Champions: Demos powers team past Spokane
Clackamas
players
surround
sophomore
Kriss Demos
after her
three-run
home run in
the first game
against
Spokane on
Saturday.
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Joell Whitton had a strong defensive
showing in thé game that helped shutout
SWOCC.
“Joell Whittoh had à great’ throw to
third base to catch a girl stealing and
picked off the saine gift at first base. She
is S WOCC’s most dangerous base run
ner,” said Fiskum. “She made two great
plays that were instrumental in the win
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Saturday was a rematch of last.year’s
tournament. Clackamas beat. Spokane
twiceio win the tournament. This is the
second year Clackamas has had to béat
Spokape twice on the way to the cham
pionship. Spokane, Clackamas and
Lower Columbia are the only teams to
win a NWAACC championship in the
last eleven years.
“When I came into the league, Spo
kane was the powerhouse. Since I have
been in the league, three schools have
won the championship. Lower Colum
bia beat Spokane in the final in '94. Spo-
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kane has got almost all second and third
place,” said Fiskum.
“Those people in Spokane have to
wonder what they could have done with
out Clackamas in NWAACC. In the last
two cross-over tournaments and the last
two NWAACCs, we h'aVe beaten them
four [total] times,” Said Fiskum.
Clackamas beat Spokane 4-3 in the
first game after coming back twice. ‘
“We basically came back twice. They
scored on a ball that Kelly Comstock lost
in the sun. We had trouble getting much
going until the fifth,” said Fiskum.
• “We didn’t have the great defense we
had on Friday. We had two errors that
contributed.to runs. If we hadn’t made
any errors, Lisak would have had a shut
out,” said Fiskum.
. After going down. 1 -0 Stacy Peacock
tied the game in the fifth.
“Stacey had a solid season when she
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bottom of the sixth down 3-1.
“Now we were down 3-1 and had two
more chances to tie it up,” said Fiskum.
Jackie Obrust and Koehler got on base
in the first two at bats of the inning. With
two outs, Demos stepped up to the plate
and hit a three-run homer, giving the
Cougars the lead for good.
“Demos earned her MVP [tourna
ment] right there without a doubt. That
is ‘the’ hit. You could very well say that
hit won the tournament for us. If you
lose that game, it is extremely difficult
to do,” said Fiskum.
Clackamas won the championship in
'95, coming back through the losers’
bracket.
“She got all of it [the ball]. Everyone
was like ‘It is gone! ’ There was no doubt.
It left the park in a hurry and landed 30
feet beyond the fence. That is one of the
more dramatic hits a kid can have in a
life,” said Fiskum.
Demos won the MVP beating out
Lisak. Each coach gets one vote.
“More pitchers won the MVP than any
other position. You could certainly have
made a very good case for Robin. All
the coaches voted. I only got one vote.
It really came down to Kriss or Robin,”
said Fiskum, “A really deserving award,
considering her RBI production for the
tournament. Especially when you are
down and you don’t do what happened
[the home run], you are probably going
to lose a game."
"Kriss has had two good years for us,
two-time all league player. To step up
big as a batter like that, she has a lot of
heart. RBIs for the tournament,
Clackamas 12, Demos 6,” said Fiskum.
After Spokane came back through the
losers’ bracket, Clackamas beat them 4-
2 in them in the championship game
Saturday afternoon. The Cougars
jumped out to a two to nothing lead in
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“We jumped up to a 2-0 lead. Robin
[Lisak] was in total control, shutting
them down,” said Fiskum.
Clackamas doubled the lead in the fourth
with runs scored by Peacock and Obrust.
“Another of the big hits of the tourna
ment was a single to left center by Lisa
Hosford knocking in two runsj Those
two runs proved to be the game winning
runs,” said Fiskum.
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Spokane came back with two runs, but
Clackamas did not let up.
“Robin may have been getting tired
by then [sixth inning]. She hadn’t played
14 innings [in one day] all year. They
ended up scoring another run off three
straight base hits. She had only given up
three hits up until then [in the game]. She
had six strike outs and two walks.
Against a, good hitting team like Spo
kane, that is a good day’s work,” said
Fiskum. “We still had the two run lead.
We were never in major trouble. She
shut them down then in the seventh.
-Jackie Obrust had a real nice Catch for
the last play of the day. They hit it hard.
Jackie made a real nice catch on it.”
Jodi Koehler led the team in the sea
son and during the tournament in bat
ting average and got all-tournament hon
ors. ■
“She led us ,in runs, scored four. She
really knows her strike zone. She went 5-9
and had a couple of walks. She was on
base eight times,” said Fiskum. “She also
made a major league slide in the Highline
game, with a big old catcher on the plate
coming in the back door. It isn’t a play
everyone can make. She had a great tour
nament like she did all year.”
Viol and Comstock also got all-touma-
ment honors.
“Viol was our lead-off hitter. She went
4-13, but hit the cover off the ball. She
knocked in a run
when we were down
l-0 in the first Spo
kane game,” said
Fiskum.
“Comstock’s per
formance was a com-
bination of great
pitching and batting.
She started the tour
nament with a shut
out She. had solid
hitting, but it wasn’t
up to.her caliber,”
said Fiskum.
“Mentally we were
right where we
needed to be. • Not
cocky, but totally
confident. We really
played well, jumping
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on that pitcher.”
One of Clackamas’ strengths through
out the tournament was bunting. Four
Cougars had multiple sacrifice bunts.
Another of
“We bunted as well as we have all year.
the big hits
We really focused on that. So many
of the
RBIs won’t be there if you don’t put the
tournament
runners into the position,” saicfFiskum.
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“It looks so routine, but it is not easy.
As a team, during the tournament, we
had sacrifice bunts, and we executed
very, very well.”
Lisak, Viol, Koehler
and Whitton will partici
pate in the Sophomore All-
Star game in Bremerton,
Wash. Thursday. Fiskum
feels six Cougars could go,
but NWAACC rules say
each team must have at
least one player in the
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Paul Fiskum
Softball
Coach
Fiskum notes that what this
team did was special in it
self.
“What these kids ac
complished this year is
what is important. They
did it themselves. They
came back from behind all
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was a single
by Lisa
Hosford
[above]
knocking in
two runs.
Those two
runs proved
to be the
game
winning
runs.
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Joell Whitton was named to the Southwest
Division All-Star team and will be playing in
the Sophomore All-Star game, Thursday.
year and that shows heart
and character,” said
Fiskum.
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