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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
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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
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women's coach Dr. Ken
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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.
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The loss dropped Sandy’s record to 0-7.
Dallas was the Pioneers’ last non-league
opponent prior to beginning its Tim ber
Valley League slate. Sandy opens league
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The Dragons' Skidmore led a ll scorers
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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
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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
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