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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1981)
Reynolds, Raimondi & crew seventh in nation Nancy Reynolds. If a person were to ask who made up the Cougar women’s cross country team in 1979, that would "be the total response. Although Reynolds proved to be the team leader in 1980, she was by no means the entire team. She was joined by three sophomores crossing over from the Cougar track team: Beth Kokesh, Carolyn Raimondi and Matci Fisher. Four frosh rounded out the Cougar pack, which would eventually send all but one team member to the National Junior College Athletic Association Women’s Cross Country Championships after becoming Region 18 Champions. A Week prior to the women as they took the top five posi thinclads grabbing the region tions. The College women proved .champion, they had a date to race against three other col that a finish like this was no leges, including a very freak incident, as'they went on awesome Lane Community to capture the region cham College squad. But when the pionship title and prove that Roadrunners didn’t show, they were the seventh fastest Cougar Coach Marilyn team in the NJCAA. Linsenmeyer decided to pull The women runners showed her number-one runner, Reynolds, to allow the rest of that they are high achievers on the College runners a chance and off the course, as to prove what they could do Reynolds, Beaudry, Raimondi, 'without their leader, and to Winczewski, and Kokesh had also give Reynolds a break combined GPAs high enough to earn the distinction of being before regionals. named Academic • All As it turned out, the re Americans, with the fifth mainder of the women Cougar highest team GPA in the Women’s cross country team proudly displays champion ship. thinclads showed their depth, NJCAA. Wrestling company lone I winter sports champion Support wins regional There may have been some worry going through Jim Col gan’s mind at the end of last year’s Cougar cross country season, because he was the on ly one returning for the men’s squad in the next season, in cluding the coach. But as the 1980 season pro gressed, that worry was replac ed with victory after victory as Kelly Sullivan, a former student and runner of the College returned after two years of leave to take on the vacant coaching position. Sulkvan and Colgan were joined by a host of eager young thinclads. One such Cougar runner was Vance Blow, who almost never took up the sport of cross country running, but has put so much effort into it sincere has that he was the fourth runner across the finish line in the Region 18 Men’s Cross Coun try Championships to be the first Cougar across to.finish the race, and Was also the first Cougar finisher in the National Junior College Athletic Association Championships. Of course, there were many other Cougars who earned the right to compete in the regionals and the nationals. Those who made it to the regionals are: Jay Marugg and James Hester, who took seventh and ninth, respective ly; Other Cougars in the regionals included Colgan, Rex Smith, - Mike Knutson, Bob Barker and Mike Chambers. The entire Cougar pack finish ed well enough in the regionals fo give the team a first-place victory. The College thinclàds took seventh as a team in the NJCAA Championships as Blow, Marugg, Smith, Barker, Knutson, Colgan and Hester all represented the College. Men’s tennis The Cougar grapplers began with a fairly strong team this year with a number of returning matmen. Though, one of the biggest hindrances was injuries. ■ ■ I n ||g| ■ I J Illg Jim Colgan Inexperience tarnishes season * “When the opportunity arose I took it,” stated men’s tennis Coach David Buckley. So, Buckley became the 1981 Cougar men’s tennis coach with a roster of players who had virtually no ex perience competing on the col lege level. There was oYie per son who had experience on the college level, Charlie Martelk One other thing that Buckley had going against him was that his decision^ to take the coaching job didn’t come until just a few month before the season would begin. . Buckley’s team had even more problems, through things like number-one player, Martell, getting ill so soon before a match that there was no time to do anything but - forfeit the match. Rut But thrrmnli through all the setbacks, the^ new College competition players kept their hopes alive for a regional. berth. They hoped to get as many players as possible to the Region 18 Men’s Tennis Championships. Men’s tennis coach David Buckley « Wednesday, June 3, 1981 centimeters ■4Ö.4S Colors by Munsell Color Services Lab Next on the grappler’s schedule came the regional meet, where six Cougars plac ed and four made it to the na tionals. This was the case when it came. time for the squad’s wrestle-off to determine who of Those who placed in the the Cougar grapplers would represent the College in the regionals were: Troy Went Oregon Community College worth at 118 and Nathan Win Athletic Association Cham ner at 134 were, both consola tion winners at . fourth place. pionships. Those who placed high enough Three wrestlers including to go to the. nationals were Lance Wilson were out with in Wilson at 142, Blackford at juries, and therefore couldn’t 150, and Overbay placed third compete in the state meet. as Mike Martin nabbed second. I Even with Wilson, one of the Two Cougar wrestlers, team’s top wrestlers out with an injury the rest of the squad was Wilson at 142, and Blackford able to come up with a second- at 158 took honors at the na tionals placing fifth and sixth place team victory. respectively. Martin was Individually at the state defeated in the first round, and meet, Bill Blackford and Tom Winner was held back with a Overbay grappled their way to .knee injury, first-place victories at 158. As a sad note, after the Roy Bonner took second at state at 190, as Troy Went season had ended, Cougar worth, Nathan Winner, Craig Mike Patton drowned in a Joplin, and Mark Scott took canoeing accident. Four Cougar men netters went to Lane Community Col lege to represent Clackamas in the Oregon Community Col lege Athletic Association Men’s Tennis Championships, to have one player, Mark San ford, do well enough to make it to the regionals. Sanford defeated- a Southwestern Oregon Com munity College opponent, 6-2, 6-3, in the first round, but then lost in the second round to a Mt. Hood player, 4-6, 2-6. Even with the second round conference loss, Sanford had still achieved the goal of mak ing it to the regionals. Sanford found the regional competition a little too tough to handle, as he won the first set of the first round, 6-1, but then lost the next two sets, 2-6, 3-6, moving him to the consolation round, where'he lost again. So that’s where the men’s tennis season ended, with one person in regional competition as they had hoped. third at 118, 134, 190, and heavyweight respectively.