sports
Mens x-country impressive at invitational
By Tracy Sumner
Of The Print
The College men’s cross
country team faced what was ,
probably their toughest com
petition of this season Saturday
at the Willamette Invitational.
The team was impressive
despite the absence of number
two runner Steve Gogl.
The Cougars finished se
cond behind Oregon State
University, but it was a
Clackamas runner who took
first place in the 8,000 meter
run.
Tony Macey finished the
course in 24:07, a new school
record and just three seconds
off the course record.
“Tony ran an excellent
race,” said cross country
Coach Kelly Sullivan. “By far
(it was) his best race ever. He
beat some really great competi
tion.”
Three Cougar freshman
also contributed greatly to the
team’s success. Brian Abshire,
John Hansen, and Jeff
Franklin finished 1-2-3 for first
year college runners in the
meet.
Abshire’s time of 24:34,
which placed him seventh
overall, was also the fourth best
ever for a Clackamas runner in
the 8,000 meters. Hansen’s
fourteenth place time (24:53)
was the seventh best for
Cougar runners.
Sullivan was pleased with
his freshmen and said he was
excited to see their progress.
Of the 163 runners who
finished the run, 12 were
Cougars. Besides the four
already mentioned, Kevin
MacDermott (25:23), Ken
Valasquez (25:25), Hugh Red
man (25:32), Marco Guitterez
(25:47), Rob Conner (26:19),
Jim Edmark (26:20), Scott
Isaac (26:35), and Alan
Wymore (27:01) finished 30th,
32nd, 36th, 45th, 67th, 68th,
77th, and 102nd respectively.
“Everyone ran really
well,’’Sullivan said. “That was
probably as good a competition
as we’ll face all year. Oregon
State has a really good team.
They thought they’d walk away
with the meet.”
The team has improved
over last year, but the team’s
improvement, according to
Sullivan, has not gone
unanswered -by the rest of the
nation.
“We’re much better this
year, but as much as we’ve im
proved, the other school have
improved at least as much,” he
said.
The Cougs cross country
team received another honor
last weekend as they were in
vited to the Oregon Track
Club-NIKE Invitational held
this Sunday at Emerald Valley
Golf course in Eugene.
The meet will feature
world class runners, Bill Mc
Chesney and Tom Beyers. Mc
Chesney recently ran the se
cond fastest 5,000 meters in
American History. Beyers won
the 1982 New York Fifth
Tony Macey
(foreground)
Avenue Mile. Beyers has also community college invited to
run a 3:50 mile, one of the the meet, a testimony to the
fastest ever for an American.
team’s quality. Gogl is ex
Clackamas was the only pected to be ready in time for
Improving volleybailers prep for invitational
By Wanda Percival
Of The Print
Coach Loren Swivel gives last-minute instruction to her team.
Soccer team triumphant
By Tracy M. Sumner
Of The Print
Shawn O’Brien, Jim
Keough and Tim Canfield each
scored goals and freshman
Steve Enos led a fine Cougar
defensive effort to give
Clackamas a 3-2 non-league
soccer win over Southern
Oregon State College here last
Sunday.
O’Brien’s goal gave the
Cougs a 1-0 halftime lead
which Southern Oregon tied
with a goal on a free kick early
in the second half. Keough
broke the 1-1 deadlock,
minutes later vOith a penalty
kick goal to make it 2-1
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Clackamas. Canfield iced the
win later, giving the Cougars a
3-1 lead.
Enos, filling in for regular
goalie Ricky Zyelinske whose
father suffered a heart attack
Saturday, was instrumental in
the Clackamas victory.
“He (Enos) did a good
job,” soccer Coach Jonas Szan-
to said. “He’s a good goalie,
but he’s a little short on ex
perience.”
In earlier action, the
cougars tied Lewis and Clark
College 1-1 in an Oregon Inter
College Soccer Association
clash. The tie came after a 3-0
whitewash by the Beavers of
Oregon State University.
Clackamas beat a South
American Inter-National team
2-1 for their first win of the
season. They opened the
season with a 5-3 loss to
Willamette University. Former
Cougar Jeff Johnson broke the
Cougars backs with a three-
goal
performance
for
Willamette.
The team’s records now
stands 2-2-1 overall and 0-1-1
in league play. The Cougars
travel south this weekend for a
Saturday game with Oregon
Institue of Technology in
Klamath Falls and a Sunday
contest with Southern Oregon
in Ashland.
(related story on page 8.)
The Cougar netters raised
their season record to 15-5 last
week after falling to Willamette
University Tuesday and com
ing back to stomp Multnomah
School of the Bible Thursday.
Against Willamette the
Cougars made some errors
which set them back resulting
in an 8-15, 15-9, 8-15, 12-15
loss, but Coach Loren Swivel
has seen some improvement in
her squad. “We made some
decisive errors in serving and
the third hits,” Swivel said, “but
our blocking is improving. Over
all there was a lot of good
play.”
Multnomah School of
the Bible gave the Cougar
women a boost in their season
record when Clackamas down
ed them 3-15, 5-15, 1-15. Ac
cording to Swivel her team isn’t
always so hard on the teams
that haven’t done so well, but
this time things were different.
“We have had a tendency
to play down to their level,”
she said, “and we didn’t do that
against MSB.”
Swivel was proud of her
teams’ efforts and intensity in
Thursday’s game stating, “I’m
real pleased we were able to
keep up our intensity and our
serving was improved.”
Swivel was especially
pleased with the efforts put
forth by Terry Kelly, Mary Im-
per, Cheyl Dischner and Teri
Larson. Larson, she said, “is
really coming on to be a strong
hitter and a good server.”
Currently the Cougar
squad is preparing for the
North Idaho Tournament
scheduled for late October
which will determine who plays
in Regionals. “We’re trying to
play excellent competition for it
because either you win it or
you’re out,” Swivel said. “I
have the confidence that if the
girls are playing well they can
do some excellent things.”
So far Swivel hasn’t felt in
timidated nor regrets dropping
out of the Oregon Community
College Athletic Association.
“Competition is competi
tion,” she said, “so I’m not
worried whether we play with
other junior colleges or with
four year schools. It just doesn’t
matter.
Of the next seven op
ponents that Clackamas is
scheduled to face, the Cougars
have already defeated four of
them. Last night they took on
Oregon State University whom
they had played once before
and lost.
“The first time we played
them it took us a while to get
going,” Swivel said. She added
that she was “looking for them
to be strong.”
The weekend will draw
the Cougar women to the
Western Baptist Invitational
where they’ll compete against
all four schools.
“If wè’re playing ‘our
game’ I think we’ll be very hard
to beat,” Swivel stated. “This is
a decisive time for us. It all
comes down to team play.”
Following the weekend
action the Cougar netters will
have a brief break before enter
ing into any more competition.
“It’s good to have this practice
time,” Swivel said, “to gain
some strengths and work on
our weaknesses.”
Wednesday, October 13, 1982