sports
Women improve
but not enough
By J. Dana Haynes
Of The Print
There was good news and
bad news for the women’s
cross country team at the
Region 18 meet last weekend
in Coos Bay.
The good news is: each of
the eight runners for
Clackamas Community Col
lege accrued better times than
ever before. The bad news is:
despite eight personal bests,
the Cougars finished fourth,
with 77 team points.
Lane Community College
of Eugene took first place with
20 points. Mt. Hood Com
munity of Portland came in
second with 64, followed by
Linn-Benton of Albany with a
team scbre of 73 points.
Other teams competing,
but without teams scores, were
North Idaho of Couer d’Alene,
Southwestern Oregon Com
munity (the home team), Rick’s
College of Rexburg, Idaho,
and College of Southern
Idaho, in Twin Falls.
“The second, third and
fourth place teams were all
very close,” Head Coach
Marilyn Wynia said. “We had a
good shot at second, but
everybody else was as keyed
up as we were ”
The Cougars all showed
personal improvements in their
running. Their times and places
were:
Vicki Anderson 11th 18:35
Sue Rogers
19th 19:50
Suzy Graham
24th 20:23
Michelle Fobert 29th 21:14
Debbie Koffel
31st 21:50
Judy Pearson
34th 23:28
Sheri Hilton
35th 24:23
Tami Albini
36th 24:50
When asked why all the
times were personal bests,
Wynia said, “It was probably
mental. This was the last meet
of the season and everyone
was ‘up’ for it.” Despite this,
not one of the Cougars
qualified for nationals.
Part of the problem stems
from the team’s youth, Wynia
feels. Only Rogers and Fobert
are sophomores, with the other
six runners freshmen.
Also, not one of the
Cougar women had run the
5000 meter race before, which
is the standard event this year.
The runners all had different
reasons for being a part of the
team. Anderson is in training as
a pentathlete and Albini is
primarily a basketball player.
Several of the women are
tracksters who run cross coun
try to keep in shape, including
javeline thrower Koffel and
Rogers, who was a sprinter in
high school.
Despite their age, Wynia
doesn’t, know how many peo
ple she will get back next year,
she said.
As for this year, the head
coach, who is in her fourth year
at the College, feels it went
“very smoothly. The team as a
whole was successful, and we
had quite a few individual suc
cesses.”
Wynia pointed out that the
level of improvement was more
noticeable toward the end of
the. season than the beginning.
“Some of the people dropped
their times by as much as a
minute between two meets
during these last few weeks,”
she said.
“I don’t know if this means
they were not giving 100 per
cent early on, or if they just got
the hang of long distances.”
Although the Cougars
were not a major power in the
district this year, they have
been in the past. “We’re in a
rebuilding system right now,”
Wynia said. “In the last two
years, we’ve barely had any
teams. Both years, we ended
up the seasons with less than
five runners left.”
One possible reason for
the low turnout, Wynia thinks,
is “Women don’t want to come
to a junior college. If they have
any running talent,'they try for
tiie four-year college first.”
However, the community
college athletic programs are
coming into their own. “The
competition is getting tougher
every year,” Wynia said. “The
winning times for regionals
were almost one minute faster
this year than last.”
Men tops at Regional meet
By Rick Obritschkewitsch
Of The Print
When asked how the
Cougar men’s cross country
team did in the Region 18
Championship meet last
weekend, Coach Kelly Sullivan
responded, “We won,” in a
tone suggesting, “How else
could we do?”
The Cougar thinclads
earned the title of Region 18
Champions for the third year in
a row.
An 11 point edge
separated the Cougars and
their closest competitor,
Southern Idaho with 50 points.
The Champs earned 39 points.
The rest of the field included
North Idaho with 73 points,
Lane Community College 98
points, Mt. Hood 102 points,
Rick’s 139 points, Linn-Benton
177 points, Umpqua 238
points, and Treasure Valley
rounded out the field with 245
points.
Tony Macey led the
Cougar runners taking third
place overall, and set a new
school record for the five-mile
distance with a time of 24:16.
He was immediately followed
by teammate Brian Abshire,
with a fourth place time of
24:19.
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have. “We could have run
more aggressively,” Sullivan
said. “We lacked concentra
tion, and we didn’t want it as
bad as we should have.”
Other top Cougar finishers
included Ken Velasquez, who
finished seventh, at 24:52, and
Steve Gogl crossed the finish
line eleventh, at 25:03. If it
hadn’t been for the speed of
Macey, Abshire would have
claimed the new five-mile
Next on the Cougar’s list
of hurdles is the national com
petition in New York this
weekend. The Clackamas run
ners are ranked third going into
the event. “We should end up
somewhere in the top five,”
Sullivan said. “We potentially
could win the nationals.”
school record. Instead Abshire
has to settle for he second
fastest school time for that dis
tance. Velasquez couldn’t quite
make it past the old school
record, but is now the fourth
Carolina, the runner-up for the
past three years. Both of these
teams have returned three of
their top five runners, and
“have recruited some outstan
ding freshman,” Sullivan said.
fastest Cougar ever to run the
five miles. Gogl now holds the
eighth fastest time.
Even with the champion
ship, Sullivan said the Cougar
The Cougars will leave
Thursday for their chance at a
national title. There are no
didnt’ run as well as they could
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