Reynolds, Raimondi &
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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
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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.
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“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.
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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
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Wednesday, June 3, 1981
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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.
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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.