Thur»., Jon. 29. 1987 (Soc. 1) SANDY (Oro.) ROST—9
The Sdndy Post
Sports
and Recreation
S andy girls crush Columbia
by D AVE MAGNUSON
Staff writer
Slow game fails the Chargers
Far a while Tuesday night, the easiest Job
in the world belonged to the person keeping
score for Columbia High School’s girls
basketball team.
The Chargers came to Sandy High School
with intentions to slow the game down, hop
ing to keep the score as low as possible by
holding the ball, stalling for time.
Unfortunately for Columbia, the only score
the Chargers kept low was their own. Sandy
coasted to the easy Mount Hood Conference
victory, 64-27.
In the game, Sandy coach John Smith may
have found a superstitious answer for the
team's success: chewing on a straw instead
of gum. With the win, Sandy is 13-3 overall,
6-1 in MHC competition and 1-0 with “ The
Straw.”
Straw or not, the Pioneers were unstop
pable, despite Columbia’s best efforts to
delay the game. The Chargers took just four
shots in the first half, making only one.
At then end of the first period, the Pioneers
had an 11-0 lead. At the half, Sandy held a
commanding 31-2 lead.
Columbia took considerably more shots in
the second half, but the m ajority of those
shots failed to go through the net, much to
the discouragement of the 3-7 Chargers.
With about 3:50 to go in the game, Smith
had played all of his available players. In
that 3:50 span, the team consisted of guards
Heidi Dose, Kathy Layton and Denise
Layton, forward Danielle Hink and center
Brenda Swart. Those five players managed
to hold their own against Columbia, scoring
eight and allowing eight points, aiding the
Pioneers to their ninth MHC triumph.
Sandy guard Shanna Daniels scored a
game-high 18 points on nine-for-13 shooting,
collected 10 rebounds and had a good first
half defensively. Wendy Coleman scored 10
for the Pioneers, grabbing eight rebounds.
The Pioneers were without the services of
M aria Rowland, who missed the game due to
the flu. Sophomore guard Ali Lake perform
ed well in her place, scoring 10 points and
working well defensively.
Smith said he was elated with his team ’s
performance.
“ I like the way we’re playing,” Smith said.
“ There’s always the risk that we, being the
better team in the last two games, (could)
lay down to the opponents' level.
“ It was nice to see our girls go out and play
100 percent.”
“ We had good poise, even though (the
Chargers) were trying to hold the ball,"
assistant coach Molly Knudsen said.
Much of Sandy’s action was not on the
court, but instead on the Pioneer sidelines.
Smith, busily chewing on The Straw during
the game, called out plays and watched his
team win easily.
Smith was not sure whether The Straw
would remain in future contests. He usually
chews gum during games, but was without
Tuesday night.
“ I think he should get rid of it,” a
disgusted Knudsen said of The Straw.
The Straw, however, was not necessary
Friday night against Central Catholic. The
Pioneers got their biggest win of the season
against the Rams 65-20.
Reserve center Tanya Schwartz had a ter
rific game offensively, finishing with 17
points. Daniels added 14 for the Pioneers and
starting forward Julie Crampton chipped in
12.
Again, Smith used a ll of his available
players against Central Catholic.
“ In these kind of games, I savor the mo
ment of being able to play everybody
because, this year, all of our 10 girls are put
ting out a very good effort,” Smith said. “We
all have a very good attitude. There’s no in
ternal problems.
“ I t ’s been fun to coach because of their
good attitudes,” he said.
The reserves have played an important
role for the Pioneers this year. Smith is
especially fond of the two seniors on the
bench who are given limited playing time:
Dose and Hink.
“ I t ’s been a real pleasure to work with
them this year," Smith said. “They give 100
percent when they are called on. They don’t
complain when they don’t get in the game.
Those are the kind of senior leaders that
don’t come around that often.”
Boys rebound after losses
by D AVE MAGNU8ON
Staff writer
After a pair of disappointing
losses to Parkrose and Central
Catholic, Sandy's boys basketball
te a m defeated the C olum bia
Chargers 68-60 in Mount Hood Con
ference action Tuesday night at
Columbia High School.
"We needed to have this one,”
head coach Dan Brisbin said of the
win. "We couldn’t let this one get
aw ay if we wanted a shot,
realistically, to get in the top four
(of the MHC, thus earning a playoff
spot,."
Tony Hale led the Pioneers in
scoring with 20 points. Brad Searls
and Randy Wheeler each added 15
for Sandy. Hale and Wheeler both
had good games in collecting re
bounds
Sandy had a slim 13-12 lead at the
end of the first period, then played
good offense in the second quarter,
getting the fast break going and
tightening the defense on the
Chargers.
At halftime, the Pioneers led
32-23.
Brisbin said it was hard for San
dy to get in the flow of the game, as
the officials sometimes let some
calls go unnoticed while making
tight calls at other times.
Columbia got hot in the second
half, narrowing the gap at the end
of the third, Sandy leading 48-43.
la te r , with about four minutes to
go, the Chargers pulled to within
one. The Pioneers then responded
by getting the fast break going and
pulled away from Columbia, winn
ing 8840.
With the triumph, Sandy evened
its record to 7-7 overall, 4-4 in the
MHC. The Pioneers' next contest is
a road game against David Douglas
Friday night.
E a rlie r in the y e a r, D avid
Douglas, now tied for first place in
the MHC, defeated the Pioneers in
Sandy, 55-51. Brisbin said that
historically. Sandy/David Douglas
games are often close. But the
Pioneers will have to play tough to
defeat the Scots.
“ We will have to pick up our ex
ecution just a notch,” Brisbin said.
“ We have to build on our intensity
and confidence."
A glimpse of that intensity and
confidence was seen Friday night
at Central Catholic’s Pine Street
Palace, but the Pioneers came up
on the losing end, 72-52.
The game actually was closer
than the score would indicate. At
the end of the first quarter, Sandy
held a seemingly commanding 19-9
Sophomore guard Ali Lake (12) tries to find
an open player during Sandy’s <4-27 Mount
Hood Conference rout over Columbia. Lake
scored |0 points off the bench.
Ski teams place in
conference battle
Girls take second; boys take third
The Sandy girls ski team took se
cond place in conference competition
Saturday while the boys team took
third, due in part to a leading skier’s
fall.
Sean Fenwick, who is Sandy’s
fastest skier, fell during a run Satur
day, which cost as much as 10
seconds. Leading the Pioneers were
Randy Quiett, Dave Quiett and Dave
Seeger.
Leading the girls team were Holly
Sarich, Shannon Baker and Julie
Marosi, en route to the second-place
finish.
F in a l
te a m
re s u lts
w e re
unavailable at press time.
Coach Robert Karsten sees his
team is one of the best of the 10 teams
in the league. In fact, he strongly
believes that, next to Hood River,
there is none better.
“ We (as a team ) have a chance to
battle who I think w ill be the best
team in state (Hood R iver) and we
should be able to come head-to-head
with them a number of times. Right
now, they have a lead on us and we
have to fight back,” Karsten added.
“ We’re not going to be state cham
pions,” Karsten said. “ But we’re go
ing to be good. We’re going to be se
cond in league.
“ As to our usual standing (in com
parison to the past), we’re going to
stay just about even. We’ve got a
good team; good, hard workers,”
Karsten added.
In addition to Fenwick, the Quietts
“ We h a v e e x tr e m e ly h a rd
training,” Karsten said. “The kids
are putting out what it takes to be
champions. If anything, they should
make it (to the championships). If
not, it’s not because they didn’t try .”
Swimmers win events,
but lose to Gresham
The Gresham High School boys
swim team defeated Sandy 101-64 and
the Gresham girls beat the Sandy
girls 110-49 in action Thursday at the
Sandy Aquatic Center.
But several Sandy swimmers won
individual events.
Randy Wheeler looks for an open man during a game with Central Catholic.
lead. Center Mike Hogen started
his first game of the season, scoring
seven points in the first quarter.
Hogen finished with a career-high
15 points, leading the Pioneers.
Central Catholic retaliated in the
second quarter by capitalizing on
Mt. Hood hitting school
to offer three sessions
I
“Out of all of them, they’re all ex
cellent skiers,” Karsten said. “ I t all
depends on the weekend and their
mental attitude.
The Pioneers head to the slopes
again Saturday and will do so for
another several weekends. Karsten
said his team puts in more hours of
training than other teams in the
league.
Sandy miscues, converting costly
turnovers into points. At halftime,
the score was tied 29-29.
The Rams were down by four
points with 7:12 to go in the third
quarter, when they picked up on
their offense, outscoring Sandy 12-2
in a 4^-m inute span, leading 43-35.
Wheeler, who was having a good
game defensively for the Pioneers,
fouled out with 2:49 to go in the
third. This was a probable turning
point for Sandy.
cage under constant supervision.
Camp director is Dale Stebbins,
head baseball coach at MHCC.
Other coaches at the sessions will
be Mike Bubalo, head coach at
Beaverton High School; Greg
Cusick, hitting coach at MHCC;
Tom Campbell, head coach at
T ig a rd H igh School; Royce
M c D a n ie l, head co ach a t
Ijikerid g e High School; and Jon
Peterson, head coach at Gresham
High School.
Players should bring a bat, bat
ting gloves, workout gear, tennis
shoes and a batting helmet.
bonus points in the diving category,
because Sandy does not have a diving
team.
Pioneers’ coach M ark Smith was
unavailable for comment on the
meet, due to illness.
Junior Troy Hilstad earned a per
sonal best time in the 100-meter but
terfly with 56.96 seconds, breaking
his old record of just over one-half a
second and finishing first.
The girls team took first in the
200-medley re la y , consisting of
Becky Hewgley, Robyn Hayball,
Michelle Crane and Trisha French,
with a time of 2:06.42.
Sophomore Bob Richards also
broke a personal record in the 100
breaststroke, earning first with a 1
minute 13.12 second clocking. This
beat his old record by 3.8 seconds.
Hewgley took first in the 50
freestyle (27.1 seconds) and in the 100
b u tte rfly (1 :0 8 .4 4 ). T e a m m a te
H a y b a ll took firs t in the 100
backstroke with a time of 1:16.73, a
personal best.
Nine other swimmers on the boys
team collected personal best times.
The boys team also won the 400
freestyle relay with a tim e of 3:55.71.
Gresham, however, was successful
in capturing the victory, earning 10
Three hitting sessions will be of
fered next month for high school
baseball players at the fifth an
nual Mt. Hood School of Hitting in
the Mt. Hood Community College
gym.
The sessions are 9 a m . to 4 p.m.
Feb. 14, 15, and 16. Participants
can pick one of three sessions.
Cost is <35 and includes lunch and
a T-shirt. Enrollment is limited.
The purpose of the school of hit
ting is to teach the proper fun
damentals of hitting. Each hitter
will be provided with as many sw
ings as possible in the batting
and Seeger, Karsten sees Sean
Tafoya, Tony Neumann, Don E ri,
Charlie Harris and Dennis Dries as
being “excellent” skiers for the boys
team. Senior Liz Krenwinkel joins
Sarich, Baker and Marosi as being
among the elite on the girls team, ac
cording to Karsten.
The Gophers scored 13 points in the
diving competition. Again, Sandy did
not have a diving team, so was
unable to earn any points, losing the
meet to Gresham, 110-49.
Sandy wrestlers drop three matches
S andy w re s tlin g coach Ron
Calhoun says he had two days of
“ bad news” after losses to three
teams in two days last week.
“ The kids wrestled very, very
p o o rly ,” Calhoun said of the
Pioneers* match at Gresham last
Thursday night. “ We had some m a
jor letdowns. There were a couple of
kids who were sick.”
The final score was no indication of
how close the match really was,
Calhoun said. The Gophers won 39-31.
Sandy won the final four individual
matches against Gresham. Before
the Pioneers defeated their last four
opponents, the match already was
decided in favor of the Gophers.
"G resham is a good te a m ,”
Calhoun said, “ but not very much
better than we are.”
Six Sandy grapplers won their m at
ches. They were: Yo Masui, Marsial
H errera, Justin Yungeberg, Art Skip
per, Troy Freeman and Ken Bur
chett, who won his first match as a
varsity wrestler at heavyweight.
On Friday, the Pioneers traveled to
the Earle A. Chiles Center at the
University of Portland to take part in
the ASICS Tiger-Oregon Wrestling
Classic. The Classic invited the top 20
class AAA high school teams based
on last year’s results.
The Pioneers turned out to be
misfits in the competition, but gave
their all, nevertheless, Calhoun said.
“ We wrestled much, much better
(than against Gresham ), but our
competition was tough,” Calhoun
said. The Pioneers opened first-
ro u n d
c o m p e titio n
a g a in s t
Milwaukie, one of the state’s top five
teams.
Only four Sandy wrestlers won
their matches against the Mustangs,
en route to the 46-19 defeat. Masui,
Freeman, Skipper and Yungeberg
were the Pioneers’ only victors.
Before the match began, Sandy
was forced to forfeit their 136- and
148-pound matches due to illness and
lack of athletes. Those forfeits
created a 12-0 Milwaukie lead before
the match began.
"When you give them aw ay,
there’s no chance for you," Calhoun
said of the forfeitures. “We didn't
have enough horses.”
The Pioneers then went on to the
consolation round and took on La
Grande. Again, Sandy had to forfeit
the two weight classifications, losing
to the Tigers, 32-24.
Clayton Hull, John Skinner and
Jeff Davis joined Masui, Skipper and
Yungeberg on the list of triumphant
matmen against La Grande.
The Pioneers’ next opponent is
Reynolds in a home match Thursday
night. Calhoun said he is not quite
sure of how well his team w ill per
form against the Lancers, but he said
it should be a “ good m atch.”
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