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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 28,2011 Friday night lights go out for lone homecoming game vs. South Wasco lone High School crowns homecoming court lone wins 33-6 the next day Photo by Paula Emme By Paula Emme I “Egyptian Escape” homecoming dance which was held one hour earlier due to the delayed football game that was rescheduled to Saturday at 2 pm., because the football field lights malfunctioned. Saturday’s half-time revealed the homecoming court princes and princesses: freshman Lauren Gar rett escorted by #17 Joseph Doherty, sophomore Emily Holland escorted by #10 Joel Stillman, junior Alisha Taylor escorted by #26 Timothy Emmel; seniors Yesmin Verduzco escorted by #8 Zac Orem, Mary McElligott escorted by #42 Kaleb Dumler, Rebecca Jepsen escorted by #53 Trent Cannon, and Shannon Metcalfe escorted by #11 Micah Stillman. Crown bearers were John McElli gott and Kelly Doherty. Crowned Queen and King were Yesmin Verduzco and Zac Orem. lone High School volleyball won their match # 178 Senior Kaleb Dumler catches an interception on Friday night against South Wasco Redsides and the Football team defeated the Redsides on Saturday. Photo and story by Paula Emmel lo n e ’s hom ecom ing game Friday, Sept. 23, was a memorable one. The Friday night lights wouldn’t come on. In hopes it was just a blown fuse, a crew began working on the problem. The game started, but with 8:51 in the first quarter left to play, the game The lone cheerleading squad (left to right): senior had to be delayed while the officials arranged to resched Vezmin (Jasmine) Verduzco, Kaytee Burghard, team ule the game for 2 p.m. on Saturday. lone had scored captain, senior Jordan Peterson, senior Rebecca a touchdown and pat during that quarter of play so the Jepsen, Larissa Jones, Charlette Burghard. Photo score was 8-0 when they restarted on Saturday afternoon, by Paula Emmel lone took up right where they left off, continuing to score, and the Cardinals held South Wasco scoreless during the first half. Both teams were scoreless in the third quarter. South Wasco finally scored a touchdown, with 8:16 left in the fourth quarter. The final score was 33-6, lone. lone High School homecoming activities started with a mud war on Monday, Sept. 19. Ione HS Volley ball hosted Echo ending with another win on Tuesday. Wednesday brought matchups in macho-man volleyball and powder-puff football with seniors and sophomores competing against the juniors and freshman. The senior/ sophomore teams won both events. Friday night was the Heppner Mustang volleyball team beats Pi lot Rock, Elgin, loses to Weston-McEwen Heppner Mustangs lose to Enterprise during heart breaking homecoming game The Heppner Mustang volleyball team takes the floor at the homecoming game vs. Pilot Rock Photo by Sandy Matthews #24 Aidan Wright digs in for yardage with an Enter prise Savage on his tail. Lady Cardinals keep winning streak alive The lone Lady Cardinals enjoyed a week at home and kept their winning streak alive with two victories during the past week. The lone team maintained their perfect 13-0 record for the season. On Tuesday, September 20, the Cards hosted their first league match of the season when Echo came to town. Although the Lady Cougars put up a fight in the first game, the Cardinals regained the momentum and rolled to a 25-18, 25-13, 25-9 win. “It was a little sloppy at first” commented Coach Dawn Eynetich. “But then we started playing our game.” JoAnna Patton led the team at the net with 15 kills and two blocks. Dominika Senkerikova added 12 kills. Collette Cason was 14 of 14 from the service line with four aces and Shadow Kendrick was perfect on nine serves with one ace. “It was good to get our first league win” said Coach Eynetich. The Lady Cardinals hosted South Wasco County in their homecoming match on Friday and wasted no time easily dispatching the guests, 25-10, 25-16, 25-9. JoAnna Patton was 10-10 serving with four aces and notched another 15 kills in the match. Dominika Senkerikova added nine kills. Shadow Kendrick served an outstanding 24-24. The Lady Cardinals played Riverside in lone on Tuesday and will travel to Sherman County on Friday and Helix on Saturday. An important game for league standings is on the horizon when lone will host Condon/ Wheeler on Tuesday, October 4. Three players caught interceptions: Luke Emmel in the first quarter, Kaleb Dumler in the third quarter, and Zac Irons in the fourth quarter, helping the lone team keep control of the ball. Good blocking allowed for long runs and Omar Juarez displayed his fine kicking ability, by attempting some field goals, making one of them while the others were either tipped or blocked. He also had some very long punts into the end-zone. During first quarter play, Evan Rietmann got a touchdown Friday night and Micah Stillman completed the point after touchdown, (pat) and on Saturday Stillman ran in a touchdown down the sideline, with Emmel at tempting the pat. Then Emmel got a good block, allowing Stillman to run in another touchdown. Juarez attempted a field goal. It was tipped and hit the right side goal post and bounced off, to end the quarter 20-0. Tyrell Barnett ran in a touchdown to start off the second quarter and Juarez completed his first field goal. Emmel ran an exciting punt return 88 yards into the end- zone, but it was called back on a penalty. Stillman ran it to the 50-yard-line on the next play. Then Lucas Jobes completed a pass to Adam Collin, into the end zone, for a touchdown. Juarez kicked a field goal attempt, only to be blocked, bringing the half-time score to 33-0. Third quarter play was with the younger players learning and practicing on timing and this continued into the fourth quarter. Coach Weiper had this to say about the game, “We played very well early in the game and secured a comfortable lead, which allowed our younger players an opportunity to gain some valuable experience. Two players who had outstanding games were Ty Barnett with 100 yards rushing on some hard nosed running and six tackles on defense and freshman Brandon Peck on the defensive line. We will be working hard in practice this week to prepare for a critical game with Sherman on the road.” The Heppner Mustangs Varsity Volleyball team hosted the Pilot Rock Rockets on Thursday, Sept. 22, in the first league game of the 2011-12 season. Being homecoming week for Heppner, the team was ready to play against the Rockets. The Mustangs won the con test in three games, 25-19,25-9 and 25-16. The coaching staff was pleased with the energy of the kids. The emphasis will be directed at team play as the season progresses to maintain the unity the team will need to have for a successfully season. The Elgin Huskies traveled to Heppner on Saturday, Sept. 24, to play varsity volleyball against the Mustangs. Hav ing faced the Huskies in pre-season, the Mustangs knew they would have to play tough to defeat their opponent. It was an exciting match, that took the Mustangs to game five to defeat Elgin for the win. Game scores show the momentum swing as Heppner won the first set, 25-21. Losing the next set in a close contest, 25-23, and losing the third set, 25-8. the Mustangs needed a win to stay alive in the match. In the fourth set, the Mustangs showed their mental toughness, bouncing back to win 25-13 to even the match. In the fifth and final set, the Mustangs continued playing well, Team stats are as follows: posting a 15-9 score to win the match over the Huskies for Rushing- M. Stillman 7x147 2 TD, L. Emmel 6x27, Bar their second league win. nett 13x100 1 TD, Peterson 3x37, J. Stillman 5x-6. On the same day the Mustangs faced the Weston- Passing-Orem lx l 29 yards, Jobes 1x5 7yards 1 TD. McEwen Tiger-Scots in another round o f league volleyball Scoring-M. Stillman 2 TD 1 pat for 14 points, Rietmann play. Both teams knew it would be an even contest. 1 TD for 6 points, Collin 1 TD for 6 points, Barnett 1 TD The Tiger-Scots won the match in three games, but for 6 points, Juarez 1 pat kick for 1 point. Defense- M. Stillman 7 tackles, Juarez 6 tackles, Barnett each contest was close, 25-22, 27-25 and 25-21. The Mustangs struggled with their consistency on the 6 tackles court, but showed their ability with their “down but don’t quit” Interceptions L. Emmel 1, Dumler 1, and Z. Irons 1 attitude that they will need in the coming weeks. The varsity volleyball team is now 2-1 in league and will travel to Irrigon on Thursday this week and to Union to play the Bobcats and the Enterprise Outlaws. Flu clinics planned The Morrow County Health Department has scheduled flu clinics in Heppner and Boardman as fol lows: Tuesday, October 4: 101 Boardman Ave., Board- man, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, October 6: Heppner City Hall, 111 N. Main St., Heppner, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. C h ih u ah u a Puppies for Sale Boy 1 Boy 2 Boy 3 Boy 4 The Girl 7 weeks old, have first shots Call April at 541-980-4643 i 4 #18 Senior Luke Emmel runs an 88 yd punt return into the end-zone (
