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iscusses
honor --
e
High School's Sam
was named to the All-State
defensive unit as a
last week, following
of last year's State
of the Year, Mark
The Journal talked to
after the senior
of his honor.
PATCH
toughest linebacker in
recent history sat
in his chair Tuesday and
a limp-wristed invective at
gridiron foe.
you big brute you!"
dainty 6-3,215-pound Sam
b, fluttering his eyelids.
may sound like a radical
from character for a
who'd just days before
the newspaper to see he'd
All-State at linebacker
Sam's reenactment of
response to an
fist administered
midsection this year by a
opponent.
had just converted the
into one of his 181
tackles - best ever by a
and the guy pounded
in a fit of pique. Sam's
apparently caught him
didn't know what to
Sam recalled, a bit of a
grin starting up at the
of his mouth.
T. Martin - Sam to
won't be
learn from him just why -
:football this season with
abandon only his
could truly appreciate.
He had 82 solo tackles. His 15 in
one game eclipsed the old record
by two. He was double- and even
triple-teamed every game - the
highest tn'bute any player can
earn.
But the 17-year-old standout,
for all his aggressiveness, sees no
sense in getting all steamed up
over things on the field.
'Tve been the object of some
pretty dirty football, I guess,"
said Martin, "but I've always tried
"... there are a lot more
important things in life..."
to just laugh it off or make a joke.
It really takes away from your
game to play dirty and look for
cheap shots - and it's bad for
team morale, too."
If violence is a part of the
game, Sam nevertheless draws the
line when it comes to playing to
Climber records fall
Immln
eom
ticks of a stopwatch
all that separated the
limber boys' swimming
and the biggest upset in
league history last
esday in Shelton's
was the margin of
in the l lth, final and
event - the 400~
relay - as powerful
escaped with its
loss-free BHL record
the closest anyone has
to them in eight years
Black Hills," said a
Coach Doug Hanna
swimmers had fought
within striking distance
the last event only to
the decisive relay event,
Shelton's A team, the
needed at least a third
its B team to edge the
favored visitors, but Oly's
came in three seconds
ahead.
"It was my fault, really," said
Hanna. "I could have moved one
or two of my A swimmers to the
B team and thus balanced them a
bit, and we probably would have
won it on points."
Although they took only one
first outside of the relay team's
win in the 440, the Climbers used
their superior team depth to fight
back from a 15-point deficit
midway through the match to
trail by only six at the end.
Along the way, Shelton got
four school-record performances.
Chris Jackson established
Shelton's all-time fastest 200-yard
freestyle, coming in third at 1:58.
The fellas he lost to, Oly's Jon
and Gary Nelson, have an older
brother named Steve who last
year broke the prep 200-yard
freestyle record held by
little-known Mark Spitz.
Mike Pavel, though registering
a temperature of 101 before the
contest, ignored the flu bug long
earn
against
High School's varsity
teams ~split in Aberdeen
the girls posting a 2-1
the boys bowing 0-3.
Fonzo's 498 series led
while Patti Pleines had
honors with a 192.
had a 188
a 493 series to pace the
girls now have a 5-1
A
record while the boys are at 3-3.
The jayvee girls rode Penny
Pleines' 175 game and 488 series
to a sweep of their games, while
Rick Rose's 468 series paced the
jayvee boys' win.
Shelton travels to Olympia
January 14. Last night's match
with Centralia was too late for
write-up in this week's Journal.
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put a guy out of the game.
Deliberately aiming for a bad
knee, popping a recently
dislocated shoulder - they can be
an unspoken part of the game
even on the high school level, but
Sam sees no sense in such tactics.
"I can't see a coach telling a
guy to aim for a certain injury,'"
he said. "I wouldn't go along with
deliberately setting a guy up and
spearing him, for instance, but on
the other hand you should go out
with the idea of hitting him as
hard as you can so he'll be a little
gun-shy the next time and maybe
go down a little sooner."
Intimidation being what it is
in football - and particularly to a
linebacker - Sam admits to
utilizing some psychology now
and then to get the edge on an
opponent.
"Often a team will leave an
opposing guard open on me," he
explained, "and one thing I like
to do the first couple of plays is
give him a real good head slap,
really rap the guy. He'll be
ducking his head or holding back
the next time."
Sam started playing football
at the age of eight in Kirkland. "I
wasn't particularly big for my
age," he said. Weighing in at 174
pounds his sophomore year here
- no trilling matter, mind you -
Martin suddenly spurted to 195
his junior year and then to his
current weight of 215 this season.
He has not been without some
inspiration. Big brother Bob, 22,
who played one year for the
Climbers and established the
linebacking standards little
brother proceeded to shatter,
starred for the Huskies and nearly
made the Green Bay Packers of
the NFL this season.
Bob weighed in at 190 his
senior year at Shelton - but has
added 65 pounds since.
"I'd probably like to put on
maybe ten pounds for college
ball," mused the younger Martin,
"but mostly I'd like to be a little
quicker."
Sam's already been
approached by some pretty fair
football schools - among them
Notre Dame, Stanford, the U of
W and the University of Wyoming
- and the Climber says he expects
to get at least a couple offers
from "fairly major schools," as he
modestly puts it.
He also looks beyond to a
possible stint as a professional
football player.
"It would be great to play pro
ball," he admitted. "But I'm not
counting on it. If it happens,
great. I'll certainly be working
toward it in college, though."
Sam intends also to study
business - accounting, probably.
"I guess I'd like eventually to
have my own business," he said.
"But a couple of years of pro bali
would certainly help in getting a
name and the capital to get
started."
As thrilled as he is about
playing at the college level, Sam
admits he will miss the special
excitement of playing for the
Climbers. He'll miss the
community spirit, he says, and
the close comradeship of players
and coaches.
scare
enough to shatter Shelton records
in both the 100-yard butterfly
and the 200-yard individual
medley, capturing third place in
each with times of 1:00.9 and
2:18.7, respectively.
"Mike's a pretty tough kid,'"
said Coach Hannm "He's one of
those whb's never really
satisfied with anything he does.
For only swimming three months
out of the year, he's really
exceptional."
Hanna says he would
probably encourage his junior to
work more on swimming in light
of his outstanding potential,
except that Pavel also has an
excellent shot at a football
scholarship and Hanna says he
wouldn't want him to neglect that
sport.
The Climbers' other record
performance was turned in by
diver Frank Clark. Clark captured
Shelton's only individual victory,
outpointing runner-up Scan
Brown of Olympia 189.25 to
157.70 to establish a new school
standard.
The Climbers traveled to
North Thurston last night but
ly
results of the meet were not
available at press time. They have
byes the next two weeks and then
resume January 14 at Aberdeen.
Climber results in
Wednesday's meet with Olympia
are as follows:
200-yard medley relay --
Shelton A, second; Shelton B,
third.
200-yard freestyle -- Chris
Jackson, third; Brad Lyman,
fourth; Allen Eaton, fifth.
200-yard individual medley-
Mike Pavel, third; Eric Valley,
fifth; Greg Pavel, sixth.
50-yard freestyle -- Mike
Dale, second; Wes Stockwell,
third; Doug Coleman, fifth.
Diving -- Frank Clark, first;
Oliver Gray, third; Barry Morgan,
fourth.
100-yard butterfly -- Mike
Pavel, third; Joe Simpson, fourth;
Kevin Kent, sixth.
t 00-yard freestyle -- Chris
Jackson, second; Brad Lyman,
third; Wes Stockwell, fourth.
500-yard freestyle -- Eric
Valley, second; Allen Eaton,
third; Dan Cochran, fifth.
100-yard backstroke -- Tony
Benedict, second; Joe Simpson,
third; Greg Pavel, fourth.
100-yard breaststroke -- Mike
Dale, second; Dave Wicken, third;
Tracy Ridout, fourth.
400-yard freestyle relay --
Shelton A, first, 3:44.07; Shelton
B, fourth.
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3 p.m. 'til 7:30 p.m.
Win a prize as well as
your winning.
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"I remember the first time I
started for the Climbers," he
reminisces. "We were in our 'pride
period' before the game and the
coaches were telling us that it was
up to the linebackers to generate
things out there. It was like
everything was on our shoulders
- and I was kinda nervous."
The nervousness soon gave
way to efficiency, though. That
year, Sam's junior season, he
made an incredible 98 solo tackles
"... you probably wouMn't
want her, anyway...
as the Climbers copped first in the
state.
He recalls his greatest personal
exhilaration: "It was
Homecoming last year against
Chehalis - the game to determine
the league champ and the team
that would go on to the playoffs.
They had first and goal on the
two, and on the first two downs
they ran my way. I was in on the
stops but I was just one of several
guys.
"Then on third down we took
out their guard and I was
one-on-one against their ball
carrier. I dropped him for a yard
loss." Chehalis' desperation
fourth-down try came up short
and it was all over. Shelton won
7-2.
Sam also recalls his most
embarrassing moment - a rare
one for him. It came in an earlier
game against Timberline.
"I had a touchdown scored
right over me," he said. 'Whey
had a first and goal'on the four
and they kept running this
230.pound fullback at us. On
third down our line took out both
of his blockers, so I had no one to
worry about but him.
"I remember him getting up
in the end zone, pushing off of
me as he did it, and he gave me
this big smile."
For all his enthusiasm over
the sport, Martin likes to keep
football in perspective. "It's
something I enjoy and I do well,"
he said, "but there are a lot more
important things in life. How you
get along with people is the
important thing."
Still, Sam's not so sure about
the advisability of getting along
too well right now with certain
non-male types.
"Some coaches do kinda
discourage football players from
getting too awful involved with
girls, all right," admitted Martin,
who insists his slate remains clean.
"I guess they figure a girl might
get in the way of a guy's really
putting out for football.
"But if you had a girl friend
who was always trying to talk you
out Of making turnouts," he
added, the right side of his mouth
curling upward again, "you
probably wouldn't want her
anyway, right?"
GRAPPLERS Dale Brewer and Wayne Devaney (headless)
tune up for the busy weekend. For story, see page 15.
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By HERB WILLIAMS
Heavy rains or melting snow can spell big trouble for anglers who
like to drift rivers for steelhead, because high water often makes drastic
changes in a river.
Old familiar stumps, logs, sand bars, log jams and even large
boulders can be swept away with the powerful surge of high water. The
current can cut new channels in places.
At the same time, log jams are formed in different places and rapids
can become different enough so that they take a different appraoch
than before.
This makes it all the more important to check out a river on foot
before drifting it, even if you have drifted it before. If some reliable
friend has drifted it since high water, you can get your information
from him.
But even if someone has told you of changes, a safe thing to do is
pull your boat out of the water at the first sign of new white water or a
log jam and check it out on foot first. With this knowledge you then
stand a good chance of making it through with no trouble.
Good sources of information for conditions on a river or changes
since high water are sports shops in the immediate area.
Plastic sacks can be a big help on a camping trip to save space and
do away with some of the food preparation and dish washing that take
away from the real purpose of the trip - the fishing, hunting or loa£mg.
Pack all the dry ingredients such as flour, salt, sugar and so on for
pancakes or biscuits in a heavy plastic sack. Put just enough for one
meal in each sack. Label the sacks by placing a slip of paper in each
sack telling what the mixture is for and how much milk, water or egg to
add.
When meal time rolls around, add the liquid and then mix by
kneading the sack. Pour or squeeze the batter or dough into your pan
or onto the griddle.
When the sack is empty, you can discard it. If you have a saving
streak in your nature, you can rinse the sack out lightly so it will hold
for a couple of days, then give it a complete washing when you get
home.
Sports twenty-five years ago
1st & Cota Shelton
SPORTS SPECS:
GIANT STEELHEAD ON DISPLAY
Omer Dion's 26-pound steelhead was a traffic-pulling
attraction when it was displayed at Jack Stewart's Sporting
Goods Store for two days and an evening last week.
Thursday evening Jack had to stay open almost two hours
overtime to accommodate the continual parade of viewers
which came in to see the 41zk'' fish Dion caught in the
Chehalis River.
Among them was Cliff Harrison, outdoor life and
fishing and hunting editor of the Seattle P.I., who was in
town to speak at the Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Jack estimated at least 200 persons viewed the Dion
steelhead Thursday. The finny prize was caught on the
Chehalis about a mile and a half below the mouth of' the
Satsop. Dion bagged the lunker using 15-pound test leader ;
and a cluster of eggs. ; .~ ~ :~,,_
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