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Wrestling champîôhèhtpf near
by Frank jordan
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The Clackamas »e
team finished third as a team at
the Region 18 Championships
in Colorado this past weekend
and will send Com wrestlers fa
the National ’ Junior College
Athletic Association champi­
onships atthc end of February,
fended their team champion­
ship, white Ricks College of
Rexburg, Idaho, finished as the
runner-up. Thencame the Cou­
gars? followed by Yakima Vai-
ley CC, just twopoints behind.
BlakeTompkins,wrestling
in the .134-pound weight class,
swept through. some of the
toughest competitionof the/
tournament to win the regional
championship;' Because of his
efforts.Tompkinswasvotedthe
outstandingwrestlerofthetour-
namcmt by the coaches, :
"BMehMbnoutstapding.
tournament ~ Coach Jim Jack-
son comtneotecL "The 134*
pound class was hands down
the toughest itt the tournatnenl.
¿The'ct^tehcsgot'together
finish ati67 lb$< ;
. y "Travis fast his firsf-roimd
matchby'a referee’s decision in
sudden^death’overtime,” <fam~
cahbeagteatdealioovepcome,
and although Nate gave it his
best, he|ust didn’t have it in the
end, and I am expumely disap­
pointed because of it, Nathan
mented Jackson. "But hefought
had a super season for us,Wd
back in the consolation bracket
to eventually finish third. He
believeme,hewinbebacknext
season,"
wrestled the way he has praven
in the past, and he also gets: to <
• Fbeatt of those guys who
moyebn?’'/-i' \ 5,
will notbe wrestling inacouple
' \ Carl Hensley finished third f • of weeks, the season is over?
in thel77-ponnd weightclass to ; . Jackson, however, could' not
advance toitheNJCAA touma-
sayenoughabout the effort that
ment, Hensley also wrestlcdreal - his whole team gate this sea-
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tough after a first-round loss to ..
*T am very proud of all pf
get through the consolation
them. They wrestled their
bracket, Jackson said,
'A r *
.¿ThoSei^ugarsnotgomgbn
to Bismarck, N.D<, 'site $ the
Hearts onfall season. Theyhave
nothing to be ashamed of, and
let ns all hope thafthey continue
national toummnent, included
pong Maddux, Who finished
toimptoveforactionaextyeaf ”
fourth at 15# lbs4 Jason Baurer, /. : However, the season is not
who finished fourth at 190 lbs4
quite over for four wrestlers
and Nathan Sullivan, who. also y, ¿cm Clackamas,'who . face an
finished fourth at heavyweight
even bigger challenge against
Chad Westover, wrestling at 142
thebest junior coUegowrestiers
ibs,,did not placeat tegionals,
in the nation. Jackson says that
♦ lie has nothing special planned
butnotby alackof effort1
’■ "Westover was wrestling in ; - to get his four wrestlers ready
for Bismarck and the national
an extremely tough weight class?
cha&pte^teps/
.
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aridhejustdidhotquitehaveit ”
said Jackson. ‘'BmChad irad-a /
'tWe, hope tp get some
terrilte
aridihopeheisn't '. scrimmages set up for these
classy, and
hour-and-a-half to figure the'
.seedings but
It was-sq
He rijally did wrestle great for ns
this season
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.. ¿fBanrer mighti have'moved
toughthattheeventualnumber-
one need did ^ot ptecg^rfibe'
tourriametitC>,
i. ''z^
btitdBismattkhaditnothge&i^
an injury that-hp^pHorpd in the
David Evafts, at 1501^,,
lost ablose match to the defend­
ing national champion, butfin-
ished second overall to advance
tonatiotiais>,<.;
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' '‘bavidhdd^gmattourt^-
mtmt,
y^S^ed
what he had to do. He fast the
one close match' to a tough,
tough wrestler, but hung in
there to gppn.Xtg riationalsX” :•
’ >'.. Travis: Bonneau wiii>be
heading to his^sefcond NJCAA
toumamentwithhis third-place
third-place match;; He was Wres?'
tiing
defeated earlier in the temma-
•ih^;bi^-.he.;.^/to forfeit tbs
match price tie becameinjured..:
. , Sullivan lost a close match
for thirdplace and losthis^lw^
to go on to nationals. But his
ebaejiWf^n6t.disappointed.-With:
^heaVywei^ht^e^st.^ , z
■."^The biggest problem that
Nathan hadtoovcrcome-was tliie
size of his opponents.;Tn every
match , he gayo'.up at least 60
pounds tohisf^p^jent Some­
times, in a tournament like thjs,it
WICHITA
BAR £ GRILL
Wednesday, February 17, 1993
opur io
guys, to breakup the monotony
of practice/ But in the mean­
time/we will continue fa stress
focnsforallfottrofthem.andlet
<g:-.^::wh^::fa^^^M.'Bis;’
nationals or at'the very least,
become AIl-Atneriearis.Thai
would be quite an accomplish­
ment”
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.... The. NJCAAZ National
Championship Tournamem will
take place in Bismarck on Feb,
26 and 27, Jackson belie vesthat
North Idaho,Lassen College of
Susanville, Calif,, and (Sarden
City CC of Kansas are the con-
tenders for the team champion­
ships, but hop^i that his four
wrestlers wi 11 help Clackamas
compete fcf'thetitle»
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Kiser optimistic about playoffs
by Jason Eck
Staff Writer
The Clackamas men’s bas­
ketball team can clinch the North­
west Athletic Association of
Community Colleges Southern
Division title if they win one of
their final two games against
Chemeketa or Southwestern
Community Colleges.
The Cougars improved their
record to 24-2 last week with
wins against Mt. Hood and
Umpqua Community Colleges.
In the game against Mt.
Hood, Feb. 10, Dan Conover and
Tyrone Miles were ineligible to
play because of the fighting inci­
dent that occurred in the Feb. 6
game against Lane. The loss Of
these two players did nothurt the
team, however, as the rest of the
players picked up the scoring
slack.
The Cougars scored the first
five points Of the game and took
a 32-16 lead midway through the
first half. Mt. Hood played
enough defense to keep thé game
within reach, but the Cougars still
led 46-33 at halftime. In the
second half the Cougars were
able to maintain the lead and go
on to win the game with contribu­
tions from many players in the
absence of Conover and Miles.
The Cougars got a balanced
scoring attack. Brian Peterson
led the men with 17 points. Kyle
Dixon added 15 points and had a
team-high seven rebounds. Josh
Rombach had 14 points and four
assists, including two 3-pointers.
Jake Petersen also had 14 points.
Other performances included Jer­
emy Reinwald’s 12 points, on 5
of 6 shooting from the floor; Jon
Dahlin’s 11 points and Randy
Wheeler’s eight points.
The Cougars returned home
Saturday to face Umpqua, one of
only two teams to beat Clackamas
this year. The Cougars again took
an early lead at 12-4 before
Umpqua went on a run to come
within four at ^21-17.Umpqua
came as close as one point on
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several occasions in the first half,
but were never able to take the
lead. The Cougars settled for a
39-33 halftime lead.
In the second half the Cou­
gars were able to keep Umpqua
from taking the lead. With 5:58
remaining in the game the Cou­
gars led 76-64. At this point
Umpqua went on an 8-0 run to
narrow the lead to four points.
Head Coach Royce Kiser was
not celebrating a victory just yet.
After a timeout, the Cougars
scored to take a six-point lead
and were able to hold Umpqua
off for an 86-80 win.
Rombach led the scoring at­
tack with 2lpoints andReinwald
contributed 17 points. Miles
scored all of his 13 points in the.
second half, themajority coming
in a stretch when the Cougars ran
a play for. him several times in a
row.
"The guards made some
pretty nice passes (to Miles),”
Kiser said.in response to Miles’
scoring opportunities.
“I’m real happy we won the
. game. I didn’t think we played
that well. They’re (Umpqua) a
tough team, for us to play
because they rebound well,”
Kiser said.
Hé was pleased with the
win, but saw sortie aspects of the
Cougars' game that need to im­
prove as the playoffs near.
One of these aspects is the
team’s defensive game. He said
that the Cougars need to play
tougher defense, especially this
time of the season, as the compe­
tition will not get any easier.
Kiser is hopeful that his team
will enter the playoffs as the top
seedintheNWAACC Southern
Division. The winner of the
league is guaranteed at least the
second seed in the tournament.
However, with a win in the first
playoff game against thé fourth­
place finisher in the league, the
league winner will enter as the
number-one seed.
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