Sports
Brown wins two
By Dave Holmes
Editor
ALBANY - A strong, gusty
wind blew out of the north
Saturday afternoon at Linn-
Benton Community College
and made it’s presense known
in almost all of the running
and sprinting events of the
day.
But a different kind of wind
blew in from the south as Lane
Community College of Eugene
dominated and won both the
men’s and women’s meets
against Linn-Benton and
Clackamas with scores of 97 to
63 to 35 and 65 to 36 to 23,
respectively.
On the men’s side of the
scorecard, the only bright
spots of the day were the 100
and 200 meter sprints, both
won by Cougar Ed Brown in
11 and 22.8 seconds, respec­
tively. David Binns, also from
Clackamas, captured second
place in both events.
Binns, who ran 22.9 seconds
into a headwind in the 200
meter event, said that the wind
was a key factor in both of his
races. Brown elaborated.
“It’s really bad,” he said.
“The wind (gusts) will stand
you up, throw you back. In
the 200 it’s nice at first, but
later, when it really counts in
the stretch, it’s bad.”
At least one Clackamas
sprinter-jumper was in praise
of the wind. Chris Orblom,
still recovering from an ankle
injury last month, narrowly
edged out Billy Fields of Lane
by an inch and a half for a win
in the triple jump.
Orblom, who also won the
long jump with a leap of 23
feet 3 inches, had the wind to
his back as he started his ap­
proach about 12 feet beyond
the runway, off to the side of a
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Orblom said the wind
helped him gain a victory, but
that Fields was breathing
down his neck all the way
through the open pit competi­
tion. “I was definitely having
some trouble with him
(Fields),” Orblom said. “I
beat him, but he was trouble.”
For a curtain call, Lane
fielded four teams for the
men’s 1600 meter relay. It was
a shot putter’s nightmare as
one of Lane’s teams soon
dropped out, but Lane won
the event in 3:19.7. Unofficial­
ly, another Lane team came in
second, just behind the winn­
ing group. Linn-Benton finish­
ed a distant and official se­
cond in 3:40.4.
Clackamas teammates Janet
Hess and Debbie Blake did
most of the scoring for the
Cougar women’s squad.
Hess won the 800 meter run
in 2:33.3, but had to fight Jean
Kneal of Lane all the way for
the win. Hess went out confi­
dent and led through the first
400 meters of the race.
The wind took it’s toll,
though, and Hess dropped in
behind Kneal for most of the
last lap. But with about 40
meters to go, Hess shifted into
her kick and nosed out Kneal
by four-tenths of a second.
Blake, a field competitor,
took first in the discus with a
toss of 122 feet 7 inches, just 9
inches further than Linn-
Benton’s Tony Lingberg.
Cougar Sue Johnston placed
third in the event with a 108
foot 8 inch effort.
A 37 foot 10 inch throw by
Blake was also good for se­
cond in the shot put.
Both Clackamas squads will
be in attendenee Saturday at
Mount Hood Community Col­
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Clackamas women fare well
at Clark tennis tournament
By Dave Holmes
Editor
' “Knowing the competition
is the key to successful college
tennis,” said Women’s Tennis
Coach Nancy Mikelton in a
sage moment.
And while last Thursday’s
match against Skagit Valley
Community College was
anything but a ‘get ac­
quainted’ party, the Cougar
women know a bit more about
Coach Ken Thompson’s
Skagit Valley squad than they
did before.
Mikelton described her team
as “really young” with only
one returning player, Ann-
janette Robbins. Robbins,
who played fourth single last
year, is now the team’s top
player.
In the top match of the day
Robbins had her hands full as
Skagit Valley’s Debbie Bilski
needed only two sets to come
away with a victory. Robbins
played a fairly solid match,
but lost most of the duece
points in the contest. The final
score was 6-2, 6-3 in Bilski’s
favor.
‘last Thursday's
match against
Skagit Valley
Community Col­
lege was
anything but a
‘get acquainted'
party.'_____
In other play, Valerie ‘Buf­
fy’ Byrd outplayed Skagit’s
Rose Steiner with an ag­
gressive attitude and won in
three sets 6-1, 4-6, 6-0 in the
third singles match.
Tomah Butchart, the Lady
Cougar’s second singles
player, was defeated in three
sets by Corrie Young. Young
set the pace early in the match
with as high-hitting, hoppy
style. Butchart’s right wrist
started to bother her towards
the end of the second set and
she lost the third set 5-7.
Friday Mikelton took her
team across the river to the
Clark Community College In­
vitational. Clackamas took
fourth place honors with 150
points, just nine behind third
place Clark.
“I was impressed with our
play against Clark and Lower
Columbia (Community Col­
lege), which are both in our
league,” said Mikelton in a
telephone interview. “We beat
both of them handily. Buffy
played really well and tomah
showed real stick-to-it-iveness.
But the matches gave me a
good idea about how well we’ll
do in league play.”
Tomorrow the team will
travel to Salem to compete in
the Willamette University In-
viational. The matches are
scheduled to start at 3 p.m.
Baseball team well balanced
By Julie Miller
Sports Editor
The College’s diamond men
got off to a slow start on their
annual Yakima Valley tourna­
ment that marks the starting
of the baseball season. The
team lost five ball games, but
according to Head Coach Paul
Roeder this is normal.
of kids.” All of the players but
two are from in-district or are
from the Portland area. The
two not from here are from
Ashland and Grants Pass.
Roeder says the team
strengths are “good solid pit­
ching, hitting and atching.
They are a very well balanced
ball club.”
“We play everyone at every
position so we can find out our
starting line up,” Roeder said.
This must have helped as the
team came back to end that
road trip with a two win, five
loss, one tie record. “We got a
good look at everyone,”
Roeder said.
The team’s current record is
nine wins, Six losses and one
tie. The team is 3-1 in league
standings and will play Linn-
Benton Community College
today at Clackamas at 1 p.m.
Linn-Benton is also 3-1 in
league, play.
When asked to compare this
year’s team with last Roeder
commented that this team is
“500 percent better."We have
no head cases or discipline
problems, just a great group
Coach Roeder Supervises a recent batting practice.
Photo by Dan Wheeler