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
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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.
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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
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