Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, February 5, 2025 -- SEVEN
Lady Mustangs split Mustang wrestling
hosts BEO Invite
weekend play
The Heppner Mustang
wrestling team hosted its
annual Bank of Eastern
Oregon Invite last Saturday.
Heppner hosted several
teams who came from as
far as The Dalles and Elgin.
Heppner continued the
season’s impressive show-
ing, with the girls’ team
placing second and the boys
finishing third overall.
Several Heppner wres-
tlers also topped the podi-
um individually. Zachary
Brown, Jaime Cavan and
Landon McMahon were all
Heppner freshman CiCi Stefani (#1) blocks a Stanfield shot
at the net. -Photo by Susan Hisler
champions in their weight
classes.
Lane Critchlow, Kee-
ley Nairns, Harlee Cotton,
Journey Cavan-Harris and
Sarah Munkers all finished
second in their respective
classes.
Owen Guerra, Connor
Wilson and Loren Trujillo
rounded out the team’s
successes with third place
finishes.
More wrestling details
will be published in next
week’s Gazette-Times.
Mustangs have
tough week against
top BMC teams
The Heppner Mus-
tang boys’ basketball team
played the top two teams in
the Blue Mountain Confer-
ence and lost both games.
The Mustangs were beat-
en by the Stanfield Tigers
59-39 and then lost to the
Enterprise Outlaws by the
score of 54-31.
Against Stanfield, the
Mustangs trailed after the
first quarter 18-6. A slow
scoring second quarter led
to the team falling behind
37-14 at halftime. Heppner
trailed 46-28 at the end of
three and ended up losing
the game by the score of
59-39.
Alakae Rodriguez
led the team in scoring
with 10. He also had two
assists in the game. Keaton
Coiner was next with eight
points and four rebounds.
Gage Heideman scored
seven points to go along
with five rebounds and one
The Mustang girls’ wrestling team placed second in last week- assist. With six points, one
end’s BEO Invite. L-R: Loren Trujillo, Harlee Cotton, Sarah rebound and two assists
Munkers, Keeley Nairns, Emillia Cavan-Harris and Journey was Mason Orem. Joseph
Cavan-Harris with coach Tyler Robinson.
Albitre had four points,
-Contributed photo
three rebounds and three
assists for the Mustangs.
With two points each were
Caleb George and Tripp
Stewart. Marty Medina had
five rebounds in the game
and Jackson Coiner finished
with two rebounds and two
assists.
The Mustangs made
the long trip to Enterprise
and started the game slowly.
Heppner trailed at the end
of the first quarter 15-6
and 31-15 at halftime. En-
terprise, which features
6’7” and 6’4” post players
and a host of quick guards,
continued to control the
pace of the game and led
43-23 as the fourth quarter
started. Heppner played the
Outlaws closer in the final
frame but still lost the game
54-31.
A balanced scoring at-
tack saw Caylan Proudfoot
lead the team in scoring
with eight. Mason Orem fol-
lowed with six points, three
rebounds and two assists.
Scoring five points, hauling
down four rebounds, having
four steals and dishing out
three assists was Marty Me-
dina. With four points, six
rebounds and one assist was
Gage Heideman. With three
points each were Jackson
Coiner and Alakae Rodri-
guez. Caleb George scored
two to go along with two
rebounds and three assists.
Joseph Albitre had four
steals for the Mustangs.
This Friday the Mus-
tangs will travel to John
Day to play the Grant Union
Prospectors. On Saturday,
Heppner will host the
Weston-McEwen Tiger-
Scots.
Mustang JV beats
Tigers in close game
Heppner sophomore Healy Hisler (#3 ) guards a Stanfield
player. -Photo by Susan Hisler
The Mustang boys’ team took third place at the annual
BEO Invite last Saturday. Team members are John Lindsay,
Brayden Desclos, Zachary Brown Zion Ramos-Lopez, Conner
Wilson, Hayden McMahon, Kaden King, Chris Humphreys,
Owen Guerra, Jame Cavan, Tyler Rice, Nick Wenberg, Kooper
Miller and Landon McMahon. Coaches are Zac Brown, Tyler
Robinson and Kasey Jones.
-Contributed photo
Mustang Junior Lily Nichols (#15) dodges a Stanfield player
on her way up the court. -Photo by Susan Hisler
The Mustangs pulled
out a big road win over the
Outlaws last Friday, before
losing to the Stanfield Ti-
gers on Saturday.
The Mustangs (13-6
overall, 4-3 BMC) were
ranked ninth in Blue Moun-
tain Conference standings
going into the game against
the fourth-ranked Enter-
prise team. They raced out
to an early 8-2lead in the
first quarter. Cici Stefani
put in five points in the sec-
ond quarter to give Heppner
a 16-12 lead at the half.
The Lady Mustangs
continued their winning
ways in the second half,
outscoring the Outlaws
15-7 to take the win with a
final score of 31-19.
Hallee Hisler led the
Lady Mustangs with eight
points and seven rebounds,
while Stefani had seven
points and six rebounds.
Healy Hisler and Lily Nich-
ols each had five points,
while Isa Payne hauled
down six rebounds.
The Lady Mustangs
lost their momentum on
Saturday, when they lost at
home 51-28 to the BMC’s
number-two ranked team,
the Stanfield Tigers.
The Tigers have been
a tough team to beat this
season. The Stanfield team
has several tall players with
one of their most formida-
ble players, Mazie Reeser,
topping the list at 5’11”.
It was Reeser who scored
23 of Stanfield’s 51 game
points.
The Tigers outscored
the Lady Mustangs 33-10
at the half. Even though
the Heppner girls closed the
gap with an even second
half, they were unable to
overtake the Tigers before
the final buzzer.
Cici Stefani led Hep-
pner in scoring with 13
points, while Hallee Hisler
chipped in nine.
The Lady Mustangs
are currently seventh in
the BMC standings. They
travel to Grant Union to
face the Prospectors at 6
p.m. Friday before hosting
the Weston-McEwen Ti-
gerScots Saturday at 4 p.m.
Delaney Stefani is still out
with an injury, but may see
action next week.
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The Heppner Mustang
junior varsity boys’ basket-
ball team split its games last
weekend. The JV Mustangs
beat the Stanfield Tigers
47-45 and then lost another
close game to the Enterprise
Outlaws by the score of
41-38.
After losing to Stan-
field in their gym, the Mus-
tangs put together a great
game plan and executed it
well to get the win at home.
Heppner led 15-13 at the
end of the first quarter and
31-28 at halftime.
Stanfield outscored the
Mustangs 13-8 in the third
quarter but then Heppner
doubled up the Tigers in the
fourth 8-4. Brody McDaniel
scored a basket with just
seconds left in the game to
break a tie and secure the
win by the score of 47-45.
Heppner had three
players in double figures in
the game with Jace Wilson
scoring 13 points while
Gage Heideman had 12;
with 11 points was Tripp
Light shines down on the center mat for the BEO Invitation-
al at the HHS gym. - Contributed Photo
Stewart. Alakae Rodriguez
finished with four, Mason
Seitz had three points, and
Brody McDaniel and Darby
Spivey each scored two.
After the long bus ride
to Enterprise, the Mustangs
were in a close game in
the first half. Enterprise
led 14-10 at the end of the
first quarter and 24-21 at
the half.
A big third quarter by
the Mustangs, as they out-
scored the Outlaws 16-6,
had Heppner leading the
game 37-30 at the end of
three. A Mustang scoring
slump in the fourth quarter,
as they could only manage
one point, saw the Outlaws
score 11 points and get the
win by the score of 41-38.
Jace Wilson led the
team in scoring with 13.
Scoring six points each
were Mason Seitz, Tripp
Stewart and Brody Mc-
Daniel. Caylan Proudfoot
finished with five points
and Darby Spivey had four.
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