TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, May 1, 2019
The Official Newspaper
of the City of Heppner and the County of Morrow
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Track team competes in Centennial
Invitational
The Heppner track
team traveled to Gresham,
OR to compete at the elite
Morrow County’s Home-Owned Weekly Newspaper
annual invitational hosted
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high, which helped prepare
David Sykes ..............................................................................................Publisher
Heppner athletes for this
Bobbi Gordon................................................................................................ Editor
year’s state competition.
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The meet started for
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throwing shot put. Wolters
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performed well in his first
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specified if required).
experience at the meet,
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throwing 35’4”. Howard
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51’10”, putting him on the
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later threw 125’3” in the
discus. Carson Brosnan
threw a solid 120’10” in
the javelin in his second
year participating at the
invitational.
The running events be-
gan with Trevor Antonuc-
ci running 4:25.47 in the
1500m run and winning
his heat in the 3000m run
with a season’s best time
of 9:34.68. Hannah Finch,
Bryan Collins and Jayden
Wilson ran the 100m dash
and the 200m dash, posting
fast times in both. Collins
ran personal bests of 25.09
in the 200 and 12.03 in the
100. Jayden Wilson ran a
Pictured (L-R): Gage Heideman, Adon Guerra, Carter
Eynetich, Jake Heideman, Kalvin Rietmann and Owen Guerra. season’s best time of 25.01
in the 200. Mason Lehman
ran a season record of 54.69
in the 400, getting a great
jump off the blocks and
pushing for a strong finish.
Brock Hisler ran the same
race in his first visit to the
invitational in a personal re-
cord time of 58.15. Marlee
Mitchell also ran the 400m
dash, testing herself against
6A competition and running
well.
U.S.P.S. 240-420
4-H shooting sports
members end season
Pictured (L-R): Carter Eynetich, Radley Griggs, Harley An-
derson, Hunter Greenup and Colt Parker.
The Morrow County
4-H shooting sports partic-
ipants ended their season
after shooting at meetings
in January, February and
March. At each meeting the
24 members shot between
25 and 75 targets, many
times wearing Carhart over-
alls and stocking caps.
The shooting club was
assisted by volunteers Ed
Rietmann, Rob Ashbeck,
Jim Eynetich and Stan Cuts-
forth who are also working
to revitalize the Lexington
Gun Club. Members of the
club included KC Ander-
son, Carter Eynetich, Rad-
ley Griggs, Owen Guerra,
Gage Heideman, Avery
Lathrop, Aden Lathrop,
Mason Orem, Briar Reeves,
Corey Rice, Conner Wil-
son, Quaid Jensen, Saige
Jensen,
Preslie Bowles, Mor-
gan Cutsforth, Adon Guer-
ra, John McElligott, Tea-
gan Ramsey, Jacob Irving,
Kalvin Rietmann, Alexis
Cutsforth, Jake Heideman,
Matt Orem and Colt Parker.
Gun club
open to
public
The Morrow Coun-
ty Gun Club, behind the
grange in Lexington, is
being revitalized by volun-
teers. The gun club is now
open on Sundays from 9
a.m. to noon for public
shooting, with rounds at
$5 each.
Rob Ashbeck is the
current president with Stan
Cutsforth as vice-president,
Erin Heideman as secre-
tary and Ed Rietmann as
treasurer.
On Sunday, May 5 the
club will be open from 1
to 3 p.m. due to a new trap
thrower being installed. The
following Sundays will be
the normal hours of 9 a.m.
PORT OF MORROW
to noon.
Applications for mem-
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Community Service
Volunteering throughout the county over the
years. Transit Committee, BCDA, LOOP
Driver, School Board, 4th of July Horse-
shoes, Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis,
BMCC bond & oversight, Site Council, Fruit
Boxes, After School Program, Booster Club,
Morrow SWCD will
Little League, Eastern Oregon Workforce and
Talent Board.
meet Tuesday, May 7 at the
Port of Morrow Riverfront
Representation
Center in Boardman at 6
Having lived in Ione, Boardman and now
Irrigon I understand how the POM affects the p.m. Agenda items include
comments from the public,
entire county.
minutes of the April meet-
I will do my very best to support the POM
ing, financial report, partner
mission and values that have propelled it to
reports and staff reports.
the successes of today.
Meetings of Morrow
SWCD are open to the
ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: public. For questions or
more information, contact
Kevin Payne at 541-676-
5452 ext. 111.
Brock Hisler competes in the
400m.
Trent Smith and Made-
lyn Nichols both competed
in the 800m run. Nichols
pushed herself in the 800m
run after coming close to
the school record in Con-
don. With tough competi-
tion to push her, Nichols
ran a smart race and tied the
school record of 2:27.6, ran
by Jodie Padberg in 1984.
Trent Smith ran a personal
best time of 2:07.32, sprint-
ing to the finish to overtake
several runners and take
three seconds off his previ-
ous best time.
Leo Waite competed in
the 300m hurdles, posting
46.24 in the event. Hunter
Nichols ran in the night
heat, the fastest heat of the
day, for the 3000m race.
Although he did not set a
personal record, Nichols
ran a fast race finishing in
9:07.48.
Three relay teams
competed at Centennial
Invitational: the women’s
4x400m relay and the men’s
4x100m and 4x400m re-
lays. The 4x100m relay
team ran a mostly clean
race, with one tricky hand-
off adding to their time.
Both of the 4x400m relay
teams set season records.
The women’s team (Hailey
Holmgren, Hannah Finch,
Marlee Mitchell and Made-
lyn Nichols) ran an exciting
race. With clean handoffs
and a lot of effort, Nichols
came across the line at
3:37.53, a season best time.
The men’s team (Trent
Smith, Jayden Wilson, Ma-
son Lehman and Hunter
Nichols) were seeded in
12 th place, midway in the
second heat, but fought
their way through the race.
Smith started off maintain-
ing a solid placement, again
passing other runners in
the last 100 to allow Wil-
son to power to the front.
Lehman took the baton first
and maintained the lead,
pushing to put Nichols in
prime position. Nichols
came across the line in
3:35.06 (less than a second
off the school record time
of 3:34.14, a record set in
1988) and put the team on
the podium in sixth place.
Both teams are excited to
see what they can do in the
next few weeks.
Trent Smith
The Mustangs next
meet is in Stanfield on
May 3 starting at 11 a.m.,
and then on to districts
and state. The District 5
competition will be held at
Grant Union High School
in John Day on Friday, May
10. Events will start at 11
a.m. and the home crowd
is invited.
Trevor Antonucci
Mason Lehman
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