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a—SANDY (Or«.) K M T T K n No* I. >*T» (fee 3) r»lt i t »hetS Rowdy crowds: A plus or minus for Sandy High? Finish league undefeated Voileyballers spike Canby in finale Sands rode the powerful spiking of senior Michele Cleland to top Canby 15- 5, 12-15, 15-3 and finish its Tim ber Valley league volleyball schedule undefeated. Pioneer coach Ron Granlz had said before the match that he was going to go the distance w ith the first team to get them sharp fo r the upcoming state tournam ent It did n 't really m atter because Canby gave the Pioneers a bit more difficu lty than they may have anticipated The firs t team would have gotten plenty of playing tim e anyway by M A R K F L O Y D Sports Editor A crowd can be a very im portant factor in deciding the outcome of a sporting event If a contest is close, the team that plays at home has a decided advantage, especially if its fans decide to cut loose w ith a vocal barrage or two Some good boisterous fans can inspire a home team or intim idate the visitors Sandy had no problems in the firs t game Cherie E llio tt h it the first six serves for points and the Pioneers were off and running It was Cleland. though, who had the crowd in awe On Sandy’s th ird point, Cleland took a perfect set fro m Colleen McDonald and blistered the floor w ith an awesome spike The spike was hit so hard that there were gasps coming from the Canby rooUng section Intim idated. Canby then contributed to its own demise w ith a series of errors, Julie Coleman helped the Pioneers w ith a couple of good spikes on Cougar serve returns that were too long, and Sandy won easily 15-5. It's become something of a tradition at Sandy High School for some of the students to gather in a group and see what decibel level can be raised This fa ll the group has m ainly been to the Pioneer volleyball games, where the presence of the athletes is so close to the crowd. In a gym , a good loud voice can be heard easily, especially if that gym isn’t filled to capacity. For the most part, the crowd has had a fa irly good effect on Sandy's volleyball team At times, the group can raise a ruckus that seems as if it was created by a crowd three times that size. Especially when Michele Cleland hits a spike or two. Sue Malooey returns a serve for the Pioneers In a recent match. Sandy High s girls volleyball teem defeated Canby In three games Tuesday to finish the Timber Valley League regular season undefeated But there is one distrubing aspect of that group of people It doesn’t restrict its yelling : to the s p irit of the contest Yelling for a shutout or a Cleland k ill shot is one thing Ridiculing Sandy ’s opponents for no reason at all isn’t quite as amusing as the crowd seems to think. To yell at someone because they may be a few pounds overweight or have a bad complexion is just about hitting rock bottom as fa r as class goes. The black eye that the school receives from such behavior more than overshadows any good that m ight come from yelling. D on’t count Wilkinson out o f a bowl game Bud Wilkinson doesn’t look like your basic native Am erican football coach No broken nose. No lim p when the weather t i n s bad. No shrieking tantrum s fro m the top of the practice-field football tower He doesn’t look as if be d ever punch a kid in the helmet, je rk on H s facemask or teach him to use an a rm cast to break teeth But that was early in the season Sandy showed last week that it has fin a lly jelled as a team against Sweet Home The Pioneers won the firs t game 15-5 at the Husky gym Then the crowd started getting warmed up Sweet Home came back to win the second, 15-11. and took an 5-4 lead in the deciding game. A lesser team m ight have lolded after the game-and-a-half loss of momentum Sandy didn't and showed signs at last that it is indeed a good team. The Pioneers roared back to tie the game at 11-11. then rattled off four straight points for the win A ll at the noisy gym of Sweet Home. If the Pioneers can keep the mental toughness they displayed that night, they may do rather well come playoff tim e. One problem facing Sandy, however, is the length of tim e before the firs t match. By winning the Tim ber Valley League, the Pioneers are forced to take a 10-day layoff without a match. What that w ill do to their sharpness in the firs t round match remains to be seen. Hopefully, it w ill not be a repeat of last year, when Crater knocked off the heavily favored Pioneers in the Sandy gym Sandy s first- round match this season w ill be against the number two team from the Midwestern League It w ill be play ed Nov 10 in the Sandy High gym J He looks rather the way. well, the way you m ight expect a U-S senator to look. He looks like he ought to be in the White House Which is interesting, because he ran fo r the U.S. Senate He got beat And he was in the White House In the N o o n White House, but Bud Wilkinson was not in the dirty tric k s department And his appeal transcended party lines In 1961. John F . Kennedy appointed him national director of the P resident’s Council on Physical Fitness And President Lyndon Johnson reappointed him. SO. WHEN HE le ft college football in 1963. most people figured Bud Wilkinson was taking dead aim on the M ark Bowman and Mike Boutan fin is h e d one-two Saturday to lead Mt. Hood Community College to vic tory in a four-way cross country meet with Centra. O regon. U m pqua and Chemeketa B ow m an and Boutan crossed the finish line in 26:26.2 and 26:35, respec tiv e ly , and w ith Gene Shen-eli placing fifth in 27:21, the Saints easily outdistanced second-place C e n tra l Oregon Hood a ■ ■■■■ --------------- ------ ASSOCIATES — <n$St Deane’s Auto Repair b e o n e W «sK lm k o w n « . . . 32 y e a r* e x p e rie n c e C o m p lete A u to m o tiv o R e p a ir*: * * • • A u to m a tic Transm issions Ex boost Systems B roke W ork Gen ero I Tune-up CALL BBB 4 5 4 3 Oper Mor - Frt.. • - Sp.m 1 ’/« m i. o ast of Sandy 4 2 0 0 7 S X H w y. 24 BUT IT S TILL looked like blocking and tackling out there to Wilkinson. I t s till looked like a game being played by kids who had to be m otivated So far as he could see, the last telling invention in the game s till was the forw ard pass, and that was at least 70 years old. When the Cardinals started out losing eight games in a row. the sm art money figured this was just another college football coach tryin g to do it team ahie to stop Hood in pool play The visitors from Washington beat the host team 15-7, 15-13. E a rlie r Hood had beaten Walla Walla 15-8. 15-5, Clark 15-11, 153, and U niversity of Portland 15-10,15-6 In the semis the Saints to ta lly d o m in a te d OCE, winning 15-1,15-4 That set up the rem atch with Edmonds, m which Hood came from We had chances to put the game on ice,’’ Hood coach Dorian H a rris said. “ But I'm rarely disappointed when we come from behind to win ’ ’ The Saints, who w ith their 23-6 record now are ranked 15th nationally, play six matches this week to close out the regular season Hood is undefeated in league play. Poflland ’»'’ 214 ST A r e * I M R IA L TORS • iM S T M jw m o a s H irs • MfcST A GRANTS • LO GNCtS • TAVERNS • RESORTS collected 28 points to COCCs 37 and U m p q u a 's 61. Chemeketa s team, was in complete. In women s competition, Connie Case turned in a 17:44. second-place p e r formance to pace M t. Hood to its win The Saints scored 15 p o in ts to U m p q u a ’s 42 C hem eketa and COCC fielded incomplete teams. The Hood m en’s lowest finish was 16th i Bob Quinn's 30:011 out of 23 runners Ken Urban was ninth in 28:06, Keith McCarty was 11th in 28:20. and Todd Howland was 12th in 28 31. “Honor Prep” of the Week SUHS senior Dave Falgout lead the Pioneer water polo team recently to second place m district competition He scored 14 goals during four days as high point player for Sandy He was named to an all-district team Dave also is active in SUHS swim mmg C o n gra tula tion s, ENTRY BLANK C PIZZA BARM entry blank DEALERS NORTHWEST CHEVROLET DEALERS trail blazer/ Ball Boy Contest NAME ADDRESS ZIP PHONE Entry MUST be signed by parent or legal guardian No Obligation DAVE F A L G O IT Io c h o o ir fro m - nORTHLUEST ELIGIBILITY: Girls or boys 10 years to 18 /e a rs-1 9 th birthday must not take place prior to June 1 1979 Students must be in good standing academically - Must have parental consent — Dave' Over 60 Bl SINESSES CALL PETI MELTV ( M J I2 M - IM I « « M - f f e C arlson C h e v ro le t w ill sponsor tw o b a ll boys (b a ll persons) fo r th is e x c itin g ga m e n ig h t! 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Then, Bud Wilkinson's Cardinals won six of their last eight, duplicating what the Super Bowl-bound Dallas Cowboys were doing, and the game was impressed. Sud denly, there was a bull m arket in college coaches again in the N FL. PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS VS. SAN DIEGO behind to w in 7-15, 15-10, 16- 14, Saint harriers win again BILL TAYLOR - His friends couldn’t have been more shocked if he had run off w ith a French floozie or joined the circus Football, they said, had passed Bud Wilkinson by. Hood claims net victory M t. Hood C o m m u m ty College s volleyball team, beat Edmonds 7-15, 15-10, 16- 14 to win the championship of its own invitational to u r nament Saturday The Saints advanced to the finals by winning three and losing one in pool play, then beating Oregon College of Education s junior va rsity squad in the to u rn e y sem ifinals Edmonos was the only Nor was Wilkinson any ordinary college coach His records put him in the lodge with Rockne. Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg or Bear Bryant His Oklahoma record from 1947 to 1963: '145 victories. 29 defeats and 4 ties His teams had four undefeated seasons, won 13 consecutive conference titles, three national championships, two Sugar Bowls and four Orange Bowls They once had a 47-game winning streak, the longest in college history But in J 978 Bud Wilkinson proved he would rather be wrong than be President A ffc r a 15-year hiatus, he went back into football coaching wfhJMte 6 t Louis Cardinals, no less — a team not to be confused w ith the great aggregations of N F L history by J IM M U R R A Y * The Pioneer voileyballers were not that kind of team in the beginning of the season In their opening match, the Pioneers crushed St. M a ry’s the first game 15-5, but lost momen- i turn and the m atch The Blues showed their class by coming back to win the last two 15-0. 15-5. w ith pep rallies and bonfires and band m usic. It is part of the mystique of pro football that no college coach can succeed at this level of com petition. And yet, every great pro coach, w ith one exception, came up from the colleges The great Vince Iiim b a rd i came to the pros off the coaching staff of west Point Paul Brown, his nearest riv a l, came up out of Ohio State E arle ( G reasy) Neale, one of the greatest innovators of the modern game, came out of Yale of a ll places Executive Mansion on Pennsylvania Avenue People kept telling him when he was football coach at the U niversity of Oklahoma that he was bigger than the governor of the state And, when the voters rejected him for the Senate in 1964, no one was s ire whether it was because they did n ’t want him as senator or because they wanted him beck as coach. With his silve r h a ir, tw inkling blue eyes and rugged, dimpled profile. Wilkinson would seen; to make the Perfect Candidate Hollywood would cast him as a fro n tie r m a r shal. as a destroyer captain in w artim e, as a Mar mi lieu tenant. bomber pilot or cavalry officer Perhaps the crowd should take a good long look at itself Let he who is without sin cast the ! firs t insult. Emotional ups and downs are the bane of every volleyball coach who ever lived. Volleyball is a sport of momentum and i t ’s not uncommon to see a team dominate one game, then fa ll apart at the seams The sign of a good team is one that can come back from a loss of momentum and recapture its old form Perhaps the Pioneers won too easily. fo r they let down in the second game Sandy ran up a quick 6-0 lead behind Coleman and E llio tt s net play then sat back and watched as Canby ran off . Pfexot» U irt Ftovd eight straight points. Only one of those points was due d ire ctly to a putaway shot from Canby The Pioneers com m itted several careless e rrors such as getting caught w ith their hands in the net and using too much arm on their sets Sandy also had some problems handling short serves in that second game l^ed by the play of Josanne M ya tt and Cindy M iles, the Cougars went on to defeat the Pioneers 12-15 in the game The th ird game marked a return to form for the Pioneers Sandy spotted the Cougars a couple of points then demolished them. Cleland*s hitting, Chene E llio tt’s serving, the setting of McDonald and strong defense by Coleman and Christie EUiott paid off. Cleland hit a spike o ff three Canby players to put the Pioneers up 6-3. then hard serving by Cherie E llio tt iced the match. The Sandy ju n io r h it two in a row that the Cougars couldn’t handle then served up an outright ace to give the Pioneers a commanding 12-3 lead. A standing spike by Cleland, a Coleman spike of a serve return by Canby and an e rrant shot by M yatt gave the Pioneers the final three points The win gave Sandy a perfect 14-0 record in league p la y. The Pioneers wdk face the number two team fro m the Midwestern league in the firs t round of the state playoffs That game w ill be N ov. 10 in the Sandy gym . A tim e w ill be determined later. No Purchase Necessary PETE I CARLSON ,998-4101 SANDY
