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Wednesday, April 20,1994
Clippers, Gators, Rangers fall to Cougars
by Frank Jordan
The Print Staff
The Clackamas Cougars
softball team had a great week last
week, sweeping six games from
NWAACC Southern Division
opponents.
Last T uesday, CCC trav­
eled to Olympia, WA to take on
South Puget Sound CC. The Cou­
gars turned back the Clippers in a
doubleheader by scores of 2-0 and
8-4.
In the first game, Becky
Cordill spun a three-hitter and
Brandi Kamrath supplied the run­
scoring hits in the 2-0 win. Maja
Wirkkala went 2-3, with a run
scored and 2 stolen bases. Kamrath
also saved a run in the fifth inhmg,
making a superb defensive stop on
a hard-hit ball, then throwing the
runner out to end the inning with
the bases loaded.
In the second game,
Clackamas scored five runs in the
final inning to pull out an 8-4
triumph. In the seventh, Wirkkala
walked, then stole second. Danielle
Fitzgerald singled, then Korinne
Wellin walked to load the bases.
With one out, Danielle Madigan
hit a fly ball to center, but the ball
was dropped, allowing Wirkkala
to score to tie the game.
Emily Routson then flied
out to left for a sacrifice fly to score
a run to put CCC on top. Michelle
Kolbo then doubled to center, scor­
ing two base runners. Bridget
Jones’ $ne drive was misplayed
for an error, allowing the fifth run
of the inning to score.
For the game, Fitzgerald
went 3-5; Kolbo also went 3-5
with two RBI. Jennifer Hinman
survived one bad inning to run her
record to 2-1 with a strong pitch­
ing performance.
Last Friday, Clackamas
mowed down Green River CC in a
doubleheader by scores of 11-0
and 5-1.
In game one, Cordill ran
her record to 4-0, allowing only 1
hit in five innings, while Diana
Clift got in some work pitching
the sixth to close out the Gators.
Marlins draft Roberts
for the upcoming 1994 draft and
by Jeff Adams
The Print Staff
Clackamas baseball
player Ian Roberts has been drafted
by the Florida Marlins.
Roberts, a 1993 graduate
of Mountain View High School in
Washington, was drafted after his
senior season. Roberts earned all­
league and all-district honors at
Mountain View. Those honors,
and the skills that he possesses,
were enough for the Marlins to use
a 43rd round selection on him.
“I was pretty excited and
honored,” said Roberts.
Roberts starts
in
Centerfield for the Cougars, and is
at either the first or the middle of
the lineup. Roberts has a lot of
decisions to make about his cur­
rent baseball status. The Marlins
want him to go to Florida this
summer and play rookie or A ball,
however once you sign a contract,
you give up all of your college
eligibility. Roberts can also wait
see if any other teams want to
draft him in a higher round. Rob­
erts is still unsure of what he
wants to do. “I’m thinking of
playing at a four-year school, but
I still really don’t know,” he said.
Right now, Roberts is
attending Clackamas where he is
helping the Cougars have a suc­
cessful season. Roberts is hitting
around the .400 mark, and has 15
stolen bases. The Cougars have
already swept a doubleheader
from Mount Hood, which hasn’t
been done in a while.
Roberts is happy with
his recent ties to Florida. Though
the Yankees are his favorite team,
he likes the Marlins and the other
sports teams in Miami. Both Rob­
erts and the team are playing well,
and Roberts likes their chances.
“We have a pretty good
chance of winning the NW AACC
championship,” Roberts said.
At the plate, Kris Strouhal
smacked three hits and drove in
four runs, Wellin and Jones each
had two hits and two RBI, while
Fitzgerald stole three bases.
In
the
nightcap,
Clackamas spread six hits through
the lineup to post a 5-1 victory.
Strouhal had two RBI and
Fitzgerald scored twice and stole
three more bases to pace the Cou­
H
2-3 with 5 RBI, hitting a bases-
clearing double in a 7-run third
inning and hitting a 2-run single
in the fourth. Kamrath went a
perfect 3-3 at the plate, ripping a
double and knocking in a run to
help the Cougars. Cordill threw a
two-hitter at the Rangers in an­
other strong pitching effort.
In the second game, the
Cougars survived some tense mo­
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Things are going very well right now; we are
hitting the heck out of the softball right now...
•Coach Paul Fiskum
gar offense. Jennifer Hinman had
perhaps her best outing, allowing
three hits, walking none and strik­
ing out four in five innings pitched.
Clift pitched the last two innings
to pick up her first save of the
season.
Saturday, the Cougars
took on Olympic CC in Bremerton,
WA and CCC came home with
wins by scores of 11-0 and 5-4.
In the opener, Kolbo went
Cougar
Calendar
ments with strong defensive ef­
forts to post a 5-4 win.
Jones scored on a heads­
up base running play in the sixth
inning for what turned out to be
the winning run. In the bottom of
the sixth, the Cougars turned a
double play on a suicide squeeze
bunt to end the inning. With
runners on first and third and one
out, the batter laid down a bunt
that pitcher Hinman picked up,
looked the runner back to third
and then threw to first for one.
Meanwhile, the runner at third
took off for the plate and first
baseman Clift gunned the ball to
catcher Gunderson, who applies
the tag to complete the double
play.
In the bottom of the last
inning the situation got to the
nail-biting stage. With runners
on first and third and one out, the
Rangers attempted a double steal.
While the Cougars allowed the
runner on third to score,
Gunderson gunned the ball to sec­
ond to get the back end of the
double steal. Then the Cougars
forced the next batter into a harm­
less groundout to end the game.
“Things are going very
well right now? we are hitting the
heck out of the softball right now,
if we could get some luck in get­
ting the ball to drop in,” com­
mented Coach Paul Fiskum. “We
are playing great defense right
now, and I tell the players, if we
play solid defense, everything else
will fall into place.”
Ulis weekend, the Cou­
gars will host the NWAACC
Crossover Tournament. Seven
teams, plus a CCC alumni team,
will take to the field for this an­
nual event. All of the action will
begin at 9 A.M.
Cougar Baseball
4/23 Chem CC 1 p.m.Home
4/26 UofO Club 3 p.m.
Home
Cougar Softball
4/21 ChemCC3p.m.Home
4/22 Willamette 3 p.m.
Home
4/23 Cross Over
Tournament 9 a.m.
Home
Cougar Track & Field
4/23 Clark State 11:30a.m.
at Clark State
Photo by Chad Patteaon
Clackamas pole-vaulter makes his way towards the
standards at a Lewis & Clark college track & field meet
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