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SPORTS THE PRINT January 18,1989 Page 8 Pyatt's performances inspiring by Mark A. Borrelli Sports Editor The Clackamas men’s basket ball team appears to have all the ingredients necessary for a win ning basketball team. Sophomore center Nate Pyatt is one of the main ingredients of the Cougar squad and his continued improve ment throughout the season is crucial if the Cougars are to reach the top. To generalize an outstanding basketball player you would auto matically assume he started play ing at a young age on every team available, was an all-star junior high school player, and had an outstanding high school career before moving on to college. In most cases this is true. But in Pyatt’s case, he fought the system and won. This is only Pyatt’s second year of organized basketball. He had never been on an organized bas ketball team before coming to Clackamas last season. “I just never played organ ized ball. I played a lot of street ball growing up; I love basket ball,” Pyatt commented. Pyatt got his unusual basket ball career started at the age of eight in thestreets ofSouth Caro lina where he grew up. Pyatt at tended Myrtle Beach High School in South Carolina, but never played high school basketball. “I wasn’t in any kind of shape to play basketball in high school, but I worked hard, got in shape, and came to Clackamas to play,” said Pyatt. Although playing basketball at CCC is important to Pyatt, it’s not everything. “I’m here for an education. The most important thing right now is to get a good education,” Photo by Jillian Porter Postman Nate Pyatt shows off that Colgate smile. Pyatt remarked. Pyatt is an engineering stu dent and will transfer to O.I.T. after Clackamas to continue his education and his basketball ca reer. But Pyatt has only one thing on his mind right now: winning some basketball games and attain ing his goal. “I want towin the Northwest championship. We have a very talented team and if we play as well as we can, and keep our turn overs down, we can’t be stopped,” said Pyatt. Along with team goals, Pyatt has also set some individual goals for himself. “I need to play well every game; be consistent, keep on the boards, play solid defense,and stay out of foul trouble.” Pyatt feels his team’s talent, depth, and good coaching will help the team attain their goal down the stretch. “Every player on our team has talent. All of our freshman are doing an outstanding job and just need to keep it up.” Clackamas Coach Royce Kiser, according to Pyatt, is one of the reasons Pyatt has been so suc cessful. “He’s an excellent coach and I wouldn’t trade him for anyone. He’s really taught me a lot since I’ve been here.” Between basketball, studies, and work Pyatt seldom sees any free time. But when he does, he knows how to fill it. “Sports, any sports; softball, football, baseball. But to relax I like to listen to music: pop, and even a little jazz.” To call Nate Pyatt merely an athlete seems unjust He has proven himself to be more than just an athlete, doing in two years what- most athletes devote their lives to, and doing it very well. Women’s Basketball Statistics Player FG FGA PCT 16 49 $27 K. Brown. 42 120 .350 J. Drennen TOS 212 .495 C. Brison 35 RT- FÎA 7 * PTS AVG 19 28 43 2.5 PCT 17 .412 22 31 48 .646 32 : - 64 97 ; 71 175 10.3 33 59 .559 53 101 73 61 »245 14.4 9 .666 18 29 6 12 24 - 1.4 »I 46 D. Gale 13 S. Glascow 6 20 .300 5 12 .417 13 21 20 18 17 1.0 C. Harker 13 19 .684 3 10 .300 17 27 10 11 29 1.1 T. Jones 63 96 ,656 20 27 .741 30 52 39 37 146 8.6 529 59 104 .567 48 193 to 119 281 16.5 Î 112 .643 50 |161 8 47 265 15.6 33 .394 36 61 3.6 P. Pember 118 A. Stephenson S. Wallace 96 223 182 .527 IM| 80 .388 13 TEAM TOTALS 503 1036 .486 249 Opp. Score Avg. ■ TO .........H 431 ......... :—7----------------- t I722 .578 ; ' 28 41 319 457 s I S3 331 • 1276 rr " * m 3 55 8 JB m I MW 18 k I Photo by Jillian Porter Nate Pyatt dunks one in during practice. Cougars drop a pair of league games by Mark A. Borrelli Sports Editor After getting off to a fast 2-0 league start, the Clackamas Cou gars dropped a pair of tough league games this week and, in the proc ess, lost sophomore forward Jeff Hoffman for two weeks. In a crucial home game with Mt. Hood on January 11, Clacka mas played well, but not well enough. The Saints from Mt. Hood got away with the win 88-82. Both teams came out fired up in this important league encoun ter. The defenses dominated the first half, and Clackamas could only connect on 12-33 (36%) shooting from the field in the first half. Mt. Hood couldn’t manage much better: the Clackamas de fense held the high powered of fense of Mt. Hood in check, forc ing them to shoot just 11-27 (40.7%) from the field in the first half. Clackamas played well enough in the first half to sneak into the locker room with a 29-28 half time lead. But that lead was short-lived. The Saints opened the period with an eight point run sparked by James Coles, who was the game high scorerwith 21 points. Coles killed the Cougars down the stretch, calmly connecting on 4-4 free throws to ice the game for Mt. Hood. Trev Kiser collected high scoring honors for theCougars by tossing in 20 points, including 5 of 9 from three point range.Jeff Hoffman scored, 18 points and pulled down 15 boards. Nate Pyatt scored 12 points and grabbed 17 rebounds in a losing cause. The next stop for the Cougars was a Saturday night match up with Lane Community College. Lane proved that they’re a tough team at home by handing the Cougars their second straight loss, 65-57. Trev Kiser led the Cougars scoring with 16 and Nate Pyatt chipped in 14. 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