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Section SANDY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN 29, 1981 The Sftfely Post Sports and Recreation Sandy girls lose two; drop to sixth in TVL Sandy claims Hood River mat tourney T IM B E R V A L L E Y L E A G U E G irls B asketball W L •Sandy knocked off M etro league champion Aloha, Saturday, and went on to w in the Hood R iv e r V a lle y Invitational wrestling tournament. The Pioneers scored 132 points; Aloha had 116; Hood R iver, 92; and Lakeridge, 43. In dual meet scoring it was Sandy 35, Aloha 30; Sandy 48, Hood River 21; and Sandy 61,I,akeridge6. Six Sandy wrestlers won individual championships I air ry Topi iff, 98; Mike Rohweder, 106, Scott Quick, 136; Mike Russell, 141; Chris Jones, 148; and Dan M artin, 157; all won titles for the Pioneers. The only team that really gave Sandy a battle was Aloha, the defending Metro League champs. Sandy used its strength in the lower and middle weights to build up a huge 35-9 lead, then sat back and watched Aloha make a run. Aloha won the last four matches and three of those came by pins. But Sandy had already clinched the match with Dan M a rtin ’s pin at 157. It was an impressive win for Sandy. L a rry T o p liff and Mike Rohweder pinned all of their opponents at 98 and 106 to start the Pioneers off on the right foot in every match. Sandy was un beatable in the middle weights. From Scott Quick at 136 to Dan M artin at 157, Sandy won 12 matches and didn’t lose a single one. Eight of those 12 wins came by fa ll The Pioneers had a few problems with inconsistency in the upper weights,, but got a second place from junior T im Sytsma. Sytsma had a pair of pins, but suffered a 10-3 loss at the hands of Aloha’s Tom Fisher. The tournament win also boosted some of Sandy’s individual records for the year. Topliff and Russell lead in wins with 19. T o p liff has a 19-3 record, Russell is at 19-2. Jones is 18-2, M artin 12-1, Sytsma 15-6 and Quick 11-4. Sandy’s junior varsity also won the Hood River tournament. Sandy had 132^ points; Aloha, 116Ms, Hood River, 92; and Lakeridge, 43^. Individual champions for the Sandy jayvees w ere John Cox, Randy Swanson, Dave Kenison, M ike Shep pard, Mo Contreres, Dean Fischer, Gary Jensen and Cal McKinnis. Oregon C ity West Linn S ilverton Canby Sweet H om e Sandy E stac a d a M o la lla 0 ’ 3 4 4 5 3 * M onday 's G am es West L inn 49. Canby 29 Silverton 40, M o la lla 18 Oregon C ity 77, Sandy 29 Sweet Horne 57, E stac a d a 31 by MARK FLOYD Meet cancelled Sandy H igh’s season-opening ski meet, a giant slalom at M ultorpor, was cancelled this past Saturday because of the lack of snow. However, the Cascades received a fresh blanket of snow this week and prospects look good for future skiing on Mt. Hood. The Pioneer’s next meet w ill be this Saturday, Jan 31, weather perm itting. A slalom is scheduled at M ultorpor beginning at 8 a.m. 7 6 4 3 3 3 3 ’ U lo - ■ Photo by M ark Floyd Sandy's Dawn New puts a block on Carrie Stiles of Estacada (le ft| and her own teammate, Cindy McCoy (rig h t) to save possession. Unfortunately fo r Sandy, the Pioneers didn't control the ball often enough and Estacada escaped with a 46- 36 win. Two losses during the past week have put a dent in the league playoff hopes of the Sandy High girls basketball team. One of those losses, a 77-29 drubbing by second-ranked Oregon City, was expected, a 46-36 loss to Estacada was not. The Pioneers now find themselves in a tie w ith Estacada for sixth place in the league w ith a 2-5 record. The top four teams in the Tim ber Valley league are guaranteed post-season play. Sweet Home and Canby are currently tied for fourth with 34 records “ We’re one win off the playoff pace,’’ Sandy coach John Smith said. “ We’re going to have to go at least 4-3, maybe 5- 2, in the second half to assure ourselves of a spot. We’re going to have to play with a little more intensity and beat the people we are capable of beating. “ We’ve had a look at everyone in the league and we are certainly capable of going 5-2,” he added. But first, the inconsistency. The Pioneers turned in a fa irly solid first half against Estacada, Thursday, and went into the intermission w ith a 20-16 lead. But the visiting Rangers slapped on a press that rattled Sandy and the Pioneers were outscored 30-16 in the second half. Smith was at a loss to explain why the press hurt Sandy so much. The Pioneers had certainly seen tougher presses and broken them, even against Oregon City. They were especially hurt late in the fourth period after guards Sandy Yantes and Nancy Rohweder were benched w ith five fouls. That left Linda Mosbrucker as the only ball- handler le ft on the court for the Pioneers. Nevertheless, Sandy led by four, 26- 22, w ith two minutes left in the third period. But Estacada scored the final seven points of the quarter to take a three-point lead. The Rangers then sank three free throws to extend the lead to six to open the fourth quarter. Elaine Gedde broke the ice for Sandy by sinking a pair of free throws, but Estacada had the momementum for the press. Carrie Stiles and Kathy Wilson began driving on .the foul-plagued Pioneers and getting inside shots. Sandy got its fourth quarter baskets through Mosbrucker’s hustle and the play of Gedde off the bench. Again, inconsistency plagued the Pioneers. Mosbrucker had four points in the first quarter and five in the last, but nothing in between. Char McKinney had eight points for the game and seven of those came in the second quarter. She had just one point in the second half. The loss to Estacada was a tough one to swallow. Not only did Sandy drop a game off the playoff pace, they dropped it to a team they could have beaten. That wasn’t the case against Oregon City, Monday. The league leaders just had too much depth and overall talent for Sandy Oregon City is atop the TVL with a 74) record and just climbed to the number two spot in the state behind Marshall. Oregon City opened up a 21-4 lead against Sandy and the scary thing is, the Pioneers weren’t playing all that bad. They handled OC’s press in the early going, but just missed the laying. Defensively, they had no way to stop Margie Park and Denise Wheatley, each of who scored 18 points in the game on nine of 12 from the field. Sandy played without 6-foot center Dawn New, who was out with illness, and forw ard Sue Hartke, s till hobbled by an ankle in ju ry. The Pioneers sank 10 of 33 from the field, which isn’t altogether terrible, but Oregon City was over the 50 percent mark. The task now facing the Pioneers is to rebound from the two losses and con centrate on the second half of league play. Sandy travels to Silverton Thursday to take on the th ird place Huskies than hosts West Linn Monday. West Linn is a carbon copy of Oregon City, so the Pioneers really need a win at Silverton. “ We’re going to have to do it in the second h alf,” Smith said. ‘‘The things that w ill help w ill be the improved play of Cindy McCoy and the return of Sue Hartke. She had two good games before injuring her ankle, but she should be back Thursday,” SANDY O R E G O N C IT Y 4 10 21 16 6 33 9 — 2» 13 — 22 Sandy (29) C har M c K in n e y 8, Yantes 2. M osbrucker 3. R ohw eder 2, G edde, M cCoy 6. Seal 2, R odrigues 2, D ah lager 4 Oregon (77) M a rg ie P a rk 18, L in d 2, C asebeer, 8. K lein 2, Sm ith 4, W h eatley 18. Haun 2, C hristensen 2, A llm a in 4, Chan 1, Gorton 7, K ra e m e r, Stone 4, Coughlin 3. Reeder 2 ESTACADA SANDY 8 8 8 12 13 6 17 — 46 10 34 E stacada (46) W ilson 7, Branson Leatham 4, Steubs 6, F ix 8. Stiles 9, M oore Bagley 6 Sandy (36) Linda M osbrucker 9, Yantes New 6, M c K in n e y 8, M cCoy 5. Rohw eder Gedde 4, R odrigues, Seal, 4, 2. 2. 2. Skyscraping Cougars top outmanned Pioneers T IM B E R V A L L E Y LEAGUE Boys B asketball Canby M o la lla Oregon C ity Sweet H om e Silverton West L inn Estacada Sandy W 6 3 4 4 3 3 2 1 L 1 2 3 3 4 4 5 6 Tuesday's Results Canby 90. Sandy <15 M olal la 72, Sweet H om e 59 Silverton 54, Oregon City 52 Estacada 63, West Linn 61 (O T ) By MARK FLOYD The Canby Cougars got it all together Tuesday night and took out their fru s tra tio n s on the Sandy boys basketball team, dealing the Pioneers a 90-45 loss Canby had been having internal problems all year, but the Cougars turned in a topnotch performance, rolling to a 47-21 halftim e lead and coasting the rest of t 1 m * way. “ They just gave us an old-fashioned w h ip p in g ,” Sandy coach Dennis Warren said. “There are times when you have to adm it that you got beat by a better team and this was one of them. Canby is as good a team as we’ve run into this year They’ve got the potential of Benson and they shot better. ” Any team that shoots better than second-ranked Benson has to be good. The Cougars sank 36 of 62 from the field, many coming on fast breaks Canby won for a number of reasons, but two were most readily apparent. The Cougars started a pair of 6-foot-7 players and Sandy had no one to counter Canby would either clean the boards and start the fast break or block a shot out to halfcourt And Carey Martenson and Brad Parkinson were there to collect The second reason is that Sandy didn’t take very good care of the ball. An aggressive Cougar defense forced 31 Sandy turnovers. Canby committed just four. “ They just got momentum and everything they shot went in ,” Warren said. “ We were really mismatched against the 6-7 kids. They’d put (Dan) Domey high and (Je ff) Spalding low. We’d have them blocked out and they’d go right over the top of us for the rebound. “ They also broke the ball well, but when you have 6-7 kids who can clear it, it ’s pretty easy to do,” Warren added. “ They’ve got a lot of potential. That’s the best team that ’s been in our league in a long tim e. Of course, maybe we made them look good, too.” Warren was pleased w ith 6-4 pivot- man Bob Nippert, who held his own against the ta lle r Cougars. Nippert led Sandy w ith 10 points. Canby was led by Spalding w ith 18 and Domey with 15. The Pioneers also suffered a defeat at West Linn Friday night, but played one of their better games of the year — at least, fo r tliree quarters. W est Ijn n won 64-51, but the Pioneers had them running scared for most of the game. Ix?d by guard M arvin Schaffer, the Pioneers jumped out to a 27-23 halftim e lead and kept that lead for much of the th ird quarter. But West Linn exploded near the end of the third period and went on to win going aw ay. “ I ’m really searching for answers about that one,” Warren said. “ We played like we have in the past We had them for two and one-half or three quarters, but then we made a few mistakes and key turnovers and found ourselves behind.” The Lions went into a control game and Sandy didn’t have the speed to take it away So Warren went to a halfcourt trap and the Lions broke it for some easy hoops. “ I was pleased w ith the way we played for tliree quarters, but the old fourth quarter has become a real nemesis for us," he said. “ Against West Linn we were mismatched in speed at the guard and forward positions Ever since the double overtim e loss to Oregon C ity, we’ve had trouble holding leads I t ’s had a psychological effect. We get ahead and play like we’re behind.” Warren is quite pleased with the progress the Pioneers have made, and feels that every member of the team has shown significant improvement. Indeed, only two teams have dominated Sandy. Canby and Sweet Home were in control the whole way But the Pioneers have played the rest of the Tim ber Valley league tough, a fact which belies their 1-6 record. “ We’ve played them down to the wire and we haven’t always played good,” Warren said “ If the kids take hold m entally and keep their heads above water, we could do lietter in the second half We’ve got to get over that fourth quarter hurdle, though ‘When you lose three or four close ones in a row, you tend to lose a little confidence, too,” he added Sandy's only win in the firs t half came on the road against Estacada Sandy w ill get the Rangers at home in the second half as well as West Linn and Silverton, both teams that dealt Sandy narrow defeats “ We re going to have to cut down on our turnovers in the second half and play w ith more intelligent intensity,” Warren noted “ We’re usually intense, but we re not always intelligent about it We try to force passes and don't protect the ball. Those little mistakes w ill k ill you." SANDY 10 11 8 16 • 4» CANBY 21 26 25 18 • 99 Sandy (45) N ippert 10. Sc hatter 3, M a rtin 1, Yoder 4. P aola 10. Hunt 2. Kennebeck 5. P lo tner, B rader 8. Pauyh 2 Canby (90) Zauner 7, A dam s 2, Sandsness 6 la to n e 2 . Parkinson 12. G o ldm an 5. Hansen 8, D om ey 15. M artenson 10, Spalding 18. Raines 5 SANOY » 18 1« 14 • 51 W EST L IN N 10 13 20 21 • 64 Sandy (51) Schatter 12, Yoder 8, Paola 14. H unt. Kennebeck 6. Plotner 2, N ipp ert 8. B rader I West Lm n 164) H utchm , D unning 6. W ashington 1. K elly 2. H u m m e ll 8 H ow ard 7, Hodges. Schm eiser 27. Chose. Glanw ille 19. T Zessler Nab personal bests Swimmers split with Bruins The Sandy High g irls swimm ing team re-established itself as the team to beat at d istrict, topping Barlow 80-74 Thursday at the Sandy pool. Barlow beat a short-handed Sandy boys team 86-60 The Bruin g irls had beaten Gresham and Reynolds, two of the league's stronger teams. But Sandy came up w ith a number of wins, personal bests and a big victory in the final event of the meet, the 400-freestyle relay Sandy led the entire meet, but not by much The Pioneers opened w ith an impressive win in the 200-yard medley relay as the team of Teresa I<amer, Gayle Roth, Heidi Lamer and Bonita Connelly raced to a fast 2 05 2 tune Connelly then took the 200-f reestyle, leading a Sandy sweep. She was timed in 2:14.59, ahead of teammates Jean Crane and lasa Izer Roth and Heidi 1-ainer went one-two in the 200-individual medley, Roth getting the win in 2:26 17. Form er Sandy High sw im m er Cindy Zogg won the 50-free for Barlow and the Bruins swept the butterfly. But Con nelly stopped the Brums' momentum w ith a strong win in the 100-freestyle She took firs t in 1:00 26, four seconds ahead of second plaza Zogg Teresa Lamer ttx>k the 500-f reestyle, winning in 6:13.58 Lisa Izer was right behind w ith a personal best of 6 49.5 for second place That put the Pioneers up 57-51 in the team scoring and Sandy got another win from Roth in the 100- backstroke The Sandy junior sped to a 1 09.66 time, and finished fa r ahead of the rest of the pack. Barlow took the 100-breaststroke to set up the meet's final event, the 400- free relay The Bruins needed a one-two sweep from their teams to win it, but the Pioneers put those plans to rest by winning it. Crane. Izer, Dawn M iller and Nici Dubois combined to win the relay in 4:35 29 “ It was a heck of a meet,” Sandy coach Mark Smith said. “The girls were up fo r it They knew that Barlow had beaten Gresham and Reynolds and they wanted to let everyone know that they're still the team to beat at R m « o by Mark Flay 4 «Continued oo Page 2) Shawn Burns came ig> with two wins and a pair of personal bests against Barlow.
