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F O U R - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Volleyball season in full swing Joann;) Patton gets the hit in against the I'matilla Vikings in the tournament held in Heppner. Photo by Sandy Matthews Last Gasp Tournament results The Last Gasp Family BBQ Tournament was en joyed by 34 golfers in ideal playing conditions on Sunday at Willow Creek Country Club. Special events individual winners were Ross Cutsforth and Mike Bums. Special events team winners were the teams of Zach Orem, John Collin, Adam Collin and A1 Scott, and John Edmundson, Jeff Edumundson, Kristi Smalley and Cindi Doherty. Net team winners: 1st place - Greg, Virginia, Sophia, and Kellen Grant; 2nd place - Debbie Gutierrez, Karen Morgan, Dennis and Debbie Peck; 3rd place - Dale, Kandy and Jesse Boyd; 4th place - Lorrene Montgomery, Roger Ehrmantrout, Gene Orwick and Pat Daughtery; and 5lh place - Ann Elgin. Roger and Andrea Morti- more. Gross team w inners: 141 place - John Edmundson, Jeff Edmundson, Kristi Smalley, and Cindi Doherty; 2nd place - Mark Schlicting, Jeff, Missy and Ross Cutsforth; 3rd place (tie) - Zach Orem, A1 Scott, John and Adam Col lin; Mike and Rosemary Burns and Dave and Corol Mitchell. The tournament was played in the scramble for mat on a short cross country layout. Nobody was lost or hit by an errant shot. The com m ittee consisted o f John E dm und son, Lorrene Montgomery, and Jeff, Missy and Ross Cutsforth. Ladies Play Day results L adies Play Day was held on Tuesday, Sep- tember 22, at the Willow Creek Country Club. Re- suits áre fls follows: Septem ber 21 Low gross o f the field was Nancy Prophetor (37). Low net o f the field was Ann Elgin and Jackie Allstott. Least putts o f the field was Pat Edmundson. Flight A w inners w ere: low g ro ss, C orol Mitchell; low net, Virginia Grant; least putts, Carole Hamilton; long drive, Vir- ginia Grant; and long putt, Luvilla Sonstegard. Flight B w inners were: low gross, Jan Paus- tian; low net, Pat Dough- erty; and least putts, Lynnea Sargent, Flight C w inners were: a tie for low gross between Luvilla Sonstegard and Burul Deboer, C hip-ins: Lynnea Sargent on #9. Mustangs take win over Elgin Cardinal football season remains perfect after big win over Dufur The lone Cardinals kept their season record perfect with a resounding win over perennial pow erhouse, Dufur, in Dufur on Friday, September 25, 53-12. The Cards scored first in the game and never relin q u ish e d th eir lead, eventually forcing the game to a running clock in the third quarter when the lead went over 45 points. Wins over Dufur have been few and far be tween in Cardinal football history. It was recollected that the last win was in the fall o f 2003 and the one before that was in the early or m id-1990’s. “ It was a terrific win for us,” said Coach Dennis Stefani. “The kids were thrilled to be part of it.” Micah Stillman hit paydirt with 3:44 remaining in the first quarter, running in from four yards out, the first o f what would be three touchdown runs on the night. Stillman caught a pass from RJ Ramos for the point after to put the Cards up 8-0. Dufur capitalized on an lone fum ble deep in their own territory two minutes later, when they ran Alex Kietmann runs the ball during lone's game against D ufur on F riday, S eptem ber 25. lone will celeb rate homecoming October 19-23. -Photo by Theresa Crawford in from 14 yards out. With the extra point denied, that was as close as the Rangers got in the game. The Cards led 30-6 at the h a lf and 46-6 after three. Stillman had two long runs in the second quarter before the Rietmann cousins got in the act. Alex Rietmann scored on a 29 yard run and then Tanner Rietm ann scored twice in the third quarter. Gunner Jessen got loose in the fourth quarter and ran in the final lone score. Du fur put six more points on the board late in the fourth quarter. Micah Stillman was the leading rusher, tallying 187 yards on 14 carries. Alex Rietmann carried the ball nine times for 89 yards and Gunner Jessen had 71 yards on four carries. The C ards totaled 431 yards on the ground compared to just 123 for the Rangers. Q u a rte rb a c k RJ R am os didn’t need to throw the ball much but com pleted five o f eight passes. Tanner Rietmann was the leading receiver with 59 yards on two refeptions. Defensively, Gun ner Jessen led the way in tackles with 10, five unas sisted. Eric Jepsen had nine (four solo), Micah Stillman had six (two solo) and Evan R ietm ann had five (one solo.) “O ur interior of fensive line (Eric Jepsen, Tom Holland and Christian Cederquist) did a terrific job. The blocks they made opened holes that the run ning backs fo u n d ,” said Coach Stefani. “The ends (M att Ham s and Tanner Rietmann) also did a great jo b c o n tro llin g D u fu r’s quarterback.” “We talked before the game that teams have been knocking on D ufur’s door for the past couple of years. We told the kids that they were the better football team and this was their golden opportunity,” said Coach Stefani. He was proud to note that the team wasn’t content with knock ing on the door but used the opportunity to “kick the door in.” N e x t up fo r the Cardinals is a road trip to Condon on Friday, October 2, to take on the Knights. Lady Cards 3-0 in league play The lone Lady Car dinals boosted their league volleyball record to a per fect 3-0 w ith w ins over Dufur and Echo last week. It took five games and two full hours to get it done in Dufur, 25-20, 19- 25, 21-25, 25-18, 15-6 on Friday, September 25. The Cards won the first game after building an early lead and holding o ff the Lady Rangers. Both teams had some miscues in the second game with the teams trad ing missed serves. Dufur led early before lone tied them at 18 but the Rang ers capitalized on Cardinal mistakes to take the win. The third game was close all the way but the tough Dufur defense scooped up everything that came their way and got that win. Down 2-1, the Lady Cards were not ready to throw in the towel just yet. Good team work gave them the early lead and key kills by Vanes sa Ziliani and Beth Morter at the end of the match not only gave lone the win but a noticeable shift in mo mentum. That carried into the game five tied breaker where, on the first play of the game, Vanessa Ziliani put down a thunderous kill. It was the hit that fired up the tired Lady Cards and broke the spirit of the Lady Rangers. Vanessa went on to serve points 4-13 with two aces thrown in for good Over the Tee Cup results T he W CCC La- dies’ Match Play Competi tion was played over the summer months with Jackie Allstott and Pat Edmundson sharing first place honors. Second place was won by Jean Strange. Third place was a four way tie betw een Janice Paustian, Corol Mitchell, Sandi Han na and Nancy Propheter. Cindi Doherty was fourth, Lorrene Montgomery and Sally Walker fifth, and Lu- villa Sonstegard and Karen Thompson, sixth. Awards for bird ies went to Jan Paustian, Corol Mitchell and Nancy Propheter. C h ip -in a w a rd s went to Corol Mitchell, Pat Edmundson, Luvilla Son stegard and Sandi Hanna. A n e v e n in g o f awards, scramble team golf, and a soup supper closed out the activity. measure. Coach Dawn E ynetich, w ho w as c e l ebrating her birthday on that day, was ecstatic with the win. “ We lost a bit of our focus in games two and three but came back when it counted,” she said. Beth M orter led the net attack with 13 kills. Vanessa Ziliani added 11 and Briana Peterson had seven. The Lady C ard i nals hosted Echo at mid-day on Saturday, September 26, knowing they needed to stay focused to avoid a post-big game let down. And they did just that. The Cardinals dom inated the first tw o games 25-10, 25-10 and let up only slightly in the third, winning 25-16. Vanessa Ziliani led the attack at the net with eight kills. Beth M orter added five, Tyree Svetich had four and Brianna Peter son had three. Overall, the team served well. Stefanie A rcher and Beth M orter served 100% while Mak- enna R am os w as 16-17 and Vanessa Z iliana was 15-17. “They ju s t cam e out and played phenomenal v o lle y b a ll,” said C oach Eynetich. The Lady C ards host R iverside on T ues day before retu rn in g to league action against con ference powerhouse. Helix on Thursday in Helix and trav elin g to C ondon on Friday. JV Mustangs defeat Weston McEwen HHS celebrates homecoming Heppner High School has been celebrating their homecoming all week long. The homecoming football game will be played against Stanfield at 7 p.m. on Fri Heppner Mustang Chris Lien puts up a pass in Elgin where day. the Mustangs beat F.lgin 59-7 on Friday, September 25. -Photo The homecoming court will be presented at half by Sandy Matthews time. This year’s court members are: Juniors - Donald Matthews, Jorge Rugarcia #2 Devin Robinson proved to be unstoppable in the game Avendano, Lindsey Cutsforth, and Taighler Dougherty. against the Weston McEwen Tiger Scotts. The JV team defeated Seniors- Jared Huddleston, Brent Eckman, Wacy Weston McEwen 36-0. 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