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The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, January 24,1996
Sports
Women beat #1 Chemeketa, claim region's top spot
Jesse Sowa
Sports Editor
The Clackamas Women’s
basketball team moved two steps
closer to their goal of winning the
regional title this season.
The Cougars won both of
their home games last week, in
cluding a 91-76 upset victory on’
Jan. 17 against Chemeketa Com
munity College, which at the time
was the number one ranked team
in the Northwest.
Clackamas defeated Linn-
Benton CC (L-B) on Saturday by
a 72-54 count. The Cougars
jumped out of the gate early
against the Roadrunners and led
21-10 with 8:27 remaining in the
first half following five straight
points by post Clair Cox. Clacka
mas held L-B scoreless for seven
minutes to build a sizable lead.
Balance during the twenty
minutes allowed the Cougars to
lead 33-20 at halftime. Cox had
10 points, while Melanie Sharp
and Denise Haselwood scored
eight apiece.
The Roadrunners never chal
lenged Clackamas in the second
half as the Cougars cruised to the
easy win.
Clackamas was led by Cox,
who finished with 17 points, 14
rebounds and five blocked shots.
Denise Haselwood added 14
points on 4-7 shooting from the
three-point line Haselwood also
dished out nine assists. Sharp
scored 11 points, pulled down 13
rebounds and blocked four shots.
Lindsey Hatch had her best
game of the season, totalling nine
points and nine renounds. “When
she’s on defense, she’s at her
best,” said Clackamas Coach
Karen Twain of Hatch.
Twain also praised Sharp,
who continues to be a strong
scorer and rebounder for the Cou
gars. “I thought Mel was really
tough tonight.”
Against Chemeketa, Clacka
mas fell behind early and trailed
by as many as nine during the first
ten minutes. The Cougars
switched from man to man de
fense to a zone, which slowed
down the Chiefs and allowed
Clackamas to get back into the
game. Trailing 22-13, the Cou
gars got several steals and easy
baskets off of the zone and closed
the Chiefs advantage to 22-20.
Chemeketa then scored the
game’s next five points, but Cox
got Clackamas back in the game
with six straight free throws, al
lowing the Cougars to eventually
tie the game at 34. Clackamas
scored the last seven points of the
half to take a 39-34 lead at the
break.
The Cougars came out of the
lockerroom with an increased in
tensity, scoring the first eight
points to open up the game at 47-
34 with 17:50 remaining.
Clackamas held a sizable
lead until midway through the
half when the Chiefs cut the lead
to 59-56. Chemeketa scored ten
consecutive points before a free
throw by Barchus put the Cougars
up 60-59.
The Chiefs got to within one
at 60-59, but Clackamas again
made the transition from man to
man to zone and began to pull
away from Chemeketa.
Clackamas led 72-64 follow
ing a lay-in by Haselwood, when
the Chiefs made their final run at
the Cougars. Chemeketa got as
close as three (79-76) with 3:30
to go, but a three-pointer by Lisa
Sorenson and a 15-footer by Cox
put Clackamas up for good. Two
foul shots apiece by Haselwood,
Sorenson and Cox gave the Cou
gars the victory.
Sorenson led Clackamas in
scoring wtih 19, including 4-8 on
three-pointers. Haselwood had 17
points and four steals.
Cox scored 17 points and
grabbbed 15 rebounds, while
Sharp had 16 points, 15 rebounds
and eight steals.
Kelli Johnston led the Chiefs
with 23 points and eight assists.
Clackamas will travel to
Portland tonight to take on Port
land CC and to Eugene on Satur
day to play Lane CC. Both games
begin at 6 p.m.
Men's basketball improves to
5-1 in league with home win
Jesse Sowa
Sports Editor
The Clackamas men’s bas
ketball team came away with a
win and a loss at home after a
tough week of competition in
Southern Region play.
The Cougars defeated Linn-
Benton Community College (L-
B), 95-89, on Saturday, but were
beaten by Chemeketa CC, 93-
92, on Jan. 17 on a 25-foot
buzzer-beater by Chiefs guard
Jermaine Slider. Clackamas im
proved to 5-1 in the Southern
Region.
On Saturday, Clackamas
and L-B fought a close battle
throughout until the Cougars
pulled away during the final
minutes of the contest. Clacka
mas led by five late in the half,
but the Roadrunners went on a
short run to tie the game at 46
at halftime.
During the first half, Road
runners guard Steve Roberts
kept L-B in the game with four
three-point shots well beyond
the arc. L-B hit seven three-
pointers during the first half and
10 for the game.
Clackamas post Jawanza
Hadley led the Cougars during
the first 20 minutes with 21
points. Leif Spencer added 11
points in the first half, includ
ing three long bombs.
The second half continued
the play from before the break
as neither team led by more than
three for nearly 15 minutes of
play. A lay-in by Hadley and a
bucke£and twojree throwsb^
Spencer gave Clackamas an 89-
83 lead with 1:30 remaining in
the game. A three by L-B’s Chris
Swallom cut the Cougars lead to
91-88, but foul shots by Hadley
and Kenny Walker gave Clacka
mas the victory.
The Cougars got out on Rob
erts in the second half and held
him to one shot from three-point
land. Roberts led L-B with 29
points and seven rebounds.
Walker had the task of guard-
ing Roberts during the L-B
guard’s onslaught during the first
half, and again in the second.
“We were playing man to
man (defense) and he (Roberts)
was coming off screens and hit
ting 25-footers,” Walker said.
The Cougars focused on
guarding L-B tighter during the
second half. “That was the thing
that Coach (Kiser) emphasized at
halftime,” Walker added.
Hadley led Clackamas with
32 points and eight rebotinds.
Spencer added 22 points and 10
rebounds. Walker and Aaron
Pearson had 14 points apiece.
Against Chemeketa, the
number one team in the North
west, Clackamas had the same
type of battle that they had with
L-B in that neither team secured
a lead during the contest.
During the first half, Hadley
and Spencer combined for 26 of
the Cougars’ 42 points as
Chemeketa took a 43-42 advan
tage at the break. Clackamas led
42-37 on a three-pointer by
Hadley, but the Chiefs took advan-
tage^fseveraJjurnovers^bytìie
Cougars to score the last six
points of the half.
The teams battled head to
head during the second half.
Clackamas led 90-88 with time
running down, but a steal and
two free throws by Slider tied
the game with nine seconds to
go. After a Cougars timeout,
Hadley took the inbounds pass
underneath the Chemeketa bas
ket and drove the length of the
court for a lay-in with 3.9 sec
onds remaining.
The Chiefs called a timeout
to set up Slider’s last second
game-winner. Slider got the ball
at midcourt, took one dribble
and fired away, and the shot hit
nothing but net.
Clackamas was led by
Spencer, who scored 33 points
including six of 14 on three-
point shots. Hadley added 23
points, six assists and four
blocked shots. Hadley was 4-9
from beyond the three-point arc.
As a team, the Cougars were 11-
27 from long range.
“I’m happy we’re winning,
but we must play better de
fense,” said Clackamas Coach
Royce Kiser following the game
against Linn-Benton. “Hope
fully, this week we’ll turn the
corner.”
“We’ve playing hard, but
not as smart as we wanted,”
Kiser added.
The Cougars will travel to
Portland tonight to play Port
land CC and to Eugene on Sat
urday to take on Lane CC. Both
contests begin at 8 p.m.
Photo by Jesse Sowa
Clackamas post Melanie Sharp shoots a baseline jumper
in the Cougars upset win over #1 Chemeketa on Jan. 17.
Garrison leads
wrestlers at PSU
Andrew Beck
Staff Writer
The Clackamas Community
College Wrestling Team is living
up to its expectations in both dual
meets and individual competition.
The Cougars showed im
pressive results at the Portland
State Open last Saturday.
Four wrestlers placed for the
Cougars in the tournament, led by
Glenn Garrison who took first
place at 150 pounds. Jamie Dixon
(177) took fourth, Corey Kay wood
(134) was fifth and Lonnie Eggert
(167) placed sixth at Portland
State. Cameron Mitchum (118),
competed well, but didn't get past
the semifinals.
“Cameron wrestled the best
I’ve seen him this year. He is a
hard worker and the hard work
started to pay off at P.S.U.,” said
Clackamas Coach Mike Haluska.
Other hard working Clacka
mas wrestlers are getting results
that many people in the National
Junior College Athletic Associa
tion (NJCAA) didn’t expect dur
ing the preseason. Garrison was
ranked fifth at 150 pounds before
the season, but has beaten several
wrestlers ranked ahead of him.
Kaywood has also beaten some
highly-ranked competitors.
“Some of my goals are that
all my wrestlers become the best
wrestlers that they can be, regard
less of whether they win or lose
and that after junior college, they
compete at four- year universities
and national tournaments,"
Haluska said.
Clackamas’s track record of
successful college wrestling
speaks for itself. Last year the
Cougars had eight former wres
tlers make four-year universities
and compete in national tourna
ments. This year there are four
Cougar wrestlers from the past
now at Oregon State and Oregon,
alone.
The Cougars next match will
be at home tomorrow night in a
triangular meet against Yakima
Valley CC and Clark CC at 6 p.m.
The Cougars will compete in an
all-day open tournament at
Ellensburg, Wash, on Jan. 27.
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