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HeppnerGazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 2,2011 -FIVE Lady Cards pick up weekend victories Mustang JV girls split weekend games The lone Lady Car dinals notched two victories this past weekend with a crucial win against a Big Sky East opponent on Fri day night and a necessary win against a Big Sky West opponent on Saturday. The Lady Cardinals now sport an 8-1 record in the Big Sky Conference, 14-5 overall. On Friday night, th e C a rd in a ls h o s te d Nixyaawii, a team they de feated in Mission in January but also the only other team in the Big Sky East with just one loss. The first half was not an offensive master piece for either team. Three minutes went by in the game before either team scored, and at the end of one, Nix held a 9-8 lead. The Cards opened the second frame with a 6-0 run to go up 14-9 but Nix scored nine unanswered points to close the half leading 18-14. The Eagles built their biggest lead of the game with five minutes gone in the third. When they knocked down a three, the Cardinals were looking at an eight point deficit, 18-24. However the Cardinals showed they know how to rally as they have done several times this year. Makenna Ramos put back two offensive rebounds for scores and Lacey Thompson grabbed a steal and fed it to Beth Morter for a fast break lay in. With eight minutes left to play, the Lady Cards trailed by just two points, 22-24. The teams swapped scores to start the fourth until JoAnna Patton’s of fensive board went in for a score and with 4:04 re maining, the game was tied. Shadow K endrick came up big with back-to-back jumpers. By this time in the game, two of Nixyaawii’s scoring threats had fouled out, as had JoAnna Patton. The Golden Eagles went to the line with 1:42 remaining and canned two necessary free throws to pull the score back within two. With 38 seconds left, Shadow Kend rick fed a nice pass to Lacey Thom pson who canned the bucket, giving lone a tiny bit of breathing room, 34-30. The Cards kept the pressure on and got the ball back. With 16.2 remaining, Beth Morter hit the second of two free throws to make the final 35-30 margin. Beth M orter led the team in scoring with Top Photo: Stacee Halvorsen #12 and Collette Cason #10 trap a South Wasco player. Bottom Photo: Makenna Ramos puts up a jump shot against Nixyaawii. -Photos by Paula Emmel nine points. Shadow Ken drick added eight while JoAnna Patton and Lacey Thompson both had five. Rounding out the scoring was Makenna Ramos with four and Collette Cason and Mary Rietmann with two each. JoAnna Patton led the rebounding with 10 boards, nine o f those off the offensive glass. Beth Morter added nine. “The girls worked hard,” said Coach Mike Garrett. “They (Nix) aver age 56 points a game so to hold them to 30 was something. It was a great defensive game and a great win for the team.” On Saturday, the Lady Cardinals traveled to Maupin for a game against the third place team on the West Side, South Wasco County. After a tight first quarter, the Cardinals got their groove back to run away with the 61-36 win. Beth Morter had a career night with 21 points, 10 of those in the first quarter. Shadow Kendrick added 10 and Stacee Halvorsen class. Will Lutcher won two matches by tech fall and pin on his way to an appearance in the 90 pound weight class championship bout w here he finished second. Ryan Smith, Kai Arbogast, and Weston Put nam overcame early losses to advance to the consola tion championship bouts of their weight classes. Smith and Arbogast went on to win and claim third place. Putnam, wrestling in his first tournament style com petition, finished in fourth place. Jesse Boyd also placed third at 125 pounds. S k y le r P a lm e r made it to the championship semi finals by pinning his opponent from Imbler. He lost in the semi finals and went on to place fifth. Tim Jaca also com peted in the tournament for the junior Mustangs. WCVEDG to hold annual meeting The Willow Creek Valley Economic Devel opment Group will hold their annual meeting on Thursday, February 17, at noon at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. Kurt Christensen, president of Renewable Ag Energy based in Ontario, OR, will be the speaker. He will discuss the purchase and operation of the power plant at the South Morrow County Industrial Park. Renewable Ag En ergy is a company formed after several years of re search in the renewable energy field. Christensen and his partner Lance Wells were instrumental in the Valentine's Day Dinner Ecumenical Youth Group Fund Raiser February 14th 6:00-8:00pm All Saints Episcopal Church - Heppner $10 00 per person Dinner indudes: Lasagna, salad, bread, cupcakes and sparkling cider or coffee Alyssa Gray and Ainiee Seines fight for the ball. -Photo by Sandv Matthews into halftime with Makayla Kindle getting four points in the second. The second half the Mustangs kept up the pressure outscoring the Tiger/Scots 21-17 for the half, led by Larrisa Gray’s six points, giving them a 43-26 win. It could have been much bigger but the Mustangs were only 16-5 at the free throw line. The M ustangs also gave up too many points by foul ing giving the other team a 27-13 advantage at their free-throw line. The scoring for Mustangs was Emma Os min with eight, six each for Blake Greenup, MaKenzie Correa, Lilly Sandford, and Larrisa Gray, five for Cassi Day, four for Kindle and two for Aimee Seines. Rebounding leaders were Selness and Kindle with eight each and four each for Greenup, Haguewood, and Day. Steals were Osmin with six, Correa with four, and Seines and Day with three each. The win puts the JV’s record at 6-6 for the year with four games' to go. and Collette Cason both had eight. Rounding out the scoring was JoAnna Patton with seven, Lacey Thomp son and Mary Rietmann with three each and Mak Eleven Mustang wrestlers place at Irrigon Invitational enna Ramos with one. The Heppner wres the day, winning the tourna respectively. Moore won Collette Cason had tling team competed in the ment championship and a his match with a pin and a good night on the boards, Irrigon Invitational Tourna gold medal at 130 pounds. brought home a third place collecting eight rebounds. ment on Saturday. Teams Miller defeated Forrest Cox medal. His tournament re Beth Morter nabbed nine from Wallowa by a score cord was three wins and competing at the tournament steals and Mary Rietmann of 6-3 in the championship one loss with all three wins were Enterprise/Wallowa, dished out six assists. Heppner, Imbler, Irrigon, bout. coming by fall. Smith fin “Things were click ished fourth. Freshman Treston Joseph, Mac Hi, Riverside, ing,” said Coach Mike Gar Upjqp, and Hanford, WA. Maben also made it to the The pther Heppner rett. “The offense looked championship finals at 140 High School wrestlers that ’^T^e-invitational featured good, the defense looked pounds before suffering his placed were Earl Propheter good and people were rotat a side by side high school and junior high wrestling first loss of the tournament (5th), Clayton Cook (6th), ing correctly on the press.” and finishing in second Wade Matthew (6th), Gar He also like the shooting tournament. rett Gibbs (5th), and Tim Eleven Mustangs place. percentage much better Alex Sm ith and Nelson (5th). earned a spot on the high than he did the previous The Mustangs next night, noting that the team school tournament podium Jacob Moore each won a spot in the consolation compete at home in the with the top six placers of shot 41 % from the floor in championship matches at Bank o f Eastern Oregon each weight class. the first half. S e n io r J a r r e id 125 pounds and 215 pounds Invitational on February 5. “I wasn’t sure how Miller went undefeated for they would come o,ut after the hard win against Nix the Mustang boys defeat Rockets 66-63 in double overtime night before,” said Garrett. In the varsity boys’ “They handled physical game Friday, January 28, in play really well though and Pilot Rock, the Mustangs this will be good prepara came out big and ready to tion for the district tourna play as they defeated the ment.” Rockets in a double over HJH wrestlers compete at Irrigon Invitational The Heppner ju nior high wrestlers traveled to Irrigon on January 29 with the high school team to wrestle in the Irrigon Jr/ Sr High Invitational. The junior Mustangs wrestled opponents from Imbler, Irrigon, Riverside, Union, and Enterprise. John P ro p h e te r placed the highest for the team. He had two falls on the way to w inning the championship at the 175 pounds junior high weight The Mustang JV girls split over the week end with Pilot Rock and Weston/McEwen. On F rid a y th e Mustangs traveled to Pilot Rock for a game and started out playing great, taking the first quarter 9-4 led by Carrie Haguewood’s four points. The second quar ter went to the Rockets as the M ustang offense disappeared and they went into half time down 13-18. Things picked up a bit in the third and it was 19-22 with girls still trialing. But then the defense let down and the Rockets took the quarter 15-7 for a Mustang loss 26-38. This was still a good improvement over the last meeting when they lost 50-30. The Mustang scor ing was Makenzie Correa with seven, Lilly Sandford five, four each for Blake Greenup, Carrie Hague- woon, and Emma Osmin, and two for Cassi Day. Leading rebounders were Greenup, Haguewood, and Makayla Kindle with four each. The next day the Mustangs came out quick and with the full court pres sure took a 15-4 first quar ter lead and never looked back. Emma Osmin led in scoring after one with five points. The second quarter saw the Mustangs not allow a field goal giving up just five points on foul shots. They took a 22-9 lead time thriller, 66-63. The Mustangs earned their fifth win this season in confer ence play. Both teams, evenly matched, played a cat and mouse game with neither team gaining much advan tage over the other. Pilot Rock led by two at the half, 28-26. Both teams, wanting the win, played hard in the second half. The rockets tied Heppner at the end of regulation on a three-point shot. In the first overtime both team s scored four each. In the final overtime period the Mustangs pre vailed, scoring 10 points to the Rockets’ seven. The win put Hep pner at 5-4 on the season. Cody Orr led Heppner with 23 points, Alex Pickles scored 13, and Justin Prang- er scored 12. In the boys’ home game against the Tigerscots, it was another tough contest for the Mustangs. Coming off a big win against Pilot Rock, the Mustangs had to dig deep into their team to keep pace with the 7-2 Weston-McEwen team. formation of a new Farmers Cooperative, Agri Energy Producers Association that operates in both Malheur County and in the Morrow Alex Pickle« put« up a «hot against the Tigcrscots. -Photo bv and Umatilla county areas Sandv Matthews , in Eastern Oregon. This cooperative was formed H eppner played quarters to lose 43-39. to produce Energy Crops The Mustangs are with a lot of energy in the . for the purpose of creating first half, keeping within now tied with Pilot Rock at electric energy in the local striking distance of the Ti five wins and five losses in areas surrounded by the gerscots, 24-20. The Mus fourth place in league play grower m em ber’s farms. tangs were outscored 13-9 with four league games to This is the driving factor and 10-6 in the final two go in the season. working toward the pur chase and operation of the power plant at the north end of Heppner. A hosted luncheon will be prepared by Sweet Productions. Those plan Heppner Christian Church community ham dinner has been rescheduled for Sunday, , ning to attend are asked to February 13. This dinner will be held in the Senior Center dining room from 4-6:30 p.m. There RSVP to Marcia Kemp at is no charge to the public. 541-676-2100. Date changed for Heppner Christian Church community ham dinner I
