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Thwrs The Mndy Post Sports Jonuory 7 1982 ($«c I) SANDY (O r«.) POST and Recreation 1981: A good year for the Sandy Pioneers SKI CONDITIONS ARK NOT medly and anchored a first-place GOOD relay team Glenn Izer picked up a Holiday skiers were disap pair of wins, and get a first and two pointed last year at this time seconds because of the lack of snow The Pioneer ski team opened up “ One of our biggest seasons is the season in good fashion, with over Christmas, and we were hurt then-freshman Ulla Pearson winn financially. That's where we get ing the girls slalom Scott Graham most of our funds for summer im won the boys race, with the p ro v e m e n ts ,” said K athleen Pioneer boys finishing second as a Wiscavage. marketing assistant at team Mt Hood Meadows TWO WRESTLERS WIN STATE Only 10 people were working at TITLES | Multorpor Ski Bowl, where the In February the Pioneer girls ski snow was completely gone They team handily downed other Valley can use as many as 150 at peak League schools in a meet at Mt times Hood Meadows The eight second At Timberline Lodge the Palmer victory in the short giant slalom lift was opened for the first time run was, in the words of Coach Bob ‘‘We had Palmer open, summer Karsten, "ju st incredible." style,“ joked Timberline Director Sophomore Anne Sarich, com Dick Kohnstamm “ It's been a peting in her first meet as a great help and the crowds have Pioneer, won he race by 2.3 been good " seconds In Sandy Union High School girls “ Anne’s time was just astoun basketball. Char McKinney sank a ding," Karsten said "You just 15-foot jumper with 46 seconds left don’t win by two seconds She skied to give the Pioneers a 36-34 win very well ” over Silverton The victory got the Senior Scott Graham won the in girls off to a 1-0 start in league dividual race for the second week play. in a row, as the Sandy boys again Oregon C ity’s Dennis Wheatley finished second to Lakeridge. sank three free throws in the se The wrestlers, ranked fourth in cond overtime of a game with San AAA, downed West Linn 60-3 And, dy for a 40-39 Timber Valley they claimed another tournament League win in early January. title, the Reynolds Invitational. The Pioneer wrestlers finished Larry Topliff, Mike Russell, Chris second, by a p o in t, in Jones, Tim Systma, Carey Larson thetoughBarlow Invitational Tour and Randy Carmony were all nament. Larry Topliff, Kandy Car- champions mony, Chris Jones and Mike By m id-February the SUHS Russell all won individual titles. freshman found themselves with Doug Crane, at the time a an 18 2 record, and an 18 game 12-year-old seventh grader at winning streak Robert Brader, Cedar Ridge, won three events at Troy Wolf, Dan Paola, Ron Muck, the Tualatin Hills Invitational and Steve Pettingill, Doug Rathke, finished the meet with six personal Mark Shelton, Dave Stafford, records. He was competing for the Ryan Coombs, Paul Williams and Blue Marlins The meet featured Dave Bennett were all part of that the best swimmers from Oregon, team, coached by Dan Brisbin, Washington and Idaho. now the varsity coach. After a disappointing loss to In girls basketball, Char McKin Sweet Home earlier in the month, ney hit two free throws in the the Pioneer wrestlers got back on clutch as the Pioneers won 31-29, track with a TVL win over Oregon on the road, over Estacada The City, a state-caliber team. The win gave them a 4-9 record. 29-22 win gave the Pioneers a 2-1 The sw im team gave a dual record in mid-January memorable performance at the The SUHS boys got its first TVL district meet, setting 22 personal w in w ith a 67-54 w in over records The boys reached its team Estacada goal of beating Barlow, although Senior fo rw a rd J e ff Yoder they had six swimmers, compared scored a career-high 29 points dur to 20 for the Bears. ing the Pioneers' 64-55 loss to " I t was just a te rrific individual Sweet Home. effort on everyone’s part, and I The Pioneer wrestlers were do mean everyone," said Coach Mark ing well at the end of the month. Smith. They ripped Estacada 45-10, and The Pioneer girls placed second then won the Hood River Invita Gayle Roth, Bonita Connelly and tional. with Metro League cham Teresa Lamer all earned a trip to pion Aloha in the field the state meet. Jean Crane joined The Sandy girls swim team re those three in the 400-freestyIe established themselves as a team relay team, which also earned a to content with, beating Barlow state berth 80-74 in dual competition The L arry Topliff, Mike Russell, Bruin girls had beaten Gresham Chris Jones, and Dan M artin earn and Reynolds, two of the league's ed a trip to the state tournament by stronger teams, and came up with winning individual district titles a number of wins, personal bests rear the end of February. Dean and a big victory in the final event Fischer, Tim Systma and Mike of the meet, the 400-freestyle relay. Rohweder also earned the honor of Jean Crane, Lisa Izer, Dawn qualifying for the state meet. M iller and Nici DuBois comprised Led by Gayle Roth's third place that winning relay team. finish in the 50-yard freestyle, the The Sandy wrestlers won the girls swim team finished 16th in South Salem Invitational the last the state AAA swim meet. She also weekend of the month They down placed sixth in the 100-yard ed Central of Monmouth 55-6, South freestyle. The 400 freestyle relay Salem 56-9, and Marshall 66-1. team, comprised of Roth. Bonita “ Larry Topliff had to be our Connelly, Jean Crane and Teresa outstanding wrestler of the meet.” learner, set a school record with a Coach Ron Calhoun said. “ There time of 3:56 0, which placed them were two undefeated wrestlers in 10th his b ra c k e t and he pinned The last week in February was a everybody." good one for the wrestlers as they The Pioneer girls swim team, finished fourth in the state tourna paced by Teresa Lamer and Gayle ment, with Dan Martin winning the Roth with two first place finishes 157 pound division championship apeice, downed Aloha and Red and Chris Jones winning the mond Bonita Connelly also had a 148-pound division “ I t ’s been 20 first-place finish. ye a rs s in ce Sandy had a The boys split, winning over champion.” Coach Ron Calhoun Aloha but getting edged by Red said. “ I hope that’s not a trend or mond Rick Topliff had two first- cycle “ Larry Topliff finished third place finishes, and Shawn Burns in the 98 '»ur.J division finished first in the 200-individuai PIONEER GIRLS WIN STATE SKI TOURNAMENT For the third time in the last four years Sandy Union High School has brought home a state skiing cham pionship The girls won the trophy in 1981. " I didn’t expect the kind of lead we ended up with, but it was nice.” said Coach Bob Karsten “ The girls did well, real well " Anne Sarich, a sophomore then, finished second in individual com petition As a freshman, Ulla Pear son was eighth The Pioneer boys finished 10th in the state tournament that same weekend J u lie Coleman and Sandy Shreeve posted wins as the SUHS number one doubles teams as the Pioneers downed Gresham and Barlow in dual tennis action Larry Topliff, a 98 pounder, and Chris Jones, a 148 pounder, won Oregon Freestyle titles at a meet in La Grande, which featured wrestlers from the three high school divisions 1971-72 TEAM DEFENDS SUHS ALUMNI TITLE The Sandy girls track team finished second in the Timber Valley League Relay meet They boys placed third After a bad first inning, the Pioneer girls got it together for a 13-5 win over Molalla, with Patty Gray pitching a one-hitter Mitch Paola and John Martin slugged home tuns to pace the Pioneers to a 9-5 win over Molalla Larry Topliff, wrestling in the 105-pound division, won the Oregon Open Freestyle title, and was voted the tournament’s outstan ding wrestler. The class of 1971-72 successfully defended its championship in the second annual Sandy High School Alumni Tournament, beating the 1977 team 77-61. Rick Zimmerman and Ray Perkins, of the ’71-72 team, were first-team all-star selections, along with Jack Paola (1977), Tim Veley (1976) and Rick Martin (1980). Zimmerman was also the Most Valuable Player. The second team all-star selec tions included Mick Hoffman (1966), Ron Verdoorn (1968), J. Gynther (1973), Randy Bryant (1973) and Mike Gynther (1979). Randy Keller was voted Most In spirational Player. Mike Lund, then a sohpomore, got five hits in nine at bats as the Pioneer baseball team downed Canby 3-2. The SUHS girls tennis team top ped Molalla 5-2 and downed Canby 6-1, with number one singles player Sandy Yantes winning both her matches The Pioneer girls track team won 87-40 over Canby, taking 13 first-place finishes out of 15 events. Paige Daugherty scored wins in the discus and the shot put, Stephanie Hagstrom won the javelin throw Gayle Roth was a multiple winner, taking first in the high jump, the 200-meter run and the 110-meter high hurdles. Sharon Jensen won the long jump and the 400-meter run. Then-freshman Crystal Caulkins scored an upset victory in the 100-meter run, and Renee Hess won the 1,500 meters Donna Nelson and Laura Str- ingham tied for first in the 3,000 Steve Metelak won three events for the boys. Chris Jones earned a spot on O re g o n ’s C u ltu ra l Exchange wrestling team by winning a state freestyle tournament and then d e fe a tin g the w in n e r of a Challenger’s Tournament Scott Skipper, then a sophomore, won the javelin and the shot put in the Oregon City dual, setting two p e rs o n a l re c o rd and tw o sophomore records Mike Contreras laid down a perfect bunt in the sixth inning of a game with Sweet Home to score Mitch Paola Contreras later cross the plate himself as the baseball team got a 6-5 win Sandy upped its record to 4-7 in the league SEVEN QUALIFY FDR STATE TRACK MEET Patty Gray pitched the first no- hitter ever for SUHS as the Pioneers won 10-0 over Estacada Subsequent losses, how ever, knocked the girls out of the playoff picture Donna Nelson set a school record in the 3.000-meter run with a time of 10:58 at the Barlow Invitational Pitcher John M artin fanned 10 Estacada batters and gave up only two hits as the Pioneers stayed in the playoff picture with a 14-0 win The SUHS freshman baseball team had compiled a 10-1 record by the start of May “ We’ve got nine or 10 kids who should go on to play va rsity,” said frosh coach Joe Kniser The freshman had a robust 335 team batting average. Pitcher Jerry Bennett had a 2-0 record, both being shutouts And, Tony Kaufman was 5-0 and Jerry Byers was 3-1, Sandy freshman Sam Romey set a fre s h m a n re c o rd in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 9:34.9 He also holds freshman records in the 800 and 1,500 meters. M ik e S h e p p a rd , then a sophomore, won the first Sandy High bicycle race, covering 10 miles in 25 minutes. Senior Sandy Yantes paced the girls tennis team to a fourth-place finish in the TVL D istrict meet. Yantes placed fourth in number one singles, narrowly missing a berth to the state meet Although a late-season bid for a playoff spot fell through, the Pioneer baseball team ended its season on a high note, nipping Silverton 6-5 in extra innings John Martin, who got on base in the eighth with a two-out single, scored the winning run on a wild pitch. “ Of all the people I ’d like to see score the winning run in extra inn ings in the last game of the year, it was John,” said Coach Curtis Heath "He was really happy about it and it was a good way to end his senior year.” Sandy had several winners in the Timber Valley League freshman meet Steve Pettingill set a district record in the discus with a 133-9 throw. West Linn claimed the TVL girls track title, and Oregon City took the boys title, but young Sandy teams also made a good showing The girls were not far out of se cond place and the boys weren’t far out of third. “ We competed really well.” said Coach Randy H u tch in son . Seven P ioneers qualified for the state meet Stephanie Hagstrom w ill throw the javelin, and Paige Daugherty will toss the shot and javelin (iayle Roth qualified in the 800 meters and the 300 intermediate hurdles Donna Nelson qualified in the 3,000, and Roth, Sharon Jensen, Darby Binder and Sandra Peter son qualified in the mile relay. Qualifying for the boys was Scott Skipper in the javelin, Locke Christman in the discus and Sam Romey in the 1,500. Skipper, with a sore arm, came from behind for a first-place finish, setting a district record with a toss of 193-5. Hagstrom was also a district winner in the javelin throw ROTH PLACES SIXTH AT STATE MEET A fte r a g ru e lin g day of preliminaries, Gayle Roth saved enough for Saturday to earn a sixth place finish in the 800 meter run at the Class AAA state meet She earned the lone point for the Pioneers. But, four juniors, four sophomores and two freshmen made the trip In all. 36 Pioneers were named to Tim ber Valley League all star teams for the 1980 81 school year Gayle Roth and Laura Stringham were first team in cross country, with Renee Hess, Donna Nelson, Darby Binder and Sharon Jensen on the second team In boys cross country, Sam Romey was on the first team and Steve Metelak was on the second team Matt Falgout was all league in water polo C h e rie E llio t t and Colene M cD o n a ld w ere f ir s t team volleyball all-stars Wrestlers Chris Jones, Dan Martin, Mike Russell and Larry Topliff were district champions, and thus first teamers Tim Systma and Dean Fischer were second team In basketball. Bob Nippert was se cond team, as was Dawn New First team swimming awards went to Roth and Glenn Izer Bonita Connelly and Teresa Lamer earn ed second-team honors. Scott Graham was first in skiing, an Sue Sarich was a second teamer for the girls. Mitch Paola and John Martin were first team baseball players Mo Contreras was second team Debbie Rudisill was first team in softball. Track athletes with first- place honors include Scott Skipper. Stephanie Hagstrom. and Paige Daugherty Second team honors went to Roth, Romey, Nelson and Locke Christman Of the 41 places, 31 were won by underclassmen. BLUES OUTSCO RE OP PONENTS 98-7 The Sandy Blues went on an offen sive ram page last sum m er, outscoring four opponents 98-7. The four wins gave the Blues a 7-0 record. Thaddeus McCanaut of Portland won the Sandy Mountain Festival run, covering the 5.2-mile course in 29:06 Connie Case repeated as the women’s champion, winning in 29:22. Both wins set course records Sharon Jensen finished second in the women's division. Ian Hodge. 10, qualified for the state meet in two events, com peting as a Blue Marlin. The Sandy Blues, with a 16-0 record, won the Tri-County girls district softball tournament at the end of July. Ron's No Place won the Sandy Slow Pitch Softball Tournament. Ron’s No Place defeated Dodson’s 12-5 in the final game. GTE TAKES TITLES IN SANDY WOMEN’S SOFTBALL TOURNA- MENT GTE won the Sandy Women’s Softball Tournament title, to go along with its regular season league title His golfing partners joked that it took him 45 years to do it, but regardless, Ted Osborn of Sandy shot a hole-in-one on Aug. 21 on tricky hole 12 at the Mountain View Golf Course PIONEERS OPEN GRID SEASON WITH UPSET WIN The Pioneer football team open ed its season in a good way, upset ting favorite Jackson 8-6 at Civic Stadium. Every single runner on the cross country team set a personal record during the Sandy Invitational in mid-September The boys won the triangular M eanwhile, the gym nastics team downed Barlow by 45-100ths of a point in dual action. The Pioneer girls again brought home all new and lower times as SUHS won the E a rly Season League-District meet OCTOBER The football team evened its record at 3-3 with a 32-20 win over Silverton Todd Byron was on the receiving end of a 26-yard strike, thrown by Mitch Paola, while Chuck Kearney scored on two short runs and Bryan Noe con tributed a nine-yard touchdown run. "Dawn New played very w ell." said Coach Ron Grantz after the volleyball team downed West Linn in an away game Grantz said that he felt the girls were starting to come around Lineman Bob Weyer picked up a fumble and ran 38 yards for a touchdown as the football team handily downed Molalla. 43-6 Dan Martin intercepted a pass in the end zone as the Pioneers down ed West Linn in a 7-6 th rille r Winn ing the Mud Bowl put Sandy in a three-way tie for third in the TVL A p rin c ip a ls ' vote gave the Pioneers the nod, a playof berth SEVERAL PIONEER TEAMS MAKE STATE PLAYOFFS Junior Kevin Fabryski and sophomore Tim Pullen were selected to the Timber Valley all- star soccer team. The Pioneers were 3-8, but Coach Lon Welsh, with two skilled players returning, is optimistic about the future The volleyball team turned in an uneven perform ance against Molalla, but the important thing is that they qualified for the state playoffs with the win. Thus, the Pioneers were one of 24 teams with a season remaining. The Pioneer football team ended its season with a 34-13 loss to Reynolds, a team with an 11-0 record. Although Sandy got off to a shakey start, it was a well-played second h a lf Coach G regg O’Meara, who in his second year guided the Pioneers to a 6-4 record, was pleased “ I feel we've had a real fine year. We had some In dividuals that did a real fine job,” he said. "W e’ve got some kids I'll hate to lose ” Like Bryan Noe, who carried the ball for over 500 yards. Junior Chuck Kearney rushed for nearly 800 yards. Making the all-star team in foot ball was Dan Martin, a guard and linebacker, and Randy Carmony, fir s t- te a m c e n te r. D ale Rasmussen, Locke Christman, Cal M cK innis and Kearney were second-team all-stars. Three Sandy runners qualified for the state cross country meet. Sophomore Sam Romey, the d is tric t champion, and Darby Binder and Sharon Jensen all earn ed berths. Romey ended up finishing 29th on the course at Eugene, while Jensen was 16th Binder finished 119th. Although the SUHS water polo team didn’t have an outstanding regular season, things went well as the playoffs rolled around, with the Pioneers finding themselves in the state meet. Bonita Connelly and Teresa Lamer earned co-MVP honors at the district meet, where Sandy finished second to Gresham. Con nelly and Lamer were also Wilco League all-stars. Success materialized for Janice Hawkins, who put it all together near the end of November to finish fifth in the balance beam at the OSAA State Gymnastics Meet. Hawkins said she turned in her best performances ever, and she set a school record, with a 9.0 judge's rating, to prove it. W R E ST L E R S HA N DILY DOMINATE THE MONTH OF DECEMBER The SUHS wrestlers handily dominated the Carey Larson Memorial, the Roosevelt Wrestling Tournament, and the Cardinal Classic in Tacoma, Wash To top it off. wrestler Dan Mar tin, who's also involved in nearly everything else at the high school, was honored by the National Foot ball Foundation Hall of Fame as the scholar-athlete award reci pient The time o f year when nature culls her crop by RON SHAY Oregon Department Wildlife of Fish and The pinch has arrived for wildlife For several years we have had open winters, to an extent, and this type of stress has not been as ap parent as it is starting out to be this year This is the time of year that nature culls her crop Some creatures, such as birds, escape the process by migrating to warmer climes But even at that, the winter m ortality brought on by natural causes is a major factor con trolling population numbers Another group of creatures, such as the marmot and some of the other rodents, turn off the winter world and go into hibernation Burrowed into the ground, they curl up and take a long snooze Dur ing this time Ihe heart beat slows down, the breathing rate slows, and fat is utilized Incidentally, bears are not true hibernators. despite many storybook tales to the contrary. If the weather warms or if they get hungry, they w ill get out of their dens and scrounge for food during the snowy winter months So, if you discover a denned bear in the winter, he may be rather slug gish. and the best move is away, quickly and quietly In addition to the lengthy m igra tions of the birds, we find other wild animals, such as deer, carrying out vertical migrations As the name suggests, they move from the high country, where they spend the summer and autumn, down to the lower winter ranges These are the ranges the wildlife manager is greatly concerned about Past studies have shown that in some portions of the state east of the Cascades, deer from 1 ,< mm > square miles of summer range will concen trate into 100 square miles of winter range It is obvious why this type of habitat is so important In addition to providing the anim als im portant high energy winter food, the winter range habitat must also provide a degree of ther mal cover so the animals can get out of the cold wind and snow somewhat But despite all of the things the various species do to protect themselves from winter, nature does her culling I, has been found that in the small bird populations the ones that don't migrate there is a 75 to 80 percent turnover in the population every year Depending on the year, this may run higher or lower, but visualize in your mind the difficulties faced by the quail, robins, juncos and all of the other birds looking for food in the winter In the case of big game the weaker animals go first during prolonged periods of deep snow and cold weather In the deer herds, this may include some of the older bucks who have been run down by the rutting ac tivities during the Breeding season and haven't rebuilt their bodies before the winter hits The young animals usually sue cumb next, with the healthier does holding on until last Hut this is nature s way Despite all of the flowery wonderland shown in cartoons and movies, all animals must die. and often it is a lingering, cold death Hunting seasons that take place in the fall are designed to allow the hunter to take some of the naturally- produced surplus without jeopardiz ing the breeding stock that is necessary for the continuation of the species But hunting seasons or not. nature does her culling job The hunter takes but a small por lion of the surplus, especially in the case of game birds In the case of big game, it is possi ble in many cases to crop the animals down closer to the carrying capacity of the winter ranges But even with big game the occa sional cold, deep snow w ill take its toll When considering winter m ortality in wildlife, a realtively new factor has entered the scene It is man’s trespass on wintering grounds It is true that man has been mixing with animals during the winter for many years However, the develop ment of the snowmobile and the popularity of cross country skiing has put people onto winter weakened anim als in g re a tly in cre a sin g numbers. In some cases we have heard reports of individuals savagely chas mg and harassing animals with snowmobiles Fortunately, such in dividuals seem to he in the m inority 7
