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........... . . — .»WW P ost S p orts Huskies swamp JV team, 32-12 George Custer thought he had problems. Surrounded, outplayed and out-quicked, the Sandy JV football team experienced their own Little Big Horn last Thursday, losing to an op portunistic crowd from Sweet Home, 32-12. The Pioneers had problems from the opening play—when quarterback Rick F ry was hit behind the line of scrimmage and fumbled the ball away. Sweet Home, revealing a surprise unbalanced line, took just three plays to march 25 yards for the score—and with less than two minutes gone owned a 6-0 lead. Showing a keen desire to drop still further behind, the Pioneers on th e ir next posession graciously allowed Sweet Home to block a punt 16-6, to stay in the running for a playoff spot. THE PIONEERS race down a corridor of their supporters at the start of following a bad snap. The the second half of last Friday’s game. The Pioneers defeated Silverton. Huskies recovered in Sandy’s end zone, and boom, it was 12-0 before the home team had so much as gained a first down. Late in the first quarter the Sandy offense came to life, driving down to the Sweet against the long yardage m ale you cover the field, then The Sandy Pioneers showed lofted a pass to Dale Thomas hole deep in their own territory. Home 10 with some timely pass Overall, the Sandy offense situations they continually pass the ball where you completions by Fry. that there may be more to their for the score. aren’t,” Harris said. “ We’ll try ground out 252 yards, the most forced Silverton into. Sandy threatened several playoff hopes than just wishful Unfortunately the Huskies yet this year. The Pioneers will attempt to to cause problems for them by thinking last Friday by beating times in the first half, but suddenly slammed the door on disguising defenses and “ The key was the line play,” improve their record Thursday fumbles and penalties nipped Silverton 16-6 to stay in a tie for Sandy and the Pioneers were said offensive backfield coach against the Molalla Indians, a keeping them off-balance. drives in the bud. The Pioneer’s second place with Canby. forced to give up the football on The Pioneers will be without Glen Smith. “ Most of those team that has yet to win a only first half tally came when “ TTiat really feels good,” downs. the services of wide receiver coach Woody Allen said of the Skogan drilled a 22-yard field yards cam e between the league game. On two other occasions Steve McGraw, who injured his tackles. ’’ win in the noisy, jubilant goal in the second quarter. The Indians run the so-called during the game were the ankle in the third quarter On defense Sandy held The third frame saw both Pioneer locker room Friday “ run and shoot’’ offense, a Pioneers to drive within 15 teams get shut out, then Sandy Silverton to 186 yards and pass-oriented attack that puts against Silverton. McGraw will night. yards of a desperately needed be out for one week, but is forced five turnovers on two unleashed their fourth quarter The victory raised Sandy’s four receivers out wide with expected to be back in action six—only to come away empty fumbles and three in only one running back. league record to 2-1 and gives fireworks to collect the win. handed, the distant sound of next Friday against Estacada. terceptions. “ We played very con them a shot at a playoff shot “ They aren’t very good, but bugles turning from charge to Due to a division-wide in- “ It took us a few minutes to they present some special should they win their next two sistently,” said Allen of his taps. day “ F rid a y the games against Molalla and troops. “ We finally had the get under way,” said defensive problems,” Harris said. This service Sandy finally got some points ability to take what the op coordinator Lynn H arris, will be the first time this year Pioneers have just three days Estacada. on the board in the second Sandy kept its Homecoming position was giving us defen alluding to the first Silverton the Pioneers have faced such to prepare for the Indians. quarter when Rick Fry un Kickoff Thursday will be at 8 . score, "but then we played with sively.” crowd waiting until late in the an offense. p>m. in Rannow Stadium.,.. ' corked a 22-yard touchdown And take they did, as the more intelligence and in game before sealing the win, "They try to spread out and ft i J c i. i tensity.’’ however, and trailed 6-3 going Sandy interior line frequently "We have about 10 defensive ripped great, gaping holes in into the final frame. Then. Rayth Buswell capped the Fox defense for the Pioneer goals for each game,” Harris continued, “ and if we have half a solid Sandy drive with a two- runners. The greatest beneficiary of of them we’re in the ball game yard dash into the end zone and Barbie King at 13:31 and Randy Skogan booted the point the fine blocking was Rayth and six of them, we should win. The Sandy boys varsity Leann Madison led Sandy to a Laura Edgren in 14:22. after to put Sandy up front, 10-6. Buswell, who led all rushers This game we got seven.” cross-country team took sixth fourth place finish. Forest Grove won the girls Some of those goals included The Pioneers put the game on with 110 yards in 15 carries, his Madison toured the 3000 place Monday in the C.V.L. limiting Silverton to less than Invitational meet at Champoeg meter course in a time of 12:02, meet with a low score of 52 ice just minutes later as Kevin season high. points. Sandy collected 142 100 yards passing or rushing B ill Rodden and Kevin Peterson scooped up a Fox park. All 12 schools in Sandy’s putting her in the sixth spot points in their fourth place ef fumble on the Silverton 48 and Peterson also ran for big and intercepting one of every league competed in the meet. overall. fort. galloped into the end zone for yardage as Rodden picked up seven passes. In eleventh place was Sue The Pioneers were led by The defense played so well, 60 yards in seven carries while the final score. The junior varsity runners junior harrier Ken Urban, who Wislon at 12:23, followed by in fact, that Harris changed posted a time of 16:27 over the Silverton had taken an early Peterson boomed along for 51 the defensive game plan during lead in the game, driving down yards, including a 36-yard 5000 meter course, good for a the game, switching from the 6- to the Sandy 14 from where effort in the third quarter that fourth place finish. 1 defensive alignment they had quarterback George Koster moved the Pioneers out of a Next for the Pioneers was planned on using to a 5-2 set, Jeff Griffin in 17:31, followed which was more effective by Jerome Choate in 18:20 and i > Roger Hill with a time of 18:34. The meet was won by Astoria with a combined time of 85.19. liver the eyes dilate, the by Douglas Gantenbein cranium shrinks, the skin pales Sandy Rexall 16 4 Sandy, at sixth, tallied a 90:18 sports editor and hangs loosely from the Decker’s 13 7 combined itme. The Pioneers fared a little bones and the once-sharp Sharon’s Pantry 11 9 writer is reduced to a babbling Sandy Auto body 11 9 better in the girls division as I can feel it. . . just beginning idiot repeating over and over Clackamas Co. Bank 9 11 to take hold. Sports writers "P U N T. . . PUNT. . . P U N T." The Mafia 9 11 bloat—the undoing of some of The only known cure is a Smith Motors 8 12 Located 1'/» m iles the best. Sheppard Const. 3 17 hatpin through the frontal lobes east o f Sandy on It makes its dread ap to cut off all but the major Eagle Foundry 13 7 pearance at the instant you Hwy. 26, w est end b f Bob Wesselink: motor reflexes, which are 237 Runnings 12 g realize that every adjective for Vic's A u to Parts. Udene Urban: breathe, eat and rattle off box Zig Zag Inn 11 9 win, lose or draw in Roget’s Udene Urban : 627 scores. Action Auto 1 10 10 thesaurus has been used up. Decker’s 1026 TTiat, or a long term of duty Calico Country 10 10 Gone. Finished. Decker’s 2926 editing the society page. Sandy Lbr. & Hdw. 9 n But the panic is only tem Jim M iddlebrooks Alpine Hut g 12 porary for other symptoms NEED OFFICE HELP* 000 T.J.’s 7 13 begin to appear. As all the TRY THE CLASSIFIEDS Ah, my poor Dodgers. Losing adrenalin is sucked into the the first game of their long- anticipated series was a cruel blow indeed Still, I see no reason for Dodger fans to despair. The Yanks, of course, are a hapless bunch of overpaid sandlotters who shouldn’t put up too much more of a fight. . . Kidding, just kidding. New York played mighty tough ball to get by Kansas City. However, I don’t think their injury-plagued pitching staff will prove up to the task of quelling the Dodger bats. I see it as a six game series with L A taking it in the end. New York should win one game on hitting and another on pit ching—and since G u llett already gave them their pit ching win that mean they’ll win one more on their bats—but no more. Unfortunately, this is going to press at the same time as the game is starting so by the time you read this I could’ve already been made into a fool. Ah, well. Whoever you are for, Mon day nig h t’s opener surely presented perhaps the finest expression this year of what baseball is all about The Dodger's ninth inning rally against New York ace Sparky Lyle was as good a display of clutch-hitting as you’ll see. and Jerry ^rote’s Pioneers clip Foxes, 16-6 strike to Kevin Dougherty, who made a lunging catch at the five and kept his balance into the end zone. The two teams exchanged punts, then Sweet Home struck again when a Fry pass found the wrong hands waiting and the subsequent interception return put the Huskies in scoring position once more- —and score they did to make it 166 It appeared that margin would hold until half-time when a fine Sandy punt put Sweet Home 55 yards from paydirt late in the second quarter, but with just seconds to go a 38- yard Husky touchdown pass served to completely knock the stuffings from the by now beleaguered Pioneers. Sweet Home scored twice more in each of the last quarters while Sandy achieved some respectability on a one- yard keeper by Rick F ry early in the fourth frame. The Y in -Y an g contrast between this week’s jayvee performance and other, more productive ones, left Sandy coach Chris Knudsen shaking his head. “ We were less than awesome,” Knudsen admitted. “ They were so much quicker than us—by the time we reacted they had five or six yards.” Conversly the Sandy backs were often caught an equal distance behind their own line- —and quarterback Fry was rarely able to get back in the pocket before one or two snarling and snapping Huskies had a hammerlock on his ankle. But despite some rough treatment Fry had his best day . . ►.„Si , of the year in the air, com pleting 12 of 22 for 138 yards and the first Sandy touchdown. Less encouraging was the pounding suffered by the Sandy running backs. Allen Lowe, accustomed to getting over 100 yards a game, was limited to just 42 yards in 13 attempts while backfield mate Mike Trachsel got a skimpy 21 yards on seven shots. Knudsen put some blame for the defeat on the inability of his troops to adjust to Sweet Home’s shoot-the-gap defense and th e ir unexpected un balanced line—in which one side ended with a tackle instead of the usual tight end. “ We tried to overshift,” Knudsen said of the Sandy attempts to slow the Husky attack, "but it didn’t work.” Indicative of Sweet Home’s effectiveness running was the fact that the Pioneer’s leading tackier was Lowe—on defense a comerback. Following his tally of 14 stops was linebacker Trachsel with 13 and tackle Jeff Sprouse with 12. W hile the contest was Thursday, Knudsen said he felt his team "lost the game all week” due to three days of generally poor practices. “ There were just too many distractions,” he added, noting that many of his players had been heavily involved in Homecoming activities. “ But we’re going to forget this game and go on to the next,” Knudsen said firm ly. The jayvees face Silverton next, in a game to be played on the Foxes’ home field. Hopefully the Pioneers will get their big gins unspiked and have something to shoot back with. After all, the guys in the Alamo were just visiting, too. Sandy takes sixth, fourth at CVL meet s Auto Repair 10% DISCOUNT also took fourth, hammering down that position on the strength of Dave Slack’s first place finish. Slack has a time of 10:25 to take top honors. Eighteenth for the Pioneers was John Stables, who clocked a time of 11:21 over the course. Jim Forquer was 27th in 11:40. The jayvees collected 126 points for their efforts as op posed to first place Dallas’s 63. The Pioneers tra v e l to Clackam as High School S aturday for the 28-team Clackamas Invitational Meet. cat-like play behind home plate kept the game going into in nings that wouldn’t have happened had a less skillful catcher been in. "victorious coach” quotes from Woody Allen. Walking down the stadium steps, I heard a kind of muffled chant flowing like thunder out of the Pioneer clubhouse. At first, it sounded like “ aren’t we fine, aren’t we fine, a re n ’t we fine. . . ’ ’T hat seemed plausible. After all, they had juBt posted a fine win over the Foxes. •▼ H TM L. Men’s bowling FOR SENIOR CITIZENS 668-4563 Early birds > All types of repair Z Need an airline? We implore you Let your fingers land it for you. yellow pages 000 I wasn’t always a baseball fan. In fact, it has been just recently that I have started to spend Saturday mornings or Monday nights glued to a glowing television set, clawing wildly at the screen while scream ing for somebody, ANYBODY to rip the LUNGS out of that umpire who just called Steve Garvey out at home. Which is behavior not at all suited for the sport, as baseball is one of the few competitive activities left with even a shred of dignity. Baseball has experienced a real re-birth recently, and aside from all the hoopla about livelier balls (the “ Rawlings rabbit” ), bizarre uniforms and free agents the fact is that baseball has rem ained relatively unchanged. It ’s still the subtle, easy-going game it always was, where the runner rounding second will almost stop to exchange pleasantries with a second baseman he happens to know At least, I hope it’s still that way. A nasty, spike-'em-in-the- shin philosophy seemed to prevail in the American league playoff. I hope that was a temporary aberration, not a move toward the legalized massacre that hockey (also a former game of grace—until less-skilled players came in to make their point with force) and football have become But then I recognized with a start my name being hollered, over and over. None too politely, either. “ Gan tenbein. . . Gantenbein. . . ” Hmm. That’s kind of like reading in Time magazine that notorious mobster Benny “ Bambi” Carullo has just put a price on your head. Seems the team and I didn’t see eye to eye on my predic tions. And for sure, I had predicted a Sandy lass. But that’s the nature of this kind of thing—if you win, you lose. If you lose, you win. Voodoo yells not withstanding, this week I ’m willing to go with the flow. The improved Sandy defense should not have too much trouble with Molalla, although a pass or two could slip through for six. But, if the Sandy offense can keep improving, and especially if they cut out those useless fumbles, they should score more than enough points. Fumbles and pen-' alties—that’s the t key. There is now no way the Pioneers can call themselves a sound, consistent ball clubiaitil they stop killing half their drives with errors. S till, even allowing for mistakes the Indians shoukkit 000 Kind of an ominous thing be too tough It looks like Sandy, 24, and Molalla, 6. happened to me last Friday. Now don’t get overconfident, Following the game that night -Sandy's 16-6 win over guys Oh, by the w ay-th aiA s for SUvertan—I thought I ’d <kup by the locker room to get some pronouncing it right 1/
