 'f M TOURNAMENT fo r & cru-t-of-txrvr*. o n ly Sunday, Sept. 2.8 a t 1 p.vn. a t the Heppner Elks Lodge Buy-in $ 4 0 per person $ 2 0 re-buy for first hour Prtxe^ fo r First, Stoo-nd. &c T h ird . Sign up a t the Heppner Elks or call ( S 4 1 ) 9 8 0 - 0 3 3 0 The Heppner Mustangs started conference play with a win over F.lgin 36 -7 on Friday night in Heppner. Senior Mustang Quinn C hick (#20) takes it over the top of the Elgin defense, while Bryan Holland (#5) and Wacy Coil (#59) support the yardage. Photo by Sandy Matthews
