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Section SANDY. OREGON, THURSDAY APRIL 30, 1981 The Srfndy Post Sports and Recreation /a nt> lli^h soplinniort Scott Skipper shows of) his winning form in the shot put Thursday. Skipper won the event with a put of personal best and a sophomore school record, lie also won the javelin with a 199-5 effort Photo« h\ Mark Floyd hand Sandy track defeat by MARK FLOYD A veteran Oregon City track team dealt the young and inexperienced San dy Pioneers a double mit. rhursday sweeping a l imber Valley League dual meet Oregon City took the boys meet, 102-43, and won the g irls competition 79 48. It was the first TVL dual meet loss for the Sandy girls in three years “ We weren t mentally prepared for the meet, Sandy coach Randy Hut chinson said * They (the Oregon City teams) came in here highly touted and out for revenge after last year They have pretty much the same team back and they're very strong in terms of depth They were pumped up and ready several mrows past the 180 foot mark, the longest measuring out at 199 5, just seven inches off the school record Sandy’s best performance on the have to prepare for it and give a track came from junior Steve Metelak, superior performance against a team who continues to make impressive drops in time Metelak went up against like that.” Oregon C ity’s Dan Fund and Scott The Pioneers did get some good in Isaac, two of the T V L ’s premier dividual performances and they were distance runners, and heat them both mostly from the people who did well handily in the 800 meters Metelak was last year timed in a personal best 2.01 5 Sophomore Scott Skipper set two per The only other win for the Sandy boys sonal records, two St HS sophomore came from Bob Nippert, who won the records and closed in on two school high jump at 5 8 Nippert won easily records as he won both the javelin and and as soon as he cleared his winning the shot put. The versatile Skipper height, raised the bar all the way to 6-1, began with a 48 9 effort in the shot, which is one of the better marks in the w here he barely missed TVL this year. Freshman Sam Romey placed second behind Isaac in the 1,500 meters wjth a The win pumped him up for the time o! 4:26 3 Doug Baucom was right javelin and Skipper cut loose with behind Nippert in the high jump at 545, to Ro We have a lot of sophomores and freshmen who don't know yet what a tough meet it was,” he added “ You meters in 54 4, Steve Brader turned in a solid 42.9 in the intermediate hurdles for second, and Nippert placed second in the triple jump with a 38 84 effort. Oregon City won 13 of the 17 boys events, ta king both relays arid dominating the sprints. Dan Doherty turned in a fine 43-81 v leap to win the t r i ple jump and Rich Gaiser had a solid 148 1 mark to win the discus The Sandy girls went into the meet as underdogs and lost a few early chances to pick up points Nevertheless, Hut chinson was pleased with some of the performances which indicate that the Pioneers are beginning to come around in their training Near the top of the list is Stephanie Hagstrom, who won the javelin with a throw of 129-1. her best throw of the Timber Valley teams defeat Sandy netters year. She is the top ranking, returning thrower in the league this year. Laura Stringham turned in her best performance of the year, winning the boo meters with surprising ease over Oregon C ity’s tough Tricia Sliger Str ingham won with a personal best time of 2:27 6. Renee Hess was an easy winner in the 3,000 meters with a time of 11:57.2. In the field events, the Pioneers got a win from Paige Daugherty in the discus with a strong 110-9 throw But Oregon City picked up 11 big wins as well as a number of second places to make the meet a runaway. The host Pioneers did come up with some good performances for second places, however Donna Nelson showed she is working into shape as she took se cond behind Sliger in the 1,500 meters with a fine 5:12 6 time. Daugherty was javeun, iofi H. rreshman Sharon Jensei was second in the long jump. 15-114 Sandra Peterson was second in the 20 meters, 27.7; and Lori Shelton was se cond in the intermediate hurdles, 54.3 “ We had some good individual perfor mances and competed very well con sidering the opposition.” Hutchinsor noted, The Sandy girls won the junior varsi ty competition by a 52-50 score The best marks were turned in by Peterson a winner in the 100 meters with a 13 4 time, and Jacqui Pullen, with a winning 18.7 in the high hurdles Oregon City won the boys junior va r sity meet by a 634-444 score Don Ben nett won the long jump with a fine 19-0 leap and Steve PettingiII took the discus with a throw of 123 5 to lead the Pioneers Pioneer glovemen pin 6-5 loss on Huskies I he* 1981 season has bc*en a long series of learning experiences for the Sandy High boys tennis team The Pioneers dropped two more mat ches this week and saw their record slip to 1-12 for the season Sandy’s only win was a 4-3 defeat of Silverton two weeks ago The Sweet Home Huskies handed the Pioneers a 6 1 defeat last Thursday and came out on the short end of a 5-1 score against Canby the following afternoon Sandy fared pretty well in the singles against Sweet Home, although the Huskies won two of the three matches Damian Bollermann played well for Sandy at No. 1 singles, hut lost to Chuck Hooper by a 6-2, 7 6 score Hooper won the second set in a tiebreaker, 9 7 Chris Andrade of Sweet Home won at No 2 singles, nipping Scott Bender 2-6, 7 6, 6-4 Pat Spriggel got Sandy on the hoard in the No 3 singles match, topp mg Bob Bishop 6-2, 6 0 The Huskies dominated the doubles competition, winning all four matches Ken and Eric Kaufman heat Alex u j l . l i j« . _ . Brewster and Peter Kallen 6 0, 6 2 at No 1 doubles In the second doubles match, Rick Peargm and Tim Livczdy knocked off Harvey Hazelett and Marie Gunderson 6-1,6 I Randy Swank and Doug Christenson toppled Sandy’s Eric Frost and Brian Buhler 6 1. 6 2 in the No 3 doubles match and in the final contest, the For the second time this season, the Huskies Marty McFarland and Phil Oregon City girls softball team dumped Olszewski beat Eric Jones and Randy Sandy and for the second time, they us Swanson 6 1. 6 2 ed a no hitter by Rhonda Haun to do it Bollermann came hack on Friday Haun’s gem Friday gave Oregon City and beat his Canby opponent at No. 1 a 120 win over Sandy and kept thé singles The SUHS senior ripped Trov visitors atop the Timber Valley league Winklebleck 6 2. 6 l with an unblemished record Sandy Pete Hooper of Canby beat Bender at dropped to 3 3. good for third place and No 2 singles 6 3, 6 1 At the finals still within range of a playoff spot singles match. Dale Anderson beat The game was actually nothing Spriggel 6-2, 7-6 unusual. Haun has more than a half- At No I doubles, Jim Markin and dozen nohitters to her credit this Scott Bass held on to beat Kallen and season and she is one of the premier pit Brewster 6-1, 6 7, 6-3 Jon Marston and chers in the state And Sandy hatters Tim Cerami heat Frost and Buhler 6-1. haven t touched her in two outings this 6-6 at No 2 doubles and at No 3 doubles, year it was Canby's Todd Stutzman and “ We're getting closer and closer to Mike Patterson over Jones and Swan hitting her. sighed Sandy coach Gary son by a 6-6, 6-2 score Curtis “ She's just unreal We got the There was no fourth doubles match hat on the ball better this time, but it Sandy H igh’s rapidly improving baseball team dealt visiting Sweet Home a 6-5 setback Tuesday afternoon It was the Pioneers' third league win in five games Mike Contreras slapped down a perfect bunt single in the sixth inning, scoring Mitch Paola from third, then scored on a triple from Troy Bangs The two run inning gave Sandy a lead and the Pioneers held on to beat the I imber Valley Leagues third place team ( ontreras had three hits in three at bats and pitched solidly in relief of Kraig Gifford Gifford started for San dy and got the win, improving his league mark to 3-0 Kraig did a tremendous job out there for four innings, but tired some in the fifth." Sandy coach Curtis Heath said Contreras came on in relief and John Martin came in to pick up the save Photo by Mark Floyd ............ Haun no-hitter halts Pioneers was always to someone She had 11 ble to pace the visitors at the plate strikeouts last time and only seven this Sandy did get a fine defensive perfor time And no one struck out more than mance from catcher Allison Carpenter, once.” who blocked several errant pitches at Two Pioneers reached base on walks, the plate and came up with a spec ruining Haun's chance for a perfect tacular grab of a foul hall, crashing into game But they were quickly stranded the backstop, and a close game became a runaway Sandy trails second place Canby by a after Oregon City picked up three runs full game in the standings, the Cougars "You could see a mental letdown by are 4-2. Both teams have four games re us after they picked up a couple of maining Sandy must play Estacada. runs,“ Curtis said “ But we helped out Molalla and Silverton within the week the cause by committing six errors It Should they win all three, it would set was probably our worst defensive per up a season ending finale against Can formance of the year.” by for the TVL's second playoff berth Patty Gray went the distance for San That game is scheduled for Monday, dy and suffered control problems She May 4, at the Kelso School field gave up a half dozen or so hits, which The Pioneers were to have played isn't bad. but walked twice that many Estacada Wednesday, and w ill face and Oregon City capitalized Cathy Silverton Thursday and Molalla F ri Gorton stroked an RBI single and dou day “ We played very w ell,” Heath said. Matt Falgout had a tremendous game for us at third base with no errors and there were some shots hit at him Keith Powell and Mike Contreras made some good plays, too We’ve been pretty consistent the last five games,“ he added. “ I think the turnaround was two weeks ago when we had four long road trips in one week and won two of them We’ve played well since." Sandy upped its record to 4 7 in league and moved into a tie for fifth place with ( anhy The top four qualify for league playoffs, but Sweet Home and Silverton have just four losses apiece. “ It would take a minor miracle to get in there, but we re playing good ball ” Heath said “ We need a couple of losses from other teams to have a chance, but were playing good hall I t ’s very heartening " Chris Jones named to Cultural Exchange team Sandy High junior Chris Jones has won a spot on Oregon's Cultural Ex change wrestling team. Jones earned the spot by winning the state freestyle tournament earlier this spring then defeating the winner of the Challenger's Tournament Sunday. Jones scored a 13-3 decision and a pin over Sunset s Joe Glacomina in the 154 pound division to earn the spot The Challengers' Tournament is open to any state piacewinner on the Class A, AA or AAA level. Jones w ill accompany the Cultural Exchange team for three weeks, first traveling to Canada to attend some pre- Junior World Olympic training camps and to watch the tournament The group w ill then head east through < anada and drop down to Iowa for the United States Wrestling Federation (USW F) national cham pionships, which is the national high school freestyle tournament Sandy's L a rry T o p liff won the 105 pound division of the Challengers Tournament, but lost his two-out-of three match to freestyle champ Verl M iller of La Grande who earned the Cultural Exchange berth Another Pioneer wrestler. Dan Mar tin, finished third in the Challengers Tournament, although he defeated the champ of the 154 pound division. Giacomina Both Topliff and Martin earned a berth on a second Oregon team that w ill compete at the USWF national cham pionships in Iowa, however Topliff w ill wrestle at 96 pounds by virtue of his state freestyle championship and Mar tin earned the nod at 154 by placing third in both events. The Pioneers w ill have a total of three wrestlers at nationals, scheduled for mid July
