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Skipper sets SUHS
shot put record
Sandy junior Scott Skipper broke
the school shot put record last week
at a practice meet with David
Douglas
He broke the record held by Lyle
Schwartz, set in 1960. of 56-9
Skipper’s toss was 51-2 and a half
Skipper's record highlighted an a ll
round good day, according to Coach
Randy Hutchinson.
He said that a coach has to be
pleased when he sees a 50 percent im
provement in performances Thurs
day about 90 percent of the team's
times and distances were improved
upon.
“ We had an excellent day," Hut
chinson said
The team members showed up in
shape this year "That ’s a real plus,”
he said “ The kids are to be com
plimented for that ”
Dale Rasmussen and Roland
Aumueller also had a good day toss
ing the shot, he said
Paige Daugherty won it for the
girls, with a toss of 37-8, which would
make her the number two shot putter
on the Oregonian's “ bests” list
Stephanie Hagstrom set a personal
record and won the discus throw with
a toss of 109-9
“ We’re real pleased to see that,”
Hutchinson said
He was also happy with the
sprinters Seven turned in 55 or bet
ter 406-meter runs, in either the 400
or the mile relay They include Brian
State Farm Insurance had two big
advantages going into the “ B” d ivi
sion championship game
The first was that the opponent was
not Don Carpenter Excavating. They
beat State Farm three times during
regular season play. Secondly. Mt.
Hood Carpet Care had played its
semifinal game only two hours
before the championship match
(Carpet Care took S T C to the
cleaners in the semifinal game,
44-39.)
However, Mt. Hood Carpet Care
shook off any signs of fatigue, and
when State Farm got into foul trou
ble, the championship game became
a close contest.
Clutch shooting by Scott Stewart
(12 points) in the fourth quarter kept
State Farm on top The final score
was 49-44 Carpet Care’s Brad Paluck
scored 14 points.
Other tournament games:
Prosser, Russell Fork, Skipper,
Steve Metelak, Tyson Cummings.
Steve Ackerman arid Steve Brader
For the girls, Gayle Roth, Darby
Binder, Polly Kelly and Lisa Hassett
all ran 65 or better 406s
Metelak and Sam Romey were
“ awesome” in the 800. finishing with
a one-two punch (with Metelak firs t)
Romey easily won the 1500, and
Phil Burk set a personal record,
finishing second, in the 3000
Roth, Shelby Dries, Doug Baucom
and Hank Grenier were credited with
doing the job in the high jump
Crystal Calkins set a personal
record in the long jump, by over a
foot and a half, going 15-9 and a half
Burk went 41-9 and a half, or two
feet further than his previous best,
Roth, Kecia Harris and Steve
Brader were credited with doing well
in the hurdles
Overall, Skipper, Ackerman and
Cummings did well in a variety of
events, Hutchinson said For the
girls, Hassett and Calkins had good,
balanced performances
The Pioneer boys and girls won the
400-meter relays and the mile relays.
Coombs, Prosser, Brader and Fork
were on the 400-meter relay team,
while Roth. Sharon Jensen, Binder
and Sue Phebus ran it for the girls.
P rosser, F o rk . S k ip p e r and
Metelak comprised the mile relay
team for the boys For the girls, it
was Dries, Roth, Binder and Kelly.
Others on the team include Rich
Castile, a sophomore transfer stu
dent from California, and Rick
Lam bert, a senior who played
baseball last year but was the
number one man on the golf team as
a sophomore.
Kennedy said that Beaudoin.
Castile and Lambert are all capable
of playing well enough to propel the
Pioneers to a winning season.
The number four person on the lad
der currently is D arrin Nash, a
sophomore I t ’s his first year on the
team, although he has some ex
perience.
T.J. Lenchitsky, a senior, is the
number five man on the team He
was the second through fifth man last
year, and has improved a lot.
Five play of the varsity, with the
best four scores combined for the
team results
Hood Carpet Care but it was 20 fouls
that cost Carpenter Excavating the
game.
Tuesday
A D P , winning by forfeit on Mon
day, stayed in the winner's bracket
by upsetting S T C., 48 41 Jim Brown
fired in 14 points w hiles T.C.’s Lionel
Martinez was high-point man with 19
The tournament ended unexpected
ly early for Carpenter Excavating as
they fell to the Sandy Stingers, 72 69
Playing aginst only four players.
Carpenter Excavating could not
capitalize on the advantage The
smallest man on the court, Larry
Dixon, pumped in 22 points to lead
the Stingers.
State Farm won its second tourna
ment game with an 18-point output by
Mike Fitz State Farm, playing its
best game of the season, hit almost
every shot put up. winning 67-46 over
Mt Hood Carpet Care.
Monday
State Farm began the tournament
with an impressive win over the San
dy Stingers, 62-53. Jumping to a
10-point first quarter lead, balanced
scoring kept State Farm comfortably
ahead during most of the game
Jerry Jackshaw scored 23 points for
the winners
Mt. Hood Carpet Care came out
sm oking and d e a lt top-seeded
Carpenter Excavating a 48 43 loss.
Wednesday
A.D P. won third place in the tour
nament. but in doing so, lost to State
Farm Insurance, 56-38, who went on
to the championship game. Again,
Mike Fitz led the offensive charge
with 20 points while A D .P .’s Jim
Brown bucketed 12.
S .T.P. e lim in a te d the Sandy
Stingers, 65-48, with long bombs from
Lionel Martinez and Mike Bump.
In tennis action
‘Competitive edge’
gets gals past Barlow
The team score of a tennis dual
with Barlow Monday hinged on a
doubles match being played by
sophomores Shirley Boitano and Lin
da H illiard
Elliot.
“ I think that competitve edge gave
them the matches,” said Rossos, who
described their play as outstanding
“ If they get down, they fight all the
harder In the same respect, they
don’t slack off when they start winn
Although it took two 12-point tie
breakers, the Sandy doubles team
finally won 7-6, 7-6.
‘‘They’ve done this to me before,”
said Jeannie Rossos, tennis coach. ‘‘I
could k ill ’em.”
Photo by Scott Newton
Mike Fitz lays one up for State Farm Insurance during the "B ” division cham
pionship game last week.
Pioneer softball team blasts Newberg, 16-3
“ The team jelled,” Coach Gary
Curtis said about the Pioneers after
they downed Newberg 16-3.
They turned things completely
around on Friday, following a 16-3
loss the Wednesday before to
Gresham.
“ Basically, we just lost our mental
composure in the fourth inning,”
Curtis said about that game.
A sporting version of Murphy's
Law may have been in effect. They
fell apart with the athletic director in
attendance
But on Friday, in cold and rainy
weather, the girls finished Newberg
off in four and-a half innings (the
game was called because of the
16run rule).
Junior Allison Carpenter, playing
catcher, threw two people out at se
cond and caught two pop flys.
Junior Anne Sarich, playing only
her second game at shortstop,
“ knocked a hot one down” and got
the out at first
She’s quick, and is improving
rapidly, Curtis said.
“ There aren’t many balls going to
get by her,” he said
Senior Patty Grey had a ball rifled
at her on the mound, but just raised
and Recreation
State Farm wins
‘B’ division title
Canby edges Sandy in
golf dual, 180-175
Richard Kennedy, SUHS golf
coach, was cautiously optim istic
Tuesday afternoon
An influx of new talent and im prov
ed returning players made him think
they might be able to play with some
of the teams that draw country club
talent.
“ Last ye a r our re co rd was
unblem ished—we d id n 't w in a
match,” he said in describing the
program
But this year, with a good turnout,
he’d hoped they might even be com
petitive with league-favorite Oregon
City.
A fte r a “ lo n g , m is e ra b le
afternoon” Tuesday at Mountain
View, a 186175 loss to Canby, Ken
nedy said to put a damper on the op
timism.
Freshman Kevin Beaudoin shot a
39, providing the lone bright spot
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her glove and caught it.
Monday with the Pioneers traveling
Curtis was also pleased with junior
to Molalla Sandy split with the In
Tammy Edwards, who hustled and
dians last year. They have a new
did a good job of backing up first
coach this year.
(she’s a right fielder), and with
Sandy also split with Silverton.
senior Dawn New, a first baseman
Oregon City downed Sandy twice
who “ makes the hard plays look or last year, but have lost a good pitcher
d inary."
to graduation They reportedly have
Grey had a good day on the mound,
a good one coming up, however.
Curtis said. A manager, freshman
Canbv has two good pitchers re tu r
Kathy Beckman ( “ who’s doing a real
ning
good job” ), has been charting Grey’s
Estacada w ill be coached by Cur
pitches, and the Sandy veteran has tis ’s assistant last year, Cece Gillies
been throwing strikes 65 percent of Gillies, a three-sport varsity letter-
the time in the last three games
man at Portland State University
S oftball p itchers, who throw
and a SUHS graduate, is expected to
underhanded, can throw daily and it put together a competent team
is not a problem as it is in baseball
West Linn has does not have a soft-
Doing the job at the plate for Sandy
ball team
has been sophomore Mauren “ Mo”
Sweet Home w ill sport a team for
Beckett. She's hitting 444, and has an
on-base average of .615 She's com the first time this year. Lebanon
mitted only one error, and has a reportedly has a strong summer p r6
gram, so “ they could be tough ”
fielding average of 857.
Beckett has not yet struck out.
Overall, Curtis said that he is
Grey is hitting 333, with an on base pleased w ith th e ir 2-2 record,
average of ,500 She has an 882 although he feels they should have
fielding average.
won over Barlow (a 6-4 loss).
Freshman Wendy Heckard is bat
They didn’t win a pre-season game
ting 273, with an on base average of
last year, and Curtis feels their
429 and a fielding average of 883
schedule this spring is pretty tough
The league race gets underway
Also they w ill be playing St. M ary’s
(A pril 8) and Glencoe (A pril 17).
Both schools have good programs,
Curtis said.
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The second doubles match victory
gave the Pioneers a 3-2 win, and
Rossos was pleased with the way
Boitano and H illiard stayed with it
and played tough
In fact, that's a tra it common to
several of the tennis players this
year. Rossos said.
A ll the way through the players
were evenly matched, she said. San
dy’s players were just more com
petitive.
Seniors Becky Rodrigues and Pat
sy Wesselink were cited as examples.
Both have played singles only a few
times, but Rossos decided to put her
best players in singles at the dual at
Barlow.
Rodrigues, the number one singles
player, downed Lisa Hatfield 6-2, 7-5.
Wesselink, the number two doubles
player, won 7-6, 16 and 6 4 over Toni
in g ’’
Senior Alice Schoppert, playing
number three singles, lost 6-1, 6-2 to
Sara Thompson
She has the talent to do well,
Rossos said. “ She’s learning to use
those skills under the pressure of
competition ”
The number one doubles team,
senior Denise Shokey and junior
Elizabeth Heckel, lost 6-2, 6-4.
There are four courts at Barlow
High School After the three singles
matches and the first doubles match
were over, the team score was tied at
2-2. That’s when Boitano and H illiard
cinched the team win.
Last week the girls got league play
started on the wrong foot, falling 7-0
to Molalla. Rossos said that there
were several close matches, and that
they just matched up wrong She
feels they can beat Molalla the next
time round.
A match against West Linn was
canceled Tuesday.
Tennis team wins over Barlow
The Sandy boys tennis team down 5-4 in the second set, with a game
ed Barlow Monday 5-2, with Pete score of 4615 (again in Barlow's
Kallen, the number one singles favor), but got a comeback victory,
player, turning in a good perfor winning 5-7, 6-4 and 6-3
mance
Spriggel and Bender won again
He won 6-3,6-2 Coach Terry Chung Monday, 7-5, 3-6 and 6-0
said, “ Pete Kallen had a good match
The number three doubles team,
and was able to improve his game
He played a much smarter game."
Chung was also pleased with his
players' performances last week
against Molalla They lost 5-2
Two carloads of swimmers and
However, Chung said that he can see supporters w ill be headed for Walnut
improvement in the players as they Creek, on the east side of the San
spent more time outside There were Francisco Bay, today where three
a lot of close matches during the Blue Marlins w ill compete in the Far
Molalla dual, he pointed out.
West Classic championships
Steve Palmer, the number three
Doug Crane. Jamie Tuttle and
singles player, won 6-2, 6-4 against
Richard Rolph qualified for this meet
Molalla. The number one doubles
by doing well at the U S Swimming
team, comprised of Pat Spriggel and
Region X II championships at I^ake
Scott Bender, also won last week, 3-6,'
Oswego
6-3 and 7-5.
Monday Palmer was down one set,
The Far West has some of the most
comprised of E ric Frost and Eric
Jones, won 6-2, 6-4
The number four doubles team,
comprised of Tom E lliot and David
Bender, won 6-0, 6 2
The Pioneers are 1-3 overall, 62 in
TVL play
Swimmers head for Bay
stringent tim e standards set in
organized swimming for this age
group
All three of the Blue Marlins are 14.
Crane qualified for five events,
finishing with a third, two fifths, a
sixth and a tenth
Tuttle qualified in two events,
finishing with a seventh and a 12th at
M k e Oswego
Rolph qualified in two events,
finishing with two toths and two
I2ths
Eric Frost reaches for a shot during the Pioneers* dual against Molalla last week.
Photo hv Scoli Newton