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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - THREE lone boys take win, Lady lone boys defeat Joseph, Cards lose against Pilot Rock fall to Enterprise K e v in L a R u e (J V ) blocks a shot. -Photo by Teresa Crawford The lone boys var- sity put on a show in the first quarter at Pilot Rock but foul trouble sat a few players down and Pilot Rock rolled to a 81-52 victory in a game played Tuesday, December 9, in Pilot Rock. The offense was “a beautiful thing to watch” in the first quarter in the words o f Coach Dennis Stefani as the Cardinals made shreds o f the Rocket press on their way to scoring 24 points. The Cards had their biggest lead o f the game at 29-21 early in the second after Matt Hams canned a three and Clay M orter hit two free throws with just under a minute gone. But Matt Hams was w histled for foul num ber three with 1:14 left in the h a lf and C ory P eterso n picked up his third shortly thereafter. With both play- ers having to sit, Pilot Rock went on a 20-3 run that put them up 41-32 at the half. Foul trouble con- tinued to be a factor as C lay M orter w as called for fouls three and four in the third quarter and Matt Hams fouled out early in the fourth. W ith all five Pilot Rock starters scoring in double figures and foul trouble taking its toll, the Cardinals couldn’t maintain their early pace, Matt Hams led the team in scoring w ith 26 points. Zac Orem added 11 and Alex Fetterhoff had six. The Cards shot a respectable 33.9% on 20 o f 59 from the field. They went to the line just nine times, hitting six while the Rockets shot 22 free throws and made 13. Clay Morter led the team with 12 rebounds and Cory Peterson had five as- sists in the game, The Lady Cardinals found themselves at a sig- nificant height disadvantage ag ain st P ilo t Rock. The Lady Rockets’ starting five boasted two girls 5’11 and above who could play. The Rockets jumped out to 20-7 first quarter lead and held a 20 point advantage at half time, 34-14. The Rockets won the game 63-37. Beth Morter led the Cardinals with 17 points, Tyree Svetich had seven, including a three pointer, and Tiana Camarillo added four, “We had a mismatch inside,” said Coach Mike Garrett. “Once we switched to a 2/3 zone defense, we played re a lly w ell w ith them.” Wedding Tables Sarah Jean Echman & Shane David Matheny S a tu rday, D ecem ber 2 0 th 2 : 0 0 p .m . St. Patrick s Catholic Church H eppn er ig Mustang wrestlers bring home first place trophy Seth Palmer was the son, Matt Holland and Justin only M ustang to appear Yocom. Every win and ev on the individual placer ery team point was vital to podium , finishing as the the Mustangs bringing home consolation champion at 112 the 2 A/1A first place trophy. pounds. Freshman Cody Nelson won Jarreid M iller lost his first varsity match repre his first match at 135 pounds senting the Mustangs at 119 to Conner White from La pounds. He was trailing his Grande. He battled back to opponent from Baker by a win his next three matches score o f 3-0 with just 10 sec a g ain st The D alles Wa- onds remaining in the match tonka, Barlow and Mac Hi when he rolled a five-point wrestlers to advance to the granby move that won the consolation championship match 5-3 as time ran out. where he again faced White Also competing for from La Grande. Despite the M ustangs were Zach improving on his first match. Yocom, Andrew Bara, Dil Miller could not prevail. lon Lutcher, Conner Pappas, H ep p n er go t key Garrett Gibbs, Alex Fuentes Z a c h O re m shoots a th ree-p o in ter. -Photo by Teresa Crawford wins from Cody N elson, and Zach Hintz. Five Cardinals put starting five over 6’0” and John Nelson, Tyler Robin points on the board in the a 6 ’7” player in the middle. first quarter as lone defeated Clay Morter led the effort Lady Cards lose two games during Joseph for their first win of with nine rebounds and Alex the season. The Cards took Fetterhoff had six. The Cards Winter Classic Tournament an 11-9 lead on a Zac Orem also racked up an amazing three pointer and never re 24 steals to ju st four for linquished it, downing the Joseph. “They would drive taller Eagles 55-44 in the in and try to dump the ball Winter Classic Tournament off'and we stole the ball a lot at Enterprise. in the middle.” Matt Hams Matt Hams put up and Clay Morter had seven 10 points in the first frame steals each and Zac Orem to lead the Cards to a 20- added six. Orem also paced 13 first quarter lead. Clay the team with six assists. Morter found his touch in On Saturday night, the second, dumping in eight the Cards struggled in the points to widen the lead to early going against the fast- ten at the half 34-24. m oving E nterprise team Hot Joseph shooting and were never really in the in the third quarter and a gam e, losing 35-60. The M a k e n n a Ram os passes the ball to Tyree Svetich. Photo by Teresa stretch of eight unanswered Outlaws created a number Crawford points put the Eagles back o f fast-break opportunities The lone Lady Car ted lone against a very moti in contention at 37-39 with with a sticky press that the dinals dropped two games vated Enterprise squad. The just over three minutes to go Cards had trouble handling. over the w eekend at the O utlaw s were looking to in the third but the Cardinals Along with the turnovers, Winter Classic Tournament chalk up their coach's 300th responded with and 8-0 run the Cardinals had trouble in Enterprise but found some career victory and came out to pull away. The Cards getting shots to fall. encouraging signs. gunning. Enterprise put up held Joseph to ju st three “ E n te rp r is e is a Taking on the d e 17 points in the first two points in the final quarter to good basketball team,” said fending state cham pion, quarters on their way to a take the 55-44 win. Coach Dennis Stefani. “ We Joseph, in Friday's matchup, 34-13 halftime lead and ran Matt Hams led all played with them but just the Lady Cards didn’t look away with the 53-21 win. scorers with 23 points. Clay couldn’t get the ball to go intimidated in the early go “We had the same Morter added 16 and Zac in the hole.” ing taking a 9-6 first quarter problem as the night be Orem had seven. The Cards Matt Hams led the lead. The Eagles woke up fore,” said Coach Mike Gar had one o f their best shoot team in scoring with 13. in the second quarter out- rett. “We started off the first ing n ights o f the young Alex Fetterhoff added six scoring lone 14-2 to take a quarter pretty well but shot season making 24 of their 57 and Zac Orem had five. 20-11 halftime lead. Joseph 1-9 in the second quarter attempts for 42%. Neither Coach Stefani found a bright continued to build their lead and 1 -17 in the third quarter team shot many free throws, spot in the rebounding stats but never really trounced which hurt.” lone was 5 o f 8 from the line where the C ardinals out- the Cards, taking the win Mary Rietmann had rebounded Enterprise 42-37. 43-23. while Joseph was 3-4. six points to lead the team. “The kids played Clay Morter had a “monster Stefanie Archer and Tyree Svetich and Beth g re a t,” said C oach D en game” w ith 14 rebounds and Beth Morter both had six M orter added four each. nis Stefani. “By far, it was Zac Orem added eight. points for the Lady Cardi Beth Morter was the lead D e sp ite the lo ss, nals. Tiana Camarillo added ing rebounder with seven our best perform ance o f the year.” He noted that Coach Stefani was not dis four. Stefanie Archer also while Tiana Camarillo and the team really took care pleased with the effort. “We led the team with nine re Stefanie Archer each had o f the ball. “ We had a few got inside and were doing bounds and had four steals. a team leading three steals. turnovers but they were ag things right. It was just our Beth Morter had four assists Briana Peterson had three shots were not falling.” gressive turnovers.” assists. in the contest. “Overall the whole “The most impres “Overall, we com “As a team, w e’re sive thing about the game is weekend was a pretty good starting to find out we can peted really well and played that we out-rebounded them, positive,” said Stefani. “ I play at a fairly high level,” some really tough teams,” 34-21,” said Coach Stefani. think we showed that com said Coach Mike Garrett. said Coach Garrett. “We're “ We were on the boards ing into league, we can be “We ju st have to keep it looking forw ard to this hard.” Joseph was a much competitive.” up in the second, third and w eekend w hen we start taller team with four o f their fourth quarters. 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