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Faòruory 23 1962 (Soc. 1) SANDY (Oro.) ROST—
and Recreation
Seven wrestlers advance to state meet
by SCOTT NEWTON
It was billed as the toughest
district tournament in the state,
and Sandy had two finals matches
go into overtime
S till, the general consensus
seemed to be "You ain’t seen
nothing ye t.”
The state tournament, at David
Douglas High School, began today
at 10 a m The first round for the
lower weights w ill run until about 5
p m , with the 6 o’clock session
beginning with the 157 pounders
The Pioneers finished third in
the team standings at the district
meet with 259 points Oregon City
took first, with 297 5, and Canby
was second, with 270 Sweet Home
was a distant fourth, with 181
Junior Larry Topliff started the
finals out right for Sandy The 106
pounder downed Troy Santana of
Sweet Home 10-5.
Topliff beat Santana 4-3 for third
place in the state tournament last
year m the 96-pound division
Senior Dan Martin, returning
state champion at 157. beat rival
Mike McCarty of Oregon City in
the finals.
Martin bea' McCarty in over
time last yeat in the finals of the
district tournament and won 3-2 in
the Oregon C’ty d»tf‘ .
Calhoun described McCarty as a
‘ ‘sm art, powerful, (and) fast”
’ -«stler, and said that Martin
wiestled well against him
M artin had a 3-1 lead for a good
part of the «latch, and pleased the
vo ca l Sandy cro w d w ith a
takedown in the final seconds to
decisively take the district title.
Junior Chuck Kearney won the
title in the 168-pound weight d ivi
sion, winning 13-1 over teammate
Cal McKinnis, a senior, as the
coaches sat by quietly.
Calhoun said that all he asks of
his wrestlers in a situation like that
is that they don’t hurt one another
Calhoun added that McKinnis
“ wrestled very tough ”
Kearney, a transfer student,
finished second at the AAA state
tournament last year.
Senior Randy Carmony, a 191
pounder, beat David Priest of
Oregon City, but it took an over
time to do it.
Calhoun said that an overtime is
to Carmony’s advantage because
he’s such a hard worker and is
therefore in good shape
Carmon> also wrestled and won
in overtime in the semifinals, this
time to Pnest’s brother, Tom.
Sandy heavyweight Tim Sytsma
took a 22-0-1 record into the district
m e e t,
and
O regon
C ity
heavyweight Rob Burns had a
20-0-1 record They tied in dual
meet competition, but Burns got
the best of S * aa in the district
finals, finally > inning in overtime
Sytsma exploded out of the bot
tom position in the closing seconds
of regulation time to tie the match
up, scoring a one-point escape He
fell 3-1 in the overtime.
Sophomore Loren Bateman sur
prised people with his perfor
mance.
He wrestled second varsity, at
168 pounds, all season. But last
weekend, wrestling up a weight
class, he won in the consolation
finals over Joel Belgarde of Canby
for third and a trip to the state
meet »the top three place winners
adve.^e).
In his first match Bateman beat
Tom Steinbacker of Sweet Home,
the number three seed, '«tein-
backer, only a few weeks ago, beat
Carmony 6-5 in a dual at Sweet
Home.
Sandy junior Mike Rohweder
finished fourth. About the 136
pounder, Calhoun said, “ He tried
to wrestle Greco-Roman and the
game plan called for collegiate
style.”
Greco-Roman is a style that
utilizes the upper body. Rohweder
is a small 136 pounder, Calhoun
pointed out.
Junior Scott Skipper, a 191
pounder, finished fourth. He down
ed Jeff LaRose of Molalla 15-10 se
cond round, then lost in overtime to
Tom Priest (who. remember, was
in that overtime with Carmony).
One time he shot in, and with his
head, broke the skin on La Rose 's
face.
Skipper then beat the number
four seed, John Green of Canby,
qualifying for the consolation
finals, where he ran into LaRose
again.
Then, working a takedown set-up
called a touch and-go, Skipper
“ touched" LaRose a little too hard,
and a one-point penalty was
assessed against him
With one minute left in the
match, and the score tied 3-3, Skip
per let LaRose go, He was then
down by a point, but was working
for a two-point takedown
Now it was 5-3, and Skipper had
to have the takedown just to tie it
up
Skipper was sporting over a
dozen stiches in his lip, from an in
ju ry suffered in practice, and
coupled with his aggressive style,
he projected somewhat of a fierce
aura
In the end it didn’t do him much
good though LaRose got ahold of
his leg, and held on In desperation
Skipper tried to kick free The
referee considered this flagrant,
and awarded the match to LaRose
Only a few seconds remained on
the clock when the match was call
ed,
Randy Carmony works for near-fall points in the district finals,
Other wrestlers that placed in
clude senior B ill Mathews, a 123
pounder. 5th, junior Robert Paul, a
130 pounder. 5th; junior Mo Con
treras, a 141 pounder, 5th; junior
Bob Weyer. a 157 pounder, 6th, and
junior Randy Swan.,on, a 115
pounder, 6th
Topliff, 20-1, Kearney, 26-0, and
Martin, 25-1, received first-place
seeds at state.
Topliff faces James Hawthorne
of La Grande in a key first-round
matchup.
pho‘° by ScoM New,°"
SUHS boys lose key game to Canby; girls fall in playoffs
Tuesday night was not a good night
for Sandy basketball.
The boys lost a key TVL game to
Canby, 64-56, and the Sandy girls lost
a playoff game for a state berth,
56-38, to West Linn
The girls ended up with an 11-11
record, while the boys were 8-6.
The boys ended up in a tie for
fourth, with the top three teams in
the league (Oregon City, West Linn
and Canby) advancing to the state
tournament.
The girls also ended up in fourth,
but had beaten third-place finisher
Silverton West Linn and Oregon City
advance to the state meet.
The boys went basket for basket
with Canby in the first half, with both
teams shooting well.
Sandy had a three point lead
towards the end of the third quarter,
but had a bad two minutes, and lost
the lead.
Brisbin said that the team had been
improving all along, and that he'd
hoped to be able to coach them a little
longer.
He said that they’re a good group
with a good attitude
The Pioneers were 5 2 on the road,
but just couldn't get the wins at
home.
Bob Nippert scored 18 points and
had nine rebounds Tuesday night.
Mitch Paolo contributed 16 points
and seven assists.
For the girls, who haven't been
able to beat West Linn all season, it
was the same old story.
Debbie Wolcott, the Lions' 6-2
center, scored a game-high 26 points
“ We just couldn’t stop her,” Smith
said.
“ She took charge in the third
quarter (with 13 points) and there
wasn’t anything we could do to slow
her up.”
Sandy was down 28-24 at halftime.
Smith said that they played ex
tremely well in the first half.
In the second half, he said, " I can
remember four or five close-in shots
we couldn't get to go down."
Cindy McCoy contribued 12 points
and 11 rebounds to the effort
Smith said that they could have let
up before the Canby game They had
achieved their season goals of a 500
season and a place among the top
four
Instead, he said, the girls played
well against Canby, Silverton and
West Linn.
" I t ’s sad you have to end the
season that w ay," Smith said. “ That
we made it this far is quite signifi
cant.”
Gayle Roth takes silver at state swim meet
by SCOTT NEWTON
w Scoff Newton
( Indy McCoy puts up a shot for the girls during a win at Canby.
3.56 0.
Topliff, a senior, finished ninth with a Douglas won, and said that there
Heidi Lamer turned in good splits,
time of 1.-46 56
Gayle Roth may have finished se
were a lot of disqualifications from
both in the preliminaries and in the
They were 26-hundredths off the false starts on relay exchanges
cond in the 50 free at the state meet
finals, and Roth pretty much held her
1977 record, owned by Gary Roth,
last weekend, but she can still claim
“ Our kids handled that w ell,” he
own, but Connelly and Teresa Lamer
Chris Roth. Jon Swails and Jeff said.
the AAA championship
didn't turn in the times expected.
Youngbluth.
Tanya Nofziger of Rainer, the win
Smith said that next year the girls
All in all, however, it was a sue
The relay team finished first in the team w ill need rebuilding, while he
ner of the event, is from an AA
cessful finish to another good year.
district meet with a time of 1:4C 98
school
expects to have a strong boys team,
The girls finished 14th (out of 42
Their time in the preliminaries
Coach Mark Smith said he is “ ex
especially if some Blue Marlin sw im
teams) with 32 points. It was the best wasn’t that good, probably due in
tremely pleased” with Roth's efforts.
mers go out.
finish for Smith since he came here in part to “ freshman jitte rs ."
Roth said that she was “ happy”
“ We’re looking forward, with ex
1974
Smith said they all turned in
w ith the second-place fin is h ,
citement, to next year,” Smith said.
The
girls
were
6-1
in
dual-meet
“ outstanding swims” in the finals
although she wanted the gold pretty
Smith said that he'll miss Topliff
com petition, which put S m ith ’s He added, “ We're looking forward to
badly.
and the senior girls.
overall record at 64 26 1.
breaking that medley relay record
“ I'm glad it's all over and the
“ I t ’s been a pleasure working With
The boys were 26th (out of 40 next year "
pressure's o ff,” she said Monday.
them,” he said
teams).
Smith was also pleased with
“ Right now I ’m thinking about
He said that they’ve set some high
They were 5-2 in dual meet com T o p liff’s performance in the 50 free.
track "
standards, in attitude and pride as
petition, which puts Smith’s overall He finished 14th, and missed qualify
Roth came down with a cold the
well as times.
record at 69-24-1, for a combined ing in the consolation finals by two-
night before the meet, and said that it
Gayle Roth ends her career at San
133-50-1 record.
hundredths of a second
especially affected her breathing in
dy with four school records (in the 50
Smith
had
the
youngest
relay
"He had an excellent sw im ,” Smith
the 100 free, in which she placed sixth
and 100 free, the 100 back and the 200
team, the 200 individual medley, at said.
with a time of 56.3.
IM ). She also holds the district
the state meet The team, comprised
Lincoln won the girls state title.
She turned in a 56 17 to win the
records in the 50 and 100 free
of
Richard
Rolph,
Jamie
Tuttle
and
David Douglas took it for the boys.
district title
Topliff ends his career with the 50
Matt Roth, all freshmen, and R .:k
Smith was surprised that David
Smith pointed out that in the 50 free
free record, set with a time of 22 98
she did beat rival Julie I.eep of
Tigard, against whom she's been
competing for four years
Leep was third with a 25.33, and
was ranked first going into the finals
Roth had a 25.1 in the finals while
Nofziger, a junior, had a 24 83
Smith said that Roth had a g<xxi
start and executed an excellent turn
in the 50, and "was ahead by an arm
stroke” in the final stretch.
“ I thought for sure she'd won,”
said Smith, who explained, however,
that he was at an angle.
“ I believe she put everything into it
humanly possible,” he said
One disappointment was the finish
of the 400 free relay team
They had set a goal going into the
state meet of finishing in the top six.
The team, comprised of Bonita Con
nelly, Teresa Lamer, Heidi learner
and Roth, finished eighth with a time
of 4.01.19
Smith was hoping they'd go under
four minutes, and possibly break the
school record set two years ago of Teresa Lamer, lle id i Lamer. Gayle Roth and Bonita Connelly.