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Wednesday,Mar. 1,1995
SPORTS
Mat Warriors pin down 5th Simply smokin’
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Travis Rollins (118 lbs.), last solation bracket.
by Jesse Sowa
Marshall defeated Carlos
year’s national champion at his
Sports Writer
Damon McPherson proved to current weight, placed seventh in Dolmo of Cobleskill, NY (13-4)
everyone last weekend that it defeating Scott Sachariason of in the preliminary round and
doesn’t take experience to suc Willmar College, MN 13-3 in the pinned Wayne Matthews of
Lassen College, CA in 2:59 be
consolation round.
ceed.
While in the championship fore being pinned by eventual
In only his first year at
Clackamas, McPherson came bracket, Rollins defeated Travis fourth-place finisher Larry
away from the NJCAA Wrestling Phippen of Labette, Kansas in the Liljenquist in 4:09 in the
Championships in Bismarck, preliminary round (6-1) and Jose quarterfinals.
Marshall then lost to Chad
North Dakota as national cham Villareal of Wabonsee, Ill. 7-0 in
Utley
of
pion.
Waldorf,
McPherson,
Iowa, in his
also a regional
last match of
champion, led his
the tourna
team to a fifth
ment.
place finish with
Steve
60 points in a meet
S a n t o n i
consisting of the
(heavy-
best wrestlers
weight) lost
competing at jun
his
first
ior colleges this
match in the
year.
preliminary
Garden City,
round
to
N.J., and Lassen
Jerry Comer
College, CA., tied
of Garden
for first place with
City, NJ. by
117 points. North
a 5-1 count.
Idaho College
Santoni then
took third with 65
defeated
1/2 points and
Barrett
Colby College,
Cervetto of
Ks., placed fourth
Photo by Jesse Sowa Gloucester-
with 64.
Cougar grappiers earn Clackamas a fifth place National
Sewell Col
McPherson,
Ranking.
lege, NJ (5-
wrestling at 158
pounds, defeated Ray Routh of
North Idaho College, last year’s
national champion at 167 pounds,
by a score of 8-3 to claim first
place.
McPherson beat Andre
Solomon of Middlesex, N.J. (6-
3) in the first round, Jake Neigum
of Bismarck State College, N.D.
(7-5) in the second round and
Matt Hughes of Lincoln College,
Ill. (6-5) in the semifinals on his
path to the championship round.
Jake Whisenhunt, a second-
place regional finisher at 126 lbs.,
lost to Matt Paulsen of North
Idaho, the same wrestler that de
feated Whisenhunt in the regional
tournament. Paulsen won 3-1 on
a takedown in the overtime pe
riod to take home first place.
Being a second place finisher
in regionals, Whisenhunt had to
defeat John Olson of Itasca Col
lege, MN on a technical fall in
the preliminary round to reach the
first round. Whisenhunt pinned
Nick Dellicompsgni of Niagra,
NY in one minute, 40 seconds in
the first round and Tim Miller of
Wabonsee, Ill., in 2:28 in his sec
ond round match to reach the
semifinals. Whisenhunt defeated
Adam Feldman of Garden City,
N.J. (8-3) to reach the finals.
the first round before falling to
eventual national champion
Ralph Dasti by a 4-3 count in the
quarterfinals.
Rollins then beat Antonio
Sims of Lincoln, Ill. (9-3) before
losing to eventual third-place win
ner Donny Mitchell of Garden
City, NJ. 9-6 to move into the
seventh-place match.
In the consolation bracket,
Josh Whisenhunt (134 lbs.)
claimed fifth place after getting
by Bryon Chandler of Harper, Ill.
(7-4) in the consolation portion of
the bracket
Josh Whisenhunt defeated
George Quintanilla of Wabonsee,
Ill. (15-4) in the preliminary
round and Gergio Nicolosi of
Niagra, N.Y. (8-2) in the first
round before falling to Matt
Ironside by a score of 6-4 in the
quarterfinals to send him into
consolation.
He then defeated Chad Edgar
of North Idaho (5-2) and Jeremy
Harris of Muskeegon, Michigan
(8-2), before losing to eventual
third-place finisher Kip Platts of
Western Wyoming to set his
match with Chandler.
Jason Marshall (190 lbs.)
won two big matches for the Cou
gars before falling into the con
3), before losing to eventual six-
place finisher Bryan Scarbrough
of Colby College, Ks. to end his
own tournament run.
Although the Cougars
wished they had finished higher
in the team race, Jim Jackson,
CCC athletic director and former
Clackamas wrestling coach be
lieves that Clackamas did just
about as well as they could have
considering the strong opposition.
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V Cougars head into tourney #1
byJesseSowa
Sporte Writer
Tbe Clackamas Men’s Bas-
ketballfeam membefsconilnue
to prove to their coaches and the
rest of the conference feat they
have the ability to contend
the NWAACC title this week
end.
The Cougars knocked ofi"
Lane and Chemeketa last week
in back-to-back home games as
they clinched fee number-one
seed from fee NWAACC South-;
era Division. Clackamas de
feated Lane 99*75 on WedneK
day and Chemeketa by a sofe®
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Chiefs slipped back
turnfeegame andbed fee score
at 17 apiece as Clackamas made
some bad passes against the
Chemeketa press and missed
some easy shots insidewhife
Chemeketa was able to convert
on fee offensive end.
_CttItfei4!edfeafcBy,butwe*re
doing more things now,” said
Clackamas Head Coach Royce
Kiser when asked about his
team’s play during their stretch
ofofiensi ve lapses. Kiser knows
feat while ius team continues to
advance on fee offensive end,
this advancement wilt also lead
tormnefemovefSx vj-
of IG2-75 on Saturday. '
k ? In the game against Lane,
ClackamaS regainedasiz-
fen Cougars dominated from . abfe lead just before fee half
when Kenny Walker came off
start to finish wife excellent ball
the bench and canned three
handling and finding the open
i three-pointers to help give the
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NateWiams was’isffirei CtnigarO 44-29 lead at . the
scoring 40 points Oh 16 of 18
shootMgmcludmgfiro of seven
on three-pointers. Williams also
added ten rebounds and three as
sists. Mail Stahl added 14 points
and ntme rebounds.
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Clackamas beat Chemeketa,
fee M xanknd team hi 'fee
NWAAC^fi^feefeiM Straight
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. .Jay Modre scored fee first
eight points of fee game includ
ing two shots from beyond fee
feree-pfem stripe,
.
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. Clackamas controlled inside
play m fee first half as Jay
Lassenand Ryan Valley
bounded well and scored at wife
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fee lead? Cl&kamasnever led
by fessftanUas feeyervtsed
totheeasy wm and fee#! seed,
think we made some
mistakes* but 1 thought we
played a good-game,” Kiser
said. *1 thought everybody
played a pretty good game. We
had an all-around effort to
night”
MooreledClackam^ with
dolTithnfe'ppm^Wker
added 17 points while Valley
scored 16 points and grabbed
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