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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1981)
omen eagers ‘on he road again By Rick Obritschkewitsch Bf The Print ■ In the past week the Blackamas women’s basketball Bam came one game short of Bening out their record at 6-6. B The Cougar women couldn’t Biite pull it through, and took a ■8-58 defeat, to drop to a 5-7 Bcord. 1 The Cougars started off their Beek with a 3-6 record until Bey beat Blue Mountain C.C., ■-48, and then came home to Bat Southwestern Oregon ■.C., 76-62 to bring their ■ague record to 5-6 for Satur- day night’s game at the College Bainst Lane C.C., who had the same record at the game’s Bset. •“We were a little stale,” com- mented Coach Nancy Mikleton on the women’s performances against Lane. “Our timing was off that night. Every team has one of those games once in a while.” “We weren’t getting a good balance,” said Mikelton. She said that the team has to play a balanced game, with at [east four Cougar players in double figures. Only two Clackamas players were in double figures, Jamie Hill, the game’s leading scorer with 20 points, and Cih- di Johnson with 11. With Lane having a 6’1,” center it might have been a problem, but Mikelton said “the big girl (Willow Williams) was just big-we were more con cerned about their outside ougars edge akers, Titans By Rick Obritschkewitsch ■ The Print ■The Clackamas men’s Bsketball team travelled to Bndleton last Wednesday to take a 57-56 defeat from Blue Mountain C.C., but came back home to beat Southwestern ■regon C.C.,58-56,'and"Lañé' C.C., 74-71, on'the following Bght. Bln the game against the Lane ■tans the Cougars started by Btting the defense, and “I Bade substitutions to get a Bmbination to get a combina- ion that worked well. Bgether.” ■ After the changes were Bade, including a switch in the Sense, the Cougars worked to a lead which was at one point, ■ points. ■ The combination worked Bell enough to give Clackamas a 45-35 point lead at halftime. ■ Things slowed up for the Bougars after coming back Km the intermission, and the Kans lowered the Cougars Bad to two points. whe,n Bharles Redeau took charge and added four quick points for the Cougars. The Cougars never lost the lead, but it came within one point many times. With 20 seconds left in the game, Clackamas held a 7^-71 lead, with Lane in possession of the bali-. Afte> the-Titans misseda shelf, Clackamas’ Dan Hixson got the ball. He was fouled with four seconds left, and made both free throws for the Cougars’ 74-71 victory. The victory over the S.W.O.C.C. Lakers also came down to the wire. But this time it was Avery Penney who won the game at the charity stripe, to give Clackamas a 58-56 vic tory over the Lakers. The Cougars weren’t as suc cessful in Pendelton playing Blue Mountain. “We shouldn’t have lost,” commented Kiser about the Cougar defeat. After taking on Linn-Benton tonight in Albany, the Clackamas eagers will travel to Roseburg on Friday to take on Umpqua. Game time for both games is 8 p.m. shooting.” The Cougars kept pace dur ing the first half, finishing with a Clackamas 21-20 edge. “We were passing the ball when we weren’t open,” stated Mikleton. The Cougars gave up the ball 30 times in their seventh defeat this season. Three Clackamas players had double figures for reboun ding in the game. Hill and Johnston each grabbed 14, while Donna Boatman brought down 10.\ “We had a lot of turnovers, but we maintained at the end— especially the last half of the se cond half. We had three or four breaks in a row,” stated Mikleton about the Cougar’s victory over S.W.O.C.C. on Friday night. “Lou Ann (Garvin) played a good game,—Boatman played a super game off the bench,” stated Mikleton. Garvin con tributed 31 points to the cause, while Hill added 17, Johnston put in 13, and Boatman scored 8. Johnston also gave a season-high nine assists. “Jamie (Hill) did a super job blocking out shots,” said Mikleton. “We shot over 50 percent,” said Mikleton. Free throws Were our best, all year. ” The Cougar Women hit 31 of 54 from the field, and 14 of 19 at the charity strip. COMPANY—Jamie Hill goes for the shot while in the thick of things. Staff photo by Brenda Feltman “It was the first time we’ve beaten Blue Mountain since I’ve been coach,” stated Mikleton. “Our defense did a super job,” commented Mikleton. . Johnston le<i,in rebounding, grabbing 13,. followed by Hill’s 12. Tonight, the Cougar women will go up against Linn-Benton, whom they lost to by three points in their last encounter, and a team who is ranked third in the nation. The women will play Umpqua two nights later. The games ¡will be played in Albany and Roseburg, and will begin at 8 p.m. First track meet successful By Sue Hanneman Of The Print The Clackamas women’s track and field team opened its season this weekend in Moscow, Idaho, competing in the sixth annual Vandal Indoor Invitational Track Meet. Shavon Dennis was the top competitor for the Cougar women, placing first in the 200-meter dash in the Development Day meet, with the time of 25.6. Dennis also competed in the evening sec tion of the meet, where she placed second in the 300 meters in the time of 41.2. Other top competitors for Clackamas included Carol Ziemba who put the shot a per sonal best of 37’11” for fourth place. Sue Hanneman placed fourth with a time of 26.6 in the 200-meter dash. Loretta Elbert sprinted the 60 meters in 8.2 seconds which gave her seventh place, and Beth Kokesh ran the 1,500 in 5:12 to take seventh place. CCC’s Nancy Reynolds lead the womens 3,000 squad with seventh place finish in the time of 10:59, followed closely by teammates Jackie Beaudry and Peg Winzewski placing 8, runn ing a 11:00, and 10th with a 12:29, respectively. Wrestlers prepare for state .After beating Oregon State Saturday 26-15, the Cougar grapplers are preparing for the OCCAA championships. The Clackamas wrestlers held their wrestle offs last night, but the final results were not yet availalbe at press time. “Which team brings home the championship will depend on how each competitor wrestlers,” stated Coach Norm Bemey. “It depends on whether there are any upsets.” Bemey said defending champion S.W.O.C.C. will be at full strength. Three Cougar wrestlers will not be competing the OCCAA championships because of in juries. They are: Defending champion Lance Wilson, Mike Keith, and Bruce Sweet. Hopefully all three will be ready for the regionals. Even with the three out with injuries Bemey said “If we wrestle up to potential we should have a chance for the ti tle.” Track coaches clinic scheduled There will be a CGC Coaches’ Clinic r ■act Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tbe seminar will be in the gym nasium in Randall Hall and will be open to anyone. The Track and Field Clinic will present speeches and demonstrations from several p-rated coaches from the arèa. Present at the conference Linsenmeyer, head women’s track coach at the College. Guest speakers will include Harland Yriafo, from Lane C.C. and Charles Bowles, from Willamette University. Coach Bowles will. discuss organization of practice time. Kathy Oswald of Reynolds High School will speak oi\the various training programs for women long distance runners. Frank Morris is a track and field coach from Oregon State, who will give a lec ture/demonstration on the hurdles, discus and shot put. Dr. Steve Roy from the Eugene Sports Center will also be pre sent, and has planned a discus sion on running. The major emphasis of the clinic will be on high school track and field programs. Page 7 ir
