TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 19, 2020
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Senior basketball
players and parents
acknowledged
Mustang wrestlers finish strong
The Mustangs traveled
to Union on Friday to com-
pete in the Special District
4 Wrestling tournament.
The tournament is a two-
day affair that determines
which athletes will go on
to compete in the state
championships to be held
in Portland on February
28. Heppner had six wres-
tlers competing this year:
Roen Waite at 106 pounds,
Saul Lopez at 132 pounds,
Suzanneah Cason at 132
pounds, Edward Ellsworth
at 152 pounds, Jace Coe
at 160 pounds and Conor
Brosnan at 170 pounds.
Waite entered the tour-
nament as the number four
seed. He wrestled Debren
Sanabria, the number one
seed from Culver, first and
lost by pin late in the second
round. His next opponent
was Virginia Tolman, from
Adrian, and Roen went on
to win by pin in the first
round. The next match for
Waite was the finals for
third/fourth place against
Riddick Hutchison of Grant
Union. He won this battle
by pin in the second round
thus securing third place
but Waite was not done
Heppner Mustang senior basketball players and their parents were honored at the home game
last week.
Pictured (L-R): Sandy Hanna, Jorden Sweeney and parents Corey and Brandi, Casey Fletcher
and parents Andy and Andrea, Mason Lehman and parents Andy and Jessica, Kannon Wilkins
and parents Tim and Renee, Kellen Grant and parents Greg and Virginia, Gavin Hanna-Rob-
inson and parents Justin and Jade.
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for the day. Since 1A/2A
Special Districts only auto-
matically send the top two
finishers to state, there is
the ability to challenge the
second-place finisher if he/
she has not lost previously
to that wrestler during the
district tournament. Roen
had not wrestled the sec-
ond-place finisher, Jack
Roath of Crane, so he chal-
lenged him for second place
and a chance to secure a
spot to state. Roen went
on to win this crucial con-
test by major decision and
punched his ticket for the
state championships.
Saul Lopez started the
tournament with a match
against Isaiah Lemmon,
Echo/Stanfield, which he
won by fall in the third
round. His next opponent
was Cutter Huff from Pine
Eagle, the number two seed.
Saul lost this match by fall
in the second round drop-
ping him to the consolation
rounds. Lopez’s next op-
ponent was Dusty Melcho-
ir, Pine Eagle, which he
defeated by a pin in the
second round. The third
round of consolations pit-
ted Saul against Riddick
Hutchison of Grant Union.
He pinned Hutchision in the
second round. The consola-
tion semifinals determined
whether Lopez wrestled
for three/four or five/six.
He unfortunately lost the
next match by fall to Glen
Starbuck of Crane. This
loss put Saul in the match
for fifth place against Isaiah
Lemmon of Echo/Stanfield.
This rematch was a harder
match for Lopez than the
first contest but Saul went
on to win by technical fall
in the second round, secur-
ing fifth place and a spot on
the podium.
Suzy Cason, wrestling
in her final tournament as a
Mustang, started the tourna-
ment by facing off against
the number one seed, Joe
Lathrop of Elgin. She lost
by fall in the second round.
The next match for Ca-
son was against Riddick
Hutchison of Grant Union.
Suzy lost this match by fall
in the first round.
Ellsworth started the
tournament with a match
against Hunter Augusty-
novich, the number two
seed from Culver. Edward
Saul Lopez wrestling Glen Starbuck of Crane. -Photo by
Damon Brosnan.
lost this battle by fall in
the second round. The next
match, in the consolation
bracket, was against Tucker
Adamson of Crane. Ells-
worth won this match by
fall in the first round. The
next contest pitted Edward
head to head versus Levi
Hammond of Union. Levi
prevailed against Ellsworth
by fall in the second round.
Jace Coe came into
the tournament seeded as
the number two wrestler at
160 pounds. He started the
tournament with victory
by fall over Trevor Smith
of Culver. This victory
put Coe in the champion-
ship semifinals against Seth
Doman of Crane, seeded
number three. The match
proved to be a nail biter
going into overtime. Jace
won the toss and chose the
down position. All Coe had
to do was score a point in
the minute allowed to win,
which he did and secured
his right to battle for first
place against the number
one seed and number one
ranked wrestler from Cul-
ver, Isaiah Toomey. The
match was hard fought but,
unfortunately, Coe lost to
Toomey by fall in the third
round. This loss did not se-
cure second place for Jace
since the wrestler in third,
Damion Young of Grant
Union, had not wrestled
Jace during the tournament
and challenged Coe for sec-
ond place. The match had a
trip to state championships
resting on the outcome and
Coe went on to prevail in
the third round by fall. Jace
secured his trip to the state
championships with this
gutsy win.
Brosnan started the
tournament as the number
three seeded 170-pound
wrestler. His first opponent
was Nicolas Navarro of
Culver. Conor was upset in
this match with a late pin
by Navarro throwing Bros-
nan into the consolation
bracket. His next bout was
against Tucker Carpenter of
Grant Union. Conor wasted
no time in pinning Carpen-
ter seventeen seconds into
the first round securing a
match in the consolation
semifinals. Quinten Hall-
garth, the number four seed
from Grant Union, was his
next opponent. Brosnan and
Hallgarth battled back and
forth in a tough match with
Conor wining by decision
in the third round. This
victory put Brosnan into
the match for third place
against Navarro, the wres-
tler from Culver that upset
him in the first match of the
tournament. Conor went on
to win redemption for the
first loss by winning a tough
match by decision in the
third round, securing third
place. But, Brosnan was not
done for the day. The sec-
ond-place wrestler, Clayton
Hammond from Elgin, had
not wrestled Conor during
the tournament so he was
open to be challenged for
second place. This match
also proved to be a long,
tough bout with Hammond
winning by one point at the
buzzer. Conor had secured
third place and might be
awarded a trip to the state
championships. This is
due to a new rule allowing
three, third place finishers
from the four special dis-
tricts to be awarded a trip
to the championships. This
creates an 11-man brack-
et for each weight class.
Brosnan will find out next
weekend if the he will be
making the trip.
Rusty Estes,
Emergency Medical
Services Director
541-676-2922
Morrow County Health District is
hiring on-call ambulance drivers in
Boardman and Heppner.
•
On-Call Pay
•
Weekday and Weekend
Day & Night Shifts
•
Education and Training Provided
•
Assistance earning your EMT License
Must have a valid Oregon Driver’s
License, clean driving record, undergo a
background check, and drug screen.
We’re also accepting applications for EMTs!
Learn more about being a part of a team
committed to a Healthier Morrow County!
Visit HealthyMC.org
“I found my
passion for
helping people
here as a full-
time EMT and
I’m just getting
started.”
- Stephanie Rill
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