Cougar kickers drop two
i Clackamas Cougars,
ng their 1978 soccer
I, stumbled offensively
e finally falling to the
on
Institute
of
nology, 5-1 Saturday,
30.
ach Rich Taylor’s kickers,
ig on O.I.T.’s home field
lamath Falls, sputtered
of the afternoon, while
'.’s Romeo Salazar have
it Clackamas a lesson in
ig, firing four goals for the
e team. Salazar, from
¡co, single handedly
oyed the Cougars defense
ie was really good,” Taylor
“But, he had a lot of ex-
nce. At times, he made
lefense look bad. But, we
really didn’t play that poorly.”
Clackamas spent most of the
game on defense. The inability
to move the ball upfield proved
fatal for the kickers, as they
played seventy-five minutes,
out of ninety, in their own third
of the field. The play of defen
sive standouts, Dennis Blauvelt
and Ken Froescher, kept
Clackamas from being blown
out of the contest.
a penalty kick following an his third goal of the game past
illegal substitution by the Owls, Titrud. Four minutes later,
Gregorio
Manzano,
the Salazar finished the scoring
Cougars right-inside striker, with his fourth goal.
drove the ball past the goal line
“Our lack of experience hurt
for Clackamas’ only score.
us again,” Taylor said. “We did
But, the kicker’s celebration play better than our game last
was short lived, thanks to Wednesday, but we still made
Salazar. Breaking through some mental mistakes.”
Clackamas’ four fullback
Last Saturday, Clackamas
defense, the Owl’s striker rifled traveled to the University of
“Those two, plus goalie Tim
Titrud played excellent defense
the entire game,” Taylor said,
“Titrud made several outstan
ding saves.”’
With
the
score
3-0,
Clackamas came alive on of
fense. Moving the ball up the
field with much more authority
than earlier in the game, the
Cougars pressured O.I.T. into
making some mistakes. Getting
’s V-bailers
me start
Editor
ng off a disappointing
! season loss to Clark
unity
College
on
ly, the Clackamas
n’s Volleyball team
back this weekend to
three straight league
he Tuesday loss was an
ecially disheartening one as
ckamas took the first two
lesfrom Clark, 15-11 and
14, before falling 2-15, 8-
and 12-15. But coach Mary
bright didn’t feel the team
«the match.
'Sure we were ahead,”
bright said, “but Clark has
extremely good team. I’m
ifident we can beat them but
was our first match and
arybody played.”
On Friday, Clackamas
veled to Pendleton to con
st Blue Mountain and
iemeketa in league matches,
ie team had little trouble with
her club as they disposed of
kmeketa 15-10,’ 15-2,
fere rompinq Blue Mountain
6,15-6
he loss to Clark did take
ee toll on the women,
vever, as they starred slow
linst Chemeketa before
“bing back into the match
1 winning in straight games,
•against Blue Mountain it
We started kind of slow
a'nst Chemeketa,” Rubriaht
F “But in the Blue Mountain
everybody played well
P we seemed to really jell
per.”
The fact that the Blue
MoUntairt match wfehf so'wellls
especially pleasing to Rubright.
“Blue Mountain has a very
strong team and, quite frankly,
I was worried,” Rubright said,
“I knew we would win but we
would have to play very well.
And we did. Everybody just
played fantastic.”
On Saturday, Clackamas
nad to call on all the strength it
could master to beat a fired up
Lane Community College
team.
After losing the first game
11-15, and falling behind in the
second 5-10, Clackamas made
good the saying, “when the
going get’s tough, the tough get
going.” .
Rallying behind the con
sistent serving of Monica Reed,
and the aggressive play of
Nancy Perkins, Lisa Laurent
and Kelly Kosik, Clackamas
surged from behind to take the
second game 16-14, and the
third 15-11. This gutsy effort,
coming at a time when it was
most needed, encouraged
Rubright.
“It’s consoling to know that
the players you depend on,
can come through for you
when you need them. Monica
never missed a serve all day,
and Lisa and Kelly really came
through. Nancy too,” Rubright
said.
Clackamas is _ now 3-0 in
league play and will face Cen
tral Oregon
Community
College and Umpqua, Friday
and then travel to Albany,
Saturday to meet with Linn-
Benton and Southwestern
Oregon Community College,
in league matches.
[«lnesday, October 11,1978
Team prepares for Saturday’s home opener
Oregon for a single contest
against a tough and ready
Duck team.
The Cougs’, however, held
their own and were in the game
till the very end before losing 3-
1.
Smith was impressed with
his team’s efforts and commen
ted on its improvement.
“The whole team has improved
three-hundred per cent since
the.start of the season,” Smith
said, “and the amount of im
provement last night was in
credible.”
Naturally with experience
the club will improve, but
Smith sees a need to work
more on defense.
“We used a new defense
against U of O and it was ob
vious we needed more ex
perience using it. Besides, we
need to settle on positions.
Guys have been playing three
or four positions a game, but
soon we will go to a set line
up,” Smith said.
Once again Manzano was the
bright spot on offense as he
scored the Cougars only goal.
Clackamas plays Saturday in
its first home game of the
season.
How good the Clackamas
Soccer team is has yet to be
seen. Only experience, or lack
of it, will tell.
Cross-country teams developing
By Kelly Laughlin
Mark McNeary
Leandra Baranoga hurried
to a first place time with a
minute of breath to spare,
separating her and second
place Lisa Nicke., as the girls
cross country team took the
Cross Country Classic at
McIver Park, near Estacada
Saturday.
The starting gun, fired at 1
p.m.,
prompted
“Koger
Smith’s girls to truck ahead of
OCE, Idah o Junior College,
and other competetors, and
bolster a 22-88 victory over the
University of Oregon, con
sidered the team to stop on that
day. The University’s Lori Alz-
ner turned in third place, which
Cougar Mary Hansen, “Miss
consistency,” said Smith,
brought home fourth.
“Mary ran very well,” Smith
said. “I can almost count on
her like the sun coming up,”
With Nickel slating her best
run of the season, according to
Smith, he thinks his girls are
running even better than last
year, at this time.
But much like last season,
the hard work hasn’t really star
ted yet. Smith considers this
Saturdays game against Cen
tral Oregon
his closest
challenge.
“We won’t be running to
whip them,”he said. “Ideally,
we’d like to have our girls no
more than 1.5 seconds apart
toward the middle of the run.”
Smith cited this ‘bunching
up’ as a important factor in the
strategy of cross country run
ning.
“It’s not numbers, but quality
that wins the race,” he said.
While one might get the im
presión, by their finish at the
classic, that Smith’s girls are
literally running their hearts
out, the workouts, according to
Smith, have been low key to
date.
“It’s too early in the season
to start running too hard,” he
said.
A prime example is Vicki
Pattack, who was kept off the
track Saturday, due to some
hip inflamation.
“Basically, she was just
working a little too hard, we
hope to have her running by
this Saturday,” he said.
On Sept. 30, the Clackamas
Mens cross-country team
traveled to Eugene to run in a
meet which featured University
of Oregon runners Chapa and
Salazar, as well as Joseph Nzau
Kenyon of the University of
Wyoming. With these kinds of
names involved, one might
wonder what a small college
like Clackamas is . doing
“messing with the big boys.”
“This was an outstanding
cross-country meet,” said
assistant coach Les Tipton,
“and we competed very well,
considering.”
Once again Doug Oberst
paced the Cougars with a 27
place finish out of a field of
124. Oberst was also the num
ber three finisher out of the
community college entries.
Besides Oberst’s 27th place,
Clackamas placed five other
runners in the top 70. Dave
Ellison came in 31. Dan
Cobine 40, Mark Allen 62,
Mark Travis 63, and Joe
Rubrecht 69.
Tipton was totally pleased
with his team’s performance
and explained that a meet like
this could only aid the club-.
“Being at this type of meet is
an inspiration to most run
ners,” Tipton said. “Some of
the best quality runners in the
U. S. were there and Doug,
Dave and Joe turned wuper ef
forts. Also Keith Self showed
> that he was capable of running
the full cross-country distance.”
The Cougars are a vastly im
proving cross-countrv team
with much talent and, this Tip
ton sees as quite a plus.
“We’ve been getting guys
like Mark Allen and Mark
Travis doing big things in a
tough meet like this and that is
definitely a good sign,” Tipton
said.
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