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Portland Observer Jackson claims State wins -W - Great Values! Jackie Jackson, Grant H i’a splendid sprinter proved to everyone that she ia the State’s top sprinter. The tiny, 95 pound tiger destroyed the field in Satur days A A A Track and Field Championship held at Springfield's all weather track. Despite a light downpour Jackie burned the field in both the 100 and 220. Jackie went undefeated during the regular season in both sprint races, but during the City Track Meet was upset in the 220 causing some people to believe she couldn’t double at State. However, this thought was quickly dismissed as the swift junior completely dominated the field in the 220. Thursday, June 1, 1978 Page 5 E 3 MAYTAG ö S NEW ENERGY-SAVING WASHER »30 LESS Jackie also ran a strong anchor leg on Grant's winning 400 relay team. After receiving the baton Jackie made up 10 yards to nip Medford at the wire. Jackson tied Sunset's Terri Wierson as the top point getter for the girls meet by winning two events plus the relay. than any other Large-tub Maytag! EXTRA-LARGE CAPACITY Depandoble hoovy duty construc Grant junior Jackie Jackaon takes first in the 100 tor» AH fobrtc cycle selections En- followed by Freda W alker of Jefferson who finished fourth. ergy-sovm g operation. Long life quod coot softener pump steel cobinet dispenser Fobric Tough poly Underwater lint filter Self cleaning porcelain enomel wash S p o r ts Stock No 14 oeo T a lk basket ASK FOR S M IT H S PRICE — Ron Sykes, S;»orts Editor O .K., conceded, now that the Seattle Supersonics will replace the Trailblazers as champions of the NBA. Seattle by taking game three in Landover and leading 2 1 after Sundays thriller should win their next two at home where they haven't lost in 22 consecutive games. John Owen of the Seattle P .I. who, in my estimation, writes some very objective columns on the Sonics, recently wrote the following: Certainly, nobody is going to accuse Lenny Wilkens of being a fool, so he is hardly going to assure you this morning (Monday morn) that the NBA championship trophy will soon be arriv ing in the Queen City. And by the time the Observer hits the streets Seattle's dream of yesteryear will be a reality. John writes, “S tart the celebration and if I'm wrong, sue me." There'll be no •lawsuit, for sure. • And if game 3 was the key contest in ' this championship series (and it was) then Dennis "the menace" Johnson may emerge as the key figure in the play-off, and that is even more preposterous than the concept of a team going from a 5-17 record rallying behind a new coach and riding his vehicle all the way to the top of the NBA. Dennis Johnson, at 6'4*’ has certainly emerged as one of the top defensive guards in the NBA. Johnson went head to head with Lionel Hollins, who is probably the top all-around guard in the league, and more than held his own. Then in the Denver series he complete ly shut off the human jumping machine, David Thompson. The Sonic guard may not be solely responsible for the fact that Washing ton’s Kevin Grevey . . . who scored 27 points in the play-off opener . . . hit only one of fourteen shots in Sundays game. But when a player who opened the season as a forward sees seven shots batted away in one game by a rival guard, his confidence (Grevey’s) may suffer just a bit. But examine further the Grevey-John- son match up, A high school All-American out of Hamilton, Ohio, Grevey accepted a scho larship to Kentucky, a school with a basketball reputation and heritage se cond only to UC LA . And at one time years ago probably out ranked UCLA. Grevey was player of the year in the Southeastern Conference as a sopho more, the SEC's leading scorer as a junior, an All-American his senior year and became the Bullets’ first-round pick in the 1975 draft. Dennis Johnson also played a bit of basketball in high school. “A bit" aptly describes it. In his senior season at Dominquez High School in Compton, California, Johnson averaged . . . by his own calculation . . . approximately 90 seconds of playing time and 2.1 ppg. Obviously, there was no thought of a college scholarship for Johnson. So what did Johnson do? W ell, how about working for 12.75 an hour as a fork lift operator, and playing basketball in his spare time. A 5'9" guard in high school, Johnson began to grow as fast as the skills he was acquiring in playground basketball. His reputation was growing, too, and after a year he was able to turn in the keys to the fork lift, and to accept a scholarship to Harbor JC where, in one game, he scored 39 points, pulled down 14 rebounds and blocked six shots. Two years later he was playing for Pepperdine's conference championship team, he was 6'4", and had acquired the nickname of "Airplane." It has been w ritten that the Sonics were able to acquire him after that junior season because Johnson had declared himself in the “hardship” draft. Actually he wasn't coveted that highly. He was the second player taken by Seattle in the second round and in the NBA's view his status was the same as a graduating senior, because of that year sitting on the fork lift. A t the start of this, his second year, Johnson's statistics were beginning to resemble those at Dominquez High School, up until the day when Wilken's became the coach. Fred Brown was in the midst of an eight-game medical leave due to an injured knee and that certainly influenced Wilkens' decision, to give Johnson a starting role the evening of December 2nd. The Sonics beat the Celtics in Boston, DJ scored 24, and has been a starter since that time. This transformation mirrors that of his team. M aytag WASHERS from M aytag DRYERS from $238 $3 1 8 (Stock No. 14-001, not shown) (Stock No. 15-001, not shown) »•»•«¿■bl« M i y l i i WRINCER WASNIRS la Slack - MAYTAG ] | | ^ î Power Module " • Dishwashers^ MAYTAG Big Load Dryers SATO •2 6 % mote capacity • Exclusive low-temp, stream-of-hea drying • Multi-cycle selection • Fast, efficient energy-saving operation • Efficient drum size • Unique air-ride drying system Sale Priced! MAYTAGi COME TODAY w e g iv e y o u m o r e . Rhonda Reddit's effort was not f in the mile relay. I as her Sooth Eugene team failed to win Byron Howell runs (Continued from page 1 col. 6) ui ¿crest, then Byron could probably be a world class sprinter. A t 6'3”, Howell has tremendous power and long, smooth strides." Bryon Howell just might be the best prep athlete in the state and he's only a sophomore. As a basketball player this year Howell had twelve slam dunks. Byron has played on the varsity since his freshman year. Howell first competed in track at St. Charles Grade School, and showed enough potential to raise the eyebrows of several high school coaches in the metro area. Young Howell came to Central Catholic after first enrolling at arch rival Jesuit and leaving when Coach Carregan, who recruited him. decided to move on to the Junior college ranks. During the summer Byron will partici h o m e fu r n is h in g s pate in the Golden W est track meet in California, a meet which annually attracts the top high school spikers in the nation. Howell, 6’3", sophomore will undoubt edly, if he desires, set many track records in the State of Oregon in the next two years. EASY TERMS 30th and S.E. Division 234-9351 Shop 9 to 9 Tuesday thru Friday Saturday 9 to 6 (Closed Sunday and M onday) Super Shopping Centers Help Lower yoer Timbers crush Guatemala team 5 - 0 Cost of Living . . . by Richard O'Toole Brian Gant, playing at his preferred position of midfield, returned after a three game lay-off to score the first of five goals as the Portland Timbers crushed Deportivo Galcasa of Guatemala in an international exhibition soccer match Saturday. Tim ber Coach Don Megson replaced Gant, who had started eight of the first ten games, with Ike Makay before the game with the Cosmos. For the next two games Gant was a spectator. On this night however Gant was all player as he got the Timbers scoring field started with a header taken from striker Mike Flaters' fur post cross at 12:31. Of the pressure Gant commented, “I felt it a bit. 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