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"That's a real team effort,"
bragged lone Head Coach
Gordon Meyers of his "Card
iac Cards".
"MacLaren's first team
defense had only given up one
touchdown all season. One
lousy touchdown!" empha
sized the Coach, "but they
hadn't played anyone like lone
either," he said with a twinkle
in his eye and a smile on his
face.
If it hadn't been for Ione's
tight defense, the game might
have ended a bit differently.
In the final minutes of the
game MacLaren had the ball
on Ione's 17 yard line and
looked as if they might drive
in a TD when a MacLaren
player fumbled the ball and
Ione's Shawn LaRue pounced
on it. Ione's quarterback
Dennis Stefani then let the
clock tick out as the MacLaren
Hawks helplessly stood by
watching.
The first scoring of the
game came on a 47 yard
screen play pass to senior
Kevin McCabe from Stefani.
Stefani then connected with
Robin LaRue to boost the
score to 8-0. The powerful lone
line held MacLaren scoreless
through the first quarter,
something the Woodburn team
is not used to by any means. '
"MacLaren is used to hold
ing their opponents like that,
not the other way around."
said Coach Meyers. "Before
they played us they had only
given up 54 points the whole
season, (a six point average
per game ) and we scored 30 on
them. That's more than half
their total."
The second quarter saw
another pass from Stefani to
McCabe for 22 yards with
Stefani hitting Gregg Riet
mann for'Z; raising the score
to 16-0.
When Stefani kicked off,
little did he know that the
Hawk who caught the ball
would lateral pass it to star
running back Terry Evans
who ran in 75 yards for a
touchdown.
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Hometown fans were barely restrained by rope along the Cardinal sidelines
Saturday. Emotions were not restrained at all, as the "Cardiac Cards" lived
up to this season's nickname throughout the contest, playing their best game
of a phenomonal season.
"That happened to us in the
game against Dufur. We had
them 16-0 when they ran back
a kick-off. It can really fire up
a team," said Meyers. Mac
Laren scored on the conver
sion play and momentum
seemed to sweep to the
over-sized Hawks.
lone scored once more on a
four yard Stefani run, and
Danny McElligott caught a
pass in the endzone to leave
MacLaren in the dust at
halftime, with the Redbirds
leading 24-8.
Story By Janet McElligott
No sooner were they out of
the locker room than the
Hawks scored again, with
Evans running 23 yards for a
TD and then running in the
two extra points. "He's the
best runner we've faced
since..." Meyers pondered a
moment and said, "a long
time." Terry Evans, a big
200-pound tailback finished
the game with 205 yards
rushing, out of MacLarens 280
total. "Yes, he's definitely the
best big back I've seen.
It'ssaidherunsthe 100 in 10.7.
They had several very good
players," said Meyers of
MacLaren.
Meyers felt lone must have
had some excellent players,
too.
"Because we're the ones
who are number one," he said.
"Take Glen Grebs," he point
ed out. "He was phvsicallv
beaten all dav long. He had a
kid who was at least 70 pounds
(actually 72 pounds) heavier
than him pounding him. trying
to get him to rush the ball. He
never did," says Meyers who
was bursting with admiration
for his 145 pound center.
"Being a center is a thankless
job." he confides, "I should
know, I was one," he laughs.
"And you know, that kid never
did get to Dennis all dav.
"Terry (Starr) had his usual
MacLaren quarterback hurls ball into end zone in disgust, after Cardinal
defenders foiled a fourth quarter Hawk scoring drive in a classic goal line
stand. Gregg Rietmann raises fist in victory salute, while fellow Cards Mark
Patton and Robin LaRue look on. Official is marking ball's position, not
giving touchdown signal. The scoreboard gives the final tally.
great game. I expect it of him
and he always comes through.
Shawn (LaRue) played super,
probably the best he has all
year.
"Dannv (McElligott) play
ed great. Dennis (Stefani) did
great, his passing percentage
wasn't as high as it has been
sometimes this year but it was
over 240 yards (264 yards in
the air). Well, everybody
played super!"
That was evidently the case,
as Stefani wound up his arm to
unleash a 60 yard pass to
Dannv McElligott who scored,
ending the Cardinals scoring
at 30 points.
MacLaren wasn't finished
for the night as Terry Evans
took the Hawk ball over the
goal line one more time, and
another TD was taken in by
another MacLaren player,
leaving the score at 30-28, the
closest Cardinal win.
Meyers attributed the win
over MacLaren to the better
shape of the Cards. He spoke
of Ione's "running the hill'-'
drill. "That hill has won a lot
of ballgames for us. I hear a
lot of bellyaching about it, but
it puts us in better shape."
Was Meyers always so
confident of the "Big Win"?
He said yes. "I knew what
we had. I knew what those
guvs could do.
"Since the seventh grade,
the lone seniors had said
they'd take (he state football
title, and when it finallv got
down to the brass tacks thev
pulled it off.
"They're going to be hard to
replace. ".said Coach Meyers,
speaking of seniors Kevin
McCabe. John Lindstrom and
Danny McElligott who gradu
ate from the title team.
This is the fifth consecutive
year that the Big Sky Champ
ions have become the State
Tillists.
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Cardinal seniors Danny McElligott, John Lindstrom and Kevin McCabe ended their
high school football careers in style Saturday. The three graduating Cardinals are
shown here with state football championship trophy during ceremonies following
hard-won victory over MacLaren.
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lone defender outmaneuvers MacLaren defender to break up pass
play along sidelines, grinding a Hawk drive to a halt. Redbird
defenders rose to the occasion throughout the championship game,
though their opponents were consistently bigger in size.
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