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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