SPORTS
Cougars go 2-2 with wins over
Olympic, South Puget Sound
by Lora Wahrgren
Staff Writer
The Clackamas softball team
split two doubleheaders on the
road over the last week.
The Cougars won one game
against South Puget Sound Com
munity College and another
against Olympic CC
On April 11 against South
Puget Sound, Clackamas played
well in the first game, but lost 2-
1 in 10 innings. The Cougars won
the second game, 3-2.
Brenda Ruppel pitched the
first game, racking up 13
strikeouts. Ruppel also was two
for four with a single and a
double. Rachel Kidder was also
two for four with two doubles.
Kidder is a strong hitter and
batted second that day, Michelle
Kolbo is also a strong hitter who
batted clean up last year. South
Puget Sound, considered one of
the top three teams in the region,
was led by a good pitching crew
in the first game.
Both teams played well in the
second game, not making many
errors. The key offensive player
was Kolbo, who went two for
three and had a total of four hits
for the day.
With the score tied 2-2 in the
sixth inning, Kolbo hit a triple
down the left field line. With two
outs, Alicia Scott hit an infield
single and that allowed Kolbo to
score the winning run.
Dawn Beard threw the sec
ond game, allowing only four base
hits and two runs. She had eight
strikeouts and only two walks.
Every batter in the lineup got one
hit, except for Kolbo, who had
two.
On Saturday, Clackamas
played against Olympic CC in
Bremerton, Wash. The Cougars
won the first game 4-3 with solid
defense.
Beard was two for three with
two singles and a stolen base.
Kolbo had her third consecutive
game with two hits and Wellen
was two for three with two
doubles hit to the outfield fence.
Scott went two for three for a
Clackamas total of 10 base hits
with at least one hit in every in
ning but the second.
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“Ruppel got the win,” said
Coach Paul Fiskum, with having
held the visiting Rangers to four
base hits, four strikeouts and one
walk.
Clackamas won the second
game behind strong pitching by
Candee Stanley. Stanley had four
strikeouts, no walks and only one
run on three base hits. In addi
tion, she went two for two with
three RBI’s on a single and a
double. Kolbo had her fourth
consecutive two for three game.
She’s totalled four hits in two
league games. Brandy Kamrath
was two for three with two singles
and one RBI.
Even though the Clackamas
softball season has had five
doubleheaders rained out, they
are still having a great time. De
spite the unpredictable weather,
their attitudes are high and they
seem to be enthusiastic about con
tinuing playing when they get the
chance.
The Cougars’ next game will
be a 3 p.m. home game Thurs
day against rival Lower Colum
bia. .
photo by Josh Kehler
The softball team won one game in each of the doubleheaders. Clackamas beat South
Puget Sound Community College, 3-2, on April 11 and Olympic CC, 4-3 last Saturday.
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byChadPatteson
The Clackamas baseball team took one of two games
against Chemeketa last Saturday in a doubleheader.
Baseball splits with Chiefs
Brendon Neal
Staff Writer
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On Saturday, April, 15, the
Cougar baseball team split a
doubleheader with Chemeketa
Community College in Salem.
The Cougars won the first
game, 8-1. Clackamas’Tyson
Vermillion started the game off
with a home run
J.D. Bigalow had three runs
and a couple of RBIs as well as
four hits. The Cougars had 11
hits against two pitchers whom
Clackamas head coach Robin
Robinson said are really good.
Clackamas pitcher Jeremy
Palki got his first start of the year
and got a lot of praise from his
coach. “Jeremy Palki pitched a
ball game that we have been
waiting for our pitchers to
pitch,” said Robinson.
The Cougars played de
cently in the second game, how
ever, Robinson said they made
two costly errors. Allan Coyle,
who Robinson considers their
pitching ace, was hit for six runs
and eight hits.
* Vermillion is the team’s
best hitter so far this year hitting
near .480, while Steve Geiszler
is in the .420 range.
Clackamas had a home
game cancelled with Linn-
Benton CC which will be made
up at 1 p.m. Thursday.
“We had a really good prac-
tice week,” Robinson said. “We
got a lot of things accomplished.
| think wc made a tremendous
amount of improvement.”
He felt it showed rin, both
games on Saturday in defense
and swinging the bat.
‘ “We are trying to get the play
ers with some confidence,”
Robinson said. “Right now we
. just do not believe in ourselves.
“We have good enough tal
ent to win. The guys do not be
lieve in one and another, or in
themselves.” Robinson at
tributes this to the fact that they
started the season against great
teams, and fared o.k.
Hie Coygars so far have a
league record of two wins and
five losses and an overall record
that is just under .500.
Robinson said two of the
pitchers and two of the batters
have not been playing as well as
he had hoped. He said even
though these players are only
about 15 percent of the team,
they are a large part of their play.
He also feels they need the
sophomores to step up and lead
the team. However, over the past
week the sophomores have im
proved their leadership.
Clackamas
played
Chemeketa on Tuesday and will
take on. Southwestern Oregon
Community College on Saturday
at 1 p.m.
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