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Mark Smith, SUHS swim coach,
told the members of the 200 medley
relay team Friday night that if they
believed in themselves, they could
beat the Reynolds team in the district
finals the next day and qualify for the
state meet
The relay team, comprised of Matt
Roth. Jamie Tuttle, Richard Rolph
and Rick Top liff, had finished
IS-hundredths of a second behind
Reynolds in the preliminary round
It was a different story in the
finals, however, as the Sandy boys
won by 5» hundredths of a second,
taking first and earning a trip to the
state meet at Mt Hood Community
College this weekend
Smith said it was ultimate thrill of
the season
“ We were very pleased." he said
There is one other thing that could
happen that would top the season off
just right
That would be a gold medal for
Gayle Roth in the 50 free,
“ Gayle and I have been working
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Shauny Thoreson competes for the Pioneers at the district meet.
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toward that for four years,** Smith
said
“ I ’ve been telling her all season
long this is her year to place first in
the 50 free,’’ Smith said “ And. she
believes she can do it”
He said that she has been working
hard all season, and has put in more
yardage than ever before
The q u alifyin g tim e for all*
American status by the National In
terscholastic Swimming Coaches of
America is 24.7, and that’s Roth's
goal.
Roth turned in a 25.57 Saturday.
She still holds the district record
from last year.
Roth did not taper her workouts
down for the district meet, so her
times are expected to drop at the
state meet.
The Sandy senior also qualified for
state in the 100 free, setting a district
record with her time of 56.17. She
broke the record she set last year,
56.34.
“She's been in the finals (at state)
before,” Smith said. "1 think this is
her year. She should finish in the top
three in the 100 free”
Smith also believes the boys 200
medley relay team, and the girls 400
free relay team, can place at state.
One reason Smith is so exhilarated
by the 200 medley relay team is that
three of the four swimmers are
freshmen.
Rick Topliff is a senior
Topliff broke a school record Satur
day with a 22.98 finish in the 50 free.
He broke M ark Mayfield's I960
record of 23.16.
"Rick had a very g» xl day,” Smith
said. To qualify for the state meet,
one had to either win an event or
meet the state qualifying time.
Toploff finished fourth in the 50 free,
but met the qualifying time.
A goal for the 200 medley relay
team, by the way, is to break a 1977
school record of 1:46.3 (they went
1:46.96 Saturday).
The 400 free relay team, comprised
of Bonita Connelly, Teresa Lamer,
Heidi Lam er and Gayle Roth, are
aiming for a 3:57 or better at state,
according to Smith.
They will taper for state this week.
They finished first Saturday with a
4:02.5.
Smith said that he's worked with
Roth, Connelly. Lamer and Nici
Du Bo is since they were 10 years old
“ I will truly miss them,” Smith
said
There were some disappointments
Matt Roth, who reportedly was com
ing down with a cold, missed the
qualifying time in the 100 back by
11-hundredths, and was beat by
seven-hundredths of a second in the
100 fly
“ He’s a freshman and will be com
ing back,” Smith said.
Also, the girls wanted badly to
defeat Gresham, having finished se
cond to them for the third con
secutive year
But Smith said that he and Carl
Neuenfeldt, assistant coach, were
pleased with the team. Smith said
that they had the quality swimmers,
but not the depth, to win the district
title
Out of 37 individual swims Friday,
Smith said they set 21 lifetim e best
records and six season bests.
He said that Brian Stamm did an
excellent job last weekend, and im
proved a lot during the season.
“ He'll be an excellent addition to
our team in the future," Smith said.
Junior Lisa Izer was credited with
improving greatly in the butterfly.
Junior Kurt Herzog was dubbed
“ The Iron Man” for turning in good
back-to-back performances in the 100
fly and 100 free
“ It takes a lot of strength to handle
those sprints back-to-back,” he said.
Junior Donna Nelson was credited
with having a good season. “ She
gained a lot of confidence in this
meet,” Smith said.
Sophomore Dawn M iller turned in
a lifetime best in the 100 free “ She
did an excellent job,” Smith said.
"She's a hard worker”
The preliminaries at MHCC Friday
will be from 1:30 to 4 p.m. for the
boys, and from 6 to 8:30 p.m. for the
girls
The finals for the boys will be
Saturday from 2 to 4:30 p.m.. and for
the girls, from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Boy* team standing* Gresham. 217; Sandy.
181. Reynolds, IM . Centennial. IM . Oregon City.
106, Canby. 62, Barlow, 70. Rex Putnam. 40. Col
umbia, 1; M olalla. 3
G irl* team standing* Gresham. 211. Sandy.
176. Reynolds, 161, Barlow. 148, Centennial, 111;
Oregon City, 71; Canby. 26. Clackamas. 24; Col
umbia, 17, Gladstone, 14. Rex Putnam, 12.
WU Medley Relay Nwi DuBraa. Julie Dasher
Donna Nelson and Dawn M iller 6lh. 2 14 2
200 F r w Bonita ConneUy. 2nd. 2:10 40 Teresa
Lam er. Mh. 2:15 46; Shauny Thoreson llth .
2 24 01
200 IM Heidi Lamer 6th 2 30 76. Nk-i DuBota
12th. 2:13 09
10 Free Gayle Roth. 1st. 2117
100 Fly Lisa Iter Mh. 121 21
100 Free Gayle Roth. lat. M 17. Hom ta Connel
ly. 2nd. M M . Dawn M iller 7th. 1:00 11. Donna
Nelson. Mh. I 07 0
MO Free Teresa Lamer. 2nd. 1 M 13. U aa Ite r.
10th 0 45 27
100 Back N ic i DuBom Mh. 1:17 10. Donna
Nelson. 10th. 1:17 22
100 Breast Heidi Lamer. Mh I 2 0 M . Julie
Dasher, llth . 1:24 56
400 Free Relay: Bonita Connelly. Teresa
M in e r . Heidi Lam er and Gayle Roth. 1st. 4:02 1.
In d iv id u a l hey*
200 Medley Relay M att Roth. Jam ie Tuttle.
Richard Rolph and Rick Topliff. lat. 1 4« 3
200 F re e
Shawn Burns. 5th. 1 57 OR M a rk
Gunderson, llth , 2:09 32
200 IM Richard Rolph. 4th. 2:10 00 Jam ie Tut
tie. Mh. 2:17.40
50 Free Rick Topliff. 4th. 22 OR
100 Fly: M alt Roth. 2nd. M 7 1 . Kurt Heraog.
Oth. 1 03 23
100 Free Rick Topliff. 3rd 5115; Kurt Herxog.
Mh. 14 40
100 Free Shawn Burna. 4th, 5:11 I t . Mark
Gunderaon. Oth, 5 3R 23
100 Back M att Roth. 3rd. M 73. Richard Rolph.
Mh. 1 0 4 M
100 Breast Jam ie Tuttle. 4th. I 07 24
400 Free Relay Shawn Burns. M ark Gunder
non. Brian Stamm and Kurt Herxog, 3rd. 3 42 12
Rick Topliff
Wrestlers down Silverton, 44-15; prepare for district meet
Wrestlers in the lower weights
came through for the Pioneers
Thursday night at Silverton, with
Sandy winning 44-15.
Coach Ron Calhoun said that three
outstanding efforts were turned in.
“Mo Contreras wrestled a pretty
good kid and just darn near beat
him ,” Calhoun said. Sandy’s 141
pounder lost 6-4.
"And then, John Cox kind of came
out of his shell and wrestled a real
good match. He looked really, really
good ”
Cox, a 98 pounder, won 5-0.
Randy Swanson, a 115 pounder,
won 5-1, and was credited with doing
an “outstanding job ”
“ His opponent has been doing well
in league." Calhoun said "Randy got
kind of fired up and just wrestled
quite tough.”
As usual, Sandy dominated the up
per weights, with Dan Martin, Chuck
Kearney, Cal McKinnis and Tim
Sytsma winning by falls, and Randy
Carmony, a 191 pounder, winning
13-1
Larry Topliff, a 106 pounder, won
by fall, and Robert Paul, a 130
pounder, won 9-1.
The Pioneers ended up fourth in the
Timber Valley League, with Canby,
Oregon City and Sweet Home tying
for first.
All lour teams are among the top 10
in The Oregonian’s coaches poll. Can
by (The Cougars downed Oregon City
by a point last week) is ranked se
cond. Oregon City is third, Sandy
seventh and Sweet Home eighth.
Junior 168 pounder Chuck Kearney
takes a 23-0 record into the district
meet this weekend, and senior
heavyweight Tim Sytsma is 22-0-1
McKinnis is 21-2, Martin is 22-1 and
Carmony is 17-2.
Calhoun hopes to get Topliff (It
could take some arguing, as the
junior 106 pounder missed two mat
ches), M artin, Kearney and Car
mony seeded first. Sytsma and
Oregon City’s heavyweight tied in a
match earlier this season, but beat
their other league opponents, so will
in all probability be seeded number
one and two.
Cal McKinnis could probably get
the top seed at 178, but he’ll be wrestl
ing in the 166-pound weight division,
where Calhoun would like to see him
and Kearney wrestle in the finals.
Two wrestlers from each weight
class may enter the district tourna
ment. This is different than it is done
in some states, and Calhoun said that
he thinks it's a good system as it en
courages second varsity wrestlers to
stick with the program
It could work out especially well
for Sandy. Calhoun said that he sees
no reason why Carmony and Scott
Skipper couldn’t meet in the finals of
the district meet, and then possibly
meet again in the finals at state.
Skipper, a junior 191 pounder, has
just recently come off a knee injury,
and has been wrestling second varsi
ty, when wrestling, most of the
season.
Calhoun said that they have a
number of varsity wrestlers, besides
Topliff and those in the upper
weights, who could do well in district
competition if they wrestle well
Mike Rohweder has an opportunity
to do well. He’s got all the tools,
Calhoun said. He just needs to quit
w orking “ 106-pound moves on
130-pound guys.”
Rohweder was a 106 pounder last
year
Other second varsity wrestlers that
could do well include sophomores
Loren Bateman and Frank McKin
nis.
McKinnis is 23-0.
“ I don’t think he thinks he can be
beaten,” Calhoun said about McKin
nis.
“ He’s not even serious He's just
having fun But, he’s also quite
powerful, and he has this uncanny
sense of positioning He’s pinned
Girls ski team waxes opponents
Nobody even had a chance against
the Sandy girls last week at Mt Hood
Meadows.
The six skiers on the girls team all
finished in the top 11, winning the
Valley league meet by a whopping 25
seconds.
In five years of high school
coaching, Robert Karsten said he’s
never heard of a margin of victory
that great.
Ulla Pearson won her third race.
Sue Sarich was third, Charr Bridge
was fourth, Ingrid Peterson seventh,
Kristen Van Steenis 10th and Nicole
Schouten llth
“T hat’s all six, boom, boom, boom
That's really nice," Karsten said
“ I giggled I love it.”
And, all that was without standout
Anne Sarich
"You can see that we have a little
depth to the team," Karsten said
He said that the snow was hard, but
not so hard that the edges of the skis
would slid
About Pearson, he said. ‘‘She’» ski
ing really well I ’ve been impressed
with her the last few weeks
“The winning has helped her men
tally ”
He said that she's been going into
the gates straighter, thus getting bet
ter runs
Bridge has also been skiing well,
Karsten said "She's right in there
It's really nice seeing the improve
ment she’s making.”
For the boys, Steve Sarich finished
second and Chris Welch fourth
’’They both did very well, skied ex
tremely smoothly.”
Senior Robert Spradling, who was
described last week as very depen
dable, fell last Wednesday.
“ He pushed himself just a step
over the lim it, which happens quite
often,” Karsten said.
He’s put a lot of pressure on
himself to do well, Karsten said
Mike Wall also fell
“ Mike had an extremely good run
going,” Karsten said He fell four
gates from the bottom Wall was
17th, Spradling 28th
Karsten has discussed Sarich »
abilities before He is a freshman
with good technique
Karsten said that Welch has made
rapid progress. “ I think he's going to
be real good." Karsten said about the
junior
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He was also pleased with Jeff Day,
who finished 13th, and Peter Valian,
15th
Those two freshmen trade off with
Erik M arter and Brian Silvey, two
more freshmen with a lot of poten
tial.
The boys finished third overall
Karsten said that they still have a
shot at the state meet, hut it’s a long
shot
But, he said, they've been training
hard, and could still put it all
together
The girls are still in second place in
the Valley League behind Lakeridge.
The girls didn't finish in a meet at Ski
Bowl recently, which hurt them in
the standings
Karsten said that they compete
against some of the top teams in the
state, meaning M keridge and Lake
Oswego
Also, Wilson has a “ hot skier,”
Paul Stember, who keeps edging out
Sarich.
There's no doubt in Karsten’s mind
that the quality of high school skiing
is going up
“ Some of the teams I've been able
to lake to state before wouldn't have
n chance ( now)”
almost everyone.
“ Like I say, the most interesting
thing is that he’s just having a whole
lot of fun.”
The district meet will be at Canby
High School from noon until 9 p.m. on
Friday. On Saturday, the sessions
will run from noon till 5 p.m., with the
finals starting at 7.
Sandy 44. S ilverton I t
96 John Cox won 54) over Roth, 106: L arry
Topliff pinned Cronin. 3rd. 4:49, IIS: Randy
Swanson won 1-1 over Dunagan; 123 Bill
Mathews fell 1-2 to Palm qulsl, 130 Robert Paul
won 6-1 over Dennis. IM Mike Rohweder fell 6-7
to M ack. 141 Mo Contreras fell 6-4 to Caldwell.
146 Dan King wa* pinned by Moll, 1*1, 106 . 117:
Dan M artin pinned H a m s . 3rd, 4:M ; 168: Cal
M c K in n is pinned Palten. 3rd, 1 3 3 ; 178: Chuck
Kearney pinned Jone«, m , l : M ; 161 Randy Car
mony won 13-1 over Teeny, HW T Tim Sytama
pinned Bielenberg, l it , 56.
Overtime
games norm
for boys
The Sandy boys played a little ex
tra basketball this week.
Eighteen minutes extra, to be ex
act. They downed Sweet Home 56-55
in two overtimes Friday night, and
then fell to Oregon City in another
away game in four overtimes.
The Pioneers led the entire regula
tion game Tuesday night at Oregon
City, with OCHS’s Scott Fish tossing
in a 20 footer to tie it up at the buzzer
“ For the first 31 minutes and 30
seconds we did all we needed to win,”
Coach Dan Brisbin said.
In that last half minute Sandy turn
ed the ball over twice, and Oregon Ci
ty took the momentum into the over
time periods
Brisbin felt they played well defen
sively, but was disappointed that
they didn’t put more pressure on
Oregon City offensively.
Give Oregon City credit, he said.
An experienced team, “ they’ve been
through all that before, and it paid off
for them.”
The overtimes didn't go Sandy's
way, with the visiting Pioneers spen
ding most of the time playing catch
up
Bob Nippert grabbed a rebound
and put up the tying shot at the close
of the second overtime
In the fourth overtime Oregon City
dominated, and converted on their
free throws, for the 53-47 win
Troy Wolf tied the game up at
Sweet Home at the end of regulation
play Friday night with a shot in the
lane.
In the second overtime Palmer
connected on a 15 footer to give San
dy the lead. The Huskies’ Alan Vasey
scored on an inside shot, «nd then
was fouled
He msde one of two, which give
Sweet Home a 56-54 lead.
The Pioneers took the ball down
with 35 to 40 seconds left to play, and
Mitch Paola took the winning shot
from six feet out with 10 seconds left,
Above. Robert Paul works for a fall. Below, Loren Bateman does the same.
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96 Brad Emerson pinned Andrew*. 2nd. 3:09.
106 Mel Gedde won 5-1 over M artin. US Jeff
Smith pinned Duff. 1st, 43. 123 Hui Choi pinned
McCoy. 3rd. 6:21; 120 Deetry Fry: fell 7-2 to
Dunagan. IM : Bret Kearney won 4-3 over
Christensen. 141: Paul Gagner won 3-1 over Kuen
xl; 146 Bill Bowman fell 4-2 to Ormond, 157 Boh
Weyer pinned Allen. 2nd. 3:22, 166: Loren
Bateman pinned Brockamp, 2nd. 3 06.171: Frank
McKinnis pinned Deckelman, 2nd. 3:M . 161 Scott
Skipper pinned Haum. lat, 1 26; HW T Roland
Aumueller won by forfeit
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