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Section The S^ndy Post Sports and Recreation Track team com petes at district Sandy golfers head to state * hy 1» t \ I M M M SON The Sand} High Sc hool track team, completing its regular season last Tuesday, has geared its attention to the district meet no» under »ay at Mt Hood Community College Staff w rite r Unfortunately for a handful of golf teams in tile Mount Hood Con ference. only the top two squads are eligible to compete m the state tour nament The Mill' was a tough, if no' the toughest, league in the stale this year As many as five teems had strong shots at making :t to state competition One of the most overlooked teams, the Sandy Pioneers, will lx- vying for a tropin in the state golf championships, to be held Tuesday and Wednesdav at Fast Portland's Glendoveer Golf Course I he Pioneers were runners up to David Douglas in '.he MHC district tourna nielli, held at West Delta Golf Course last Wednesday and lhurs day David Douglas and Sandy will be strong competition in the 16 team field The Scots and Pioneers used consistent scoring in the two-day district tournament, ousting such powers as Centennial. Reynolds and Central Catholic from the state tourney The Scots won the 36-hole tourna ment shooting 602 Sandy was close behind with »'»00 But the Pioneers had an early seven-stroke lead over David Douglas going into the se cond day of competition Sandy's Russ 1 ¿Minus shot an opening-day two-under-par 70 He was outstanding on the front nine, shooting 34. while maintaining par on the back nine, shooting 38. Only C entennial's Terry Blake and Gresham's Shaughn Belmore shot better than laxunis But Centennial and Gresham did not have the consistent depth that Sandy had Seniors Ron Sey ler, Tony Jensen and Scott Shields shot rounds of 73, 74 and 75. respectively, rounding off the sc oring four The Pioneers' score on Wednes day of 292 was a school record through 18 holes In fact, Sandy 's in score of 147 was a school record through nine holes That record was quickly broken when the Pioneers shot a 145 for their out score. Sandy coach Dan Brisbin was im pressed with his players' first-day The meet started Wednesday after noon and continues through Thurs day night, but initial results were unavailable at press time For the boys, David Douglas claim ed first place during the regular season, followed by Gresham and three teams tied for third Barlow Centennial and Sandy. Barlow took first in girls regular- season competition, followed by G resh am , C en ten n ial, C en tral Catholic and David Douglas and San dy. which were tied for fourth Coach Handy Hutchinson said the Pioneers were ready for the meet and that the boy s team could surprise some of the tough teams, such as David Douglas "i The Scots are i not going to score as many points as they think they re going to score," Hutchinson said On paper, they should score 150 points, e asily." The district meet is the final meet of the season before the state meet From district, the top two athletes from the conference in each event will go on to compete at state Hutchinson said that one relay team and seven individuals on the Sandy boys team have potential to go to state Junior Art Skipper, who has the state's longest javelin throw this year of 218 feet, 8 inches, is expected to make it to the state level Hutchinson said other possibilities in clu d e M arc M a le k . J u s tin Y u n g eb erg , P au l W iese, Dan Weaver, Brad Schinautz, Bandy Ixiinm and Tony Hale In addition, the mile relay team of Yungeberg. Schinautz, Robert Kruger and kim in has a shot at the state competition, Hutchinson said For the girls, Wendy Coleman (shot put and discus) and Shanna Daniels i javelin) also are solid can didates for state competition Sophomores Denise Toyooka and Melinda Kai each have "outside shots” at making the state finals, Hutchinson said On Thursday, the district meet resumes at t pm . and continues through 10 p m at MHCC performances Ron Seyler led a consistent Pioneer attack with Mi-hole tournament score of 150 in last week s Mount Hood Conference district golf finals at West Delta Golf C ourse Sandy captured second overall and earned a berth into the state tournament, which will be held at Glendoveer Golf Course May 26-27. Sandy JV players look to next year Sandy High School's junior v ar sity baseball team finished the season with a 500 record and manv of the players are looking forward to the major leagues" of varsity baseball next year Sandy's varsity team will have at least eight openings next year, as eight seniors from this year's team will graduate The JV team finished its regular season recently with an 11-11 overall record and 8-7 record against the Mount Hood Con ference JV teams Several of Sandy's JV players had some noteworthy statistics this season It is not certain that these players will make the varsity next year, but their numbers cannot lx1 ignored Rob Barrett led the JV Pioneers with a 474 batting average and was flirting with 500 throughout the season Sean Peterson batted .153 for Sandy, while Robert Rising had a 307 batting average Pitching was a strong point for the JV squad, coached by Mike Vanoudenhaegen Jason Nall was 5-2 on the year, with a 2 59 earned run average Nall had a 76 to 16 strikeout-to-walk ratio, which, through 54 innings pitched, helped the Pioneers' cause Barrett had a fine year on the mound as well He went 4-5 on the year, with one save Barrett had a 2 97 ERA and struck out 1 1 batters [x-r inning As a team, the Sandy JV pitching staff struck out 58 more batters than it walked The Pioneers were 6-11 at one point of the season, then came back to win their last five contests a g a in s t C en ten n ial, B arlow . Parkrose, Central Catholic and Columbia A lot of these guys did come through at the end of the season with some big plays and the team really started to play together. Vanoudenhaegen said. "All of them are potential varsity can didates The regulars for the team were B arrett, Lee Buchanan. Doug Cassidy, Wes Kelley. Nall. Sean P eterson. Joe P latz, Rising. Rodney Schilperoort and Mike Senn Siindy High junior wins sttite powerliftinii title Sandy High School junior Robert Rcxlriguez won the 145-pound division of the Oregon State High School Powerlifting Championships on May 9 Rodriguez s total in the three-event weight lifting competition was 740 pounds Another Sandy High School junior, Kenny Ouderkirk. took fourth in the 132-pound division with a 565-pound total I thought we'd play well (going into the tournam ent)," Brisbin said, but we played extremely well The Pioneers were not nearly as t,'» ' impressive m the second day. but, as Brisbin said, they didn t need to lx- Our first »lay score was the real kev for us." Brisbin said "When we came back the second day and we'd had that seven-point lead i in the standings we were pretty well assured of a state shot after day one So it was a m atter of us going out and winning district." he add ed David Douglas had a round the sec ond day which was really the equivalent to our first dav On Thursday. the second day of the tournament. David Douglas outpaced its nearest competitors by shooting well from the back tees On Wednesdav. the tees were placed closer to the holes, making the accumulative first-day scores lower than second day scores The Scots claimed first place with a second clay round of 303 San dv and Centennial each shot 317, making the second dav s runner-up race more interesting than the win ner's race Overall. Seylei finished with a 151) score, followed by Shields anil Ixxiiius with 152 and Jensen with 161 Senior Casey Beaudoin played but did not figure into the scoring with a 184 l.cMunis was [»leased his opening- day performance' and was in strumental in helping his team claim runner u[> honors I don't know what got into me," I ¿»onus said I w is just hitting the ball so good that 1 hit about 16 greens \nd when you do that kind of stuff, it s not that hard to shoot. I didn't feel any pi essure " Loomis is confident going into the state tournament I've . it a lot of c onfidence in the team right now." the junior said 'Everybody s play mg good "I think the state title is what we want. l.cMunis said "We're not holding back We re going for the state title Seyler, who finished the district tournament tied for fourth-best in dividual performance, is eager to do well m the state match, but says he'll take things in increments I'm not really thinking of what to shoot. I'm taking it shot-by-shot, hole by -hole," Sey ler said "I'm not going to worry about bad shots and just come back from that Personally. Seyler said he wants to finish the state tournament as one of the s ta te s top five in dividuals It s my senior year and I want to make it happen," lie said * 5 Palmer earns berth at state T en n is player makes it to sent ¡finals at (listriet meet Making it to the state boys tennis tournament tasted sweet for Sandy 's Chris Palmer, who competed in the Mount H chm I Conference district tour nament at Cascade Athletic Club last Thursday and Friday Palm er was defeated in the semifinals Friday by Yugoslavian transfer student Igor Vuletic of Rey nolds, 6-0, 6-0 Before the match with Vuletic, however. P alm er already had achieved the pinnacle of his tennis career a shot at state com petition Palmer won a place in the state to u rn a m e n t by d e fe a tin g Centennial's Dan Adams in the F ri day morning quarterfinals, the win ner of which automatically went on to state Palmer defeated Adams in straight sets, 6-2, 7-5 On Thursday, Palmer defeated Rich Hires of I iavid I louglas, 6-1,64), and Columbia's Craig Peterson. 6-4, 6-3 Palmer was the No 4 seed hi the MHC going into the district tourna ment "It's sweet," Palmer said Tuesday of making it to state It's all 1 wanted to do, throughout the whole year " Vuletic, who went on to win the MHC singles crown, was simply too tough a competitor for Palmer, ac cording to Palmer "i He's i a little above everybody," Palmer said He added that just mak ing it to the state tournament is trophy enough for him I'd like to win. but it'd just be extra Palmer, who will be attending Pacific University in Forest Grove next fall, competes in the first round of state Thursday at 2 p in at the Tualatin Hills Tennis Center in Beaverton His opponent has no, been determined, but Palmer say s he will [»lay his best Wes Williams. Palm er's and San dy's coach, had nothing but praises for his first state entry in his two- year career at Sandy "I thought (Palm er's season ( was great," Williams said "It was neat Ix'cause you could always rely on him to play gixxl and he tried He's very dedicated and that's why lie did so well. He played a lot of tennis It [»ays off," Williams said In other district action for Sandy. Ben Fisk defeated Jim Ixiwes of Barlow in the firs, round. 6 3, 6-1 But Fisk had difficulty with Centennial's T J Dyar, who beat the Sandy junior, 6-3, 64) In doubles action, senior Marc Sc (u p p e r and ju n io r Z oltán Dubrawsky made it to the quarter finals, but lost to their I )avid I hiuglas opponents, 6-4. 64 .Schipper and Dubrawsky had earlier ousted duos from Columbia. 6-4, 24», (84ii, and Barlow, 6-7, 6-3, 17 -4 i Meanwhile, the- Pioneer team of \aron .lime-- and Jeff Klaus defeated their Barlow opponents, 64). 6-1, but lost tu i nmpeliton from Reynolds, 6-1, 6 1 As a team, the Pioneers managed sev enth place honors in the MIK ', but Williams was not disappointed with his team s performance I thought they did really wcdl at the district tournament. Williams said We plaved as wcdl as we could [»lay. whereas during the season, there were some matches when, I feed, we didn't [»lay to our potential It's OK if you [»lay to your poten tial and lose, but when you [»lay half way and lose, that's pretty ag gravating." W illiams said Tinjum in state meet despite injury Sandy High Sc hool Junior Tami Tinjum earned a berth in the state girls tennis tournament in a painful way Friday during the two-day Mount Hood Conference district tour nament at Cascade Athletic < lub in Gresham In her quarterfinal match against Rey nolds' Tracy Davies, Tinjum in jured her ankle while celebrating a key point Tinjum went on to defeat Davies in a four-hour match, 34», 6-3 and 7-5 It was a win that Tinjum was pleased to get She had beaten me twice already in the season i." Tinjum said, ad ding that she wanted to gain revenge for Davies’ two wins in as many meetings this year After Tinjum defeated Davies, she was scheduled to face Lori Mildrex- ler of Parkrose in the quarterfinals But T in ju m 's sp ra in e d ankle- prevented her from [»laying, and final matefi with Davies I be- winnei then would have an automatic Ix-rtti in the state competition, whic h will I m - held at Mt Hcxxl Community Col ‘‘ I h o p e to ilo b e tte r tin n ì hist y e tir. I m in t to tío to nt letiNt th e se co n d ro m iti. I iin ii T i i i j i i i n Mildrexler won by default On Thursday. Tinjum opened up against Columbia High's Melissa McIntyre and cased her wav past her. 6-1. 641 Ialter, Tinjum defeated Gresham s Katie Wesson in [»lit sets, 6-1, 2-6, 6-1 After her win over Wesson, Iinjuin was scheduled for Friday s quarter lege Thursday and Friday Tinjum and Davies went at I, for four hours and Tinjum. despite the injury, handled Davies and earned her second consecutive state (x-r, It 1 hope to do better than last year," Tinjum said She- had lost in the opening round of the tournament last year 1 want to go to at least the second round In other Sandy district action, senior 'Tc-ri Bliss defeated Btlffy Ogle of (entennial. 6-1, 24», 7 5 Buss was not as successful against Teresa Toenjes of Columbia, losing 44», 24» In doubles competiton. sisters Jen ny and Amy Safi defeated their opening round opponents from < ol- uinbia. 6-2. 6-3 They then were ousted from the- tournament by Barlow s Teresa 1 arlson and I ami Russell, 6 |. 74» The Pioneer pair of llaruko Inoue and I'rac y Buss lost to Centennial's Sogene Mali and Mindy Hash, but it took a tie breaker to do it Inoue and Buss won the first set, but could not hold on, as Mah and Hash won. 34», 6-1. 13-11. 1 » 1
