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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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S till, when Wilkinson s firs t pro team was 0-8, he ap
peared like a guy sailing out to meet ironclad battleships in
a three-masted schooner A guy with a lance going a fte r a
machine-gun nest.
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
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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
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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.
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