Hoopsters place second at Redwoods Invite
By J. Dana Haynes
Of the Print
The Women’s basketball
squad started the season on the
right foot last weekend, taking
second out of eight teams par
ticipating in* the College of the
Redwoods Women’s Invita
tional Basketball Tournament.
“I’m very excited,” head
coach Nancy Mikleton said,
“They showed a lot of poise
and really ‘jelled’. Everybody
showed a great desire to win;
the starters and- those coming
off the bench as well.”
The Cougars won their
first two games in a row at the
tournament, which was played
in Eureka, California. The first
win was against the Raiders, a
Eureka city league school with
78- 62. The next match-up was
against Central Oregon Com
munity College, where the
Cougars pulled ahead to win
79- 77 in overtime. Finally,
fatigue and foul-trouble
brought the Clackamas team
down in the third game, giving
the victory to Umpqua 72-67?
Denice Wheatley was the
Cougar high scorer in the first
two games, with 17 and 22
points, respectively. In the
Raiders game, Terri Kelly came
£iQff photo by Duane Hiers che
next with 15 points, followed
UP FOR TWO, Terri Kelly attempts to make a basket dur by Cindy Johnston with 13 and
ing a recent practice while Cyd McCormick tries to block Susan Parker with 12.
Against COCC; Kelly
again followed Wheatley with
16 and Johnston netting 12.
Denice
.Wheatley's
superior play earned her a
position on the AU-
Toumament team. The other
stand-out performance was
from Kelly; besides the ac
cumulated 31 points in the first
two games, she also scored 16
against Umpqua and pulled 15
rebounds off the board.
. The Umpqua game was a
disappointing one. With three
minutes of play left, the
Cougars were down by two
points. “Then we had a player
foul out, and Umpqua was hot
from the free-throw line,”
Mikleton said.
The news wasn’t all bad,
however. “That game showed
us that we’re going to be right
in there with the best teams
around,” Mikleton predicted,
“We played well against Ump
qua and they went to nationals
last year.”
The Cougars are a young
team, with only one returning
player, Cindy Johnston. Also,
the earliness of the year makes
it hard to tell the strengths and
weaknesses of a team. “We’ve
got pretty good height, but you
wouldn’t call us ‘tall’ in com
parison to some teams. We
average about 5’10”.”
Even the Coug’s defense
is undecided as of now. “We’vt
been using a lot of things, in
eluding a man-to-man and <
couple of zones. Against Ump
qua we ran a 1-3-1, and i
seemed to work well. It jus
depends on who we’re playinc
and what they use.”
Mikleton is predicting j
good year for her team. “W<
can be pretty fast,” she explain
ed, “Or, we can give up a little
speed and have some stronj
jumpers in the game. For
tunafely, we’ve got 6 or 7
players who are good enough
to start.”
Clackamas is not the only
team expecting a good season,
however. Linn Benton went
undefeated last year and, ac
cording
to
Mikleton,
Chemeketa should be good.
The prospect of facing
good teams doesn’t seem to
bother Coach Mikleton,
however. “I think we have the
potential to be awesome this
year,” she said.
Correction
In last week’s issue o
The Print it was stated that th
Cougar hoopsters lost to th
Lewis and Clark JV 104-9
when in fact they were vic
torious over them by that sam
score. Sorry guys.
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