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.
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