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10 - SANDY (Ora.) POST Thun.. Sept. 9. 1976 Back to school, back to fall sports at SUHS Water polo team hosts potent Parkrose Revitalized but cautious, gridders to test Dallas by Keith Klippstein sports editor Football season at Sandy Union High School kicks off Friday night when the Pioneers host Dallas at 8 on Pop Rannow Field After a steady scrimmage last week, coach Woody Allen is ready to steer his team headlong into the Dragons Despite a 2-7 record and a 27-6 loss to Dallas last year. Sandy is revitalized but cautious “ Our ch aracter w ill be severely tested." said Allen. “ Dallas is a tough competitor and how we handle this game will tell us how we’ll play the rest of the year.” Allen said that the Dragons are always usually loaded with fast and big players. The Dragons also boast of an un defeated JV team last year to fill in gaps where graduation robbed top notch D allas players. “ We’ve very optimistic about the game with Dallas." said the Sandy grid coach. "We feel that we can win it. They’re well coached and big but w ere ready to play.” Allen is excited with the team morale. "The players have taken it upon themselves to organize the team and release the coaching staff from the duties of motivating them selves and setting goals. I ’m proud that they are willing to do this for themselves “ I'm still concerned, though, because we’re still untested," Allen continued. “ I t ’s one thing to talk a good game, it’s another to play one.” Allen also noted pleasure with the JV squad, adding that the team had plenty of spirit and talent to indicate a par ticularly strong team in the future Of last week’s scrimmage, Allen studied his team and developed a starting lineup But he’ll study the team further in the home opener and the next two games, which will be non-counters on the CVL slate. "1 was pleased with the fact that there were no real mental mistakes.” said Allen “ We did show we could move the ball and we’ve become quicker as a team. “ I t ’s early to accurately assess this team. After the first game I ’ll know what parts of our game we can em phasize. Meanwhile we can spend time polishing our total offensive and defensive games." Defensive players Wade Bus we 11 and M ark Halverson will be sitting out the opening game because of a lack of pre season workouts. They should be ready to play by next weekend. "They'll be a help to us. but they’ll have to earn their spots," said Allen. O ffen sively. Allen listed his starting lineup as: quarter back. Scott Cravens; tailback. Jack Paola; fullback. Dave Turin; wide receiver. Randy Keller, ends. Bill Rodden and K e v in G e rn h a rt; tackles. Dennis Howe and Rob Alien, guards, M artin Junkins and Bill Exum and center. Jeff Namhie. All but juniors Exum, Howe, and Rodden are seniors. Defensively, the starting Pioneers will be. safeties, M a rk Antis and Steve McGraw; cornerbacks, Kevin Gernhart and Randy Keller; tackles, Randy Skogan, Jeff Namhie and Brad Paluck; line backers. Rick Warren and Dave Turin and ends, Rob Allen and Jack Paola. Warren, McGraw and Skogan are juniors on the senior- dominated defensive squad. Volleyballers shoot for top of division The m erit of the 1976 Sandy Union High School g irls ’ volleyball team w ill be tested very early this season After the season opener at Barlow High School Friday at 4 p.m., the Pioneer volleyball squad will host Beaverton, the defending state champion. Sept. I6 a t5 p .m . “ It should be a good one,” said coach Ron G rantz, speaking of the upcoming contest. “ I t ’s right before our league opener and we’ll be able to see how good we are.” As it is Grantz figures his club to fit either in first or second in division. T m fairly optimistic,” said Grantz. “ We’ll be striving to be one or two in the division. As long as we stay healthy we’ll do well.” After two weeks of practice, Grantz has tapped eight girls out of a proposed 12 for the varsity and freshman teams. B U XTO N 'S M e a t Com pany Sandy 6 M M 1 I Custom Slaughtering Grain Fed Locker Beef Cut, Wrapped & Frozen — Locker Packs Cattle Hauling on Tuesdays We Do Our Own Cure & Smoking ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “ They’ve done quite well for the time they’ve put in," said G rantz. “ W e’re ahead of schedule and that’s because we only lost one starter from last year’s team, which finished 5-5 for the league season.” The eight girls who have already cinched varsity team slots including Lori Oldenburg, Sarah K oepke, Rebecca Koepke, Jenny Johns, Linda Stone, Jennifer McCoy, Jeanne Duff. Karen Hashagen and Nancy Perkins. Johns may be questionable for the full season, though, as she has an infection of the spine which could flare up and sideline her Grantz, who will be joined by three other coaches, Molly Urness (J V coach), Gary Curtis (freshman coach) and Roger Ford (an assistant for the whole program) has in stalled a 4-2 playing system. The system adjust to a four spiker-two setter lineup after a serve and Grantz is satisfied with the team's adaption to it. After the team skirts through two non-league openers, in cluding the stern test with Beaverton, the Pioneers will open their league season at Silverton Sept. .21. The Silver Foxes took the Valley division title last year but graduated all 12 of their starters. Silverton still can draw from a junior varsity squad that lost only once last year. G rantz also counts on Estacada as being a division contender ^oip LEARN TO SKATE ROLLER SMTIRR RT ITS REST Children’s Classes Start Saturday Sept. 11th 12 Noon Adult Classes Start Thursday, Sopt. 16th 6:30 p.m. Learn Forward - Backward Skating, Turns and Dance steps 3 Professional Instructors For more information eall Gresham Skate World 667-6543 HOURS M onday th ru Thuaday 1 p.m . to 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 10 p^n. Friday* and S aturday* 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p jn . to 11:30 p.m. Sundays 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. G resh Between Di virion and Mt. Hood Freeway (Burn rid*) ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ An extra week of practice GYMNASTICS IS the only sport at Sandy High School not opening its fall season this week. Bat it will become an interscholastic sport for the first time at SUHS an Sept. 2* at Barlow High School. Pictured here to gymnast P atti Waters lending a helping hand to teammate Shanna Antis on the balance beam during a recent practice. Coach John Stump reports that the team at 12 to oa schedule for the season opener after two weeks of workouts. (Post photo) by Ken Durbin Pioneer sporting calendar handling firearms naturally increases during hunting season and this is when most accidents involving firearms occur. So fa r this year there have been only nine hunting injuries involving firearms, none of them fatal and all self-inflicted. That figure matched the pre season count for 1974, which had the record low for injuries in a y e a ra t3 5 . Since 1962, while the number of people hunting in Oregon has increased, the trend in hunting- related accidents with firearms has steadily decreased. 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Alvarez, before coming to Sandy. played water polo for Southern Oregon State College where he was an NAIA All-American and was on the national small college all- star team for two years He will join the Sandy staff as head pool guard and a water safety instructor “ We'll learn a lot from Parkrose and the other teams.” Alvarez continued, “ These teams are so strong. We'll use the first game to see who has the ability to handle the positions " Smith noted that he hopes the team can improve on last year's 3-6 record “ We're hoping to break even this season," said Smith. “ If we can do better, it will be because of team cohesiveneu and morale ” Smith added that there will be no junior varsity program this season, but invites all In terested people to turn out for water polo at this time. “ It will hurt not having a JV program,” said the coach. "But we need more people It would help the program " In fielding a team of seven. Smith and Alvarez can draw from I I athletes, including seniors Linda Johnson. Chris Roth. Jim Russell and Jeff Youngbluth, ju n io r Randy Polivka, sophomores Huie Haze let t, Gary Roth, Scott laiyton and Mark Gibson and freshmen Hank Hazelett and Scott Basham Harriers running short on numbers Croaa-country competition at Sandy Union High School this season will open just a little short of satisfying next Monday for coach LynnSondenaa he'd like more participation As of Tuesday Sondenaa counted four boys and one girl as officially cleared for the fall Hunting one of safest outdoor sports Each year one hears com ments about hunting from non enthusiasts, especially that the woods and fields are unsafe during the autumn hunting seasons. Statistics, however, do not agree on that fact as hunting actually ranks among the safest outdoor p a rtic ip a n t sports. Non-enthusiasts often have visions of hunters shooting indiscriminately and of ac cidents where hunters or other people are mistaken for game. In fact most accidents are self-inflicted or occur at very short range, often involving two members of the same party One-third of hunting casualties THURSDAY Water Polo — Parkrose at Sandy, also happen because a hunter 4 30 p.m. loads or allows a loaded FRIDAY firearm in a vehicle Nearly all Football — Dallas at Sandy, 8 p.m. volleyball — Sandy at Barlow, 4 of these could be prevented by p m. following the common sense MONDAY Cross Country — Sandy at rules of safe gun handling. McMinnville. 4 p.m. The number of Oregonians S k a te W o r ld 12 2 0 N E K e lly The water polo team at Sandy union High School has bad news and good news on it* 1976 schedule. The bad news is that the Pioneers will »till have to play Parkrose, David Douglas and Sunset this season The good news is that they won't have to play them all during one stretch of the schedule. Coach Mark Smith pointed out that the three schools, perennial top runners in the m etropolitan w ater polo league, are slotted in places on the schedule where Sandy can breathe instead of getting submerged in quick succession The season opener today with Parkrose will be one of the Pioneer’s toughest contests Set for the Sandy pool at 4:30 p.m. the Broncos will bring the remains from the state’s third- ranked teams of last year. Bu, what’s left should prove quite potent. When Sandy tested the Broncos last season, the Pioneers were drubbed 24-1. “We had a difficult time getting the ball down to score. We were pressed heavily,” said Smith of that contest Luckily Sandy will be able to wait until the middle of the season before taking on David Douglas, the state's second- ranked team of last year, and the end of regular season competition for Sunset. "W e re a young team that needs experience." said Russ Alvarez, Smith’s new assistant CARLSON MUHI SANDY possess a certificate of com attending one should check with a local sporting good* petency while hunting. The certificate can be ob store, sportsman's club, ser tained upon completion of the vice organization or call the hunter education course which - nearest office of the Stale Police or Fish and Wildlife covers a minimum of eight Department for information hours of instruction on safe With the major hunting handling of hunting equipment, seasons coming up, this is the wildlife management, hunting ethics and other related sub time for youngsters to take the course. It is also the time to jects. Hunter education courses are obtain duplicate cards if c u rre n tly being held necessary, available through throughout the state, according the Portland office of the Fish to Faast. Anyone interested in and Wildlife Department Eight Sandy swimmers tame Columbia waters Eight swimmers from the chardman, has trained in 82- Sandy area participated in the degree water and found that the 11th annual Labor Day cross- Columbia this year was the channel swim of the Columbia “ coldest ever” of his 34th crossings on Labor Day. But he River a t Hood River Monday. The Sandy group included issued his challenge for another try in 1977. Scott and B lain e Layton, The water temperature was Huie,Hank, Harvey, Herbie estimated at 61 degrees and and H arry Hazelett and Shawn that, along with choppy waves, Bums. Entrants numbered 150 for stopped more than six people the mile-long crossing, starting from completing the race, on the Washington shore to the including two from the Webster Oregon side, and came from clan. O reg o n , W a s h in g to n , C a lifo rn ia , Montana and Connecticut. Swimmers ranged from ages nine to 75, with at least 10 over 50 Roy Webster was the oldest entrant at 75, celebrating his birthday a few months late. Another change has occurred Included in his belated birthday swim was nine family mem on the Sandy Union High School bers, a son, Wayne, who has fall schedule, this time water also completed the length polo. The home and season opener several times; two daughters, two grandsons, two grand with Parkrose is now slated for Thursday, not F rid a y as nieces and a grandnephew Game W ebster, a re tire d or- originally scheduled time for the water polo match will be 4:30 p.m The same time will be for all Sandy home contests, rather than 4 p m as originally scheduled For the Sept 16 contest at Gresham the tip-off time has Eva Geisler scored a hole-in- been moved U>7 p m one Sept. 2 on the 9th hole at The first change in the Sandy Bowman’s Mt Hood Golf High fall schedule was on the Couse Geisler hit the ace off volleyball slate where all the women's tee over 12S yard* game* after the Friday opener with a five iron. will start at 5 p.m ., not 4 p.m as I t was her first ace in six v e o r t n f o n lfin if originally set. Changes made for water polo schedule Gelsler aces at Bowman's season while perhaps three to four boys and two to three girls are possible additions To launch a teem in the Coast-Valley League, a squad of five must represent a school. That number from Sandy may not be a problem for the boys’ squad, but Sondenaa fears that not enough girls may be available. “ I ’m going to try my best to have a girls’ team here,” said Sondenaa, who added that anyone who is interested in turning out for either cross country team can still do so. (Xherwise Julie Newman will be ticketed to the boys' junior varsity Newman, a sophomore with experience from quarter and half-miles last spring at Sandy, "has progressed very rapidly,” according to Son denaa This will be the first official season of girls' crass-country competition in the CVL. Son denaa said that seven out of the 12 mem ber schools w ill probably field girls' squads, adding that Sandy was on the borderline of fielding a full squad of five. The league has set the girls' cross-country course at 2.5 miles while the boys' will be a course of 3.1 miles On the boys’ side sophomore Ken Urban leads the Pioneer list. As of freshman last fall Urban was Sandy's top finisher at the district cross-country meet and also ran the two-mile last spring. Sondenaa called Urban “ our bright spot. He probably has the best chance of anyone on the team of going to state." Urban will be joined by two seasoned seniors in Ron Jensen and Paul B urke and a sophomore, Guy Jacobson, who ran long distances for last year’s track team. Those five will probably represent Sandy at the season opener at McMinnville Mon day, set for 4 p.m Sondenaa to hoping for the best, but expects that the competition will be strong. ” 1 don't anticipate that we'll do super good (a t McMinn ville)," Sondenna said "We got off to a slow start. I was In the summer school and we didn t have an official practice until Aug. 26, when the program would usually start Aug. 16. "But I’ve found that the people I have a re dedicated." Dedication will probably be necessary The McMinnville meet will be the first of seven on the season slate before district competition and it seems that the Pioneer harriers may have a lot to run after.
