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Aufl. S, 1985 (Sue. t ) SANDY (O ra ) POST— 9
Thur«
The S^ndy Post
Sports
and Récréâ tion
Sandy team ends
day-long journey
by PAT O'HALLORAN
A team of Sandy runners look a 170-mile adventure Saturday when they
competed in the Hood to Coast Relay
The 170-mile relay begins at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood and ends at
Pacific City on the Oregon Coast Teams of up to 11 runners compete in
various age and sex categories
Mutt Hoth headed this year's team, which finished in under 19 hours, about
what Koth was hoping for.
Each leg of the relay is five miles, with most runners hitting the road three
times
Perhaps the hardest leg was the shortest and last one, the leg run by Jeff
Simons.
Although i* was under three miles, Simons had to battle a tra ffic jam — one
that consisted mainly of volunteers' vans - to make his way to the finish line
He weaved the last leg in 13 minutes even
The fastest five-mile leg for the team was turned in by the oldest member of
the team, 38-year-old Koger Eord, who hurtled down Highway 26 from 4.5
miles west of the South Timberline cutoff to just outside Rhododendron in 27
minutes, 13 seconds.
Dick and Peggie Hodge of Sandy competed for The Mamas and The Papas,
a group of over 40 women and men runners, and helped them to a third-place
finish in their category
I he team came in with a time of 21 hours, 21 minutes, finishing after 11 p m
Saturday They started the day at 2 a m
"We had a fantastic tim e," said Peggie, "made some wonderful new friends
and just plain thoroughly enjoyed ourselves while getting hot, tired and sore­
muscled ”
Russ Denmark, a 53-year-old Sandy runner also competed.
I1OOI» TO COANT R E L A Y
S A N D Y T E A M K E N ll.T H
l * g . runner
1. D iv e B u rk *
2, Roger Ford
3. P h il B u rk *
4. ( 'r u g W il t *
6. C la rk W it t *
6, John Roger*
7. B r i d Sc h im ut i
8. M ike N u h o lx m
9. M it t Roth
10. Jeff Sim on*
I I . D Murk*
12. Ford
13. P Burks
14, C r u g W att*
IS. C lark W it t *
IB, Roger*
5-m ile tim e
27 rm nute* 33 m x im k I*
17. S rh m iM ti
I t . Nicholson
1». Kolb
10. Simon«
11. D Burks
22. Ford
23, P Burks
24, C raig W a in
29. C lark W alls
2t. Ibigcrs
27, Schm autr
28. Nicholson
2». Roth
30. Simons
11, D . Burka
32. C raig W alts
33. C la rk W atts
34. Nicholson
39 12 9-m ile le g l, Simons
27 13
27 4V
28 06
2B 64
33 37
29 32
33 57
32 06
31 31
32 17
30 47
30 27
31 5B
28 SB
34 32
29 00
39 32
33:14
31 08
33 45
32 32
48 53
34 26
38 08
32 08
29 36
34 28
31 57
32 09
34 10
32 07
28 20
38 46
13 00
C ounty fair beckons prep riders
Young cowboys and cowgirls from all over Oregon w ill
usher in a new chapter in rodeo thrills and excitement at
this year's Clackamas County Pair.
The future stars of the rodeo circuit w ill take over Aug
13-14 for a first-ever summer performance featuring
rough-riding contenders of the Oregon High School Rodeo
Association This w ill be a state-wide rodeo with more
than 100 high school students participating The meet is
sanctioned by the state association.
The rodeo w ill continue Aug 15-18 with performances
by the Professional International Rodeo Association
(form erly International Rodeo Association). Many
nationally-acclaimed riders from all parts of the country
w ill be taking part. All evening performances during
weekdays (including the high school shows» w ill start at
7:30 p.m , with an afternoon matinee by PIRA riders Sun
day, Aug 18, at 2 p.m
The mile-a-minute. rough-and-tumble action that has
made the Clackamas County F air Rodeo one of the
Pacific Northwest’s outstanding rodeos w ill be very
much in evidence this year, both in the high school and
the PIRA performances, said Ted Atkins, rodeo
superintendent
The OHSRA shows w ill be as tough and as crowd­
pleasing as those that come later in the week. Atkins said
Boys w ill be participating in saddle-back and bare back
bronc riding, bull-dogging, bull riding, calf-roping and
team roping G irls' events include barrel racing, goat ty ­
ing. break-away roping and team roping
Members of the OHSRA include all young people who
have graduated from the eighth-grade and are attending
high school this year This w ill be the first fall event stag­
ed by the association, previous rodeo meets having been
held in the spring OHSRA finals were held in Redmond in
June and many of the top finalists w ill be riding in the
Clackamas County F air Rodeo
The traditional rodeo is a prime attraction at the
Clackamas County F air and consistently draws large and
enthusiastic audiences from all parts of the region In the
past few years, a standing-room-only situation has
greeted most la,e-comers.
"Regular fans have learned to come early if they want
a seat," Atkins said
The rodeo is free with a general admission ticket for the
fair.
Mt. Hood pool hosts junior meet
Photo by P a l O 'H allo ra n
KFI..AA Rt N N F K S — Five of the II) members of the San­
dy team that ran in the llood to ( oast Relay are: (front
row I Matt Roth and Dave Burks;
(hark row) Brad
Srhmautx, Mike Nicholson and Jeff Simons. Not pictured
are Roger Ford, Phil Burks, Craig W atts, Clark W atts and
John Rogers.
The Mt. Hood Community College
Aquatic Center w ill mark a firs, Aug
13-17
when
it
hosts
the
M cDonald's/U .S. Swim m ing Na­
tional Junior Olympics.
The annual event is split into
western and eastern competitions,
with the Alabama Aquatic Center in
Tuscaloosa serving as the eastern
host.
Hosting the western meet is a ma­
jo r accomplishment for MHCC and
has been in the planning stages for
more than a year, said co-director
Mike Popovich. Popovich is also
coordinator of the MHCC Aquatic
Center.
Junior Olympics is considered a
training ground for future Olympic
athletes
“ We are expecting 1.000 to 1.200
competitors," said Popovich “ The
economic impact on the east-county
area should be between $250.000 and
Spectator tickets can be reserved
by calling 668-6445 All tickets reserv­
ed after Aug 6 w ill be held at the
door An all-session pass is $10 Day
passes are $2 50 and daily ses-
sion/finals passes are $2 Tickets w ill
be available at the door when the
meet begins
$275.000 “
The meet's events w ill be held in
MHCC’s outdoor, Olympic-sized pool
The 12- to 20-year-old competitors, all
members of U S. Swimming teams,
w ill swim in 34 events The National
For more information call the
MHCC Aquatic Center at 667-7246
C ontrasting reactions reveal som e o f strike's problem s
by PA T O’H A LLO R A N
What a day Sunday was, huh? Tom Seaver wins his 300th
game and sets New Y ork Yankees Owner George Steinbren­
ner into a rage in the process. Steinbrenner saw a sold-out
Yankee Stadium cheering the Chicago W hite Sox pitcher on to
his milestone victo ry and, instead of realizing that the fans
were cheering a H all-of-Fam e pitcher, figured they were tu rn ­
ing on his team.
So he criticizes the play of his team. The man has no sense of
baseball trad ition . While nearly everyone one was cheering
the long and fascinating career of the fo rm e r New Y ork Met,
Steinbrenner is rid icu lin g his own team. Now here is a classy
guy. W ith owners like him , concerned more fo r the w elfare of
th e ir pocketbooks than the jo y of a sim ple game at its heights,
it is no wonder they are dragging baseball tow ard yet another
strike, sim p ly by refusing to acknowledge the game is sim ply
that: a game,
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Pat’s
Patter
Who was the firs t player to congratulate him? Minnesota
firs t baseman Kent Hrbek. th a t’s who Hrbek told Carew not to
try to go to second, ju st so Hrbek would be the firs t to shake his
hand.
That s a little m ore gracious than Steinbrenner’s outrage.
Too bad the graciousness doesn’t tran sfer over to the bargain­
ing table as the strike enters its th ird day.
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M ean w h ile, on the other coast — ours — Rod Carew was
Both the players and the owners are to blame for this
slapping his 3,000th hit in Anaheim , Calif. And another coin­
cidence (the firs t being Seaver w inning No. 300 in New Y o rk),
Carew hit his against his old team, the Minnesota Twins.
debacle When both sides spend as little tim e at the bargaining
table as these two have, it is no wonder they are s till miles
away from a solution, and the league commissioners and
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Peter Ueberroth have talked loudlv and carried toothpicks to
avert the strike.
Ueberroth: “ I cannot allow this to happen. We cannot allow
the negotiations to fa il.” Loud ta lk and toothpicks.
P layer Relations Com m ittee President Lee M acPhail: ‘ ‘He’s
(U eberroth) been doing everythng he could to try to keep the
parties at the bargaining table, to keep the rhetoric down. He’s
thrown out proposals that he hoped would get things m oving a
little bit. He s doing whatever he can.” — which obviously
isn’t much.
Of course, one of the most im portant voices cannot be
quoted: the fan. The suffering is not as much as most people
th in k ; we could survive. And it may take a little longer, but the
game w ill survive, too The fans, happy for the retu rn of m ajor
league ball, w ill come back in tim e, in droves.
The golfing victo ry of am ateur Scott Verplank in the
Western Open at Oak Brook, III , Sunday, had to be heartening
for duffers across the country.
Granted, he is a top-flight collegiate player, but thinking of a
non-paid golfer w inning a tour event gives me hope
M yself, I ’m a scratch g olfe r; when I ’m done adding up m y
score, I usually scratch it out so nobody can read it.
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