Young grapplers
come back to
whip PLU 23-20
By Rob Conner
Of The Print
Norm Berney’s wrestling
squad started the new year out
on a good note with what
many in wrestling circles
would call a major upset.
Clackamas turned back
Pacific Lutheran University
23-20 Wednesday in Tacoma.
Larry Owens
Photo by Wayne Vertz
'On the run
Oregonian didn’t give
Seattle Seahawks justice
By Rob Conner
Sports Editor
I don’t remember the Portland Storm,
of the long since defunct World Football
League, ever winning the league’s champion
ship. In fact, I don’t remember an Oregon
football team ever doing much of anything.
So there!
All the anti-Seahawk garb in the Orego
nian on Monday morning seemed to have
stemmed from a George Pasero editorial
several weeks ago, in which he denounced
the Seattle National Football League fran
chise as the Northwest’s team.
All of this coming after an NFL ’83
piece on the Seahawk faithful that fly down
from Alaska for all Seattle home games. The
Hawks were in the thick of the play-off bat
tle but dropped to seven and seven that
week.
With play-off hopes looking bleak,
Pasero said something to the effect that the
Seahawks aren’t the Northwest’s team (He
would rather watch the Forty-Niners or one
of the state’s college “football” teams) and
are going nowhere near the play-offs.
FACE!
Back to the point at hand, the way the
Oregonian covered the game. It seemed that
everyone was getting into the act, hopping
aboard the Pasero-driven bandwagon.
Even Ken Wheeler, if you can believe it,
got in a punch via his story entitled
“Williams runs wild in 125-110 Sonic win.”
Wheeler’s lead read “The Seattle Sonics, in a
hurry to reclaim the sports stage the football
Seahawks had just vacated, ripped the
Portland Trail Blazers apart here Sunday
night to romp a 125-110 win.” (Yet another
Seattle victory).
Oregonian staff writer Dwight Jaynes
must have done some boxing in his day. I’m
not sure of his weight but with the blows he
^relentlessly fired at the Seahawks he could
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have knocked out Larry Holmes Monday
morning.
“Raiders destroy Seahawks, march into
Super Bowl” read the six column 48 point
bold headline. Jaynes launched a right hook
that landed flush on the weary Seahawks’
chin to start the second paragraph. “The
Seahawks, right in the middle of the biggest
moment in the team’s history, just embar
rassed themselves no end in a 30-14 loss to
the Los Angeles Raiders.”
Jaynes ended the fourth paragraph with
a flurry of blows that rocked the Seattle
team. “Thanks to Seattle’s ineptitude, the
Raiders got off three weeks (before the
Super Bowl),” he wrote.
What is this?! Since its inception into
the league the Seattle football team has serv
ed as a proverbial punching bag for jour
nalists and football fans throughout the
country. Ask anybody in the Miami area if
the Seattle Seahawks are a push over. Hard
ly-
One question George. If the Forty-
Niners are more the Northwest’s team than
the Seahawks, why weren’t Dwight Jaynes
and Steve Duin in Washington D.C. cover
ing the Redskin-Forty-Niner game (which
the Niners lost by the way)?
In my weekly (?) sports column “On the
run” Wednesday, October 19 issue of The
Print, when the Seahawks were 4-3, my
headline read “Seahawks for real in ’83.”
Seattle was 11-7 in 1983, I didn’t say
anything about 1984. Contrary to popular
opinion in Oregon, the Seattle Seahawks
were for real in 1983.
A far cry from football in Oregon,
where the Portland Steelheaders are the best
team around. To quote the “Big Daddy,”
football in Oregon is “what a fat boy otta
have for lunch.”
George, watch what you say about the
Mariners, the only chance for “big league”
baseball in Oregon is if somebody throws
together a World Baseball League. Ha!
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“That was an upset to
me. I knew we had the ability
but I wasn’t sure we were in
good enough shape,” Berney
said.
Even more impressive is
the fact that Berney had seven
freshmen on the mats. Randy
Barkhurst at 145 and Scott
Ames at 193 were the only
Cougars in their second year
of competition.
Trailing 20-12 with two
matches to go Berney needed a
big match out of Ames
because Bob Young was to
receive
a
forfeit
at
heavyweight. Ames, who
transferred in from the
University of Oregon, did not
disappoint as he throttled
Keith Eager 21-3. “He won
the match for us actually,”
Berney commented.
The Cougar coach felt
that the match at 170 was a
turning point for his squad.
Trailing 3-2 after the first
round Clackamas’ Larry Joe
Tanner recorded the team’s
only fall of the night at the
4:12 mark in the match. “He
had come out of the first
round behind. It gave us a real
uplift,” Berney said.
After losing to Andy
Somera in the state tourna
ment last year 9-0, Clackamas’
121 pound Stacy Shum return
ed the favor by posting a 10-7
victory. The win gave
Clackamas its only lead, 3-0.
The Cougars’ next win
didn’t come until the 153
pound match which pitted
Blaine Schutzler against
PLU’s Mark Phillips.
Schutzler recorded two near
falls as he commanded the
match recording a 9-4 victory.
Berney was impressed
with the effort of Brian
Schutzler who was forced to
move up two weight classes
from 145 to 161. Schutzler did
a “good job” in a 14-6 loss to
PLU senior and former state
champion Jeff Lipp.
Berney feels that condi
tioning is his team’s greatest
weakness. Poor conditioning
throws timing, execution, and
technique off, the coach feels.
“Commitment and dedication
is what the team needs,” he
said.
If the Cougar grapplers
aren’t in shape today, they had
better be in shape by the time
North Idaho gets in town.
North Idaho was third as a
team last year at the national
tournament. They posted a
19-0 record last season and
haven’t been beaten in dual
meet action since 1980. Grays
Harbor Community College
will also send a team.
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