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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