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r sports Track team meets rival The Clackamas men's track team will start it's pre-season schedule this Saturday in the Icebreaker Meet at Linfield Col lege in McMinnville. "This is the winter starting meet," Les Tipton, head coach said. "We'll be competing,as the Clackamas Community Track Club and will use the meet pri marily to see where we are in our training." "The runners will be doing overdistance to what they usually run. We'll be checking their pacework mainly," Tipton said. Eric Holstrom from West Linn High School will run'the 5000 meters along with College par ticipants Ken Wanvig and Doug Oberst. In the 1500 meters Kelly Britz and Don Brown will look The Faculty vs Five The faculty intramural basket ball team will play Team Five, composed of students in the semi-final round of the tourna ment this week. Team Five beat Team Two, 77-48, with Brad Roberts and Mike LeRoy leading them with 19 and 16 points respectively. Doug Williams and Mike Schnase tried in vain to score. Between teams, they could only muster 19 points. The faculty team boasts Paul Fiskum, Frank Harlow, Dan Con nell, Ron Hoodye, Tom Connell, and Len Tirrill. Team Five consists mostly of other sport athletes. They are Tony Terry, Ken Nance, Dave Turin, Mark Nugen, Tom Hagen- son, John Killen, Joe Jones, Zelmo Sprague, Gary Baune, and the aforementioned Leroy and Roberts. Other games played last week were between teams Four and Six with Four the victor. Don Brown hit 18 and Steve Gusto- vich put in 17 for the winners while Randal Cramplin had 30 for his team. One conquered eight, 53-45, due largely to the remarkable shooting abilities of Keith Perk ins. Perkins scored 13 points while the opponent's high scorer, Jim Bar, tallied 18 points. for wins as will Joseph Jones in in the 440 meters. Dave Rudishauser and Tom Winters will compete in the 800 meters while Steve Maynard is still a question mark because of a muscle tightness problem. Another question mark is whether or not Tony Terry and Keith Self will run the 400 meter hurdles. "If they do run it will be a hard test for them. It is a hard way to get broken in for the season," Tipton said. In the field events Randy Bolliger, Dan Jackson, and Gary Kuhn will rival in the shot put and/or discus. Bolliger's special ty is the shot put and Jackson's the discus. Other than Dave Reed, the school record holder in the triple jump, no other jump« compete. Mark Nugen a decathi the alternative to compete! or three different events. 1 Possibilities in the 100 A and the triple jump are Rof White and Ismond Wat] spectively. "There's been a good turnout by 15-20 interest! pie," Tipton said. "Th the mainstays and have preparing themselves well] "We're taking this rill ously. With all the meed take them one at a tin] want to instill and enlarge! this attitude," Tipton said.1 Among the schools I tending for the meet titP be a mixture of communi] leges and four year schools Mitch Allee*. Who says older isn't better Mitch Allee is a name that won't jump out on the page when the Clackamas Community College mens basketball statis tics are released, because he doesn't score 20 points a game or grab an outstanding number of rebounds. Allee is the type of player that coaches dream of. Although the oldest player on the team, he admits to giving 100 percent in everything he does. By Randy Frank Of The Print Allee started his sports career in football, but decided he couldn't fulfill his potential and that he needed another sport to work at. It was, of course, basketball. In 1971, Allee's sophomore year in high school, he found that playing time was scarce and didn't play again until his senior year at Springfield High School. Allee joined a city league basketball team during that year called the Slaughterhouse Five plus Four and averaged 12 points a game for them. Following his 1973 gradu ation, Allee joined the Army and after basic training was trans ferred to West Germany. He was assigned to the recreation depart ment as an aid. Allee worked his way up from a tour guide on the Rhine River and Heidelberg Castle to a three-month stint on the ski patrol on the Austrian border. In 1974 he was named Rec creation Director of a 5,000- soldier camp. His main duties were to conduct activities in the camp's gymnasium. In 1975, Allee joined a city all-star team, the Milcorh Wild cats, as a player/coach. Allee led the team to a 14-10 record and scored 10.5 points a game. Allee's big break came the following season when he joined the Aschaflenberg Suhs again as a player/coach for the 1976-77 season. The Suns, an European Army all-star team up to par with college-level ball in the United States, took third in their East ern division of the league with a 12-8 record. "The opportunity provided the extra self-confidence that I needed and it also provided skill and knowledge," Allee said. During that same year, Allee coached a junior high team made up of U.S. Army dependents (children from army and civilian base worker families) to a 10-5 record and the Marneland Cham pionships. The year also brought to a close Allee's army tour and he returned home with hopes of playing college basketball. "I came to Clackamas basi cally because my brother played football here in 1973-74. My folks live in West Linn and I thoaght it would be close to home," Allee said. Once he decided on Clacka mas, Allee decided to try out for the basketball team. "I felt that I could make the team because of my experience before and overseas," Allee said. "It was really a challenge for me to make the team and I felt that I would like to give it a try." . Allee survived all the team cuts except one. On Nov. 9, his birthday, Allee was cut from the team. Gym Open ' Page 6 "However, I wasn't satified with my performance but it just give me encouragement for next year". "I felt that he (Allee) helped our team a lot this year," fresh man forward Dan Slick said. "Mitch had one of the best attitudes on the team and never failed to give 100 percent," forward Jeff Nilsen said. "It's just too bad that he had to get that bad break and have to start so late, because I know how hard it was for him to work him self back on the team." "Mitch had one of the best attitudes on my team this year," Tirill said. Wrestling Thu 2 Fri 3 Sat 4 ’ .■ - J Bowling Sat 4 655-3212 Biotic Nutrition fill w j *■ SUPPLEMENTS. 11:00 McMinnville 9:00 420 Portland Ave., Glads] 656-9143 VITAMINS Tournament ] Mitch Allee NJCAA Tourney All Day Minnesota Linfield I I SNACKS AND POOL HEALTH FOODS Mens Track Sat 4 "Even though he start! and didn't get a chance l much, he was always end ing the team on. He evJ some votes for the Most! rational Player." "Next season I think I just as good a chance as a] who's going to be out] training camp," Allee saidf "I plan to be in top pn condition when I go ba I'm going to work hard] aspect on my game bo offense and defense. "However, next year challenging. All the guar cept Jim Coffman will be ri ing and there will also be: guards to compete with. B feel that I have the abili! make the team--l just hl put it down on the court,"Al said. "As far as basketball in future, I would like to gel coaching," Allee said. "I already had some experie] coaching and I would lit get into it further. "I don't think that I! to play past next season bfl that was my goal--to play] years of college ball for the perience to help my coachira GLADSTONE CARD R001 SPORTS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS r The college gym will remain open to the public on Sundays and will be set for different activities. From 1 to 3 p.m. volley ball, badminton and other activi ties, excluding basketball, will be played. Basketball can be played from 3 to 6 p.m. More information is avail- able at 656-2631,ext.232. "The decision came as a real shock to me but I thought I'd Work really hard and make the team next year," Allee said. "After Christmas, I came back and talked with the coach (Len Tirrill) and learned that a couple of players had quit the team. After that he agreed to let me back on. "The hardest part about com ing back was getting back in shape. Even though I'd continue working out after being cut I wasn't in the top physical shape I needed to be," he said. "I also had to re-learn the plays I had forgotten and learn new plays. One thing about learning plays is that you have to get reaction time," Allee said. "It's not something that you can think about and do, you have to react to it. It takes a lot of practice and I don't think I have ever quite gotten it down to reacting to the plays." The basketball itself went much like his situation on the team, just barely hanging in there. He was the fifth guard on the team and the only time he got a chance to play was if Clackamas was way ahead or way behind. "I didn't mind being the backup guard because I knew that I had been cut and I was actually getting a second chance to play again," Allee said. "So, I didn't mind not get ting much playing time. I was more concerned about doing the best I could all the time whet her it be in practice or in a game," he said. 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