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Sports Scores Inside Former Clackamas student Jacquie Fitch has been battling breast cancer since October. Read more about it on Page 5. Women’s Basketball Clackamas loses to Wenatchee Valley Quick Stats: The baseball team prepares for a successful 1998 season . Read more about it on Page 7. Wednesday, March 11, 78 Cl : - ¿r* ' nr /JO 00-00 „ . „ • .7 Denise Bean: 18 pts. Robbie Nix: 10 pts., 5 blks. f uregon City, Oregon kamasComn nity Colleg ; Women’s Basketball Clackamas falls to S. Puget Sound Quick Stats: Robbie Nix: 30 pts,, 14 reb. MichelleMcKinney: 14 pts., 11 reb. Lauren Mohan: 10 pts., 7 ast Volume XXXI, Issue 16 aïs wtajboiïtjéM1« exit early JOHN THORBURN Sports Editor .. - JOHN THORBURN / Clackamas Print Kellie Hedlund [left] and Sabrina Moses, two of the top point guards in the northwest, faced off Saturday in the championship game of the NWAACC tournament. Moses and her Skagit Valley Cardinals won the title 83-66. For the second straight year, the women’s basketball team made it to the championship game. Only this time, they took on a dif ferent role. They were fans. The Cougars, thought to be one of the favorites in last week’s Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges [NWAACC] tournament, bowed out unexpectedly early and didn’t place. Clackamas, the 1998 Southern Di vision champions, finished the season on a three-game losing streak dating back to February 26. On Thursday, the Cougars faced off against the Eastern Division Champion Wenatchee Valley Knights in the final game of the tournament’s opening day. The Knights, with their four 6’ play ers and boisterous fans, applied pres sure early on and set an unbelievable pace that would last the entire game and earned the 85-66 victory. In a see-saw scoring battle, the Cou gars found themselves down 43-38 at halftime but quickly erased that defi cit and began to build their own lead minutes into the second half. As the game dragged on, however, Clacka mas was called for a series of fouls that left a number of starters seeing lim ited playing time. With the Cougars’ top players on the bench Wenatchee Valley was able to pull away in the game and with min utes remaining, Clackamas was forced to foul and the Knights never faltered. Sophomore Denise Bean was the team’s lone bright spot. She scored 18 points on 6-10 shooting and had two steals. After the loss, the Cougars met the reality that they would not improve on last year’s second place finish in the NWAACC tournament. The best tro phy they could capture was for fourth. On Friday, Clackamas met a stingy South Puget Sound team in afternoon action. The Clippers, the #2 seed from the Western Division, seemed an easy win for all of the teams in the tournament but proved all of them wrong. The Cougars came out firing in the JOHN THORBURN / Clackamas Print Sophomore Lauren Mohan and the Cougars could only watch as the Saints and Cardinals played for the title. first half to take a 45-38 lead at the break on 45% shooting. Clackamas still, how ever, found themselves with a number of players with fouls. In the second half, the Clippers made a run on the Cou gars and were quickly back in the con test. As the final minute approached, the game was in a 77-77 deadlock. “We played a pretty good first half,” See Tournament, page 6 Pauling Center native garden springs into bloom BRAD ZIMMERMAN Co-Editor-in-Chief Consisting of 14 individual plant beds, the Pauling Cen ter native garden was set up to act as a living laboratory and to showcase plants of the northwest. "The different habitats and plots of the garden reflect the various habitats in Oregon. One might be like high elevation: Eastern Oregon. Another might be like a shady, coniferous Oregon, another one might be more like lodge pole pine: Cascade Oregon," said Botany Instructor Bob Misley. The native garden was originally planned by the ar chitects who designed the Pauling Center in the early 197O's. The native garden concept centered around the small pond in the middle of the Pauling Center com plex, with small plant beds situated around the build ings and pond area. According to Slade Sappora, a Clackamas student and an active volunteer who works in the native garden, there are approximately 100 different native plant species in the Garden. In the past, however, sometimes the garden has been neglected. "We're restricted. So much of it is coordinated through student activities and student interest. I use it [the garden] and work in it. But it's always when there are exceptional students. Both Slade Sappora and Amy Love are both what I'd call the key workers. They both have shown the inter est and the initiative to work with me in work-study but mostly just driven by interest," said Misley. "It just happens that Slade and Amy both have a good botanical background, very keen interest and both very gifted in this area," added Misley. Today, the garden is used for a variety of purposes which include education, showcasing some of the region's choic est native plant species and as a way for students to get See Garden, page 2 TIMOTHY BELL / Clackamas Print The Pauling Center native gardens consist of 14 individual plant beds which feature over 100 different types of plants.
