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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
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