fcports
B-ball to improve
[with experience
looked like the Cougar
[women eagers had the game in
the bag. Suddenly in the se-
cond half, after a Cougar nine-
point half-time lead, the Lirin-
[Bentor. Roadrunnerd started
Gaining on Clackamas until the
■ had diminished to a three-
^Bt deficit, to give the
fcougars a 68-65 loss.
| deferring to the second half,
rBere was so much body con-
tact. said Coach Nancy
^Heton, “the officials weren’t
them well.” There were
onB four fouls called on each
in the second half.
^Bou can’t blame everything
^Hthe officials. There were
OtlBr reasons for the loss.
It was in the second half that
th® game was lost. “Critical
shots were missed,” said
Mikleton, “plus Linn-Benton
had three to six inches on us all
the way around.”
Late in the game came the
problem of Cougar substitu­
tions to give the starters « a
chance to rest. The main pro­
blem was being able to give
5’10” center Jamie Hill a rest. It
would mean losing an inch by
putting in Donna Boatman.
She would be going up against
a 6’0” LB center .
With only three returning
players, it will take a while Tor
the team members to. get. used
to playing with one another.
If it weren’t for the final
score, Mikleton would have
been totally pleased with the
game. “We played our brand
of ball during the entire game.”
Just as the score can be
deceiving, so can the league
record of 1-2. In the league
game that the women did win,
they blew out Central Oregon
by a 64-39 score, last Friday.
As it is still doing now, the
team was getting used to each
other’s playing habits and style.
Blue Mountain took the
Cougars’ first league game by
two points, in the 66-64 game.
‘'We’re still trying to work out
the bugs,” said Mikleton, “with
our main weaknesses being
depth on the inside.’
According to Mikelton, the
teams to beat this year are
Linn-Benton and Umpqua,
two of the tallest teams in the
league. With such a close game
with Linn-Benton, by Jan. 23
the Cougar squad should have
enough . experience playing
with each other to be able to
take Umpqua. The Cougars
Men needed teamwork
By Rick Obritschkewitsch
^Maybe it would have been
bettei if the Cougars hadn’t
^^■e out - of the lockerroom
^■Saturday night when the
^Hi’s basketball team went
^Hnst the Roadrunners of
^■j-Benton to take a 107-79
■ don’t think we were ready
to fclay, and didn’t play well,
^^■re’s nd excuse for that,”
Coach Royce Kiser about
the Clackamas disaster.
^■Tom Jones played decent-
ly Jne was the only player who
playeci hard and consistently
for the entire game. Avery
Penney, at times, played well,”
Kiser said. Jones’ most im­
pressive stats were shooting 50
percent horn the field for 10
points, six rebounds, and'four
assists.' Penney’s most im­
pressive statistic is his nine
assists.
As a team, the Cougar stats
look terrible. They only shot
about 43 percent from the
field, turned the ball over. 17
times, and committed 25^ per­
sonal fouls.
The Cougars used “no pa­
tience or intelligence the whole
game.” Go down court, pass
the ball around, and shoot it
when yoil*ve got the open
shot-right? Well, it wasn’t hap-
Staff photo by Sue Hanneman
OVER THE TOP—Tom Jones takes the shot against a Blue
Mountain opponent.
1 Wednesday, January 14, 1981
pening for Clackamas that
night. Nobody was taking his
time. They'd drive quickly
down .court and take the. shot
right away, many times getting
the shot blocked or just wat­
ching it bounce off the rim.
Rich Zornado had three shots
checked in a row. Amazingly,
he. scored the team high 25
points, shooting 50 percent
from the field.
At one point, early in the
fourth quarter, the Cougars
finally looked like they were
getting their act together. But it
was too late.
“The players have to learn
patience, and learn to pass the
ball around take thè ball, and
work hard on defense,” Kiser
said. They better be quick
learners. They’Ve already lost
two of their first three league
games, and are 7-9 for the
year. •-
It was a bad weekend for the
Cougar men’s ; b-ball team.
They also lost on Friday night
visiting Central Oregon, 67-65.
The score looks much closer
than what it was. The Cougars
made an attempt at 71 shots
from the field, but only 29 went
through, leaving Clackamas on
the short end of the scoring. In'
this game, Mark Miller was the
only Cougar able to hit even 50
percent of his shots from the
field/ ’
It’s only Blue Mountain that
the Cougars have been able to
beat in league action. The
77-73 victory was also the only
game in which Clackamas pu
in over 50 percent’of the shots
attempted from the field. They
hit 31 of 60. Still, only two
Cougar players shot over 50
percent from the field. Miller
and Zornado each contributed
seven of ten.
Staff photo by Sue Hanneman
GRAB IT—Jamie Hill goes for the rebound in a recent
Cougar b-ball game.
will also have the homecourt
advantage.
Games in the coming week
include: Southwestern Oregon
CC, on Friday in Coos Bay,
and Saturday against Lane, in
Eugene. Both games begin at 6
p;m.
The women also will play an
exhibition game against an
Australian high school team on
Monday at Oregon City High
School. The game will also
start at 6 p.m.
Grapplers show
wrestling power
records. Just mentioning a few:
Bill Blackford is 5-1, Lance
Wilson is 4-0, Noihan Winner
is 5-3, Troy Wentworth is 8-2,
Not everybody can win all of
Steve Peters is .3-1, and Mike
the time, but the Cougar
Martin is 7-3.
wrestling team has been able to
Not indicated by the outstan­
win all of its dual meets as a
ding record, the team has had
squad, to establish a 6-0 team
some problems with injuries
record after one week’s action.
The squad took on Lane Fri­ and eligibility. Most of the grap­
plers who have have been out
day to come up with a 36-16
are sophomores. Wilson, OC-
victory. Ljnn-Benton was the
CAA Champion from last
victim on the previous night,
season, and Clackamas
taking a 34-17 defeat from the
outstanding wrestler, is just
Cougars.
coming back after some
The College grapplers’ first
eligibility problems.
league encounter was its
In injuries, Bruce Sweet has
closest. They edged Willamette
University by two points in the been out for seven weeks with
a rib separation. Other injured
22- 20 Cougar victory last
wrestlers include Craig Joplin,
Tuesday.
While everybody else was: another OCCAA Champion,
celebrating Christmas and New arid Tom Overbay.
Because of injuries, and a
Year’s, the dedicated
shortage of sophomores on the
Clackamas wrestlers were in
California competing in a tour­ squad, nine out of the ten star­
nament. In the tourney the' ting wrestlers are freshmen.
“We have a tough weekend
Cougars took out Santa Rosa
coming up,” said Coach Norm
by a whopping 33-9, edged
East Bay Wrestler’s Club Berney. “We compete well, but
23- 20, and 'took care of Cen­ we have work to do.” The
competition
includes
tral Redwood 29-14.
undefeated Mt. Hood and
In other pre-season action,
Southwestern Oregon Com­
Clackamas grapplers took a
defeat from Southwestern munity College. Coach Berney
Oregon College by 1 and one- expects SWOCC to be a com­
fourth points in the Lqne Invita­ petitor for the state title.
The toughest opponent,
tional. The invitational was an
who the grapplers face this
11-team competition.
As individuals, the grapplers weekend, is North Idaho, fifth-
have some very impressive • ranked in the country.
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