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.
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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
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