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Sports & Recreation
Paola’s Pizza Barn
takes city title
It was billed as the World Series of Sandy.
In reality it was the championship series of the Sandy Softball League between
Adventist I and Paola’s Pizza Barn. But you wouldn’t find more enthusiasm or
competitiveness if you went to Yankee Stadium.
Paola’s got off to a big start in the best-of-three series winning the first game
last week 11-1. Several attempts at completing the series were thwarted by
baseball’s oldest nemesis, the rain.
But finally the clouds lifted just enough so that the final game could be played
Sunday.
Paola’s scored first, but fell behind the Adventist I team 4-2 in the early in
nings. But Paola’s came back, using a balanced hitting attack and aggression on
the basepaths for a six-run inning to sweep the game and the series. The final
score was 8-4.
Paola’s won the women’s division as well, going undefeated in the three-team
league. The teams can celebrate together, but not for long.
Spring training is just around the corner.
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Mike Mills beats the throw to first base
Mike Sutton watches in the rain
Interceptions thwart Sandy offense
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St. Helens “steals” football game from Pioneers, 15-6
by MARK FLOYD
Sports Editor
An old cliche adapted to sports reads: The team that
lives by the sword, dies by the sword.
The Sandy High football team passed away Friday night
— literally.
The passing attack that was to lead the Pioneers out of
their offensive doldrums betrayed them Friday night, as
St Helens used four interceptions to record a 15-6 Coast-
Valley League victory on the Lions' home turf.
The aerial thefts led directly to one St. Helens score and
kept the Pioneers mired deep in their own territory for
most of the second half.
Things weren’t much better in the first half, but with a
couple of breaks, Sandy went into the locker room tied 6-6
at the intermission.
St. Helens returned the opening kickoff 90 yards for a
touchdown, but the play was called back on a clipping
penalty. The Lions moved the ball to midfield before
stalling and punted to the Sandy 5-yard line.
On the Pioneers’ first play from scrimmage, halfback
Kevin Peterson tore around left end for a 15 yard gain.
However, the next two plays resulted in illegal procedure
calls against Sandy and the Pioneers had their backs to
the goal line once again.
On third down quarterback Royal Proctor faded back
and dumped a screen pass in the left flat which was picked
off and run in for a score by St. Helens defender Glen
Anderson.
Sandy came right back after foiling the extra point
attempt, returning the St. Helens kickoff past midfield. A
20 yard scamper by fullback Rayth Buswell put the
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the 3-yard line, Buswell carried it in for the touchdown.
The Lions blocked the extra point attempt and the score
remained tied 6-6.
On the first play following the kickoff, St. Helens
fumbled and Sandy recovered at the 30-yard line.
Then came what Sandy coach Lynn Harris felt was the
turning point in the ball game; two plays that took away
the momentum the Pioneers had established.
On first down, Peterson took a pitch from Proctor and
rolled to his left, stopping to fire a bomb to a Sandy
receiver who was open by nearly 10 yards on the goal line.
Unfortunately for Sandy, the ball sailed over the
receiver’s head by a large margin.
Sandy kept the ball moving, however, and picked up 15
yards in two plays for a 1st and 10 at the 15 yard line. Then
came the second big play.
Peterson carried up the middle and got popped by two
Lion defenders, which sent the ball 15 feet straight up in
the air. The fumble was recovered by St. Helens and
Sandy never mounted another serious scoring threat in
the game.
Things went from bad to worse in the second half for the
Pioneers The headphones to the pressbox quit working
and Harris was given a walkie-talkie to communicate with
his spotter.
“ I couldn't get that walkie-talkie to work right,” Harris
said. “ I kept cutting myself off in the middle of saying
something to my spotters.
“Then all of a sudden this voice on the walkie-talkie
starts screaming that we were on an emergency
frequency and were breaking FCC regulations, so I got rid
of the thing,” he added.
By the time Harris got oriented again, St. Helens had
the ba 11 near midfield. The Pioneers’ defense was using its
goal line technique — down on all fours — to stop the
successful attack of the bigger St. Helens squad.
On first down. Lion quarterback Shorty Ames pitched to
halfback Brad Domenighini who in turn lofted a pass to
split end Jerry Edwards for a 49 yard touchdown; the
same play that Sandy had misconnected on in the first
half
That ended the scoring in the game, save for a 21-yard
field goal by St. Helens in the waning minutes of the
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Harris blamed poor field position, courtesy of offensive
inconsistency, for the Pioneers’iailure to score.
“ In the second half it seemed like we were never where
we could operate,” Harris said. “ We never crossed the 50-
yard line until the game was decided.
“ We just lacked consistency,” he added. “ Even when
we did something right, we’d come back on the next play
or the next series of downs and flub it up.”
Sandy gained only 90 yards for the game; 52 rushing and
38 in the air. St. Helens picked up 215 yards.
The Pioneers’ passing attack, which was supposed to be
one of its strong points, netted only six completions in 18
attempts.
“ Our passing game is just a touch away from having
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it,” Harris said. “ We re so close, you can see it; the same
with our ruqping backs — I couldn’t see much wrong with
the way they played Friday.
“ Our question mark all along has been our offensive line
because of the inexperience,” he added, “ but they’re all
football players and it’s just the mental mistakes that are
hurting us They can be corrected.
“ We’ve poured a lot of football on these people in four
weeks and a lot of these mental errors are because we
haven’t paid enough attention to some small details,”
Harris said. “ Almost every position has one or two details
that we need to fix up and we re going to work on those in
practice this week
“ I expect by Friday we’ll be one of the most improved
teams you’ll ever see in a week.
Pioneer gymnasts break record,
but lose to Barlow in season opener
The Sandy High girls’ gymnastics team shattered a
school record last Tuesday, but wound up on the short end
of the score against Barlow, 110.15-76.03.
The team point total broke the record of 68 79 set by last
year’s team, but it was not enough to stop the Barlow
squad, particularly Christie Olson.
Olson took the all-around competition over Sandy’s
Kelly Jackson 7.85-5.58, as well as winning three in
dividual events. She recorded several high scores in the
meet, including a 9.1 in the floor exercise, as the Barlow
team won every individual event.
“Their tumbling was really good,” said Sandy coach
Laura Pihlaja-Muehleck “They were doing back layouts
at about head level — really up in the air
“ We had some falls in the beam (competition) that we
shouldn’t have had,” she added. “ It was mostly a lack of
concentration.
“ But we did really well in the vault,” Muehleck said.
“ We beat them as a team .”
The Pioneers were led by Jackson who had the top score
for Sandy in each event as well as the all-around com
petition.
The Pioneer sophomore racked up 7 35 points in the
vault, 5.40 in the uneven parallel bars, 5.15 on the beam
and 4 40 in the floor exercise.
Jackson is .2 of a point from school records in all of the
events.
Sandy's best effort came in the vault where it outscored
Barlow 23.55-21 60 In addition to Jackson’s score, Lori
Lynch tallied a 6 45 and Mama Antis 5 20.
In the uneven parallel bars, Danise Buswell scored a
4 00 and Cindy Peers 3.50.
Debbie Turin recorded a 4 50 and Suzi Sawtell 3 60 in the
balance beam event.
In the floor exercise, Lynch recorded a 3.75 and Gayle
Roth 3.60.
“The girls were really nervous,” Muehleck said.
“They’re going to have to get used to competition.
“ We'll be working on getting more flowing routines and
getting the girls to have more confidence in what they're
doing,” she added.
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Sept. 21 Molalla at Sandy 6 p.m.
Sept. 23 Sandy at Redmond Tourney 9 a m.
Sept. 25 Sandy at Silverton 6 p.m.
Sept. 28 Sandy at Sweet Home 6 p. m.
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