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^Bhip
Buch was the case for the
Bmerh cross country team
B t Saturday in Champagne,
■site of the 1978 National
Bnior College
Athletic
Bociation's cross country
^Mionships.
Brhe Cougars, defending
■CAA national champions,
'Bitheir hearts out but came
jBnort. finishing second to
Bdge City, Kan., 48-51.
jBlden Valley Lutheran.
Bhn., finished a distant third
Bh77 points.
HisaNickel, sophomore sen-
Btion from LaSalle High
Bool led the Cougar girls
Bth ? third place finish,
^Bating' her performance at
-Biyear s NJCAA finals.
^Bandra Barinaga. freshman
Bltintario, was next as she
Biinlhe 11th spot. Freshman
Bonda Weidman from Lake
B mo was the next Cougar
Kier, placing loth, and Mary
Bnson of Reedsport followed,
'^Bngin a tight 18th place.
^Blly Arthur, sophomore
Kn Beaverton and eighth
f^kefinisher last year, ran to
wL ftlace while freshman
Kie|loreheart, a sprinter
JBm Tacoma. Wash., finished
Kith. Rounding 0lJt the
.Bugar
runners
ted,” said head coach Roger
Smith.
“That was the
Clackamas girls’ first defeat in
cross country or track since the
inception of the program.”
Though disappointed not to
repeat as champions, Smith
was pleased with the perfor
mance of some of his girls.
“Lisa Nickel ran extremely
well. She has a lot of poten
tial,” said the women’s coach.
“I learned a great deal about
Lisa at nationals. I wish I could
coach her for two more years.
“Rhonda and Mary came
through for us, too,” offered
Smith. “They ran really well.”
Although Clackamas
finished second, they didn’t
run at full strength. Injuries to
Vickey Paddock and Julie
Larkins, plus the loss of
Angella Cotton very early in
the year, greatly hampered the
Cougars’ chances of a repeat
performance. Paddock of
Klamath Falls and Larkins of
Forest Grove ran consistently
in the top six all year, while
Cotton, a 14th place finisher at
last year’s nationals, quit the
team for personal reasons.
"We went in with some in
juries,” said Smith. “Had we
been 100 percent healthy,
nobody in the country would
have touched us.”
Smith is looking forward to
track season, where his team
must face the challenge of
defending another national
championship, which the
Cougars won last year.
“These girls are the finest
group of athletes I’ve ever been
associated with,” commented
Smith. “That includes football,
anything. They’re coachable.
It’s a pleasure to work with
them.” Those are big words of
praise from a man who has
defending last year’s track
championship will be met in the
same way that defending the
cross country title was met,
with confidence. Chances are
that CCC will be somewhere
near the top.
Dave Ellison
Doug Oberst
Oberst, Ellison
race in nationals
was
i^Bomora Barb Rost from
-Best Linn with a strong 41st
^^Bish.
i^Bappointed at first, the
ijKugs realized that finishing
Bond is still an excellent per-
JKiance “At first, we were
"Brt of
down,” said
^fcaga "But we did finish
’ ■Krone! and that’s pretty good.”
^KWe were very disappoin
worked with athletes Ike Fred
Lynn, all-star centerfielder for
the Boston Red Sox.
Smith’s standards are high,
as evident at disappointment in
being the Second best team in
the country. The challenge of
Photo by Greg Kienzle
Basketball team prepares for season opener Nov. 29.
In the men’s national meet/
Clackamas’ own Dave Ellison
and Doug Oberst finished 79
and 113, respectively, out of
the field of 300.
Otis Sanders of Hagerstown
Community College won the
race but had to use his best kick
to win at the wire over
Southern Idaho’s Jario Correa.
“Those two dueled the
whole race and nobody else
was really close to them,”
Clackamas men’s coach Buck
Monroe said. “Sanders just
outkicked him at the end.”
While Sanders and Correa
dominated the race, the team
champ
was
Southwest
Michigan while Lane Com
munity College, the Northwest
regional champ, tied for fourth.
“Lane did a tremendous
job,” said Monroe. “I was really
surprised.”
Dave Magnes, Lanes’ top
runner, finished 16 overall, but
Monroe had only the best to
say for his runners.
“Dave and Doug did a fine
job of representing our team,”
Monroe said. “But I just hope
that next year the whole team
will be there.”
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Mark McNeary
pit ports Editor
IL® weekend in Ontario the
Backamas
Women’s
Bball team found out what
Experienced” means. The
■ugars traveled to Treasure
Bey Community College for
■regional championships
Btgainst a team with five
Burners from last year’s
Bond place regional team,
By nearly won a second
fchtnational berth.
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Iks Community
College,
■ckalnas showed ■ their
Benin losing straight games
B15,B-15.
|,We played well but we
just a little uptight,” she said.
The Cougars really didn’t
play that bad, however, as
Rubright explains.
“We played pretty well
really,” Rubright said, “but we
had a long wait before the final
and we just came out on the
short end of too many long
rallies.”
In getting Ito the finals, the
Cougs had to knock off some
pretty distinguished teams, one
of them being league arch-rival
Lane Community College.
On Friday, Clackamas split a
match with Treasure Valley,
losing the first game 14-16 and
coming back to win the second
15-5. In the nights’ second
match the Cougs intimidated
co-champion Lane 15-6, 15-
12.
Clackamas then lost to Ricks
13-15, 6-15 but due to a com
plicated pattern * of wins and
losses in the rest of the tourney,
Clackamas was able to reach
the
semi-finals
opposite
Treasure Valley.
“We played very well,” said
Rubright of the 15-5, 15-6 vic
tory. “It was a good sign to play
that well in the semis, but in the
lay-off before the finals, we just
tightened up.”
Monica
Reed, . Nancy
Perkins, and Kelly Kosik all
made the regional first team
and Rubright had good things
to say about the trio.
“Monica, Nancy and Kelly
■ned awed by the whole
frtior
Coach
Mary
fright said. “We were just
K arawn to ourselves a lit-
RBuch.
and I think we were
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“Sue (Shirley) and Lisa
(Laurent) also had a good
tourney,” Rubright said. “Sue
played well in the back court
and Lisa performed well all
around.”
The future is a bright one for
the
young
Cougs
and
Rubright, as well as the rest of
the team, is looking forward to
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it.
“Next year we won’t be so
new to the whole experience of
the regionals,” Rubright said,
“and everybody on the team is
confident we’ll be back in it
again.”
Even though the season is
virtually over for the Cougars,
they do play a re-scheduled
match tonight at Linfield.
“It ought to be fun,” Rubright
said, “and we can start looking
at next years’ team.”
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