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Rasmussen wins state cow cutting title
by SCOTT NEWTON
Mollie Smith was also third
ru n n e r-u p
in
the
rodeo
association's queen contest, hav
ing been selected to represent the
Tim ber Valley League after selec
tion by her peers
She is secretary-treasurer of the
T VL club, as well as the SUHS
• F i n a l l y '”
That was Kim Rasmussen's
reaction to winning the girls cow
cutting competition at the Oregon
High School State Finals Rodeo
Last y e a r Rasmussen was
reserve champion in the State
Finals Rodeo She was also reserve
champion in Oregon Northwest
Cutting Horse Association com
petition
Now it's one title down and one to
go
During the first round of com
p etition F rid a y at Redmond
everything went well
" It went just great.” Rasmussen
said. "M y horse worked. I worked
and the cattle worked ”
Rasmussen was the leader going
into the second round, but Satur
years working on it."
The future looks bright for the
club, said Smith, who works at
Boeing of Portland and farms ber
ries on the side
"Any kid that wants to high
school rodeo, we want him ”
He added, "You can’t find a bet
Photo* by Scott Newton
Kim Rasmussen and Dribble Chick keep a calf away from the herd during the finals Sunday at Redmond.
Rick Quillin
day conditions weren't as nice.
Rasmussen and others competed
in the rain. " It was terrible, but we
did as much as we could, consider
ing the circumstances," she said
She said she should be used to the
rain, adding, "But it's not suppos
ed to rain in Redmond "
Still she kept the lead going into
the final round Sunday,
and
though she does not feel she, her
horse D rib b le Chick or the
livestock were reacting particular
ly well, she did well enough to win
the belt buckle that's a part of be
ing a state rodeo champion
Rasmussen also served as cut
ting horse director at the State
Finals Rodeo, helping to run off the
event She was selected as cutting
horse director by fellow com
petitors at a state meeting.
“ You just see that everything
goes all righ ," Rasmussen said of
the position
She also solicited donations for
the buckles.
The 1962 Sandy Union High
School graduate took a perfect 30
score into the State Finals Rodeo,
have won three qualifying com
petitions for a total of 30 points.
She’s been competing in cow cut
ting for five years, and plans on
studying veterinary medicine in
college She is currently employed
at the Rainbow Ridge Ranch.
Rasmussen will be competing at
the National High School Finals
Rodeo July 25 through Aug 1 in
Douglas, Wyo.
According to Ernie Smith, rodeo
club advisor, this is the largest
rodeo in the world, with over 1000
competitors from 36 states ex
pected to compete
Donations to help cover the ex
pense of the trip would be ap
preciated. Call 668 7226 for more
information
In a related item, it has been
learned that Rasmussen is not first
alternate, as reported in last
week’s Post, to the American
J u n io r
Q u a rte r
H orse
Association’s 1982 World Cham
pionship Show in Tulsa. An error
was discovered, and Rasmussen
has found herself in the number
two position from Oregon, which
means she has qualified for the
competition.
Although as cutting director and
top contender, Rasmussen was a
visible part of the State Finals
Rodeo, others from Sandy com
peted as well.
Rick Quillin, who will be a junior
at SUHS next year, competed in
the bull riding, filling the 20th posi
tion going in.
He did not complete the eight-
second ride, either Friday or
Mollie Smith runs the barrels in the rain
Saturday.
“Things just didn’t click for
him ," Smith said. H. pointed out
that these are the same bulls pro
fessionals ride. Only four bull
riders stayed on long enough to get
a score in Friday’s first round of
competition.
Quillin has two more years to
compete, Smith added.
Mollie Smith, daughter of Ernie
S m ith , also co m p ete d th is
weekend She went into the rodeo
19th out of 57 in barrel racing, but
didn’t qualify for the finals Sun
day.
Mollie competed on her horse,
Penokie
She did "all right,” Smith, the
rodeo club advisor, said.
"This is Mollie’s second year,”
he said "She’s training her own
horse. It takes time.
"She gave 100 percent, so we're
more than happy."
rodeo club.
She was Miss Congeniality,
voted on by the queen candidates,
last year.
Activities the queen’s candidates
participated in included the ride
out, which is done at the start of
each round of competition. The
candidates, in dress clothes, ride
out and circle the arena, waving to
the audience
They are judged on the grand en
tries, horsemanship and dress.
Mollie gave a speech Friday morn
ing to the judges, detailing the
history of Sandy and the Mt. Hood
area
About the rodeo club, Smith said,
“We tried to get the club started
last year. We weren’t really that
successful.
“ You might say we’ve been two
ter group of kids, really It s
something that the kids do on their
own. This is all self-supportive.”
The school and area businesses
have been helpful, Smith said.
"We had a tremendous amount
of support on the local level for our
high school (TVL) rodeo that was
held the fifth and sixth of June in
Canby.
"The businesses of Sandy were
just great. Without their support
we wouldn’t have had it.”
Rodeo contestants pay an entry
fee. but Smith said it costs about
$3,000 just for the stock at a rodeo
like the one the TVL put on
Though the high school season is
over, more rodeos and other events
are coming up this summer.
Rasmussen, for example, will be in
Klamath Falls this weekend at a
cutting horse futurity.
lst-place finish gives basketball coach reason for optimism
A first-place finish in a practice
tournament gave John Smith reason
to be optimistic earlier this week.
The Sandy girls basketball coach
said that this is the first time in three
years he's had six lettermen back,
and so though they'll have a smaller
team, he sees no reason why they
can't be successful
In a nine game summer schedule
the girls went 6-3, finishing in a tie for
second in a league comprised
prim arily of WILCO opponents.
Parkrose won the summer league
with a 9-0 record, and Smith assured
The Post they’ll be tough next winter
In the tournament Monday evening
at Sandy, the girls won four
15-minute “ ru n n in g ” q uarters,
beating Columbia 14-12 in the fourth
game (quarter) for the tournament
title.
Sandy lost 5-10 torward-post Cindy
McCoy and 6-foot post Dawn New to
graduation, with no one over 5-9 to fill
Exchange team: Fat and undefeated
by SCOTT NEWTON
One can excuse Chuck Kearney for
yawning a lot and peppering his
language with German phrases.
He and his son. Chuck Jr., got back
Monday from a two-week trip to West
Germany, where Oregon wrestling
gained a little respect.
The trip back, including a trip to
the airport at Frankfurt, took about
25 hours, including about a four-hour
layover in Chicago
" It was a terrific trip ,” said Coach
Kearney.
Indeed Before the wrestlers even
left the United States they had whip
ped all-star teams from Illinois,
Wyoming, California and Wisconsin.
They sought out the toughest teams
at the AAU’s training camp in
Chicago, Kearney reports
The freestyle and Greco-Roman
tournaments and clinics across the
state, as well as the quality of
coaching, contributes to the strength
of wrestling in Oregon, Kearney said
Their entire trip was spent in the
Schwarzwald, or the Black Forest, in
southern Germany
The first stop was in Kandern, a
village of about 3,000 set near the
Rhein River, about 15 miles from the
border of France
The view of the mountains was
“ b re a th ta k in g ’ ’ K a n d e rn is
reportedly the birth place of the
pretzel, an appropriate place for a
Throw o f 218-7good
fo r SUHS javelin record
Scott Skipper set a Sandy Union
High School and Oregon Junior
Olympics decathlon record with his
216-7 throw in the javelin recently.
His throw at the Junior Olympics
was the fourth-best throw in the state
this season
Skipper, who will be a senior next
fall, will compete in the Regional
J u n io r O lym p ics decathlon in
Yakim a. Wash., July 10.
In the Oregon Junior Olympics he
ran an 11.4 100-meter dash, a
54-second 600. long jumped 18-0, high
jumped 84, pole vaulted 04, tossed
the shot 46 feet, threw the discus 134
feet, ran the 100-meter hurdles in 18
seconds, and ran the 1800 in 8:01.08.
He finished fourth overall in the
decathlon. He has a personal best in
the shot put of 83-8 and one-half, so
his throw in the Oregon Junior Olym-
pics could have cost him as much as
200 points, he said.
He said he’s been changing his
style in the shot, which caused him to
be off. He was pleased with his 13th-
place finish (out of 27) in the 1500.
That was “ real good, 'cause I was
about dead,” he joked.
He was also pleased with his throw
in the javelin
Skipper and Gordon Brinser just
got back from a football camp in
Riverside, Calif. Both made the
number one defense at the camp,
where over 1000 were in attendance
Brinser, playing defensive bock,
knocked down two passes during a
final scrimmage between the offense
and the defense, which the defense
won 9 4 (not by traditional scoring).
Twenty-seven professional players
and 87 college coaches worked at the
camp.
bunch of always-hungry wrestlers to
be.
The Oregon crew downed the local
team 9-1, with Chuck Jr beating a
town favorite, pinning him right
away. The man was in his 30s, and a
senior national champion. Kearney
Jr. is also an age-group AAU national
champion
They went deeper into the Black
Forest after three days, traveling to
Tennenbronn, where they were again
greeted by the town band
The wrestling club has 60 to 70
years of history behind it, and they
fared a little better against Oregon,
losing 8-2
Siegfried Flaig was pinned by
Kearney Jr. in 2:30
Tennenbronn has a population of
12,000
After three days there they went to
Brucksal, with a population of about
30.000 They stayed there about a
week
Again they were greeted by a brass
band and the b u rg e rm e is te r
(mayor).
The Oregon Cultural Exchange
team downed Brucksal 6 4 and 6 4
Kearney Jr. beat Gerharg Weber by
11 in the first dual, and pinned him
the second time the two teams
wrestled.
The wrestlers weighed in only
once, upon their arrival in Germany,
and spent a lot of time eating and
touring The "land of the cuckoo
clcck" is not unlike this area in
Oregon, Kearney said
Coach Kearney said several of the
wrestlers commented on how much
they enjoyed their stay in Sandy He
added that Ruth Sherman, an in
structor at SUHS, had them better
prepared for the exchange than were
moat of the teams in Chicago at the
training camp.
in the void.
(McCoy, by the way, is reportedly
going to play next winter at Mt. Hood
Community College, while New is ex
pected to be at Clark County Com
munity College in Vancouver.)
A change of style, therefore, was
called for. Smith said he thinks they
made a lot of advances toward that
goal this summer.
“ I think this was a tremendous
confidence-builder," Smith said of
the summer league. He said the
players adjusted well "from tall to
fast.”
Smith said a couple of coaches
commented about how thin the Sandy
girls are They look like a track
team, he said.
All six returning lettermen made it
to most of the games, he said, ob
viously pleased Jill Ingram, Linda
Mosbrucker, Kellie Garlock, Amy
Aschoff, Peggy Gillies and Sharon
Jensen all played well, he reports
Ingram has been moved from off
guard to point guard, and "did an ex
cellent job."
Jensen did a lot of the scoring, and
Smith said she should be the team's
leading scorer next year.
Rebounding was one concern, but
Tam ee
L in d s a y
and
C in d y
Rasmussen eased Smith’s worries a
little about that.
Heather Kostrba reportedly did a
good job of backing up Ingram at
point guard, and Crystal Calkins got
her foot in the door with some "ex
cellent summer play."
Three sophomores-to-be assured
the program of some long-term
stability. Christa Searls, Chris Muff
and Tami Fraser were credited with
playing well.
Smith said he has considered using
some of his sophomores on the varsi
ty, but said with Lindsay and
Rasmussen playing so well, it will
allow the younger players to gain ex
perience on the junior varsity.
Wy’East club plans powder shoot
The Wy'East Mountain Men are
sponsoring a black powder shoot and
rendezvous July 3, 4 and 5 at 36246
S.E Rude Road
A 31 target trail walk, a moving
boar shoot, a target shoot and novelty
shoots will be among the events run
off July 3 and 4.
Prizes will be awarded up to 25th
place.
A rendezvous, which derives from
when mountain men in the Rockies
used to trade furs for supplies from
peddlers from St. Louis (in the 1820s
through the 1840s), will be held July
5.
Buckboard Pizza ups record
w ith a win jver Paola's
Buckboard Pizza upped its record
to 6-3 in men's softball league action,
winning a third straight game at the
expense of Paola's, 16-7.
Dodson's Store hung onto its
perfect record, edging the Inn Bet
ween 8-6 Ron’s No Place won 15-11
over Circle D, Timberline Lodge beat
Brightwood Tavern, 11-7, and Carey
Construction tied for second place
with Buckboard Pizza, winning 6-1
over Brian’s Sports.
M e a ’« (la n d in g *
Dodaon'* Store
Carey Construction
Buckboard P lu s
Ron a No Place
Circle D
B ria n * Sport*
Brightwood Tavern
Tlmbarllne bodge
Sandy Z'a
Hoodview Royal*
Inn Between
Paola’* P tu a
Locals join football team
Cal McKinnis, a 1902 graduate of
Sandy Union High School, has signed
on
w ith
the
O regon
C ity
Steelheaders, it was announced
recently.
Kevin Peterson, a 1979 SUHS
graduate who played for Portland
State, has also signed with the team,
which reportedly >s to be a farm team
of the new United States Football
league
McKinnis said he won’t be paid,
and therefore will remain eligible for
wrestling at Clackamas County Com
munity College
McKinnis will play defensive back
and
ru n n in g
b ack
fo r
th e
Steelheaders
Dean Fischer, Tim Sytsma and
Mike M artin (a I960 SUHS graduate)
are also expected to be wrestling for
CCC next winter.
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Registration for the shoots will be
held Saturday and Sunday from 8 to
10 a m., with the shooting starting
about 9
The W y’East Mountain Men spon
sor a shoot the third Sunday of every
month (except in July, because of the
July Fourth shoot).
For more information, contact
Dave Lambert at 666 1442, Bob Town
send at 668 5876, or Tiny Bales at
2524818.
The Store gets
two key wins
In women's softball league play,
The Store played two of its best
games of the season and ended up
with two important wins
First The Store shut out Carlson's
Chevrolet, 1(H), and then proceeded
to upset Dodson's Store, 17-5, to move
within one game of second place
In other games. Paola's continued
its winning ways with an 11-2 win
over Brightwood Store, while Carlson
Chevrolet won its first game, poun
ding out the runs to win over the In
dependents. 22-17
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Brightwood Store
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