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Section SANDY, OREGON THURSDAY, FEB 5, 1981 The Sflndy Post Sports and Recreation Fourth-ranked grapplers win Intense Pioneers ambush Silverton by MARK FLOYD The hot-shooting Sandy High boys basketball team turned in one of its best games of the year and dealt visiting Silverton a 64-58 defeat, Tuesday, in a Tim ber Valley League game. The win raised the Pioneers’ TVL record to 2-6 and dropped the Foxes to 3-5. Talk to most any basketball coach and you’ll find out that wins are created by the defense. Tuesday was no ex ception Sandy slapped on a tight, man- to-man against Silverton and kept the pressure on the entire game. That in tensity carried over the offense and the Pioneers benefitted by sinking 24 of 40 field goals, a .600 m ark. “ I was pleased w ith the way we played defense, especially in the fourth quarter,” Sandy coach Dennis Warren said. “Defense won the game for us — it was a pretty good team effort. The kids showed me some real character out there after being down by four at the half. “ 1 was pleased with the kids’ mental ability to bounce back after being thumped by Canby (90-45),” Warren added ‘‘It was a real question m ark. I knew we could physically come back, but I didn't know, mentally, after a loss like that.” The Pioneers came back with a vengeance. They pressed Silverton well in the first quarter and even forced a 10- second call. At the other end of the court, Mitch Paola was driving and feeding off to his teammates and the pioneer offense was in high gear. Sandy rolled up 20 firs t quarter points and took a 20-12 lead when Jeff Yoder sank an offensive rebound at the buzzer after a missed free throw. But the Pioneers hit ‘ ‘a fla t spot” in the second period and Silverton came roaring back. The Foxes solved Sandy’s full-court press and began releasing an outlet man. Four or five times, they got loose downcourt for easy buckets and Warren was forced to call off the pressure. Then Silverton’s M ark Koster got into the act. The slippery Silverton guard scored eight of his game-high 20 points in the second period, fro m the outside and on the break. The foxes went ahead by four before Sandy put a string of six on the board, including two offensive rebounds hoops by Bob Nippert. But Silverton scored the last seven points of the quarter and went into the intermission w ith a four-point lead. The teams traded baskets fo r most of the th ird quarter and the Pioneers went into the fourth quarter facing a by MARK FLOYD three-point deficit, 44-41, The fourth quarter has not been kind to Sandy this year. The Pioneers have taken leads into that final period several times, but come away with a loss. Not Tuesday, however. Paola came out firin g and scored off the opening tip. Steve Brader sank a six-footer and Paola hit from the wing. Sandy had six straight and a three-point lead after a minute of play. Dean C ardiff stemmed the tide for Silverton w ith an inside hoop, but Paola added a free throw and Brader scored on a breakaway. The Pioneers were rolling and the fourth-quarter jin x was broken. Sandy kept up its intensity and Nippert, Yoder and Dave Paugh got into the offensive flow. Paugh scored all six of his points in the fourth quarter and came up w ith a pair of key rebounds. The Pioneers came up w ith 23 fourth quarter points and did a job holding Silverton to 14. So much for the fourth quarter “ I thought M itch Paola played a good, balanced game,” Warren said. “ He played well offfensively, and his defense was much better. He went to the floor a couple of times for loose balls and did a good job out there. He had a couple of lapses, but he knows his role is to move the ball around and create some offensive openings. “ I was also pleased w ith the way Bobby N ippert rebounded,” he added. “ He really controlled the boards out there And Paugh did a good job, too ” Nippert ended up w ith a game-high 10 rebounds, leading Sandy to a 27-22 advantage on the boards. Another key to the game was ball control. Led by Paola and M arvin Schaffer, the Pioneers coughed the ball up just nine times in the game. They had been averaging nearly 20 turnovers per contest. “ Now were looking at Oregon C ity,” Warren said. “ The kids have a little feeling about this one, especially after losing in double overtim e.” Sandy w ill play OC this F riday on the road, beginning at 7:45 p.m. Oregon City beat Sandy 40-39 in double over tim e earlier this season. S ILV E R TO N 12 22 10 14 — 50 SANDY 20 10 ,1 22 — 44 Silverton (58) — M ark Koster 20, Christiansen, Kouments 4, Christian, Jensen I, Swanson 4, Roth 10, Cardiff 2, Ormond, M cIntire 17. Sandy (64) — Mitch Paola 17, Schaffer 4, Yoder 12, Hunt, Kennebeck, Plotner, Nippert 12, Brader 11, Paugh 6. Sandy 's Dave Paugh drives to the hoop around Don M cIntire of Silverton. Paugh scored all six of his points in the fourth quarter and hauled down six rebounds to help the Pioneers to a 64-58 win over the Eoxes. Buoyed by its No. 4 ranking, the Sandy High wrestling team crushed Silverton 39-24 Thursday night and gained a share of the Tim ber Valley league dual meet lead The strong Pioneers won several key m atches and b u ilt up an in surmountable 39-9 lead. Silverton came on to win the final three matches and make the score respectable. “ Silverton gambled a little by juggling their lineup,” Sandy coach Ron Calhoun said. “ We won most of those gambles, l ^ r r y T o p liff (98) did a good job for us in there. He was going for the number one district seed against a senior and he pinned h im .” Topliff nailed Jim Hodges at the 3:10 mark and the Pioneers were off and rolling. But it took a few key w ire for Sandy to establish its big lead. Calhoun felt that wins by Robert Paul at 123, Carey I^irson at 136 and Cal McKinnis at 157 were crucial to the Pioneers’ success. “ They really were the keys to our winning,” Calhoun said. “ It takes a total team effort to win, but those matches keyed our efforts.” Paul pinned Joe Anderson at 2:17; Ixirson edged Dan Wood by an 8-5 score; and McKinnis scored a big pin at the 3:52 m ark. Mike Rohweder had one of the closest matches, nipping B ill Kyle 11-10 at 106. The Foxes came back at 115 when Roger Bersin pinned Sandy’s B ill Mathews at 1:35. Scott Currie of Silverton nipped Scott Quick 5-3 at 130, but the Pioneers went on a spree from there. I^irson won at 136, Mike Russell topped Jon Mack 5-2 at 141, and Chris Jones flattened Ron Hitchcock at 2:48 of the 148-pound match. M cKinnis took his match, then Dan M artin pinned Brian Johnson at 5:41 of the 168-pound match. That gave the Pioneers five wins in a row, a 39-9 lead and a 4-1 league record. Silverton came back in the final three matches, but it was too little , too late. Doug H arris pinned Sandy’s Frank Sacoskey at 1:34 of the 178-pound m atch; Silverton won by fo rfe it at 191; and the Foxes’ Ed Bielenberg edged T im Sytsma 4-0 at heavyweight. Sandy’s junior varsity won by a 31-19 score. Pioneer winners were Randy Swanson, 98; Dave Kenison, 115; Mo Contreres, 136; Randy Swanson, 141; Dean Fischer, 148; Loren Bateman, 168; and Frank M cKinnis, 178. The Pioneers w ill have their final home match of the season this F rid a y, Feb. 6, against West Linn. Sandy swimmers clip visiting Redmond, Aloha The Sandy High g irls swim m ing team scored a pair of wins over Aloha and Redmond, Thursday, while the Pioneer boys split w ith the visitors. ' The Pioneer girls topped Aloha 78-58 and Redmond 77-67. Sandy’s boys beat Aloha 66-52, but Redmond edged the Pioneers 72-66. With the exception of Aloha’s Sue Greer, the Pioneers pretty much dominated the girls competition. Greer won the 200-yard individual medley, the 100-backstroke and anchored the winning 400-freestyle relay team. A ll three teams competed at the same tim e with two entries from each squad in the six-lane pool, but scoring was done on a dual meet basis. Teresa Lam er won both freestyle distance events for the Pioneers and Gayle Roth won both of the short freestyles. Lamer took the 200 in 2:16.03 and the 500 in 6:05.70. Roth won the 50 in a speedy 25.65, then came back to take the 100 in 57.03. The Pioneers were second in the 200- medley relay, the 200-individual medley, the 100-breaststroke and the 400-freestyle relay. Bonita Connelly picked up the Pioneers’ other win in the 100-butterfly with a tim e of 1:09.68. The Sandy boys won most of the events against Redmond and Aloha, but lacked the depth to pick up enough points to win. The Pioneers won the 200-medley relay to open the meet and kept it up from there. Rick T o p liff took the 200- freestyle in 1:57.43, then came back to win the 500-freestyle in 5:24.18. Shawn Burns won the 200-individual medley in 2:22.69 and anchored the medley relay team to first. Glenn Izer picked up a pair of wins for the Pioneers, taking firs t in the 50- freestyle in 23.82, then winning the 100- freestyle in 51.77. Bret Crane won the 100-backstroke w ith a tim e of 1:03.83 and the Pioneers got seconds in the 50-freestyle and the 100-breaststroke. The Pioneers ran into a real buzzsaw last Tuesday at Tigard. Sandy tangled with the Tigers and I ¿ikeridge in a triangular and those are two of the top teams in the state. The I ¿ike ridge g irls topped Sandy 90- 61 while Tigard scored a 97-56 win over Sandy. In the boys competition, it was T ig a rd 100-45 over Sandy and Lakeridge by a 97-56 score over the Pioneers. T ig a rd ’s Julie I^eep w ill be one of the favorites in the freestyle at state and she showed why Tuesday, with a 55.6 win in the 100. Roth was second for Sandy in 57.2. It went that way all afternoon for Sandy. The Pioneers turned in some of their best performances of the year, but Tigard and I ¿ike ridge were just too strong as a team. The same was true on the boys side, but a few of the Pioneers came away w ith wins. Crane, H arry Hazelett, Topliff and Izer combined for a win in the 200-medley relay with a 1:54.30 time. Izer took first in the 100-freestyle w ith a blazing 51 40 and Crane was second in the 100-backstroke in 1:02.3. He was edged out by Ixikeridge’s Mark Con nard, firs t in 1:02 28 Pioneer girls drop pair of TVL games by MARK FLOYD Shaking in to tap a rebound away is Sandy's Sue Hartke (521 Hartke returned to plav this week after an ankle injury but the Pioneers fell to powerful West Unn » - 34. West lin n and Silverton dealt losses to the Sandy High girls basketball team this week and dropped the Pioneers to 2-7 in league play. Silverton took a 45-34 win on the Foxes’ court, and the visiting Lions of West lin n dealt Sandy a 60-34 loss Monday. Silverton is always a tough place to play and a tough place to get a break from the officials. Breaks were few and fa r between for the Pioneers and they fe ll behind 21-10 at the half. And not too many teams w ill overcome Silverton when the Foxes play at home. They sank 18 or 41 from the field and got a few key calls from the officials, according to coach John Smith. Smith felt his team played fa irly well in the two games, but just can’t seen to get over the hump. “ We got down by 10 in the firs t half and closed it down some, but we could never really get back in it,” Smith said. “ Dawn ( New) is playing a lot better — she's doing a lot of things well for us, moving without the ball and opening it up inside “ Nancy (Rohweder) is also playing better and that le t’s us put her in the game w ith Sandy Yantes," he added “ Those two give us a pair of pretty good ball handlers.” Sandy turned the ball over just 13 times against Silverton, but the Pioneers were called for some key ones at some key times The same went with foul calls The Pioneers outrebounded Silverton 31-21. New led Sandy scorers with 13 points Char McKinney added seven points, eight rebounds and three steals. Silverton was led by the hot shooting of K im Smoot, who pumped in 15 points, and Diane Beals, who added 16. West lin n simply had too much for the Pioneers. Sandy kept close for a quarter, and trailed at one point by just a 12-10 store when Cindy McCoy sand an offensive rebound. But West Linn ran off a string of nine straight points and the lio n s were off and rolling. Me Coy stopped the surge w ith a driving layin off a nice feed from Sue Hartke, but West lin n ran off eight more points and took a 29-12 lead. The Pioneers did a very creditable job breaking a tough West Linn press, but once downcourt, Sandy didn’t get that many good shots The 14ore were quick, they switched well and picked up the open person. Ther quickness also enabled them to get open a lot on offense and West lin n used that to great advantage. They worked the fast break on Sandy, especially in the second and th ird quarters, where they outscored the Pioneers 34-16. The Pioneers played well for most of the game despite the score. West Unn is one of the top teams in the state, but the Pioneers broke th e ir press, did a fa irly good job on the boards and got some impressive individual efforts At the top of the list had to be McCoy. The hard-working junior came off the bench, played some tough defense and ended up with a team-high 10rebounds Rohweder, Yantes and Mosbrucker all did well against West lann's press and the pesky, but lightning-quick, 5-foot-3 guard Iz iri Holdahl. Sandy had 17 turnovers, but anything under 20 against the 1 Jons isn't too bad West lin n got going early, sinking 12 of 15 shots from the free throw line in the firs t half The lio n s had four girls in double figures for the game Sandy was led by New w ith 11 and McKinney with nine The Pioneers are in the throes of a six-game losing streak and they hope to turn that around this Thursday. Sandy w ill host Molalla at 7:45 p in. and the Pioneers beat the Indians the firs t tim e around However, Molalla is playing good ball of late and topped a tough Canby team by 10 points Monday night SANDY I S ) 18-34 S ILV E R TO N » 12 14 18-48 Sandy (34) Dawn New 13, Yantes 2, Mosbrucker. McCoy 5, McKinney 7, Hartke, Seal. Gedde 7. Rohweder 5, Rodrigues Silverton (4S) Dame Beals ,6. Fisher 2, D Smoot 3, Bermng 2. Venables. Christiansen. Lowe 4. K Smoot 15, Lively 4 WEST L IN N IS 23 I I I I «• 10 8 8 8 34 West Linn (60) Holland 10, Holdahl 10, Damback 8, Walton 13, Schwabauer 10. Minson2, Gen tile r 4, Croy 3, Cookingham Sandy (34) Dawn New I I , Yantes. Roh weder 6. McCoy 4. McKinney 8, Mosbrucker 2, Gedde. HartkeZ. Seal Rodrigues SANDY SUHS skiers open with strong win A fter a long snow drought, the Sandy High ski team fin a lly got on the slopes fo r a meet last week and showed the rest of the league that it is still a power The Sandy girls won with a team time of 160 8 seconds (¿ikeridge was second, 163 1; Newberg th ird , 163 5 . a n d lin co ln fourth, 164 9 (,akeridge won the boys competition with a tim e of 139 4, but Sandy was right behind in second at 140 7 I^ k e Oswego was th ird , 151.8 and Iin co ln fourth, 155 3. Freshman Ulla Pearson won the girls race for the Pioneers Her time in the slalom, held on the Palmer slopes, was 48 5 Char Bridge was th ird for Sandy in 50 0 and Carrie Brewster was 18th, despite falling B ritt Pearson was the fourth Pioneer to cross the line Scott lir a ham won the boys race by an impressive two-second m argin He was tim ed m 41.9, five seconds ahead of third place Robert Spradling was sixth for Sandy in 49 2 and Darren Schouten was ninth despite ' some real big mistakes,” according to coach Bob Karsten. Kip O'Connor was 12th for Sandy and Chris Welch was 16th Karsten was pleased w ith his te a m ’s firs t effort of the year, especially the girls, who won without two of the team's top skiers Ann and Sue Sarich were in Washington tryin g out fo r the Junior Olym pic ski team and missed the meet. 1
