Fencing: quick decisions, reflex« By Brad Boyer Staff Writer A few students at Clackamas Community College are taking advantage of skills they acquired in their physical education class. Richard Ramsby leads a list of four students that have taken a fencing class at Clackamas and are now competing in tournaments around the area. Ramsby, George Henderson, Maureen Kearney and Donna Owens all competed in a tournament Saturday, Jan. 22, at West side School in Hood River. Ramsby and Owens both captured first place and Hen derson and Kearney placed fourth and fifth respectively. The Clackamas competitors started the sport this year, as they became interested in fencing because of the class offered through the physical education department. Ramsby is the only Clackamas student who has competed for over three months. This places him in the intermediate level. "Fencing is a great deal more compli cated than it appears," Ramsby said. "There are at least ten different defensive moves." The Clackamas students have picked up the sport quickly. Ramsby commented that fencing takes quick reflexes and quick de cisions and all three of the other fencers have done extremely well. Scoring is done either electronically or manually and the only scoring area of the body is the torso. Ramsby's competition was scored electronically while Owens, Kearney and Henderson were scored manu ally. "It is extremely difficult to score manu ally because it takes at least three people," Ramsby said. "There has to be a judge in back of each competitor and one on the the side." Fencing is an intricate sport and also an extremely courteous sport. Ramsby said that the goal of each competitor is to always be a gentleman during the five-minute matches. "A person is not to say anything during a match and it goes to such extremes that if something is wrong with equipment or whatever, two taps of the foot tells the judge to stop the match," Ramsby said, Fencing has picked up in interest in the wake of the movies, "The Three and Four Musketeers." Ramsby said the movies are great fun to watch and create excitement for the sport. Ramsby is looking into the possibilities of forming a fencing club. This would gen erate a little bit of money to inable interes ted participants to compete. If anyone is interested in fencing, they should contact Gladys Michael in the athletic department. Richard Ramsby .. .touche' K____________________________ Wrestlers remain undefeated By Randy Frank Staff Writer The nationally fourteenth-ranked Clack amas wrestlers kept their undefeated (9-0) dual meet record intact over the weekend as they downed Southwestern Oregon Com munity College and Umpqua Community College. Against SWOCC on Friday night, the Cougars earned three superior decisions while losing only one match in routing the southern Oregon school, 39-3. The following evening the situation was virtually the same as the Cougars won every match beating Umpqua, 40-0. The meets were highlighted by individual efforts from Ton Ziegle, Phil Zerzan, Don Zellner, Paul Schwehn, Ken Lumsden, Steve Morris and Wayne Snoderly. Ziegle, the Cougars' leading winner (23-3) set the tune for the rout of SWOCC when he beat Ken Enoch, a former state cham pion out of Crater High School, 15-0. Ziegle also pinned Scott Hogg, Umpqua. Zerzan, out most of the year with a knee injury, surprised everybody when he de feated SWOCC's Dave Woods, 23-3. Zerzan had been serving as the team's manager. Zellner, missing from action for two weeks, showed that he hasn't lost his state championship form when he won a superior decision over Terry Russell, SWOCC, 21-3. He also decisioned previously unbeaten Ed Eddings, Umpqua, 5-2. Schwehn helped set the pace in the Ump qua win when he decisioned Bill Anderson for the third time this season, 18-10. Lumsden helped to preserve the shutout when he decisioned Steve Fosback in a close match, 22-21. Steve Morris kept his perfect record in tact (15-0) when he decisioned Dave Bar- tosz, a second-place finisher in the Clack- Page 8 amas Invitational, 12-8, and Kirk White hurst, 8-0. Snoderly won the best match of the two meets when he dominated Ken Par sons for a 7-4 decision. Parsons was a former state champion and a runner-up in the junior college regional competition last season. In other action, a second group of Cougar matmen traveled to the annual Bend tourna ment and came away with 14 wins out of 24 matches. Joe Davis (3-0 and 10-0 on the season). Rich Holliman (3-1), and Dan Woods (3-1), put in fine individual efforts. As the Cougars enter the home stretch of the season, the biggest problem they face is probably not the other team, but the Cougars themselves. Injuries to possible state champions Mike Brewton, (lost for the remainder of the season following knee surgery for rheuma toid arthritis) and Jeff Harmon (a sophomore who represented Clackamas in the national tournament and who will be lost for at least three weeks with a broken bone in his left hand) could hurt the team's chances when it goes to the regionals. "Any more injuries such as the one to Kim Roehl (pulled hamstring which will put him out until the second week in Feb ruary), who leads the team in pins, could really be critical," said Coach Norm Berney. "Injuries could very well determine the success or failure of our season becaus going to have to be as near tofullsi in order to do well in post-season| said Berney. The final stretch to regionals begin day night as the Cougars take on Mil a team that the Cougars have already! in dual competition, 26-13. Following the Mt. Hood meet,th gars take on the University of Oregon and Lane CC on Friday, Feb. 4,0 Oregon CC on Saturday, Feb. 5, La« on Tuesday, Feb. 8, Willamette onfi Feb. 11, and North Idaho on Feb, Aberdeen. The winners in last week's Clad Invitational for Clackamas were: 134 - Tom Ziegle, Clackamas decs Larry Marshall, U of O J.V.'s, 6-2. 150 - Steve Morris, Clackamas, ded ed Jerry Wollen, Grays Harbor, 9-3. 190 - Joe Davis, Clackamas was it the referee's decision over George Ht Grays Harbor, after the two wrestled 1-1 draw after three rounds. TRI-CITY BOWI MOLALLA AVE. AT WARNER-MILNE RO P.O. BOX 292. OREGON CITY. OR. 970<i "Sponsor of the Week" CCC Wrestling Program SEV HARKS0N By appointment: Pam O'Leary Cheri Hickman 16705 SE McLoughlin Milwaukie 653-9850 | O wner M anager Pinball Bowlin! Thursday, February3,