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Thvr» Sports The S ^n d y P ost Oec 30, 1 9 « (Sec. I) SANDY (O re.) POST— I a n d R e c re a tio n Sandy Highlights of 1982 in Sandy in clude Kim Rasmussen's state cut ting title, Chuck Kearney's triple crown, Mike Sheppard’s Outstan ding Junior Cyclist award and V ila Pearson s state ski title In addition, Dodson's Bargain Store, both the mens and womens teams, won Sandy Area Softball Association titles In approxim ate chronological order McKmms in the finals, with both wrestlers advancing to state Randy Carmony, at 191, won in overtime for a district champion ship Heavyweight T im Sytsma took a 22-0-1 record into the district meet, but lost his overtim e finals match A surprise was then sophomore Loren Bateman, who pulled an early-rounds upset and finished third, earning a trip to state The girls basketball team won 50-43 to clinch fourth in the TVL, and then won 54-50 over Silverton in the first round of the playoffs They lost a berth in the state tour nament when they fell 56-38 to W est Linn. Meanwhile, a key loss to Canby ended the season for the boys Bob Nippert was a unanimous choice for all-T V L honors He scored 15 points and nabbed 10 rebounds per outing. ‘‘Some teams really played to stop h im ,” Coach Dan Brisbin said. “ He made other people look good He was very unselfish Eight swimmers qualified for the state meet in February Three freshmen. M att Roth, Richard Rolph and Jam ie Tuttle, and then- senior Rick Topliff, won the 200 medley relay at the district swim meet Topliff also qualified in the 50 free, setting a school record with a tim e of 22 98 The WO free relay team finished firs t. Bonita Connelly, Teresa Lam er, Heidi Lam er and Gayle Roth comprised that team Roth also took first in the 50 free and the 100 free The Pioneer chess team earned the Tim ber Valley League dual meet championship in February, but finished second to Oregon City in the league tournament. T im Zim m erm an was first board champion Pete Watkins was the second board champion and the on- Nippert at the time was unim pressed by the honors “ All I wanted to do was get in the playoffs.” he told The Post, “ I guess sometimes it doesn't hap pen.” N ip p e rt’s tea m m ate, Pao la, Then-freshman Steve Sarich tied for first in the boys competition The Blue M arlins took 13th out of 40 teams at the USA-Oregon Short Course Junior Olympics Damon Hodge won the eight and under championship, taking first in all six events Doug Crane, in the 13-14 division, took two silvers, and Richard Rolph. in the same age group, plac ed in the top eight in each event Don Carpenter Excavating, with 15 points from Larry Daherns, won the Sandy Recreation League " B ” division title with a 61 56 win over State F arm Insurance A long, very fast course was to the Pioneer girls advantage at the state meet as they made up 8.4 seconds to win their second state ti tle Karsten was the Oregon In- terscholasitc Racing Association coach of the year, and Ulla Pear son was individual state champion Pearson won the slalom, and finished sixth in the giant slalom She won the state title by over seven seconds Anne Sarich won the giant slalom, which was her second state giant slalom title Sue Sarich, despite a serious knee injury, finished in a tie for third in the giant slalom, and Charr Bridge tied for fourth-place combined honors. Others to contribute included In grid Peterson, M arcy Huff and Kris Van Steenis. Though Anne Sarich won the giant slalom, she had trouble in the slalom. She said, “ I fell the second run. I hooked a tip and had to hike.” Sue Sarich perhaps summed it up best for the entire team. “ We try to help each other more than anything. We all want to do well together. W e’d all just as soon tie for firs t.” W illiams Thriftw ay won the San dy Recreation “ C ” title with a 48-28 win over P C Construction. F ritz Engdall scored 12 for W illiams Thriftw ay. In the “ A ” division Alan Nippert tion chess tournament Forty-eight competed The Mighty M ite ski racing team won over 14 others to take the 19« PNSA Buddy Werner Champion ship. Duane Bridge of Sandy is co founder and co-director of the Mighty Mites, a Mt. Hood ski rac ing club. Holly Sarich of Govern ment Camp was the top finisher for the girls She won the slalom and was third in the giant slalom In late March Scott Skipper, then a junior, set a school record in the shot put with a toss of 51-2 and a half The record was previously held by Lyle Schwartz, with a 50-9 toss in 1960 State Farm Insurance won the Sandy Recreation League “ B ” tournament. Joe Kern and Harold Worcheck each scored eight points as Ron's No Place won the Sandy Recrea tion “C ” tournament, downing W illiams Thriftw ay 43-30. The third tim e wasn't a charm for the class of 1977 as they again fell to '71-72 in the Sandy Alumni Baksetball Tournament, 71-70. It was the closest game, with '71-72 winning on a short jum per by R ic k Z im m e r m a n w ith tw o seconds left on the clock. Jack Paola of ‘77 set four alumni tournament records. He broke his own scoring record (87 points in 1981) with 102 points in three games. He had the most three- pointers in one game, with five, and he had the most field goal a t tempts in one game, with 29. He had the highest single game with 46 In the “ B ” tournament, the classes of ’67-70 won with 13 points trom Dick Moffet and 12 from Scott Winchester. Mick Hoffman had 20 for '60-66 in a 68-55 losing effort. The 1971-72 basketball team downed Central Catholic’s alumni team 83-79, with Rick Zim m erm an slam-dunking one in the closing seconds to ice the game He scored 28 points in all Paola scored 36 points in the se cond game that evening, but the Dawn New ly individual to win all three games The boys basketball team had a crazy week in February of 1982 They downed Sweet Home 56-55 in two overtimes on a Friday night, and then fell to Oregon City 53-47 in four overtimes the following Tues day Mitch Paola scored 28 points in the two games Meanwhile the SUHS girls ski team was on a roll. They won the Valley League by a whopping 25 seconds, a margin of victory almost unheard of The top six skiers for the Pioneers all finished in the top 11 overall. “T h a t’s all six, boom, boom, boom T h a t’s really nice,” said Coach Robert Karsten “ I giggled. I loved it." Gayle Roth finished second at the state swim meet in the 50 free, and was sixth in the 100 free The boys 200 IM team finished ninth. O verall, the girls were 14th out of 42 teams at the state swim meet The boys were 26th out of 40 teams The girls swim team had a 6-1 dual-meet record, the boys were 5-2. It was billed as the toughest district tournament in the state, but seven Sandy wrestlers got through it as the Pioneers took third. L a rry Topliff, at 106. took first, as did 157-pound Dan M artin and 168-pound C h u ck K e a rn e y . K e a rn e y beat te a m m a te Cal averaged 13 points per outing but the league coaches didn't even put the seventh-leading scorer in the T V L on the second five. Dawn New was an all-T V L selec tion for the girls, having averaged 17 points, nine rebounds and six blocked shots a game The four- year starter also owns a school record with a game-high 32 points In early March the Pioneers wrestlers took sixth at the AAA state tournament Sytsma had to beat J a c k s o n ’s 320-pound heavyweight twice to finish fifth Topliff had to forfeit twice and set tled for sixth. Kearney won the state title, of course. He pinned his opponent in the finals 40 seconds into the match The most exciting match came in the semifinals, when Kearney downed a Montana state champion 4-3. Kearney earned a 31-0 record, and later won the freestyle and grecn-Rotnan titles k earney was one of six to ever to win a triple crown as a junior. Dan M artin, a returning state champion, injured his shoulder and lost out second round in the AAA state tournament M e a n w h ile , th e n -ju n io r Sue Sarich guided the ski team to the M t Hood championship “ I t ’s got to be one of the ugliest trophies I ’ve ever seen, but I enjoy having it," Karsten said Chuck Kearney scored 24 and Dan Turin 20 as S c h o p p e r t's L o g g e rs w ent undefeated with a final 76-63 win over Castile Construction The Loggers earned a 15-0 record Tim Zim m erm an finished 22nd at the O M SI Oregon Chess Federa- Blazer Oldtimers still edged the Sandy all-stars, 106-103 Alan Nippert did get Sandy within two with 1:50 to play. During the spring of 19« the boys golf team was a birdie away from the state meet Oregon C ity ’s last man birdie in the district golf meet, giving them a 660-661 win over Sandy and the district title. Then-freshman Kevin Beaudoin finished fifth, behind four seniors, thus missing a chance to go to state as a medalist Beaudoin still made the all-league team ( top five) Rich Castile made the second five, finishing seventh at district, and Rick Lambert finished eighth Scott Skipper set the school record in the javelin throw with a toss of 205-2 Canby dashed the girls softball team 's hopes of going to state, han ding the Pioneers a 9-2 loss Still, Wendy Heckard, then a freshman, and senior Patty Gray, were named to the second-team all-star squad Gray, valuable as a pitcher, also led the team in batting with a .317 average She also had an 860 fielding average. T h e P ion eers p la y e d co m petitively after the first three inn ings against Canby were out of the way. “The playoff jitters, if you w ill,” said Coach G ary Curtis. When Scott Skipper throws the javelin he lets out a clear, concise scream. And does that scream help? “ Oh yeah," Skipper told The Post. " I t scares it out there another 20 feet. T h a t’s what this one lady said.” Skipper’s not kidding He set the district javelin record with a toss of 212-6. S te v e M e t e la k b -o k e the formerly-elusive two-minute bar rier at the district meet, winning the 800-meter run. Also qualifying for the state track meet was Gayle Roth. She set school and district records with her 2:25.7 finish in the 800 Roth also won the 300 hurdles and an chored the winning 1600-meter relay team. Others to qualify for the state meet were Sam Romey, district 1500 and 3000 champion; Stephanie Hagstrom; Paige Daugherty, the district shot champion; Denise Proctor; Chris Crabtree, Richard Doering; Polly Kelley, 400-meter ch am pio n; Lisa H assett and Sharon Jensen. Kelley, Jensen, Hassett and Roth set the district 400 relay record with a 4:02 2. About his second place finish in th e j a v e l in , D o e r in g s a id , "Sometimes I chew gum That gives me really good rhythm It helps my footing, really ” Paige Daugherty finished second for Sandy at the state track meet, tossing the shot 40-3. Hagstrom was fifth in the javelin, as was Metelak in the 800 On M ay 21 Lester Wolf was play ing golf with his brothers when he hit a hole-in-one on the 155-yard hole 10 at Mountain View. “They a b o u t f a i n t e d , ” W o lf s a id . ‘ ‘They've none of them ever had one.” Bob Nippert scored 15 points in two games as the State All-Stars downed the Metro team, once in Portland and once in Eugene. ‘ ‘ F i n a l l y ! ” T h a t was K im Rasmussen's reaction when she won the girls cow cutting competi tion at the Oregon High School State Finals Rodeo in Redmond. She was the reserve champion the year before Rasmussen, and her horse D rib ble Chick, took a perfect 30 score into the State Finals Rodeo. She also served as cutting horse direc tor, an honor voted upon by her fellow competitors. Also in mid-summer, Skipper broke his javelin record again. This tim e it was with a toes of 218-7 in the Oregon Junior Olympics. Clackamas County Bank earned a 15-0 record and the district title with a 9-6 win over the Sandy Red Hots in July in Junior Ponytail softball. The next weekend both Sandy teams made Sandy sports fans pro ud. CCB, coached by Rex Brittle, won the state 912 girls softball ti tle. The Red Hots, coached by Cheryl Schwartz, were third Said Schwartz, " H e had a great time with the girls It was just a fun ye a r.” The Dodson's Bargain Store womens slowpitch team is the un disputed champion of Sandy city league play. “ The girls pulled together and played as a team ," said Dodson's Coach Joe Kern " T h a t was d efinitely our strength ” Lori A.. 17 M ike Sheppard Kuzmesky's performance on the mound was also cited as an im por tant factor. The fam ily connection is ob vious Dodson's Bargain Store, with more members of the Dodson clan than a person could shake a stick at, won the mens city league title in August The feeling of a fam ily unit goes beyond bloodlines for this team. “ I ’d take any of them for my own,” Coach John Dodson said. The Cinder Hawks, with girls from Bull Run and East County, won the 11-12 Oregon Junior O lym pics t itle . K im Y an k a u s k a s , Shawna Patterson, Karla H a r rison, Danielle Jordan and Nicole G a lv in c o m p ris ed the tea m . Darold Beym er was the coach The Oregon City Steelheads lost only one game, the most important one. The Steelheads lost the Nor thwest Football Alliance cham pionship game this fall. Allen F ry, along with father-son combination Cal McKinnis Sr. and Cal Jr., played on the team “ We lost the wrong one,” F ry admitted “ But there’s nothing wrong with a 12-1 record.” Sam Romey finished 15th pt the state cross country meet Brian Reick was 68th Chuck Kearney rushed for 1,320 yards for the football team, which was 4-5. slcott Skipper averaged almost 11 tackles per game. Mike Sheppard, 17, was named the state's Most Outstanding Junior Racer at the Oregon Cycl ing Association's banquet earlier this month Sheppard received more state medals than anyone at the banquet, including the gold m edal fo r p u rs u it, a th re e - kilometer race. MT. VIEW GOLF COURSE Offers Our Succulent s -" "Ring-out-the-old” W A ? BARON OF BEEF SPECIAL 9 ^Per BUFFET Every Friday Night ALL YOU CAN EATs6.50 J 1 0 T G a l. REGULAR TU-FER DINNERS SATURDAY NIGHTS TUNE UP YOUR AUTO INSURANCE WTTH OUR PEW LOWER RATES. ☆ AND * DANCE TO THE Sr MUSIC M IN TRIO Friday t Saturday J33 MT. 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