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Th«r«. Oc» 2# 19« (S«c I) SANO Y (Of«.) ROST—13 Sports T heSdfnüy Post and Recreation Gymnasts affected by club concept by SCOTT NEW TON schools powers in tennis and golf M HC teams except Sandy, that is. The schools that can't compete The Sandy gymnastics team is 0-6. often drop the sport having lost to state-ranked Parkrose 136 7-109 65 last week Perhaps gymnastics is not popular It's too bad more people didn't see because it's not accessible. A the meet One has to see a team like youngster aspiring to play basketball Parkrose to appreciate the sport needs only to have a hoop set up in Coach M olly the driveway. Knudsen figures To be a year-round gymnast would Parkrose to be be nearly impossible without belong one of the top ing to a club, which would provide three teams in bars, mats and someone to spot Oregon athletes working new moves All the Other M t Hood Conference teams M HC teams, according to Knudsen, also are expected to figure into the are situated so that belonging to a final standings at the state meet club would be no problem All the The prospects of competing in a tough, new conference could be ex citing Instead, the topic of Sandy gymnastics could be null and void. In Oregon, gymnastics is not faring well It w ill not be an Oregon School Athletic Association-sponsored event next year as fewer than 2o percent of the schools in the state participate. The OSAA has been asked to con sider its percentile rule. If 75 percent of the schools in the state participate About 25 participated in the third in a sport, there are three champion annual Pioneer Chess Tournament at ships offered (AAA. AA and A) If 50 SUHS this weekend. percent of all Oregon schools par Pete Watkins tied for fourth He ticipate there are two championships won three and a half games out of (AAA and A-AA), and if 25 percent five. Roman Scott and Tim Z im m er participate there is one state cham man finished near the top of the pack pionship offered (AAA). with three wins each. For the third year in a row fewer Out of the four complete teams, than 25 percent of the schools in Sandy was fourth M ilw aukie had 11, Oregon have participated in gym Rex P u tn a m 10 and o n e-half, nastics. Some consider the percentile Estacada 10 and Sandy nine and one- rule invalid, as schools with only a half dozen or so students couldn’t possibly offer certain sports. The outcome wasn't decided until Be that as it may, gymnastics the final round. could join skiing as the only sports at G ary Page, Kevin Moody and Eric Sandy not run by the OSAA Craig each had two wins, and Scott The ski team has enjoyed one lux Vanderpool won one game. ury. It has been successful. Moody pulled a m ajor upset, "a If Ballot Measure 3 passes it may real shocker,” when he defeated be difficult for money to be found to M ilw a u k ie 's top p la y e r, Steve run the gymnastics program. K ilg o re , in the second round. Even if it doesn’t pass, the pro gram could face hard times. Boys are currently offered football, cross country and soccer in the fall. Girls are offered volleyball, cross country, soccer and gymnastics. With a tight budget, w ill the school again offer girls four alternatives in SUHS senior Donna N elson ’s the fall? season continues to be a success as And if gymnastics is again offered, she set the course record at David can the Pioneers be competitive? Douglas last week Knudsen has a young team. If those She finished first in the dual with a currently involved participated year- 10:53 on the 3000-meter course. The round, Sandy "could be strong in two girls lost the dual 25-30 The boys fell or three years,” Knudsen said. 26-30 And Knudsen, despite the record Analysis As for the present, Knudsen was pleased with the effo rt against Parkrose " I was really pleased with all the performances, " she said Having nearly everyone improve their routines and therefore their scores was "really nice ” They achieved a team goal, scoring over 105 points But Parkrose took first through fifth in every event (There are four: balance beam, floor exercise, uneven parallel bars and the vault) except the beam, in which freshman Jodie Dahlagher took fifth. Others on the varsity include JoEllyn M urillo. C arrie Jenkins. Kim and Cindy Parm enter. Cheri Schuler, Becky Farrand. Sandy Sexton. Shelly Schlaht and Kelli Kai A low turnout at the start of the school year prompted some to say elimination of the water polo pro gram was justified Another argu ment goes something like this It was a program for kids, and anytime you cut a program you hurt kids Pioneers falter in home chess opener Photo by Scott Newton Denise Proctor passes the bail during the Pioneers' 15-1#. 15-9 over Reynolds. Sandy fell 12-15. 15-7 and 12-15 to Gresham Tuesday. Steelheads win again; playoffs start Sunday The Oregon City Steelheads are 11-0 following a 34-0 win over the King County Vikings Saturday. T h e S te e lh e a d s , w ho h a v e outscored their opponents 318-48, play a Northwest Football Alliance semifinal playoff game Sunday at Civic Stadium at 2 p.m Allen F ry, one of three "in d y Union High School graduates on the team, has been doing "excellent," according to Coach Joe Johns "A ll our guys do excellent," Johns said. “ We have a bunch of great guys.” F ry has been starting as a guard on offense Cal McKinnis J r has been averag ing about six yards a carry as a fullback, according to Johns He ran the ball about seven times against the Vikings It's as a blocker that he is best utilized, though. “ He hits 'em low, by the kneecaps, and they never get up,” Johns said Cal McKinnis Sr. is starting at noseguard, and he's “ as rugged as ever." Johns said they ’re negotiating with K O IN -T V , and that it ’s possible the Northwest Football Alliance cham pionship game will be televised Buys called ‘incredible’ at SUHS ski swap fund raiser The Sandy Union High School ski team is holding its third annual ski swap on Saturday and Sunday, Oct 30 and 31. The ski swap w ill be held in the main gymnasium between to a m and 6 p.m. Ski equipment, clothing, cross c o u n try e q u ip m e n t and o th e r miscellaneous items w ill be in stock The proceeds go toward supporting the ski team. Robert Karsten, coach of last season's state champion girls ski team, said the money raised helps keep the ski team an affordable part of the athletic budget Students and people in the com munity with equipment to sell should take it to the gym between 3 and 7 p.m on Friday. Also offered w ill be last year’s ski equipment, which is being sold by ski shops “ at really low prices.” Karsten said some of the buys are "incredi ble.” He said he never knows what the ski shops w ill bring But he said last year, for example. $100 to $125 parkas sold for $20 to $25 Nelson sets course record this year, is capable of guiding a suc cessful program Under Knudsen's tutelage, Janice Hawkins placed fifth in the state meet in the balance beam last year The concept of club sports, or specializing, has been a boon and a bust to sports, depending upon how one views it. "These kinds of clubs have left fewer schools to compete, because they just can't compete," said Mike Kostrba, athletic director The OSAA, in the '83-84 school year, will offer single, instead of dou ble, championships in swimming, golf and tennis The Blue M arlin Aquatic Club has made Sandy a power in swimming, while country clubs have made other Sam Rom ey paced the boys, finishing first on the 5000-meter course with a tim e of 16: 19. M ilw aukie was sixth in the state last year. About Sandy’s fourth-place finish Coach Roger Ford said. " I think we have more potential than that this year. We have a lot of depth.” Zim m erm an, Sandy’s top board last year, lost “ probably one of the finest games of the tournam ent,” Ford said. He fell to Kevin Strobel of Putnam, who ended the day with a perfect 5-0 record. Zim m erm an used a “ Polish open ing," which is usually a surprise start, but it turned out that that's also one of Strobel’s favorite openings Ford said that Watkins plays a "superb" middle game. “ With a little more work on his opening defense he could be one of the best high school players in the East County are a ,” Ford said. S c o tt, lik e Z im m e r m a n and Watkins, is credited with playing a good middle game Scott is "im ag in ative," Ford said, being able to come up with original m o v e s . H e s a id Z im m e r m a n , Watkins and Scott are intelligent players who, given tim e, can "see moves others can’t see," Saturday each p la ye r had 30 minutes to make moves. A player can take as long as he likes on each move, but there is a lim it of 30 minutes per game. A player forfeits if he uses up his tim e allocation. F or Sandy's top three players, that's "speed chess,” Ford said. F o rd , a m ath and com puter science teacher, said he believes the popularity of chess has picked up at SUHS. Boards and tim ers are set up in the math area, and Ford said students can be seen playing chess during lunch, or before or after school, on most days. Eagles drop SUHS girls The Sandy girls soccer team fell 6-0 to state-ranked Centennial Tuesday He's hoping to have about 20 on the team when the season begins Nov. 15. Playing in the M t. Hood Chess League w ill be Sandy, Estacada, C e n te n n ial, B arlo w and D a v id Douglas The Pioneers w ill also take on Clackamas, Oregon City, Putnam and M ilw aukie M argaret Blackburn, who has missed all of the regular season b e c a u s e o f an in j u r y , w as "awesome," Coach Robert Karsten said. Blackburn, a goalie, stopped 40 shots Sandy Sexton Soccer team downs Scots The Pioneer boys soccer team tied with David Douglas for the bottom spot in the M t. Hood Conference with a 3-2 win Tuesday. Victor M artinez and Javier H er rera scored Sandy's first two goals The Scots tied it up by halftime. Senior Kevin Fabryski scored the winning goal with about 25 minutes left in the second half on a penalty kick. Four players, two from each team (Hui Choi and M artinez for Sandy), were red carded, or ejected from the game “ It was pretty much a zoo after that,” Coach Lon Welsh said " It didn’t start out wild The ref overreacted," he said The Pioneers finished the season with a 1-8-1 record .Woman coach says football at Welches is ‘human’ by M IC H A E L P. JONES Post Correspondent The selection of a woman as an assistant coach on the Welches fo o tb a ll te a m th is season presented a unique opportunity for Rosemary Silva to assess the d if ferences in attitudes and behavior between male and female athletes In addition, she had a front row seat in a game where contact is essential to success She found there is violence even at the grade school level Silva, a seventh- and eighth- grade science teacher, has com pleted the season as assistant coach for the Welches Wildcats Originally the position had been filled by M ark Hamby, but he took over as head coach after the previous coach resigned for per sonal reasons Silva has coached girls basket ball and track at Welches for two years In both high school and college she played touch football having been a linebacker After college she was a player coach in a recrea tion league The patience she needed for the job, she said, was acquired during the past three summers while working at the M t Hood Kiwanis Camp in a special camping pro gram For four weeks she took groups of physically, mentally and emotionally handicapped students to T rilliu m Lake, where they camped, hiked, fished and canoed. Last week Si Iva looked back on her season of coaching and offered some observations on the game of football, as well as sports played by different genders of student- athletes She admitted she was a little ap prehensive when she took the job. this being largely due to the violent nature of the game, which conflicts with her own personal beliefs. But she said she accepted the job and worked toward establishing a good role model for the students to follow As coach Silva said she em p hasized s k ills o v e r vio le n t behavior to the 21 players She said players, often with the encouragement of coaches, will overreact and use illegal and violent methods to w in . "M y motto with the students is play hard but play fa ir." said Silva. "That's what most athletics say. but that's not what a lot of pen pie feel is practical to win ” Silva said what she would teach at practice would sometimes get confused when the students went home and watched football on television There, on the screen, she said, would be the same violent behavior that she was stressing they should not rely on But what was worse, she said, was that this "improper behavior was being conducted by the athletes they look up to. "Participating in football should be a positive experience instead of preparation for jungle w arfare.” said Silva "Sometimes | ’m in conflict with myself for enjoying the sport, but not liking the violence." said Silva Silva said she especially enjoyed the planning of plays and the strategies of the game, rather than a ll the “ ty p ic a l a g g re s s iv e behavior” that often goes along with it. She said coaches teach kids to be tugh. but that this shouldn't mean they're to go out and injure oppos ing players “ Each year the kids keep getting bigger and bigger," said Silva "The sm all kids keep getting mashed and mashed ” Silva said she believes a game like football brings out the values that a person has grown up with This, sometimes, is reflected in the violence that occurs in a game Unlike baseball or basketball, in football one has more opportunity to do things "that the referee can not see.” Silva 3a id “ Welches, compared to the other teams, is probably the least violent group in the league,” said Silva "This is probably because the win- at-all-coata form of coaching is not going on up here at Welches ” Winning was secondary, said Silva Rather, how the game was played was the priority. "There was a human side to what was happening here." said Silva " It wasn't just a game ” The Wildcats haven't won a foot ball game in three seasons PAR ENTS About 25 spectators regularly a t tended the Wildcats' home games About half were parents, which ad ded another perspective to Silva’s football coaching experience Silva said most of the parents were supportive toward her as a coach. Though there were a few "arm chair quarterbacks" who felt they could do the job better, most seemed to appreciate her efforts Silva said almost immediately she noticed a difference in a t titudes between the parents of the boys as compared to the parents of girls she's coached In girls sports the parents didn't put as much pressure on their youngsters to play With the boys it was different Some of them were playing football just because their fathers wanted them to Also. Silva said there was an ob vious difference between the ex pectations fathers had for their sons, as compared to the expects tions of the mothers The fathers, said Silva, seemed to push their sons into the game, hoping they would be successful or better than they actually were Winning was important The mothers, however, tended to be more supportive and concern ed about their sons well-being," said S ilva “ W inning w asn't everything " Another difference was the level of dedication Silva said the boys seemed to be more concerned about improving and winning, and treated the game seriously One reason for that may be that athletics for girls is still relatively new As it becomes more establish ed and accepted, this w ill be changing, she feels Already, Silva said, the girls she has observed p articip atin g in athletics this year, "a re very in tense and becoming more serious about athletics " One of the surprising things Silva I said she learned is how boys react to injuries She said at first she believed they would try to hide their injuries more than girls In stead. she found they would leave the field with tears in their eyes, and she'd patch them up and send them beck out
