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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 14,2011 Mustangs wrestle into second "Middle o f pack ” overall in La Grande tournament The Heppner wres tling team competed Friday and Saturday at La Grande in the 20-team Muilenburg tournament. The M uilenburg features teams ranging in size from 1A to 6A from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Heppner finished second to Enterprise among the small schools in the tournam ent, and in the m iddle o f the standings overall. Sam Barlow high school from Gresham won the tournament, followed by Oregon City in second place. Sophomore Jared Lemmon finished the high est individually for the Mustangs. Lemmon made it to the championship semi finals on Saturday before losing his first match to Kyle Sether, the returning 6A state champion from Oregon City. Lemmon went on to finish fourth in the championship bracket. S e n io r G a r r e tt Gibbs, in an effort to score team points, wrestled in the 285-pound bracket despite weighing in at only 209 pounds. After losing his first match, Gibbs went on to win the next four in a row by pin, including a double overtime win over his much larger La Grande opponent in the consolation bracket semifinals. He won the con solation bracket champion ship and fifth overall. Jesse Boyd, Tim Nelson, and Wade Matthew each made it to the champi onship quarterfinals before losing their first match. Boyd and Nelson finished 3-2 for the tournament and one win away from the medal round, while Mat thew did not compete on Saturday due to injury. Earl Propheter and Treston Maben were 3-2 for the tournament and made it to consolation-bracket semi finals before being elimi nated from the tournament. Alex Smith and Andrew Bara were 2-2. Heppner next has a home meet against Irri- gon and Pomeroy, WA on Thursday, December 15 at 4 p.m. Basketball schedules available Heppner High School basketball schedules are available at the Heppner Gazette-Times. Copies of the schedule are free; anyone who would like a schedule is invited to stop by the Gazette-Times office on Willow Street and pick up a copy. HEPPNER ELKS 358 676-9181 "Where Friends M eet" 142 North Main LADIES NIGHT # Thursday 12 / 15 / u 'NY Steak, Taters, salad, etc. After Light Parade M NEW YEARS CRAB FEED W Saturday i 2 / 3 i/n _ ~ 6 pm “Multiply the money that’s available In our local economy” www.beobank.com Member FDIC When you shop and invest locally, you put in motion a sequence of actions which multiplies the amount of money that is available in our area to create jobs and provide emergency services, police and fire protection, as well as improving the quality of education in our local schools. Lady Cards win Mustangs split Heppner tournament weekend at ball. Classic Wallowa inbounded on At the H eppner Hoop Classic last weekend, the girls’ varsity team fell to a hot, outside-shooting Wallowa team 48-41. The Cougars shot seven for 11 from outside, but the Mustangs continue to improve and competed well throughout the game. With the second quarter at 14-7 in the Cougars’ favor, and down by nine points at the half, the Mustangs couldn’t overcome Wal lowa’s lead. Alana Wilson and Bailey Bennett lead the Mustangs in scoring, and the team shot just under 50 percent from the line. In the boys’ varsity line against the Cougars, the Mustangs held a seven-point lead at the half. Both teams executed the fast break well. The Mustangs’ inside passing game picked apart the Cougars’ zone defense. The Cougars—down 53-46 with one minute left—made two quick baskets to make it a three-point game with 12 seconds left on the clock. A Heppner turnover by the Cougar press gave them the Heppner Branch 541 - 676-9125 55 The lone Lady Car dinals won the Heppner Hoop Classic December 9 and 10 with easy wins over Crane on Friday and previ ously unbeaten Wallowa on Saturday. The Cardinals will host Horizon Christian on Friday, December 16 for the first league game of the year and their only home appearance until January. A low-scoring first quarter gave way to a run aw ay against Crane on Friday as the Lady Cards turned a 6-4 lead into a 19-8 halftime edge. From there they were able to substitute freely in the 48- 22 win. JoAnna Patton led all scorers with 18 points. Shadow Kendrick with 12 and Makenna Ramos with 10 were the other Cards in double figures. On Saturday, the outcome was never in doubt as the Cards bolted out to a 17-2 first quarter lead on their way to a lopsided 63-31 win over Wallowa. Stacee Halvorsen led all scorers with 17 points while JoAnna Patton and Shadow Kendrick each added 14. lone 48, Crane 22 lone (2-1): JoAnna Patton, 18; Shadow Kend rick, 12; Makenna Ramos, 10; Stacee Halvorson, 4; Jackie Juarez, 2; Emily Holland, 2. Crane (1-3): Han nah Steeves, 14; Becca Clark, 4; Paige Landon, 2; Cassidy Corrigan, 2. Three-point field goals: lone, 2; Crane, 0. Free throw s: lone, 0-0; Crane, 2-5. Personal fouls: lone, 14; Crane, 6. lone 63, Wallowa 31 lone (3-1): Halv erson, 17; Kendrick, 14; P atton, 14; Rietmann, 8; Cason, 4; Ramos, 4; Thompson, 2. Wal l owa (4-1): Jameson, 8; M. Waters, 6; Harshfield, 6; S. Waters, 5; Vreanna Wallace, 2; Young, 2; Blair, 2. Three-point field goals: lone, 4; Wallowa, 1. Free throws: lone, 7-10; Wallowa, 8-12. Personal fouls: lone, 10; Wallowa, 8. Technical fouls: None. Fouled out: None. Heppner junior high HES students of the boys’ basketball month sweeps weekend The H eppner ju nior high boys’ A and B teams won all six games against Riverside, Helix and Weston this past week end. The A team beat River side 43-23, Helix 44-8 and Weston 39-14, improving its record to 10-1. The B team improved to 6-5. “Both team s are playing great man-to-man defense and are nearly out- rebounding every team two to one. 1 am very proud of how we are playing team basketball,” said Coach Swanson. This Friday, the Heppner junior high boys and girls will be hosting the Condon, Arlington and lone girls, and Wheeler and John Day boys. Games start at 8 a.m. with the girls playing at the high school and the boys playing at the middle school. Heppner Elementary School announces its Students of the Month for November. Bottom (L-R): Cara Arbogast, Tarín Troxell, Amber Manning, Kaden Combe, Noah Stone, Madison Heppner cowboy Blake Knowles placed fourth in Palmer, Harley Anderson, Paul Lindsay and Teagan Ramsey. steer wrestling with a time of 3.8 seconds at the National Top (L-R): Morgan Burch, Kendall Dowdy, Alex Lindsay, Zach Bredfield, Dylan Rill, Tresslyn McCurry, Naleah Stone, Finals Rodeo at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas Hannah Palmer, Kenneth Troxell and school mascot. Spirit. last Friday. His ninth-round showing earned Knowles The character trait for the month of November was compas $7,500. sion. -Contributed photo Knowles 4th ln NFR Local organizations HHS math students receive grant money of the month Two M o r r o w County organizations have received grants from Wild- horse Foundation to help improve community ser vices in the county. The two are among 30 third- quarter grant recipients an nounced by the foundation this week. The quarter’s larg est grant was $20,000 given to The Oregon Trail Library District to help fund the construction o f a public library in Irrigon. To date, Irrigon has raised more than $900,000 for the construc tion o f the much-needed library, but there is still a significant portion that needs to be raised before construction can begin. In a petition from 1999, Irri gon residents overwhelm ingly supported the need for a public library. While funds were being raised, a renovated former school bus served as a non-mobile, Wi-Fi bookmobile for the town. The bus is parked outside a convenience store in Irrigon. It is open two days a week and is well used; about a quarter o f the population has library cards. Pending funding, the town hopes to break ground on the project in January. W ildhorse Foun dation also gave a $2,500 grant to Heppner Day Care to enhance and upgrade its preschool curriculum. Wildhorse Founda tion is a community ben efit fund established by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reserva tion. A total of$ 178,394.37 was awarded to 30 recipi ents during the third quarter, bringing the total for 2011 to more than $570,000. REDKEN C S n d lm e , V Shop and invest locally whenever you can. Bank of their end but traveled with the ball. With the ball now to Heppner, the Cougars had no choice but to foul. The Mustangs made both free-throws, winning the game 55-50. Heppner was 12-13 from the line. On Saturday, the H eppner M ustang g irls’ basketball team defeated the Crane Mustangs in the consolation game for their first win o f the season. H eppner’s shooting im proved and they were up by seven at halftime. They out-rebounded their op ponent, cruising to a 31-16 final score. The boys’ varsity team lost to the Crane Mus tangs in the championship game, 51-46. The Heppner team—down by seven at halftim e— made a good run in the fourth quarter but made too many mistakes to catch the Crane team. League games be gin Friday with Heppner hosting the Elgin Huskies. Competition begins at 3 p.m., with varsity at 6 p.m. » Stefanie Heppner High School math teacher Troy Morgan announces the math Students of the Month for November (L-R): Algebra 2, Savannah Seewald and Ashlie Hanson; Algebra Connections, Andrew Clark; Geometry, Harley Bishop; Algebra, Caitlynn Bailey and Jessica Kempken. -Contributedphoto Community lunch menu United Methodist Church members will be serv ing lunch on Wednesday, December 21 at St. Patrick’s Senior Center. The meal will include roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, peaches, green salad, rolls, and Black Forest cake. Suggested donation is $3.50 per meal. Menu is subject to change. Certi fleti Rettiteli Metter lone Branch 541 - 422-7466 Mondai^ j—ridaq IO arri- 5 pm Evening and ^/eeltend avallati* •mm í Hometown People Hometown Spirit * i nrnoum products *H0UDAY SPECIALS HOTS OP CHRISTMAS GIFTS Heppner Qaiette-TTmes 188 Mtot Willow Cill 676-9228 to gtt started today! 541*676*8111 OR 541*240*1718 cell The Heppner |r/S r high school wrestling team is collecting batteries for an ongoing team fundraiser. Auto, tractor. RV. and four wheeler batteries will be accepted. Please bring your batteries to the South end Transfer station free of charge located at 57185 Hwy 74, Lexington, OR. For further information or if you need batteries picked up, call Mark Lemmon at (541)215-9248.
