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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
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The baseball team prepares for a successful 1998 season .
Read more about it on Page 7.
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Lauren Mohan: 10 pts., 7 ast
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JOHN THORBURN
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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.