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The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, April 3,1996
Sports
CCC starts track season
Softball team shows no mercy
Andrew Beck
Staff Writer
Laney Fouse
Copy Editor
The Clackamas Track Team
is hoping thqt it can continue its
good effort after the successful
Southern Region Preview held
last Saturday, March 30 in
Gresham.
The Cougars placed in all
but seven possible track and field
events at the Southern Region
Preview, a (Northwestern Asso
ciation of Athletics for Commu
nity Colleges) NWAACC com
petition. The Cougars have 42
athletes on this year’s team, 12
on the women’s team and 30 on
the men’s team. Eleven of the
team members are former high
school state champions.
“We’re on schedule. We’re
where we should be,” said Cou
gar Head Track Coach Mike
Hodges.
Clackamas track athletes
took several top honors in many
individual events at the South
ern Region Preview. Bill Jones
and Ryan Healey dominated the
men’s pole vault competition
with scores of 16 and 15 feet;
Jones’s mark was a personal best
and tied for second place on the
all-time school record.
Cougar high jumper,
Wanjeria Washington, won first
Cougars looking
for another
good season
Andrew Beck
Staff Writer
The Clackamas Community
College Men’s baseball team is
primed for a return to the play
offs this year.
Last year the Clackamas
Cougar baseball team finished
second in the Northwestern Ath
letic Association of Community
Colleges (NWAACC) Southern
Division. The Cougars’ appear
ance in the NWAACC playoffs
was the first time in the history
of Clackamas Community Col
lege baseball. The Cougars fin
ished last season with an overall
record of 19 and 17, second in the
league behind their arch rival
Mount Hood Community College.
The Cougars will have eight
returning sophomores either from
last year ’s team or college trans
fers.
“Our team is extremely tal
ented but we have to become more
focused,” said Clackamas Cougar
sophomore outfielder Johl
Smilowski.
The Clackamas Cougars’
preseason record was 3 wins and
8 losses, with starting pitcher
Ryan Moore winning all three of
those games.
“There are nine innings in a
baseball game, but we play six
good innings, one okay inning
and the last two bad,” said
Clackamas Cougar Head Coach
Robin Robinson.
The Cougars started their
1996 baseball season with two
losses to Mt. Hood Community
College, last Saturday. CCC lost
both games in the double header
by scores of 12-5 and 12-0. The
Cougars’ next game will be Sat
urday, April 6, against Lane Com
munity College at Clackamas.
place in the women’s high jump,
to tie a school record jump of 5
feet, 4 inches. The high jump
record had stood since previ
ously set the late 70’s. Wash
ington also took sixth place in
the women’s two hundred meter
dash with a time of 27.27 sec
onds.
With 19 women athletes
competing at the Southern Re
gion Preview, the women pro
duced 18 qualifying marks out
of twelve events possible for the
Cougars. The Clackamas men
produced 30 qualifying marks in
17 possible events with 21 men
competing overall. Other out
standing individual perfor
mances included Shawn Davis,
who finished second in three dif
ferent throwing events. Erica
Sloan set a school record mark
in the hammer throw.
The Cougars ’ next match
will be the Willamette Open, a
five team meet hosted at Clacka
mas between Northern Idaho
Community College, Lower Co
lumbia Community College,
Grays Harbor Community Col
lege and Highline Community
College. The match will be held
this Saturday, April 6 at the
Clackamas campus;the meet
starts at 12:30 p.m.
The Clackamas Women’s
Softball team defeated Pierce Col
lege in two home games played
Friday afternoon. Final scores
were 9-0 and 16-1, respectively.
Saturday’s games against
Olympic City College ended with
scores of 7-2 in the first game,
followed by a resounding 12-3
victory in the second game.
Coach Paul Fiskum credits
his team’s strong pitching and
dynamic hitting as the basis of
their success. “We have a great
balance between the two,” he says.
Returning pitcher Brenda
Ruppel threw her third shutout
this season, allowing only 2 base
hits by the Pierce players. This
puts her at 4-0.
Catching for the Cougars in
Friday’s first game was Joell
Whitton, a freshman. She comes
to CCC from Glencoe High
School.
The first game was called af
ter the fifth inning by enacting
what is known as the “8 run rule.”
What exactly is the “8 run rule?”
According to Fiskum, “if a team
is leading by 8 runs in the fifth
inning, the game is automatically
ended.”
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Showing no mercy in the sec
ond game against Pierce, fresh
man pitcher Robin Lisak led the
Cougars to a 16-1 win. The only
run allowed was due to an error.
“Robin (a former LaSalle High
School student) has been throw
ing great,” states Fiskum.
Freshman Tracey Scharer
caught during the second game of
the doubleheader.
Leading hitters include Kriss
Demos and Lisa Gander. Demos
carries the team’s top batting av
erage. Gander who pitched
Saturday’s game against OCC hit
her first home run on Friday. She
came back Saturday and repeated
the effort.
“This,”saysCoach Fiskum,
“is pretty amazing, considering
she had an appendectomy three
weeks ago.”
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