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Section SANDY, OREGON THURSDAY, SEPT 20, 1979 The Srfndy Post Sports and Recreation Goal-line stand halts Parkrose; Sandy takes 25-22 overtime win by M A H K F L O Y D Pioneers up. • We were still making defensive ad justments and we were in the wrong defensive corner,” H arris said. “ It was a second and one play and I called the wrong cover, the end didn’t hold up the receiver and our back didn't Sandy stopped l*arkruse fullback Dave Kent at the one-yard line on fourth down to esc ape with a wild 26-22 overtim e win over the Broncos at Pop Han now Stadium in Sandy F rid ay. cover the m an. Regulation play ended with the score tied 22-22 and Sandy attempting u desperation pass which was picked off by Brian Kent. After the intermission, the two teams entered the Kansas Plan overtim e. The Pioneers lost two yards in three plays and Pau, I iuugherty came on to boot a 29-yard field goal for Sandy, his first of the season. Then it was tim e for the Cossacks to do their thing. The Cossacks, a nickname tagged on the Sandy defensive unit, gave ground rather readily on the Broncos' first two plays as the Kent brothers carried to the two-yard line. Then the defense tightened Dave Kent moved up to the one and then on fourth down, he was stopped at the line of scrimm age by Sandy tackle Huger Holofson and a host of other Pioneers. “ I liad decided before the overtim e to run three plays and then kick to get the points on the board,” said a relieved Lynn H arris, coach of the Pioneers "In fact, we probably would have kicked if we had been on the one. •‘I ’ve always felt good about our goal line defense.” he added. ” As long as they would run it at us, we would make it tough. I was concerned tlu«t they would do some kind of dipsy-do or play action pass but they ran it up the middle ami played right into our hands. ” The Pioneers were lucky to get the game into overtim e Sandy trailed at one point 14-0 and its first touchdown came after a fumble recovery on the one-yard line. Parkroae started the scoring when Brian Kent scored on a three-yard run. It was Kent again who scored for Parkrose in the second quarter, on a 72-yard pass play from quarterback Blake Bigelow The long bomb was due to a variety of Sandy errors, but it may have woke the "W e were trying to do too much defen sively,” H a rris explained. "W e put in three or four defenses and we m ay have been con fusing ourselves. After that, we stayed in one defense for the rest of the gam e.” The Sandy offense, meanwhile, had been on a vacation somewhere The Pioneers finally got on the board when they powered over from the one after Aaron Brown recovered a Bronco fumble After fullback Mike Trachsel picked up the touchdown, Sandy faked the point-after and Doug Turin fired a strike to receiver Jon Dunn for two points, narrowing the gap to 14-8. Sandy had one more scoring opportunity, before the half, but Daugherty's 37-yard field goal attem pt came up short. The Pioneer offense began to click again in the second half Sandy got the ball near m idfield after stifling Parkrose on the Broncos' first possession Rick F ry hit Daugherty with a big third down pass to move the Pioneers to the 15. John M artin carried twice to get the ball to the three, then powered up the middle for the tying score Daugherty 's extra point put the Pioneers on top for the first tim e, 15-14. Once again the Coesacks held Parkrose in check and the Broncos punted to the Sandy 18, where the Pioneers put together their best drive of the evening F ry hit Daugherty with a 15-yard pass to the 43, then two plays later, Doug W arren exploded for 24 yards off the left side of the line to the Parkrose 28 M artin and W arren traded carries for the next four plays, moving the ball to the Bronco five-yard line M artin finally bowled over on a pitch from F ry on the first play of the fourth quarter Daugherty hit the extra point to put Sandy up 22-14. But as quickly as it had disappeared, the Parkrose offense arose from the dead The Broncos got the ball on their own 45 early in the final period and im m ediately put on a show Brian Kent ran a sweep for 14 yards, then Bigelow threw a pass over the middle intended for split end Ryan Poach. Poach made a diving, one-handed snag at the Sandy 19, and with 8:30 rem aining the Broncos were knocking on Sandy’s goal. Five plays later, Dave Kent powered over from the one, despite the fact that Sandy had 12 men on the field. The Broncos went for two and had no problem, especially since Sandy had corrected its mistake by placing only 10 men on the field. With the score tied 22-22, a comedy of errors unfolded The Pioneers began by fumbling the first play from scrim m age and Parkrose recovered on the Pioneer 17. But the Cossacks stiffened until fourth down, when the Broncos had a yard to go on the Sandy nine. But Bigelow's pass to a wide open Tom Shea bounced off the re ceiver’s hands and fell harmlessly into the end zone. The Cossacks held Parkrose on fourth down twice m ore and Parkrose intercepted twe F ry passes in a wild scram ble to score at the end of the quarter. When it was over, Sandy had recorded its second victory without a loss and the Broncos had lost their second consecutive heart- breaker “ I can’t say that it was fu n,” H arris sighed • A better word m ight be nerve-wracking I felt that we were a better bell team and it would have been a shame if we flubbed it up. “ But I think we showed our ch aracter,” he added "W e were down 14-0 and came back, then gave up the touchdown and came back. We got ourselves into trouble a few times but w e’ll take the w in .” Yardage totals were nearly even. Sandy picked up 167 yards rushing and 93 passing for a 260 total. Parkrose, aided by the 72-yard bomb, gained 112 yards through the a ir and 151 on the ground for a 263 total. Sandy’s Pioneers got a big break late in the game F riday when this pass from quarterback Blake Bigelow to Ryan Poach skipped off the receiver’s hands. Poach was open in the end zone on a fourth down play that would have won the game for Parkroae. Sandy came back to win a th riller in over tim e ,25-22. Defending on the play above is Sandy's M ike M artin . Rejuvenated Rangers next for Sandy gridders I t ’s Civil W ar time again. Sandy High’s unbeaten football team travels to Estacada F riday for a game against the Rangers and this y e a r’s game has added significance. Both teams are 2-0, both have hopes of securing a berth in the T im ber Valley leagu e playoffs and this is the first league game of the season Estacada may have another reason to win. The Pioneers pasted the Rangers 31-0 last season, a score which did nothing to salve the intense riv a lry between the two teams. ” 1 think th at’s probably in their heads,” Sandy coach Lynn H arris acknowledged. “ No one enjoys getting beat 31-0 and they m ay have some added Incentive to beat us.” Despite last y e a r’s one-aided score, it ’s doubtful that the Pioneers w ill take Estacada lightly The Rangers crushed Roosevelt 31-0 in their season opener, then demolished W ashington-Monroe 48-0 last week. Neither Portland team can be considered a powerhouse, but Sandy scouts have come away im pressed with Estacada. " It's hard to try and figure out what they are going to do and whether they’ve been showing us their real offense,” H arris admitted. ” 1 do expect that the players they start w ill be ex perienced letterm en “They have fair size, pretty good quickness and w e’re impressed.” H arris added. “ They make me a little nervous 1-ast year they were weak and I think we took them a little lightly before the season began Not any m o re.” Estacada has been p rim arily a running team in its first two games and H a rris expects that trend to continue. However,beating two opponents by the combined s^**e of 79-0 doesn't make a coach want to unleash his entire of fensive arsenal The Pioneers feel that the R a n g ers m a y pass on oc casion—they’ve just never had to before Tony B ritt is the Ranger quar terback, touted for being very quick and a slick runner. Dave Roberts is the Estacada power back and Scott Stapleton is a threat at slot back. He is also a good receiver if B ritt decides to unload one. The Pioneers w ill probably counter with a ground game of their own. Sandy threw m ore last week against Parkrose than it did in its opening game and H arris is hoping for good balance in the Pioneers' attack. But if history follows its course, Sandy w ill stick m ainly to the ground. “We feel like we can run the b all—and not just against E stacada,” H arris explained “ I t is the thing that we probably do best. We have big backs and a good line so we run well. I feel like we m ay be able to throw weU, too ‘ ‘W e’re not going to add anything new for Estacada,” H a rris said. ‘ What w e’re really doing is polishing what we have. W e’U have basically the same rushing attack and our passing w ill be the same but we'd like to elim inate some of our execution errors. We do have an option play in our offense that we haven’t used much—we m ay try it a bit more this week.” It should be an interesting game. Both teams w ill be sky-high, both should run the ball the m a jo rity of the tim e and both have playoff aspirations. In a battle of two unbeaten teams, though, something has to give. The game is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. at Estacada High School. Post, area businesses sponsor grid contest l’hôte b> Murk Floyd Clint Brown leads a pair of Aloha swimm ers la a race for the goal last week competitive. The Gophers knock off Sandy 13-7 Tuesday at the Sandy pool to during Sandy’s 18-3 victory over the W arriors. Brown and the other Pioneers had no problem in disposing of Aloha but found the Gresham Gophers a M t more give the Pioneers their first loos of the season. Aloha proved to be easy plckln’s for ittle tougher to handle Sandy dumped Aloha 18-3 In a non eague contest Thursday at the Sandy mol. M ark M ayfield scored five goals *nd David Falgout added fo ir to pace he Pioneers. But when Gresham ’im e to town for the league opener ruesday, it was a different story. Sandy Jumped out to a 3-0 lead over Lhe Gophera, who were playing their strength and conditioning to wear down Sandy and start league play we are at this point of the season,” Sandy coach G ary Hidle said. “We can play w ith them — we proved that — and we'U be ready for them at the end of the season “ We need to work on our passing," Hidle added. “ We turned the ball over and gave up a lot of easy, quick goals. What really hurts is that we were up on them 3-0. But w e’U get them later ” with a win. • We played a very good first half but they sre in better condition than Glenn Ixer, David Falgout, and Matt Falgout had three goals apiece for Sandy Mike Zogg added one. first game of the season Gresham came back strong, but Sandy only trailed 5-4 at the half Then the roof feUln. Gresham pumped in eight second- half goals to run off with a 13-7 victory and hand the Pioneers their first defeat The Gophers used their be Silverton at Sandy. The contest kicks off this issue on page 5 of the sports section All contest games o c c ir the weekend of Sept. 28-30 , so forecasters are asked to observe a noon, F rid a y , Sept. 28, deadline Forecasters are challenged to pick winners of 24 football tilts that span the local high ychool, pro ranks No exact scores are required, except in the tiebreaker — should it be necessary Contest entrants are asked to deposit their predictions at the location of any of the 10 sponsors, who Sandy polomen drop league contest landy H igh’s boys water polo team ait the Pioneers found Gresham a The Post and local businesses this fall are co-sponsoring a football contest in which readers can win hundreds of dollars in prizes by picking winners in upcoming football games. are donating prizes. There is 1100 in prizes the first week Sandy's girls were idle against Gresham The Pioneers ripped Aloha 16-3 last week in their best game of the season Diane Rathke fired in 10 goals to lead Sandy, while team m ate Ronita ConneUey added five. Sandy's Junior varsity was the only Sandy winner against Gresham The Pioneers won 15-2 behind H arvey Hazelett's five goals Herb Haxelett and Rom J a n ti added three scores r alone Prizes include a cam era, a steak dinner for two, free lube and oil change, a party-size pizza and beverages, plus plenty of gift cer tificates for clothing, food, auto supplies and more. Fearless forecasters this week are asked to pick winners in games that include Estacada at Canby. West lin n a t Sw eet H o m e, C o lorad o a t Wvomina. Penn State at Nebraska Kansas City at Seattle and Pittsburgh at Philadelphia The tie-breaker w ill In all, there are seven N F L games, four Tim ber Valley high school games and 13 collegiate tilts in the first round of the contest. E n try forms clipped from page 5 of this section of The Post m a y be deposited in specially m arked contest boxes at any of 10 locations in Sandy, Balloting places are Babe’s Big Boy Pizza, G ateway Inn, Decker & Scales Store. New's Union 78, P ao la’s Pizza Barn, Sandy Photo Factory, The Sandy Post, Toni’s Restaurant & Ixxinge, W illiam s’s T h riftw ay and Your Auto Parts Winners w ill oe published in The Sandy Post and notified by m a il with letters of authorization to collect their prizes. The Poet’s football Jackpot w ill give local football experts three chances to pick the winners and show th eir skill The contest w ill appear in The Post again on Oct. 11 and Oct. 25 AU readers are eligible to enter, and entrants m ay enter aa m any times as they choose
