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I) SANDY (O f« ., POST— 7
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State tournaments a tradition for Aubins
by M U T T S E W TOS
It s hectic, and it takes up a lot of
time, but Miles and Eleanor Aubin
enjoy it.
Going to state basketball tour
namenls is getting to be a tradition
with them Miles, who has been
running the clock at Sandy Union
High School games since 1973.
worked 22 of the 26 games at the
AAA state tournament this year,
which is probably the most he's
done.
He was working Benson High
School and Portland Community
College games when the state tour
nament was moved from Eugene
to Portland in 1966
Aubin had been working with
Roger Mockford, PCC athletic
director, timing P IL games, when
Mockford was asked to round up a
crew for the state tournament in
1966
“I happened to be in the right
place at the right time so I got the
job,” Aubin said
Eor awhile Aubin also worked
Portland State games, and so was
going to Benson, PCC and PSU
games, as
II as the state tourna
ment
When Aubin retired in 1970 as a
biology teacher at Benson, he and
his wife moved to rural Sandy, and
so he gave up timing some of the
events as the drive to Portland got
to be too much
But of course the state tourna
ment us a premier event, and Aubin
kept working it
In 1974 a new clock was purchas
ed at Memorial Coliseum, and so
for several years the coliseum pro
vided the crew
In 1979 Aubm again got the
chance to work at the state tourna
ment, and has done so for the last
tour years
According to Aubin there is one
trick to running the clock: "Keep
your eye on the officials at all
times ”
Also, he said, it's a good idea to
remember and turn the horn on
There's only one time he was
really put on that spot, and fo r
tunately, he handled the situation
well
In 1970, in the championship
round, two of the favored teams,
Jesuit and Central Catholic, were
playing
"Jesuit was two points ahead,
and it was a jump ball on the Jesuit
end of the floor,” Aubm recalled
"W ell, they tipped it ahead and a
Central Catholic boy got it, took
two dribbles and cast off. and the
ball went through.
"The referee waved it off, but
the coach, C liff Shelton, rushed
over to the clock and wanted to
know what I would call it.
" I had sense enough to say,
‘Well, i t ’s all over.” ’
“ Then one of the writers from
one of the papers came down and
charged the clock, and wanted to
know what I called it.
" I gave him the same answer.
Well, he got kind of perturbed,
dike) I should have enough in
testinal fortitude to tell him what I
thought it was."
Of course, Aubin was right by
pointing out that it's the referee’s
decision as to whether there was
time on the clock when the Central
Catholic player put up the shot.
"Well, also, they had trouble
with some of the Central Catholic
people,” Aubin said They "charg
ed out on the floor, and I think
there might have been some fists
swung, too.”
Aubin said that he runs into C liff
Shelton occasionally, and that
they're friends “ Every once in a
while we'll talk abut it," Aubin
said of the incident.
In talking about tournament peo
ple, B ill Mulslur of the Catholic
Sentinal wrote on March 27, 1970,
"Aubin comes in for praise, too. He
kept his cool despite pressure from
coaches, fans and press. His deci
sion in this dispute could only be
known if the referee asked for
help.”
Asked if he thinks, 12 years later,
that the referee made the right
decision, Aubin said, " I forgot
about it from then on.”
Although Aubin started timing
games in 1957, he doesn’t feel he
really learned to do it right until he
started working the state tourna
ment
In explaining that, he said, " I
suppose that when you work high
school games, oftentimes, there
isn't the crowd, and you can hear
the whistle at all times Maybe
there isn’t so much importance at
tached to each game
“ And, the games are generally
not as close At a state tournament
every quarter there’s a little crisis
right at the end because they all
run down the clock.”
And in the closing seconds of a
close game “ you’re always in a
precarious position ”
Aubin said that he thinks he
becomes more relaxed, and thus
does a better job, as the tourna
ment goes on
“I always pray for no overtim e,”
Eleanor Aubin adds
One of the most embarrassing
things that can happen, Miles said,
is to have to put time back up on
the clock. Sometimes this happens
when a referee is “ covered up” by
one of the big men.
Aubin, a 1933 SUHS graduate
who grew up in the Boring area,
played baseball at the Oregon Nor
mal School, now Western Oregon
State College, and has “ practically
watched OSU teams grow up” at
state tournaments, as Eleanor puts
has probably been the most en
joyable experience he's had in
athletics.
Unlike basketball and baseball,
the calls are closer to being clear-
cut, he said
“ You know, half the people think
you're wrong in basketball,” he
points out
He said he enjoyed watching the
Pioneers this year, and expects
them to improve as they have
some young players
He adds, however, “ I ’m not a
very good judge of basketball
talent. Every time I say something
about basketball one of the experts
w ill contradict me, so evidently I
don’t know much about it ”
He feels that perhaps too much
emphasis is being placed on winn
ing, with some parents now mov
ing just to get their son or daughter
into a winning program.
" I t ’s nice to win,” he said, but
added that people should support
their local teams regardless of the
kind of a season they’re having.
it.
But refereeing football games
Miles and Eleanor Aubin
Pioneers tie Barlow, 8-8, in topsy-turvy baseball game
The Pioneers had a chance, but
couldn’t quite pull off a win over
Barlow in a topsy-turvy game played
here Monday.
The game ended in an 8-8 tie. giv
ing the Pioneers an 0-3-1 record.
Barlow was ahead 8-6 going into
the bottom, of the sixth Mo Contreras
started the inning off right, hitting a
single and then stealing second.
Stu Hoffman singled, driving in
Contreras, and that’s when Barlow's
players "went crazy,” as Coach Cur
tis Heath put it.
First they threw to third, trying to
put out C ontreras. The th ird
baseman then overthrew the second
baseman, and the ball went on
through the fielder's legs, allowing
Hoffman to score.
Hoffman s run tied the game at 8 8
The first out for Sandy came when
Keith Powell struck out.
Dave Kirkland got on because of an
error by the shortstop.
The second out came when Randy
Martin struck out.
While M artin was at the plate,
Kirkland stole second.
Jerry Bennett singled, and as
Kirkland was rounding third he miss
ed the bag, went back, hesitated a
moment and then was thrown out at
home.
The seventh inning wasn't played
due to darkness.
Heath said that the game was
"kind of a fiasco.”
That was the closest the Pioneers
have come to beating Barlow since
Kearney makes triple crown sweep
SUHS junior Chuck Kearney joined
an elite group earlier this week
The AAA state champion won the
Oregon Cultural Exchange's state
freestyle championship Monday
Tuesday he won the state Greco-
Roman title.
He is one of only six high school
juniors to have ever won the triple
crown in Oregon.
As if all that weren’t enough,
Kearney found out Tuesday that he's
been selected to participate in an
AAU exchange to Germany.
The Oregon team w ill be flown to a
training camp somewhere in the
United States early this summer, and
then w ill fly to Germany where
they’ll stay in homes and compete
against clubs and high schools
Kearney competed in the 165-pound
division
Dan Martin, SUHS senior, finished
fourth in freestyle in the 154-pound
weight division.
The freestyle championships were
held Sunday and Monday at Red
mond. The Greco-Roman tourna
ment, also at Redmond, was held
Tuesday. It had the largest field of
any wrestling tournament in the
state (including the AAA state meet)
this year with 547 participants
Sophomore Frank McKinnis took
second in the 178-pound division in
the freestyle developmental tourna
ment.
Junior Bob Wantowski pinned two
opponents in Greco-Roman in the
165-pound weight division, but didn't
advance to the finals. Sixty-five com
peted at that weight
SUHS sophomore Dan King finish
ed fo u r th
in the fr e e s ty le
Photo by Scott Newton
Becky ( lift return* a shot during a match with a Gresham opponent.
developmental tournament.
Scott Kearney, 13, finished fifth in
the freestyle developmental tourna
ment.
Freestyle differs from collegiate
(high school style) in that the
wrestlers spend more time on their
feet going for takedowns Greco-
Roman involves the use of upper-
body throws.
A dance to benefit wrestling pro
grams at the high school w ill be held
Friday night. Some of the money
raised w ill help finance Kearney’s
trip to Germany. He’ll need to pay
$300 towards the exchange.
Heath has headed the program.
Barlow has a good program, Heath
said.
He was especially pleased with his
sophomores, Jerry Bennett and Troy
Wolf
Bennett was credited with doing
the job offensively, while Wolf was
credited with playing well at short
stop
Heath said that they need to
minimize mistakes, and with league
coming up, he said, “We’ll come
around.”
He said that they are much further
ahead than they were last year at this
time
“ We re not as aggressive as I ’d like
us to be, hitting wise,” he said. “ The
potential is there The kids just need
to believe in themselves ”
He said that there have been
several times when they’ve had peo
ple down but didn’t put them away.
M artin pitched a good part of the
game, and Heath said he did well at
times, although he has to get over his
"early-season wildness.”
Powell did a good job in relief, he
said.
The Pioneers dropped two games
to Mazama High School last week on
a road trip to Klamath Falls
They fell 6-1 and 7-2. They played in
snow fluries from the third inning of
the second game on
Heath said the Klamath Falls trip
was a good learning experience with
a lot of players seeing time. “ I think
we got what we wanted out of the
trip .”
SKI Is
SUHS
In league opener
Canby girls edge Sandy netters, 4-3
If Jeannie Rossos could play it
again, she'd use the same strategy
she used Tuesday.
She put her best players in doubles
but lost her first league meet as a
head tennis coach, 4-3.
The second, th ird and fourth
doubles teams won against Canby,
but the number one team, comprised
of seniors Becky Rodrigues and Alice
Schoppert, fell 3-6, 6-7, losing the tie
breaker on the second set
Rossos said that Rodrigues and
Schoppert played well against tough
com petition Monday, when the
Pioneers hosted Gresham.
“ If they'd have played like they did
yesterday they would have done real
w ell,” Rossos said Tuesday.
The Pioneers fell 6-1 to Gresham,
with the number three doubles team,
comprised of junior Elizabeth Heckel
and senior Denise Shokey, winning
6-6, 7-5.
Gresham has one of the best teams
they'll play all season, according to
Rossos She said that the entire Wilco
League is strong as they have tennis
clubs to draw from
Still, she felt overall that the Sandy
¡Jjyers performed well, and added
tha* it was a good learning ex
perience
The number two doubles team,
c o m p ris e d of s e n io rs P a ts y
Wesselink and Tracy Toole, lost two
close sets Monday (4 6. 5-7).
Tuesday Wesselink and Toole
teamed up again, downing Canby 6-0.
6-1 "They were fantastic,” Rossos
said
They worked together as a team
Tuesday, she said
Shokey and Heckel won 4 6, 6-3 and
6-4, playing improved tennis the last
two sets, according to Rossos.
The number four doubles team,
comprised of sophomores Shirley
Boitano and Linda H illiard, won 7-6,
5-7 and 7-6, "which is about as close
as you can get.”
Rossos said that she feels good
about the play of both the third and
fourth doubles teams She said they
learned what they need to work on
While the Sandy singles players
are at the bottom of the ladder, Can
by’s singles players are all seniors
“ That was rough going,” Rossos
said.
A ll three singles players lost.
Sophomore Becky C lift was the
number one singles player, junior
Mindy Congdon was number two, and
junior Heidi Lamer was number
three.
“ For being out of position like that
they did real well,” Rossos said.
The Pioneer girls, coached by Deb
bie Hunter, were 8-8 overall last
year, 6-8 in league
Seven of the team's top 11 were lost
to graduation, which includes Tami
Shafer, who qualified for the state
meet.
Rossos played tennis for Gresham
High School, Mt Hood Community
College and Oregon State University,
and coaching tennis seems to run in
the fam ily, she said.
She thinks that West Linn, Sweet
Home and Oregon City w ill be the
toughest teams in the TVL.
One thing that pleases her is that
she has out a lot of freshmen who
show potential.
Twenty-four are out for tennis,
which is about all they have the
facilities to handle.
" I feel really good about the kids I
have. They all work hard,” Rossos
said
The junior varsity won 3-1, and
were ahead in two matches that were
called because of darkness
Sophomore Lori Armstrong, the
number one singles player, won 6-3.
The second singles player, junior
Sandy Geissler, won 8-2.
Senior Susan Clift, the number
three singles player, lost 3 6
The number one doubles team,
com prised of freshmen Kendra
Rowland and Angie Conibear, won
8-6.
The second doubles team, compris
ed of junior Christine Pettingill and
freshman Charrise Flatt, was ahead
4-3 when the set was called
The number three doubles team,
comprised of freshmen Carla Heckel
and Valerie Master, was ahead 1-0
when the match was called
Kathy Thomas is the junior varsity
coach
SUHS tennis team falls 4-3
to Canby boys in TV L obéi
The Sandy boys tennis team lost its
TVL opener 4-3 Tuesday at Canby
Coach T e rry Chung felt they
played well overall, showing im
provement from their first match
Monday against Gresham, a 7-0 loss
He said that at this point they have
only three players “ who actually
understand the game of tennis well
and can play it com petitively."
We have to spend more time on the
courts, he said
Number one singles player Pete
Kallen, a junior, lost 6 2. 1-6 and 1-4.
Kallen is having to make the ad
justment from being the number
three to the number one player,
which is a big jump, Chung said
Number two singles player Joe
Rowland won 7-5, 6-1.
A first-year senior, Rowland is a
good competitor, Chung said "H e ’s
still learning to play and win at the
game of tennis ”
Likewise, number three singles
player Steve Palmer has some learn
ing to do Chung said he is a good
athlete. The first year senior won 6-2,
2-6 and 6 2.
" I think that both Joe and Steve
w ill develop into good singles tennis
players,” Chung said
The number one doubles team
comprised of seniors Pat Spriggel
and Scott Bender, lost 4-6, 2-6
Chung said that they are probably
the best players in the program He
felt they played well, and added that
this was the first time they’d played
together this season They’ve been
working on their singles game
The number two doubles team,
comprised of juniors Brian Buhler
and Randy Swanson, lost 7-6, 1-6 and
06
" I thought Randy played very
w ell," Chung said He added that
they played against two tall players
who dominated at the net
Sophomores E ric Jones and E ric
Frost, the number three doubles
team, won 7-6, 6 1
"They're putting a lot of effort into
the matches but they still need a lot
of w ork," Chung said
Sophomores Tim Elliot and Ron
Fehringer, the number four doubles
team, fell 1-6, 0-6.
"T im has a lot of potential and
played well last night." Chung said
" I think the m ajor reason they lost
last night is a lack of playing ex
perience as this is heir first year
out," he said Wednesday morning
Chung said that they hope to finish
in the middle of the pack this season
He expects M olalla. Estacada,
Oregon City and Sweet Home to have
the best teams
Realistically, he said, we have too
many young players to be a con
tender.
The Pioneers were 1-15 last year,
and lost five players out of the top l l
Chung is in his fourth season at San
dy