North Idaho streaks past region competition
Seven Clackamas grapplers make national cut
By Rob Conner
Of The Print
The results of the region
18 wrestling tournament
weren’t surprising, North
Idaho first, Clackamas sec
ond—again.
North Idaho tallied
118%, far ahead of Clack
amas’ 64%. Rick’s at 38%,
Big Bend at 32, and South
Western Oregon Community
College’s 29%, were all well
back of the runner-up Cougar
team.
“I felt pretty good-about
it,’’Coach Norm Berney said.
“Especially since we didn’t
have one guy with us. Quite a
few of our kids had the flu.”
North Idaho dominated
the competition as they
qualified all ten of their
wrestlers for the national tour
nament, to be held Mar. 1-3 in
Chicago. Berney was quick to
point out that the Idaho team
represented 20 state high
school wrestling titles among
its ten competitors.
Clackamas came home
with two regional champions,
177-pound Dave Duncan and
heavyweight Robert Young.
Duncan avenged an
earlier score as he stopped
Roy Ozser of North Idaho.
Duncan’s only loss to a junior
college athlete came at the
hands of Ozser earlier in the
season. The sophomore
transfer from Gray’s Harbour
was not to be denied in the title
match as he won a 7-4 deci
sion.
Young had things a little
easier, recording an 11-3 vic
tory over Big Bend’s Randy
Penrose. Young has yet to be
beaten by another junior col
lege wrestler. “He’s wrestling
real well. If Robert wrestles up
to his ability he should be in
the top eight (at nationals),”
Berney said.
Scott Ames, one of the flu
victims, suffered his first
junior college loss of the
season in the title match. The
190-pound sophomore was the
heavy favorite in his class.
North Idaho’s Carlton Pease
turned back Ames for the first
time in their five meetings.
Clackamas’ other four
grapplers that qualified for na
tionals all lost to North Idaho
opponents. John Wachsmith
at 126, Randy Barkhurst at
142, Blain Schutzler at 150,
and Larry Jo Tanner at 158,
were all runners up.
“Our problem was, ex
cept for Dave and Robert, in
the final we let down a bit on
Saturday. The other thing that
has to be taken into account is
that North Idaho has beaten
everyone else too,” Berney
said.
Berney and the wrestlers
have earned roughly $3,400
through cutting wood, bread
sales, wrestling tournaments
and concessions, which should
just about finance the trip to
nationals.
“I think the way we earn
ed our money, it should give
us some desire and let people
know we aren’t back there on
a vacation,” Berney said.
The Cougar mentor looks
at his team’s chances realis
tically and optimistically.
“We should put some points
on the board. We are still a
long-shot, but funny things
can happen at a national
meet,” he said.
Norm Berney
Garver blasts Print,
women sweep four
JUMP BALL—Brenda Merkley No. 15 is out-jumped by her Vancouver Community Col
lege counterpart. Clackamas has won four straight games down the stretch run. Next action
for the Cougar women is Wednesday versus the Western Oregon J.V.’s. Capilano College
travels in from Canada for a weekend series.
Women’s basketball
coach Phil Garver is pleased
with the way his women have
been playing lately.
The only problem Garver
sees is that that the press is not
giving enough praise for his
squad’s efforts. “Where are
you going to put us, in the
variety section?,” Garver ask
ed.
The women have won
four in a row, including their
most recent effort, an eight
point victory over Warner
Pacific.
One big reason for the
four-game winning streak is
the recent play of Carol
Hashberger. “She is improv
ing each game. She’s just play
ing really good basketball,”
Garver said on a more serious
side.
Hashberger totalled 14 re
bounds and 12 points in the
Warner Pacific game.
Sophomore guard Sherri
Bull has also played an in
strumental role in the recent
turn-around. “She had a real
ly good game,” Garver said.
“She is starting to take control
as a floor leader.”
The team defense has
been a key element as of late.
The tenacious full-court
defense has kept opponents at
bay recently. “Our 1-3-1 press
is really coming through,”
Garver said.
“We are looking forward
to this weekend,” the coach
said. Clackamas hosts
Capilano College, Canada’s
top-rated junior college, for a
weekend series. Saturday’s
contest will be played at Gard
ner Junior high school and
Sunday’s contest will be
played in the Randall Gym at
12:00 noon.
“Vancouver (Community
College) has beat them
(Capilano) twice, and we split
with them (Vancouver). It’s
going to be a really tough
game for us,” Garver said.
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