Record breaking team heads for Nationals
By Tracy M. Sumner
Of The Print
team.
“He could very well win
it,” Monroe stated. “Bamhurst
could possibly throw the javelin
250 feet. He’s getting better all
the time.” Bamhurst’s school
record throw of 242 feet is also
second best in the nation this
year.
Although he concedes the
decathlon championship to
Conny Silfver (Ricks), Monroe
does expert Douglass of
Clackamas to perform and
tfte athletes that the College is
sending to the Nationals is
outstanding, almost incredible,
but the rest of the team, despite
not qualifying for the meet, ad
ded considerably to a fantastic
season.
Cougar Coach Monroe
was voted the OCCAA Track
and Reid Coach of thé Year for
the 1982 season, and Marcell
Douglass was selected , the
year’s outstanding performer.
Monroe’s honor came
after his team won the OCCAA
championship for the first time
in the school’s history. The
Cougs closest competition at
the OCCAA meet was Mt.
Hood which finished 20 points
behind Clackamas.
When the National Junior
College Athletic Association
National track and field meet
begins this Friday in .San
Angelo, Texas; the College
men’s team will have a school
record 11 participants com
peting in nine different events.
Among the 11 will be six
school record holders (in
cluding a 1982 national best),
and what Clackamas coaches
consider a potential world-class
Douglass’ honors came
decathlon athlete, Marcell
after he placed second in the
Douglass.
Region 18 decathlon cham
Coach Buck Monroe is
pionships to qualify for the Na
confident his team will be a fac
tionals in that event. He also
tor in this weekend’s meet, but
will compete in the pole vault
said the men must be in top
after a school record vault of 15
form to place well.
feet. Douglass also set the
“My guess is that we’ll
school record this year in the
finish around eighth,” Monroe
long jump at 23-4 3/4.
said. “If we’re in the top ten,
Les Taylor, Jeff Johnson,
we’ll have to do a good job. It’s
John Anderson, and Dan West
hard to score points (in the na
narrowly missed nationals
tionals). The talent is so
qualification in the 1600 meter
awesome.
relay despite a school record
“My hope is for us to finish
3:15.1 time for the race. West
fifth or sixth,” he continued,
also
set the standard in the 400
“but that would take a hell of a
meters with a sprint of 48.3
performance.’* ..
BUCK MONROE
ROGER BARNHURST
Monroe pointed to Region
Mike Hortsch had a great
Staff Photos by Duane Hiersche
18 ehampion Ricks Junior Col
year in the ¿hot put, and also
lege (Idaho) and Odessa Com a 1982 national best.
place well in the meet.
Five school records were set a school-record by throwing
munity College (Texas) as two
“Mike Hortsch also will be
“1 expect Marcell to be in broken by this year’s team in the hammer 75 feet. Mark
of his favorites to take the na in there,” Monroe said. “Tony the top three,” he said. “I don’t events in which that the team Barlow ran the 400 meter in-
tional championship.
Macey and Ken Valasquez also think anyone will touch didn’t qualify for the nationals. termediate hurdles in 54.0 in
“It’s hard to tell because won’t be shut out.” Hortsch Silfver.” Douglass will also There were other individual the OCCAA meet to put his
the schools don’t always send and Macey both set school compete in the pole vault.
and team honors that added to name in the Cougar record
their results in; he said, “but records this year; Hortsch, with
Sophomore Vance Blow the team’s success.
books.
Odessa will be tough. I think a shot put of 53-6 1/2, and will also carry a school record
Ricks will be in the top three,” Macey, with a 5,000 meters into the Nationals, a 31:08.5
he continued. “They’re strong run of 14:40.
for 10,000 meters.
in all the field events.”
Les Taylor, Larry Psick,
Steve Gogl, who set the
As far as Cougar tracksters school standard in the 3,000 Jeff Johnson, and John Martin
winning individual champion meter steeplechase at the OC will go as a team to cornpete in
ships is concerned, Monroe CAA meet with a time of the 400 meter relay. The
isn’t exactly “Mr. Positive,” but 9:05.8, also is a possible na quartet ran the event in 41.7 to
gives freshman Roger Bar tional champ, according to qualify.
nhurst the best chance of the Monroe. Gogl’s time is also the
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