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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 21,2009 Mustangs beat Rockets 28-7 Cardinals improve record to 6-0 The lone C ardi nals kept their winning streak alive with a 48-18 non-conference win over Arlington, Friday, October 16, in lone. The Cardinals improved their season re cord to 6-0. W hile the game didn’t count on paper, as the Honkers are playing an independent schedule this year due to a forfeit situation last year, neither team gave any indication that this game was strictly for show. “The kids told us that Arlington was one of the hardest hitting teams they have played all year," said Coach Dennis Ste- fani. Arlington was sport ing an unbeaten record of their own and came to town ready to play ball. “It kind of scared me that we would let down in the game knowing it did n ’t count,” said Coach Ste- fani. The coaches told the team that they “couldn't take any steps backwards because this game really did count.” No worries for the coaching staff as the Cardi nals established early in the game that they were ready to play. Alex Rietmann scored the first of his two touchdowns on the night with about 2 Vi minutes gone in the first quarter. The Cards followed up Top Photo: lone players block for #34 Alex Kietmann. Bot tom Photo: #13 quarterback KJ Kamos makes a pass during last Friday's game against Arlington. The Cardinals will play their homecoming game against Nixyaawii at 7 p.m. on Fri day. -Photos by Theresa Crawford shortly after that with a safety when Eric Jepsen sacked the Arlington quar terback in the end zone. Gunner Jessen got loose for a 30 yard scoring run and then the passing combo of quarterback RJ Ramos and Tanner Rietmann con nected for a 22 yard pass as the Cardinals put up •28 first quarter points to zero for Arlington. Follow ing a Honker touchdown, the Cards scored twice in the second quarter. Alex Rietmann ran in from 26 yards out and the Ramos- Rietm ann tandem con nected on a 14 yards pass. The Cardinals led 40-6 at the half. N either team scored in the third quarter. Arlington scored early in the fourth but lone an swered when Marco Juarez punched in from one yard out to score. The Honkers put one last score the board as time ran out on a 47 yard pass play. The Cardinals had 326 yards of total of fense. They ran the ball 44 times for 266 yards and passed for 63. Coach Stefani was pleased with the team’s ef fort. “We took control early but Arlington did make us put together some drives.” He also complimented the work of the offensive line. “With Christian (Ceder- quist) out sick, Zac Orem and Alex Fetterhoff got a crash course in playing the offensive guard spot. The line just did another ter rific job.” With Arlington running the ball frequently, the Cardinals racked up a big number of tackles. RJ Ramos led the team with 16 (3 solo) while Gunner Jessen had 15 (7 solo.) Tanner Rietmann had 12 (7 solo) Eric Jepsen had 11 (3 solo) Micah Still man had 11 (4 solo) Alex Rietmann had nine and Alex Fetterhoff had eight. “ A n o t h e r one down,” noted Coach Ste fani “and now the great distractions of homecom ing week.” The Cardinals will cap a week of spirit and frivolity with a 7 p.m. game against Nixyaawii. The Heppner Mustangs shook off the “Swine Flu hangovers” and came to life in the second half of the Mustangs versus Rockets game Friday night in Heppner. Top Photo: Bryan Holland stays behind the defense of Ian Murray taking the Mustangs to their victory 28-7. Bottom Photo: A Pilot Rock player tackles #3 Brent Eckrnan. Photo by Sandy Matthews Lady Mustangs beat Irrigon Lady Cardinals second in Big Sky East Conference The lone Lady Cardinals locked up sec ond place on the East Side of the Big Sky Conference w ith a marathon week of volleyball. The Cardinals took league-leading Helix to five games on Tuesday and followed up with w ins against Arlington on Friday and Echo on Saturday. With just one prac tice back together as a team after a wave of illness, no one knew what to expect when the Lady Cards host ed Helix on Tuesday, Octo ber 6. The most surprised group in the gym might have been the Lady Griz zlies when lone set them on their heels and won game one convincingly, 25-18. Helix cam back to win game two 25-20 but lone closed out game three with a similar score in their fa vor. The Cardinals dropped game four 16-25 forcing a game five tie-breaker with the league leader. The Lady Cardinals committed costly errors, allowing the G rizzlies to establish a lead, lone closed at the end but had given up too much of a lead and lost the game 13-15. Vanessa Ziliani led at the net with nine kills while Beth M orter had six kills and three blocks. Stefanie Archer served 7-7 with two aces and Tyree Svetich made all six of her serves. Despite the loss, Coach Dawn Eynetich was upbeat. “We played a good game. It came down to the team who made the least amount of mistakes.” A scrappy Arling ton team challenged the Lady Cards in their home Friday contest. The Cardi nals took the match 25-21, 25-19, 25-10 but the Lady Honkers kept the score close in all but the last game. Vanessa Ziliani had eight kills in the match and Stefanie Archer added four. Beth Morter was 14-14 at the service line with two aces and Vanessa Ziliana was perfect on 12 serves with four aces. “The girls did w hat they had to do,” said Coach Dawn Eynet ich. The Lady Cards fought a Saturday after noon letdown when they traveled to Echo on Octo ber 17. lone won in straight sets, 25-16, 25-19, 25-21 but Echo kept them hon est. Game one was close in the early going but the Cardinals pulled away for good when Beth Morter served points 17-25 with an ace thrown in for good measure. In game two, Echo served five points in a row to get as close as 15- 14. Tyree Svetich served points 16-22 to put the game out of reach for the Cougars. In game three, lone led early but Echo closed the gap at the end. Brianna Peterson had nine kills followed by Vanessa Ziliani with eight and Beth Morter with six. Vanessa Ziliani was 10-10 in serving and Beth Morter was 24-25 with two aces. “Our serving has really improved,” noted Coach Eynetich. The Lady Cardi nals are scheduled to ap pear at the Dufur Tourna ment this Saturday and look forward to a district playoff game in lone on Thursday, O ctober 29, against the number three team (yet to be determined) in the Big Sky West. Heppner High Football Schedule Halloween decorations, cards candy and party supplies! fa fill Kilimni KrruiHHls mllillt It lltnl It/irlKtil If you are ill or have flu-symptoms and need home delivery of medications or supplies call us! We can help! 676-9158 (ask for pharmacy) ^ M umuj ' j D/ iwj Wedding Tables L acey M a tte so n & S a m M a c k e n z ie S a t u r d a y , O c to b e r 2 4 t h A d a m N e iffe r & Lauren S ten d er Saturday , November 21 st 217 North Main • Happnar • Phona 676-915* • Floral 676-9426 Serving Heppner, Lexington & lone t Heppner Mustang Lindsay Cutsforth hits against the Irrigon Knights Thursday in Heppner. The Mustang beat the Knights in three sets. - Photo by Sandy Matthews Heppner Jr. High Football/ Volleyball Schedule Oct. 23 - Umatilla at home, noon Oct. 24 - Th grade tourney at home. 9 a.m. Oct. 24 - 8'h grade tourney. TBA Games in italics are volleyball only Oct. 23 - Irrigon at Home, 7 p.m. Oct. 30 - Weston McEwen at Athena, 7 p.m. Nov. 6 - Enterprise at Heppner, 7 p.m. lone Middle School Volleyball and Football Schedule lone High School Football Schedule Oct. 22 - Echo (FB) at lone, 6 p.m. Oct. 23 - Nixyaawii at lone, 7 p.m. Oct. 30 - Echo at lone, 7 p.m. Nov. 6 - Sherman at Moro, 7 p.m. lone celebrates homecoming week HHS Volleyball Schedule Oct. 22 - at Pilot Rock (A/B/C), 6 p.m. Oct. 24 - 4-way WM/Elgin at Elgin (A), noon Oct. 27 - Stanfield at home (A/B/C), 6 p.m. lone Volleyball Schedule Oct. 24 - Dufur Tournament ( V ) in Dufur, 9 a.m. H E P P N E R E L K S 358 676-9181 "Uhere Friends Meet" 142 North Main Claudia will be serving full menu dinners and Special German Dinners The 3rd Saturday of each month October 17th serving: Chicken Noodle Soup, Sauerbraten & Knoe- del (Marinated Beef & Bread Dumplings), Green Bean Salad and Black Forest Cake Come and join other elk's on Friday & Saturday nights for dinner through the month of October Seniors Stefanie Archer and Brianna Peterson helped the seniors with the dress up day on Monday. The theme for the day was “Welcome to the Jungle”. For every activity there are points assigned and the seniors are easily taking the lead, lone Community School conclude their homecoming week activities with the football game against Nixyaawii on Friday at 7 p.m. -Contributed Photo Parent Teacher Club to host annual School Carnival at HES The Heppner Elementary Parent Teacher Club will be hosting their annual School Carnival on October 29 at Heppner Elementary School. The carnival games will be available from 6-7 p.m. and dinner will be served from 5:30-7 p.m. They will be serving all-you-can-eat hot dogs, chili, or baked potato for $5 per adult and $3 per child. Games will include bingo, Wii bowling, junk food walk, fish pond, plinko, and much more.
