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.
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