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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - SEVEN Lady Cards take fourth place in Big Sky Conference The lone Lady Car dinals finished their best tournam ent run in years, taking fourth place in the Big Sky C onference this past w eekend. The girls w ere d isa p p o in te d th a t they missed out on a state p la y o ff berth w ith th eir Saturday loss but took con solation that they gave the top teams in the district a serious run. The Lady C ards kicked off district tourna ment play against Horizon C h ristian in a loser-o u t game on Thursday, Febru ary 18. lone jum ped out to an 11 -4 lead in the first quarter and kept most o f that m argin at halftim e, 17-12. H orizon kicked it up a notch in the third and outscored lone 12-4. When Beth Morter hit a shot with 4 seconds left in the third quarter, the Lady C ards were down 21 -24 with eight minutes left to play in the gam e. lo n e got m oving in the final quarter. Beth Morter hit a jum per early in the quarter followed by Shadow Kendrick canning a much-needed three. Mort er hit another jum per with 4:42 on the clock and the Lady Cards were up 28-24. The Lady Hawks hit a three before Kendrick answered with a one foot, hook shot sort o f operation from the top o f the key. Horizon put back an offensive rebound with 2:17 to go and lone’s lead was a slim point, 30- 29. Horizon went to the free throw line to shoot two with 1:52 showing, and missed both but was able to capital ize on the rebound to go up 31-30. The Cards couldn’t convert on the next posses sion but Shadow Kenrick came up with a huge steal with just under 20 seconds left. Stefanie Archer was fouled on a shot and went to the line to shoot two with seven seconds remain ing. The cool Miss Archer swished the first shot to tie the game before Horizon called a time out to make her think about it m ore. W hen the second clutch free throw sw ished, the Lady Cards were up 32-31 and were able to hold the Lady Hawks away from the basket as time expired. Beth M orter and Shadow Kendrick shared sc o rin g ho n o rs w ith 11 points each. Stefanie Archer had seven rebounds and three blocked shots. Briana Peterson added seven re bounds and Beth Morter led the team with four steals. “What an exciting way to start the d istrict tournam ent,” said Coach M ike G arrett. “ H orizon Christian is the best defen sive team in the Big Sky and we knew we w ould have to work for our points. Our pressure defense was able to control the tempo and keep them off balance and that was the difference in the game. When Stefanie Archer got fouled at the end o f the game I had a feel ing she was going to make both. She is about as calm and collected as anyone I have ever met. This was a great win for our team and program.” The win over Ho rizon advanced the Lady Cards to the sem i-finals where they met up with the number one team from the Big Sky East, Nixyaawii. lone trailed 12-9 after one but collected points from five people in the second q u a rte r to o u tsc o re the #32 Beth Morter shoots against the Helix Grizzlies. -Photo by Theresa Crawford Golden Eagles 12-8 to take the halftim e lead, 21-20. Nix hit two threes in the third and finished the quar ter with an 8-0 run to open up a six point lead heading into the final frame, 33-27. Beth M orter opened the fourth with a jum per and was follow ed closely by Tyree Svetich hitting a shot to close the lead to two. The Eagles canned three free throw s before lone freshm an Lacey T hom p son drove the baseline to score. With 4:40 to go in the game, the score was 36- 33 in favor of the Eagles. But from there on out, the powerful Nixyaawii ladies capitalized on free throws (8-12 in fourth quarter) and overpowered lone for a final score o f 49-35. Beth M orter had an all-around gam e that featured a double-double (14 points and 10 rebounds) along with seven steals and two blocked shots. Stefanie Archer had a good night on the boards with 13 as the Golden Eagles were out- rebounded for the first time this season, lone got to the free throw line ju st three tim es in the whole game while Nixyaawii was 14 of 22 from the charity stripe. “We played a very good game against another strong team ,” said Coach Mike Garrett. “Nix has a good 1-3-1 half court trap and they are well rounded on the offensive end o f the floor. We m atched their intensity and really moved the ball up the floor well. We went a little cold from the field at the end of the 4th quarter and that was the difference. We had 17 field goals to their 10 but their 5 three pointers and the difference in free throw opportunities really hurt us." That loss left one last opportunity to grab a state playoff berth with the battle for third against Helix on Saturday, February 20. The teams had split in their two previous meetings dur ing the regular season. The Lady C ards fought fatigue from two tough gam es in the two days prior. At the end o f one quarter, the score was tied 9-9. Sophomore, Col lette Cason scored the last four points in the quarter for lone. Helix scored six unanswered points to start the second and outscored lone 11-6 to lead 20-15 at halftime. But the Lady Cards hit the third quarter revitalized and scored the first six points o f the quar ter to take regain the lead, 21-20 lead with 5:06 on the clock. Helix got eight tries at the free throws, making four but did not score a field goal in the third and the score was tied 24 all at the end of three. Helix hit a two and a three to open a five point lead early in the fourth. Beth Morter hit a pair of free throws with 3:38 left to play the score was 26-29. N either team scored until Shadow Kend rick drove the baseline with 25 seconds to close the lead to one, 28-29. Helix slowed the pace and held the ball. The Grizzlies went to the free throw line with 12.7 seconds remaining and hit both to go up 31-28. lone didn’t get a final shot off and the score held. Beth M orter led the team in scoring with 11. Stefanie Archer had 11 rebounds and Morter had four steals. “This was a tough loss to take,” said Coach M ike G arrett. “The kids played really hard and it w as back and forth the whole way. Helix’s experi ence over the last 3 years in the d istric t and state tournament really showed. Rodgers hit a clutch three pointer and also sank two free throws at the end of the game. Defensively the kids played another outstanding game. We concentrated all year on shutting dow n other te a m ’s post players and holding Cheyanne Hack to zero points is a victory in itself.” “Free throws again were the difference in the ball game. We held Helix to eight total field goals but they were 13 o f 24 from the line and we were 4 of 6. We never did get to a one-and- one situation in the district tournament. We stressed all year taking the ball to the rim but it is something we will have to really work on in the off season.” “This was a great season for us. The kids played hard all year and are fun to watch and coach. We had some big wins during the season and getting into the final four at district was great. We overcame injuries and illness all season to compete at a high level and the team never used it as an excuse or reason for not playing well. 1 am going to miss the senior class. They really are an ex cep tio n al group of student athletes and have represented the community of lone at a high level.” lone 11 6 4 11 32 Horizon 4 8 12 7 31 Beth M orter 11, Shadow Kendrick 11, Stefanie Ar cher 6, Briana Peterson 2, Stacee Halvorsen 2 lone 9 12 6 8 35 Nix 12 8 13 16 49 Beth M orter 14, Shadow Kendrick 6, Tyree Svetich 6, Lacey Thompson 2, Col lette Cason, Stacee H al vorsen 2, Briana Peterson 2, Stefanie Archer 1. lone 9 6 9 4 28 Helix 9 11 4 7 31 Beth M orter 11, Shadow Kendrick 6, Collette Cason 4, Stefanie Archer 3, Tyree Svetich 2, Briana Peterson 2 . An in depth look at Windows 7 By Pat Struthers Windows 7 - What is it, do you want it? I ’ve always had a love/hate relationship with M icrosoft in general and Windows in particular. I’ve been building and m ain taining Windows machines since version 3.11 in 1993. T he h a te a ris e s from the fact that I fix PCs for a living. 1 only see bro ken W indows computers. People m ay say that the Mac world is a lot better than the PC world, but the fact is, Macs and PCs are used for different things. Unless you have a particu lar business that requires software that works best on a Mac, such as graphic design and related fields, the entire Apple product line amounts to a bunch of expensive toys. People expect PCs to do anything and every thing, perfectly and safely, all the time. It is 100 times as hard to write an operat ing system that will run any program on any hardware. Meanwhile, Apple has had it easy. From the invention o f the M acintosh, Apple kept the d etails o f their hardware secret, software developers had no choice but to strictly adhere to their guidelines for making their programs work. To this day Macintosh computers and the various i-Things are built the same way. Apple has been able to enforce their hegem ony over the Mac world, but, their king dom is tiny com pared to Windows. A n d A p p le h as largely missed out on the business market. Hundreds o f thousands o f business program s already existed for PCs even before Win dows or the Mac GUI ex isted. M icrosoft chose to develop DOS and Windows so as to make as many of those business program s continue to work as pos sible. Apple chose to make toys. Don’t get me wrong, I think Macs are wonderful machines for Internet and music and video and....page layout. But businesses need decent prices and a clean upgrade path a lot more than pretty graphics. B ackw ards com patibility is the A chilles’ Heel o f the PC world. First there is the hardware. Win dow s 3 .xx was unstable because it was necessary for it to work on a large and ex panding range o f hardware. IBM ch o se M ic ro s o ft’s DOS for th eir first PC, and when Windows came along IBM and Microsoft collaborated on it. IBM realized early on that their PCs w ould occupy another tiny niche of the computer market if they tried to keep the details o f their hardw are secret, so they didn’t. The result, these days, is that anyone with a decent am ount o f knowledge can build a PC from scratch for $500 or so, and it will pretty much run any version o f W indows from 3.11 to 7. It will even run DOS (and Mac OS and Linux). Then there is the software. Up until Window s N T /2000, M icrosoft did their best to allow every possible DOS program to run, as if Windows didn’t exist. This created instabil ity problems for a variety o f technical reasons. The least o f these is that an op erating system is intended to be a stable platform for everything else that can go Morrow County Public Works You are all aware o f the new law Effective January l, 2010 computers, moni tors and TVs CANNOT he disposed o f in the garbage or at disposal sites such as landfills, transfer stations and incinerators. Anyone who knowingly dis poses o f these items can he lined. Morrow County Public Works is pleased to announce that prior to the ban the transfer stations had been implement ing this procedure. Residence are allowed to dump FREE of charge televisions, computers and monitors. Containers for E Waste are located at the North 69900 Frontage Ln. Boardman and the South 57185 Hwy 74, Lexington Trans fer Stations. Hours of operation 9:00 - 3.00 Saturday and Sundays. What’s wrong with XP? So, why does all of this history matter? Most o f you are probably using Windows XP anyway, and Q u estio n s a n d concerns m ay be ad d ressed by calling 541-989-9500. Ì on the computer. When you have to build ‘exceptions’ or ‘shims’ to keep the plat form stable so that certain tiny market segments can use your OS, you are asking for problems. A n d M ic r o s o f t didn’t bastardize Windows just once. Every Microsoft OS from DOS up has some loopholes built into it that allow older programs, cus tomized for older versions o f W indows or DOS, to work. Can’t allow, for in stance, Lotus 1-2-3 to blow up. Still 80 bagillion (made up number) people use it, after all. This is not the case for all old software. Clear back to Windows 3.1, Mi crosoft had programming guidelines, but they could not be enforced because every version o f Windows before 2000 was so porous that programmers could get around them. The program mers had good reasons for doing this, but M icrosoft complicated it all be keep ing certain details secret; i.e. an Office program such as Word might exploit loop holes that Microsoft knew would be carried into the next version. Vista was M icro soft's first attempt to fix the hardw are/softw are prob lem; and a lot o f the bad press on Vista was because they succeeded, to a large extent. M icrosoft was fi nally able to enforce good programming practices on the PC software industry, at all levels. This meant hard ware as well as software. Microsoft was able to go to hardware manufacturers and say: if the hardw are doesn't work like so. we will not allow it to work, period. ) other than a few major or m inor irritations, you are probably satisfied, right? What are the down sides of sticking w ith XP? Microsoft w ill stop support ing it around 2013/4. Hard ware m anufacturers will follow suit and quit writing XP software for their prod ucts. We can already see this now, particularly with printers. And so will third- party software vendors. XP requires good anti-virus and security softw are in order to be at all safe to run on the Internet, and it lacks many features that should be there, including: a. reliable and easy to use backup; b. automatic disk maintenance; and c. an up date and repair system that actually w orks. If you have XPand you w ant to do any o f these things, you need to be either a total geek (do them by hand), or buy expensive third-party software to do it for you. XP does not take advantage of the speed and functionality of newer hard ware, and this will only get worse. 99% o f viruses are aimed directly at flaws in XP and Internet Explorer. XP will continue to be ‘supported’ by the larger tech community long past 2014, o f course. I still help people with Windows 98, Me, and 2000 comput ers, all of which have been dead-ended by Microsoft. XP will always run better on old hardw are. If you want to avoid ex pensive upgrades, you are fairly conservative on the Internet, you never have a hardware breakdown, and you don’t expect your com puter to do anything other than what it does already, by all means stick w ith XP. I m yself used Windows 2000 up until July 2009.1 jumped to Vista at that time because I could get a free upgrade to Windows 7. Next w eek’s col um n w ill in clu d e m ore inform ation on Windows 7. A Windows 7 community open house presentation will also be held Thursday, February 25, at 7 p.m. at Heppner City Hall. St. Patrick’s Celebration collector’s buttons on sale Autumn Morgan examine* Megan Healy Futter’s collector button detign at the Heppner Gazette-Time* office, where both are employed, for the upcoming St. Patrick'* 2010 Celebration March 11-14. Purchaxerx of the button* are eligible for two drawing* for $100 on Friday and Saturday of the event and need not be prexent to win. Button* are on «ale now at M ur ray Drug*. Willow Creek Realty and Let Schwab Tire*. Fund* railed help put on the large«! St. Patrick'« Celebration in the Pacific Northwett. -Photo by Kay Proctor »
