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Il* Sports Netters defeat Chemeketa in three matches By Julie Miller Of The Print The College’s volleyball team is already off to a good start with a happy coach, a tournament win and a 2-2 record in league play. Kathie Woods, head coach, is pleased and confident that her team is going to meet its potential. To date, the team has played in three invitational tournaments as well as its four league efforts, with much suc cess. Woods said “we are im proving everyday and the girls are working hard. It has been tough because there is no gym, but we’re not trying to let it damper us, though we are looking forward to having a gym some day.” Clackamas’ success at the Walla Walla Invitational tour nament, can be attributed to the strategy of Coach Woods. According to Woods, the last game of the day was being played midnight Friday night between the College of Southern Idaho(CSI) and Clackamas. Clackamas had won the first game and when Woods’ team began to fall behind in the second game Coach Woods didn’t call any time outs. The team lost the game so they could play at a different time the next day. The number one team was to play the number three team at 9a.m. the next morning and the number two team would play the number four team at 10:15 a.m. With such an ar rangement, Clackamas went into the final round of the round robin tournament as the number two team and ended up playing the same team they had let beat them the night before for the championship. After a tightly played game they emerged victorious. “Walla Walla is the highlight of our season so far. Our overall record of the tour nament was 11 and two. One of the two we lost was inten tional to give us a different time to play the next day,” Coach Woods said. At the Yakima tournament Clackamas’ overall record was 7 wins and 4 losses, but they lost a game at the wrong time, Woods said, and ended up placing fourth. Last Saturday the team played at the Chemeketa tour nament where they placed fifth out of twelve teams. Coach Woods stated that the team did pretty well consider ing they were missing two team members, Connie Sehin: pf and Deanna Boyer. Two weeks ago the team played their first league game against Linn-Benton and lost in the best of five series. The scores were 15-11, 13-15, 15-8, 11-15. “We just didn’t really pull it together, but they (Linn Benton) are much improved, we just didn’t play to our abilities,” Woods said. Next Clackamas played Lane Community College and beat them in the best three of five games. The scores were 9-15, 16-14, 15-9, 16-14. The next day Clackamas played Mount Hood Community and lost 1-15, 12-15 and 11-15. “Obviously we were not ready to play that first game. We are capable of beating them, but JENNIFER HULZtMLK SEi&tiie Dali tor a reaay Katny Col not on that day. We do have to lins against Mt. Hood. Photos by Dan Wheeler play MHCC again at their school, and they can be beat. Coe had eight kills and Trina we fare by the end of the We just have to do better.” Borden had 13 assists and season depends on how hard Wednesday Oct. 9, eight service aces. The total they work now and how much Clackamas played Chemeketa service aces for the game add together we are as a team. We and beat them in three straight ed up to fifteen, which is the will have to combine desire games with scores of 15-12, equivilant of a complete game. with physical strength. All we 15-10 and 15-6. In the game “This is the best team I’ve want to is be the best we can against Chemeketa, Carrie had here at Clackamas. How be.” Cross Country Runners take wrong turn By Dave Holmes Spriggs didn’t seem to notice as she ran a strongly Clackamas distance ace Sue paced race that ended up in a Spriggs, coming off a personal track duel with Linn-Benton’s best 18:50 time at Willamette top runner. The two runners University a week ago, paced raced neck and neck at full the field of the Mt. Hood speed down the last 100 meters Community College Invita of track with Spriggs out- tional cross country Meet kicking her opponent for the Saturday to take first place win. The Clackamas womens’ with a time of 18:33. Drizzle and chilly squad ran as an “incomplete” temperatures greeted both team and didn’t place in the male and female runners at team standings. “We’re still Blue Lake Park outside of looking for that fifth Gresham, but just before the member,” Coach Wynia said. mens race began the clouds She asked that anyone who parted and left a flat yet soggy might be interested in joining course which Clackamas the team contact the Athletics Womens coach Marilyn Department office in Randall Wynia said was not particular 005. Although the Cougar ly fast. Of The Print October 15, 1985 women fared well in Saturday’s meet, the men’s team mostly saw disappoint ment. “Everything that could have gone wrong did,” said Coach Jim Kissee, “It was really a down day for us.” The only highlight of the men’s race for Clackamas was Mark Mohnen’s performance of 25:45 over the five mile course for ninth place honors. But the honors were complete ly overshadowed when Keith Ferrell, one of Kissee’s top distance men, was found to have injured his left leg. Fer rell sustained muscular damage that might keep him out of action for as long as three weeks said Kissee. “He’s working out on the stationary bike and ought to be able to maintain the shape he’s in.” October 5 saw Ferrell take third place for junior college runners in 23:18 at the Fort Casey Invitational meet in Seattle. The race had to be re started when several of the front runners made an incor rect turn. “They re-ran the race over a shortened course after the run ners had about a half hour of rest,” said Kissee, “but it (the stopping of the race) really psyched a lot of guys out.” Clackamas ran confidently, though, and won the Men’s Junior College division. Despite the less than perfect effort by his team, Kissee feels that Saturday’s meet might be a blessing in disguise. “We were getting a little too cocky and this has brought a lot of guys down to earth,” Kissee said. Speed work, says Kissee, will be one of the key ingre dients to put into the team’s kettle if they are to do well the regional meet just weeks away. “Our goal,” said Kissee, “is to win the regional meet and the n place in the top three at the Northwest Champion ships. But if we run the way we have been and everyone is healthy, we have a very legitimate chance to win the whole thing.” Here’s to legitimate chances, coach. Page 7
