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SANDY, OREGON THURSDAY OCT. 16 1980
The
Post
Sports
and Recreation
Volleyballers’
TVL win skein
halted by OC
by MARK FLOYD
Sandy’s stronghold on Timber Valley
league volleyball may not yet be
broken, but it certainly was shaken
Tuesday night.
Oregon City topped Sandy in straight
sets, 15-12, 15-13, handing the Pioneers
their first league loss since 1978. And
that loss dropped Sandy from sole
possession of first place into a tie with
Sweet home. Both teams have 7-1
records; Oregon City is at 6-2.
Sandy coach Ron Grantz was, in a
word, disgusted with his team ’s effort.
“ You’d better not quote m e,” he said,
“ because what I ’d say would be un
printable.”
The Pioneers played their worst
match of the season. The only thing that
kept the score close was the fact that
Oregon City didn’t play all that well,
either. But Oregon City got the ball to
their setters often enough to keep its
hitting attack going, and the T V L’s
newest volleyball power has a pair of
fine hitters.
In contrast, Sandy’s passing was
horrid. It was a rare occasion when the
Pioneers got off a good spike because
the passers never got the ball in good
position to Colene McDonald, Sandy’s
all-league setter. McDonald didn’t have
one of her finer games, either, and she
made some uncharacteristic poor sets.
Oregon City sputtered its way to a 10-
1 lead in the firs t game and most of
those points came directly from Sandy
errors. Those that didn’t were the result
of spikes and tips from Oregon C ity’s
leaping, left-handed hitter Margie
Park. Sandy messed up four serve
receives for points and hammered
three spikes into the net.
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Kevin Layng (10) and B illy Groombridge (9) of Sandy struggle for the ball in front of the Glencoe
goalkeeper. Layng scored a goal for the Pioneers, but Glencoe came from behind and posted a 3-1 win
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over Sandy, Tuesday. The Pioneers led for most of the second half, but gave up three quick goals to
Glencoe’s Tony Kind in the last few minutes.
Glencoe attack wears Sandy down fo r 3-1 victory
Glencoe overcame a 1-0 deficit and
scored three goals in the last 12 minutes
of the game to pin a tough, 3-1 loss on
the Sandy soccer team Tuesday on the
Pioneers' field.
Sandy scored first when Kevin 1 .ayng
bounced a shot that the Glenco
goalkeeper failed to handle cleanly.
The ball dribbled over the goal line and
the Pioneers had a 1-0 lead midway
through the second la lf.
But Glencoe began applying waves of
pressure on the Sandy defense which
finally broke down. Tony Kind chipped
a shot in when Pioneer goalie Earl
Pierson slipped and couldn’t reach the
ball. Kind scored again minutes later
on a penalty kick. A short time later he
headed one in to complete his hat trick
and the Pioneers let a win slip out of
their grasp.
“ That kid was pretty good,” Sandy
caoch Lon Welsh said of Kind. “ He
played the back line in the firs t half,
then they switched hun to the front. We
couldn’t adjust to it. He was really good
passer and he ha*f eood hail control.”
It was a tough loss for the Pioneers,
especially after an excellent firs t half.
The Sandy defense tackled well and
Pierson made a number of tough,
heads-up saves.
“ We should have had it — we
definitely lost that game,” Welsh said.
“ I though we played an exceptional
firs t half, though. If we can keep
playing like that we can stay with
anyone in the league.”
Part of the problem in the second half
may have been fatigue. If that was the
case, Welsh was ready to take the
they should have no trouble with.
Forest Grove has yet to win a league
game. But Welsh hopes his team w ill
play a little smarter against the Vikings
and eliminate some of the mental
errors that the Pioneers committed
against Glencoe.
blame.
“ I probably made a little b it of a
coaching e rro r,” he admitted. “ Our
back line had them in the firs t half, but
I didn’t give anybody any rest. Robbie
Edwards just had an excellent game,
but he got tired in the second half and
began tackling the man instead of the
ball. He had to run all over the field and
he didn’t get much help. When they
send three or four guys back there, he
can't be everywhere at once.
The Pioneers travel to Forest Grove,
Friday, and face a Viking team that
“ We’ve got a case of the big boom
syndrome,” he explained. “ We had
three or four attacks that were right on
the goal but instead of getting a good
shot, we’d try to cannonball it in. And
there were people open on the wings.”
Early lapses cost Pioneers;
Canby holds on for 21-0 win
T IM B E R V A LLE Y
FOOTBALL
Oregon City
Canby
Estacada
Silverton
Sweet Home
West Linn
Molalla
Sandy
LAST W EEK'S GAMES:
Canby det Sandy 210
Oregon City det West Linn 24 16
Silverton det Estacada2) 7
Sweet Home det Molalla 410
THIS W E E K 'S G A M E S :
Oregon City at Sandy
Canby at West Linn
Sweet Home at Estacada
Silverton at Molalla
by MARK FLOYD
Take away the first 13 minutes and it
would have been a ball game.
The Canby Cougars scored on their
fir s t possession, on Sandy's fir s t
possession and a couple more times for
good measure and ran up a 214) lead a
minute into the second quarter.
Both teams played on equal terms for
the rest of the game, but the damage
was done and Canby upped its league
record to a 2-1 after the 21-0 win. Sandy
dropped 0-3.
“ We played a pretty good game for
the second half and most of the second
quarter,” Sandy coach Greg O’Meara
said. “ If we ever put four quarters
together, we'd be in the ball game ”
Canby took the opening kickoff and
marched 62 yards in nine plays for the
score. Most of its yards came on
counter plays through the right tackle
slo t. Cougar q u a rte rb a c k K eith
Knutson got the score on a one-yard
sneak.
The Cougars missed the extra point,
but th a t’s when the trouble began for
Sandy Mike Russell fielded the ensuing
kickoff and stepped back into the end
zone thinking touchback But the of
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ficial ruled that the ball’s impetus
didn’t carry it in and called a safety.
Sandy trailed 8-0 and had to kick the
ball away again.
This tim e the Pioneer defense held,
but the Cougars got off a punt which
they downed on the Sandy two-yard
line.
T erry Pierson, Sandy’s big senior
fullback, bulled up the middle twice for
the Pioneers for a firs t down, but the
Cougars shut down the attack and John
M artin was forced to punt. M a rtin ’s 30-
yard kick put the ball near medfiled,
but Sandy was caught with a personal
foul and the Cougars started on the
Pioneer 30. Two plays netted the
Cougars minus 14 yards,and it looked
like the Pioneers would hold them
again. But Knutson hit Tim Hall on a
pass up the middle on th ird and 24, and
Hall streaked into the end zone un
touched. The 45-yard pass play gave
Canby a 15-0 lead with 2:41 remaining
in the opening quarter.
The Pioneers hadn't had a chance to
get untracked offensively, thanks to the
poor field position and the safety.
Canby's kickoff went into the end zone,
however, the Pioneers got the ball on
the 20 with a chance to do something
Pierson and John Allen made good
gains, but the Pioneers’ Scott Skipper
was stopped on th ird down. O’Meara
made a gnmble pay off and on fourth
down at their own 29. the Pioneers
called M artin's number M artin came
through with two yards and the first
down.
Sandy was moving the ball. Quar
terback M itch Paola carred once and
hit Russell with a short pass A penalty
carried the ball past m idfield and the
Pioneers were on the Cougar 45 But
Paola hit Dave Paugh with a quick tight
end slant pass that Paugh juggled once
too often, and the Cougar defense came
away with an interception.
On the firs t play from scrimmage
Hall carried on a counter and galloped
68 yards for a touchdown The extra
point failed, but Canby had its 21 points
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Against Canby, the Pioneers gained
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Sandy led for most of the second
game, but was again hampered by
some poor passing. And the Pioneers
were also hurt by some rather
questionable officiating.
Julie Coleman served an ace, New
had a tip and Oregon City made several
miscues to give Sandy a 6-3 lead. They
upped that to 9-3 on spikes by
Daugherty, Coleman and C herie.
E lliott.
That narrowed the gap to 11-9 and the
Pioneers were upset. They let a serve
fa ll between them and Grantz had to
call another timeout with just a one-
point lead.
Sandy regrouped with a nice play that
Oregon City couldn’t handle without
four hits and took a 12-10 advantage.
Then came eight straight sideouts.
Daugherty hit a tough-angle spike to
give Sandy its final point of the evening
and a 13-10edge.
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Sandy’s main receiver was I^eo
K rick The senior end showed some
n ifty moves and good hands, coming up
with four catches against Canby. Paola
and K rick have teamed up for Sandy's
only score this year, a bomb against
Silverton.
The Pioneers’ newly-found passing
attack nearly punched the ball in a
couple of times, but Paola overthrew
K rick once and Paugh failed to catch up
to another bomb
O 'M eara was pleased w ith the
defense, except the two lapses on H all’s
long runs. He was especially happy
with the play of Randy Carmony,
moved for the firs t time to defensive
end. Carmony was in on numerous
tackles in the game and was named co-
captain with K rick for the Oregon City
match this Friday.
The Pioneers host Oregon City at 8
p m at Pop Rannow Stadium Oregon
City comes into the game undefeated in
league play this year and the defending
Timber Valley league champs are
ranked fourth in the state this year
Park clobbered a spike for a point,
then Sandy’s Paige Daugherty was
caught for a pair of illegal hits and
Oregon City had the firs t game.
Then came the bit of controversy.
Oregon C ity’s Barb McDonald h it two
spikes that appeared long, but both
were called in — one by the line judge,
the other by the official. McDonald also
hit a good spike, then Coleman was
whistled for being in the net on another
questionable call.
and the Pioneers’ momentum was shot.
Curiously, th a t’s when the Pioneers
started to hold th e ir own. Down by 21
points, they threw caution to the wind
and opened it up a little. The Cougars
shut down the rushing game fa irly
effectively, so Paola and Company
went to the pass.
Paola hit on seven of 17 passes, and a
couple of those misses should have been
receptions.
“ They (the Cougar defense) shut us
down inside then did a job outside on
us.” O’ Meara said. “ But that opened up
the passing. We did get the short ya r
dage on the ground when we needed it,
because we converted quite a few
fourth downs.
“ Paola looked good out there,” he
added. “ He needs a little more poise
and experience out there, but he
showed a lot of patience and picked out
his receivers well.”
Grantz called his second timeout of
the evening to settle the Pioneers down
and Sandy began a comeback. I t wasn’t
so much that the Pioneers were putting
shots to the floor, but Oregon City
began missing the spikes and tips it had
been hitting before.
Sandy got a nice block and a pair of
spikes from junior Dawn New for a
brief offensive spurt, then New came
back w ith a pair of serving aces. The
last on gave the Pioneers a 12-12 tie. But
New hurried her next serve into the net
and Oregon City had a sideout. It made
the most of it.
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Photo by Mark Floyd
Sandy's John Allen <10» gets stopped near the line of scrimmage. The versatile
senior began the season at quarterback and has since seen action in the secon
dary and as slothaek.
143 yards offensively, Sandy got just 47
yards on 40 carries via the ground
game, and got 86 yards passing on 19
attempts.
Sandy’s longest run of the night was
10 yards on a keeper by Paola Pierson
picked up 34 yards on 11 carries and
M artin gained 34 on 10 carries.
K rick caught four balls for 55 yards
SANDY
0 0 0 0 0
CANBY
IS 6 0 0 31
Canby — Kuntwn 1 yd run (kick fa iled ).
Canby — Sandy's Rutsall touch kneo in ond
tone tar safety.
Canby — Hall «S yd pass from Knutson
(Knutson kick).
Canby — H a ll 6S-yd run (ru n tailed)
Then it was McDonald’s turn and the
big redhead drilled two spikes in a row
and the Oregon City crowd was pump
ed. Sandy then mishandled two
straight serves to make it match point
and the final play was fitting for the
evening. The serve fell between E llio tt
and Stephanie Hagstrom, both thinking
the other had it.
It was a mistake-filled match by both
teams. Oregon City overcame its errors
with some good passing Sandy didn’t.
In fact, most of Sandy’s points for the
evening came on Oregon City miscues.
Conspicuously missing from the list
of Sandy points was the name of E lliott.
The Sandy senior, who was second
team, all-state last year, got hold of just
three or four spikes the whole evening.
The Pioneers never got their passing
game going enough to feed E llio tt the
spikes
The loss demonstrated that the TVL
is getting to be a pretty tough place to
play volleyball. Oregon City beat
Sandy, but lost to Sweet Home Sweet
Home took Sandy to three games and
Estacada was just as close to the
Pioneers.
Sandy's road gets no easier as the
Pioneers travel to Estacada. Thursday,
for a 6 p.m. match with the Rangers
The P ioneers w ill host M o la lla
Tuesday, then travel to Sweet Home for
a big match Oct. 23