EIGHT - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Chamber elects 2020 officers
Shooting club
doubles in size
The Heppner Chamber of Commerce held its annual meeting Thursday, January 30 and new 2020 officers were elected. (L-
R) Heppner City Manager Kraig Cutsforth; Les Schwab Manager John Gould; Bank of Eastern Oregon CEO Jeff Bailey;
Heppner Schools Principal Matt Combe; Owner Wheatland Insurance Nancy Snider; Owner Murray Drug, Ann Murray, all
board members. Morrow County Health District CEO Bob Hauser, president; MCGG Human Resources Manager Tawny
Miles, treasurer; Howard and Beth Bryant Foundation Administrator Kim Cutsforth, board member and Andy Fletcher CEO/
Pictured (L-R): Conner Wilson (Heppner), Carter Eynetich General Manager Columbia Basin Electric Co-operative, vice president.
(Ione), Gage Heideman (Ione) and Radley Griggs (Boardman) Also at the meeting it was announced that this will be long-time Chamber Director Sheryll Bates’ last annual meeting as she
will be retiring from the job. -Photo by David Sykes.
just before they line up for their trap rounds.
The Morrow County
4-H Shooting Sports Club
finished their February
score month this past Sun-
day at the Lexington Gun
Club. The club has doubled
in size, from 20 members to
40, in one year and offers
members the opportunity
to participate in small bore
pistol and rifle, archery,
shotgun and air-pistol.
Members shoot for
scores in January, Febru-
ary and March for a chance
to qualify for the state 4-H
shooting tournament in
Albany in June. Last year,
Morrow County sent seven
members, a first showing
from the county. “I suspect
we will have a number of
members qualify this year
for the state shoot,” said
4-H Agent, Erin Heideman.
“We have a tremendous
volunteer coaching staff
and some pretty phenome-
nal members.”
Volunteer coaches for
the club are Ed Rietmann
(Ione), Stan Cutsforth
(Heppner), Erin Heideman
(Ione), Adam and Rachel
Archer (Heppner), Andrea
DiSalvo (Lexington), Jeff
Sak (Boardman) and Don-
nie Griggs (Boardman).
March shooting dates
will be the March 1, 8 and
15 at the Lexington Gun
Club.
Mustangs beat Stanfield, lose to Union
The Heppner Mustang
boys’ basketball team split
their Blue Mountain Con-
ference games last week-
end. The Mustangs beat the
Stanfield Tigers 59-47 at
home but then lost a tough
road game to the Union
Bobcats 45-37.
A close first half in
the game with Stanfield
saw five lead changes and
three ties in the first quarter
alone. The Mustangs had a
slight 17-16 lead at the end
of the high scoring first
quarter.
The second quarter was
nearly as close as the first.
Neither team scored as
much but there were two
lead changes and two ties
in the quarter. Heppner led
at the halftime break 27-24.
A big third quarter
saw the Mustangs score 19
points and hold Stanfield
to only 11. Heppner took
control of the game in the
quarter and built a lead of
12 points at one point and
never looked back from
there. The score at the end
of the third quarter had the
Mustangs ahead by the
score of 46-35.
Avree Lathrop, a 5 th grader at Heppner Elementary School,
Heppner continued
takes aim with her pistol at the Morrow County Shooting
their
dominance in the
Sports Club score day this past weekend.
fourth quarter and stretched
the lead out to 17 points.
The Mustangs stayed strong
all the way through and
won the game by the score
of 59-47.
Jayden Wilson led the
Mustangs in scoring with
13. He also had six re-
bounds and he blocked
two shots. Mason Lehman
scored 10 points, had three
rebounds, five assist, two
steals and blocked a shot.
Brock Hisler also scored
10 points to go along with
five rebounds, two assists
and a blocked shot. Jackson
Lehman was next with nine
points, eight rebounds, one
assist and he had six steals
in the game. Joe Sherman
also had nine points for
the Mustangs and he also
chipped in five rebounds
and a steal. Gavin Hanna
Robinson and Kellen Grant
both contributed three
points for the team. Hanna
Robinson also recorded
three rebounds and one
assist while Grant collect-
ed two rebounds and had
a steal. Kason Cimmiyotti
scored two points, had one
rebound and three steals.
Kannon Wilkins had a re-
bound in the game and Ca-
sey Fletcher had an assist.
A trip to play in Union
is always a difficult chore.
This year was no different
as the Mustangs struggled
to score in the old cracker
box of a gym that is the
home of the Bobcats.
The Mustangs found
themselves down at the
end of the first quarter 12-7
and then 22-13 at halftime.
Union scored the first seven
points of the third quarter
and led at the end of the
quarter 32-23.
Area Eight states of Alas-
ka, Washington and Idaho.
The Regional contest will
be held March 14 in Pasco,
WA. Regional winners will
then compete at the national
level in Chicago.
The Northeast District
has one shooter moving on
to the Regional Contest.
Julie Hull (18/25), repre-
senting The Dalles Lodge
#303 will compete in the
Girls 12-13 age bracket.
Julie has competed four
times at the district level,
four times at the state level
and this will be her second
time at the regional level.
This is Julie’s last year of
eligibility for the Elks Hoop
Shoot Contest.
The other participants
from the Northeast Dis-
trict who placed are: Boys
8-9, Cooper Stefani, Hep-
pner Lodge #358 placed
7 th ; Girls 8-9, Ciciley Ste-
fani, Heppner Lodge #358
placed 3 rd ; Boys 10-11,
Christian Sanchez-Lamas,
Hermiston Lodge #1845
placed 5 th ; Girls 10-11,
Charlotte Hansell, Milton
Freewater Lodge #2146
placed 4 th and Boys 12-13,
Jason Hull, The Dalles
Lodge #303 placed 4 th .
NE district shooter
advances to regional
(L-R): Steve May, Oregon State Elks State Hoop Shoot Com-
mittee Chariman, Ciciley Stefani and Mary Williams, Ore-
gon State Elks Association President.
The Elks State Hoop
Shoot contest was held
February 8 at Silverton,
OR. Six contestants from
the Northeast District com-
peted at Silverton. The
Northeast District consists
of Hood River, The Dalles,
Condon, Heppner, Herm-
iston, Milton Freewater,
Enterprise and Baker Elks
Lodges.
The first-place contes-
tant in each age group will
shoot free throws against
winners from the Elks
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The fourth quarter saw
the Mustangs cut the Bob-
cat lead to five points late
in the game but it was too
little, too late and the Mus-
tangs fell to the Bobcats by
the score of 45-37.
Jackson Lehman scored
nine points, had a rebound
and a steal in the game.
Wilson chipped in seven
points, four rebounds and
had one steal. Hisler was
next with six points, five
rebounds, one steal and
one blocked shot. Scor-
ing five points was Mason
Lehman. He also had five
rebounds and one assist.
Sherman and Cimmiyotti
each scored four points for
the team. Sherman also had
six rebounds, one assist and
a steal while Cimmiyotti
also had three rebounds and
blocked a shot. Roy Collins
scored two points and had
one rebound on the night.
Fletcher had two rebounds
and an assist while Hanna
Robinson recorded three
rebounds, three assists and
a steal. Grant had a rebound
for the Mustangs.
The JV team won two
more games as they defeat-
ed the Stanfield Tigers 44-
34 and then beat the Union
Bobcats 57-19.
Against the Tigers,
Tucker Ashbeck led the
team in scoring with 18.
Ty Boor was next with six
points and Cody Fletcher
followed with five. David
Cribbs had four points and
with three each were Roy
Collins and Mikel Jaca.
Derrick Smith and Blake
Carter scored two points
each and Blake Wolters
finished with one.
In the game at Union,
Boor and Cribbs led a bal-
anced scoring attack for the
team as they each scored 11
points. Collins and Smith
chipped in eight points each
and Carter finished with six.
Ashbeck was next with four
points and with three points
each were Fletcher, Jaca
and Trevor Nichols.
This week the Mus-
tangs travel to Enterprise
on Tuesday to take on the
Outlaws. Heppner then
finishes up their regular
season with a home game
with the Weston-McEwen
Tigerscots on Friday, Feb-
ruary 14.
Heppner students
named to dean’s list
Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity has named Patrick
Collins and Christopher
Kindle to the dean’s list for
the 2019 fall term. Quali-
fying students achieve and
maintain a grade point av-
erage of 3.5 or higher on a
4.0 scale while completing
a minimum of 12 hours of
graded EOU coursework.
The university named 523
students to the dean’s list
for the fall term.
Eastern Oregon Uni-
versity was founded in
1929 as a teacher’s college
and today serves as a cen-
ter for education, culture
and scholarship in rural
areas of Oregon. At EOU
students receive personal
attention from their profes-
sors while building strong
relationships with peers and
mentors. Visit eou.edu for
more information.
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