Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 11, 2015
- SEVEN
Mustangs win tournament
sportsmanship award
Heppner finishes season fifth in
state for boys’ basketball
One of the most cov-
eted awards given out at
the OSAA State Basketball
Tournament is the Sports-
manship trophy. This year’s
winner of the award was the
Heppner High School Mus-
tangs boys’ basketball team.
This prestigious award
is given to the team that
displays the best sports-
manship for the entire tour-
nament.
The teams’ coaches
and fans are also included
in determining who wins
the award. The Heppner
team had a large, loud and
supportive group of fans
cheering for them the entire
tournament. The student
cheering section was as
The Mustang boys’ basketball team with the fifth-place state trophy. Front (L-R): Caden Hed-
man, CJ Kindle, Jesse Corbin, Jake Lindsay and Kolby Currin. Back (L-R): Assistant coach
Mike Ehrsam, Brian Rill, head coach Jeremy Rosenbalm, Logan Grieb, Weston Putman, Kevin
Murray, Patrick Collins, Ross Cutsforth, Jerimiah Petzoldt, assistant coach Ken Grieb, and
Shane Munkers, former Mustang, now of US Bank, who presented the award. –Contributed photo
Accepting the sportsmanship trophy at the tournament were
(L-R): Kolby Currin, Patrick Collins, Logan Grieb, Kevin
Murray, Weston Putman, Ross Cutsforth, CJ Kindle and Jake
Lindsay. Patrick Collins also was named to the All-Tournament
Second Team. –Contributed photo
thing that the entire HHS
loud as those from any of
Boys’ Basketball program
the schools that were in the
and their fans can be very
tournament.
proud of,” said one of the
“This award is some-
team’s coaches.
Ione school announces perfect
attendance
Ione Community School gave awards to the following students with perfect attendance in the
month of February: William Lehn, Phegley Padberg, Caylan Proudfoot, Gus Cayce, Eduardo
Escobar, Carter Eynetich, Henry Giefing, Noelia Ramirez, Brionna Serrano, Delaney Stefani,
Hadley Wright, Cameron Crum, Matthew Eubanks, Eva Martin, Ola Rietmann, Victoria De
La Torre, Liam Heideman, Michael McElligott, Mason Orem, Hailee Peck, Corey Rice, Finn
Simpson, Katie Spivey, Jocelyn Hall, Karensa Jones, Cameron Proudfoot, Madison Bain, Caleb
Cambero Aguilar, Carson Eynetich, Oliver Giefing, Madison Orem, Fernando Ramirez, Alexis
Ramirez Orozco, Kalvin Rietmann, Bryce Rollins, Morgan Alldritt, Cedrick Dayandante, Em-
ily Ehrmantraut, Seth Girgg, Hailey Heideman, Favi Juarez Alvarez, Chance McCormack,
Lucas Parker, Haylie Peterson, Taylor Rollins, Onice Sanchez, Jayne Simpson and Anthony
Villegas. –Contributed photo
Poker tournament planned for
March 28
The 11 th annual Bob
Baker Memorial Texas
Hold’em tournament (pre-
viously the Ione American
Legion & Auxiliary Texas
Hold’em tournament) will
take place Saturday, March
28, at the Ione Legion Hall.
Along with Texas Hold’em
Poker, the event will also
feature Bingo and Bunco,
as well as a bake sale and
several raffles.
Up for raffle will be a
Henry .22 mag lever action
with three boxes of ammo,
a Kindle Fire HD, and two
raffles for a half beef each,
cut and wrapped. Tickets
are $1 each or six for $5,
and will be sold at Ione
Market, MCGG’s in Ione,
Pettyjohn’s in Heppner and
from Legion and Auxiliary
members. Raffle tickets for
a Kindle can be purchased
from Becky Rietmann, Sha-
ron Rietmann, Gina Jepsen
and Jennifer DeBoer.
Doors will open on
March 28 at 5 p.m. for a
salad and sandwich bar by
donation with beverages by
Bucknum’s. The bake sale
will also begin at 5 p.m.
Bingo play will run
from 5-7 p.m., with Bunco
from 7-9 p.m. Buy-in is
$10.
Poker tournament sign-
up begins at 6 p.m. with
play to begin at 6:30. Poker
buy-in will be $40, with
re-buy until allowed until
7:30 p.m. Cash prizes will
be awarded.
The Heppner High
School boys’ basketball
team capped off an out-
standing season by earning
the fifth-place trophy at the
OSAA State Basketball
Championship Tournament.
The Mustangs ended their
season with an overall re-
cord of 19-6.
The Mustangs opened
the state tournament with
the Knappa Loggers, a team
the Mustangs had played
earlier in the season and had
beaten by 11 points. This
game would be much closer
and the Mustangs would
also win this one in over-
time by a score of 56-54.
Knappa led after the first
quarter of play 12-10. The
Mustangs then took control
of the second quarter and
led at halftime by the score
of 26-23. Knappa came
back strong in the third and
outscored the Mustangs 20-
14 to take a 43-40 lead into
the fourth quarter. Heppner
turned up the defensive
pressure and held the Log-
gers to only four points in
the fourth quarter. Heppner
could only manage to score
seven themselves, but it
was enough to end the game
tied at 47-47. In overtime,
Heppner outscored Knappa
9-7 to secure the win 56-54.
Patrick Collins led the
team with 18 points, 10
rebounds, 2 steals and 1
blocked shot. Logan Grieb
scored 14 points and had 7
rebounds and 2 assists in
the game. Weston Putman
followed with 12 points and
4 rebounds. Ross Cutsforth
was next with 6 points, 1
assist and 1 blocked shot
for the Mustangs. CJ Kindle
added 3 points and 6 big
assists to go along with
1 steal. Jesse Corbin also
scored 3 points in the game
and Caden Hedman had 2
rebounds.
With the win, Heppner
would head to the semi-
finals to play the Toledo
Boomers. The Mustangs
had also already played
Toledo earlier in the year
at a tournament and lost to
them. In this game, Hep-
pner jumped out to a 12-9
lead after one quarter of
play. Toledo had a strong
second quarter, where they
would outscore the Mus-
tangs 15-5 to take a 24-17
lead into halftime. Heppner
came back strong in the
third quarter and pushed
the tempo of the game.
The Mustangs outscored
the Boomers 16-12 to pull
within 36-32 as the fourth
quarter started. Toledo
chose to hold the ball for
much of the fourth quarter.
The Mustangs had to foul to
put them on the foul line to
try to get the ball back. To-
ledo ended up making most
of their free-throws in the
quarter and they outscored
the Mustangs 13-8 to win
the game 49-41.
Collins again led the
team in scoring with 11.
He also had 6 rebounds
and 1 blocked shot. Kindle
followed with 7 points,
4 rebounds and 3 assists.
Putman scored 6 points and
had 2 rebounds in the game.
Cutsforth also 6 points and
he had 6 rebounds, 1 assist
and 1 steal. Grieb had 5
points, 2 rebounds and 2
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assists on the night. Corbin
and Hedman each scored 3
points. Hedman also had 2
rebounds and 2 assists for
the Mustangs.
With that loss, Heppner
would play for third place
in the tournament against
the Regis Rams. The Mus-
tangs started the game out
slowly and would trail at
the end of the first quarter
by a score of 17-6. Some
adjustments were to the
game plan and the Heppner
team outscored the Rams
in the second quarter 12-7.
Heppner then trailed 24-18
at halftime. Heppner came
out in the third quarter and
dominated it by a score of
18-9 to take a 36-33 lead
into the fourth quarter. The
Mustangs could not keep
up the pace in the fourth
quarter and ended up losing
the game 50-45. That meant
that the team would collect
the fifth-place trophy for the
tournament.
However, along with
the fifth-place trophy, the
Mustangs also received
the coveted tournament
Sportsmanship Award (see
accompanying story). Pat-
rick Collins was named
to the Second Team All-
Tournament.
Kindle led the team in
scoring with 11. He also
had 3 rebounds and 2 as-
sists. Collins finished with
10 points, 5 rebounds, 2
blocks and 1 steal. Grieb
scored 9 points and had 6
rebounds, 4 assists and 1
steal for the Mustangs. Put-
man chipped in 7 points, 3
rebounds and 1 steal. Kevin
Murray scored 4 points and
had 3 rebounds and 1 steal
in the game. Cutsforth had
2 points, 2 rebounds, 1 steal
and 1 assist, while Hedman
contributed 2 points, 1 as-
sist and 1 steal for the team.
The Mustangs will lose
three seniors off of this
year’s tournament team.
They are Ross Cutsforth,
Jesse Corbin and Jerimi-
ah Petzoldt. They will be
missed, but Heppner will
return nine players who got
state tournament experience
this year. After the initial
disappointment of feeling
they could have done better
at this year’s tournament,
every one of them, to a man,
said they are ready to put in
the extra work so they can
make it back to the state
tournament next year.
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