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I I FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Mustangs unseat Knights to hold perfect Heppner students learn the keys to record Mustang Brian Kill (#28) gets tripped up by the Knights while John Propheter (#78) holds ofTmore Irrigon players. Kill car ried the ball 26 times for 289 yards on the night. -Photo by Sandra Putman The Heppner Mustang football team kept their season record perfect with a 46-12 victory over the Irrigon Knights last week. With the win, Heppner is 8-0 on the season and 4-0 in Columbia Basin Confer ence play. On the first posses sion of the game for the Mustangs, they drove the ball to the Irrigon six-yard line. That is where the drive ended and the Knights took over on downs. The Hep pner defense forced a punt and CJ Kindle ran the ball back 30 yards to the Irrigon 16-yard line. After a three- yard run by Brian Rill, the Mustangs had their first touchdown. Heppner led the game 6-0. The next drive for the Mustangs, that covered 68 yards, also ended at the Ir rigon six-yard line as Hep pner fumbled the ball away. Once again the Heppner defense held the Knights and they were forced to punt from the five-yard line. In this early game of field position the Mustangs took over on the Irrigon 29-yard line. Six plays later Rill would score from one yard out to give the Mustangs a 12-0 lead early in the sec- ond quarter. Irrigon was able to mount a short drive the next time they had the ball until Jesse Corbin intercepted a pass. The Mustangs then drove the ball 75 yards to the Irrigon six-yard line. They fumbled the ball again and Irrigon got it back. Once again the Mustang defense held and forced a punt from the four-yard line. Heppner started on the Irrigon 43-yard line and scored four plays later when Rill carried it in from 17 yards out to make the score 18-0 at halftime. An onside kick attempt by the Knights was recov ered by Logan Grieb at the 46-yard line. Just three plays later Rill scored on a 10-yard run for the Mus tangs. Kindle scored the two-point conversion to make the score 26-0. On the next Irrigon possession they fumbled the ball near midfield. Four plays later quarterback Kaden Clark scored on a 16-yard run up the middle that made the score 32-0. On their next possession, the Knights turned the ball over on downs. After a 27-yard run by Rill and a five-yard gain by Clark. Rill scampered 24 yards for another Mustang the ball for 70 yards. Rill touchdown. Kindle again caught four balls for 55 ran in the two-point con yards. Kindle one for 13 version to make the score and Caden 1 ledman had one 40-0. The Heppner defense catch for two yards. again forced a punt from Another strong de deep inside the Irrigon side fensive performance by of the field. The offense got the Mustangs was led by the ball back at the Knight Weston Putman with 12 39-yard line. After seven tackles. Having three tack straight running plays by les each in the game were Rill and Kindle the Mus Grieb, Kindle, Rill, Bred- tangs scored again when field, Jesse Boyd and Saul Rill carried it in from eight Erickson. Next with two yards out. That made the each were Ross Cutsforth, score 46-0 at the end of Tom Gould, John Proph- three quarters of play. eter, Jacob Moses, Clyde The clock would run Britt and Kevin Murray. for the rest of the game un With one tackle each in the der the 45-point mercy rule. game were Ryan Smith, The younger Mustangs got Jake Lindsay, Kolby Cur- into the game and continued rin, Tim Jaca and Skyler to gain valuable experience Palmer. against a varsity team. Ir This Friday is a home rigon scored t h e i r t wo touchdowns in the fourth quarter. That made the final score of the game 46-12. For the game H ep pner amassed 5 0 4 total yards while holding the Knights to 171. The Must angs rus hed for 434 y a r d s in the game compared to 90 for Irrigon. Weston Putman, temporarily sporting #72 Rill had a big as a till-in guard for the Mustangs, tackles game rushing Irrigon Knight Austin Kice (#10) during last behind the Friday’s game. Putman led in tackles with 12 powerful of for the night. The Mustangs took some hard fensive line hits hut hit right back to take the game 46- as he carried 12. -Photo by Sandra Putman it 26 times for 289 yards. Tommy Bred- game and the Mustangs field ran the ball for 62 take on the Weston-McEw- yards. Kindle had 50 yards en TigerScots. Game time is rushing and Clark 35. set for 7 p.m. at Les Payne Clark went 6-9 passing Field. Mustang JV ends season on low note The Heppner Mustang junior varsity football team lost their last game of the season to the Weston-McE- wen TigerScots by a score of 25-6. Weston-McEwen scored on their opening drive of the game to take a 6-0 lead. On the first pos session for the Mustangs, quarterback Jake Lindsay completed a pass to Coby Dougherty for a gain of five yards. The Heppner stalled and they were forced to punt. Len Hauermeir boomed a kick that pinned the TigerScots deep in their own territory. They could not move the ball and were forced to punt. A big rush by the middle of the Mustang line blocked the punt. Clyde Britt recovered the ball at the five-yard line. On the next play Lindsay ran the ball in for a touchdown and the score was tied at 6-6. Both teams traded sev eral possessions for the rest of the half. Weston- McEwen was able to score just before halftime to make the score 12-6. The third quarter was back and forth for both teams. Neither team was able to score. Weston-McEwen scored on their first two possessions of the fourth quarter to take a 25-6 lead. The Mustangs were able to sustain a long drive in the quarter but were unable to score on it. The final score of the game was 25-6. Lindsay completed 3-11 passes for 28 yards in the game. Dougherty caught two balls for 14 yards and Ryan Smith had one catch for 14 yards. Dougherty also ran the ball nine times for 51 yards. Kaden Corbin rushed for 40 yards on nine M e d ic a r e P a r t D O p e n E n r o l l m e n t F r e e A s s is t a n c e ! Morrow County Health District is again offering free Medicare Part D assistance during open enrollment. HEPPNER October 20th October 27th November 3rd November 4th (O N E October 23rd October 28th Please call 541-676-9133 or 1-800-737-4113 to make an appointment j MORROW COUNTY HEALTH DISTRICT Excellence In H e a l t h c a r e » a carries and Lindsay packed it six times for 20 yards and a touchdown. Skyler Palmer had three carries for eight yards. For the defense, Kolby Currin led the team with 11 tackles. Beau Wolters fol lowed with 10 and Palmer had nine. Britt recorded eight tackles on the night and Hauermeier had five. With four tackles each in the game were Lindsay, Lane Wilhelm, Tim Jaca, Saul Erickson, Ryan Smith and Ethan Akers. Dough erty and Tre Cimmiyotti had three tackles each. Corbin, Riley Gorham, Joergan An derson and Peyton Lehman all recorded two tackles for the Mustangs. Kevin Smith and Jan Glasen both had one tackle in the game. The JV Mustangs fin ished the season with a 3-3 record. success at leadership conference By M adison Combe & Cason Mitchell On Monday, Sept. 29, we (Heppner students) ar rived in Hermiston Oregon at 8:30 a.m. for a Junior High Leadership Confer ence. To begin the confer ence, all of the students par ticipated in an ice-breaker. This was an activity where you had to go around the room and ask questions to try to become more com fortable with each other. After this we were wel comed and we were also introduced to Danny and his friend John. Danny and John are part of the Happiness is Now Foundation. Danny told us about his childhood and how his mother told him that to be happy he needed to succeed. She told him there were three things that he needed to do to be successful, which would lead to his happiness: 1. Do well in school and get good grades 2. Get into a good college 3. Get married and have a family. His mom told him that these three things would lead him to success which would then lead him to happiness. Once done with this story, he told us about what he had done in his life so far...he had been a chore ographer for the Los An geles Laker Girls, a high school math teacher, and then a manager for Ameri ca’s Best Dance Crew Sea son 5 winners. While doing this Danny realized that his mother was wrong. Success was not the key to happi ness, but happiness was the key to success. Now Danny travels around the world speaking and dancing trying to change the world with happiness. After telling us about the formula for happiness, Danny wanted to do some thing that would make us come out of our shells. He had people volunteer to sing in front of everyone. Next we learned a dance called the YOLO Flash Mob and we had to perform it by age. Since there were so many eighth-graders, we had to split up into boys and girls and perform it in front of everyone. This dance was fun, and we were able to learn it in 15 minutes. The main idea of this exercise was to push us to be more outgoing. After lunch we listened to a presentation by the OASC (Oregon Associa tion of Student Councils) coordinator about the dam ages that social media can have on people. There was an exercise where we had a piece of paper and every time she said a word that we have ever heard or read someone being called, we crumbled our paper one time. By the time all the names on her list had been said, everyone’s paper was really crumbled. Then she started saying nice words and for every nice word we un-crumbled our papers. When the exercise was done the papers were flat, but they were damaged. This showed the students that what people say can really hurt. At the end of the confer ence we learned one more awesome dance. After this we were able to talk more to Danny and John. Next we took a group picture to remember the conference. We had the opportunity to brainstorm ideas for a “Week of Happiness” in our school and we will be fol lowing up within jr. High Student Council to make this happen. Finally, we loaded the vans and headed back to Heppner. This was an amazing experience that we will never forget. Several Heppner junior high students attended a leadership conference in Hermiston recently. Pictured front: Cheyenne Shaw, Olivia Schmidt, Reno Ferguson, Hunter Nichols, Jacee Currin. Back: Tiffany Akers, Cason Mitchell, Gibson Mc- Curry, Jaiden Mahoney, Clair Grieb, Madison Combe. -Con tributed photo HHS Booster Club plans fan appreciation dinner The Heppner Jr./Sr. High School Booster Club is hosting a fan appreciation dinner this Friday night, Oct. 31, before the football game in Heppner. The club will be serving a free taco dinner from 5-6:45 p.m. in the annex building at the fairgrounds. Also scheduled for Friday evening is a trunk- or-treat event in the fair grounds parking lot from 5-1 p.m. {See PAGE TWO.) It looks to be a fun- fi 1 led, family-friendly Friday night as Heppner celebrates Halloween and cheers on the Mustang foot ball team as they play for the league title against the Weston-McEwen Tiger Scots. Join us for our 3rd Annual Halloween Party 4p.m. - Za.m. Friday Oct 3 Karaoke & Lots of Fun Route 74 R estau , lone * i
