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Golf team loses momentum for season finale
By Fritz Wenzel
Of The Print
The men’s golf team lost all
[the momentum it had gradual
ly built up throughout the
season in the last four days,
and lost out on all the honors
at the Northwest Athletic
Association of Community
College (NWAACC) Golf
Championships.
The cougars finished the
tourney in fifth place out'of
six teams from the region. The
winner of the tournament was
Columbia Basin College from
Pasco, Wash., who shot a
36-hole total of 613. A distant
11 shots back at 624 was Divi
sion 2 champions Clark Col
lege of Vancouver. Bellevue
was third at a weak 652, Green
River shot 664, and
Clackamas shot 665.
The team fell apart while
they played a match against
Lower Columbia Community
College last Friday, in which
they shot a season-high 320 for
18 holes. They consequently
lost the match against Lower
Columbia by a mere two
shots. This mystified Coach
Hudson, because just three
days earlier, on the same
course, the Cougar stickers
posted a solid 301.
“The team said that the
greens were giving them trou
ble, but they played the same
greens just three days earlier
with no trouble at all,” Hud
son said. “I think they just
had trouble with their concen
tration for a while.”
Hudson said the team had
made very steady progress
throughout the entire season
and was looking good for the
NWAACC Championships,
tions less than favorable for but things degenerated at just
the top tracksters of Oregon the wrong time.
“A while back when we beat
and Washington.
Five members of the men’s league-leading Clark Com
team had originally qualified munity at Tokatee Golf Club
for the NWAACC meet, but just outside of Eugene, I
injuries forced two athletes to thought we might do okay at
miss the championships. Jim the Championship and then
Hogue qualified to run the when we posted that 301 at
5,000 meters, but was unable Mint Valley in Longview,”
to compete due to a pulled .Coach Hudson said.
“I thought we had a pretty
muscle in his leg. Jeff
McLaughlin qualified in the good chance to do well. The
100 meters, but he also was team was coming along at just
the right pace,” he said, ad
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ding that 301, which works out
to an average of just over 75,
was a good score for the
Cougars.“It came less than a
week before the tournament,
and the team was encouraged.
Then, on Friday, the wheels
fell off,” Hudson said.
At the tournament, held at
Royal Oaks Country Club in
Vancouver, the Clackamas
stickers started out rough by
missing many greens in regula
tion, which forced them to hit
Three compete in
NWAACC Champs
By Rodney Fobert
Of The Print
I To end the 1985 Track
season, three members of the
Clackamas Community Col
lege track team posted a 10th
¡place team score out of 14
teams competingin the Nor
thwest Athletic Associations
of Community Colleges
! Championships meet. The
season finale event was held in
[Spokane, Wash, on May
117-18. Searing temperatures
¡and wind gusts made condi-
SCOTT GRADY HITS the driving range in a practice before the
NWAACC Championships held last weekend.
good chip shots.
Individual averages for the
“When you put so much team hovered between 75 and
pressure on the chip shot, your 80 for 18 holes, with Ken Allen
whole game feels the the team medalist at 75.5.
pressure,” Hudson said. Not Steve Vaugn was second at 76,
one cougar was able to break Jerry Olson had a 79.5
40 on his first of four nine- average, and Tom Bolt an
hole efforts. Things went from even 80.
bad to worse, to the point
Hudson said that Bolt
where one Cougar hit only would have had a much lower
three out of 18 greens in his average, except that he scored
afternoon round.
a disastrous 93 at the home
Arrowhead Golf Club Course
Overall, the Clackamas in Mollala in a match against
team finished second to Clark Treasure Valley Community
College in Division 2 play, College. He hit three balls out
with a 4 wins-2 loss record. of bounds, including three
Their losses came at the hands that he put into the Mollala
of Clark and Lower Colum River off the 16th tee. He took
bia, while they handed Clark a 10 on the short par-four
their lone loss of the season.
hole.
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WITH BLAZING SPEED, Rob Durkee is off and running.
Durkee placed third in the 1500 at the NWAACC Champion
ships.
Photo by Joel Miller
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