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
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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.
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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.