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ougar eagers find inning combination By Rick Obritschkewitsch ■ The Print ■The men’s basketball team Hd its warm-up period, and is now getting into the action. ■ Last Friday the Cougar ■gers took a 77-67 defeat ■om Central Oregon in a very ■lysical game, but-just two ■g'nts before they brought ftwn Mt. Hood 72-54. ■ “We pJ&yed well - in ■ery thing but two, rebounding Bid free throws,” commented ■each Royce Kiser about the ■ugh defeat from. Central Bregon. Central Oregon grab- ■d 11 more rebounds than ■ackamas, and hit-all bat four ■ their 29 free throws; to the ■sugars' 11 of 17. But if you ■ok at shots from the field, ■ackamas hit 28 of 60 to Cen- tral Oregon’s 26 of 59. The tur- ■vers were lopsided toward ■ackamas. Central Oregon ■med the ball over 13 times. ■here Clackamas gave the ball to their opponent only seven ■nes. ■Central Oregon had the in Bidual scoring leader with 25 Bints, but leading the Cougars B scoring was Steve Rullrnan Bth 16. Other high scorers for Clackamas were Charles Hedeau with 12 points and Avery Penney with 10. ■“Central Oregon has a fine ■sketball team,” commented, Bser. ■ “It was the best playing I’ve seen since I’ve been here,” ■mmented Kiser about the Ben’s victory over Mt. Hood. “We played intelligently, and ■tiently, with exceptional ■fense.” ■The victory over Mt. Hood ■me two days before the Cen- trai Oregon upset. Steve Rullrnan gave an outstanding effort, hitting 12 of 20 from the field and four of six from the free throw dine for a total point collection of 28 points. Rullrnan can’t take all the credit for his successful night. “The other players pass ed exceptionally well to. him,” stated Kiser. “We had a super effort by all the players.” It was one of the Cougar eagers’ most successful nights all the way around in statistics. They shot over 50 percent from both the field and the free throw line, and totaled 23 assists for a total team effort. The only place in thè stats that Clackamas was outdone by its opponent was in rebounds, where it was 42-37. Some of the individual team leaders for the Cougars were, of course, Rullrnan with his 28 points. He also snatched four rebounds. Charles Redeau ad- ded 15 points and brought down 10 rebounds. Dave Hix son grabbed nine balls off the rim, where Avery Penney gave 1.1 assists. The b-ball season met its halfway point with the comple tion of the Cougars’ win.over Mt. Hood, and a 3-5 record in league play for Clackamas, but Kiser is still optimistic for a playoff berth. “I feel we still have a chance to get into the playoffs,” stated Kiser. “We’re going to improve.” / “I’ve had fun the last few weeks. It’s been easy coaching work because they listen.” Tonight the .Clackamas eagers will travel to Pendleton to take on Blue -Mountain, a team that Clackamas beat by two points the last time they went against them in Cougar territory. Kiser predicts that it will be a close match-up. Staff photo by Sue Hanneman JAMES MASSEY grabs a rebound against Blue Mountain. The Cougars will take on Blue Mountain for the second time this season tonight. Garver has prayers answered By Sue Hanneman Of The Print With slow and deliberate movement eminating at the elbow, which for the past half hour has been planted into the soft edge of the training table, Phil Garver eases his 6’6,” 200-pound frame up into a sit ting position on the table. From the giraffe on the front of his red shirt down to the tube socks, which seem to gather in coils just above the top of his Nike basketball shoes, his .ap pearance doesn’t convey a mood of seriousness. ‘Tm a ■il Garver Stfi# photo by Sue Hanneman kfck-back coach,’Lsays Garver, “ti/rwli^h'i? tffhe ford game, I become as serious as a train wreck.” At any rate, Garver, who has taken over the assistant coaching position for the women’s basketball team here at the College, says, “I have a lot of knowledge and ex perience involving basketball, and I know what’s going on out there.” Garver, 24, started playing basketball at an early age, but his first real organized games came while he was at Ben Davis High School in In dianapolis/ Indiana. After graduation from there/het was recruited by many colleges throughout the area, but he chose to make the move to Oregon on an offer to play basketball for Warner Pacific. His reasoning was based on two things: first, that Warner has a fine reputation as a Chris* sonally than guys do. “If you tfajf Tibtet^L'drti''college; dnd Hie w-them outtoo bad,' they secondly, because he figured might start crying. ” He sees many other aspects his chances to play college ball were better in another state. In involved in coaching women, diana is one of the top states in though. “The girls are willing to volved in college basketball, learn. They listen to what they and has some of the best are told and they work hard to do what’s asked of them.” players in the country . Garver says, “My coaching One thing for sure, Garver has had to make some big ad , philosophy is oriented tothe in justments since taking on the dividuals and the offense. You position of assistant coach can always teach a kid defense, under Head Coach Nancy but offensive plays, ball hand!* Mikleton. For Garver, it’s the ing, and individual moves are first time he has ever coached a something that takes tipne and practice.” women’s team. He speaks highly of Head “I’ve had to make some big adjustments from coaching lit Coach Mikletona and of the tle kids and men’s teams in basketball program here at contrast to coaching women.” Clackamas. “This is a great op- He feels this change has been pdrtUnjty, fpy me right out of centered ori the emotional school.” Garver Is ' happy, aspect of his players: “I have to seriously happy, and you wont be kind of sentimental with the hear him complaining. “This is girls.” He adds that the girls on the answer "to tn y prayers.” the team take things more per Wrestling Women’s b-ball The Cougar wrestling team became the league dual meet champions last week, as they defeated Mt. Hood, 29-21, Willamette, 29-16,, and Southwestern Oregon, 27-21, in three con secutive days. Both Tom Overbay and Bill Blackford won all three of their matches in last week’s action. This Saturday the Cougar grapplers will travel to Albany to compete with Linn-Benton, Oregon State J.V.’s and Columbia Basin. The competi tion will begin at 10 a.m. On the following week the Clackamas wrestlers will go to Gresham for the OCCAA Championships. In last week’s action the women’s basketball team “hit a high point and the low,” said Coach Nancy Mikleton. The women played what Mikleton considered probably the team’s best game all season. The Cougars defeated Mt. Hood 72-55 in a home encounter. Then on Fri day, they took a defeat from Central Oregon. Leading in Clackamas’ victory over Mt. Hood were Lou Ann Garvin with 22 points, Jamie Hill with >18, Cindi Johnston with 12, and Patty Richardson with 10. Leading in rebounds were Lou Ann Garvin with 13, and Hillbringing down 11. Hill is third in the league in rebounds as of the season’s midpoint, which came with the con clusion of the Clackamas/Mt. Hood game. ■ednesday, February 4, 1981 Page 7 centimeters Colors by Muriseli Color Services Lab