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.
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The College's men's and
en's bowling teams began to]
signs of improvement despite!
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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
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carried both the high game
and high series (450).
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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
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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.
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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
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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