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Cougars end winning season with O.T. loss By Doug Vaughan Of The Print Achieving the best record in the school’s history, 21-10, the Clackamas Community College men’s basketball team got knocked out of the playoffs for a regional berth as they lost to a “very talented” Chem- eketa Community College team, Coach Royce Kiser said. Before the loss to Chemeketa, Feb. 26, the Cougars stormed past Blue Mountain Community College, 92-77 the night before. The Cougars needed to beat three teams consecutively in order to gain a regional spot. In Friday night’s victory the Cougs got a stream of fire power from the trio of Jim Im- per, Bob Nippert and Tom Welle. The three combined for 65 of the Cougar’s points. Welle, who led the way for Clackamas, threw in 25 points and grabbed a team high 17 re bounds. Nippert and Imper each tallied for 20 points for the Cougars. Welle’s board work was supported by 15 from Nip pert, while Imper dished out a team high of seven assists. “The last ten minutes of the ball game we took over and played outstanding basketball,” Kiser said. “At half-time, the game was tied at 40, but the se cond half we just ate them up.” Kiser also pointed out the exceptional play of the Cougar guards. Kelly Burke distributed six assists, while Mark McLaughlin came off the bench to add six. The Cougar backcourt committed only 10 turnovers. “They (Blue Mountain) had a very talented team,” Kiser said. “They shot exceptionally well and had good size.” The deadlock at halftime was broken when Kiser’s squad closed down the Blue Moun tain passing lanes and got a few easy break-aways, Kiser said. Another asset for the Cougars were really concentrating on was that they forced their op stopping him so it helped out ponents into a man-to-man our other guys.” defense which Kiser felt enabl Kiser feels that not ed the Cougars to get “back everything was lost in the over doors” all the time. time loss to Chemeketa as the The next night did not go future looks very bright for his as well as the second half of the team. Blue Mountain game as the “This is by far the best Cougars had a hard time fin team I have coached here,” ding the basket and fell to Kiser said. “They have more Chemeketa in overtime, talent and are very intelligent 61-57. people. Kiser’s team had a very “The two leading scorers poor shooting night, 23 for 74, will be back next year along due to several reasons. with several others,” Kiser said. “They played fairly good “The ones we want back, we defense. They had a 6’10” guy will probably get.” Assistant coach, Paul who blocked a few of our shots early in the game, Kiser said. Fiskum feels the same way “Also, I think we might have towards this year’s team and the future of basketball at been getting fouled on a lot of Clackamas. our inside shots.” “They are the best basket Putting in another solid ball team I have seen at performance for the Cougars at Clackamas, and on top of that point guard was Burke who they are the best quality group was the only Cougar to hit 50 of guys that I have been percent of his shots with a 5 for around,” Fiskum said. 10 mark. Along with his 10 points the backcourter pulled down seven boards for the Cougars. Leading the team in scor- ing despite a 4 for 16 shooting By Rob Conner performance was 6’6” forward Of The Print Jim Hill. He also added eleven The Clackamas Com rebounds. munity College women’s Having an off-game for basketball season came to an the Cougars, but still a factor in abrupt halt Friday night. A loss their performance, Kiser said, at the hands of Lane Com was Welle. He pulled down a munity College, 67-57, put an team-high 12 rebounds, but end to any hopes of further failed to hit a shot from the field post season play. in 10 attempts. Clackamas would have One reason for his frustra had to beat Lane, the fourth tion was foul trouble. Welle place team in the league from picked up three before which the college defected halftime, and a fourth early in from this year, then defeat the the second half. Kiser took him third and second place teams in out of the line-up until nine succession to gain a regional minutes left when Chemeketa berth. started to pull away from the The one statistic which Cougs. Welle ended up fouling was Clackamas’ big weakness out with six minutes left. throughout the year did them “Even though he (Welle) in, in the long run; foul did not have an exceptional shooting. Most all team game his presence out there statistics were even or in the helped,” Kiser said. “They Cougars’ favor. The bottom line was Clackamas’ inability to convert from the charity stripe. Lane hit 20 of 24 while the A FLYING COUGAR-Guard Kelly Burke soars through the key. Burke dished out six assists in the playoff victory over Blue Mountain. p/e photo Lane Women down Cougs Cougars could manage only 7 of 20. In fact, Clackamas outre bounded Lane 37-27, and even got off one shot more than their opponents. The tur novers were also dead even at 27 apiece. Clackamas trailed the en tire game but did make a run in the closing minutes. With 2:40 left in the second half Denise Wheatley hit two long range jumpers to pull to within three points. On Lane’s next posses sion Clackamas fouled Debbie Bredeson. Bredeson, who was a perfect ten of ten from the line, calmly sank both shots to put the game out of reach. “We got into foul trouble early,” Coach Nancy Mikleton stated. “We had a couple girls on the bench in the first half and Mary (Christenson) and Terri (Kelly) played most of the second half with four fouls.” A stand out performance was turned in by Sophomore forward Mary Christenson. “Mary probably played her best game ever at Clackamas. She did lots of good things,” Mikleton said. Good would have to be an understatement. Christenson kept Clackamas close with a 20 point effort. Kathy Strickler, who took over a large portion of the scor ing burden down the stretch, went down with a leg injury early in the game. “She’s going to be out for six to eight weeks,” Mikleton said of the high scoring sophomore guard. Jamie Hill and Denise Wheatley scored 10 and nine respectively. Terri Jo Kelly also grabbed a team high of nine re bounds. Clackamas ended with a final season record of 21 and 8, including 16 of their last 19 games. Basketball tourney slated for college A tournament for local city league Basketball teams will be held at Clackamas Community College March 4-6. The tour nament will be single elimina tion and will feature A and B divisions. “We haven’t gotten the response that I have wanted (in the past),” tournament coor dinator Paul Fiskum said. “In the past we have had a mix of classifieds FREE: 1 yr. old-Springer Spaniel mix, excellent bird or watch dog. Needs attention. Call 266-1743 or 657-8400 ext. 317 Ask for Karol. A and B division teams, so the B teams had to combine with the A teams. The competition wasn’t balanced.” The College is offering an “over 35” category if enough interest is shown. Fiskum said that four teams would be enough interest to hold the event, but in past tournament’s very little interest was shown. 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