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    Voting continues as Sanders, Reed survive in Oregon's Greatest Athletes poll

    Three of the five wrestlers among the 64 athletes in the original bracket for Oregon's Greatest Athlete online poll are still in the running for that title, with Rick Sanders and Robin Reed winning their Round of 32 matchups Monday ... and Jess Lewis, Oregon State heavyweight of the late 1960s, battling today to join those two late mat champs in the Sweet Sixteen.

    Lewis, two-time NCAA heavyweight champ, 1968 Olympian, and All-American defensive tackle for the Beavers, is going up against Nick Symmonds, a middle-distance track champ for NCAA Division III Willamette University in Salem, Ore. a decade ago. Wrestling fans from anywhere in the world can cast their votes online in this poll sponsored by The Oregonian newspaper of Portland by clicking here.

    Robin Reed
    In voting concluded Tuesday, two late, legendary wrestlers with ties to colleges in Oregon came out winners in their matches. Robin Reed, Oregon State wrestler and coach early in the 20th century who won a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics, defeated women's soccer star Tiffeny Milbrett, 67.8% (579 votes) to 32.2% (275 votes). Sadly for fans of the oldest and greatest sport, the other Round of 32 match-up was wrestler against wrestler ... with Rick Sanders, Portland State champ who died weeks after winning a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics, edging out Les Gutches, two-time NCAA champ for Oregon State in the mid-1990s. Sanders received 437 votes, or 51.96% of the vote ... while the former Beaver got 404 votes, resulting in 48.04% of the tally.

    Last week, Les Gutches' nephew Brock Gutches, who just won his fourth NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) champ at Southern Oregon University, lost his Round of 64 match-up, and was eliminated from the competition.
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