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14. 1982 (Sac I) SANOV (O r*.) POST— IS
and Recreation
Wrestlers get key win over David Douglas
by SCOTT N E W T O N
In a dual meet of the type that
threaten to m ake wrestling a popular
spectator sport, the Pioneers edged
David Douglas 30-23
C o ac h R on C a lh o u n p ic k e d
Gresham. Barlow and David Douglas
as the top teams in the M t Hood Con
ference ‘So that was a crucial w in,"
he said. “ It shows we have the ability
to be in the top three.”
On paper, Calhoun had figured the
match for a 28-28 tie. Fortunately,
Calhoun doesn't always get it right
"on paper "
Several of his wrestlers did get it
right on the m at, beginning with
98-pounder John Cox. who won by a
fall when Calhoun had only expected
a win i a three-point difference in the
team score*.
Sophomore Tony Barnes, though
inexperienced, looked like a veteran
against his opponent, a second-place
finisher in the M etro League’s
district tournament last year
"H e did so well before he made one
crucial m ista ke ,'* Calhoun said
Barnes was ahead 15-9 before get'ing
caught on his back, and pinned
David Douglas, "perennial” Metro
champs before joining the Mt Hood
Conference, boasted several district
champions, including L arry Topliff's
opponent, Chris Creelman.
T o p liff, w re s tlin g up in the
115-pound weight division, found out
Creelman is "a very good wrestler
and fine technician
in the first
period when he got taken down
Sandy fans, who came close to f ill
ing one side of the SUHS gym. aren't
used to seeing someone get a fast
takedown on Topliff, a state freestyle
champion two years ago
Topliff dominated later, getting a
6-3 win
Hui Choi, at this tim e "our most
improved w restler," said Calhoun,
scored 10 points in the first period en
route to an 11-4 win over another
defending district champion
David Douglas fans got to cheer as
Randy Swanson, at 130 pounds, and
Dave Gibson, at 136. Io6t decisions
Robert Paul, at 141 pounds, fell 3-1
to a wrestler who beat out a district
champion to make the Scots' team
"M aybe the next tim e we wrestle
him we can change that around,”
Calhoun said.
M ike Rohweder, a 148 pounder,
won "a real barn burner."
The match was tied 6-6 after a fast-
paced first period Rohweder stayed
in control the entire second period,
and got a two-point reversal in the
third.
His opponent got an escape as the
period came to an end, with both
w re s tle rs w o rkin g to b rea k a
stalemate (for the takedown) as the
match ended with Rohweder ahead
8-7
Calhoun was pleased with a "good
effo rt” from Frank McKinnis, who
lost to the winner of the large Pacific
Tournament, a preseason tourney
that's billed as the largest one-day
collegiate style w restling tourna
ment in the country
Sandy's hopes were pretty much
dashed when Loren Bateman lost in
the 168-pound w eigh t division
"We re not sure what happened to
h im ." Calhoun said about the 20-2
loss, which gave David Douglas a
23-15 advantage in the team score.
Sandy's next two wrestlers, ob
Wantowski and Chris Davenport,
lack varsity experience Wantowski
had never won a varsity match, and
Davenport had never even wrest'?d
varsity before
" I t looked dism al," Calhoun said.
As it turned out they wrestled two of
the most exciting matches of the
evening,
Wantowski and Davenport turned
out to be "the heros of the night."
The score was tied at 8-8 before
Wantowski. a 178 pounder, caught his
opponent on his back and pinned him.
"Bob gave us a chance to w in,”
said Calhoun Davenport, a junior,
had never wrestled on the high school
level before this year, but one would
never had guessed it Thursday night
He kept a slight lead throughout,
winning the six-minute match 9-3,
much to the delight of the hometown
crowd.
"As tired as he was it seemed like
he always went for a fa ll,” Calhoun
said. "H e kept right after him ."
Chuck Kearney added the icing to
the cake The triple-crown winner
couldn't even tip the scales at the
191-pound minimum required of a
heavyweight ihe won the 168-pound
AAA title last year, though Calhoun
uses him at whatever weight he feels
w ill be to the team's advantage).
Three hot dogs, four Cokes and a
lot of water later he made the
m inim um , but refused to wrestle like
a junk-food junkie
He pinned his opponent in one
minute and 17 seconds.
S IM S M . OOMS 23
W John Cox won by fall. « IS
10* Tony Barnes w a* pinned, 3 1*
IIS L a rry Topliff won *-3
133 Hui Choi won 11-4
130 Randy Swinaon loal 7-0
13* D ave Gibaon loal SC
1*1 Robert Paul loal 3-1
1 « M ike Rohweder won 0-7
137 F rank M cK innu loal 14-7
ISO Loren Batem an loat » 2
17* Bob Wanto-waki won by fall. 1 3*
101 Chris Davenport won 0-3
H W T Chuck Kearney won by fa ll. I 17
For Rebecca Koepke
Persistence paid off well
by SCOTT NEWTON
Rebecca Koepke s persistence
has paid off, and rather well at
that
Her credentials coming out of
high school weren't especially im
pressive She lettered in tennis,
swimming and volleyball, an ac
complishment in itself
As a starter her senior year the
volleyball team made it to the state
tournament, also noteworthy, but
not awe inspiring.
She said she got enthusiastic
about volleyball while at Sandy
This weekend she finished the
season w ith one of the top
volleyball teams in the nation.
Koepke, a senior at Arizona
State University at Tempe, was at
San Luis Obispo, Calif., where the
Sun Devils lost in the first round to
eighth-ranked Cal-Poly in four
games in the NCAA Division I Nor
thwest Regional Volleyball Cham
pionship.
It was the second year in a row
the Sun Devils, with Koepke on the
roster, made it to the national tour
nament, which put them among
the top 16 teams in the nation (with
the w in n er of each regional
meeting to play for the national ti
tle).
Arizona State ended up with a
36-15 record, and finished fourth in
the Western Collegiate Athletic
Association, which includes na
tional powers USC and UCLA.
Koepke, who played regularly as
a back row (defensive) specialist,
said they competed well this
season.
ASU, as well as the University of
Arizona, are coming nto their own
as far as volleyball is concerned,
she said.
At ASU the athletic programs
are pretty well supported, she said.
“ We fly just about everywhere,
which is real nice," she said.
Last year they flew to Alabama
for the national tournament at
Tuscaloosa, and last spring she
was on a United States Volleyball
Association team that made a trip
to Hawaii.
As a freshman in college Koepke
played at Portland State Universi
ty. She redshirted the next year,
and used her second year of
eligibility at PSU also, though she
didn’t start.
She felt she needed a change,
and her junior year walked on at
Arizona State, making the varsity.
Most of the players there that
August were already on scholar
ship, although four or five others
were also at the tryout hoping to
m ake the team.
She admits the whole ordeal was
"pretty scary.”
But, she also said she wasn't sur
prised to make the team " I didn’t
know if I ’d make it or not. I believ
ed in myself. I went out and gave it
a shot."
This year she's on full scholar
ship.
She’s the daughter of Frank and
Joan Koepke of Sandy She said
her fam ily has been behind her all
through her college career.
She'll receive her bachelor of
arts degree in French in the spr
ing She's not sure what kind of job
she’ll be looking for, though she's
Local named Outstanding cyclist
At
th e
O re g o n
C y c lin g
Association's banquet in Portland
Saturday M ike Sheppard of Sandy
was named the state's Most Outstan
ding Junior Racer.
Sheppard, 17, received more state
medals than anyone at the banquet.
He owns the gold medal for pursuit,
a three-kilometer race. He received
silver i dais for the one-kilometer
tim e trial and the omnium, which is a
collection of three races.
And he received bronze medals for
the sprints and the road race (a
57-mile event).
Sheppard, a senior at Sandy Union
High School, attended the United
States Cycling Federation national
The bright spot of the night was
sophomore Wendy Heckard's ball
handling, he said. The Dalles tried to
press and run a half-court trap, but
n e ith e r w as e ffe c tiv e a g a in s t
Heckard.
Her ball handling was “ excellent,”
he said She scored 11 points.
Linda Mosbrucker scored 10 points
and Sharon Jensen scored eight
Boys fall to Jesuit, 66-54
Pat Baird scored 17 points and
Robert Brader scored 11 points and
nabbed 10 rebounds but the Sandy
Pioneers fell 66-54 to Jesuit Tuesday
evening
Coach Dan Brisbin said they
played “ fa irly w e ll," except for a
four or five m inute stretch in the se
cond quarter, when Jesuit improved
its lead from two to 11 points
Sandy was within five at the end of
the third q u a rte r.
Jesuit got inside on the defense in
the first half. Brisbin said “ We
didn’t have that defensive intensity
for about four or five minutes, and
that's aH it takes
Brisbin said they put up more
shots, though Jesuit had a better
percentage The Pioneers also outre-
bounded Jesuit
M ike Lund contributed four assists
and Ron Muck had three steals
The Pioneers, now 1-2, fell 71-59 to
Tigard last week Brader scored 14
points and Lund scored 10.
Brisbin said Brader played a good.
I
all-around game, “ but you need five
guys against Tigard " He said Tigard
has a good team
"Ron (M uck) did a good job getting
us off the m a rk ," Brisbin said "H e
was the only offense we had the first
four or five minutes '*
Gordon Brinser was credited with
doing a good job going in off the
bench
Tam ee Lindsay and Jensen both
fouled out, and Smith said Jill In
gram and Peggy Gillies did well go
ing in off the bench.
Smith said their press worked well,
and that they "played well in the
stretch." He said poor play in the
third quarter hurt them
Friday the Pioneers take on David
Douglas at home at 7:30 p m
Last week the Pioneers, now 0-4,
fell 93-39 to Tigard “ We opened with
some fairly tough team s." Smith
said "Considering we've had to play
Virginia. Georgetown and UCLA, we
have learned some things and the
girls still have a good attitude about
the upcoming season
"W e really believe that we will be
competitive in our league
“W e’re going to get better but it’s
going to lake some hard work ”
Lindsay scored 10 points against
Tigard Mosbrucker contributed 11
Boys swim team wins two
The Sandy boys swim team swept
every event Tuesday, winning two
duals
The boys won 84-28 over Bend, and
73-36 over Mt. View The girls lost
66-49 to Bend and 66-51 to M t View.
Heidi Lam er was the only winner
for the girls, taking the 100 breast
M att Roth was first in the 200 IM
and the 100 fly. K irk Benson won the
100 free and the 50 free Shawn Bums
won the 300 free and the 500 free
Richard Rolph won the 100 back
meet this summer, finishing eighth in
the points race and 17th in pursuit.
He said he considers pursuit his
strongest event.
He set a personal record of 4:02 in
the pursuit at the national meet He'd
like to take 15 seconds off that time
next season, and has set a goal of
making the top four in both of those
events at nationals next year
In addition, he feels it is possible
for him to win all six events in
Oregon next season. The tandem
tim e trial was added to the list of
competitions this year
Sheppard just turned 17, and will
be able to compete in the Juniors
again next season Though he'd like
to sweep the state events next year,
he said there are a lot of good riders
coming up.
Sheppard, a National Honor Socie
ty member, and M ojayv of Oregon
t e a m m a te R o b e rt B u rn e y of
P o rtla n d , w ere know n as the
“ dynam“- duo " Burney was named
Oregon s Most Outstanding Senior
Racer Saturday night.
Between the two of them they near
ly won Mojayv of Oregon (one team
member contributed a point) the
three-foot-tall point trophy. Instead,
the Beaverton Bicycle Club, with
about 50 members, took the honors.
Sheppard said he’s cycled over
4,500 miles so far this year.
Rebecca Koepke
considered translating, and work
ing for one of the airlines She'd
like to travel, and has been taking
international business classes
Asked if the changes and the red-
shirting all worked out to her ad
vantage. she said, “ Perfectly."
Sandy girls lose by 1 to Indians
The Sandy girls fell 47 46 Tuesday
night to The Dalles It was their se
cond M t Hood Conference loss.
W ith two minutes to go Sandy was
down by seven They got two shots off
in the last eight seconds, according to
Coach John Smith, who added that
both came close
He said they played “ excellent
defense," and that he was “ en
couraged with the intensity.”
Hui Choi shakes things up in a dual against David Douglas.
Jam ie Tuttle won the 100 breast
Bums. M ark Gunderson, Brian
Stamm and Benson comprised the
winning 400 free relay team
Rolph. Tuttle, Roth and Javier
Herrero comprised the winning 200
medley relay team.
Coach M ark Smith credited John
H a u g a n w ith s w im m in g w e ll.
Freshmen Kathy Weidman. Debbie
Izer and Kim Howell also performed
well, he said
Romey 75th at national meet
Sam Romey took 75th out of 170 at
the Junior Olympics national meet in
Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday
Romey is a junior at SUHS and a
tw o-tim e d is tric t cross country
champion He ran the 5000-meter
course in 16:24, quite a way off his
personal best of 15:18, “ which would
have won it .”
Superintendent Jack Peters, who
called Romey's finish "outstanding,”
joked at the board of directors
meeting Monday night about how
Romey had trained at Government
Camp to prepare for the cold, but
that it wasn't cold enough there
Romey confirmed that for The
Post “ Compared to that, Govern
ment Camp is the Bahamas." he
said.
The seven-degree-below chill fac
tor and gusts of 30 miles per hour did
take a toll, he said.
About a quarter of a m ile into the
race his nose "froze up,” and he
couldn't breathe through it. Later he
had a hard time swallowing, and
dropped back to "about 100th" before
recovering and passing some people
“ I know I could have done better,”
he said.
A number of local contributors
made the trip passible, with Romey
having raised 6576 for the flight and
two-day stay
He roomed with M ike Miner of
Philomath once in Cincinnati Miner
attended the national meet with the
Tim ber Hills Track Club of Corvallis,
and finished 13th with a 15:45.
Oregon was w ell represented,
Romey said. Athletes from every
state but Alaska were in attendance.
Though he's flown before, he rode
out on a new Boeing 767, which has a
channel that allows one listen in on
the pilot’s conversations He said it
was especially interesting to listen in
as they approached O’Hara Airport
in Chicago.
He said the meet was "really com
petitive There was a lot of pushing
and shoving, like at state ” He added
that it was a good experience
Though some runners might be
content to take it easy before track
season starts up, Romey is not This
weekend he’ll be competing in the
Heart of the Valley Run in Corvallis
Barlow edges Sandy wrestlers
Six wrestlers, out of 13 weight
classes, won individual champion
ships at Milwaukie Saturday, an ac
complishment Coach Ron Calhoun
termed “ outstanding.”
Those w in n in g the fo u r-m an
brackets w ere 115-pound L a rry
Topliff, 130-pound Randy Swanson.
141-pound Robert Paul. 157-pound
Frank McKinnis, 178-pound Loren
B atem an and 191-pound Chuck
Kearney
Swanson receives the "upset of the
week aw ard," said Calhoun He used
a pinning hold called the guillotine to
win 8-7 over an age group state cham
pion from Milwaukie
After a close loss to David Douglas.
Paul “came back strong He's look
ing pretty good "
McKinnis won 8-5 over his oppo
nent from Barlow and got an exciting
12-11 win against Milwaukie, Calhoun
said
Bateman came back from a 2-0
deficit to win by a fall in the third
period against a Milwaukie wrestler
Kearney won by straight falls, once
a g a in
‘ ‘ B ut th e y w e re good
w restlers," Calhoun said.
Topliff “wrestled tough," he add
ed
The Pioneers handily won over
M ilw aukie and Lebanon, but Barlow
won its non-league matchup with
SUHS
Barlow took six firsts, three
seconds, and two thirds Sandy had
three second-place finishers and one
third-place finisher, thus the three-
point difference in the team stan
dings.
Second-place finishers for Sandy
were 98-pound John Cox, 106-pound
Tony Barnes and 148pound Mike
Rohweder
Hui Choi finished third.
Cox tied his opponent from Barlow,
but only decisioned his opponent
from Milwaukie while the Barlow
wrestler pinned him
Calhoun has been pleased all
season with Barnes, a sophomore
"Tony’s been a big surprise." he
said. "He's doing a heck of a job.”
Rohweder lost 13-6 to "one of
Barlow's best wrestlers "
Choi fell 21-1 to Brad Rhodes of
Barlow, who finished third in the
state last season Calhoun said he'd
set a goal of beating Rhodes, and
when he loat didn't recover for his
match against M ilw aukie
Choi, like Barnes, has done a good
job for lacking varsity experience.
Calhoun said
Calhoun has also been pleased with
second varsity w restler Dan King, a
141 pounder with a 7-0 record and two
tournament titles to his credit
King won 12-8 Thursday over a
Metro district champion who got be«.,
out for a position on David Douglas's
first team
Tournament scores: Barlow. 66,
Sandy. 62; M ilw aukie. 53; Lebanon.
25
Dual meet scores: Barlow 29. San
dy 28; Sandy 37, M ilw aukie 24. Sandy
57, Lebanon 6.
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