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Grapplers third
In
■Last week the Clackamas
gjapplers took a tough defeat
from Linn-Benton, came back
tough enough to tie Gray’s
Harbor on the following night,
and then took third place as a
team in the Clackamas Invita-
tional Tournament, with two
■rd place consolation cham-
H>nships, a second and first
place finish on Saturday.
■in their most recent en-
■unter, the College hosted the
^Kckamas Invitational Tourna-
ment, in which 13 colleges
■mpeted. Clackamas finished
below Gray’s Harbor and
I Pacific University, with 37
points. Pacific finsihed with
111, and Gray’s Harbor had
61. Other colleges that com­
peted were Columbia Basin,
Mount Hood, University of
Oregon J.V.’s, Linn-Benton,
Willamette University, North
Idaho Wrestling Club, Portland
State J.V.’s, Southwestern
Oregon, Lane, and Umpqua.
Clackamas’ Nathan Winner
took a third-place consolation
championship in the 134 lb.
weight division. Tom Overbay
also took a third-place cham­
Staff photo by Sue Hanneman
pionship in the 158 lb. weight Winner did a very good job. He will be/fougher for Clackamas jurea. Right now on the injury
division. Lance Wilson took a came back and beat a guy who this/Thursday when they have or. illness list are Mike Martin,
second-place victory at 142 lb., he had lost to before. The to go against the whole Craig Jenson, Bonner and
and Bill Blackford rolled over a . Cougars were at a slight advan­ -SWOCC team.
Wilson. “We don’t have
.first-place championship.
tage against Southwestern
Some unfortunate things enough depth,” said Berney.'
“I felt we didn’t do too bad,” Oregon, as SWOCC didn’t br­ that happened to the Cougars
“Tonight we should have
said Coach Norm Berney. ing their whole team along. It in Saturday’s tourney, were heads up matches,” said
that Bonner received a rib in­ Berney. Tonight’s encounter is
jury and Wilson twisted his with Mt. Hood in, Gresham
knee. The injury of these two starting at 7 p.m. On the next
“will put a definite hole in the night, the College grapplers will
line-up,” said Berney.
go against Willamette, also
But overall, “it was one of starting at 7 p.m.
the most successful tour­
On Friday the Cougars will
naments ever,” said Berney.
tangle with SWOCC, con­
“We did a lot better against sidered number one in the
By Rick Obritschkewitsch
“After the trials, I was out of
remembered the events that it for about a month,” she said, Gray’s Harbor” said Berney. state. SWOCC is 4-0 in league
■The Print
“Some guys didn’t wrestle action, while Clackamas is 4-1.
■“I had my eyes glued on the led up to that summer. “I knew
“but I knew I had done my
against LB because of the Berney says that it’s not the
TV all summer,” recalled before the final scores were best, and was happy with it.”
tourney.” The Cougars lost to state title they’re after, because
Marilyn Linsenmeyer, College posted that I hadn’t made the
Linsenmeyer
had set a new
team.”
Linn-Benton by one point, the state title doesn’t really
assistant athletic director.
personal record af the trials in
On the first day of the trials,
20-19. “There were matches mean anything. It’s the regional
■You’d probably be that way,
Eugene of 4,339 points, an
we lost where we shouldn’t and national championships
too, if you had come one event, Linsenmeyer had competed in Olympic-level score.
have,” said Berney.
short of travelling to Canada as her strongest events and had
that Clackamas is after.
Before her attempts to com­
The Cougar grapplers have
a U.S. pentathlete in the 1976 done quite well in them. The pete in the Olympics, she had
On Saturday the Cougars
Olympics, and had now first day’s events were the high competed in track events at had their problems with injuries will compete in the Pacific
this season. It seems everytime University Invitational in Forest
■come a first alternate, ready jump (5’81/4” for Marilyn) and
Oklahoma State University.
to go and compete at a mo­ the 100-meter hurdles (13.07). He: freshman year in college, someone comes back from an Grove.
unt’s notice if anything The second day’s events were
injury another wrestler gets in­
in 1971, she was fourth in the
■>uld happen to any one of the shot put (43.7), the long
200-meter
hurdles.
■ three U.S. women who jump (19’), and the 200-meter Linsenmeyer was out with in­
run (24.4), the last event. juries in 1972, then came back
Mre competing.
■i knew I hadn’t made the Usually, the 800-meter run is
The game did have a short bright spot for the Cougars.
in 1973 to take fourth in the
team as I came around the last used, but it was substituted by high jump and become the There was about 10 minutes in the game where Clackamas
turn of the 200-meter event--I the 200-meter in 1976.
was able to keep within about 4 points.
■w I had to beat Marilyn Linsenmeyer’s time in the champion in the 200-meter
“We were beat so bad I was trying to forget about it,” said
hurdles.
Tier last year in col­
HjlS- ’ said Linsenmeyer as she 800-meter was 2:17.
lege, she took fourth in both Assistant Coach Paul Fiskum about the Chemeketa slaughter.
The men eagers went one and one over the weekend as they
the 400-meter hurdles and the
lost to number one ranked, and undefeated Chemeketa,
high jump.
115-68, but took a ten point win over Umpqua on the previous
She stayed in competition
for aboyt three years after the night, winning 76-66.
The game against Umpqua was a much happier one for the
trials. After getting over the
Olympic ordeal, Linsenmeyer Cougars.
The Cougars were shooting higher percentage shots, which
went to Southridge, Calif., to
enabled them to pull out to a 42-27 halftime lead.
train under £ technical coach.
In the second half the Clackamas eagers were worrying
After about a year of this she
went to Los Angeles to join the about
L.A. Naturite Track Club, the lead so much that it shrank down to a tie with five minutes
where she was able to train left in the game. The tie got the Cougars turned on enough to
with lour other women in pen­ get them to shoot to a ten point victory lead, to make the final
score 76-66 in favor of the Cougars.
tathlon events.
In
March,
_ 1979,
Linsenmeyer competed on the
U.S. indoor pentathlon team,
for competition against the
Despite the offensive showmanship of Clackamas’ Lou Ann
USSR and Canada. In this
Garvin, the Cougars were unabje to beat Umpqua Community
competition, she was sixth for
College losing here Friday night, 74-80.
the US and 13th overall.
“We played with better intensity and concentration in this
The March competition was
game than we did last week,” stated Head Coach Nancy
Linsenmeyer’s last because of
Mikleton. “We are losing too many games by too little points.
leg injuries and a need for
Things have got to start happening for us,” she added in
money. She wanted to find a
reference to the six and four point differences in this week’s
job in the area of coaching in
games against Umpqua and Chemeketa.
track. In the fall of 1979, she
In earlier hoop action this week, Clackamas dropped a
started working for the College
league counter to Chemeketa, 58-62.
as assistant athletic director,
The Cougar’s next home court action will be on Wednesday
head women’s track and field,
here in Randall Gym. The Cougars will go up against a tough
and cross country coach.
Mt. Hood team, starting at 7 p.m. The game has been
“I still relive the Olympic
I Marilyn Linsenmeyer Staff photo by Sue Hanneman
predicted by some to be one of the best games of the season.
ordeal,” said Linsenmeyer.
Wednesday, January 28, 1981
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