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Thur. Jon. 18. 1*74 (Soc 3, SANO* (Oro.) K M T - 3 In CVL wrestling »tuff »fiel» Sandy upsets Huskies It’s no longer a Super Weekend by MARK FLOYD Sports Editor Once upon a time there was a football game called the Super Bowl. On a designated day in January, the best team from one conference would play the best team from the other conference to see who had the best football team in the country, world and-or universe. It was a spectacular occasion with such dram atic possibilities that the gods who lived in the television network programming offices decided to make it even better. • Together they waved their wand over the earth and created Super Bowl Sunday. The world was then blessed with more than just a single football game—a whole day was set aside to pay homage to the gridiron spectacle. But still the gods w ere not satisfied. Again they waved a wand over the gridiron world and created a new child for the net works—Super Bowl Weekend. This time the gods were sure they had a winner. Hours and hours of pre-game specials and post-game analyses were scheduled to ensure that the doting public would have am ple opportunity to worship the sacred event. They even sent one of their am bassadors to broadcast the game, Gowdy the God of Unintelligible Muttering. To get the gala event off to a proper start, the gods decided over flagons of Ambrosia Lite to schedule a truly momentous spectacle on Super Bowl eve. They named their creation Super Bowl Saturday Night: An All-Star Comedy Salute to One Of A m erica’s G reat Sporting Events. Every mortal of im portance was asked to be on the show and when the angel dust had cleared, an impressive lineup indeed had been scheduled for Super Bowl Saturday Night. Included in the cast were such well-known comedians and sports authorities as Lee Majors, Telly Savalas and Michael Landon. The program m ing gods also prepared for informing the m asses as to everything that would happen before the game, and scheduled interviews for after the game. To help out with the extra work, they sent several apprentice gods to E arth, including Merlin, Enberg and Brodie, the God of Radial Tires. Pleased with all that they had ac complished, the gods eased back in their recliners and began setting up a Beta-Max to record the event. Little did they know that several m ortals on E a rth were dissatisfied with the creation of Super Bowl Weekend. Many seemed to feel that it was not an event worthy of the long hours to which the networks devoted the time. Many others felt that by the tim e the game was actually played, no one really cared what happened unless thay had bet a six-pack on the outcome. By the tim e all of the hoopla was over, most people found the actual Super Bowl downright boring. Teams, frightened by the thought of losing in front of the gods, played such con servative football, that by the second half of the Super Bowl everyone but the gods were consuming mass quantities of No-Doze. The sm all uprising on E arth has gone un noticed by the gods. Even before the week comes to an end, they will be in their program m ing offices near Mt. Olympus planning Super Bowl Week, Super Bowl Month and finally the ultim ate—Super Bowl Year. They’re even planning a special on old-time football customs—about how it used to be played without the specials, the interviews and the analyses. It starts by saying: “ Once upon a time there was a football game called the Super Bowl.” by MARK FLOYD The Sandy High wrestling team overcame a 19-point deficit to defeat the host Sweet Home Huskies in a Coast- Valley League upset Tuesday, 34-25. It was the first time the Pioneers had defeated Sweet Home in Ron Calhoun's nine years as a Sandy coach And it wasn’t easy Sweet Home took a large early lead when U riel Santana, 98, pinned Dave Kenison in the second round and Sandy forfeited at 106 The Pioneers’ John Sandy lost a close 2-0 decision to Jeff Canfield in the 115-pound match and Sweet Home’s Bill Whaley topped Ray Nelson at 123, 13-4 to give the Huskies a seemingly insurmountable lead, 19-0. “ I thought we were looking at Dr. Death himself, right there,” Calhoun smiled. If Dr. Death was in the Sweet Home gym, he pulled a quick reversal and put a pin on the Huskies. Sandy came back to win eight of the remaining nine matches to knock off Sweet Home. The Pioneers held a slim 28-25 lead going into the final heavyweight match. A fired-up Luke Forester took an early lead over David O’Brien of Sweet Home and kept pressuring him, finally scoring a pin in the last 30 seconds of the match. ‘‘All that Luke had to do was beat the kid,” Calhoun said. ‘‘And when he got the lead, he didn’t sit on it and protect it — he went right after him. navigation. Credit also can be earned in piloting, marine engines, marlinspike seamanship, s a il in g , w e a th e r, radiotelephone and locks and dams. Lessons offered are: The safe way to boating e n jo y m e n t ; b o a te r’s language and trailering, boat handling’ legal requirements; rules of the road; and aids to A fee will be charged for course material. Classes are from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in room No. 71. For more information call 286-9704 BUnON’S L m Meat 6am,an, Custom Slaughtering Grain Fed Locker Beef • Cut, Wrapped A Frozen — Locker Pocks Cattle Hauling on Tuesdays We Do Our Own Cure & Smoking Sandy erased the big Sweet Home lead in the middle weights Chris Jones started things off by decisioning Greg Em m ert 7-0 at 130 Dave Doty followed with a 13-4 victory over Slade Kitchens at 136 Mike Martin followed Doty with a 6-3 decision over Andy Christianson at 141. Calhoun felt that those two matches were turning points in the contest ‘‘AU our old standbys won which was important, but even more important was the performance of three other wrestlers,” Calhoun said. ‘‘Doty just got back from a long bout with the flu and M artin had a grueling match against a pretty tough kid. ‘‘And of course Forester had the biggest win for us,” Calhoun added Sweet Home’s Don Hiassen slowed Sandy’s surge briefly by scoring a fall over Dave Jensen at 148, but Tim Freeman came right back in the next match to pin Chris Kelly in the first round at 157 to narrow the gap to 25-16. Bill Blackford decisioned Bob Barnes 9-2 in the 168-pound match and Rayth Buswell evened the team score at 25-25 with a second-round pin over Gene Clarborn at 178. Steve Veley gave Sandy its first lead when he topped Rick McKay 10-6 at 191 to set up Forester’s heavyweight vic tory. Grapplers defeat Molalla Mark Floyd photo HANK HAZELETT tries to straighten out his dive before hitting the water in a recent meet against Newberg. Hazelett, a diver for the Sandy High swim team, placed second in the event to teammate Bob Rathke as the Pioneers blitzed the Tigers. For the story and ad ditional photo see page 1. I r the a m H a n e b e rg Center Basketball The Sandy Men’s Bas ketball League will begin its winter schedule of league games Jan 24. All teams that are still interested in joining should register as soon as possible at the M elvin C o m m u n ity Handball The Mt. Hood Community College physical education department will sponsor a handball clinic Thursday beginning at 2:30 p.m. on the campus courts. Featured at the clinic will be local player Jack Scrivens, former U.S. singles champion. The public is invited to attend the clinic. For more information contact Marv Hiebert at 667-7357. There’s ’SNOW Better Time! Boating class set The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla No. 75 will conduct its boating skills and seamanship course beginning Wednesday at Centennial High School ‘‘Luke was really pumped-up and he pinned the kid near the end of the match,” Calhoun said There was one price increase on December 3 and the second price increase on January 3, so take advantage of Carlson Chevrolet’s substantial inventory of new 1979 Chevrolet cars and trucks at the '79 model introductory prices. You will save as much as $400 by investing in a new Chevy that was in our inventory on December 3. The unfortunate price increases plus the fact that all ’79s must have the catalytic converter and must burn no-lead gasoline makes the 1978 Chev light truck a wise choice. We have about 100 or so ’78 Chevy Luvs, pickups, crew cabs, flat beds, sport vans and 4X4 pickups in stock at very attractive prices. These are unlicensed and have the balance of their factory w arranty in effect. Most of them do not have the catalytic converter. Why not start the new year out happy in a new or used Chevy from Carlson Chevrolet? We believe in superm arket selection at super m arket prices with country store service. PETE i CARLSON MA-4101 SANDY r The Sandy High wrestling teams used four straight pins to turn a close match against Molalla into a rout Friday night as the Pioneers rolled to a 39-21 victory over the Indians. Sandy was ahead by only three points, 15-12, before Frank Kim, Tim Freeman, BiU Blackford and Rayth Buswell easily disposed of their op ponents to pick up 24 points and clinch the win. M olalla stayed in the match throughout the lighter weight classes on the strength of pins in the 98 and 136- pound divisions. Dave Hogg started things off for the Indians by pinning Bill Mathews of Sandy in 4:25. Dave Kenison, who usually wrestles at 98, moved up to 106 to avoid a team forfeit at that weight, according to Sandy coach Ron Calhoun. Kenison overcame the weight disadvantage to post a 7-0 decision over Jeff Ziemer. The 106-pound match was one of several in which the Pioneers faced a weight deficit as injuries forced Calhoun to juggle his wrestlers and a number of the Pioneers moved up a weight class John Sandy tied the match at 6-6 after gaining a close 6-4 decision over Duke Hebdon of Molalla. The Pioneers then took the lead when Ray Nelson, 123, decisioned Todd Fox 3-0. The most exciting match of the night was at 130, where Sandy freshman Chris Jones pulled off an escape with three seconds left in the match to nip Scott Morris 2-1. The loss was the first of the year for Molalla’s Morris. Jay Connelly of Molalla tied the match for the last time in the 136-pound match when he pinned Gary Jensen in 1:05. The pin evened the score at 12-12 despite the fact that Sandy had won two more matches than the Indians Both of Molalla’s early victories came on pins. Mike Martin, 141, put Sandy ahead to stay as he ground out a 5-1 decision o « Chris Nash. Leading 15-12, the Pioneers began their onslaught of pins. Frank Kim, 148, jumped to a quick 7-1 lead over Rob Runyon before he pinned the Indian wrestler in 1:05. Moments later, Tim Freeman, 157, had Norm Atkinson of Molalla in trouble from the opening whistle and pinned him at 1:10. Freeman, who scored a takedown in the first five seconds of the match, led 5-1 at the time of the fall. BiU Blackford moved up a notch to 168 for the second consecutive match and found little trouble adjusting as he put the stops on John Beall at 4:50 after building a 5-0 lead. Rayth Buswell, who has pinned every opponent he has faced this season, found the going a little tougher as it took him until 5:15 of the match to get rid of a persistent Bob Roth. Buswell, wrestling at 177 this week, had Roth in trouble on several oc casions and the referee had to call two injury timeouts for the Molalla wrestler before finally deciding that Roth was unable to continue. The win raised the Pioneers’ season mark to 6-1.
