SPORTS
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT October 11,1989 Page 10
Cougar spikers finish
disappointing first half
by Staci Beard
Sport Editor
One victory and three losses
finished off the first half of the
women’s volleyball season to bring
their league record to 2-4.
The Cougar’s week started off
with a loss to rival Mt. Hood
Community College 15-13,8-15,
8-15,3-15.
While the start of the match
proved to be exciting, Clackamas
was not able to keep up the
momentum for the finish.
“The first game was great; we
had lots of intensity and concen­
tration. Even during most of the
second game it was going both
ways; but by the third game we just
lost that intensity, so we lost in
four,” explained Coach Kathie
Woods.
There were a couple of bright
spots for individuals as well as the
team.
Casie Harker lead all hitters
with eleven “kills.” Sparking the.
defense with eleven “d gs” was Jill
Schnell. Chris Nylen a so chipped
in on the defensive effort with
eleven solo blocks.
For the team, the first-game
victory over Mt. Hood was the
first time Mt Hood has a lost a
league game all season.
“Now that we won a game, we
can win a match. We were a little
nervous,” stated Woods.
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Wednesday night’s match
against Chemeketa proved that
playing without intensity, the ef­
fort can fall a little flat as they lost
8-15,3-15,11-15.
“There just wasn’t any twinkle.
Our passing was off and the desire
wasn’t there. You can’t play a solid,
consistent team like Chemeketa
and not have the intensity,” stated
Woods.
In preparing for Umpqua the
team worked on passing which
proved to be a weakness against
Chemeketa.
Umpqua proved to be the
Cougar’s only victory of the week.
The Cougars took only three
games to defeat Umpqua 15-12,
15-11,15-13.
“Our passing was much bet­
ter. They were close wins but we
were able to pull them out,”
commented Woods.
photo by Dawn Kuehl
Southwestern proved to be
more difficult and Clackamas lost The Clackamas volleyball team, shown here in a match with
Chemeketa, hopes to turn their season around.
in four, 12-15,15-9,13-15,6-15.
The first game showed a strong the fourth we just seemed to tire tively.
Cougar team as they jumped to a out and couldn’t give a good fight,”
“We are at the end of the first
large 8-0 lead. But they weren’t stated Woods.
half of the season and are not
able to hold it and ended up with
Harker still came up with a where we want to be. During the
a first game loss.
good day leading the teams in week we are working hard to be
“We showed something when “kills” with 9 and helping the prepared for the second half,”
we were able to come back and defense with 8 “digs”.
concluded Woods.
win the second game, after the
Dawn Cusick and Schnell were
The Cougars return to action
hard loss in the first game. During both tough on the serving line in at tournament at Green River
the third we kept it close, but in with 4 and 5 serving aces respec­ Crossover on Oct 13 and 14.
Cusick serves up experience, leadership
by Mark A. Borrelli
Sports Editor
The Clackamas volleyball
team, after a forgetful season last
year, is hopeful that returning
players make them a stronger team
this year. One of those returning
players is team captain Dawn
Cusick and the Cougars will be
relying on her leadership to help
attain a winning season.
Cusick, a graduate of LaSalle
High School, suffered through a
horrid season last year and hopes
that with some experience and
some freshman talent that this years
Cougars will fare better than last
year’s squad.
“I think we have a definite
shot for a 2nd, or 3rd place finish.
Sophomore captain Dawn Cusick brings experience, as well
as leadership to this years team.
Our goal is to make it to the tour­
nament and I think that we have
the talent to get there,” said Cusick
Along with team goals, Cusick
has set some personal goals for
this year.
“I want to make the all-league
team. I want to be able to get a
scholarship, to play next year at a
four year school,” said Cusick.
Cusick has been playing vol­
leyball since sixth grade and has
loved playing any kind of sport as
long as she can remember. While
at LaSalle, she accumulated a
number of honors. She was 1st
team all-league her junior and
senior year. She was team captain
her senior year, she was also team
MVP, and was a member of the
metro state all-star game. After
an outstanding senior year, Cusick
then chose to come to CCC for
some very practical reasons.
“It was close to home, and I
saved money,” said Cusick.
Cusick made an immediate
impact, as her presence was felt
her first year and she was voted
most inspirational by her team­
mates.
“Dawn is a bom leader. Defi­
nitely a leader on the floor,” said
Coach Kathie Woods. “She has a
desire to win and has a very good
knowledge of the game,” said
Woods.
While Cusick is a hard worker
on the court, she also works hard
in the classroom. She is a child
psychology major and hopes to be
a child psychologist. She hopes
that her volleyball skills will help
her get to a four year school next
year.________________ ________
"You can't go out to
have fun . In college
you've got to go out to
win."_________________
Volleyball at the college level
is a lot different than high school
according to Cusick and she has
some advice to pass along to high
school athletes planning on play­
ing college volleyball.
“Be sure that you take it more
serious than high school. College
volleyball is a lot different than
high school. You can’t go out to
have fun in college, you’ve got to
go out to win,” said Cusick.
While Cusick is looking for­
ward to expanding her horizons in
volleyball and academics at a big­
ger school, she is going to miss
Clackamas.
“I’m going to miss the friends
that I made through volleyball.
I’m going to miss Kathie Woods,
she’s a good coach and a good
friend.”
by
Mark A. Borrelli
Welcome back to Clackamas
Community College for hopefully
another great year of CCC sports.
For those returning you’ll know
what to expect, but for you new
students, brace yourself for an
exciting, unpredictable year.
“How was your summer?”
would seem to be an appropriate
question at the beginning of a year.
But I’m not even going to ask,
because I’m sure you had an event­
fur one to say the least. My sum­
mer was strange at best and at
times a living Hell. But, this sum­
mer was brightened by the play of
my Chicago Cubs. No, I’m not a
bandwagon fan. They won enough
this summer to keep me happy
and when they did lose, I could
always look for “Special K” to
save the day.
Co-Sports Editor Staci Beard
and I will team up this year to
hopefully bring you a quality sports
section. We have some new, fun
ideas that we are going to give a
try,butwe arealways open to your
ideas. If you have any ideas, or
comments, we would love to hear
them. You can drop them by Trailer
B, or just call us at ext 309. Okay,
enough with the formalities. That’s
boring, let’s talk sports!
Bay area bash...
Well, as much as I hate to admit it,
the San Fransisco Giants beat the
Chicago Cubs in an interesting
NLCS. Will Clark was simply
incredible, he killed us. Neither
team got any pitching, the Cubs
staff was too young and the youth
showed in the series. The Giants
staff was also weak, despite Scott
Garrelts performances. Big Daddy
was ruffed up more than he was
effective. Where was Andre
Dawson in this series? Andre, the
veteran of the team, just didn’t
show up. He batted just 2-19 (.119)
and left 19 men stranded. The Hawk
looked more like a dove in this
series. Mark (Amazing) Grace
kept the Cubs in games with his
red hot bat. If Dawson would have
even been close to the ball park,
the Cubs would have won. Oh
well, with some serious undeni­
able young talent, the Cubs should
be near the top again next year.
New Coaches at CCC.,,
Jim Jackson and Robby Robin­
son join the Clackamas coaching
staff this year. Jackson replaces
Norm Bemey as wrestling coach
and Robinson replaces Roeder,
who replaced Tagert, who replaced
Roeder, and so on, as baseball
coach.
Sports Action...
Tlie new Oregon lottery game
Sports action seems to be on stable
ground. I must admit to playing,
not winning, but playing.