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hfield College, the men’s and
men's cross country teams
to Lane Community
ollege Saturday, for the
jtrie Franklin Memorial in
gene.
The women’s team runs
|)00 meters at 11 a.m. while
e men’s squad journeys
,000meters at noon.
The Cougars will have a
ghtedge over many of their
Junter-parts Saturday, which
| consist of nearly every
diversity and junior college in
estate.
‘It will be a good workout for
I the teams that show up,”
lid Buck Monroe, men’s
En.
The edge for the men’s team
their first slated victory again -
Lane Community College,
tiich has dominated the male
ack scene for close to seven
years. The men left the In
vitational with a 57-84 nab
over Lane. The University of
Nevada’s J.V. squad snagged
second, with 79 and Idaho
Community College placed
fourth.
Lane’s top man, David
Magness, was absent for the
Sept. 16 run, and according to
Monroe, the number one man
means so much to the team’s
overall success.
“If everything goes well this
season, and we beat Lane with
Magnes at full strength, we
have the potential to win the
title,” he said.
In his 10-year reign as chief
of the men’s team, “this has to
be the best yet,” he said.
The turnout for cross country
was also the largest, 14 is com
pared to a dismal seven last
year. Monroe cites depth in this
year’s team as the main
ingredient to their early boom.
“Between the first and five
top men, is a slight 45 second
separation,” he said. “To add
to that, there are about three or
four men who come very close
to the top five in potential.”
For the women, the edge of
course is their national title.
While it might seem a slight
disadvantage, for most teams
to uphold that prestige, Cougar
coach Roger Smith seems
surely confident that his girls
can come on equally, if not
stronger this season.
“By my estimation, there’s
been-a 30 to 40 percent im
provement over last
year’s
team,” he said.” And while the
other teams will have refined
tod, we still have our eyes set at
regional and state.”
“Everyone
must
stay
healthy,’’Smith said.
By the results of their last vic
tory, at the hands of Linfield,
they’re doing just that. Though
the 25-32 route doesn’t exactly
move one, before the victory
the girls were running daily
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Roberts
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The elements that make this
year’s team so strong, seems to
be the freshman lineup in
Barinaga, another standout,
Mary Hanson from Reed-
spoint, and many of the
women are unassuming about
their real talents and poten
tiality, according to Smith.
Men’s coach Buck Monroe is
hopeful for the choicest season
in his coaching career at the
College. On the top, he expec
ts plenty of solid performances
from
Doug
Oberst,
a
sophomore from Milwaukie,
who led the squad in Nevada
with a third place time, A A
freshman state champ Dave
Ellison, and freshmen Mark
Allen and Mark Travis, who
placed ninth and twelfth
respectively. Both coaches are
looking forward to a exciting
and competative seasons.
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doubles for two weeks solid,
and also altitude running,
which, “accomplishes twice as
much,” Smith said.
“We are one of the few
teams on the west coast that in
corporate it into our training
program,” he said.
At the Linfield meet, the
standout was freshman Lean-
dra Barinaga, who “ran away
from the entire pack, minutes
in front of the number two girl,”
Smith said. “It wasn’t even
really a race.”
Coming in third was
sophomore Lisa Nickel. The
team also brought home a fifth,
seventh and ninth place stan
ding.
Though the season is in its
early form, Smith expects to
maintain the teams national
standing.
“We’re not really training for
tomorrow,” he said, “we’re
The Clackamas women’s
volleyball team is optimistic of
the 1978-79 season. They
have a lot to shoot for. Last
year the team not only cap
tured state and regional titles,
but also a berth in the
nationals.'
“Yes, I’m definitely expec
ting, a lot out of this team,”
Coach Mary Rubright said..
“We’re much stronger as far as
volleyball knowledge is con
cerned and we have more
talent than last year’s team.
Because of this, we will be able
to play a more sophisticated
type of game.”
If a weakness can be found
in last years’ team it would
have to be in the spiking depar
tment. But, that will not be the
case with this seasons’ team,
according to Rubright.
“Our attack will be stronger
this year because we have a
much taller team and this will
help our spiking tremen
dously,” Rubright said.
Tammy Hinds, last years’ all-
region, all-state, all-America
player, will be missed. The
aquistion of two strong hitterts,
Nancy Perkins of Sandy and
Kelly Kosik of Franklin, should
more than fill the void left
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“Of couse we’ll miss Tammy
but Nancy and Kelly are fine
players and I’m sure that with
a little development and ex
perience they will come
through,”
Rubright
said
“Tracey Shelton, Mary Manley
and Sue Shirley will also help
immensely, as they are all very
talented all-around players with
great potential.”
Only one player returns from
last years’ team, that being
Tami White. With the addition
of six players to last years’
roster of eight, Coach Rubright
finds herself in the enviable
position of choosing from a
crop of high school stars with
much volleyball experience.
Denise McGregor, Day
Bradley, Jeri Trosko, Lisa
Laurent, Monica Reed, Karra
Kruse, Carrie Browning and
Terri Epidendio are all new
players with good ability.
With such an abundance of
young, talent from different
backgrounds,
one
might
question the team’s attitude,
but Coach Rubright sees no
problem here.
“The team has a very open
attitude
and
the
com
munication is there,” she said.
“The mixture of talent and at
titude is rare and if we can mix
that with the gutsiness of last
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Although Rubright declines
to make any predictions, the
team has set some realizable
goals.
“Right now the team has
three goals which we would
like to accomplish.” Rubright
said. “First, work harder that
we ever have before, at
anything. Second, play as a
team. I know that’s old cliche’
but in volleyball, probably more
than any other sport, playing as
a team means winning. And
third, be number one in our
league.
“From there we’ll set new
goals,” she said.
The team, however, must
face a new problem this year as
Clackamas has moved from
being an independent into the
eight-team Oregon Com
munity
College
Athletic
Association where they must
finish nqmber one or two in or
der to reach the regionals.
Whether or not they will have
the guts to pull it off is im
possible to predict but the
certainly
looks
future
promising.
Clackamas begins it’s season
at home against Clark on Oct.
3 and from there will travel to
Pendleton to face Chemeketa
before returning home to play
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