SPORTS
Sports ReMARKs
by
Mark A Borrelli
Basketball in Sports Ac
tlon: a matter of greed...
We have some truely greedy
people in Salem! As if you didn’t
already know that, but surprise,
this time it’s not coming out of
the capital building, it’s coming
out of the Oregon Lottry head
quarters
After already facing a head-
on battle with the NFL, which
they won, the Oregon Lottery is
now locked in a battle with The
NBA on whether or not to bet
on basketball games in their
sports action game. The NBA is
highly against this new game,
and even went as far as having
Commissioner David Stern
speak to the Oregon Lottery
Commission to voice his oppo
sition. The NBA’s Players As
sociation is also against this, as
they feel it would put unfair
pressure on the players. The
Portland TrailBlazers, are op
posed to this because it would
create an uneasy situation with
fans, and even enabling players
to bet on the outcome of their
game. The Lottery Commission
did soften a little, saying that no
Portland games would not be in
the contest. They didn’t say they
were worried about problems
with that, they just wanted to
maintain a good relationship
with the Portland TrailBlazers,
and the NBA..Right!
If that’s what they want to
do, then they need to stop being
so greedy. Sports Action is a
good idea, it’s a fun game to
play, and it creates money for
colleges, but betting on NBA
games is not a good idea. The
Lottery Commission pretty much
ruined any chances of Portland
ever attracting a NFL team when
they started betting on football
games through Sports Action,
and now they are biting the hand
that feeds us! Like it or not folks,
the Blazers are the biggest show
in town. They’re our only pro
fessional team, and it’s proba
bly going to stay that way for a
long, long, long(You get the
point) time. The Oregon Lot
tery went ahead with their NBA
game despite the possible con
sequences. Thus far the new
game has been a flop! The
Lottery has combined NFL
games with NBA games, but as
soon as the NFL is over, then so
is Sports Action. As if picking
football games with point spreads
wasn’t hard enough, were now
going to have to pick the L.A.
Clipper/New Jersey game and
give a point spread? No, I don’t
think so. I can see it now, first
football, then basketball, then
baseball. Hey, we’ll have some
thing to bet on year round.
Here’s a little advice from
me to the Oregon Lottery. Stop
being greedy! If you do decide
to stay with basketball games,
and you get bad publicity, and
the game flops like a dead fish
(which it will), don’t come crying
to me.
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
January 10,1990
Page 4
Women off to a perfect 2-0 league start
by Brenda Hodgen
StaffWriter
Tonight’s game against Mt
Hood Community College should
be an easy win for the Women’s
Cougar Basketball Team, accord
ing to Coach Phil Garver.
“I don’t expect them to be too
tough,” he said. “They have a
couple of good sophomores back
this year, but their defense is not
that tough.”
After two defeats over Port
land Community College and Linn-
Benton Community College, the
ladies have an undefeated league
record of 2-0 and a season record
of 14-0.
Last Wednesday’s match-up
against PCC was an easy victory,
86-41, according to Garver.
“PCC is new into the league,
and their whole team consists of
only five girls,” he explained, “so
they weren’t up to full strength.”
Garver feels his team has been
playing strong all season.
“We’ve been dominating all
year, and the way we*ve come out
in defense, we just take control,”
he said. “We get even scoring
through the whole team in every
game. We put some freshmen in
against PCC, and we’ve had a lot
of consistency with all of our so
phomores all year".
Linn-Benton was the team’s
toughest competitor, according to
Garver, but the ladies flew right
by them Saturday night with a 93-
62 win to hold steady for the number
one spot
“(Linn Benton’s) second best
in the league behind us so I didn’t
know quite what to expect,” ex
plained Garver. “They had one
girl who was ineligible so she
couldn’t play and was probably
their best scorer. We definitely
dominated on defense though; they
had 33 turnovers.”
Garver doesn’t see a lot of
room for the team’s improvement
“I’m really pleased with how
well the girls are playing,” he said
with enthusiasm.” We have all five
starters: Angela Hewlett, Pam
Pember, Alicia Stephenson, JJ.
Drennen, and Kelly Brown, who
all get out there and take it to
them. As soon as they get it going
Jean Marie Lillard (freshman) goes
out and finishes up. Jean has re
alty been playing well.
“The only thing I see that we
could work on is we need to come
out and be right on top of the
game instead of waiting until about
3 or 4 minutes into the game,” he
stressed. “But once we get going
we play great, so rm really pleased
and they’re all getting along real
well which is important”
Garver is looking forward to
the rest of the season with a great
deal of optimism.
“I realty don’t think anyone
in the league will be able to stay
with us,” he said. “Like I said,
Linn-Benton, was our competi
tion and we’re done with them. I
think this season will basically be
a blow-out.”
League season opens at Oregon Classic
by Staci Beard
Sports Editor
Over Christmas vacation the
Clackamas Wrestling team finished
up the rest of the preseason with
two tournaments.
On Dec. 9 at the Big Bend
Invitational, four Cougars went
to compete. Of the four only Craig
Morris placed, taking fourth in
the 126 weight bracket.
Before participating in the last
tournament of1989, the Cougar’s
held a wrestle-off to determine
placement on the ranking ladder.
“It is not permanent. Every
Cougars knock off Linn-Benton...
Year opens with 2-0 start
by Mark A Borrelli
Staff Writer
The Clackamas men’s basket
ball team improved their league
record to an unblemished 2-0 with
a hard fought 64-58 victory over
the Linn-Benton Roadrunners on
home court Saturday night
The first half of the game saw
the Cougars open up their arse
nal. Clackamas unloaded 11 three-
pointers, and connected on five.
Linn-Benton tried to take the
Cougars out of their run game by
stalling every time down the court
On defense, the Roadrunners
forced Clackamas to win from the
outside. Clackamas was up to the
task as they connected on 23-47
(49%) for the game.
“They were packing it in, so
we had to open up our offense,
and take what they were giving
us,” said Coach Royce Kiser. The
Cougars connected often enough
to hold a 25-23 halftime advan
tage.
In the second half, Clacka
mas finally was able to solve the
Roadrunners defense. Good of
fensive execution and passing
helped lead the Cougars to a 64-
58 win. Tim Osburn lead the
Cougars with 24 points and 9
rebounds.
“He’s really been playing well.
He’s been playing great basket-
ball-smart basketball,” said Kiser.
Other Clackamas players
receiving praise from their coach
was point , guard David Daniels.
“He executed the offense very well.
He played a really good game,”
added Kiser. Daniels added 18
points to the Cougar cause, and
dished out 6 assists..
Although Daniels and Osburn
were responsible for a majority of
the scoring, according to Kiser,
the whole team played well “Those
were the two guys getting the shots.
We took what they gave us, and
they gave us shots at those two
positions,” said Kiser.
Kiser feels good about his
team’s performance thus far this
season, but is cautiously optimis
tic.
“We’re going to have to play
better basketball if we’re going to
keep on winning. We’re going to
have to play smart basketball to
win,” remarked Kiser.
The Cougars will be on the
road tonight to face a tough foe
with crosstown rival Mt. Hood.
“This is going to be a tough
one. We’re going to have to play
good defense, control their post
man, stay out of foul trouble, and
stop their fast break to be effec
tive,” stated Kiser.
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week we will have wrestle offs in
different weight classes to see if
changes need to be made,” stated
Coach Jim Jackson.
The ranking was not used
though when six wrestlers went to
compete in the Glencoe Open on
Dec. 30. Two wrestlers, James
Williams at 167 and Lance Hob
son at 177, placed fourth. Taking
third in the 167 weight class was
Matt Lindland. Placing second was
Robert Reed at 126.
One Cougar wrestler was able
to top his weight class. Craig Morris
was champion at 126.
Opening the start of the
Cougars’ regular season was the
Oregon Wrestling Classic.
Competitors range in age from
around five to the collegiate. Two
of the top Division I teams were
participants. They were number
one ranked Oklahoma State and
number sixth ranked University
of Minnesota. Portland State
University, the top team in Divi
sion II standing, also competed.
The Cougars did not fair well
with only one wrestler placing. At
150 Matt Lindland was able to get
sixth place in the tough field.
“Matt wrestled tough. He
made some mistakes but he
wrestled tough the whole day,”
said Jackson.
Due to illness and other prob
lems the Cougars were not able to
field a whole team.. But Jackson
felt that they did not wrestle up to
their potential.
“We did not wrestle well at
all. We were not prepared men
tally or physically. With us just
starting our season and also com
ing off Christmas vacation with
out wrestling any dual meets didn’t
help,” stated Jackson. -
For improvement Jackson
feels they have to do things on
their own.
“The guys have to do running
and more strength training on their
own. They need to improve their
conditioning to a higher level to
compete. We don’t have the time
to do all the things that heed to be
done in our short two hour prac
tice time,” explained Jackson.
The first dual meet will be
Friday Jan. 12 in Tacoma against
Ricks College.
On Saturday Jan. 13 the
Cougars stay in Tacoma and will
compete in the Pacific Lutheran
University Open.
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