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■Mark McNeary
■The Print
liter being canceled out on
■heir previous week’s meet,
L Clackamas mens track
came back last Saturday
■capture; a third place finish
lie league relays.
Iln a meet scheduled for the
larch 24 against Ashland,
lane Community College,
lithwestern Oregon Com-
junity College, Southern
Igon State College and
lasta, the
Clackamas
Icksters were ready. But the
lit prior to the meet all but
|o teams dropped out of the
impetition leaving only
jjckamas and SWOCC to
■pete, which they did, and
Ite impressively.
|‘We did rather well,” Coach
Is Tipton said of his teams’
■ormance. “Considering all
iiat happened we had some
■good efforts.”
[One of those efforts was turi
id ‘in by Duke Hughes who
In a 4:11 1500 meters, his
lever time,
lame of the other Cougars
mo put in good efforts were
In Jackson who threw the
Icus 150” 10’ and Randy/
Iger who put the shot 50
■6 inches. Also Jim Holmes
■ vaulted 13’ 9.
last Saturday the Cougst
Ke in third in a meet against
lie Mountain Community
Eege, Central Oregon
imunity College and Linn-
on. The main reason for
|is was the fact that
kamas did not enter a
er-mile relav team.
“You might say it was
coaching error,” Coach Tipton
said. “I didn’t want to strain the
team. We could have gotten
more points had we entered,
but I didn’t want to risk injury.”
In the meet, which featured
mostly team events, the
Cougars pulled off a minor up
set in beating Lane in teh two-
mile relay with a time of 7:56,
.10 better than second place
Lane.
“We have four or five good
half-milers,
but
Dave
Rudischauser, one of our better
ones, wasn't there. That made
the win even more enjoyable,”
Tipton said.
. Jeff and Greg Forell placed
second and fourth respectively
in the long jump while Jeff also
finished second in the triple
jump with a leap of 42” 5.
In the distance medley,
Coach Tipton pointed to Dan
Cobine’s three-quarter mile
time of 3:07, as a key to the
overall team performance.
“Dan was outstanding in the
medley,” he said. “Even
though we finished second
behind Lane, his run kept us in
the race.”
Dan Jackson finished first in
the discus with a toss of 150’ 11
while fieldmate Randy Bolliger
came in first in the shot at 50’
6.
“We competed well and we
might have been champions-¡f
we had entered enough races,”
said Tipton. “I was happy with
the way we represented our
selves.”
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The mens track team get in some conditioning prior to this week’s meet,
photo by Kelly Lauglin
During spring break
Racket men prep
By Chico Escuela
Of The Print
While most College students
were basking in the sun or
fleeing to places unknown
during spring break, men’s
tennis Coach Rich Taylor had
his team in Eastern Washington
for a series of tough pre-season
matches, preparing for the
spring campaign.
The Cougars opened up the
road trip with a decisive 7-2
win over Lewis and Clark
College and were forced to
regain their strength in just one
short hour and take on
Washington State. The Cougs
were unable to overcome the
adverse circumstances and
dropped the match 7-2. The
men netters came back in the
final days of the tour by troun
cing. Blue Mountain 6-1,
defeating last, year’s regional
champs, Northern Idaho, 6-3
but ended the tour on a sour
pote with a 7-2 loss at the han
ds of Coeur d’Alene Tennis
Association.
Coach Taylor commented,
“the spring trip was primarily
designed to see how we com
pared with the other teams
from around the area, and to
have our team members get to
know each other.”
The Cougar mentor pointed
to Tim Qualls as the outstan
le Browning returns a serve in womens tennis prac- ding player of the tour as he
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0 record. John Hazelett and
David Long also performed
well on the trip, as both com
piled 3-2 marks in singles com
petition. In summing up the
“spring warmup” Taylor noted,
“it was an overall good trip
although we were without our
number one singles player,
Steve Anast, who is out with a
back injury.”
After gaining a forfeit win
over Mt. Hood Community
College in their first match back
at Clackamas, the Cougar
netmen were thrashed by
Lewis and Clark last Friday.
There were a couple of bright
spots in the Cougars’ loss,
namely David Long and Tim
Qualls. Coach Taylor said
Long played his most im
pressive match of the season as
he defeated Lewis and Clark’s
number one man 4-6, 6-0, 6-
0. Not to be outdone by his
teammate, Qualls defeated last
year’s NAIA champ, 6-7, 6-4,
6-2.
Although
Taylor
was
hesitant to mark his team as the
“team to beat” he felt that the
other coaches in the league
would
probably
choose
Clackamas as the pre-season
favorite for the league crown.
Taylor commented on the
progress of his team so far,
saying,
' “we still need to gain
some consistency down the
ladder. This year’s team has
more talent than last year’s
squad but at times rely on
talent alone. It’s just going to
depend on how hard they want
to work.” he added.
The Cougs will open up their
league schedule on Friday
against Chemeketa who Taylor
sees as one of the year’s
tougher opponents and a
possible obstacle enroute to the
league crown. The men will
come back the following day
with a match against Concor
dia. Both matches are
scheduled for 3 p.m.- on the
Cougar courts.
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