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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1978)
sports a Clackamas wrestlers lost 27—12 to Grays Harbor last Friday at home but provided fans with some exciting matches. Ron Geister, 158 pounds, pinned his opponent with :26 left in the second round. Geister was leading the match 4—2 when he fell to the Choker's Tony Cosby. Tim Jones, 167 pounds, and Rocky Schneider, 177 pounds, ended with decisions in their favor. Close matches created tension with heavyweight Jeff Bergsma losing 4—5 and 190 pounder Craig Wallace being decisioned 2—4. Wes Odgers, 134 pounds, came close to his foe in the second round but to no avail as he lost 6—9. His 150 pound brother, Kurt, could do no better than 3—13 in his bout with Grays Harbor's Elroy Thompson. Tom Burghardt, 142 pounds, and Tom Gil bo, 118 pounds, suffered losses of 7—11 and 12—18, respectively. The Cougars also hosted the Clackamas Invitational Tournament on Saturday. They took a respectable fourth behind league power Grays Harbor, Highline and Oregon State JV's, in that order. Jones was the only individual champion for the Cougars. Other top placers were Schneider in second, Geister in third and Wallace in fourth. Ron Geister (top) inflicts pain on grappler opponent then quickly puts him away with a pin. ■ I The College's men's and en's bowling teams began to] signs of improvement despite! I The college gym will re main open to the public on Sundays and will be set for different activities. From 1 to 3 p.m. volley ball, badminton and other activities, excluding basket ball, will be played. Basket ball can be played from 3 to 6 p.m. More information is avail able from the Community Services office at 656-2631, ext. 232. Rocky Schneider takes command of opponent enroute to a win in last weekend's tourney. Two ACU-I tourney events have been completed while the others are expected to be done at the end of January. In Chess competition, Richard Becker took first with Neal Lorenzan and John Phillips, second and third. respectively, In women's table tennis the two qualifiers for region- als are Lee Jones in first and Michelle Hakanson in second. "Men's table tennis is be hind," said Debbie Baker, Student Activities Director. "We had omitted some names so we had to start over." • "A frisbee contest will also be held sometime in the near future," Baker said. "They just informed me it will be an event this winter instead in the spring. teams' narrow losses to Mt. Community College, Jan. 18.1 The matches were the firs f( both teams since the first ha regular season play ended bl Christmas vacation. The matches were close al way as both teams dropped] first games, while winning ■ second, and narrowly losing thl third game along with the maH For the girls'team, Jill CiaB (iB carried both the high game and high series (450). ■ Joe Monise bowled high garfl for the men with a 185 andlliii wiB West carried high series 527 total. Next match is the ACU-I Region Games Tournament which will be: held in Eugene, Feb. 3 and 4. ■ Hoopsters turn around season with two win By Randy Frank Of The Print The College men's basketball team ran their league winning streak to four last week with victories over Umpqua Commun ity College and South West Ore gon Community College. Cougars, as a team, hit 83 per cent of their freethrows on 15—18. Saturday's game with South West Oregon Community College (SWOCC) saw the Cougars come from five points behind with three minutes to play and win in over time, 41—39. Tied at the half with 15,SWOCC built a five point lead at 35—30 on ■■■ The game with Umpqua last Friday, Jan. 19, saw the Cougars gain a 34—26 half-time advantage and then come from five points behind on the strength of some clutch freethrows, to win 71—65. The freethrow shooting of the Cougars was the difference of the ballgame as Clackamas shot only 40 percent from the field, but they made 10 more freethrows than Umpqua. Center Preston Martin led the winners with 24 points with Jim Coffman and Tom Terrill adding 16 and 15 respectively. I Terrill was the Cougar sparkplug in the team's comeback as he had 13 of his 14 points in the second half. Terrill was also one of the few hot shooters for the Cougars as he hit 5—6 from the field and 5—6 from the charity stripe. The Page 6 Jeff Nilsen and opponent from Judson Baptist look as though the roof is falling, Nilsen scored 16 points to aid in the Cougar win. the strength of a deliberate slow down type of basketball. However, the score was 35—32 when Brian Smith was fouled with 5 seconds remaining and went to the line for two shots. After making the first one, Terrill told Smith to deliberately miss.the second shot. Smith missed the shot and Dan "Slick tipped the ball in and sent the game into overtime with the score tied at 35. record puts them only three® behind and with a chance to up even more ground] as] battle Central Oregon Wed. tl and Lane Community Col Saturday at home. In overtime, after battling to a 39—39 tie, the Cougars had the ball with only 30 seconds left to play and with the opportunity to work for the final shot. With seven seconds left, Slick faked a reverse lay-up and hit an open Mark Schroeder. Schroeder's shot at the horn gave the Cougars the 41—39 victory. "The reason for the team's turnaround is that they are start ing to play together as a unit and they know now that they can win. Confidence in themselves is 80 percent of the ballgame," said Head Coach Len Tirrill. After losing their first four league contests, the Cougars have reversed the score. Their 4-4 Tom Tirrill gets a long help hand from center Preston Mai during a recent home game. Clackamas Community Coll