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EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Fourteen teams compete at BEO Invitational in Heppner Jace Coe wrestling Dylan Julian from Lakeview in the cham- pionship. -Photo by Kirsti Cason. Suzy Cason wrestling Kaitlyn Saturday saw fourteen fortunately, the next match Lemmon in the championship. eastern Oregon high school he lost by fall to River Clark -Photo by Kirsti Cason. wrestling teams descend on Heppner to compete in the annual Bank of East- ern Oregon Invitational. The wrestlers hailed from Pine Eagle, Crane, Baker City/Powder Valley, Irri- gon, Riverside, Pendleton, Echo/Stanfield, Enterprise, Elgin, Joseph/Wallowa, McLoughlin/Weston-McE- wen/Griswold, Lakeview, Adrian and Heppner. Crane won the team title and Jesse Jones from McLoughlin won the award for Most Outstanding Wres- tler of the tournament. The Mustangs from Heppner acquitted themselves well in match competition. Roen Waite competed at 113 pounds. He lost his first match by a tight de- cision to Dawson Tremper from Pendleton. And, un- from Baker City. Bryan Collins competed at 120 pounds and had two tough matches that both ended in falls to his adversaries from Pendleton and McLoughlin. Saul Lopez was next up for Heppner at 132 pounds. His first opponent was Jack Lieuallen from Pendleton, the number five ranked wrestler in 5A at 132, and he battled hard but lost by tech fall. He then battled Dusty Melchoir from Pine Eagle and won by fall se- curing fifth place. At 145 pounds, Heppner’s Edward Ellsworth competed and was successful in his first match by pinning Levi Roath from Crane. The next two matches saw Edward losing to a wrestler from Lakeview and Irrigon. Jace Coe was next on the weight scale to wrestle at 160 pounds. Jace had an outstanding tournament that would eventually end with him taking first in his weight class. His first match was against Harley Miller from Joseph/Wallowa and he won by tech fall. The next bout had him facing Seth Domann from Crane in a nail bitter with Jace winning by a slim decision of 4-2. The championship match pitted Jace against Dylan Julian from Lakev- iew. Dylan came into the meet ranked number four at 160 in 2A. Jace would dominate the match and end with a decision of 9-4. Conor Brosnan was the final, male wrestler for Heppner as he competed at 170 pounds. Conor would face Clayton Hammond from Elgin, the number 10 ranked wrestler at 2A, and lose by fall. His second match was against Patrick Simpson from Pendleton. He would go on to pin Patrick in the first round and secure third place. Su- zanneah Cason wrestled in the women’s bracket at 132 pounds. She would have one match of the day against Kaitlyn Lemmon. Kaitlyn would go on to beat Cason by decision. The Mustang’s will be in action next Saturday at Pine Eagle (Halfway) starting at 10 a.m. This is the final tournament before Conor Brosnan wrestling Patrick Simpson from Pendleton. Districts at Union the fol- lowing Friday. -Photo by Kirsti Cason. Local wheat farmers selected for National Leadership Program Clint Carlson, a Mor- row County producer and currently the Oregon Wheat Growers League (OWGL) state president, Brent Cheyne, a producer in Klamath Falls and cur- rently the National Wheat Growers secretary and Erin Heideman, a Morrow County producer and cur- rently OWGL county pres- ident, just returned from the Syngenta Leadership at its Best Program in Raleigh, NC and Washington, D.C. Now more than ever, public opinion, government policy, regulation, and even consumer attitudes have direct impact on the way farmers and agribusiness operate. As a result, the need for effective lead- ership and advocacy for agriculture has never been greater. To help meet this need, Syngenta sponsors Leadership at its Best pro- gram, partnering with ag organizations to develop and prepare their leaders with a robust ag advocacy conference. Participants experi- enced refreshed modules based on today’s leading thoughts, ideas and tech- niques while focusing on various aspects of leader- ship training and priority is- sues facing agriculture. The conference ended for the group on Capitol Hill with time spent using their recent training visiting with con- gressmen from around the nation. “As agriculturalists, Members of the Oregon Wheat Growers League (OWGL) lobby for US Wheat on Capitol Hill as part of the Syngenta Leadership at its Best program. Pictured (L-R): Brent Cheyne (OWGL past president and current National Wheat Growers secretary from Klamath Falls), Clint Carlson (current OWGL president and wheat producer in Morrow/Gilliam counties) and Erin Heideman (Morrow County Wheat Growers presi- dent and wheat producers in Morrow/Gilliam counties). we know we need to tell our story and be advocates of our industry,” said Erin Heideman. “The Syngenta Leadership program helped give us the skills and con- fidence to actually do it.” In addition to the Na- tional Wheat Growers As- sociation, other organiza- tions represented included the Agriculture Retailer Association, National Soy- bean Growers, National Corn Growers Association and National Agricultural Aviation Association. For over 90 years, after Oregon wheat producers first came together to work for the common interest, OWGL remains hard at work pro- moting wheat interests and providing a means for wheat growers to work together. From advocacy work in Salem to providing key input on federal farm legislation, the voice of Oregon grain producers is being heard through the ef- forts of their Oregon Wheat Growers League. Now taking orders for Print & Mailing Services *Design *Print *Mail Sykes Publishing 541-676-9228 Valentine’s Day! Friday, February 14th flowers - candy - gift baskets - wine We deliver to Heppner - Lexington - Ione School deliveries on Thursday murraysdrug.com 217 North Main St., Heppner, OR Phone 676-9158 Floral 676-9426 www.murraysdrug.com Heppner Les Schwab would like to congratulate the Mustang Wrestlers on their great season! Suzy Cason - Conor Brosnan - Saul Lopez Jace Coe - Brian Collins Edward Ellsworth - Roen Waite 124 N. MAIN STREET HEPPNER OR 541-676-9481