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Newspaper Page TextSPORTS The Clackamas Print Page 4 Wednesday, Jan. 25,1995 Cougars hunted down by Chiefs, can't catch Roadrunners by Jesse Sowa Sports Writer The Clackamas Men’s Bas ketball team just hasn’t been able to find the consistency to win the close games and those games that seem to be in their grasp. Clackamas dropped both of their road games last week to fall to 3-3 in league play. The Cougars dropped a tough game to Chemeketa CC at Salem last Wednesday after to tally dominating the first 20 min utes and leading by half and led by 12 (52-40) at the break. Both teams played even throughout most of the first half and it wasn’t until nearly seven minutes before the break that the Cougars finally broke away from the Chiefs. Ryan Valley hit Aaron Pierson for a three-pointer from the comer and Valley added two foul shots to put the Cougars up 34-25 with 6:42 remaining. Brian Brutke found Nate Williams for an open 3-points attempt and hit Matt Stahl for a back door lay-in to give Clackamas a 42-31 advan tage. Stahl stole the ball on an in bounds pass and went the length of the court to put the Cougars up 52-40 at the break. Clackamas continued its hot streak for the first ten minutes of the second half before the home team finally started to make a run. The Cougars led 63-46 with 17:25 remaining in the game following Stahl’s drive to the hoop for a score. Clackamas maintained the lead over the next six minutes and found itself up by 17 again at 76- 59 with 11:15 to go. The Chiefs then began to pick apart the Cougars on both ends of the floor. Chemeketa forced a lot of Cougar turnovers and got some easy baskets off of transition and good ball movement. The home team outscored the Cougars 18-6 over a four minute period to move within five at 82- 77 on back to back three-pointers by Jernjaine Slider. Clackamas led by one with under a minute to go until Slider drove to the hoop for a one-point lead. The Cougars were unable to score on their next possession and a Chemeketa player added a free throw with two seconds remain ing for the 93-91 win. Despite shooting 37 of 62 (60percent) from the field for the game and connecting on 7 of 9 three-point shots, the Cougars were unable to hold off Chemeketa in the closing min utes. Clackamas also out-re bounded the Chiefs 36-24. Stahl finished with 26 points on 10 of 11 shooting. Valley added 12 points and grabbed 11 re bounds. Williams hit for 11 points and dished out 6 assists. In the game against Linn- Benton CC in Albany last Satur day, Head Coach Royce Kiser started his second string since that group had out-played the starters all week. The Cougars got consecutive threes by Pierson and Brutke to go up 15-11 with 13:10 remain ing. Clackamas’ second group was ahead 21-15 midway through the half when Kiser put his Origi nal starters into the game. Clackamas increased their lead to 33-23 on baskets by Val ley and Williams with 6:40 to go. Hadley sank two foul shots and a lay-in and Pierson canned a three- pointer for a 46-36 advantage at the break. The Cougars’ level of play seemed to go downhill quickly in the second half. The Roadrunners outscored Clackamas 16-8 early in the first half to close within two at 54-52 with 13:55 remaining. Linn-Benton totally con trolled the game in the second half and the Cougars never really chal lenged the home team after the Roadrunners took their first lead of the game with just over seven Women's basketball drops two more league games, record now at 1-5 by Jesse Sowa Sports Writer The Clackamas Women’s Basketball team has found itself in quite a tough squeeze after last week’s games. The Cougars dropped both of their road games last week as they fell to 1-5 in league play. Clackamas was beaten by Chemeketa CC last Wednesday 83-67 and by Linn-Benton CC on Saturday by a score of 54-50. In the game against Chemeketa in Salem, the Cougars shot out to a commanding lead early in the game. Melanie Sharp hit Rachel Ferguson under the basket for a lay-in and Ferguson added another hoop for a 14-3 lead five minutes into the game. Laura Stahl added a scoring drive and a 15-footer to give the Cou gars a 24-11 advantage midway through the half. The Chiefs climbed back into the game late in the second half with a breakdown of the Cougar defense, including blocking out under the basket, and some poor passing by Clackamas that seemed to lead to one turnover after another. Clackamas led by just five (39-34) at halftime after leading by as many as 13 in the first half. The Cougars went scoreless over a four-minute period late in the half while the Chiefs scored nine in the same time frame. The Cougars came out in the second half with the same lack of focus that seemed to bring them down in the first 20 minutes. “We just slowed down,” said Clackamas Head Coach Karen Twain. “We didn’t come out with the same intensity in the second half that we did in the beginning of the game.” After Sharp completed a three-point play to give the Cou gars a 42-36 lead, Chemeketa then scored 14 consecutive points to gain a 50-42 advantage. Stahl was the only Clacka mas player who was able to keep the Cougars in the game in the second half, which wasn’t enough to control the Chiefs’ scoring " If it Isn't a Pogy, It’s a Pity" ORDERS TO GO: CALL VS (503)655-9070 threats. Ferguson scored two quick Stahl scored ten consecutive hoops with under two minutes points for the Cougars to pull remaining in the half to give the them within 62-56 and ten min Cougars a 22-21 advantage. utes remaining in the game. Clackamas was unable to stop the “She (Stahl) can really light home team on the other end of the it up and she was definitely hot,” court as Linn-Benton scored six said Twain. consecutive points to take a 27- Without much other scoring 22 lead into the locker room. from the rest of the team and a The Cougars quickly found lack of defensive pressure, themselves back in the game with Clackamas’ hance of winning some big defensive stops and a went downhill. Chemeketa pulled three-pointer by Stephanie Kadell away late in the game to make the that put Clackamas up 31-30 three game seem more lopsided that it minutes into the half. Neither team took a lead of actually was. Stahl paced the Cougars with more than two throughout the re 18 points and 10 rebounds. Sharp mainder of the half. Sharp made some key baskets down the stretch added 13 points and 10 boards. Even through her team’s re to keep the Cougars within strik cent losing streak, Twain still be ing distance. Shannon lieves that her team can be suc Segerstrom did a fine job of find cessful in the second half of the ing her teammates for easy bas league schedule. kets. “There’s not a team that Clackamas trailed by just one we’ve played that we don’t think with under a minute to go, until we can beat,” Twain said. “The Darci Powell of Linn Benton girls have stuck together and their nailed a 15-foot jumper from the attitudes are still positive.” side. An offensive foul by The Cougars end the first Segerstrom with ten seconds re half of the schedule tonight when- maining ended the Cougars’ they host Portland CC and the chances of victory. second half begins when Lane CC Although Clackamas man travels to Oregon City on Satur aged to out shoot and out-rebound day night to play Clackamas at the Roadrunners, the Cougars fal Randall Hall. tered at the free throw stripe The Cougars fell to a very where they made just 5 of 10 aggressive Linn-Benton team last shots. Stahl led the Cougars with Saturday in Albany. Clackamas kept the score 16 points and 12 rebounds. close in the first half by blocking Ferguson added 15 points and grabbed 10 boards. out playing solid defense. minutes to go in the game. Clackamas then went score less for over six minutes, which simply took the Cougars right out of the game. Linn-Benton won going away, 89-77. Kiser was angry after the game about the work done by the officiating crew. He also noted that Linn-Benton went nearly 16 minutes without having a foul called on them. Both teams had great nights from the foul line .with the Cou gars hitting 15-17 free throws and Linn-Benton 25 of 28. Pierson led Clackamas with 15 points including three three- pointers in the first half. Jeff Tay lor led L-B with 21 points. The Cougars will finish the first half of their league schedule with a game at home against Port land CC tonight. Clackamas will then begin the second half with a home game Saturday night against Lane CC. 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