Thur».. Nov 22. 1979 (Soc 3, SANDY (O re .) POST— 3
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Hard work pays
off for Pioneer
volleyball team
by M A R K F L O Y D
Sports E ditor
The progress made by the Sandy High
volleyball team this season has been
astounding.
Sandy began the season w ith a disheart
ening loss to St. M a ry ’s. It ended the season
with a predictable loss to powerful Corvallis,
the state champ.
In between, the Pioneers did not lose a non
tournam ent match. They went through
league undefeated, survived the pressure of
the firs t rounds of the playoffs, then “ upset”
third-ranked Beaverton in the sem ifinals. As
it turned out, Sandy’s only losses this season
were to the state’s firs t and third-ranked
teams.
Many people who saw the Pioneers earlier
this year would never have believed that they
made it so far. The early season Pioneers
were quite inconsistent, though they did show
flashes of brilliance.
Through the season Sandy put it together,
but oh so slowly. Maybe i t ’s better that way.
At the state tournam ent last weekend, the
cream rose to the top. The Pioneers played
some of their best volleyball of the season
against some of the best teams in the state.
That is the m a rk of a champion.
The whole team should be congratulated,
from a ll-sta rte r Michele Cleland to the
second team which saw the tourney from the
bench. They all made significant con
tributions during the year and Sandy would
never have made it that fa r without a team
effort.
A special congratulations should go to the
Sandy coaching sta ff which has b u ilt the
program into a powerhouse in four short
years. Coach Ron Grantz and assistant
Roger Ford have done a rem arkable job
m olding the Pioneers. G ary Curtis w ith the
ju n io r va rsity and Debbie Hunter w ith the
freshmen have helped develop the whole
program into a volleyball factory. Its
dividends showed this weekend.
The Pioneer volleyballers were helped
along by an excellent Sandy crowd at all
three matches at Lewis and Clark. A large
num ber of students, fa culty and townspeople
made it out to the tourney and th e ir yelling
gave Sandy a good boost.
I got on Sandy H igh’s “ Rowdy Rooters”
e a rlie r this year for some of th e ir misguided
enthusiasm, but the Rooters put on a good
show at Lewis and C lark. T he ir presence
helped the Pioneers a great deal.
One of the unattractive features of the state
tourney was the sp litting up of the two
sem ifinal matches. Corvallis took on St.
M a ry ’s at 11:30 a.m ., then everyone was
ushered out of the gym . People were let back
in at 1:30 p.m. for the Sandy-Beaverton
m atch, but everyone was forced to buy a new
ticket.
S plitting up the consolation games from the
championship bracket is one thing, but
charging for each sem ifinal game is
ridiculous A person wanting to watch the
opening round, the two sem ifinals and the
finals would have to pay a total of $10.50 to
watch just four matches. L e t’s hope the
Oregon School A ctivities Association puts the
money to a good use.
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Young vets key Sandy swim hopes
Swimming w ill be slightly different
around Sandy this year.
The Pioneers w ill compete in District
3 this season and have two fewer dual
meets than last year. Another new
situation is the necessity of meeting
qualifying times (or places) for the
district meet. But one thing that should
remain the same is Sandy’s swimming
power.
The Pioneer girls are the defending
d istrict champs and return a half dozen
swimmers from last year’s district
team. The boys were runnerup to
M cMinnville last year but the Grizzlies
are competing in a different district
this season. McMinnville w ill be in
Sandy for a non-league meet Dec. 13,
however.
The girls team should also be strong
with some top people coming back this
season. Smith sees Oregon City and
Gresham as the teams that w ill
challenge Sandy in its defense of the
district title.
The Pioneer girls w ill be led by
sophomore Gayle Roth. Roth won the
50-freestyle and 100-backstroke at
district last year as a freshman, then
went on to take fourth in the state in the
50-free.
With many returners, the boys look to
be strong once again. Their main
competition, and perhaps the team to
beat in the Wilco League, w ill be
Reynolds. Sandy coach M ark Smith
also feels that Gresham w ill be a tough
team to contend with this season.
leading the Sandy boys w ill be Mike
Zogg. A junior, Zogg is the defending
district champ in the 100-meter
breaststroke. He also placed fourth in
the 200-individual medley.
The Pioneers have a whole handful of
district placers back this year. Glenn
Izer placed in the mid-distance
freestyles, as did Rick Topliff; Bret
Crane placed in both the backstroke
and 100-free; Dave Falgout was third in
the 100-fly and fifth in the 200-individual
medley and Hank Hazelett was sixth in
the 100-breaststroke.
Despite the solid nucleus of returning
veterans, Smith is concerned with the
overall depth of his boys team.
“ We need strength in the backstroke,
the breaststroke and the individual
medley,” Smith said. “ I ’m talking
about depth there. We’ve got people like
Bret Crane who are good in the
backstroke, but we need some backup
swimmers.
Jean Crane was also a double district
winner for the Pioneers, taking the 500-
free and 200-individual medley. Other
Pioneers returning fic m that district
championship team are Bonita Con-
nelley, who was second in the 200 free;
Teresa Lam er in the free style
distances; Diane Rathke in the 200-
individual medley and Cindy Zogg in
the fly and backstroke.
A strong crew of freshmen should
also help the Pioneer girls. Heidi
learner and Lisa Izer are fam iliar
names from the Blue M arlin Aquatic
Club and Donna Nelson, Kecia Harris,
Dorie Dodson and Kim Haney have all
shown potential.
“ I have no idea where those girls
might be swimming,” Smith said. “ I
hope that all six w ill fit in. We’re a
young team but with a lot of potential.
We have good depth, as far as strokes
go, with seniors and sophomores.
“ With the freshmen, we’ll just review
the strokes and as the season
progresses, they’ll kind of separate
themselves,” he added.
George 22nd in
state all-around
Kathie George of Sandy
placed 22nd in the girls Class
AAA Gymnastics meet at
Portland State University
last weekend. She was
competing in the all-around.
George’s total was 30.65 for
the competition. She was one
of the few freshmen to
qualify for the state meet.
George qualified by placing
third at the Timber Valley-
Willamette Valley district
meet in the all-around.
In her individual events,
the Pioneer freshman had a
7.65 on the uneven parallel
bars; a 7.55 on the balance
beam; a 7.80 in the vault and
a 7.65 in the floor exercise.
“ K a thie
missed
her
handstand on the beam, but
other than that it was pretty
good,” SUHS coach Teresa
Hjeresen noted. “ She had
two really clean vaults and a
clean bar routine but the mat
wasn’t quite under her in her
dismount and she landed
with one foot on and one foot
off.
“ The floor exercise was
her first event and she was a
little tig ht,” Hjereson added.
“ Kathie’s shins were hurting
her and she wasn’t getting as
high as she could of on some
of her tumbling moves.”
George’s performance was
a strong one for a freshman,
but she has been working out
with clubs for a long time.
Many of her ex-teammates
from club days were at the
meet, Hjeresen said.
“ It was fun for her to see
her old friends and how much
they
had
im p ro ve d ,”
Hjeresen said. “ The meet
really opened Kathie’s eyes.
There were a lot of good
people and now she knows
what she has to strive for
next year. We’re already
setting goals and gettiing
ideas for next year — adding
some superior moves and
building
K a th ie ’s con
fidence.”
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The Pioneers w ill open Dec. 7 at the
league Relays in Gresham, beginning
at 7 p.m. In the meantime, the Sandy
swimmers w ill be working on stamina
and different strokes. One disad
vantage of the new district qualifying is
that swimmers w ill have to qualify
e a rly fo r th e ir event and ex
perimentation w ill be limited.
“ That w ill hurt us to the extent that
we won’t have people swimming in as
many different events as we have in the
past,” Smith said. “ I don’t think it w ill
hurt too much though. The qualifying
times should be slower than our people
have swum in the past couple of years,
but the thing is to get people qualified in
the right events.
“ We need to make sure that we have
the depth for the district meet,” he
added. “ As far as how we’ll do there,
we have two or three hurdles to go over
before we can figure out where we
stand.”
Those hurdles appear to be Gresham,
Reynolds and Oregon City. By mid-
January, the Pioneers should know just
how strong they w ill be this season.
Hood eyes net title
M t. Hood C om m unity
College’s volleyball team
w ill be trading in the cold,
blustery weather of East
County for some Florida
sunshine next week.
The Saints w ill head south
for the National Junior
College Athletic Association
championships, which begin
next Thursday. Hood gained
the bid by winning the
Region 18 championship last
weekend.
The Saints, who carry a 34-
7-1 record and have been
ranked in the top 20
nationally for much of the
season, dumped Judson
Baptist 15-3, 15-6 in the
semifinals, then took Ricks
College in the finals 15-17,15-
S a n d lM .
“ Ricks gave us the most
trouble,” said Saint head
coach Dorian Harris. “ But it
was a really good tour
nament.”
Hood was keyed by the
play of Cindy Haines and
Shawna Delaney, both of
whom made the tournament
all-star team.
teams w ill be divided into
four groups of five. The top
three teams in each group
w ill advance to elimination
play with the winners of each
pool receiving a bye in first-
round action.
Hood opens with St. Izmis
(Mo.) Junior College. The
Saints are in the same pool
w»th the fourth- and fifth-
ranked teams in the natior
but Harris feels that doesn
make much difference.
“I
don’t
put muc
credibility in national polls,
she said. In other words, th
Saints may enter th
tournament a dark horse, bu
have a good chance c
coming out with a differen
color.
“ Honor Prep”
of the Week
Plenty of practice paid off
recently for SUHS freshman
Kathie George, only Sandy
girl to qualify for state
competition in 'gymnastics.
She won her state berth with
an impressive third place in
all-around competition at a
large district meet of 15
teams from Timber Valley
League and W illa m e tte
Valley League.
The Saints w ill leave for
the Sunshine state Monday
and begin pool play Thurs
day in the 20-team affair. The
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“ In most events, we re all right with
our number one swimmer, but we need
to develop numbers two and three,”
Smith added.
The Pioneers should be able to
overcome that handicap. In addition to
the district meet retirners, Sandy has
an able freestyle sprinter in Mark
Mayfield. Mike and David Ward are
both seniors who should add flexibility
and junior Matt Falgout w ill help in the
backstroke, the fly and the individual
medley.
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