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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
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The contest kicks off this issue on
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All
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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
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Contest entrants are asked to
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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
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hundreds of dollars in prizes by
picking winners in upcoming football
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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
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