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Kickers await next year
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In the last week of play,
though, the coach saw “com
munication” as the team’s most
evident difficulty.
“We had some good team
work at times, but the other
teams just seemed to want the
ball more,” he said.
A letdown in confidence
came after 15 minutes of con
trol early in the game aginst
Judson Baptist. “As soon ,as
the other, team scored, our
team got the impression that
they had lost the game. It
became even more difficult to
shake off the anxiety, when
they scored three more goals in
as little as three minutes,”
Taylor said.
Communication is crucial,
especially in soccer, according
to Taylor.
“They have to keep talking
out there in order to keep the
ball moving up the field, ând,
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ter upsets to the likes of
on Baptist and Lane
bmunity College, the
ege soccer team will head
ewis and Clark College for
final game of regular
on play Friday. The two
B pulled back their current
on record to 2-6-1.
ie,recent defeats have
ened the squad’s overall
lidence. Coach Rich
or says this year has “been
»building year.”
Ihey’re a young team,
owe started this year, very
of them had any actual
experience in soccer. At
She team had to overcome
¡¡duals outdoing team
¡. Then we had too much
work, passing and such,
pot enough actual scoring
hpts,” he said.
Cougar soccer players take
tice session.
as a result, know when people
are open,” he said. Taylor also
cited that with a young team
like his, a loss comes harder. “It
does a lot to their desire for a
win,” he said.
Injuries, though not a major
factor in letdown of the team’s
performance, has been part of
it. Ken Froescher, with six stit
ches from the recent P.C.C.
game, was only able to play the
first half against Lame. Randy
Dorin, coping with 16 stitches
in his head was unable to move
the ball with it. Sirous Salem,
was in no condition to perform
on the field, with stitches in his
arm and leg. “We couldn’t use
him for more than 10 minutes
in either game,” he said.
The coach said that for
Friday’s game, the team will
work to “stop hanging their
the ball downfield in a prac heads and generate the offense
for an early score. If we can do
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this, it will be more difficult for
the other team to get anything
going against us.”
With five solid freshmen—
Eric Baker, Gary Regier, Doug
cross-country team strives for.
Hostetler, Froescher and Ran-
And if the old tried arid true
characteristics' of a winner are .dy Dorse, Taylor is optimistic
for next year.
still worth anything,, the
“These guys will make up
Clackamas men’scross-country the heart of next years team,”
team could be on its way to the
he. „said. “They’re some ex
nationals.
cellent players.”
Male Cougar runners peaking
(ark McNeary
th.
“These kids ran real well, as
they always do,” coach Buck
Monroe said. “Mark had a real
strong day and Doug and
Dave, well they did too. ”
,Kieth Self finished a strong
eighth for the Cougars and
Monroe felt his effort was a
marked ope.
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momemtum has anything
jwith a team’s success, the
lamas Men’scross-country
i certainly has an edge
g into this weekend’s state
regionals in Coos Bay.
ie Cougars ran away with
¡■day's meet winning easily
¡6 over Portland Com
ity College, the second
eteam. Three other teams
! entered in the meet but
[of, them could not record
B because of a lack of run
“Keith had his best run
ever,” Monore said. “He was
our number four team finisher.
His improvement over the
season has been fantasic.”
Sickness and injury had been
a worry for Monroe before the
meet with Joe Rubrecht and
Dan Cobine ailing, but after
wards Monroe was re-assured.
“Dan and Joe ran in this
pug Oberstt and Dave
n finished one and two ,
jectively for Clackamas,
i Mark Allen came in four
meet just for the work-out,”
Monroe said. “But they looked
pretty good anyway, and they
should be up to par for next
week,”
Saturday’s first place effort,
coming this close to state and
regional competition and at a
time when the team was not at
full strength, is sure to give the
Cougars momentum, but con
fidence is a key attainment
here, too.
“I’m confident we can do
well, and, after Saturday the
team has to be, too,” Monroe
said.
The Cougars have a lot
going for them going into this
weekend’s big meet. Momen
tum , confidence and health are
three of the major attributes a
V-Ballers win tourney
lie Colleges women’s
tyball team prepped for this
fends’ big league match
Central Oregon Com
ity College in a big way by
ling the COCC round-
|i tournament last Satur-
paturday’s first match, the
wars gained revenge for a
¡earlier in the season by
Ming host team COCC 15-
1-10. The College then
on to defeat Umpqua
Jmunity College 15-0, 15-
linn-Benton 15-5, 15-10;
Oregon Institute of
jnology 15-13, 15-4.
Se played real good
all,” said coach Mary
mt. “It takes quite a bit to
hough a tourney like that
intothe finals, but we did
k”
the semi-finals the Cougs
[again faced OIT and after
losing the first game, their only
loss of the day, went on to win
handily, 15-4, 15-3.
“Karren came in when
Monica (Reed) fell into some
chairs,,” Rubright said. “She did
a great job of setting and
staying aggressive. She hasn’t
played that much this year and
so I was real pleased.”
In the finals, the Cougars
faced COCC, and once again
the Cougars had little, trouble in
disposing of them in two
games, 15-7, 15-12.
The play of Lisa Laurent was
a major factor in the Cougs first
place finish.
“Lisa had the best all-around
tournament of. anyone,”
Rubright said. . “She played
very .intelligently and varied her
attack real well. I was happy to
see her come on.”
Monica Reed also had an
especially good day.
“In two of the games Monica
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servd our first nine points and
in the Umpqua match she ser
ved the first ten. So she did real
well too,” Rubright said. “It was
just an overall good effort by
• the whole team.”
The Cougars also split a pair
of matches last Wednesday,
beating Clark Community
College and falling to Mt. Hood
in two non-league encounters.
This weekend the Cougars
finished out their league sh-
cedule at home with matches
on Friday versus COCC and
Umqua beginningat 3p.m. and.
Saturday versus Linn-Benton
also at 3 p.m.
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* The Clackamas Women’s
cross-country team ran in a
meet against Chemeketa last
Saturday, but because only
one runner was entered for
Chemeketa, no scores were
kept.
Meg Cooke, last year’s
second place finisher in the
national 3,000 meter run,
finished third, for Chemeketa.
For the Couqars, Lisa Nickel
and Sally Arthur finished one
and . two, respectively, ana
were followed closely by the
rest of the Clackamas team. A
total time difference of only
1:41 was recorded between the
first and last place finishers.
“We \yere just running
against ourselves really,”
Coach Roger Smith said. “It
was kind of like practice.”
The Cougars must now^get
ready for this weekends’ state
and regional meet in Coos
Bay.
“Our whole season is right
now. Everything we’ve worked
for is either going to pay off or
not .pay off this weekend,”
Smith said.
The health of the team is
good overall, but the condition
of Julie Larkin, who has been
sidelined with a sore neck,
remains 'doubtful.
“Julie has been hurting and
we should know before Friday
if she’ll be able to run,” Smith
said.
Asked about his outlook on
the team’s chances, Monroe
replied positively but realisticly.
“We’re optimistic, with some
reservations,” Smith said. “I
feel confident but we are going
to have to work on our pack
running to win,
“There’s really not much you
can say about a meet like this, it
is all or nothing, but, hopefully,
we’ll have a lot to say next
week.” Smith said.
Hopefully indeed.
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