Cougars emerge
top of NWAACC
Just a year ago the Clackamas
women’s basketball team was
suffering through their toughest’
season.
This season, thanks to á more,
balanced team, the Cougars
are 16-4 overall and 7-0 alone
atop the Northwest Athletic
Association of Community Col
lege’s southern region.
Why?
Curran’s
Corner
When you go to a Clackamas
game it would be impossible not
to see freshman guard Angela
Hewlett pouring in her 17.1
points and passing out her 9.5
assists per game. Leslie Hughes, a
5’ 11” freshman from West Linn
High School, is currently averag
ing 10.3 rebounds per game, 92
of them offensive rebounds,
which give the Clackamas offense
that many more opportunities to
score two points.
Another reason, why the
Cougars are having as successfull
season as they are having is field
goal percentage. Clackamas is
shooting 44 percent as a team
compared to 37 percent for their
opponents.
Coach Phil Garver has been
able to play almost every player
in every game. Nine of the 13
players have seen action in all 20
of Clackamas’ games this season.
The
Cougars are outscor
ing their opponents by 12 points a
game.
In their Jan. 22 triumph over
Lane Community Ccllege, the
Lady Cougars were down 52-50
with very little time remaining in
the contest. In the final minutes,
they scored seven straight points
to lift themselves past the Titans
57-52. According to Garver, the
team has “been able to come,
through in the crunch.”
“We had a meeting last Friday
(Jan. 29),” said Garver, “the
girls set goals to keep an
undefeated season.”
That season will be tested this
week when the Cougars go
up against three opponents in the
next four days. Tonight they
square up against Chemeketa
Community College. Feb. 5 sees
the team play host to Umpqua
Community College and Feb. 6
Southwestern Oregon Communi
ty College comes to town.
“Three games in a week is a lit
tle much,” stated Garver, “but I
would rather be playing than
practicing.”
Garver says he will have a lot
of players returning next year, so
the team can look forward to
another good season, but as far
as the season goes, “We’re going
to take it one game at a time.”
At this point in the season,
the Cougars have come
together and are leaving visions
of last year in the dust.
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Against PCC...
Cougars, Kiser signal win
by Jerry Ulmer
Staff Writer
Trev Kiser scored 32 points by
nailing 9 of 12 three-pointers as
Clackamas built a huge first half
lead and held off PCC 90-81 last
Wednesday at Randall Hall.
Kiser’s performance offset a
dominating 28 point effort by
PCC’s John Thompson. Thomp
son, a 6’ 4” sophomore from
Washington, D.C., carved up the
Cougars inside and threw down a
couple of mammoth slam dunks
along the way.
The first 13 minutes of the
game were the difference. A stifl
ing Clackamas defense forced a
lot of bad shots and PCC tur
novers, and on the other end the
Cougars pushed the ball inside to
dual posts Nate Pyatt and Shawn
Hartley with repeated success.
The Cougars slowly stretched
their lead to 38-16 with 6:30 left
in the half when Hartley re
bounded his own miss with a
hoop.
“They didn’t get a chance to
scout it,” . Clackamas Coach
Royce Kiser said of posting both
Hartley and Pyatt. “We put that
in new. All it is, is a basic triangle
but they weren’t ready for it.”
Sensing an easy win, the
Cougar defense went on vacation
late in the first half and PCC
cranked up its offense. PCC
outscored Clackamas 18-6 to
close the half behind 53-45.
Clackamas reached for the
throttle to open the second half,
but couldn’t find it, and after
PCC’s Thompson spun for a
hoop in the lane, the lead was
down to 53-49.
That’s when Trev Kiser took
over. The 6’ 5” frosh from Lake
Oswego would go on to score 21
second-half points as the lead
bounced between five and 12
points the rest of the way.
“They?ve been trying to stop
him out there,” Coach Kiser said
of the perimeter attention Trev is
drawing. “But he’s been doing it
all year.”
Jim Bonnarens scored 17
points and grabbed 14 rebounds
to lead a physical Mt. Hood
team to a 68-61 win over
Clackamas at Mt. Hood last
Saturday.
The Saints won the game with
defense and rebounding. Mt.
Hood constantly hassled
Cougar, lead scorer Trev Kiser,
playingüim tight around the
three-point arc and forcing
Clackamas to find their offense
elsewhere.
Cougar assistant, Paul
Fiskum agreed. “Playing good
defense also means making
them work for their scores, and
we weren’t doing that. The
good defense at the end saved
us.”
Clackamas was right in the
game for more than a half
despite poor ball movement and
missing the services of leading
rebounder, Jeff Hoffman, who
was out with a muscle pull.
Relying heavily on the inside
scoring .of Nate Pyatt and
photo by Tim Zlvney
Clackamas center Nate Pyatt skies for the score as the
Lane team watches from below.
Shawn Hartley, the Cougars
pulled into their last tie (there
were ten in all) at 39-39 on two
Todd Harris free throws.
Then things got worse. With
Bonnarens cleaning out gaps in
the Cougar defense bigger than
a wheelchair suite in a public
restroom,» Mt. Hood pulled
away. The freshman post from
Lakeview scored 11 of his 17
points from then on to lead the
way.
“Bonnarens is one of the best •
players in this conference,” said
CCC assistant Paul Fiskum. I
“He’s a big tough stud. He out-
positioned us all night and my
hat’s off to him.”
After Mt. Hood’s Wray
Wade stole the ball from Jon
Rainforth and soloed for a
layup the lead was 51-42. The
Cougar offense stalled, during
the run as they couldn’t get a
shot to fall or a whistle to blow.
“Incompetent officiating,”
remarked CCC Coach Royce
Kiser. “They shot 28 free
throws and we shot eight. Mt.
Hood played a heck of a game,
I take nothing away from them,
but we didn’t get any calls.”
Actually, Mt. Hood shot 34
free throws, making 25.
Clackamas was 8-8 from the
stride.
The Cougars couldn’t close
the gap until desperation time,
as Mt. Hood grabbed more of
fensive rebounds than by Jeff
Stein and Trev Kiser weren’t
enough to pull it out.
“Our game plan was to make
(Trev) Kiser put the ball on the
ground,” said Mt. Hood Coach
Andy McClouskey. “He still go a
couple threes on us in the second
half because he’s such a tremen
dous shooter. When Hartley was
scoring inside on us to start the:
second half, that was mostly due'
to our respect for Kiser.” Kiser
finished with eight points.
Did McClouskey think the refs:
were bad? “I think we got more
calls because we took it inside a»
little bit. I have to look at the
films to see. I know I’ve been on'
the road before and felt like I’ve
been cheated.”
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PCC’s last chance came when
Thompson hit a jumper to dose
the margin to 75-70. But Trev
Kiser quickly quelled the rally by
hitting a three-pointer, drawing a
foul, and adding the ensuing free
throw for a rare four-point play.
Despite the win, Coach Kiser
had mixed emotions. “I’m glad
that we won and we’re working
hard, but we’re really hurting if
we don’t play better defense. We
had to keep switching from zone
to man in the second half because
we couldn’t stop them. We have
to get back on defense. There’s
gonna be some ass chewing and
defensive drills in practice tomor
row.”