Wednesday,
October 29,
1997
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Cougars place second at Mt. Hood tournament
JOHN THORBURN
Sports Editor
The Clackamas volleyball team has a
new mascot.
The Energizer Bunny.
After a convincing win over Linn-
Benton last Wednesday and a strong show
ing at the Halloween Classic over the
weekend, the Cougars keep going and
going.
On Wednesday, the Cougars hosted the
Linn-Benton Roadrunners for a Southern
Division matchup. In what marked the
26th consecutive league win, Clackamas
[9-0,31-6] cruised to an easy 15-2,15-6,
15-3 victory. Amy Kraljev led attackers
with 12 kills, Amy Felando had 28 assists,
while Jen Johnson recorded five kills ap
pearing in only one game for the Cougars.
The Halloween Classic is one of the
toughest tournaments in the northwest Its
participants consisted of all of last year's
Northwest Athletic Association of Com
munity Colleges [NWAACC] tourna
ment, as well as a number of schools that
were invited.
Over the weekend, Clackamas traveled
to Mt. Hood Community College to take
Sophomore Amy Felando
has become one of the elite
setters in the northwest and
was given All-Tournament
awards at the Halloween
Classic this past weekend.
part in the two-day long tournament.
The Cougars opened the tournament
with a tough Columbia Basin team but
earned the 15-13, 8-15, 15-10 win.
Clackamas then faced Highline in what
looked to be more like a clinic put on by
the Cougars as they won 15-1,15-2 to close
out friday's matches.
On Saturday, Clackamas started strong
against Clark College 15-5,15-5 to claim
the victory and close out pool play. Later in
the morning, Head Coach Kathie Woods'
team took on Malispina, a traditionally
succesful team from Canada, and recorded
a 15-9,4 5-8 win. In the afternoon, the Cou
gars faced one of the top-ranked teams in
the northwest in Skagit Valley College.
Clackamas started slow early but quickly
regrouped to win 15-6, 11-15, 15-8. The
win over the Cardinals sent Clackamas into
the tournament's championship match
against Southern Division rival Chemeketa.
The Cougars met the Chiefs earlier in
the season in the first of two league games
and outlasted the team from Salem to thrust
Clackamas to the number one ranking
which it now holds. Chemeketa, however,
never faltered in the tournament's final
match as Clackamas lost 9-15,7-15.
"Going into the tournament being ranked
number one," said Coach Woods, "people
expected us to win, we expected to win.
We played very well and we got second.
It's close but what that does for us is moti
vate us. We hadn't lost in over a month and
sometimes you have a tendency to get a
little casual about that so I'm glad that's our
little extra kick in the behind to push us a
little harder."
Coach Kathie Woods went on to men
tion the difficulty that comes with being a
great team.
"We know teams are after us," said
Woods. "We talk about it but until we ex
perience [losing], we might not know the
realism of it. And that is real. We lost, we
get it back together and now we win. I am
not unhappy with the way we played the
entire tournament. This is the best finish
that Clackamas has ever had in this tourna
ment Chemeketa is ranked number two so
it was the best against the best and at this
particular moment they played better."
Kraljev recorded 47 kills and 35 digs in
six matches while Christy Ekberg had 21
Freshman
Corinne
Lawrence
stepped up
her play
during the
Halloween
Classic
recording 19
kills, 18 digs,
and five ace
serves.
kills and 59 digs, Felando had 134 assists
and Mattye Walsworth made 61 digs.
On Saturday morning, Michelle
McKinney was in a car accident and Coach
Woods didn't allow her to play in the day's
opening match against Clark for precau
tionary reasons. Freshman Corinne
Lawrence stepped in to fill the role and
played exceptionally well against Clark, as
well as all of the Cougars' opponents with
19 kills, 18 digs and five ace serves.
"Corinne played well against Clark
and Malispina," said Woods. "Michelle
wasn't 100 percent all day and we needed
[Corinne] to come in and have individual
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spurts like that. She came in and rose to the
occasion."
McKinney injured her right thumb in the
accident and was shaken up, but should be
back up to speed soon.
Kraljev and Felando were honored for
their play in the Halloween Classic as they
were both given All-Tournament awards.
Clackamas plays host to the Linfield
College's junior varsity squad tonight at 7
p.m. and then travels to Seattle to compete
in the Shoreline Crossover tournament.
'We're just like the Energizer Bunny"
added Woods. "We keep going and going
and going."
We're like the
Energizer
Bunny. We
just keep
going and
going and
going, J J
Kathie
Woods
Coach
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