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2— SANDY (O f» .) POST TNurt Jon 17 |9 « o (fee J) shots Conservative play Rams’ biggest foe by MARK FLOYD Sports Editor In case anyone has forgotten, Super Bowl Sunday is coming up this weekend. Not many people are talking about the Super Bowl this year Most feel that the outcome is a foregone conclusion No one is taking Los Angeles over Pittsburgh without points, odds or a breath test. You really can’t blame them. The Los Angeles defense may stand up there with the Steelers but the Rams just don’t have the offensive firepower to win the game. The only hope for Los Angeles is to have the defense score a touchdown or two. or set them up with turnovers. It was bad enough w ith Pat Haden at the helm. Vince Ferragam o, actually a better quarterback than Haden. is now leading the Rams but he has been forced to play con servatively by L A. coach Ray Malavasi. I t ’s worked so far, but three field goals aren’t going to beat the Steelers That’s what Los Angeles used to topple the upstart Tampa Bay Bucs in the NFC championship. Pittsburgh isn’t the unbeatable team that everyone claims it is. The Steelers have proven that they can be whipped. But it takes a pretty good effort defensively and a powerful and diverse offensive attack. L.A. has the defense, but... One can almost picture what is going to happen. The Rams w ill run the ball twice, then pass on th ird and eight. Of course, Pittsburgh w ill have five defensive backs in, no one w ill be open, and Ferragamo w ill have to eat the ball. Pittsburgh may start slowly, but even tually they w ill win the battle of field position and move further into Ram te rrito ry. Then Bradshaw w ill hit Lynn Swann with a bomb, or Franco H arris w ill ramble over, and the Steelers w ill have a lead. And once they have a lead, look out Rams Los Angeles is not a catch-up ball club. WHEN FOOTBALL IS F IN A LLY put to rest, it w ill be tim e for NBA basketball to dominate television. I t ’s kind of funny the way basketball is televised. The first regular telecast was this past Sunday, more than halfway through the 82-game season. The logic is simple. The NBA regular season is not all that exciting and early season games don’t mean that much. Besides, the playoffs last nearly three months and enough games are played in that span to make a season. Nevertheless, some good games are missed in the early going. The television debut of the regular 1980 broadcasts Sunday was a dandy. It featured the matchup, in theory, of the NBA s top two rookies — L a rry Bird and Boston against E arvin (Magic) Johnson and Los Angeles. In reality, it wasn’t really a matchup because the two rarely confronted each other But a showcase it was indeed. The Lakers upset the Celtics in Boston Garden, 100-98. despite the fact that Johnson played little because of an in jury. But B ird showed that he may just be the best rookie to play the frontcourt in years. The form er Indiana State star was a force on the boards, took good shots and shot well, and played strong defense Bird also stole a page from Johnson’s book and made several dazzling passes. In fa ir ness to Magic, he was obviously hampered by the in ju ry and it showed. He missed a couple of easy shots and tried to force passes inside. Critics say that Johnson won the duel the first time around; Bird obviously won Sunday. Stay tuned for round three. “ Honor Prep” of the Week Pioneer junior Mike Russell starred in a recent Barlow wrestling tournament, beating all wrestlers in his 136-pound weight class with three wins and no losses. His most im pressive win was a 21-3 vic tory Mike is competing for Sandy High School for the first year after transfering from Montana where he also wrestled * A by MARK FLOYD The snow and ice from last week’s storm had long since melted by the time the Sandy High g irls basketball team took the floor against Dallas Monday night. But the effects of that storm lingered strong. It was a hesitant, rusty Pioneer team that tried to stem the Dragon tide to no success. Dallas won easily, 52-33. “ We didn’t get to practice for more than a week,” Sandy coach Chris Knudsen sighed. “ It was pretty obvious that Dallas wasn’t affected. They hardly had any snow, they got to practice a ll week and I believe they even got a few games in .” Whatever the reason, the firs t half was sim ply a blowout. Senior forward Beth Skidmore ied a Dallas rampage in the first two periods, scoring 18 of her team ’s 31 firs t half points. Skidm ore’s longest shot was from eight feet; most of her baskets came on layins after teammate Sheila Jones had penetrated into the lane, and dished the ball off. It may have been Jones that did most of the damage to the Pioneers. The slick 5- foot-€ senior guard controlled the tempo of the game and helped Dallas easily break Sandy’s fu ll court pressure And when the Dragons broke, more often than not the result was a three-on-two. What h u rt the Pioneers even worse than the two-pronged attack of Jones and Skidmore was their own mistakes. Sandy made nine consecutive turnovers to start the game before fin a lly getting on the scoreboard with a Sue Wilson d rive at the 2:45 m ark. Despite the string of turnovers, Sandy trailed by just a 5-2 m argin a t that point. Dallas was having almost as much trouble controlling the ball as the Pioneers were. But the Dragons recovered in that first h a lf; Sandy didn’t. Once Skidmore broke loose inside, Dallas took over the game. The Dragons climbed to a 33-11 halftim e edge with Sandy’s main offensive thrust being four second quarter points from freshman Linda Mosbrucker “ The lack of practice tim e really hurt us,” Knudsen reiterated. “ We couldn’t handle the ball, we couldn’t dribble and we and three-time Olympian sprinter Madeline Manning, 1976 U.S. Olym pic women's throwing coach Dr. Harmon B ro w n ; 1976 C anadian A track and field clinic, sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps, w ill be held at Port land’s Sheraton Hotel Jan. 25-26. The clin ic w ill be conducted and supervised by Scholastic Coach magazine. Jim Santos, 1980 U.S. Olympic men's track coach, and a s ta ff of e ig h t prominent members of the track and field comm unity w ill share their expertise with high school and college coaches from around the Pacific Northwest. Scheduled speakers in clude 1980 U.S. Olympic women's coach Dr. Ken Form an; Dixon Farm er of the U n iv e rs ity of Washington; gold medalist That was as close as they got. Jones came back from a brief restand hit Jackie Aebi w ith a couple of nice passes that led to a free throw parade. Sandy’s Wilson took exception to one of the calls and got hit w ith a technical. Aebi sunk three straight from the charity stripe and the Dragons had the game in the bag “ One of the keys to the game was the fact that we had 35 turnovers,” Knudsen said. “ What hurts even more is that they weren’t pressing us. F or more inform ation, contact Sgt. K arl Petersen at 221-3021 G O O D REASONS AUTO REPAIRS CAR • HOME • DALLAS SANDV li 4 20 11 10 — 52 7 12 1 . - « Dallas (52)— Beth Skidmore 22, Snyder, Koloen, Jones 6, DeLatour, Howard, Aebi 13, Heppner 11, Bryant. Abel Sandy (33) - Sue Wilson 8, Maloney 8. Mosbrucker 4, Gedde, Yantes, Johnson, New 5, Pursel 2, Dowell 2, Hartke 4 Ron Norquist )M65O Pioneer Blvd Sendy. Oregon 97055 M 72O Proctor Blvd ttt-4 3 2 7 ¿Mw a good neighbor. 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Dallas was the Pioneers’ last non-league opponent prior to beginning its Tim ber Valley League slate. Sandy opens league play tonight, Jan 17, at Canby. The Pioneers w ill be home Monday night fo r a game against Sweet Home. Both games are scheduled to begin at 7:45 p.m. TELEVISION SERVICE to see y o u r g o o d n e ig h b o r a g e n t ’79 Chev. Close-out hef The Dragons' Skidmore led a ll scorers w ith 22. Aebi added 13 for Dallas and sophomore Linda Heppner chipped in 11 more. Sandy was paced by Wilson and Sue Maloney who had eight a piece. Classified Business, Professional Directory Olym pic coach A l Bianconi MOO Rebate F o rM ? S e *rv°« "Rebounds hurt us, too,” he added We only had 19 rebounds and we had a decisive height advantage. They just outhustled us for the b a ll.” For Your Card In This DIRECTORY — Phone 668-5548 < . p X ’ o n M ” h X x 4.0,5n : : , d 7’ s in s ,o c k ' b u ’ ,he PIZZA BARN couldn’t even catch a pass. It took us a whole h a lf to get our tim ing back. We did a ll rig h t in the second h a lf. ” The Pioneers did better than all right. They actually outscored the Dragons 22-21 over the last two periods, and Dallas had its starters in for most of the game. Sandy made two six-point runs at Dallas. I he firs t came at the beginning of the third quarter, the last at the end of the period. Sue H artke sand an eight-footer to end the quarter and the Pioneers scored the first four points of the final period to draw w ithin 15.42-27. Santos heads track clinic m e 7 UCh ‘° w r ” 79 p,iCe ,o r -ders.lcol neui car o r truck “J ° n u r f J o n u o ry 1 pr,cp increase on 1980 m o d e l? th.s has to o T rU o n C h e v ,nCSae: d yPU,Ch° Se ° ~ h° " æ Photo by Mark Flovt bepa league play tonight at Canby. Sandy w ill be borne next Monday lo r a league encounter w llhSw eel Home beginning al 7 :« p .m . Sandy £ cnn!ide" " 9 MIKE RUSSELL . Turnovers proved to be the undoing of the Sandy High girls basketball team Monday night as the Pioneers lost a 52-33 contest to Dallas Sue Maloney (14) has the ball stripped from her grasp as she drove the lane. The loss dropped Sandy’s record to 0-7, but the Pioneers A L L M A IN TA X SERVICE Cedar Plaza Bldg Suite No 9 Bookkeeping & Income Tanas Pickup & Delivery 6688224 LAND SURVEYOR J MARX & CHASE Registered Land Surveyor « • • ’*•*'•<1 Land Survey«,, Su.y.ym « Mapp.n« $uM«vtt»ont Off»«.« loceigd 41 225 E Burns.de Ext Gresham 1 1
