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Men’s track team second Although the men’s track managed to capture first- place wins in seven different events during their tri-meet last week, the squad still came up 4.5 points short of victorious Linn-Benton and had to settle for second place. Coach Buck Monroe com mented, “We won seven dif ferent events and probably would have won the match if Tony Lahti and Neil Ousterhout could have run.” Both were side-lined with in juries which prevented them from competing. Jeff Forrell captured three individual first place spots, all in the field events. Forrell won the triple jump with a leap of 41’ 8- 3A.” He also won the long jump with a 20’ 1 Vi” effort and tied Rich Ferguson for a share of first place in the high jump. Ferguson also gained multiple ¡wins during the afternoon as he tossed the javelin 172’ 2” to take first in that event. The 400-meter relay team again fared well as they clocked team UP AND OVER—Rich Ferguson inches over the bar during high jump competition against Umpqua and Linn- Benton. Photo by Cathy Gross. a time 43.6 to win that race. John Martin took home the gold in the 100-meter with an 11.2 time. Bob Judd won the 400-meter intermediate hur dles with a time of 58.9. Coach Monroe offered these comments on the match, “I feel that Linn-Benton and our selves are pretty evenly mat ched and that if we would have been at 100 percent we could have beaten them.” The tracksters will be back in action this week as they host COCC and Chemeketa. Tennis teams9season debuts impressive By Brian Rood Of The Print’ The first-doubles team of Long and Thomas won handily at the number-one doubles position, 6-1, 6-0, to round out the scoring. After getting most of their problems “cleaned men’s tennis team The Cougar netmen did proceeded to “clean up” on have one other match last two of their OCCAA opponen week which ended up being ts in action last week. held in the CCC gym. After competing in Bend in The first to fall prey to the CCC couriers was South the afternoon, the team quickly western Oregon Community headed back to Oregon City for College. The Cougs had little a match with Seattle Univer trouble as they glided to an sity. The Cougs managed two wins in the non-league contest easy 5-1 win over the Lakers. All scoreable singles players against an extremely tough op posted victories over SWOCC, ponent. Thomas scored the including David Thomas, Dave only singles victory and teamed Long, Dave Savage and John up with Long to capture the Hazelett. The only loss of the other win in the doubles. The team will be busy this afternoon came at the number- one doubles spot where week with several tough league as well as non-league matches. Savage and Hazelett lost, 6-3, |5. However, the number-two Thursday, the team will travel Roubles combination of Dan to McMinnville to play Linfield, and Jeff Alexander came back and then will return home to after losing the first set 3-6 to take on Lane, Lewis and Clark Jain a three-set win over their and Treasure Valley on Friday before again playing Treasure SWOCC opponents. Valley on Saturday on the Cougs’ court. The following afternoon, the team traveled to Bend to take bn the Central Oregon Bobcats Women’s tennis Coach .nd the results were nearly Gladys Michaels should be Identical as the Cougs gained a smiling this week as she saw |2win. her team annihilate South Thomas posted a 6-3, 6-2 western Oregon Community in at the number-one singles College in their opening league sition and Long and Savage match of the season. o won at numbers two and Diane Kraxberger defeated tee. Jeff Alexander suffered SWOCC’s Karen Smith, 6-1, e only loss in the singles 6-0, in the number-one singles tegory for the Cougs while match. Debbie Birdsall was the e number-two doubles team victor over Patty-Johnson, 6-3, d Savage and Hazelett drop- 6-0. Becky Kondo dropped id the second loss of the day. Kim Mingus, 6-3, 6-2, and eligibility up,” the Debbie Bugarsky walloped Pat ty Zink, 6-0, 6-1. Both of the doubles teams also won with the first team of Kraxberger and Birdsall gaining an easy 6-1, 6-1 win over SWOCC’s Smith and Johnson. The number-t” team of Kon do and Lisa L hty had little league contest s^neduled. The Cougs will take on Multnomah School of the Bible on Wednesday in the non- league match before hosting Lane on Friday and visiting Mt. time and second place in the 100-meter dash. Varner was The College women’s track also a national qualifier in the team, short in depth but long in javelin with a throw of 135’ 6.” their desire to win this season, tallied their first win of the Nancy Reynolds gained the season Saturday, squeezing by high points for the team with Linn-Benton and Umpqua in 11, taking second in the 1,500- Roseburg in a three-way duel. meter dash, and qualifying for A 2.5 point spread—58y2- regional competition in that 56—separated CCC and Linn- event along with freshman Benton at the finish, which Beth Kokesh. Reynolds even spelled a tight battle. CCC tried her hand at the 400-meter Coach Marilyn Linsenmeyer hurdles, and took second. said the turning point came in the 3,000-meter and 1,600- meter relay events, where the team cashed in first place finishes in both. The workhorse of the day and athlete of the week, Dani. Varner, entered in five evfents, qualifying for regionals with a 4’ 8” high jump, and third place in the long jump. Varner ran the first leg in a victorious 53.3, 400-meter relay com bination, and sprinted to a 14.9 By Kelly Laughlin Of The Print S ä S ï \ *_ Hib it « búd , > J: ’p ” ■ ■ 51 ' 111111 |6^^^^7ÍT¡T 23 24 25 The women will be back in action this week with two league matches and one non trouble putting away their op ponents from the south, scoring 6-2, 6-1. Coach Michaels commented tually snowed out and were on her team’s easy win over unable to complete the match. SWOCC, saying, “They have However, the squad did play been stronger in the past. They Lower Columbia, a match they were not really as strong as I lost 3-6, but the contest was a had expected them to be. ” * non-league one and will not The women hardcourters count toward their OCCAA were scheduled to play COCC Play. also last week, but were ac- Women edge L.B., Umpqua Wednesday, April 9,1980 1 Hood on Saturday. Coach Gladys Michaels sees Lane as the toughest com petition of the week and is an ticipating an easy win over Mt. Hood. 1 26 centimeters llll|8lll|llll 1 27 1 28 Colors by Munsell Color Services Lab Beth Kokesh also had her share of duties last Saturday, taking first in the 800-meter run, and pacing a fairly quick leg in the 1,600-meter relay. Cathy Gross took fourth in the javelin and also qualified to compete in that event at nationals. Cougars The meet and Chemeketa Central Oregon Community Colleges at home Saturday. Com petition begins at 1 p.m.