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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 11,2009 Colt basketball finishes season Two junior Mustangs win regional championships, three qualify for state T he H e p p n e r Jr. High wrestling team com peted in the Eastern Oregon R egional C ham pionship tournam ent in Boardman on Saturday. Middle school team s com pete by region rather than school size, so all middle teams from 1A to 5 A in the region were present. The top four placers in the 18 weight classes qualify for state in Woodbum on March 14. The Eastern O regon tournament included teams from B aker, B oardm an, Halfway, Hermiston, Hep pner, Hood River, Irrigon, John Day, La Grande, Mil- ton Freewater, Pendleton, O ntario, The Dalles, and Union. Prior to 2009, no one in a Heppner uniform had ever competed in the re gional finals. This year two w restlers, Jared Lemmon and Tim Nelson both ad vanced undefeated through their weight brackets to the championship round. Lemmon w restled first on the championship mat at 90 pounds and faced a returning state placer from Milton-Freewater that had beaten him four times last season, including his elim ination loss at the 2008 state tournament. Lemmon showed his progress over the past year and won deci sively by a 10-2 score to be come the first ever Mustang regional champion. Nelson faced a La Grande wrestler in the 165 pound championship match. He didn’t take long to claim his gold medal as he pinned his opponent in less than one minute o f the first round. It was N elson’s first time to place at the regional tourna ment and qualify for state. “There are only 18 kids in the whole region that can say they are middle school regional champions and only 72 in the entire state per year— two o f those 8th graders raffling off getaway basket H e p p n e r High School's 8th grade class will be raffling o ff a getaway basket. The basket will in clude a two night stay in Pendleton, dinner and gas cards. Students will be sell ing tickets at the motocross and downtown. For more informa tion contact Alita Nelson at 676-8733. One agent for your insurance needs! Colt basketball finished their season with a “round robbin tournament” at Heppner Elementary School. -Contributed Photo Top Photo: Pictured left to right are Coach Mark Lemmon, Jacob Moore-4lh place, Jared Lemmon-1'" place, Tim Nelson-1- " place, and Coach Ken Bailey. Bottom Photo: Pictured is Tim Nelson as he works on pinning his opponent. -Contributed Photos tion bracket to claim fourth place and a berth to the state tournament. “ It's un usual enough for a first year w restler to qualify for state,” said Lemmon, “but for a 195 pound first year wrestler to do that well, is really tough. We don't have a lot o f big guys in Heppner; Jacob is going to be a very welcome addition to the high school team next year.” Austin Harris made it to the championship semi finals and was one win away from qualifying for state before losing in overtime to a Hermiston opponent. Treston M aben and Earl Propheter got two wins each and also just missed qualify ing for state. Ross Cutsforth, Alex Smith, and Wade Mat thew all picked up their first regional tournament wins on Saturday. Shane Miles, John Propheter and Ethan Ashbeck also competed for the Junior Mustangs. are from Heppner this year,” said Coach Mark Lemmon. “Jr. High practice officially started in January but Jared and Tim started with the high school in November. They hardly missed a prac tice all year including dur ing C hristm as break. By rule junior high and high school kids can ’t wrestle each other, so they often had to be drill partners despite the difference in size since they were the only Jr. high kids there. W restling is a sport where you get back what you put into it. It’s no coincidence that the two guys that put in the extra effort are H eppner’s first regional champions.” Jaco b M oore, an eighth-grade first year wres tler at 195 pounds, competed in his first regional tourna m ent. C o n d itio n in g and hard work also paid off for Moore as he battled his way back through the consola- Oregon Wheat Grower’s League to hold meeting Oregon Wheat Grower’s League will hold a marketing meeting via Poly com on Thursday, March 12, at 8 a.m. The agenda is as fol lows: Morrow County Grain Growers'Trent Harrison will provide an update on spring fertilizer availability, prices and forecast; Mid Columbia Producers' Jeff Kaser will talk about fuel prices and outlook; Dan Steiner will discuss potential implica tions o f CRC on markets for August forward (Dave Paul will be available via audio feed to answ er questions and explain the program); Darren Padget will present a brief report on a potential new insurance product he just learned o f called Crop M argin C overage that is in development; and there may also be a brief report on spring seed availability. 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To sign up, send a check for $30 dollars to Jess Osmin at 58794 Balmfork Road, Heppner, OR 97836 or call 676-9079. -Contributed Photo DA’s Report Garrett finishes senior season with Lady Mustangs Morrow Count y District Attorney Elizabeth Ballard has released the fol lowing report: -C h risto p h e r M i chael Swope, 30, was con v icted o f A ssault in the F ourth D eg ree, a C lass A misdemeanor, and was sentenced to 180 days in carceration with 180 days suspended, two year bench probation, 80 hours o f com munity service and other num erous conditions. He was also convicted o f Ha rassment, a Class B misde meanor, and was sentenced to 90 days incarceration with 90 days suspended, two year bench probation, and other numerous conditions. Total fines, fees and assessments were $ 1,621. -D ana Jo H arris- Willis, 45, was convicted o f A ttem pt to Com m it a Class B felony (Robbery-2), a Class C felony and was sen ten ced to 13 m onths incarceration, three post prison supervision, other numerous conditions, and pay $2,903 fines, fees and restitution. -D ana Jo H arris- Mercedes Garrett keeps Heidi Halemeier at bay during the Lady Willis, 45, was convicted Mustangs' game against Santiam on Saturday, February 28. o f Theft in the First Degree, -Contributed Photo a Class C. felony, and was sentenced to six m onths OSU taking applications for Middle- incarceration, one year post prison supervision, other School Summer Science Camp numerous conditions, and Oregon State Uni- ing 541-737-4081 or email pay $528 in fines, fees and versity is taking applica fo u rh sc ic a m p @ p ro a x is. assessments. tions for 48 Oregon middle com. The two-week res school students to attend the Advertise with ExxonMobil Bernard Har idential cam p, w hich is ris Summer Science Camp Aug. 4 -15 on campus, offers The Heppner this sum m er at OSU. All students entering grades selected cam pers will be six, seven and eight in Gazette-Times novative ways to enhance funded by scholarship. Application deadline their knowledge o f science, is Wednesday, April 15. The technology, engineering and application involves appli m athem atics. Leadership cation information, a student and citizenship are main essay, and recom m enda themes, and students are en tions from science and math couraged to stay in school. The full cost o f the teach ers. Inform ation is camp’s education program, available on line at http:// oregon.4h.oregonstate.edu/ field trips, food and lodging summer-science-camp. 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