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SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 16,2011 Mustangs girls win, boys lose to Stanfield lone varsity boys finish season with 12-game winning streak Left Photo: Taighler Dougherty protects the basketball. Right Photo: Alex Pickles and lan Murray fight a Stanfield player for possession. -Photos by Sandy Matthews On February 12 the Mustangs hosted the Tigers o f Stanfield. The last home game o f the season meant it was senior night in the Heppner gym. D evin R obinson, Ian M urray, Jared Hed- man, Alex Pickles, Taighler D ougherty and L indsay Cutsforth were all honored for their dedication to Hep pner sports, along with a number of senior pep band members that show up ev ery home game to support the team. In the girls’ game the mustangs looked like a team coming together. The M ustangs led at the h alf 20-13 with Alana Wilson hitting a couple o f three’s to spark H eppner's offense. In the third quarter the Mus tangs poured oats on the hay, outscoring the Tigers 11-4. The fourth quarter b ro u g h t out the T ig e rs ’ ferocity, clawing back into the game to spook the Mus tangs. Foul trouble plagued Heppner as the final min utes ticked down. The Lady M ustangs held on to win their eighth league game of the season for a fourth place finish in the Blue Mountain Conference. W ilson led scor ing with 13 for Heppner, with great team play from everyone. The Lady Mus tangs will play at the district tournam ent February 18- 19. They will play the Elgin Huskies in a loser-out game at 6 p.m. on February 18. A win will give them a place in the first round o f the 2-A state tournament. In the boys’ game against the Tigers, the Mus tangs thundered into the gym, taking it to the co league leading Tigers 11-2 in the first three minutes of the game. The Tigers roared back into the game to come w ith in one p o in t o f the Mustangs at the first quarter mark 20-19. Heppner con tinued to out-score Stan field in the second quarter to retain their lead 41-34 at the half. In the third quarter the Mustangs were let out to pasture, only scoring two points while the Tigers put down 18 points to pull ahead 53-43. The Mustangs played a good fourth quarter but fell short, losing to the Tigers 72-58. The Mustangs shot only 1 -20 from the free throw line. Cody Orr led Hep- pner’s scoring attack with 21 while Devin Robinson added 12 for Heppner. The Heppner boys team ended the season w ith a fourth place finish in the Blue M ountain C onference at seven wins, seven losses. The boys will play Pilot Rock Friday night after the girls’ game for a berth in the 2A state cham pionship tournament. Lady Cards finish regular season with 13-1 league record T h e lo n e L a d y C ard in als fin ish ed their regular season bruised and bandaged but happy as they put two more wins in the record book last weekend, fife Lady Cardfe rah away from Helix on the road on Friday and gritted out a win against Dufur on Sat urday in lone. The Friday win locked up the number one seed from the Big Sky East and the Saturday win moved the team on to the d istrict tournam ent on a high note. The Lady Car dinals finished the regular season w ith 13-1 league record, 19-5 overall. In Helix on Friday, February 11, the Lady Car dinals turned it on in the second quarter and used a 15-0 run to put the game out o f reach. lone outscored Helix 19-4 in the second quarter to lead 31 -12 at the half. The Cards led by as much as 27 points late in the third and again early in the fourth quarter as they coasted to the 58-31 win. Shadow Kendrick led the team in scoring with 12 points but 10 oth ers also put points on the board. JoAnna Patton, Sta- cee H alvorsen and Mak- enna Ramos each had eight. Beth Morter, Collette Cason and Lacey Thom pson all had six. E m ily H olland and Mary Gates both had tw o and M ary Rietm ann added one. On the stat line. Shadow Kendrick and four steals and Makenna Ramos has seven assists. “I was worried that we m ight be a little flat thinking about the Dufur gam e on Saturday night but the kids realized a win would cement our #1 seed in the Big Sky East," said Coach Mike Garrett who was pleased that the team cam e to play. “ We were filling the lanes and we shot the ball very well." He also noted that the C ardinals committed just eight turn overs and had 17 steals. Saturday was Se nior Night and Dufur was on the agenda. That meant # 1 from the East versus # 1 from the West and though Senior Mary Gates #44 makes a bucket against Helix in the closing minutes of the game. lone beat Helix 58-31. -Photo by Paula Emmel both teams had their spots locked up, it became clear right off that neither team th o u g h t th e g am e w as meaningless. At the end o f one quarter, the score was tied at 12 and through the second, it stayed tight. Dufur’s big gest lead was four midway through the q uarter and they led by three heading to halftime, 24-21. The game was physical, fast-moving, and scrappy. In the third quarter, the Cards regained the lead and were up by four when senior, Beth Morter took a hard elbow to the nose. She had to leave the game but the team kept their focus and led by three, 33- 30, entering the final eight minutes o f play. Shadow Kendrick scored eight o f her career high 27 points in the fourth quarter including 6-6 free throw shooting. In the first 2 Vi minutes o f the quarter, the Cardinals used a 6-2 run to build their biggest lead of the day 39-32. Midway through the fourth, a pile up involving JoAnna Pat ton, Makenna Ramos and a Dufur player resulted in the two Cardinal players crash ing heads. JoAnna Patton sustained cuts around her eye and she had to leave the game while Makenna Ra mos was able to continue. Dufur capitalized on the C ard’s momentary confu sion to cut the lead back to three. With 2:56 remaining, Shadow Kendrick hit a pair o f free throws and shortly after that, Mary Rietmann bagged a nice bucket with an assist from Collette Ca son. With just over a minute to play, the Rangers were in the double bonus but both teams struggled at the line in the late going. With four tries to make two, the Rang ers cut the lead back to five with 57 seconds left to play. Then Shadow K endrick went to the line twice, at 53 seconds and then again at 24 seconds to rebuild the Cardinals' lead to nine. Du fur hit one final free throw at the end of the game for the final score 47-39. Shadow K end rick led all scorers with 27 points. Mary Rietmann added seven while Collette Cason had four, JoA nna Patton had three and Lacey Thompson and Beth Morter both had two. Before leav ing the game. Beth Morter had seven rebounds, five as- ists and four steals. Shad- >w K en d rick and M ary G etm ann both had five ebounds. Coach Mike Gar- ett got to cross another tern o ff his bucket list vith the win against Dufur. The sen io rs and I had lever beaten D ufur and here might have been some notivation there.” He was ilso pleased to note that the earn had only 13 turnovers n the game. “That is very m pressive against their nan to man defense. We mew it, was going to be a ery physical game with ioth team playing pres- ure defense. We made a ew defensive adjustments t halftime and held them o six points in the third luarter. We also got pretty 'anged up with Beth hurt- ng her nose and Joanna receiving two cuts around her eye. I was proud how the team responded in their absence.” With a week to heal up and fine tune, the Lady Cardinals roll into district after a very successful and highly competitive regular season. The Lady Cardinals finished regular season play ranked fourth in the OSAA RP1 rankings after floating around the top 10 most o f the season. Coach Garrett knows what lies ahead for the team is not an easy path but he knows that this is a team that likes big games and has ground out wins all season long. “The district tour nament is going to be tough. As it stands today the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 15,h ran k ed teams in the state will be there. That is one tough tournam ent. The kids are excited and I like the fact that we have been there the last two years and they also have the success from a great volleyball season,” said Garrett. The Lady C ard i nals w ill open Big Sky T ournam ent at U m atilla High School play on Friday at 3 p.m. playing the winner o f the Thursday Sherman County versus Echo game. / #5 Kaleb Dumler scores the teams 100th point against Helix. -Photo bv Paula Emmel By Paula Emmel ruary 12. lone sealed first During their game place in the Big Sky East on February 11, the lone Conference and will play in Cardinals scored the most the district tournament Feb points this season, exceed ruary 17-19 in Umatilla. ing 100 points in a game, L ead sco rer was lone won over Helix, 104 Orem with 19 points. Col to 41. Kaleb Dumler scored lin and E. Rietm ann fol the 100th point. lowed close with 13 points Kirk H aguew ood each. T. Rietmann scored led the scoring w ith 15, eight points. Holland shot Zac Orem and Omar Juarez for four points, K. Hague- scored 14 each. Tanner Ri wood for two points and etmann and Kaleb Dumler A. R ietm ann scored one each scored 12, Evan Ri point. A lso seeing play etmann with nine, Steven ing tim e was M arco and Holland and Marco Juarez Omar Juarez, and Stillman, scored eight each, Micah lone made three three-point Stillman had four, and Alex ■ shots. lone shot 75 percent Rietmann and Adam Collin at the line, making 21 o f 28 each scored three points. free-throws. E. Rietmann Luke Emmel made an at had an exceptional evening tempt to score near the end shooting 100 percent, eight o f the game. lone made five for eight. The team was 10- three-point shots. lone was 12 at the free-throw line in 5-8 (63 percent) at the free- the fourth quarter alone. throw line. Personal fouls lone will work to for the game were tied at be “the b e st” in D istrict eight per team f and bring home a district/ The C ardinals won conference title board. over Dufur 60-47 on Feb HES Chess Mates place first at regional tournament Top Photo: Back row - Cara Arbogast, Alex Lindsay, and Leo Waite. Front Row - Hunter Greenup, Jorden Sweeney, Zach Bredtield. Carson Brosnan, and Gavin Hanna. Bottom Photo: (L-R) Ross Cutsforth, Kai Arbogast, and Cade Arbogast. -Contributed Photos The regional tour nament for Chess for Suc cess was held at Sandstone Middle School in Hermiston on February 12. The Hepp ner Elem entary S chool’s Chess M ates club placed first and will compete at the state tournament on March 3 and 4 in Portland. F irs t p la c e w as Alex Lindsay and G avin Hanna placed second. The other members o f the team are C ara A rbogast, Leo W aite, H unter G reenup, Z ach B re d fie ld , Jo rd en Sweeney, and Carson Bro snan. In the middle school d iv is io n , K ai A rb o g a st placed first. Cade Arbogast placed second, and Ross Cutsforth placed fourth. These tournaments started as the OMSI Tour nam ent in 1967. F orty- six players in grades four through eight participated in the first to u rnam ent. Now thousands o f students in kind erg arten through tw elfth grade participate in 24 regional tournaments throughout O regon. The club is fortunate to have many volunteers that help coach the students. Some o f the volunteers are just learning chess and then there are others that are truly masters. V o lu n te e rs w ho have helped this year are: Brandi Sweeney, Kristine Martin, Sherry Matteson, Deb Campbell, Mary Ann E lguezabal, D oris B ros nan, Cherry Webber, An drew Sherman, Dick Jones, Bridget Waite, Wayne Seitz, and Joe Armato. I
