Clackamas Community College
sports
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Soccer team headed for nationals
Working as ‘family’ earned
OISA Title
By Rick Obritschkewitsch
Photos courtesy of Public Information
TOUGH FIGHT-The Cougars had a hard battle in the OISA finals, but obtained the
championship by beating PCC 3-0 last Saturday.
Netters year success
By Edward Matthew Coyne
Hidden between a men’s
cross country championship
■and an undefeated soccer team
lies an unrecognized, but
'potential regional champion
women’s volleyball.
I Loren Swivel’s heroines
[have been quietly and
¡methodically driving toward
[the league playoffs which will
begin Friday at Mt. Hood CC.
Due to Coach Swivel’s system,
[the team has become a
[cohesive unit and dispelled any
[notions of being a group com
posed mostly of freshmen.
Throughout the league this
starless Cougar squad is con
sidered a well-seasoned
[veteran unit, even ~ though
sophomore Debbie Nolz is the
only returning member of last
Lear’s team.
I Completing some adept
Recruiting, Coach Swivel has
claimed some highly skilled
players whose poise and deter
mination have made coming
Into the college ranks a smooth
[transition. Presently, the
Cougars are 26-5 on the
season and open first round,
playoff action against Ricks CC
.with the championship to be
[decided on-Saturday.
| But who are the Cougars?
The play-maker duties on the
squad are shared by Angel
[Humphrey, Debbie Nolz, and
Patti Richardson. These girls ae
called setters and set-up the
plays while on the court. Then
the back court players, called
hitters, attempt to smash the
ball into the opponent’s side of-
the net. The hitters /ire Lou
Ann Garvin, Jamie Hill, Ronda
Western, and Carol Ziemba.
Coach Swivel has pointed
out that assistant coach, Mary
Budnick, has been a tremen
dous help and feels the players,
more than anything, have been
the difference in reaching the
playoffs.
Poised and determined is
Swivel’s own description of her
players. She says they are a
very close-knit group. As a
group, each puts the team
above her own welfare. They
have become a well-oiled,
disciplined team, which is the
backbone of Coach Swivel’s
system.
Rounding out the Cougar
squad are Susan Scoggins,
Cyd McCormick, and Pâm
Burkett. Game time is 7 p.m.
The Team
ends on top
The Team ended up on
top of the instramural flag
football league, after beating
the Banchiez in a playoff
game.
The intramural co-ed
volleyball season will begin
tomorrow at noon.
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business;’* said Szanto. PCC
“It was the most beautiful was beaten once by the
game I’ve ever seen,” said Cougars in regular season. The
Coach Janos Szanto about last whole team was on hand to
Saturday’s win over Portland watch Clackamas beat Lewis
Community College which and Clark in a recent en
made' the Cougars the Oregon counter*».
Intér-collegiate Soccer Associa
The game started with PCC
tion (OISA) Champions.
giving a strong defensive
“PCC is a very very fine display, as expected.
team,” said Szanto. Even
The win was witnessed by an
though the score may not estimated 600 people.
make it seem so, it was a class
Szanto attributes this years
game.
success (11-0 including post
“We just wanted to win fhore season) to “most importantly,
than PCC. It was the hardest hard work' and the team acting
game we’ve played. We played as a family.” In pre-season
from our hearts. Everybody practices, it was not unusual for
played the best game of their small fights to break out among
lives,” said Szanto.
players. As the season pro
The Cougars who scored the gressed, the team got it
points for the winners: John together and was able to work
Welle, Cleve Nyberg, and Jeff as a family.
Johnson.
Another example of the
The kickers now will be go Cougars success is that the
ing to the national playoffs if team scored 45 points during
the College can fund the ex the entire season, while only
penses. Szanto is expecting a allowing opponents to score
letter of invitation to thq, na eight.
tionals within the, next* couple
To keep in shape for the na
of weeks.
tionals, the Cougars kickers will
PCC was very confident go-, be playing against Judson Bap
ing into the game-they already tist, the University of Portland
had their name on the trophy. (reputed to be one of the best
“PCC saw that we meant teams) and Simon Frazier.
Cougar thlnclads seventh
By Edward Matthew Coyne
* In a recent meet the- women
took seventh place in the
N JCAA Cross Country Cham
pionships at Hayden Lake,
Ida., with the women racing
' against 11 other teams, and the
men competed with . 24 teams,
was previously repotted
Xnat both teams finished last in
a field of seven.
, For the yougs'women, the
championship provided
unlimited experience r and will
undoubtedly be helpful next
season.
A sad but happy note, this
race;.,, signalled the completion
of<Nancy Reynolds’ running
career for the College. Last
year Reynolds was the team.
’ This season Reynolds with her
fellow teammates, captured se
cond place in the regional
championship. To the
women’s team, Reynolds has
proven without a doubt, a
strong-willed team leader, an
inspiration, and most of all, a
good friend. Two-time All-
American Nancy Reynolds will
be missed.
■ Coach Marilyn Linsenmeyer.
/ was extremely pleased with the
team’s performance.
- Jpther women finishers were
Beth Kokesh, Debbie Simon,
Carolyn Raimondi, Jackie
Beaudry, Mo Kelley and Peg
Winczewski.
Coach Kelly Sullivan’s men
also placed seventh, but Coach
Sullivan felt his squad’s overall
performance was below par.
He believes the team suffered a
iet-down after winning the
regional championship, and
appeared sluggish during thé
race.
The Cougars finished in this
ordei: Vance Blow, Jay
Mar ugg, Rex Smith, Bob
Barker, Mike Knutson, Jim
Colgan and James Hester.
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