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
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