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The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, February 21,1996
Sports
Women earn regional berth with tie-breaker win
Jesse Sowa
Sports Editor
Clackamas Women’s Bas
ketball Coach Karen Twain
knows that her team has stepped
up a notch this season, but she
also realizes that their season-
long goal has not been reached
yet.
On Monday night, the Cou
gars moved one step closer to
their goal of winning the North
west Athletic Association of
Community
Colleges
(NWAACC) Title with an 87-82
win over Chemeketa and a berth
in the NWAACC Tournament
scheduled for Feb. 29-March 2
at Clark College in Longview.
Clackamas will compete in
the NWAACC Tournament for
the first time since 1990.
In the Southern Region tie
breaker game at Willamette Uni
versity in Salem, Clackamas led
by as many as 19 early in the
second half, but had to hold on
late for the win. The Cougars
improved to 25-5 on the season.
The two teams played
evenly throughout the first five
minutes, but Clackamas began to
take control of the action with
Lindsay Hatch nailing several
medium-range jumpers while
Photo by Jesse Sowa
Melanie Sharp goes up for two against Chemeketa CC on
Monday at Willamette University in Salem.
posts Melanie Sharp and Clair
Cox grabbed a majority of the re-
bounds.
Clackamas led 18-10 with
12:20 to go in the half after a fol
low shot by Cox and took its big
gest lead of the half at 25-12 fol
lowing two foul shots apiece by
Cox and Lindsey Vrtiska.
The Cougars led 42-29 at
halftime and scored eight of the
first 10 points in the second half
to take a commanding 50-31 lead.
Clackamas still led by 12 (64-
52) with 11:45 remaining follow
ing consecutive inside shots by
Robin Barchus, but Chemeketa
began to make a run. The Chiefs
made four three-point shots over
the next three minutes and cut the
lead to seven.
Chemeketa cut the margin to
five with less than a minute to go,
but Clackamas held on for the vic
tory on free throws by Denise
Haselwood and Vrtiska.
“I don’t know what we would
have done had we lost tonight,”
Haselwood said. “But now I think
we can go into NWAACCs with
a full head of steam and take it
all. We really can.”
“We’ve worked really hard
for it,” Hatch said. “I’ve been re
ally focused for this game because
I knew we had to have it and I
really wanted to win. We have a
good chance.”
“We tried to get. up for this
and we_did,” said Clackamas
Coach Karen Twain. “I think we
maintained it for the entire 40
minutes.
Twain praised Hatch, who
scored 23 points on 11 of 14 shots.
“She was clutch,” Twain said.
“She got open for a lot of shots
because she hustled up and down
the floor.”
Twain helieves as the team
does, that they can win the re
gional title. “If we play like we
did tonight, we can take it,” she
said.
Sharp added 20 points and 19
rebounds for the Cougars. Cox
had 14 points and 11 rebounds.
Clackamas easily defeated
Portland CC at home on Wednes
day and Linn-Benton CC in Al
bany on Saturday.
Clackamas will now play
host to Southwestern Oregon CC
(SWOCC) on Thursday at 6 p.m.
in the league playoffs. Should the
Cougars win, the winner of the
Chemeketa-Umpqua game on
Thursday would get the second
NWAACC berth from the South
ern Region.
Clackamas will play at home
again on Saturday if they defeat
SWOCC. For SWOCC to reach
the tournament, they would have
to win on Thursday and again on
Saturday, both on the road.
Cougar Wrestlers prepare for national tournament
Andrew Beck
Staff Writer
The Clackamas Community
College Wrestling Team is pre
paring for the most important
match of their 1995 schedule, the
NJCAA championships.
Five CCC Wrestlers placed
among the top three in their
weight classes at the Region 18
Championships Feb. lO-ll and
will compete in the NJCAA
Championships.
Corey Cay wood at 134 lbs.
and Glenn Garrison (142) both
took first place at the regionals.
The other wrestlers competing in
clude Lonnie Eggert (158), Jamie
Dixson (177) and Leo Sandoval
(275), who all placed third in their
class at the regional champion
ships.
“One of my goals is to wrestle
every match well because I took
two years off after I graduated
from high school in 1993,”
Sandoval said.
North Idaho College, Ricks
College and Colorado Northwest
ern CC are teams from Region 18
with hopes of winning the na
tional title. North Idaho is ranked
as the top team in the NJCAA go
ing into the national tournament,
while Ricks and Colorado North
western are ranked in the top 20.
“I think the team will do
pretty good, in the top four of the
nation,” Dixson said. “All five of
us can be All-Americans if we
wrestle our best. If we wrestle 100
percent.”
“I think we’ve done really
well,” Cougar Assistant Coach
Dave Moore said. “I wish we
could have done better at the re
gional tournament and in a couple
key weight classes. The guys go
ing to the national tournament are
going to do extremely well,” said
Cougar Assistant Coach Dave
Moore.
The national tournament will
be held this Friday and Saturday
in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Photo byTarah Nimz
Qualifiers for the national tournament include (left to right): Glenn Garrison, Leo
Sandoval, Lonnie Eggert, Jamie Dixson and Corey Caywood.
Track team prepares for season
Jesse Sowa
Sports Editor
The Clackamas Track teams
completed their indoor season in
the usual style: excellent placings
and overall success.
Clackamas Coach Mike
Hodges is preparing his teams for
another season of track records
and championship titles.
The Cougars travelled to
Moscow, Idaho on Feb. 17 for the
McDonald’s Invitational.
Kristi Chamberlen placed
fifth in the shot put with a toss of
41-10. Chamberlen’s throw was
a personal record (p.r.) and it
placed her fifth on the all-time
marks list at Clackamas. Jaime
Fairchild was sixth in the mile in
5:39.77 seconds. Becky White
had a p.r. at 800 meters in 2:43.8.
Joel Knight was first in his
55-meter dash heat in 6.58 sec
onds. Edward Lincoln was third
in his 55m high hurdles heat in
8.13 seconds.
Shawn Davis was fourth in
the discus in 136-4 and won a heat
of the 35-lb. weight throw with a
toss of 43-11.75. He was also
fourth in the shot put at 47-2.
Marco Banks was second in
his 400-meter heat in 51.43. He
also won his 200m heat in 22.84
seconds. Jimmy Horne took sec
ond in another 200m heat in
22.44. Home was third in the long
jump in 20 feet, 8.5 inches.
At the National Pole Vault
Congress in Reno on Jan. 20, Bill
Jones tied the indoor school
record with a jump of 15-6. Jones
also tied the fifth best all-time
pole vault mark at Clackamas.
Carl Crowe cleared 15-0 in the
vault. Serrina Miller set a
women’s school record in the pole
vault with a 10-0 mark.
At the Portland Invitational
on Jan. 19, Home placed second
in a 55m heat in 6.67 seconds.
Melissa Abramson reached the
55m hurdles finals. She also ran
the 300m dash in 45.7 seconds.
Clackamas begins its outdoor
schedule with a meet at the Uni
versity of Washington in Seattle
on March 2.
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