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Sports College hosts first Women’s softball team By Julie Miller Sports Editor Clackamas Community College is host to a women’s softball team this year and Head Coach Phil Garver com mented that, “this is really a plus for the College and we’ve had a lot of positive response.” This team is not only the first woman’s softball team for the college, but is the only women’s community college softball team in the state of Oregon. The team is starting out the Spring term with a 2-7 record. The last game they played was at Bedmonds Community Col lege in which they lost a dou ble header 6-1 and 7-4. In an earlier series the team came back against Shoreline Com munity College to split, losing the first 8-7 and winning the second 7-1. “We are just getting the hang of this modified league,” said Head Coach Phil Garver. “Angie Stein did a whale of a job. She looks like she’s going to be our modified pitcher.” With defense being their strongest asset, Garver stated that the team only has to work on their hitting. “We have real good defense. We just have to hit the ball. We have to learn to hit those slow pitches. We aren’t sitting back and waiting to hit the slow ball when we are used to the fast ones,” said Garver. Bruce Tony, Garver’s assis tant coach this year, said, “We have a great infield. The six girls that play infield could probably play at any four year school in Oregon/’ Tony is from Oregon City and played Baseball at Western Oregon State and also played ten years of men’s ma jor fast pitch. “As soon as we start hitting the ball, and we did hit better this weekend, we’ll be great. Our defense is unbeatable and with the way Angie Stein pitched last weekend we’ll be unstoppable,” Tony said. Stein feels she played accep tably. “If my pitching can im prove, I think we can be really good,” she said. “Our defense is good, but we just need to get our timing down. Even the defense goes down when the pitching is bad, cause they get hit after hit and that brings the attitude down. But, we’re up and that should help us out.” The Lady Cougar Softball team plays again today at Western Oregon State College and Friday they will be at home to host Olympic Com munity College at 2 p.m. Angie Stein catches ball during practice. Golf team ties for sixth at season opener By Julie Miller Sports Editor The College Golf team tied for sixth place at their season opener, the Willamette Invita tional on March 10. Ken Allen, the teams leading golfer, also tied for ninth place in individual scoring. Allen was last years medalist in the NWAACC Championship Tournament averaging 75.3 per game. March 23-24 the team com peted at the Portland Universi Intramurals With the starting of Spring term, the College will host many intramural sports and recreational activities. The intramural sports and recreational activities program at the College allows all students, faculty and staff the opportunity to participate in many activities this term. Competition will be set up in a round-robin, with the champions each receiving a Clackamas intramural t-shirt. The sign-up deadline is Fri. April 11, for all Sports except for the Fun Run. The Sporting activities being offered are: Softball, Badmin April 8, 1986 ty Invitational in which Allen was again a medalist. Head Coach Jim Hudson commented that the team is on their way with four very strong golfers: Allen, Matt Rademaker, Joe Clarizio, and Mark Rourke. Also competing on the team are Steve Master- son, Scott Bowman, and Matt Wiese. Hudson also remarked that he has a new player join ing the team this week, Todd Fredericks. Fredericks is returning after two years and plays on a four handicap. Fredericks will at tempt to qualify for Friday’s play on Wednesday. Before each golf game the team plays 18 holes to find the four team members that will be com peting. Out of the eight players on the team, six will play in the game, but those four who had the lowest scores in the qualification game will be competing. ton and Ping-pong . Also be ing offered are many exciting fun runs. For more details on rules, times and sign-up, see the in tramural bulletin board or contact Kathie Woods, ext. 291. So hurry and sign-up! Softball For all of you Softball fans that like to play, but don’t really have the time for the in tercollegiate teams, sign-up now for the intramural co-ed softball teams. In order to qualify, each team must have at least three females competing in each contest, or the game will be considered a forfeit. The games will be held on Mon day’s and Wednesday’s from 1-2 p.m., or on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s from 12-1 p.m. As for the rest of the season, Badminton After being canceled Winter term due to lack of interest, badminton is back! A coed badminton tourna ment will be set up in round robin competition. Sign-up sheets are on the Intramural Bulletin Board. For more info, contact Kathie Woods, ext. 291. Hudson hopes to start playing up to their capabilities which he says they are not doing yet. “We are spending a lot of time in practice trying to hit the ball properly. To me, we are not playing up to our capabilities. At least I don’t think we are,” Hudson said. Hudson also added that he only has one returning player, Ken Allen. “Every team changes each year and players come and go. I only have one player, Allen, that has played competitively. Todd (Fredericks) hasn’t played for a while,” he said. “But, they’re ready for competition as long as they concentrate on hitting the ball accurately. I’ve been stressing to them to get out and hit the ball and prac tice and improve. It they don’t practice and improve, it’s go ing to be a long season.” Ping Pong Fun Runs For all you Ping-pong fiends, there will be a round robin coed table tennis tourna ment set up. For sign-up and more info., see the intramural bulletin board. Also, back again are the ever exciting fun runs. There will be two runs bet ween two and four miles held on Tues., April 29th and on Thurs., May 15. Raquetball All runs will start at 12 p.m., rain or shine, from the “Loading Zone” off of the lower level of Randall Hall. T-Shirts will be awarded to the top female and male finisher’s. A runner may win only one t-shirt per term. Due to it’s extreme popularity, racquetball is back for another term!! The competition will be held again at the Eastside Athletic Club on Mon., Wed. and Fri. from 7:30-8:30 a.m. So sign up now. Page 7
