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SPORTS Sports ReMARKs by Mark A. Borrelli Dream a little dome... If you read the newspapers or watch TV, which I’m sure you do, then you’ve heard the latest talk about an event dome to be built in Portland, and Portland landing an NFL ex pansion football team. I listened to all of this talk with much amusement. Oh yeah, the National Football League isjustgoingto give Portland an expansion football team after the Oregon Lottery went against the wishes of the NFL to allow betting on professional foot ball games. Even if the NFL was forgiving, and did actually award Portland a franchise, where would they play? Civic Stadium perhaps; they do have the new turf! Oh, excuse me, I forgot: talk about the new dome. In my 23 plus years as a native Oregonian, I’ve heard a lot of talk about a dome, but that’s all it ever turned out to be: talk. Metro, lead by Rena Cusma, is currently heading the talks of a dome, and once again, someone is studying the idea of the building of a dome. Well, nice try, Rena. But I’ve heard of studying, investigating, and looking for a site all in the past, and it’s all amounted to the same thing: no results. Once again, people are hop ing that these stories in The Oregonian regarding a possible dome are accurate, and hopes are getting high among sports fans. A private group of busi ness people want to get a dome built to draw an expansion team. They are currently in the “study ing stage.” These ambitious business professionals have high aspirations, saying that a dome is necessary because they want a Super Bowl! Okay, I can just imagine the NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue saying this: “Well Oregon, so what if you did stab us in the back with your Sports Action game; you went against our wishes betting on games. But all is forgiven. Here, here’s a team, and hey, why don’t you host the Super Bowl in two years.” The day you’ll hear those words is the day we’ll get a dome...don’t hold your breath! I’m not saying that a dome is not a good idea, don’t get me wrong. I’d loveto scea dome in Portland, but not unless the taxpayers fund it and will be the ones responsible for getting it under construction; not the politicians, who study things enough. (I hope they were four- point students in schooL) I really doubt an NFL team is anywhere in the future for Portland any way. I think that the City of Roses* best bet would be to try to talk to major league baseball »bout a team; the Oregon Lottery isn’t betting on them-yct. Wait a minute, what’s that I hear? Talks of a new baseball stadium in Delta Park! THE CLACKAMAS PRINT February 7,1990 Page 6 CCC still undefeated, run record to 10-0 by Mark A. Borrelli Sports Editor The Clackamas men’s basket ball team continues their winning ways, pulling out another two victories last week. With the pair of victories Clackamas improved their record to 10-0, and now hold a two-game lead over Chemeketa with just four games remaining in the regular season. Saturday night Clackamas rolled into Eugene to face a tough Lane squad. In their previous meeting, the Cougars needed double overtime to escape with a win, but overtime wasn’t neces sary on this night. The Cougars got off to a quick start before allowing Lane to rally, and held a 32-31 halftime advan tage. “We really started out strong, we got up by 10, then they roared back on us, but we played well enough to trail by one at the end of the first half,” said Coach Royce Kiser. Once again the Cougars came out of the locker room fired up as they raced to a 10-point advan tage. They held a 7-point lead with 60 seconds to play, and held on tough to win 70-69. “The game wasn’t really as close as the final score might indi cate,” said Kiser. “We led the entire According to Kiser the key to the Cougars’ success this year has been the way the Cougars are playing defense. Clackamas’ speed allows them to do things other teams are not able to do. “We play really good perime ter defense, and our perimeter people are really good off the bench. We have the ability to press full court the entire game, and not many teams can do that,” said Kiser. Clackamas controls their own destiny, needing to win 3-4, or "We play really good perimeter defense, beat Chemeketa, to win the divi and our perimeter people are really good sion title. Kiser however is not off the bench. We have the ability to press looking past anyone. “I want to play Mt. Hood, and full court the entire game, and not many beat them...that’s our immediate teams can do that." goal. The thing that we need to do is be confident, but not cocky. No person, or two, the other people This game was never close after team in this league is good enough get the job done,” said Kiser. Kiser the Cougars held a 49-44halftime to overlook another team,” said also noted the improved play of lead; they destroyed PCC in the Kiser. Clackamas closes out the his bench. “Our bench is really second half, and cruised to a 104- coming along. Martineau is a blue 82 win. Daniels scored 13, and regular season with Mt. Hood at chipper, he’s a real smart player Chris Lucas added seven points home tonight, then travels to on the court; Hollingsworth has and 10 boards. Kiser was pleased Umpqua Saturday. Clackamas will also been getting in some playing with his team’s performance, and then return home next Wednes time, and he’s played well; and was particularly pleased with the day for their final home game against Chemeketa. Bartel is a good player,” said Kiser. play of Spencer. Although Kiser is not ready “Even though we moved Troy Merrill has also contrib uted off the bench with strong Spencer from a guard to the 4 to celebrate anything yet, he spot, we knew that he would play couldn’t think of anything better inside play. ,■ ' Kiser was also happy with the well, and he’s been playing ex than being 10-0at this point of the season. “It feels nice, being 10-0 play of starting center Chris Lucas. tremely well.” feels really nice.” second half, and they hit a tough three pointer at the buzzer to get that close.” Once again it was the Cou gars’ big four getting the job done. Tim Osburn poured in 25 points, Todd Spencer added 14, while Brett Nesland and David Daniels each chipped in 10. “Our big four have been doing it all year. Teams can’t key on everyone, so if they key on one “Lucas was a force in the Lane game, he really got physical. Last time we played Lane, their cen ters played better, but this time Lucas was a force,” said Kiser. Wednesday night in Randall Hall, the Cougars hosted PCC and the game turned out to be The Todd Spencer Show. Spencer hit from everywhere on the court, tossing in a career-high 43 points on 19-25 shooting from the field. Cougars prepare for regionals with home matches by Staci Beard Sports Editor During the last couple of weeks before Regionals the Clacka mas wrestling team made two home appearances. The first was a double dual meet against North Idaho and Pacific Lutheran University on Friday, Jan. 26, which saw the Cougars lose 36-7 to North Idaho. Only two wrestlers were able to put up wins. Matt Lindland won 3-0 at 150, while Lance Hob son crushed his opponent 12-2 at 177. The Cougars were not down for long and came back to defeat PLU 26-19. This competition saw a number of wrestlers rack up wins. Craig Morris defeated his opponent 11-7 at 126. Shannon Hondl had to come from behind topickuphiswinatl42.11-3 was the final on Lindland’s defeat of his competition at 150. Kelly Reichner at 190 was able to defeat an opponent whom he had previ ously lost, 16-3. Instead of points Steve Teeney took the route of pinning his foe for a victory in the 167 class. “Overall it was a good warm up for our own tournament,” stated Coach Jim Jackson. The Cougars made their encore performance the follow ing day at the CCC Invitational. Three members of the team all placed second in the tournament. At 150 Lindland was defeated by the opponent he beat the night before from North Idaho. Teeney lost in the 177 finals to the tourna ment’s outstanding wrestler Bran don Jensen in a 8-1 match. Hob son also took second but was unable to wrestle in the finals due to a injury sustained in the semi-finals. Besides those who placed, a number of wrestlers were within one match of placing. They were Albert Alcantar, Steve Sletter, Jason Bauer, and Riechner. “A number of different inju ries were sustained by our players, but it wasn’t due to not being in condition ; it was because of the intensity of the matches. It may hurt us when we go to Regionals because we won’t be at full strength,” explained Jackson. “Our tournament was well run. A lot of the credit has to go to trainer Mary Grout. I got a large number of compliments on her knowledge, capabilities, and her willingness to share them,” stated Jackson. On Monday Jan. 29, Clacka mas competed against Oregon Institute of Technology of Kla math Falls and lost 22-18. “We didn’t wrestle well at all. It didn’t help that we arrived ten minutes before we were supposed to wrestle. We were not mentally prepared,” said Jackson. 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