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Section SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN 1, 1981 The Post Sports and Recreation Pioneer girls open TVL slate Monday Business slow at new winter sports center Business has been slow at the Winter Sports Inform ation Center, opened recently by the U. S. Forest Service at Government Camp. T erry Pearson of the Zigzag Ranger Station has been assigned to staff the new center on weekends and provide recreation in form ation to Mt. Hood visitors. Pearson said she has spent “ two very miserable weekends” there since the center opened. “ It has been pouring down rain almost every day,” she said. Between 20 and 50 visitors per day have used the center, obtaining literature, inform ation and maps to help them choose their recreation sites. Pearson said she believes there would have been “ much more than that if we’d had snow.” The center is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. I t w ill provide firs t aid, and w ill display in form ation on hiking trails, snowplay areas, snowmobile trails, and downhill and cross country ski areas, according to Herb Evans of the Zigzag Station. “ Hopefully when people come up to Mt. Hood, they w ill make a stop at Government Camp and take advantage of the literature there,” Evans said. He said maps which list a ll the cross country traits are distributed at the center. The maps include charts which describe the tra ils and list levels of d ifficu lty. Evans said the center w ill also be used as a dispatch site for the Nordic and Downhill Ski Patrols. Safety w ill be stressed in the information diseminated at the center, he said. “ We w ill emphasize the importance of using proper equipment,” Evans explained. “ And we’re always tryin g to direct people away from the crowded areas and distribute the load.” The center is equipped w ith a rear- screen projector to present two short programs on avalanche and w inter preparedness. Keep Listening tours scheduled Keep Listening, a series of wilderness trip s for women, has set its w inter schedule for the 1981 season. Keep Listening originated in the Sandy area and is a non-profit organization which has been serving women locally since 1977. The group has a number of activities planned for the upcoming year. A cross country ski lecture and demonstration Tuesday, Jan. 20, w ill open the w inter season. The lecture, scheduled for 7 p.m. at 1915 NE Everett in Portland, w ill introduce women to cross country ski clothing and equip ment. A series of three weekly cross country ski lessons for beginners has also been slated. The firs t sessions w ill begin Jan. 24 and 25 at 9 a.m. on the slopes of Mt. Hood. Lessons w ill include instruction on basic Nordic skiing skills, including diagonal stride, step turns, kick turns, wedge turns, double poling, herringbone h ill climbing and side stepping. Also included in the lessons w ill be w inter survival skills, such as how to prevent hypothermia, how to avoid avalanches and the use of a compass. Weekend trips are February and March. planned and Canby, according to Smith. He said that the general consensus around the league is that the lower division w ill be Christmas vacation provided a time made up of Sandy, Silverton, Estacada fo r the Sandy High girls basketball and Molalla. team to lick its wounds, but the “ Our team goal is to get into that top pressure of league play is nearly at four and be a part of the interleague hand. playoffs,” Smith said. “ To do that, we’U The Pioneers needed a bit of tim e have to take on Sweet Home and Canby after back-to-back shellackings at the and beat them at least once. Then we’U hands of St. M a ry’s and Lake Oswego. need solid games against Silverton, But those two schools are among the top M olalla and Estacada.” five teams in the state and the blowouts The Pioneers won’t have long to wait. were more or less expected. Time They tangle with Silverton this Mon should erase any lack of confidence day, Jan. 5 in the Sandy gym. I t w ill be those games may have produced. the league opener for both teams and A ctually, when the Pioneers reflect the 7:45 p.m. contest may reveal how back on th e ir preseason experience, each squad fits into the overall league they should come away feeling pretty picture. good, according to coach John Smith. “ Silverton Is in about the same “ 1 consider the season a success, so position that we are,” Smith said. “ I fa r,” he said. “ We have a 3-3 record which isn’t too bad (the best in the consider us on the same level. They’ve program ’s brief history, in fact). But got about four lettermen returning and we need to be more intense. We’re they’ re a pretty fa ir team. We’ll need to losing our intensity during parts of play good to beat them .” The S ilver Foxes w ill be led by for games and we need it for the fu ll duration. We have these lapses and we ward K im Smoot and 6-foot sophomore center Chris Venables. haven’t gotten over them. Sandy w ill counter w ith a 6-foot “ That’s the key to our season,” Smith emphasized. “ We can’t fa ll asleep center of its own in Dawn New and a during the game. Against the better faster paced game which Smith said is teams we’ve given up 10 quick pionts one of the more pleasing charac during a lapse. We’re a fa ir ball team, teristics of his team. “ O ur goal at the beginning of the year but we’ re not the kind of team that can come back very often after giving was to move up and down the floor more auickly and we’ve done that,” he up 10 quick points.” pointed out. “ When we move well and The competition may have had something to do w ith that. In addition to control the turnovers, we’ve been in the losses to St. M a ry’s and I^ake every ball game. Even for a half, or Oswego, the Pioneers suffered a part of a half, against St. M ary’s, we moved the ball fa irly well. When we do, season-opening defeat to Gresham. The we’re a much more effective team .” Gophers appeared to be a good, but not It w ill be two-and-a-half weeks be great team, but then they turned tween the Lake Oswego game and around and beat St. M a ry’s two weeks Monday’ s contest against Silverton. ago. A ll three of Sandy’s losses have The Pioneers may be a little rusty, but been to pretty fa ir teams. they were beginning to come around The wins haven’t exactly come individually going into vacation and against weaklings. Forest Grove is no powerhouse, but Columbia is fa ir and Sm ith hopes that it w ill continue through league play. Centennial is one of the favorites in the “ Linda Mosbrucker has been our Wilco League. The Eagles are on par most consistent perform er,” he said of w ith Gresham. the sophomore guard. “ She gives us The tough preseason may have been quickness and she’ s out there hustling a blessing in disguise fo r the Pioneers, no m atter what the score is. Char although they were probably cursing the schedule-maker when St. M a ry’s McKinney has been good fo r us, averaging eight or nine points a game was running away w ith a 75-30 win. and Dawn has had some very good Sandy won’t face tougher clubs in games. league than it did in preseason. “ Cindy McCoy, Zina Seal and Becky I t w ill face some that m ight be on the same level, however. Oregon City is a Rodrigues haven’t played much, but top 10 team and is probably just a shade they’ve been working hard and hustling well when they’ve been in there,” he below, if that, Lake Oswego. West Linn has come on strong this season and may added. “ And Nancy Rohweder has fin a lly stayed out of foul trouble the last be as good as Oregon City. Those teams appear to be the cream couple of games. She didn’t play much of the Tim ber Valley League crop. A early because of foul trouble, and we notch lower and there’s Sweet Home need her in there.” by MARK FLOYD in F or more inform ation, contact Keep Listening, P.O. Box 14743, Portland, OR 97214 or call 239-6896 Pioneer teams gear for league A fte r two weeks of food, relaxation and bowl games, the Sandy High athletic teams w ill be back in action with league play. The boys basketball team has a non leaguer this Friday, Jan. 2 at David Douglas. The Pioneers open their T im ber Valley I^eague slate Tuesday at Silverton The Sandy girls w ill host Silverton this Monday in their TV L opener A ll games w ill start at 7.45 p.m. The Sandy swimming team has one inorci week to prepare fo r Gresham, the league favorite in the boys competition and co fa vo rite with the Pioneers in the girls. The teams w ill tangle Jan. 8 at 4 p.m. in the Gresham High pool. The Pioneer wrestling team w ill participate in the tough Barlow Invitational Jan. 9. The host Bruins are the defending state champions and are favored to repeat this year The firs t matches are set for 3 p.m. Photo by Mark Floyd Sandy guard M itch Paola drives on an opponent in a recent game. The Pioneers own a 2-4 record and have been plagued by inconsistency, a tra it coach Dennis Warren hopes to overcome by the start of league play next week. Sandy has a non-conference game w ith David Douglas this Friday. Sandy cagers seek stability before entering league play by MARK FLOYD Dennis Warren isn’t surprised that his Sandy High basketball team is 2- 4 rig h t now, but he isn’t necessarily pleased w ith the fact, either. The Pioneers are young, and with their inexperience, mistakes are bound to happen. But Sandy has been a shade more inconsistent than even Warren had anticipated on his less optim istic days. “ I really feel that we have progressed at the rate I thought we would,” he admitted. “ But our biggest problem right now is in consistency. Portions of all our ball games have been good, but we’ve had a ro lle r coaster effect — up and down, up and down. We need to stabilize to be competitive in our league.” League play is right around the comer, too. The Pioneers have a non-counter with a strong David Douglas team this F riday which won’t be much of a picnic. The Scots are blessed w ith their best team in years. But the game w ill give Warren a chance to gauge how fa r his team has progressed in preseason A dm ittedly, it ’s been a rather rocky start fo r the Pioneers. W ith just one letterman in the lineup, Sandy lost its firs t three games and none of them were p articularly close. The Pioneers beat a weak Columbia team, then got blown away by powerful Benson. A trip to Victoria, B.C. provided a pleasant change of scenery and a nice vacation, but it gave Warren little clue to how his team was doing. The Pioneers split in two games playing international rules against Canadian teams So the Pioneers are faced with the prospect of taking their 2-4 record against the Scots and tryin g to develop some consistency, a tra it which has been noticeably lacking in the early season “ Our biggest weakness is defense." Warren said. "W e’re just going to have to realize that it takes a lot more effort to play a defense and we’ re going to have to put out a lot more on the defensive end. “ Some of it is inexperience, but we’ re also not working as hard as we’re capable of w orking,” the Sandy coach pointed out. “ Inex perience is no excuse fo r a lack of total team effort. We m ight have three guys out there working hard on defense, but the other two w ill be standing around. That’s a ll it takes. You need five .” Defense has been a sore spot. Benson rolled up 95 points against the Pioneers who couldn't handle their quickness. Not many teams can. But against a few other teams, “Our biggest problem right now is inconsistency. We need to stabilize to be competitive in our leagu e.” —Dennis Warren the Pioneers were guilty of standing around then reaching out when an opponent went by. laziness has cost the Pioneers dearly at the free throw line this season and it is something that w ill have to change, according to the Sandy coach. “ We’ re not displaying the type of enthusiasm we should be on defense,” Warren noted. “ We’ ll just have to find the people who are w illing to work on defense and those people are the ones who w ill be playing.” Despite preseason troubles, the Pioneers do have a shot at a Tim ber Valley league playoff spot There w ill be three berths in the eight-team TVL this year and the league is more open than usual. West Linn, one of the preseason favorites, has a 2-5 record and recently suffered the loss of both centers fo r the season due to an automobile accident. That leaves the talented, but inconsistent Cougars of Canby as the team to beat. Oregon City should also have a say in the race, but any team should be capable of beating anyone in the league. “ I don’t feel that there is a team we can’t beat if we play the way we’ re capable of playing and eliminate the im m ature mistakes,” Warren said. The firs t league contest fo r Sandy w ill be Jan. 6 at Silverton. Sandy w ill then host Oregon City Jan. 9 at 7:45 p.m. But in the meantime, there are practices over vacation and David Douglas to w orry about. “ I don’t want to sound like I ’m totally displeased with the team ,” Warren said. “ We’ve had some good individual performances at different times in different games. But 32 minutes of basketball we have yet to play. When that happens, we’ ll be competitive. “ I ’ve been pleased with our of fensive performance at times this year,” he added. “ We’ve moved the ball better than in the past and there have been streakes where we do things rather well. The kids have worked hard in practice and are enthusiastic. But in ball games we have mental lapses — we don’t play like we do in practice.” Warren praised junior Bob Nip- pert, the team ’s only letterman and the Pioneers’ most consistent performer. He also expressed pleasure w ith the developement of junior David Paugh who is taking on increasing responsibility inside, helping N ippert out But the thing that would please Warren the most is a little con sistency, especially on the defensive end And, expecially with league play starting next week. “ We’re a young team and we’re going to have up and down nights as league play progresses.” Warren said. “ What we’ ll have to do is work extra hard on our defense on those down nights because there’s no excuse for a poor defensive effort.” License and tag fees marked fo r an increase Another session of the Oregon Legislature w ill convene soon and in past sessions there have usually been many bills bearing on fish and w ildlife resources or on the organization or operation of the Department of Fish and W ildlife. Some of these have been introduced by the department; many others have come from or on behalf of other groups. This year the department w ill in troduce only one piece of legislation. It is one in which no one takes any joy, but one considered at this point to be very necessary. I t involves a hike in the basic license and tag fee structure that provides the funds to support a large percentage of the department’s operations. Although none of us enjoy paying fees, it has often been said that the best bargain available to the sportsman today is his hunting and fishing license. The license, after all, permits 365 days of fishing and several months of hunt ing each year in addition to providing year-around support of the managment programs that benefit these activities. And though a ll these costs are on top of everything else, what the hunter and fisherman is obligated to pay for licenses and tags is small in com parison to what he pays fo r tran sportation, gasoline, special clothing, amm unition, guns, tackle, dog upkeep, food, decoys, boats and motors, motels or camping equipment, and a m yriad of other essential pieces of the hunting and fishing experience. And, of course, the costs of all these things has risen, too. As should be obvious, the problems facing the department are the same as those facing everyone. The dollar sim ply doesn't buy as much as it used to. The department’s total annual budget has steadily increased over the years in term s of dollar numbers. But the amounts of goods and services it buys has steadily shrunk. “ The license fees keep going up and up,” we’ve heard said by a few disgruntled sportsmen. But, in fact, there have been only two general license fee increases since 1950 In that year the hunting and fishing licenses were each increased from 83 to 84 The next general increase was passed by the 1975 Legislature and took effect in 1976. Over the years some license fee changes, such as those providing free or reduced fee licenses and tags for certain groups, have actually cut into department revenue. There have been, since 1976, some significant increases in the cost of nonresident licenses and tags, and m inor adjustment to a few resident tags. But the revenue from the in creased nonresident fees has been of little total significance because only three percent of all licenses sold go to OREGON Fish & Wildlife nonresidents, and only one percent of the tags. Not only, have revenue increases not kept up w ith the costs, but license and tag fees have not kept up w ith increases in wages. This w ill be sm all solace to the sportsman who is out of work or one whose wages have not kept up with national averages. But using wage figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce, it has been found that when the current fee structure went into effect in 1976, it took 1 85 hours of work to purchase an angling license If the proposed structure goes into effect in 1982 and wage projections are valid, it w ill take only 1.42 hours of work to purchase that annual license. For the hunting license it drops from 1 44 hours in 1976 to 1.04 hours in 1982 Shown below are the licenses and tags proposed for increase in 1982, the amounts now charged, and the amounts proposed, in parentheses Resident Combination, 815 (817); Resident Hunter, 87 ( 881; Resident Deer Tag, 84 i85); B ird Stamp (New), 80 (85); Resident Angler, 89, (811); Juvenile Anger, 82 ( 83); Nonresident Angler, 825 (840); 10 Day Angler, 810 (815); D aily Anglerlnland, 82.50 ( 83); Daily Angler- Ocean 82 50 <84); Salmon-Steelhead Tag, 82 <85); Resident Antelope Tag, 85 (810).
