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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
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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
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