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About The Grantonian (Portland, Ore.) 19??-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1970)
February Í3, 1970 THE GRANTONIAN 3 Generals eye tough three-game week Ccyitt Commentò 1 44. STEVE CRANE, member of the varsity basketball team, puts up a jump shot over Benson defenders in crucial game with the Engineers last Friday. Benson won the contest 50-46. by Steve Johnson “We need to win all of our remaining games if we want to make the playoffs!” exclaimed basketball coach Ed Rooney. THE FIRST ROADBLOCK along the way comes in the form of the Lincoln Cardinals. The G-men will journey to Lincoln’s gym tonight for an 8 p.m. en counter. Coach Rooney lists the Cards as a much improved team since they last played the Gen erals. The final score saw Lin coln come out on the short end of an 85-61 count. “They are improving and also they have a boy named Coch ran, who didn’t play against us last time. He is a good shooter and he scores well from the in side,” Mr. Rooney stated. THE NEXT HURDLE for the G-men will be the Marshall Minutemen tomorrow night at Grant. Starting time for the game will be 7:30. “Four players have been scor ing well for Marshall. Tom Green and Joe Schmidt, a fresh man, have played well at the guard spots. Forwards Don Ac- curdi and Bob Larson have been Varsity wrestlers end season tonight teams that it has ever come up by Gary Cogill Tonight the General grap- with. And that is saying quite a ’ piers end their successful dual bit when it has turned out such meet season with a match ’ wrestlers as Rick Sanders and against Lincoln at 8:00 in the Wayne Karney. One of the most outstand new gym, here. ing wrestlers this year for “We want to end the sea Lincoln is Alan Tonkin at son with a win,” comment 178 lbs. ed Coach Shewbert about Last week the varsity team his team. “We are getting ready for the city tourna dropped their first dual meet of ment and this last dual the season to Marshall, 22-21, in meet will be a part of dur the Marshall gym. The score was one of the many indications of conditioning,” he added. According to Mr. Shewbert, how close the match actually Lincoln has one of the strongest was. An estimated crowd of well Presents Student of the Week Jeff Pittman Jeff is a general council rep and so cial commissioner for NHS. He has lettered 4 years in varsity swimming and was a co-Hall of Famer. Besides this, he is a member of the senior class council, Kandahar, and went on the summer European Studies Trip. Aiunt & fei Your Natural Shoulder Store ye nlde gift shoppe fur men over one thousand spectators saw Marshall take a 16-6 lead and then watched it dwindle into the Generals’ hands 21-19, going into the final match. Many people left the gym last Friday saying, “That was the best wrestling meet I have ever seen.” When asked what he thought about the large crowd for the dual match Coach Shew bert said, “I think that it’s great for wrestling. The crowd helped the sport tremendously. I am very pleased with the support of the students.” This year the city tournament will again be held at Grant, and when talking, to members of the varsity team, all they could say was that they are going avenge their loss. scoring well lately,” Mr. Rooney noted. CLEVELAND IS paced by guard Bob Stanley, who leads all PIL scorers with a 19.2 point average. The Indians will play here at 7:30 on Tuesday. A re peat of the first game played by these two Green Division teams would please Coach Rooney. “We shot very well and got our fast break going in our first game with Cleveland. They were very cold in the first half,” Mr. Rooney explained. “We are hop ing to contain Stanley like we did in the 91-38 game.” Of last Friday’s 50-46 loss to Benson, Mr. Rooney comment ed: “That was the worst we’ve ever shot (.270) and it was the only game, besides the Central Catholic game, that we were out rebounded. “We didn’t get our running game going because they were so quick to get back on defense. Poor free-throw shooting and too many fouls also hurt us. I was pleased, though, with June Jones’ continued improvement.” Jones was three for four from the field. Artie Wilson hit for 13 points against Benson, despite a cold shooting night. He now ranks as the fifth leading PIL individual scorer, with a 16.4 point aver age. by Gary Cogill During the past four week ends, members of the varsity wrestling team have been in structing grade school “giants” on the art of wrestling. This program has been in existence for some eight years and according to Mr. Robert Shewbert, this has been the most successful year. Hundreds of parents turned out for the final weekend last Saturday to watch their young sters in an actual match with someone their own size and weight. This year, close to a thousand grade - schoolers turned out for the program, ranging from the 1-8 grades. They are taught how to do many different types of exer cises to warm up, in addition to basic fundamentals in wres tling. Their coaches are none other than the members of the varsitey, J.V., and frosh wres tling teams. This program has helped the P.I.L. in wrestling a great deal. Most of the members of the wrestling team were in grade school, and participated in this program while they were there. Cost for entering this wres tling program is 1.00. The mon ey goes for the purchasing of a tee-shirt for the boys After each practice on Satur day, the boys are stressed in the importance of good sportsman ship and keeping clean. Gymnastics team stopped by Scots; Griffith, Talbot outstanding performers Freshman Denise Griffith won first place in the balance beam, floor exercise, and all around competition, as she led the girls’ gymnastics team to a second place finish in a triangular meet on February 5. Winning the girls’ competi tion was the team from David Douglas with 122 points. David Douglas, a perennial state power in gymnastics, boasts a very strong team again this year. Grant’s total was 101 points. Other girls who scored well for Grant include Laurie Smith, who took fourth in the floor ex ercise, and Annie Moorman, who placed fifth in the vaulting com petition. The boys’ team, which has been plagued by injuries all year, came up with a good ef fort, but had to settle for third place in the meet. David Douglas scored 131 points to win the meet. Jackson was second with 10.... points and the G-men were a close third with 102 points. Individually, John Talbot picked up a pair of second place finishes. He won the seconds in vaulting and in floor exercise. Dave Allred finished second in the high bar competition. Tak ing a third place in the rings was Ron Elsassor. Another who did well in the sidehorse was Dave Miller, who took fourth place. Frosh grqpplers crush opponents This year’s freshman wres tling team is described by Coach Jim Johnsrud as “terrific.” They easily won their first six meets and will close out their eight-meet season tonight against Lincoln. “The lowest point total we’ve scored is 49, which is indicative of how good these boys are,” Mr. Johnsrud related. “Many of the boys played football this fall. Marshall and Wilson beat us in football, but on the mat, we trounced them.” Against Marshall, the frosh grapplers won easily by a score of 50-26. “The Wilson team was described by their coach as the best he’d had in 15 years. We beat them 68-0,” Mr. Johnsrud proudly added. Captains for the team are Dave Nicholas, Dave Yakymi, and Greg Wolfley. Yakymi, who wrestles at 1:30 lbs., was un defeated after six matches. He pinned every opponent. IMMEDIATE OPENINGS 20 N. 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