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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
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•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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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CANBY
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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
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W EST L IN N
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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
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Shawn Burns came ig> with two wins and a pair of personal bests against Barlow.