Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Mustang wrestling makes good showing
in large tournament
- THREE
Heppner girls split
busy week of play
Heppner senior wins prestigious wrestling award
Mustang Freshman Sabashtian Futter won a match for the
team at his irst high-school tournament. –Photo by Kirsti Cason
The Heppner wrestling
team competed in the two-
day, 22-team Muilenburg
tournament in La Grande
on Friday and Saturday. The
tournament included teams
from Oregon, Washington
and Idaho ranging in clas-
siication from 1A to 6A.
The Mustangs fin-
ished 15 th overall as a team
with 11 wrestlers, seven
of whom were freshmen.
Even though all wrestlers
compete individually head-
to-head at the Muilenburg,
larger schools may enter
two team-point scorers in
each of the 14 weight class-
es, while 1A/2A schools are
only allowed one.
Heppner fell just one
point short behind Burns in
claiming the small school
team champion trophy. The
two teams traded the lead
throughout the two-day
tournament, and Heppner
led after the end of com-
petition Friday night. It all
came down to the finals
Saturday night, with each
school having one wrestler
contending for a irst place.
After Ryan Smith’s win by
fall in the championship at
113 pounds, Heppner had a
three-point team lead, but a
Burns champion in the very
next match at 120 pounds
earned four team points and
secured the small school
champion trophy.
Senior Ryan Smith not
only led the team by win-
ning a gold medal, but he
also led the entire tour-
nament of 318 wrestlers.
Smith did now allow a
single point to be scored
against him, and won all his
matches by pin, including
the championship match
against a 6A opponent from
Lake Oswego. Coaches
from around the region
nominated Smith as the
“2015 Outstanding Wrestler
- Muilenburg Tournament,”
an award only given to the
top performing athlete at
the annual event.
“I really have my
coaches to thank for this
honor,” said Smith. “I
started wrestling when the
program was very young
in Heppner. Coaches like
Ken Bailey, Mark and Brian
Lemmon, Jeremy Lanthorn
and Marc Sprague have
given so much time to build
it up. I am really looking
forward to seeing the Mus-
tang wrestling team grow
and develop more district
and state champions.”
Junior Cord Flynn
wrestled and won the most
matches for the Mustangs,
going 5-1 in the 32-man
bracket at 220 pounds and
earning a bronze medal.
His only loss in the tourna-
ment was to the eventual
220-pound champion from
The Dalles in the semi-
inals.
Junior Tim Jaca had a
personal best tournament
with two wins by fall at 170
pounds, while freshman
Trevor Chamberlin at 120
pounds also picked up two
wins in his irst major high
school tournament.
L e o Wa i t e ( 1 2 6
pounds), Will Lutcher (160
pounds) and Sabashtian
Futter (195 pounds) each
won matches for the Mus-
tangs. It was Futter’s irst
Senior Ryan Smith of Hep-
pner won an all-tournament
award along with his gold
medal at the Muilenburg
tournament in La Grande.
–Contributed photo
Mustang Morgan Correa blocks a Knappa player during the
Heppner Kick-Off tournament last week. The girls split their
week of play, losing 18-40 to Arlington on Tuesday before
heading to the Kick-Off on Friday. They defeated the Knappa
Loggers 40-20 on Friday before falling to Crane 17-41 on Sat-
urday. The girls’ next game is Friday at Imbler; game time is
high school tournament 6 p.m. –Photo by Sandra Putman
and win.
Also competing for
Heppner were Carson Bros-
nan, Zach Bredield, Jacob
Wallace and Charles Cason.
The Mustang grapplers
have their irst of only two
The ifth annual Heppner Mustang alumni basketball
home meets Thursday, Dec.
game is set to tip off on Saturday, Dec. 26. Heppner alumni
17, beginning at 4 p.m. at
are invited to play in the game and reconnect with old
the Heppner High School
friends and teammates. Many of the past years’ games
gymnasium.
have been high-scoring and illed with lots of action and
excitement.
The game will have both a men’s and women’s divi-
sion. The cost to play is $25 and will include a Mustang
t-shirt. The event is a fundraiser for the HHS boys’ bas-
ketball team.
For more information call coach Jeremy Rosenbalm
at 541-256-0515.
tournament would be a
challenge. The Loggers out of reach early. They 1 rebound and 5 assists.
returned many of the play- outscored Crane 20-7 and Steagall came in and scored
ers off last year’s team did not look back. Heppner 4 points and had a rebound.
and were certainly a high- led 31-16 at halftime and Lindsay hit a 3-pointer and
quality early-season oppo- 49-23 at the end of three. had 1 rebound, 2 assists and
nent. A back-and-forth irst Crane did outscore Heppner 1 steal in the game. Murray
quarter ended with the score 15-9 in the fourth quarter scored 2 points and had 2
tied 11-11. Heppner began but it was not enough. Hep- rebounds. Clark played a
to pull away in the second pner won the game 58-38. good game and finished
quarter and led 25-16 at A scrappy defensive effort with 6 rebounds, 2 steals
the break. The Mustangs held Crane to 34 percent and a block. Currin re-
then outscored the Loggers shooting in the game and corded 1 rebound and had 1
27-22 in the second half to Heppner also won the re- assist. Bredield contributed
get the win by the score of bounding battle 37-20
an assist for the Mustangs
52-38. It was a great team
Once again Collins led and Smith had a rebound.
defensive effort to hold a the team in scoring with 17.
Another busy week is
team like Knappa to 28 per- He also had 12 rebounds in store for the Mustangs.
cent shooting for the game. and a blocked shot in the On Tuesday they host the
Heppner also outrebounded game. Kindle had a hot Sherman County Huskies.
the Loggers 48-26.
hand and inished with 14 On Friday the 18 th they
Collins dominated points. He also pulled down travel to Imbler to take on
in the paint and scored 24 8 rebounds, had 1 assist and the Panthers. They then
points and hauled down 18 3 steals. Putman inished inish off the week on Sat-
rebounds. He also had 5 as- with 13 points, 6 rebounds, urday by hosting the Grant
sists, 1 steal and 3 blocked 3 assists and 2 steals. Hed- Union Prospectors.
shots in the game. Putman man scored 5 points, had
followed with 7 points, 7
rebounds and 3 steals for
the team. Kindle was next
with 5 points. He also re-
corded 4 rebounds, 4 assists
and a steal. Clark, Hedman,
Murray and Currin each
had 4 points in the game.
Clark also had 3 rebounds
and 1 steal. Hedman had 2
rebounds and a steal while
Murray pulled down 8 re-
bounds and Currin had 3.
Lindsay, Kevin Smith and
Wyatt Steagall each had 1
rebound in the game.
In the game with
Crane, a big first quarter
saw Heppner put the game
Mustang alumni
game set for Dec. 26
Mustangs win three to maintain perfect
record
Heppner’s CJ Kindle rises above the competition during
the Heppner Kick-Off Tournament last weekend. The team
swept both tournament games, handily defeating Knappa
and Crane. -Photo by Sandra Putman
The Heppner Mustang
boys’ basketball team won
three games last week to
stay undefeated. The team
went on the road and beat
the Arlington Honkers by a
score of 58-42. They then
hosted the Heppner Kick-
Off Classic and defeated
the Knappa Loggers 52-38
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and downed the Crane Mus-
tangs 58-38.
In the game against
Arlington, the score was
tied 14-14 at the end of
the irst quarter. Heppner
then picked up the pace
and outscored the Honkers
15-4 to take a 29-18 lead at
halftime. In the second half
of the game the Mustangs
worked on some different
player combinations and
tried out some new plays.
They outpaced the Honkers
19-14 in the half to win by
the score of 58-42.
Patrick Collins led the
team with 16 points, 7 re-
bounds and 3 steals. Weston
Putman scored 12 points
and had 4 rebounds and an
assist. CJ Kindle played
a complete game with 10
points, 4 rebounds, 6 as-
sists and 4 steals. Caden
Hedman had 8 points, 2
rebounds, 2 assists and 3
steals. Kaden Clark, Kevin
Murray and Jake Lindsay
all scored 4 points for the
team. Clark also had 2 re-
bounds and 2 steals. Murray
inished with 5 rebounds, 1
assist and 1 steal. Lindsay
also contributed 1 rebound,
1 assist and 3 steals. Tommy
Bredield had 2 rebounds
and 1 steal in the game.
Kolby Currin recorded 2
rebounds, 2 assists and 1
steal for the Mustangs.
Facing the tradition-
rich Knappa team that the
Mustangs beat in the irst
game of last year’s state
Weston Putman pushes through the Honkers press during
the game versus Arlington last week. The game was the irst
of three victories for the Mustangs last week. -Photo by Sandra
Putman
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