The Clackamas print., May 20, 1992, Page 7, Image 7

SEOfiTS
May 20,1992
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
Page 7
Cougar softball team to play for NWAACC championship
Spokane and Wenatchee to be challenge for CCC
by Lane Scheideman
Sports Editor
The Clackamas Community
College softball team won two
more games last week against
South Puget Sound CC to finish
the regular season with a 15-0
league record.
The Cougars finished first in
the Southern Division, ahead of
second place Olympic CC, who
finished 8-8.
CCC will be competing in
the NWAACC Championships
this Friday and Saturday at Fran­
klin Park in Spokane, Wa.
Their first game will be Fri­
day at 10 a.m. against Shoreline
CC, who finished 12-12 in the
Northern Division.
“We don’t know much about
their team,” said Coach Paul
Fiskum. “We do know their pitcher
has some really good stats.
“They also had areally good
defensive team last year.”
Wenatchee Valley CC and
Spokane CC tied for first in thé
Northern Division with records
of 20-4 in league play.
“Th is is the toughest field of
teams to play in the tournament
in the last three or four years,”
commented Fiskum.
In the last two games of the
season the Cougars played the
team from South Puget Sound.
The Cougars had to play
without Corie Peck and Lisa
DeMers, who are recovering from
injuries, and Jenny Hefflinger,
whp was
In the first game, Clackamas
had a relatively easy time, win­
ning 10-0 in five innings. The
game was shortened because the
Cougars were ahead by ten runs
and the Cougars had two more
errors charged against them to
allow two more runs.
This marked the first time
that any team in league play scored
more than two runs against Clacka-
mas in a single game.
Clackamas got two runs back
in their half of the fourth when.
Meek and Rahn scored to make
the score 4-2.
Skinner crossed the plate in
the fifth inning when Meek hit a
deep fly ball. Brandy Toivonen
attempted to score on the same
play but was thrown out at the
photo by Dave VanKowon
Jenny Topham swings for a pitch en route to the division
championship.
after five innings.
The third and fourth innings
were the keys for the Cougar
offense, which generated five runs
in the third and four runs in the
fourth.
A triple by Cindy Vance, a
double by Launa Meek and singles
from Holly Rahn, Julie Braman,
and Kenna Skinner scored the
runs in the third inning.
Five singles in the fourth
brought in the runs in the fourth
inning.
“It was nice to have the short
first game, ” com men ted Fiskum.
“Since Hefflinger was out sick,
Kim Holum had to pitch both
games.”
CCC team falls to Ivy League foe
by Daphne Hartt
StaffWriter
Last Friday night, May 15,
the CCC men’s intramural bas­
ketball team competed against
Yale University at Lewis and Clark
College. This game was a con­
tinuation of the Chrysler Corpo­
ration Half-Court Three-on-Three
Invitational Intramural Basket­
ball Tournament. The CCC team,
consisting of Curt Arrayan, Cliff
Toney, Kyle Riggs, and Troy
Merrill, played three twenty-
minute games against Yale.
Although most of the rules
were the same as collegiate bas­
ketball, some crucial rules were
quite different For instance, a
basket was only worth one point
instead of the usual two points.
Also, three-pointers were only
worth two points. The foul situ­
ation differentiated from the norm
as well. If a player fouled another
player while the player was drib­
bling or posting up, it was not
considered a foul. Therefore, the
clock kept running and players
could foul as much as they pleased.
However, if the foul occurred
during the act of shooting, it was
considered a foul. But instead of
the fouled player shooting only
one shot and it counting for one
point, the free-throw would count
as two points.
In the first game, CCC beat
Yale 16-14. According to Arrayan,
their shooting “was ’on’ in the
first game.”
The second game brought
Yale a 29-28 victory. The game
would have normally gone into
overtime, but instead the refe­
rees informed the players that
there had to be a free-throw shoot­
out to determine the winner of
the game.
Yale pulled off another win
in the third game with consistent
shooting. Although this 18-15 loss
was disappointing to the CCC
four-man team, they felt good
about their overall performance.
Arrayan comments, * It was
tough. We were so close. We
wanted it so bad, and we almost
had it in the second game.”
Kathie Woods, intramural
director, was very pleased with
the men’s performance. “They
played their hearts out They were
very intense. They definitely didn’t
lose because of lack of desire.
When the score is that close, it
comes down to who makes fewer
mistakes and how costly those
mistakes are.”
The women’s tournament
also took place Friday night. Lane
Community College faced Yale
University after the men’s team
was finished with their first game.
Yale took the first game with
a 17-15 win. But then Lane turned
it around in the second game and
came away with a crushing 20-10
win. They continued their domi­
nation in the third game and won
20-12.
Holum didn’t allow any runs
and only four hits. Holum didn’t
have any strikeouts or walks
throughout the game.
“Every ball that was hit stayed
in the infield. Our outfielders didn’t
have to make any plays,” said
Fiskum.
The second game was a dif­
ferent story, however.
The first inning saw the
Cougars down 2-0 after two bat­
ters were walked and one error
committed. Then in the fourth
inning South Puget had two singles
ripped a deep fly to left field to
score Skinner from third with the
game-winner.
_ Meek was 3-4 at the plate
with two singles, one double, two
RBI, and one run scored.
Holum, pitching her second
game, had a rough start but fin­
ished with seven strikeouts and
only three walks.
The Cougars finished with a
28-2 overall record and unde­
feated in league play.
The team will be leaving
today for the tournament in
Spokane.
Softball -regular season stats
BATTING
Name
C. Peck
L. Meek
J. Topham
J. Stickel
L. DeMers
C. Vance
H. Rahn
K. Freitas
B. Toivonen
J. Braman
K. McGowne
K. Skinner
Team
PITCHING
Name
K. Holum
J. Hefflinger
Avg.
.463
.438
.414
.393
.391
.386
.344
.339
.313
.302
.300
.250
.368
H 2B 3B
AB
R
123 31 57 3 4
3
89 35 39
87 29 36 O 4
9 24 0 1
61
110 30 43 7 5
88 22 34 10 2
93 17 32 1 4
115 27 39 1 1
64
6 20 0 0
96 21 29 0 0
3 0 0
10
1
84 14 21 1 1
1036 244 381 26 26
HR RBI
2 25
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1 19
T 0 11
0 27
0 26
0 19
0 20
• 0 11
0 20
2
0
0 17
5 208
IP R ER H BO BB
ERA H L
0.63 13 2 119 .1 29 15 66 115 33
0.86 11 0 87 .0 15 15 56 65 46
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plate.
In the bottom of the sixth,
Rahn hit for a triple and was
knocked in on a sacrifice bunt by
Jenny Topham to tie the score at
four.
The seventh inning belonged
to the Cougars. Skinner reached
base on a single and advanced to
second on a sacrifice by Toivonen.
Because of an error by South
Puget, Toivonen stayed at first.
Kelly McGowne was inten­
tionally walked with two. outs to
load the bases, and try for a pos­
sible double play. Unfortunately
for South Puget Sound, they had
to face Meek, who had a regular
season batting average of .438.
Meek came up .to bat and
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