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FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 11, 2015 Heppner girls tame Tigers in dominating 54-39 victory Heppner’s Maddie Lindsay pushes against an Irrigon player, eyes on the ball, during last Friday’s game. The Mustang fil- lies lost to the Irrigon team but dominated the Stanfield Ti- gers earlier that week. -Photo by Sandra Putman The Heppner Mustang girls’ basketball team once again split its Columbia Ba- sin Conference games last week. The girls avenged an earlier loss to the Stanfield Tigers by winning in domi- nating fashion by a score of 54-39. They then travelled to play the Irrigon Knights. Heppner had beaten this team earlier in the year, but lost to them this time by a score of 44-30. The press and pressure that Stanfield uses to force teams into turnovers did not bother the Mustangs. In fact, Heppner broke the press and scored multiple easy baskets all game long. The Mustangs raced out to a 15-8 lead after one quarter of play. They then stretched the lead to 26-15 at halftime. Stanfield did come back and outscore the Mustangs 15-9 in the third quarter. The Heppner team forced the action in the fourth quarter and blew away the Tigers by outscoring them 19-9. That made the final score 54-39. Maddie Lindsay and Kelly Wilson both score 17 points in the game. Lindsay also had 10 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal. Wilson collected 7 rebounds, had 2 assists and 2 steals for the team. Sophie Grant followed with 10 points and 1 assist for the Mus- tangs. Paige Grieb re- corded 4 points, 4 assists and 2 rebounds in a good all-around game. Jessica Kempkin scored 3 points, had 6 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 blocked shot. Rylee Kollman had 2 points to go along with 1 assist in the game. Morgan Cor- rea scored 1 point, had 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 blocked shot. In the game with Ir- rigon, the Mustangs only trailed by one at the end of the first quarter, 7-6. It was the second quarter that really hurt the team. They were outscored 15-4 and trailed at halftime by a score of 22-10. Heppner doubled up the Knights in the third quarter 16-8, to pull within four points at 30-26 as the final quarter started. Hep- pner had a hard time scoring in the fourth quarter and were outscored 14-4. That made the final score 44-30 in favor of Irrigon. Wilson led the team in scoring with 17. She also had 7 rebounds and 2 steals. Grant was next with 6 points and 4 rebounds in the game. Kempkin scored 4 points, had 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 blocked shot. Macy Gibbs recorded 2 points for the Mustangs. Maddie Lindsay scored 1 point, had 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal. Grieb contributed 3 assists and 1 blocked shot, and Kollman had 2 rebounds and 1 steal. Correa had 5 rebounds and 1 steal on the night. The Mustangs (8-11, 3-5) have two games left in the regular season. This Friday night they travel to Athena to take on the Weston-McEwen Tiger- Scots. Their final game of the regular season will be on Saturday when they host the Culver Bulldogs. This will be senior night, and the Mustangs will honor their seniors and their families. The Mustang seniors are Macy Gibbs, Maddie Lind- say, Kelly Wilson and Paige Grieb. Coe wins Heppner geography bee Heppner’s local level of the annual National Geographic Ge- ography Bee was held at Heppner Elementary School on Feb. 4. Twelve participants, who were selected based on a qualify- ing exam, answered questions about worldwide geography. Fifth-grader Jace Coe was the winner of the local geography bee. He will now complete the written test in order to qualify for the state geography bee. Top: Geography Bee participants (L-R) Mikel Jaca, Jackson Lehman, Genevieve Smith, Kylie Boor, Madison Ashbeck, Madelyn Nichols, Serenity Rodriguez, Coen Little, Jace Coe, Cody Fletcher, Brian Lindsay and Blane Mahoney. Right: Jace Coe, winner of the Heppner Geo Bee. –Contributed photos ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. Heppner takes fifth at BEO tournament Smith, Flynn, wrestle in the finals spotlight Heppner hosted the Bank of Eastern Oregon Invitational Wrestling Tournament last weekend. John Propheter (top) and Jesse Boyd (bottom) each finished third in their individual weight classes, 182 pounds and 132 pounds respectively. Per- formances like theirs gave Heppner fifth at the tournament despite only being able to fill seven of 14 weight classes. –Photos by Kandy Boyd The Heppner wrestling team hosted the Bank of Eastern Oregon Invitational Wrestling tournament on Saturday. Fifteen teams ranging in size from 1A to 4A attended the tourna- ment. The tournament is sponsored by the Bank of Eastern Oregon, and bank employees combined with several community mem- bers to perform the many functions required to suc- cessfully run a tournament of that size. At the end of the day and after nearly 200 match- es, 2A Culver won the team championship by one half of a point over 4A Mac-Hi. Riverside took home the third-place trophy. Crane took fourth, and Heppner finished fifth as a team despite only entering seven competitors in the 14 weight classes. Irrigon took 10 th in the tournament. Two Mustangs made it to the championship bout in their weight classes to wrestle under the spotlight. Ryan Smith, returning to his 2014 state champi- onship weight class of 106 pounds, easily won the gold medal with a major decision of 13-0 in the finals after two pins in the quarterfinals and semifinals. Sophomore Cord Flynn qualified for the 182-pound finals bout with a come- from-behind pin in the semifinals against a se- nior from Riverside. In the championship he battled a two-time district champion and state placer from Union and came up short by a 9-2 decision. Jesse Boyd and John Propheter won bronze med- als at 132 pounds and 182 pounds, respectively. Jacob Moses, Tim Jaca and Jorgen Andersen also competed for the Mustangs. Softball hitting clinic planned for this weekend The Heppner High School softball team is sponsoring a hitting clinic for girls in grades three through 12 this Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Bob Kilken- ny softball field. Nicole Christian will be instruct- ing. Christian is the head coach at Mac-Hi, where she led her team to a state championship in 2014. She also played for EOU, where her team played in the na- tional tournament. Chris- tian was recently inducted into the EOU hall of fame. Third, fourth and fifth graders will go from 1-2 p.m.; sixth, seventh and eighth graders from 2-3:30 p.m.; and high school girls from 3:30-5:30 p.m. The cost is $10, checks may be payable to HHS Softball. Questions, contact Pe- tra Payne, 541-676-5466 or paynep@morrow.k12.or.us. Heppner student selected for Washington, D.C. trip Rylee Kollman and Dima Anglin will act as stu- dent representatives for the Columbia Basin Electric Cooperative in Washington, D.C. this summer. Rylee Kollman, a junior at Heppner High School, and Dima Anglin, a junior at Fossil High School, were selected to represent the cooperative at this year’s Youth Tour hosted by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association June 11–18. While in the nation’s capital, the students will have a chance to speak with Oregon’s state representa- tives, learn about electric cooperatives, listen to mo- tivational speakers, and tour national landmarks includ- ing the Smithsonian and the Vietnam War Memorial. Dima is involved with Rylee is involved in the student body as council basketball, softball, Future treasurer and junior class Business Leaders of representative, and America and FFA, is in the National and is class vice Honors Society, president and FFA cross country and chapter secretary. track. He also in- She also volunteers volves himself vol- with the Mustang unteering in the Mop-Up, Catholic Rylee Kollman community as Tri- summer school, County 4-H camp hanging up Christmas lights counselor, Fossil Commu- for the elderly, FFA canned- nity Food Pantry, trial build- food drive, Catholic fall ing at Boy Scout camps, Ha- carnival, and helping with ven House Assisted Living, summer school at Heppner community beautification Elementary School. She is projects and the Wheeler the daughter of Brian and County Fairgrounds Clean- Amy Kollman of Heppner, up. He is the son of Brian granddaughter of Greg and and Kara Anglin, and grand- Janet Greenup of Heppner son of Charles and Lanita and Karen Phegley of Pilot Anglin and Phil and Nancy Rock, and great-grand- Wilson, all of Fossil. daughter of Bill Gentry. T HEPPNER LES SCHWAB CONGRATULATES THE MUSTANGS AND WISHES THEM GOOD LUCK ON THE REST OF THEIR SEASON! Front row: (l-r) Coach Jeremy Rosenbalm, Jake Lindsay, Caden Hedman, CJ Kindle, Weston Putman, Kevin Murray, Ross Cutsforth, Patrick Collins, Logan Grieb, Brian Rill, Jesse Corbin, Kolby Currin, Ken Grieb, Mike Ehrsam. Not Pictured Jerimiah Petzoldt 124 N. MAIN STREET, HEPPNER OR 541-676-9481
