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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, January 19,2011 Lady Cards notch two more league wins The lone Lady Car dinals continued their win ning ways this past week, notching two league wins as well as getting past a non-conference opponent. The Cards now hold a 5-0 record in the Big Sky, 11-4 overall. Easily the biggest win o f the week happened on Friday, January 14 when the Lady Cardinals trav eled to Condon for a battle with previously undefeated Condon/Wheeler. The Lady Knights were perched high in the OSAA rankings but after lo n e ’s victory over N ix y aaw ii the prev io u s w eek, a lm o st e v ery o n e knew it could be a show down. The lone girls came ready to play. They led for m ost o f the first quarter until a C/W bucket at the buzzer put the Knights up 13-12. The second quarter saw six lead changes and three ties but the Knights swished four free throws in the last 1:22 to hold a 27- 25 lead at halftime. Jo- Anna Patton had six points in the quarter and Stacee Halvorsen canned a much- needed three pointer mid way through. The halftim e pep talk worked like a charm as lone put up 10 unan swered points in the first three minutes of the third. Beth Morter had six points in the period that saw five Cardinals score. Not only was the offense clicking but the defense also did their job, holding the Knights to just four points. At the end o f three, the Lady Cards led by ten, 41-31. lone scored first in the final frame when Lacey Thompson fed a nice little pass to Collette Cason. The Lacey Thompson puts up a shot against Condon/W heeler. -Photo by Paula Emmel end result was the biggest lead of the day 43-31. But C/W came back with two free throws and two three pointers in the span o f 40 seconds. lone kept up their offensive output though. B etw een the C/W three pointers. Shadow Kendrick drove to the basket for a score. Then Beth M orter c a n n ed a ju m p e r on an inbounds play keeping the lead at eight points. With 3:12 remaining in the game, the Knights closed to five points after stealing the ball and hitting the lay in. The Lady Cards kept their cool and held a 6-8 point lead for the rem ainder o f the game. Free throws sealed the deal for the Cards as Rita Van Schoiack Financial Advisor • Investment Management • Retirement Plan “Rollovers” • Retirement Planning • IRA’s • Tax Advantaged Investments • Bonds, Stocks , Mutual Funds • Investment Consulting and Guidance • Investments for Retirement Income For an Appointment Call: 541-676 -522 6 Toll Free: 1 -8 6 6 -3 2 5 -5 3 2 6 Securities and Investment Advisory Services offered through Multi-Financial Securities Corp. Member FINRA/SIPC. Blue Mountain Investment Management LLC is not affiliated with Multi-Financial Securities Corp. 51353 Sunflower Flat Road, Heppner, OR 97836 ritaWan@inultifin.com they got only 10 attempts from the free throw line but made eight, all in the last three minutes of the game. The Knights made one last shot w ith eight seconds remaining to make the final score 55-49 in favor o f the Cardinals. “This was a hard fought game between two very good te a m s ,” said Coach Mike Garrett. “Both team s play an up-tem po game and tough defense. We came out in the third quarter and played very good m an -to -m an team defense and that was the difference in the game.” Beth M o rter led the Cardinal scoring with 18 points. Also in double figures was JoAnna Patton with 12 and Shadow Ken drick w ith 11. Rounding out the scoring was C ol lette Cason with six, Stacee Halvorsen with five, Lacey Thom pson with two and Mary Rietmann with one. JoAnna Patton led the team with nine rebounds but also had four assists and three steals. Beth M orter had six rebounds and four steals while Collette Cason had six rebounds and four steals. Shadow Kendrick dished out a team-leading five assists. “We won the battle on the boards and this was one of our keys to the game that we worked on all week. 1 felt the kids handled the pressure o f playing in a big game very well and we look forward to playing The N e ig h b o rh o o d C e n te r o f S o u th M o rro w C o u n ty wishes to extend to everyone a prosperous 2011. We would like to share last year’s operation information: Calender y e a r Z O iO We M e t These Needs Within the Community E m e rg e n c y Ite m o f A s s is ta n c e Bedding Clothing Food 9,117 lbs Housing (electricity, heating, rent and water/sewer) Kitchen Appliances/Utensils Medical Aids them again.” In the other games during the week, the Lady Cardinals downed Irrigon in non-conference action 60-43 on Tuesday, January 11. lone opened up a 19-2 first quarter lead and was up 49-21 at the end of three, coasting home for the final score. Shadow Kendrick led all scorers with 24 points. JoAnna Patton had 18 and Collette Cason scored 10. JoAnna Patton led the rebounding effort with 12 boards and also had five steals. Shadow Kendrick had five rebounds and seven assists while Collette Cason had six rebounds, four as sists and eight steals. “We had great de fensive pressure in the first quarter,” said Coach Gar rett. “ We also moved the ball well in transition and took advantage of many fast break opportunities.” By the time Satur day rolled around, the Lady Cardinals were looking a little weary from their big win over Condon/W heel er the night before. The visiting Sherman County Huskies gave them every thing they could handle in the first half and the game was tied at 19 going to the half. Sherman didn't let the Cards get away in the third quarter either. lone scored six unanswered points to start the quarter but the Huskies chipped away at the lead, ending the quarter trailing by just two, 27-25. The Cardinals finally shook • the v isitors loose in the fourth quarter, outscoring them 10-1 for the final score of 37-26. J o A n n a P a tto n was the lead scorer with 15. Beth Morter added 11, Shadow Kendrick had sev en while Collette Cason and Lacey Thompson each had two. Beth Morter tallied 13 boards, five assists and six steals. JoAnna Patton had eight rebounds, two steals and a block. Shadow Ken drick had five boards and five steals. “ In the first h a lf they made their shots and we didn’t. We made a few adjustm ents defensively at half time and the team responded well. Holding a team like Sherman County to one point in the fourth quarter tells a lot about the ch aracter o f this tea m ,” said Coach G arrett. “ We were tired from the game against Condon the night before but we couldn’t use that as an excuse. If we plan on make it into the district tournament we will have to be able to play back to back games at a high level.” “This was a very g o o d w e e k e n d fo r our team.” Mustang wrestlers compete at Oregon Classic Pictured top photo to bottom photo: Andrew Bara, Earl Propheter, and Treston Mähen work to pin their opponents during the recent Oregon Wrestling Classic in Redmond. -Contributed Photo The Heppner Wres tling team competed in the Oregon Wrestling Classic in R edm ond on January 14 and 15. The O regon Classic is the largest tour nament in Oregon and one o f the largest team tourna ments in the nation. About 3,000 wrestlers competed from age five through high school, including a girls’ tournam ent w ith around 100 fem ale participants. A pproxim ately 100 high school teams entered into the 2011 Oregon Classic. The C la ssic e s se n tia lly functions as the O regon dual state championships. In the 2Aside of the tournament, teams started in pods of four teams where they compete in round robin duals. The top two teams from each pod advance to the Oregon Classic cham pionship tournament. The M u stan g s’ pod included Culver, Monroe, Neah Kah Nie, and Heppner. H e p p n e r faced Monroe in the first round. The Mustangs matched up well against the Dragons winning seven o f the nine m atches w restled in the dual and finishing with a score 52-18. In the second dual the shorthanded Mustangs lone boys’ varsity team takes win over Irrigon Individuals Assisted - 59 214 221 5 50 129 3 Conference Space at no charge 393 Gathering, packaging and distributing Christmas food boxes and gifts 93 boxes Kids Christmas "shopping" 160 35 We Received From the Community Food donations collected Clothing donations received Volunteer man hours contributed Community Churches Organizations E F&S G (FEMA) Community Bank United Way We express our appreciation with a Special Big THANK yO V! could not ov erco m e 18 points in forfeits against Neah Kah Nie. H eppner was down by just one point with two matches remain ing. R ather than take a likely win and give up a for feit in the next two matches and end the dual losing by one point, the M ustangs shuffled the line up in a long shot gamble to try to steal the win. The match ups were not favorable to the young M ustangs and Heppner could not pull it off. Despite winning six o f the ten matches wrestled, Heppner fell by the score o f 33-46. A win would have given Heppner a guaranteed second place finish in its pod and a berth to the Clas sic championship round. Next the Mustangs faced the re in in g state cham pion and e v en tu al tournament champion Cul ver. Giving up 24 points in forfeits against an already best-in-state C ulver line up, Heppner lost 15-63. The M ustangs’ best show ing came from Jarreid M iller at 130 lbs, w ho faced a returning state finalist and currently #2 ranked wres tler. Miller won the match 7-3 after starting with a five point takedow n and near fall combination in the first round. With one win and two losses in pod competi tion, Heppner competed in a consolation dual Saturday afternoon against Scio. The M ustangs com peted well but fell short 30-45. Two wrestlers, Jar reid Miller and Earl Proph eter went u n d efeated in the tournam ent w ith 4-0 records. Jared Lem m on was 3-1. Shane Miles, Alex S m ith, T resto n M aben, Wade M atthew , C layton Cook. Andrew Bara, and Jacob Moore also all won matches and scored team points for the Mustangs. Community Lunch Menu 3,691 pounds valued at $14,184.65 974 hours valued at $19,967.00 Wi l l ow Cr e e k Baptist Church m em bers will be serving lunch on Wednesday, January 26, at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. The meal w ill include shep h erd ’s pie. spiced pears, garlic bread, and brownies. Menu is subject to change. We Received Financial Assistance From: Private Donations Memorial Contributions Morrow County PGE Wildhorse Foundation • FIVE Senior Marco Juare* drives to the hole during hoy's varsity 72-51 win over Irrigon. -Photo by Paula Emmel ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. »
