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very well represented. We
definitely showed our region to
be one of the strongest in the
nation.”
Douglass broke his own
school record in the pole vault
at the meet to take third in that
event. Douglass cleared the bar
at 15-4, four inches over his
previous record.
“I knew I had a good
chance of placing,” Douglass
said. “I thought I’d probably
finish in the top five.”
Before the nationals meet,
College coaches had predicted
that Douglass would place well
in the decathlon, possibly as
high as second. Those predic
tions went the way of the
fifteen-cent postage stamp as
Douglass was unable to place
for the Cougars.
“I had a bad day,”
Douglass explained. “Also they
ran the meet all wrong. They
ran the 100 into the wind. After
the 100 and the pole vault, it
was all down hill.”
“I hate to make excuses,
but the 100 meters killed him,”
Sullivan said. “He also ‘no
heighthed’ in the pole vault
after placing third in that event.
The competition was awesome
also. His best score would have
placed him fourth.
“We were pleased with
Marcell though,” Sullivan con
tinued. “We had hoped for him
to place second in the
decathlon and get some ex
perience in the pole vault and
exactly
the
opposite
happened.”
KELLY SULLIVAN
In the 5,000 meter run,
Tony Macey and Ken Valas-
quez placed third and eighth,
respectively. Macey’s time and
place in the meet was good
enough for All-American
honors for the freshmen.
Despite the high placing by the
men, Sullivan said that the
men should have fared better
and blamed that on the
weather conditions at the meet
site.
“I think the weather hurt
us,” he said. “The humidity
and heat down there is really
hard on long distance runners
from this part of the country.”
“It was windy for the
finals,” Valasquez stated, “but
it didn’t really bother me that
much. But the heat takes a lot
out of a person in the sun.”
Gogl started the 3,000
meter steeplechase strongly,
leading his competitors through
part of the race, but in the end,
finished fifth in the event.
“He lead for about five
laps,” Sullivan explained, “but
Golfers take third
in regional tournament
By Rick Obritschkewitsch
Of The Print
The Cougar golf team
traveled to Tokatee, Oregon
May 16-18 to earn the title of
the third best team in Region
18.
Tokatee golf course is a
“true test of a golfers skill,”
Coach Jim Hudson said. The
course is ranked in the top 50
in the nation by pro golfers.
Hudson stated, “We
played as well as we have all
year; we just didn’t play our
best.”
Mt. Hood became the
Region 18 champions after
breaking a tie with Linn-Benton
in sudden death. Mt. Hood
had a team score of 614, while
the Cougar’s third place score
was 638.
Hudson said, “Most
(Cougar golfers) just tried too
hard instead of relaxing.” Hud
son also said, “Under the cir
cumstances, we played as well
as the other boys. Sunday was
cold and rainy-we haven’t
played well in the rain during
the rest of the season.”
Nick Atwood had the best
day for the Cougars, keeping
his score down to 158 on the
36 holes. Other individual
Cougar scores and 171 for Joe
Dominique.
Atwood went four strokes
over the score needed for him
to compete in the national by
National Junior College
Athletic Association standards,
and eight strokes off what the
College would have allowed to
send him.
Although no Cougars
were in the running for All-
regional honors, it was a close
race for the recipients. Joe
Sobae of Linn-Benton received
top honors with a score of 150,
as Tony Kristiansen of Mt.
Hood, and Randy Clark of
Chemeketa battled in sudden
death after tying at 152. Kris
tiansen won in the sudden
death competition.
Chris Harrel of Mt. Hood
and Perry Billaurd also had a
sudden death battle for the
fourth position after each using
153 strokes to complete their
36 holes. Harrel won this sud
den death.
Cougar golfers started off
the season on a positive note,
taking second in the Willamette
Invitational, and then winning
the Mt. Hood Invitational. “But
it went down hill from there,”
Hudson said. There was to be
no conference wins for the Col
lege club swingers.
Season averages for
Cougar golfers went as follows:
Nick Atwood 78.5, Mark Tetter
78.6, Dean Dodge 78.8, Ron
Hurst 78.8, Dominique 79.7,
Sean Smith 79.8, and Andy
Goddard 79.9.
Two, or maybe three
golfers will be returning to com
pete for the College. The two
that are pretty certain are At
wood and Smith.
Goddard has already put
in the allowed two years at the
community college level, but
he is petitioning the NJCAA to
allow him another year. He
was the Cougar’s seventh man
last year, and didn’t see much
competition.
the heat and wind got to him. I
was pleased with his effort,
maybe not his strategy, but
with his effort. The weather
was really hard on our distance
runners and Steve was no ex
ception.”
“I should have finished se
cond,” Gogl said. “Toward the
end, I really sucked it up. I
started something I couldn’t
finish.”
Hortsch ended a fine
season as a shot-putter with a
52-9 heave which placed him
fifth in the nation in that event.
Hortsch’s toss was nearly seven
feet shorter than that of
Leonard Flyman of Ricks
whose national championship
put also put his name in the
record books.
“I was pleased with Mike,”
Sullivan said. “Mike is a ner
vous type and he really handl
ed the pressure. He didn’t have
his best throw of the year, but
he probably had his best series.
All of his throws were in the
52-foot range.”.
A major factor in the
Cougar’s eleventh place finish,
according to Sullivan, was a
disappointing ninth place finish
by javelin thrower Roger Bar
nhurst.
“He had the second best
throw in the preliminaries, but
he scratched on his first throw
in the finals,” Sullivan explain
ed. “I think that got him pretty
tight when he scratched and it
really worked on his mind.
“He’s definitely the second
best javelin thrower in the na
tion,” Sullivan continued.
“When you have the worst day
of your life and still place ninth
in the nation out of hundreds of
people, that’s really something.
You can’t take ninth in the na
tion away from anyone.”
Vance Blow, who coaches
have referred to as “one of the
most talented distance runners
we’ve ever had,” was also
pointed to by Sullivan as a ma
jor disappointment of the meet
for the team. Blow started the
10,000 meters, but was unable
to finish.
“The weather wasn’t a fac
tor,” Sullivan said. “He just
didn’t compete. That’s the
most disappointing thing that
happened there.”
The 400 meter relay team
of Les Taylor, Larry Psick, Jeff
Johnson, and John Martin
were ousted from competition
early as a result of an error in
one of the team’s hand-offs.
“They blew their first
hand-off and that’s all it took,”
Sullivan said. “In nationals
there’s ho room for mistakes,
the talent is that great. I really
feel that the men were a little
intimidated by the appearance
of the other teams and that was
a factor?’ ' .
Last week, track and field
coach Buck Monroe predicted
the Cougars would probably
finish the meet around eighth
in the nation and that he hoped
for a fifth or sixth place finish by
his team. The team was unable
to place that high, but accor
ding to Sullivan, could very
easily have placed higher if cer
tain team members had per
formed up to expectations.
“If Roger (Barnhurst) and
Ken (Valasquez) had placed
and our 400 meter relay team
had placed, we could have
placed as high as seventh,” he
said. “Roger should have plac
ed second and that alone
would have given us ninth.
“We can’t complain,” he
continued. “This is the best
we’ve ever done. The best
we’d done before was 19th in
the nation. The most we’d ever
scored in the nationals was 9
points.”
“It’s been a very good
season. It’s like any season.
You have things that stand out.
Winning the OCCAA cham
pionship, taking 11 kids to na
tionals, scoring and placing the
best we ever have in nationals,
and bringing back four All-
Americans, the most we’ve
ever had, and 12 new school
records.
“What’s really great is that
we’re getting almost everybody
back next year,” he said. “Now
it’s on to recruiting.”
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