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The Sirfndy Post
October 22
1981 ¡S «
I) SANOY (O re.) POST— 7
Sports
and Recreation
In home game with Silverton
Offense key to Pioneer w in
The offense came through Friday
night to secure a Sandy victory with a
touchdown in the last 16 seconds of the
game against Silverton
The 32-20 score doesn’t really tell how
close the game was The Foxes, aided
by a penalty, scored w ith 3 17 left in the
game on a one yard run by Silverton
senior Scott Long Long completed a
pass to junior Jeff Brockamp for the
two points, getting the score to 26 20
But the Pioneer offense got fired up,
having been a little upset about the
penalty that allowed Silverton to score
"We decided the best way to get them
back was to score one more tim e,"
senior Dan Martin said
It was obvious that something was go
ing on out there, as the Pioneers
dominated the last three minutes
After taking the ball near the 40-yard
line after the on side kick that followed
Silverton's touchdown, the Pioneers at
first seemed content to be running out
Pioneer
harriers
set records
.Iunior Stu Hoffman finds open spaces for the Pioneers.
Sweet Home victory dampered
by team’s loss to Silverton
The SUHS volleyball team got itself
in good position for district playoffs
with a win over Sweet Home a week
ago, but their hopes were dampered
somewhat by a 15-10, 7-15 and 4-15 loss
to Silverton Tuesday night
The win at Sweet Home gave them a
6-3 record and a good shot at third place
in the league, and a playoff spot.
Needless to say, Coach Hon Grantz’s
spirits were low Wednesday morning
When he talked to The Post about
Pioneer Husky game, he had reason to
be optimistic.
Sweet Home had an 8-0 league record
going into the Sandy game, and hadn’t
lost a home game in two years. The
team that beat them at home two
seasons ago, by the way, also happened
to be Sandy.
"We played real w ell," Coach Hon
Grantz said about the 15-7, 9-15 and
15-10 win “ It’s been so tough We’ve
had so many different line-up changes
because of discipline problems and in
juries and everything.”
They had things worked out at Sweet
Home The seniors played especially
well, Grantz said.
"Dawn (New) had 19 kills, which
means she either hit it or tipped it to the
floor 19 times,” he said
Julie Coleman had 13 kills Grantz
was also pleased with Paige Daugher
ty ’s passing She is credited with 13
good passes, which is tough against a
team that serves as well as Sweet
Home, Grantz pointed out
Grantz, when asked, said that the
team is not coming along like he’d like
for them to.
"E very year that we have done well,
it’s been something that we started at
ground zero and worked our way up
This year we’ve started at ground zero
about four times."
He said that they’re going to have to
improve a lot more in a shorter period
of time than they have in the past if
they’re going to be competitive against
district competition
Junior varsity football team
rolls past Silverton Foxes 20-0
The junior varsity football team, with
a 2-5 record, play Molalla tonight at 5
p m at Pop Hannow Stadium It is their
next-to last game
Last week they got a 20-0 win over
Silverton "Super defensive play" was
a major factor, according to Ix?n Eaton,
who is assisted by Dan Brisbin
Silverton had minus yards rushing,
and only completed two passes for yar
dage. Eaton said
Quarterback Troy Wolf connected
with Steve Pettingill, a tight end. on a 35
yarder for the first score Pettingill
caught a 15-yard pass for the Pioneers
second touchdown, with Pettingill drag
ging tacklers to the end zone "Super
determination and effort" got the 6 3
sophomore in for the score. Eaton said
The final touchdown came in the
fourth quarter, with tailback Dan King
running the ball 3« yards Fullback
Loren Bateman was credited with do
ing a good job of blocking on that play.
All in all. King carried the ball five
times for 78 yards
Starting tailback Ryan Coombs car
ried 12 times for 96 yards Wolf passed
for 150 yards
"A fun game for us as everyone was
able to contribute and we executed very
w ell." Eaton said
Frank McKinms had eight unassisted
tackles Linebacker Joe Betchart and
defensive tackle Wally Nicholson also
played well, according to Eaton.
Two weeks ago Sandy fell to Oregon
City, 27 2 Eaton said they played better
than the score indicates They fumbled
three times within four minutes, all of
them inside their own 35-yard line with
Oregon City capitalizing each time
The game was played in the rain and
the mud
The week before that they had an
"excellent" running and passing at
tack, and played "super" defense, to
down Estacada 28 0
Other junior varsity scores David
Douglas 22. Sandy 14; Central Catholic
28, Sandy 0; Sweet Home 16, Sandy 6.
Canby 16, Sandy 14
Things just couldn't be going much
better for the SUHS cross country
teams
The girls, without injured Donna
Nelson, came through in the league
showdown Tuesday, and have most
likely secured the Timber Valley
League roving trophy
West Linn. Sweet Home and the
Pioneers were all undefeated going into
the triangular (against league competi
tion», but Coach Scott McMullen was
concerned about a few problems
they've been having, including Nelson's
injured foot.
Sophomore Sharon Jensen, however,
came through for the Pioneers, setting
a school record on the 3,050 meter
course with an 11:23 timing
While Jensen knocked 37 seconds off
her best time on Sandy’s course, Darby
Binder, a senior, went from a 12:01 her
last time at home to 11 36 Tuesday
" I t was just remarkable." McMullen
said, obviously pleased
Jensen and Binder finished second
and third respectively, with West
Linn's Kathy Nichols taking first with a
time of 11 ()9
Now McMullen figures Nichols could
lx* the fastest prep female runner in
Oregon, w hich says a lot for Jensen and
Binder
In all the excitement over the girls,
one has to be careful not to overlook
sophomore Sam Homey’s accomplish
ment.
He finished first on the 4,700 meter
course in a time of 15:29
He already held the school record for
the fastest time on Sandy’s course, but
Tuesday he took the course record (it
was incorrectly reported last week that
he had beaten Fred Sprout’s time of
15:47».
That Homey took the course record
by a lm ost 20 seconds pleased
McMullen, but there were others that
also did well
Phil Burks knocked 43 seconds off his
previous best time on the Sandy course,
finishing fourth in 16:10.
"He really helped us," said McMullen
I he boys lost to West Linn but downed
Sweet Home
If all that wasn’t enough, consider
this: Freshman Andy Homey is turning
in better times than Sam. his brother,
was last year
Sand) girls results Jensen 2nd. I I 23, Binder
3rd, I I .1«, I .aura Stringham . 7th. 12 01. Shelby
Dries 9th, 12 25. Petra Heissman. 14th 13 08, Patty
Groom bridge. 15th. 13 18 Kelly Douglas I9th, 14 07
Sandy boys results Homey. 1st. 15 29. Burks. 4th,
16 10. Brian Beick. 9th. 16 51, Andy Homey I Ith
16 59 Andy Edgren. 14th. 17 10 B rian Buhler. 16th
17 n* Brad Tebo. 19th, 18 04
the clock with their ball-control offense
"The offensive hue did a tremendous
In fact, John Smith, assistant coach, job, O'Meara said He was pleased,
was keeping track of the seconds and overall, with their offensive effort He
was having quarterback Mitch Paola said they d be working on defense this
wait to start plays until just before their week
25 seconds w ere up
He credited Dale Rasmussen. M ar
One time, however, it didn’t work,
tin. Handy Carmony. Locke Christman.
and a delay of game penalty was called
Roland Aumueller and back-up Tim
"How long do we have," Smith asked
Sytsma with doing "an excellent job
The referee told him 25 seconds
blocking "
"We got it off in 20." Smith said,
He was also pleased w ith the blocking
holding up his wrist and showing his and running of backs Kearney and Noe
watch " I have a Timex that never
Kearney carried the ball 18 tunes for
stops ticking ”
91 yards Nix* carried the ball 16 times
They quit waiting the extra five for 98 yards
seconds after that, and at the end of the
O Meara was also pleased with
game were going to the air looking for Paola, who completed six of nine passes
the score
for 79 yards, throwing one interception
Steve Contreras, who also has taken
The Pioneers will travel to Molalla
over as extra pom, kicker and con
Friday, where a win would get their 4 3
nected on two for the evening, caught a record safely over the 500 mark
12 yarder for the final score
Although Molalla has been on the
Todd Byron was on the receiving end wrong side of some lopsided games,
of a 26-yard scoring strike from Paola
O'Meara said that they’ve improved
Chuck Kearney scored on two short some in the last couple of weeks, with
runs and Bryan Not* scored on a nine- Sweet Home getting by them 7-0 last
yard run
Friday.
Junior Bill Bow man recovered an on
" I t ’s an important game for us," he »
side kick in the second quarter, after Mid *Wt vc got to concentrate and
Noe’s firs, diving touchdown go, Sandy really play disciplined (ball)."
a 7-6 lead The Silverton turnover was
capitalized on. and the Pioneers pretty
much stayed in control until the Foxes
final touchdown
Water polo
teams having
a hard time
The boys and girls water polo teams
fell to Gresham Tuesday afternoon
The Pioneer girls fell 10-2, with
Bonita Connelly and Dawn M iller mak
ing the goals for Sandy
The boys fell 22-2 to Gresham, the top-
ranked team in the state
For the most part. Coach Carl
Neuenfeld, said, they just weren’t able
to move up and down the pool as fast as
Junior Ann Sarich makes the play for
the junior varsity volleyball team dur
ing the SUHS-hosted freshman and
junior varsity tournament held this
weekend. St. M ary's won both divi
sions. with neither Sandy team having a
lot of luck. The freshman, however, are
9-1 in league play after a win last night
over Mollala.
Gresham
Dan Martin
The girls are now 2-7, and the boys
are 1-8
Neuenfeldt said that Connelly, Teresa
Lamar and Becky Hodriguez have been
performing consistently for the girls
He said that Hick Topliff and Matt Hoth
have been turning in good perfor
mances of the boys team
At left, senior Janice Hawkins shows her form in the floor exercise. Above, she
reacts favorably when her score is announced And with good reason. She got
her highest score in the floor exercise to date, which got her all-around honors
for the dual with Canby. Her 32.6 points weren't enough, however, as the
Pioneers fell 112.75 to 112.2.