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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.
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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.
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games Jan 24. All teams that
are still interested in joining
should register as soon as
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beginning at 2:30 p.m. on the
campus courts.
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champion.
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‘‘Luke was really pumped-up and he
pinned the kid near the end of the
match,” Calhoun said
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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.