Mens track breezes
as records broken
By Tracy Sumner
Of The Print
The men’s track team
combined several outstanding
individual performances into
an overwhelming team perfor
mance as they sprinted to an
easy first place finish in a six-
team meet held last Saturday in
Pendleton.
Staff Photo by Duane Hiersche
THE WIND UP, Jeff Haga practices indoors, due to bad
weather which postponed their game against Linn-
Benton.
Cougar baseball
off to 3-2 start
By Tracy Sumner
Of The Print
The Clackamas Com
munity College baseball team
opened its 1982 season recent
ly with, a 12 inning 8-7 victory
over Portland State University
on the Cougars home-field-.'
Clackamas trailed the Vik
ings through most of the game
and had to score two runs in
both the seventh and ninth inn
ings to tie the score at seven-all
and force the extra innings.
After scoreless 10th and
11th innings, outfielder Jamie
Gipaya ended the lengthy con-,
test with 12th inning home run
to earn the Clackamas victory.
Relief pitcher Rod Bell was
credited with the victory.
The Cougars followed the
victory by falling to Clark Com
munity College 14-8 despite
two home runs by short stop
Clay Baggerly.
Clackamas scored two
runs in the fourth and fifth inn
ings to take a 5-4 lead going in
to the eighth inning, but Clark
exploded for 10 runs in the
final two innings to bury the
Couos. "
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In a rematch with Portland
State, the Cougars used an
eight-hit pitching performance
by Jeff Henery to take a 10-4
decision and set themselves up
for league play.
In the league opener, the
first half of a double-header
against Blue Mountain Com
munity College in Pendleton,
Clackamas combined 5-Kit pit
ching by Brett Wolfe and a 3
RBI afternoon by Clay Bagger
ly to take an easy 7-2 victory.
Jamie Gipaya added a seventh
inning home run to aid the
Cougar attack.
Cougar bats were cooled,
and the Clackamas defense
was shelled for 11 runs efs the
teain suffered an 11-2 pum-
meling in the second half of the
double header. Clackamas was
held to four hits for the game.
“We made a lot'of errors
and they hit us pretty well,”
Coach Gene Peterson said of
his team’s lack of defense.
The game with Linn-
Benton Community College
scheduled for Saturday was
rained out. A make-up' date
has not been announced. The
Cougars record now stands at
1-1 in league play, 3-2 overall,
lhe team’s next action is here
this Saturday with Mt. Hood
Community College.
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The Cougars easily
outscored their opponents with
200 points followed by Eastern
Oregon with 115, Northern
sldaho with 112, Southwestern
Oregon with 68, host Blue
Mountain with 33 and Whit
man with 28 points.
Along' with what he called
an “outstanding” team perfor
mance, Coach Kelly Sullivan
pointed to the individual per
formance of Mark Frickey as
the team’s best of the meet.
Frickey took first place in
the triple jump with a personal
best of 44-4; He also finished
first in the high hurdles, with a
time of 15.6. A high jump of
6’4” earned him second place
in that eyeht.
Dan West made school
history when he tied the school
record in the 400 meter run
with a sprint of 48.4. West now
shares the record with Randy
Kessler, who set the standard
in 1972.
Sullivan also pointed to a
surprising performance by
Scott Anderson as a factor in
the team’s success. “Overall
the team’s performance was
really good,” he said- “We had
some real surprises like Scott
Anderson.”,
Anderson’s “surprise” was
his debut as a triple jumper
'where he hopped, skipped,
and jumped 44-9 to place se
cond in the meet. He also tied
teammate, Marcell Douglass,
for second in the pole vault
with a vault of 13-6.
Cougar relay teams also
had a good meet as the 400
meter team of Larry Psick, Jeff
Johnson,, Les Taylor, and
John Anderson placed first.
Johnson and Anderson also
teamed with Dan and Manuel
West to win the 1600 meter
relay with a time of 3:21.8.
Other first place finishers
for Clackamas included Larry
Psick with a 200 meter sprint of
21.8 and Mark Barlow who
had a time of 56.5 in the 400
meter intermediate hurdles.
Jay Marugg ran the steeple
chase in 9:50 to win that event
and Roger Barnhurst was best
javelin thrower with a toss of
207-10.
Ken Valasquez ran the
.1500 in 3:59, one second in
front of teammate Steve Gogl,
to place second in that event.
John'Martin and Jeff Johnson
took the runner-up spots in the
100 and 200 meters respec
tively. Mike Hortsch also took
second in the shot put with a
heave of 49-10.
Long-distance star Vance
Blow, who set school records
in the 5,000 and 10,000 in
earlier meets, missed the meet
because of illness. Blow ran the
5,000 in 14:39 to set the
school standard and covered
the 10,000 in 31:09 to set that
record.
Sullivan is very optimistic
about his team’s season after
the early season meets. “We’ve
got a good shot at conference,"
he stated. “We could possibly
have 15 people qualifying for-
nationals. Five men have
already qualified.
Ken Valasquez in the
5,000, Vance Blow in the
5,000 and 10,000 meter runs,
and Steve Gogl in the steeple
chase have all qualified lor the
meet to be held May 20-22 in
San Angelo, Texas. Roger Bar
nhurst’s school record javelin
throw of 231-8 also qualifies
him.
The men’s next meet is
with Linn-Benton and Central
Oregon this Saturday in
Albany.
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