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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 23,2009 - FIVE Mustang wrestlers place fourth at Mac Hi Christmas Tournament Two years ago, the Heppner w restling team made a trip to Milton-Free- water to compete in the Mac Hi JV tournament and was happy to come away w ith a few wins. This year the Mustangs challenged the big school varsity programs at the Mac Hi Christmas tournament and came away w ith some medals. The to u rn am en t included two schools from Washington’s largest class, Chiawana (Pasco) and Wal la Walla, as well as River side and last year’s OSAA 4A state runner up Mac Hi. Also competing were Ir- rigon and Columbia High Schools. Jarreid Miller, cur rently ranked eighth in the state, finished the highest for the Mustang grapplers. After receiving a bye in the first round. Miller pinned his next two opponents from Mac Hi and Walla Walla to advance to the championship bout where he suffered his only loss of the day to a Chiawana wrestler. Heppner got third place finishes from fresh man A ustin H arris and fourth ranked senior Wacy Coil. It was Harris’s high est finish of the season and his first high school medal. He earned it in dominating fashion by pinning his chal lenger from Walla Walla in the consolation champion ship match. Coil had to hold off his Mac Hi opponent to come away with an 8-7 dra matic decision for his third place medal. Scoring in the final round came in such a flurry at one point that the scorekeepers didn't keep up and the scoreboard read 7-6 in favor of Mac Hi at the end of regulation. However, the M ustangs’ alert stat crew caught the error and proved it to the officials in a post match conference with the competitors waiting at center mat. The score was then corrected and Coil’s arm was raised as the vic tor. Cody Nelson also made a trip to the podium as the fourth place finisher at 135 pounds. The Mustangs got additional tournament w ins and team points from Wade Matthew, Andrew Bara, and Junior high basketball in full swing Tyler Robinson. In an exhibition m atch , fresh m an Earl Propheter got his arm raised for his first w in of the sea son. Garrett Gibbs and Tim Nelson also had exhibition match wins. Individual results by weight class were: 103 - Austin Harris, (3rd) 2-1; 119-Alex Smith, 0-2; 130 - Jarreid Miller, (2nd) 2-1; and Earl Propheter, 1-2; 135 - Cody Nelson, (4th) 3-2; and Wade Matthew, 1-2, 140 - Andrew Bara, #3 Brian Kill drives past a Mt. Vernon player during a junior 1-2; 145 - Conner Pappas, high basketball game this past Saturday in Heppner. -Photo by Autumn Morgan 0- 2; 152 - Tyler Robinson, 1- 2; 171 - Wacy Coil, (3rd) 3-1; and Garrett Gibbs, 1-3; 189 - Tim Nelson, 2-2; 215 The Heppner girls Maggie Collins’ 10 points - David Berntsen, 0-1; and J V basketball team had two and seven rebounds. Bailey Jacob Moore, 0-2. games this past weekend Bennett added six points winning both to improve and five rebounds. The rest their record to 4-2. of the scoring was by Emile On Friday the girls Blak (four), Natalie Rauch took on the Irrigon Knights. (four), and two each for out-rebounded the Hawks After one quarter the Mus Carrie Haguewood, Emma 36-25 with Adam Collin tangs led 10-6 with a bal Osmin, and Larissa Grey. grabbing eight boards to anced scoring attack from On Saturday the complement Tanner Riet- four players. In the second JV Mustangs traveled to mann’s eight. quarter the Mustangs had Stanfield to take on a very “ It was good to a hard time holding onto short-handed Tiger team. start league with a win,” the ball and the knights Due to injuries and miss said Coach Dennis Stefani. turned it into a big quarter ing players, they only had “ I thought the kids came for themselves, scoring 17 enough for half a game. out flat, trailing after the to the Mustangs’ 12, giving The Mustangs used first quarter. However, they them the half-time advan their press to jump out to a picked up the tempo in the tage of 23-22. Again the quick 7-0 lead and ended second quarter and took Mustangs had a balanced up winning 13-6. The rest control of the game with a attack getting production of the shortened game they 33 point quarter.” from five different players. worked on running some The Cardinals will In the second half new plays to get some expe have one game before tak the Mustangs picked up on rience in a game situation. ing time off for Christmas, the “D” and took better care M aggie C o llin s traveling to Helix on Tues of the ball, only turning it led the team in scoring day, Decem ber 22. The over five times for the half. with seven points, followed week after Christmas will They outscored the Knights by Alana Wilson, Natalie be a busy one, hosting Irri- 23-17 for the half to take Rauch, and Bailey Benner gon on December 28, Pilot away a 45-40 win. w ith two each. Bennett also Rock on December 29 and Eight M ustangs led the team with seven re Stanfield on January 2. scored, led by Alana Wil bounds in the short game. son’s 15 points, followed by Heppner JV girls now 4-2 Cardinals win league opener The lone Cardinals trailed at the end o f the first quarter in their league opener against H orizon Christian on Friday, De cember 18, but came to life on offense in the second quarter, scoring 33 points to the Hawks 11. That of fensive firepower put the Cards up 44-27 at the half and they rolled to a 76-55 victory. Zac Orem led all scorers with 21 points, in cluding 57% three-point shooting (4-7) and 62% shooting overall. Orem also dished out six assists. Tanner Rietm ann had a big night, putting up 18 points and grabbing eight rebounds. Matt Hams also scored in double digits with 14 points and led the team #21 Zach Orem shouts against the Horizon Christian Hawks, lone won 76-55. -Photo by Theresa Crawford with seven assists. Overall, best three point shooting the team shot 44 % from the nights, hitting 55% on 6 floor but had one of their of 11 shooting. The Cards Lady Cardinals hang on for win over Horizon Christian Stocking Stutters G ifH lards! ma Drink Special Peppermint Fudge Mocha liaaauuiaau Christmas. Store Hours : December 24th - 9 am- 5:00 pm; December 25th - CLOSED December 26 OPEN 9 am to 6 pm1 for 1/2 PRICE CHRISTMAS SALE ! 14444444444444444444444444444 Sv/eddiKQ T q bit Brett Barber & Shannon Milligan Wedding-December 5, 2009 Reception to be held in February ^ M umuj ' j D au § .INC. 217 North Main • Heppner • Phone 676-9158 • Floral 676-9426 Serving Heppner, Lexington & lone The lo n e Lady Cardinals opened Big Sky Conference play with a win over Horizon Christian. In a game played in lone on Friday, December 18, the Cards built a halftime lead and withstood a Lady Hawk charge in the game to claim the 36-31 victory. “This was a great win for us. Horizon Chris tian is a good ball club that we lost too last year by one in overtime,” said Coach Mike Garrett. “They were at the district tournament last year and I would expect to see them there this year as well. We did an outstanding job of eliminating their post players and forcing them to play from the outside.” The Cards ran into early foul trouble, with nine fouls in the first six minutes, sending Horizon into a double bonus situation by the end of the first quarter. Even so, the Lady Cards led 24-15 at the half. Horizon was scrappy and narrowed the lead to four late in the 29-25. lone quarter with an ankle tweak. Shadow Kendrick added eight. Stephanie Archer led the team on the board w ith 14 rebounds and a huge blocked shot that stopped Horizon’s momentum in the final 30 seconds. Makenna Ramos led the team with four assists. lone 9 15 6 6 = 36 Beth M orter 15, Shadow Kendrick 8, Tyree Svetich 4, Makenna Ramos 3, Collette Cason 2, Stacey Halvorsen 2, Sarah Stillman 1, Mary Rietmann 1. Horizon 5 10 Shadow Kendrick puts up a shot during last Friday’s game 10 6 = 31____________ against the Horizon Christian Hawks. The lady Cardinals won 36-31. -Photo by Theresa Crawford stretched the lead back to 10 midway through the fourth but let nerves get the better of them down the stretch. The last minute of the game was nerve wracking and went on forever. The Lady Hawks once again closed the lead to four with 34 seconds to go but the Cards held on for the win. “ Early foul trou ble and poor free throw shooting kept this game closer than it should have been. These are areas that we can work on and I am pleased w ith where the team is at defensively right now,” noted Coach Garrett. 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