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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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"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.
"As for the season itself, I
was satisfied with my season
because I had finally made a
college team,despite my circum
stances," Allee said.
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