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Page 8 SPORTS THE CLACKAMAS PRINT May 27,1992 Cougar softball team has productive weekend in Spokane Clackamas takes third championship in four years by Lane Scheideman Sports Editor Since 1988, the Clackamas Community College softball team has been a force to deal with in the NWAACC championships. Three times the team, coached by Paul Fiskum, has taken first place and also taken fourth place on two other occasions. The latest triumph came this past weekend, in Spokane, when the Cougars won four straight games to win their second cham pionship in a row. Shoreline CC was the first opponent of Clackamas and was up against Clackamas’ Jenny Hef flinger. “Hefflinger had the most outstanding pitching performance of any game in the tournament,” said Fiskum. Hefflinger pitched a two-hit shutout and struck out eight in the process. Clackamas’ defense and offense backed up Hefflinger by not allowing any errors and scor ing four runs on seven hits. The hits were spread out over seven batters and showed the depth that has carried the Cougar team so far this year. The third inning proved to be the clincher in the first game of the tournament for Clacka mas. Julie Braman, Lisa DeMers, and Jenny Topham scored for the Cougars and alldwed the team to never look back. The Cougars scored one mere run to win the game by score of 4- 0. Clackamas next faced the host team, Spokane CC, in “the most dramatic game,” according to Fiskum. Spokane tied for the regular season championship in the North ern division with Wenatchee CC and was one of the favorites to win, along with Clackamas. Spokane got off to a fast start by getting a lead-off single and a triple by the second batter. The only error by Clacka mas allowed the second run to score and the Cougars now had to fight back into the game. In the Cougars* half of the first, Corie Peck got on base with a triple and scored on a success ful squeeze play initiated by Braman. The Cougars went up by the score of 5-2 in the third inning when after Kenna Skinner scored on a Spokane error, Lisa DeMers hit a two-run triple. Spokane came back in the fourth with three runs including a photo by Lane Scheideman Jenny Hefflinger is shown delivering a pitch during a regular season game with third baseman Julie Stickel, foreground, ready for a possible hit. home run that just got past the Cougar outfield. The fourth inning saw the Cougars retake the lead with two more runs to make the score 7-5. Two more runs by the Cou gars and one more by Spokane made the final score 9-6. “We were never really com fortable in the game with the way Spokane was hitting,” explained Fiskum. “Spokane was able to get the hits they needed off of (Kim) Holum.” ‘ Holum had an interesting game on the mound. Even though she gave up 6 runs on 11 hits, she also struck out 12 of Spokane’s batters. After beating Spokane, the Cougars were now in the semi finals and were to face the team from South Puget Sound CC. Clackamas jumped out to an early 3-0 lead over South Puget, but encountered some trouble in the third inning when they com mitted three errors and allowed South Puget to get within one run. Clackamas regained their composure and shut South Puget down, while the bats went back to work getting two more runs, making the score 5-2 entering the sixth. The first batter up in South Puget’s half of the sixth, hit a home run to make the score 5-3. “The outfield grass was hard as a rock,” commented Fiskum. “That ball just kept on rolling.” Clackamas put the game away in the seventh when they scored three runs to win 8-3. Hefflinger had another good TOURNAMENT STATISTICS Batting Name Avg,. H AB R RBI V. Meek .400 6 15 6 2- 4 ' C. Peck .375 6 16 6 J. Braman 2 .400 4 10 6 7 I». DeMers .462 6 13 3 6 J. Topham .385 5: 13 4 5 C. Vance .300 3 10 0 9 2 3 K. Freitas .444 4 o. J. Stickel .166 1 6 1 H. Rahn 2 .333 3 9 1 8 4 0 K. Skinner .625 5 1 0 B. Toivonen .000 0 0 K. McGowne .000 0 1 0 0 Team .387 43 111 33 31 Pitching W I> R I JR SO Name J. Hefflinger 2 0 3 ■ 2 15 k. Holum 2 0 9 9 16 • Team 4 0 12 11 31 SB . 4 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 9 game, allowing two earned runs on six hits, including one home run and two triples. Hefflinger also struck out seven and walked three. The Cougars were now guar- anteed a spot in the finals. South Puget won one more game to get the chance to come back and face the Cougars in the championship game. The first inning saw the Cougars jump all over South Puget with four runs, including a three- run home run by Jenny Topham. “Topham hit a towering fly ball over the left fielder's head and made it around the bases,” said Fiskum. Eight singles in the second inning by Clackamas put the game away, ending the inning up by the score of 124). South Puget came back with three runs on nine hits, but that is where their offense stopped. South Puget’s coach asked to have the American Softball Associations eight-run rule come into play and the officials allowed it. The game was over after five innings, and Clackamas won the championship game by the score of 12-3. Kim Holum had four strike outs and two walks on the way to her second win of the tourna ment. After the championship game, the league officials announced the All-Tourney teams and seven Clackamas players received honors. Hefflinger,Holum,DeMers, Launa Meek, Peck, Topham, and Julie Braman were placed on the All-Conference team. Topham was also named as the most valuable player of the tournament. Save 10% on our vacation spots. Daytona Beach it ain’t. But stopping at Shurgard on your way home this summer is a lot more fun than hauling your bundt cake pans and limegreen Barcalounger all over the country and back. Plus with the 10 percent student discount, you get to see for yourself how higher mathematics can indeed be applied to real life situations. 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