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Section SANDY, OREGON THURSDAY, JAN 22. 1981 The Srfnäy Post Sports and Recreation Barlow Trail jamboree set Pioneers top Estacada, lose to hot Sweet Home A jamboree this Saturday, Jan 24, w ill kick off the 1981 Barlow T ra il league girls basketball season 'Hie jamboree w ill be held at Sandy High School. Games w ill be 16 minutes long The schools " B " team w ill play the first eight minutes of each game and the “ A " team w ill play the final half. Officials w ill be from Mt. Hood Com m unity College Hie jamboree, sponsored by Cottrell School, w ill begin at 9 a m. and games w ill take place in both the upstairs and downstairs gym, at Sandy High. T IM B E R V A L L E Y L E A G U E Boys basketball W Oregon City Canby Sweet Home Molalla West Linn Silverton Sandy Estacada by MARK FLOYD The schedule is as follows: 9 a m. Corbett vs. Boring (down stairs) C ottrell vs. Cedar Ridge (up stairs ) 9 30 a m. Orient vs. Cedar Ridge (downstairs) Redland vs. Welches * up sta irs) 10 a m . Redland vs. C o ttre ll (downstairs) Orient vs. Boring (up stairs ) 10 30 a m Corbett vs. Cottrell (downstairs) Boring vs. Welches i u p sta irs) 11 a m. Welches vs. Orient (down stairs) Cedar Ridge vs. Redland (up stairs ) 11:30 a.m. Boring vs. Redland (downstairs) Cedar Ridge vs. Corbett i upstairs i 12 p.m . Welches vs. C o rb e tt (downstairs) Cottrell vs. Orient (up stairs > Clinic times to be later The h o irs of The Sandy High basketball clinic for area youngsters has been changed for this week Kids in grades six through eight w ill participate in the Saturday, Jan. 24 session from 1 to 3 p.m Kids grades one through five w ill go from 3 to 4 p.m. Both sessions w ill be held in Gym A at Sandy High The sessions were delayed from their normal tunes because of a grade school basketball tournament scheduled in the gym Regular hours w ill resume next Saturday. L a 1 4 1 3 2 3 2 2 3 } 3 1 4 1 4 Photo by M ark Floyd Sandy's Bob Nippert struggles for rebotmd position against a pair of Sweet Home players, Scott Evenson (51) and Mike Wilkerson (23). Nippert came up w ith a game-high 12 rebounds in the* game, but .Sweet Home came out on top by a 64-55 score. The Sandy High boys basketball team smacked Estacada 67-54 Friday night for its firs t Tim ber Valley league victory of the season. But the Pioneers ran into a buzzsaw Tuesday night at home as Sweet Home claimed a 64-55 win. Sandy kept up w ith the Huskies for the better part of three quarters. Then the Pioneers simply were overcome by fatigue. 'We just ran out of gas,” Sandy coach Dennis Warren admitted. “ You could see it out there. Our legs went dead and then our defense went dead.” The loss overshadowed an out standing performance by Sandy's senior forward Jeff Yoder. Yoder ac counted for more than half of Sandy’s points in the game, scoring a career high 29. He also played some rugged defense and h it the boards well. But while Yoder was the one hot Sandy shooter, Sweet Home had six or seven guys fillin g it up from the outside, especially in the second half. The Pioneers played some good defense in the opening quarters and the Huskies had trouble getting untracked. Yoder had eight firs t quarter points and Steve Brader sank a couple of jumpers from the wing to give Sandy a 16-13 lead. Brader also h it a layin after a M arvin Schaffer steal in the second quarter to give the Pioneers their biggest lead of the game, 25-19. But the Huskies came back. Sweet Home’s 6-foot-2 center James Metzger sank a pair of inside hoops and Mike Wilkerson scored six points in the final 90 seconds of the half to send Sweet Home into the locker room w ith a 33-32 lead. Sweet Home opened the th ird quarter w ith a successful break off the tip and Toby Volz converted the layin. Yoder countered, scoring Sandy’s firs t six points of the quarter, but the Huskies began sinking 15 to 20-foot jumpers. Tucker Sieber started things off and the rest of the Huskies followed suit. Sieber found an opening in the Sandy defense, about 15 feet from the basket on the baseline. He hit three shots from the same spot in the third quarter and scored on a breakaway to put the Huskies up 53-44. Sandy narrowed it to 53-47 at the three-quarter mark as Yoder sank a 25- footer near the buzzer and Marvin Schaffer converted a free throw Yoder also hit from the baseline to start the fourth period and draw Sandy to within four But Sieber hit twice and four other Huskies scored points to pad the Sweet Home lead. Yoder ended the game with a 13 for 22 performance for the field and three for three from the line for his 29 points. He also had eight rebounds Bob Nippert led all rebounders with 12. The difference in the game came at the line, where the tired Pioneers were forced to foul Sweet Home. The Huskies sank 20 of 31 shots, not a great per centage, but they made enough to win the game. Sandy was nine of 15 from the line. The Pioneers played one of their best games Friday against Estacada. This time it was Sandy who won the game at the line, sinking 31 of 41 attempts to offset a too-aggressive Estacada defense. " I t was one of those classic nights when a team is not hot from the field but makes up for it with team defense and free throws,” Warren said. “ That took care of the game for us. I was pleased w ith our concentration from the line, something we haven’t done well in league play. If we had shot that well our first three games, we would have been 4-0.” Yoder was again the key to the vic tory, this time on the defensive end. Sandy played a tough man-to-man defense the whole way and Yoder was assigned to Tony B ritt, Estacada’s big gun. Yoder totally shut B ritt down and the Estacada guard scored his dozen points "a fte r the fact,” Warren noted. Nippert also had an exceptional defensive game, shutting down the Ranger’s 6-2 jumping jack Mark Erickey with just four points. O ffe n sive ly, the Pioneers got balanced scoring from Yoder (17), Mitch Paola 115) and Nippert (14). Matmen return to form, knock off Oregon City by MARK FLOYD Sandy's wrestlers are back on track. The Pioneers shook off a disap pointing loss to Sweet Home last week by topping a strong Oregon City team 29-22 Thursday. Sandy now has a 2-1 Tim ber Valley League dual meet record It was an encouraging win for several reasons Oregon City is a state-caliber team. Sandy won some good individual matchups and the win marked the return to action of junior Dan M artin, sidelined for two months w ith a shoulder injury. M artin showed little effects of the layoff, trouncing Del Daarud 16-5 in the 168-pound match. M artin had the top record on the team at the tim e of his injury. "H e looked pretty good out there,” Sandy coach Ron Calhoun said. "H e didn't even run out of gas — in fact, I think the other guy was more gassed than he was.” As usual, though, it was L a rry Topliff who got Sandy off on the right foot. The sophomore manhandled Louis Wor thington in the 98-pound clash and claimed a 14-0 shutout, worth five team points. B ill Mathews came on at 106 to dump Rob Leedom 14-9 and give the Pioneers an 8-0 lead. But the strength of the Oregon City lineup was yet to come. Vince Herr, 115, dealt Sandy’s Mike Rohweder a 15-0 setback and Tom Weller edged the Pioneers’ Robert Paul 12-8 at 123. The two Oregon City wins tied the score at 8-8. In a lineup change,’ Sandy’s Scott Quick cut six pounds and wrestled at 130 this week. Calhoun said he had no trouble and Quick’s 6-2 win over Paul Connelly may convince the Sandy coaches to keep him at that weight for district. That left Paul Gagner the unenviable task of facing Oregon C ity’s K irk Hirota at 136, and the powerful Hirota claimed a pin at 3:37. Mike Russell got those points back for Sandy at 141 w ith a fa ll over Frank M cElroy. The two were tied after the firs t period, but Russell scored a reversal and a near fall, then pinned the Oregon City grappler at 3:25. Dean Fischer made a rare varsity sta rt and wrestled well for Sandy at 148, but suffered an 11-6 loss to Dave Herr. Calhoun made the lineup change to give Fischer a chance and to see how Chris Jones would do at 157 against Mike McCarty. McCarty, Oregon C ity’s super soph, was no match fo r Jones dispite a weight advantage and Jones took a 16-3 win. M a rtin then hammered Daarud to give the Pioneers a 24-17 lead. Scott Skipper, a pretty good sophomore in his own right, upped that lead fo r Sandy w ith a 7-4 decision over Randy Sebastian at 178. The Pioneers clinched the match at 191 when Randy Carmony fought back to gain a th ird period reversal and tie Mike D am ni 10-10. The draw gave Sandy an insurmountable 29-19 lead w ith just the heavyweight match remaining. A t heavyweight, Oregon C ity’s Denny Smith dealt T im Sytsma a 6-0 loss. Smith is one of the top heavyweights in the state and is undefeated this year. " I was pleased to see us come back after that loss to Sweet Home (38-28),” Cahoun said. "T h a t was kind of the low point of our psychological cycle, you m ight say. But we worked hard all week to get back on top of it and it worked out pretty well.” Sandy w ill travel to Estacada this Thursday for a 6 p.m. match with the Rangers. The Pioneers w ill also par ticipate in a tournament at Hood River this Saturday, Jan. 24 Action w ill begin at 9 a.m. Marlins gam er ribbons at David Douglas meet Doug Crane has become the new swimming star of the Blue M arlin Aquatic Club. Crane dominating BMAC swim meets If Doug Crane gets any better, he’s going to have to start his own swimming club Or. at least, his own fan club The 12-year-old Crane has emerged as th t star of Sandy s Blue M arlin Aquatic Club this year Crane has always been a good swimmer, but the BMAC is usually full of good, young swimmers \o » ( Vane has become something special. He's been swimming well this season, but his performance last weekend has the Sandy High coaching staff drooling The Cedar Bidge seventh-grader competed in six events at the Tualatin Hills " A ” Invitational and won three of them. The meet featured the best swimmers from Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho Not only did Crane win, he won with some excellent times He won the 50-yard freestyle in 25 15. after clocking a 24 91 in the prelim inaries. That mark is just a half-second off the state record held by Tigard s Charlie Singleton I The 24 91 would have also won the 50-freestyle in Sandy H igh’s meet against C entennial T hursday. Remember, Crane is just 12 years old Ironically, it was Crane's older brother. Bret, who won the event against Centennial for Sandy High. The older Crane was timed m 24.99. The young M arlin ace also turned in a strong performance in the 100- butterfly He was first in 1:01.47, a BMAC record ( Clint Brown won the Sandy High meet in 1 00 87 ). Crane's final win came in the 50- butterfly where he won in 27 34 He also took second in the 100- freestyle by four-hundredths oi a second He was timed in 55 69 Crane was third in the 200-individual medley, 2:23 40, and third in the 50- backstroke, 31.96 All six of Crane's swims were personal I jests He was the only member of the Blue M arlin Aquatic d u b to com pete at Tualatin H ills The rest of the squad was at a meet at David Douglas See related story on this page The Blue M arlin Aquatic Club didn’t exactly take the weekend off, but coach Carl Neuenfeldt admitted that the I),H id Doublas B " and ’ Invitational was a fun one. " I t was a real fun meet for our kids,” he said "Everyone came home with ribbons and the kids were really happy. We did jre tty good on times, too. We were close to our beat times in a lot of races and we broke a few, too.” The M arlins won the boys 10-and- under 200-meter freestyle relay. The team of Ian Hodge, Damon Hodge, Ben King and Randy Quiett blazed to a 2:51 Otnark. Damon Hodge also placed second in the 100-individual medley, second in the 50-butterfly and in the top six in the 50- backstroke, 50-breaststroke and 50- freestyle. Several of those swims were best times Quiett got a PR in the 100-IM, plac ing fourth in 1:49 5 He also had a strong finish in the breaststroke. Travis llilsta d was another of the Marlins who fared well at David Douglas. He was th ird in the 100-IM, with a personal best of 1:47 5, and had best times in the 50-freestyle, 50- butterfly and 50-hackstroke Both Damon Hodge and Hilstad are just seven years old, but competed against several nine and 10-year-olds in the 10-and-under category “ And they did pretty well against them, too,” Neuenfeldt noted Ben King also came up with a number of personal bests for the BMA<' in the boys 10-and-under division In the girls eight-and-under, Autumn Smith celebrated her first meet ever with a pair of wins. She took the 100- mdividual medley in 2:26 4 and claimed the 25-breaststroke in 33.3. "The eight-and-under girls did a real good job for us," Neuenfeldt said. "T h e y’ve been showing a lot of im provement lately. Their times haven't gone down a while lot, but their strokes are getting a lot better. "And the eight-and-under boys, they just keeping getting better every time out,” he added. A few of the older swimmers didn’t do too bad, either Dean Haines, Mark Rolph, Troy Hilstad and John Tuttle combined for a win in the 200-free relay for 11-12 boys. They were timed in 2 20 8 Hilstad also finished second in the 50- free with a 34 8 time, close to his per sonal best It was his first meet since turning 11 years old Richard Rolph was first in the 100- free, 100-butterfly and 100-breaststroke for 13-14 boys Mark Rolph had several personal bests in the 11-12 boys com petition No-Stars slated The KGW No-Stars basketball team w ill take on the Sandy High School faculty in a benefit game Monday, Jan. 26, at SUHS The game w ill start at 7 30 p m. IToceeds from the contest w ill go to the Sandy High band for its trip to California this spring Tickets w ill cost 12 for adults and $1 25 for students 1
