Women play ‘real well, 9 drop Rick 9s, ‘ Valley
By Rob Conner
69-54. “It was pretty close at
first, then we took it to them,”
Garver explained.
“Every one of the girls
played well,” he said. Lynn
Smith again led the Cougar at
tack posting 16 points. Mo
Weil added a season high of
13, off the bench. Lynn Ker
shaw was credited with 11 re
bounds.
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Women’s basketball
coach Phil Garver was still
bubbling Tuesday morning
following his team’s very suc
cessful 800-mile; three-game,
road trip over the weekend.
“We could have almost
won all three of them,”
Garver said. “After the Rick’s
game we were real pumped.”
Clackamas dropped
Rick’s, fell to the College of
Southern Idaho, then finished
up the trip with a win over
Treasure Valley Community
College.
The Cougars stunned the
capacity Rexburg crowd with a
thrilling two-point barn
burner, 68-66. “We played
really, really well. I don’t
know if we played over our
head ot what,” Garver beam
ed.
With one minute remain
ing, Garver’s squad held a
seemingly commanding eight
point lead, “The officials put
them back in it. They made
some real lunar calls,” Garver
said.
Terri Johnson set up the
margin of victory by sinking
the front end of a one-and-
one, with :12 left on the clock.
“We were waiting for the
clock to start,” Garver said.
In the final :12, Rick’s was
able to bring the ball up court
and get off four shots, none of
which were successful.
“You’d think we had won
the NCAA playoffs,” Garver
‘You’d think we
had won the
NCAA play-offs,’
— Phil Garver
HANDS UP!—Lynn Kershaw (R) works defense drill in practice.
stated, reliving the moment. season record to 11-7 with the
“There were (probably) 3,000 77-59 win. •
people there. They were sold
“We came out firing. He
out,” he added.
(CSI’s coach) had three time
Lynn Smith hit nine of 18 outs in the first five minutes,”
field goal attempts to lead the Garver said.
Cougars with 18 points. Carol
The Cougars found it
Hashberger and Lynn Ker hard to reel in the tough CSI
shaw each collected 12 re club once they began to pull
bounds.
away. “They (CSI) couldn’t
The next evening the miss,” Garver said. The Idaho
Oregon City clan put a scare team hit 57 percent of their
into the College of Southern shots from the field, while
Idaho, in a contest that was Clackamas could manage only
much closer than the final a dismal 27 percent clip.
score indicated. CSI upped it’s
Garver’s troops kept
Photo by Joel Miller
relatively close during the se
cond half but could not cash in
at the charity stripe. “If we’d
made our freethrows,” the
coach po.ndered. “We put the
pressure on them.”
Lynn Smith and Carol
Hashberger scored 1.7 and 13
points respectively, which was
half the Cougar attack.
Hashberger also grabbed eight
rebounds.
In the third game of the
Eastern swing, Clackamas
dropped Treasure Valley
Community College by 15,
“The enthusiasm was at a
high with all the girls,” Garver
said of the trip.
The Cougar women are at
Lewis and Clark Thursday,
then host Centrailia Com
munity College Friday night
before the men’s game.
As far as the play-off pic
ture looks, it goes somewhat
like this: The Eastern teams
have their own league, in
which the top three are given a
berth. The fourth-place team,
which at the moment is
Treasure Valley, must play
Clackamas to determine the
final regional position. Col
lege of Southern Idaho, Nor
thern Idaho, Rick’s and
Treasure Valley are the four
Eastern schools. Only the first
place team at regionals
qualifies for the National tour
nament.
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Men ’s basketball
Surprise! Defense shuts down Lewis & Clark JV’s
By Doug Vaughan
Lewis and Clark game) we
played excellent defense and it
ended up giving us the win,”
Defense has been a con Kiser said. “The second half
cern of Clackamas Communi we played well, but we let up
ty College Men’s Basketball on our defense and they were
Coach Royce Kiser all season. able to close our lead, but we
Last Wednesday, these con- kept our poise.”
■cerns were relieved, at least for
Clackamas was headed
most of the game.
for a blowout against the
Kiser’s crew played 25 visiting Pioneers, as they led at
minutes of ‘good defense’ to the intermission 43-28. Despite
hold off a tough Lewis and an early second-half surge by
Clark junior varsity squad, the four-year school, the
84-69. In their previous game Cougars played an even game,
against Clark Community preserving their 15-point
College of Vancouver, Wash., margin over the Pioneers.
Kiser saw his team give up 107
“To play good consistent
points in a critical loss to their
defense
for 40 minutes, every
rival.
“It is just something that player out there has to want to
the team as a whole is going to do it. It’s not like high school
have to work on,” Kiser said where you can let it slide. If
of his team’s defense. “It is you let up for a minute they
something that has plagued us will drill you,” Kiser said.
all year.”
Mike Peregrin led the
Even though Kiser admits Cougars for the second
that he did not see 40 minutes straight game as he poured in
of good defense played by the 22 points and pulled down 16
Cougars, there was improve rebounds, both game highs.
ment from their thrashing by Bob Nippert also put in a
Clark.
strong contribution to the
“The first half (of the Cougars’ effort with an
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mance.
Kiser also marked the
play in the Cougar backcourt
as Jerry Olsen and Tim Gard
ner both had good perfor
mances. Gardner hit an im
pressive 7 of 11 shots from the
field en route to a 15-point
performance. Olsen added 10
points in the backcourt and
dished out a team-high of five
assists.
The only area in which the
Cougars were outplayed was
on the boards, as Lewis and
Clark out-rebounded them,
46-44. “Our guards weren’t
staying down. They were con
cerned with getting back, so
we didn’t get some of the long
rebounds,” Kiser said.
As a team the Cougars hit
50 percent from the field,
which Kiser was impressed by.
The Cougars did struggle from
the line, though, only connec
ting on 16 of 27 attempts.
Clackamas will play host
to Willamette University
junior varsity tonight before
playing junior college
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munity College, the number
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