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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 12,2012 Heppner TSA attends competition Mustang wrestlers make good showing at invitational The H eppner w res tling team competed in the M uilenburg Invitational Wrestling Tournament in La Grande last weekend. The 32-man brackets included teams from 1A to 6A from all over Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho. At the end of the first day, the Mustangs still had 10 wrestlers in the double elim ination tournam ent, including three in the cham pionship semifinals. Jared Lemmon, Treston Maben and Tim Nelson were all one match away from quali fying for the tournament championship bout. Hep pner has never had a fi The Heppner TSA attended the regional competition and came home with several awards. nalist in the five years the Pictured are (front L-K): Kai Arbogast, Tim Nelson, Rylee Wagoner, Zach Kissler and (back team has competed at the L-R) Cade Arbogast, Wade Matthew, Jesse Boyd and Kellie Nelson. -Contributedphoto Muilenburg, and all three On Thursday, Dec. 6, totype, involving designing Heppner team, led by Kellie were again disappointed in the Heppner Technology and building 20 Christmas Nelson, won third place in Student Association (TSA) toys for charity; and the Manufacturing Prototype. The high schools in chapter competed in the Technology Bowl knowl volved in this event in December TSA Regional edge competition. Rylee Wagoner took cluded Heppner. Riverside, Competition. The events were Flight first place in Flight Endur Umatilla, Ukiah and Mac E n d u ra n c e , in v o lv in g ance, with Zach Kissler High. The next TSA Com rubber-band powered air taking second and Kai Ar- petitions will be in February The H eppner Junior planes; Manufacturing Pro- bogast taking third. The and April. High School Mustang bas ketball A team recently had a busy schedule as they played five games in four days. A rematch with Stan field turned out much as the first game did, with the Ti gers winning 56-25. Logan At the Heppner Hoop win and go 2-0 early in the halftime and w inning 54-41 Grieb led the team with 17 to beat the Cardinals at the points, Caden Hedman had Classic on Dec. 7-8, Hep season. The Mustang boys de final buzzer. four and Jake Lindsay and pner fans had the chance to The boys’ game showed Kevin Murray chipped in see even more pre-season buted their talents in their action on the court from first game o f the season lone to be the better game two each. No other statis their Mustangs. when they played Crane in on that day, as the Cardinals tics were available for the The girls first played the following game. They led all four quarters and game. the Crane Mustangs. The played a good defensive handed the Mustangs a 61- The Mustangs hosted teams from Echo, lone and game was an even match, game, and then found the 44 loss. This was a good warm Umatilla the next day and with Crane holding a slight bucket enough times to edge at the half. 17-20. take the win 34-25 over the up weekend for both teams, had a 2-1 record. with league play to begin on In the second half, Hepp Crane Mustangs. Heppner won the game ner came on strong to pull The following day. both Friday, Dec. 14, in a home against Echo 33-2. A bal ahead 36-33 with two min Heppner teams faced the opener against the Stanfield anced scoring effort was led utes left in the third. The lone Cardinals for some Tigers before the teajris by Jake Lindsay and Hed Heppner Mustangs never good basketball action. The travel to play the Pilot Rock man, who each scored six looked back from there, Lady Mustangs led from Rockets on Saturday at points, while Kaden Corbin outscoring Crane 23-15 in start to finish in this contest, Pendleton High School. had five and both Alex Lindsay and Murray scored the second half to seal the holding a nine-point lead at four. Bryan Fowler, Kevin Smith, Coby Dougherty their semifinal match. Nelson went on to place third at 220 pounds with a 4-1 tournament record. All four wins came by fall. Lemmon and Maben fin ished with a 3-2 record in the championship bracket. All of Lemmon’s wins were by pin, while Maben had one pin and battled for two tough decisions of one- and two-point margins. Alex Smith also had a 3-2 tournament record while wrestling in the consolation bracket. Jesse Boyd was 2-2, while Ryan Smith and Tyler Berry each notched a win by pin to finish 1-2. It was freshman Ryan Smith's first high-school win. He com petes at the low est Oregon high school weight class of 106 pounds, even though he weighed in at just 91 pounds. Khayman Heard picked up his first win of the season in an exhibition match. Will Lutcher, Jacob Moses and Skyler Kendrick were also part of the Mustang team. Although competing without its full roster. Hep pner led the team scoring for small schools through out the tournament until the final round, before Enter prise knocked the Mustangs one match win out of the lead and took home the small-school trophy. H eppner next has a three-way home dual at 4 p.m. on Dec. 13 against Pomeroy and Irrigon, and then travels to the Mac Hi Christmas Tournament on Saturday, Dec. 15. Junior Mustangs burn up the court End hectic week o f play with 5-3 record Mustang girls sweep court in Classic Boys play strong but fall to Cardinals fo r split weekend Heppner High news Bv J o rd a n J on es As school comes to a close for the year of 2012, the Mustangs have multiple basketball games. Our boys and girls basketball have two games this weekend and one game this next week. T his w eek en d , the Mustangs play on Friday, Dec. 14, starting at 6 p.m. with girls’ varsity and boys' varsity to follow; this game will be played against the Stanfield Tigers here at home. On Saturday, Dec. 15, the home teams will play the Pilot Rock Rockets at the Pendleton high school; this game will start at 6 p.m. with the girls’ varsity and boys’ varsity to follow. Finally, this next week, our Heppner Mustangs will have a game against the Imbler Panthers on Tues day, Dec. 18; the basketball games will start at 3 p.m. One of this week’s fea tured seniors is Justin Roy Howey. His parents are Ray and Tami Howey, and he has two siblings, Trent and Dylan Howey. Howey’s favorite color is pink and his favorite food is either ribs or m ashed ‘taters. When Howey has time on his hands, he likes to play football, and he enjoys go ing hunting. After Howey graduates high school, he plans on going to Wyoming to attend a trade school for H ap p y H o lid a ys from E lite P erfo rm an ce! As of now through January 5th personal training will be offered for a little as $12.50 per session. Contact Bias Elguezabal for more information at 541-561-6613. FREE FITNESS ASSESSMENT AND 25 MINUTE WORKOUT WHEN YOU CALL BEFORE JANUARY 1ST mechanics. Our other senior is Kaitlynn Kay Dyer; her parents are Karie and Ivan Dike, and Forrest and Lau rel Dyer. Dyer has six step- siblings: Jackie Campins, H eather B ishop, C aleb Brown, Zane Dike, Austin Dike and Bailey Dike. Dy er’s favorite food is Mexi can and her favorite color is purple. Dyer works at Tom Denchel Ford Country as a service porter. In her free time, Dyer enjoys hang ing with her family and her boyfriend, Hank. After Dyer graduates high school, she plans on going to the University of Oregon and majoring in psychology. She hopes to go to college for six years so she can obtain her master's degree, and then she would like to be a counselor for children and youth. five rebounds and four as sists for the game. Currin led the team in rebounds with six. The team then traveled to Pilot Rock, where they beat the Rockets 50-20. The M ustangs started a little slow but then picked up the pace and led the game 28-13 at halftime. The Mustangs didn’t look back in the second half as they flew by the Rockets for the win. Grieb once again led the team in scoring with 20 points. He also had six rebounds, five assists and four steals for the game. Murray and Alex Lindsay scored six points each with Currin, Hedman and Smith all tallying four. Jake Lind say, Kane Sweeney and Kaden Corbin each scored two points. Currin tied for the most rebounds with six and Murray had five. The team now has a re cord of 5-3 for the season. Reading class seeks to fill holes in homeless’ Christmas Mrs. Jannie Allen's sixth grade reading class at Heppner Elementary School is reading Holes. Since one of the underlying themes of the story is homelessness, Mrs. Allen bought socks and the students brought toiletries such as shampoo and toothpaste. The sixth-grade readers rolled up one sock and put it in the toe of its mate, and then filled the sock with the remaining items. Once tied with Christmas ribbon, the socks were placed into Christmas bags to be delivered to a homeless agency in Portland. Bottom (L-R): Carson Brosnan, Zavier Glover, Hayden Qualls, Cason Mitchell, Keegan Gibbs, Jacee Currin, Jaiden Mahoney, Caitlyn Scrivner and Olivia Schmidt. Middle (L-R): Leo Waite, Zach Bredfield and Gibson McCurry. Top (L-R): Josey Evans, Hunter Nichols, Dakota Howard, Cody Wizner and Claire Grieb. Not pictured: Madison Combe, Morgan Burch and Jimmy Adams.-Contributedphoto HEPPNER ELKS 358 676-9181 and Grieb all scored two points. Corbin led the team in rebounding with nine and Alex Lindsay ripped down seven boards. Kevin Smith had five steals. The Mustangs lost the second game o f the day against Umatilla 27-18. A scrappy Viking defense held the Mustang offense in check for most of the game. Only three players scored points for the Mustangs, with Grieb getting eight, Hedman six and Murray four. Hedman and Murray each had eight rebounds, and Kolby Currin and Grieb both added four rebounds for the contest. The final game for the team was against the lone Cardinals, and the Mus tangs won by a score of 43-20. Leading the way in scoring was Grieb with 17 points, while Hedman had 11 and Jake Lindsay and Currin added five each. 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