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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
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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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