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7 Wednesday, April 29, 1998 Cougars split with Saints in slugfest Clackamas and Mt. Hood combine for 53 hits and 56 runs in the doubleheader ADAM CRUM Staff Writer The time has come for Clackamas to play their best ball of the year. The Cougars had a tough time winning last week and look for ward to a tough one this week with the playoffs just three weeks away. Clackamas played a doubleheader againstMt Hood in Gresham on Ihesday, April 21. The first game was a slugfest won by the Saints, 19-16. Clackamas had little trouble with Mt. Hood pitchers, pounding out 15 hits. But the story of the game was the Cougars’ lack of pitching and defense. Clackamas committed four errors in the game, allowed 16 hits and walked seven, giving the Saints a total of 27 baserunners. The Cougar offensive attack was led by sophomores Ryan Suyama and Andy Ortmayer. Ortmayer was 3-5 with a double, three runs scored and two runs batted in. Suyama was 3-6 with a double, a homerun, two runs scored and three runs batted in. Freshmen Rian Alden and Cliff Johnson had two hits apiece and freshman Tim Fel lows and sophomore Nick Miller each hit a homerun. - Freshman Joe Ewing started for Clackamas but lasted only one inning, allowingfourruns, two of which were earned, on three hits. Freshman Clayton Schofield was the most effec tive Cougar pitcher, allowing one hit and three earned runs JOHN THORBURN I Clackamas Print in 3 2/3 innings. Freshman Jared Kinne Of the 19 runs given up by went 2-3 against Lane in Oackamas, 10 were unearned. Game 2 on Saturday. The second game saw a lot of offense as well, butmostof it was supplied by the Cougars. Despite giving up four home runs, sophomore Bryan Hostetler pitched a complete gairle lead ing Clackamas to a 14-7 victory. The Cougars used a six-run third inning to get out to an early lead and never looked back. Sophomore Nick Miller led off the inning with a walk. After Johnson flied out to center, Ortmayer hit a homerun to put the Cougars up 5-1. Sophomore Adam Edwards, Suyama, and Fellows hit con secutive singles to load the bases for sophomore Josh Kelsey. The Cougar second baseman singled in two runs to increase the mar gin to six. After a strikeout and a walk, Miller came up for the second JOHN THORBURN / Clackamas Print time in the inning and delivered with a single that plated two runs Sophomore Adam Edwards hit a two-run homerun in the first inning of Game 2 against Mt. Hood last Tuesday. The Cougars won the game 14-7. and put Clackamas up 9-1. Edwards was 2-4 with a homerun, three runs, and two RBI’s and Ortmayer was 2-5 with homerun, two runs, and three RBI’s, needing only asingle to hit for the cycle. the one homerun, two runs, and two RBI’s. Freshman Art Salinas was the losing pitcher, allowing Suyama, Fellows and Kelsey had two hits and two runs apiece 12 hits and five earned runs in 3 2/3 innings of work. and Alden hit a solo homerun in the second, helping the Cougars Game two saw some good pitching and defense. The outhit the Saints, 14-8. On Saturday, Clackamas traveled to Eugene to take on Lane in Cougars fell behind 4-1 and could only get within one as the lost for the third time in four games. a doubleheader. Suyama was the lone bright spot for the Cougar offense, Defense was again the problem for the Cougars as they were going 3-4 with a double and three RBI’s. Freshman Jared swept by the Titans, 12-9 and 6-3. Clackamas fell behind 8-0 in the opener but got to Kinne was the only other Cougar with multiple hits, going within two runs after a six-run sixth inning. Fellows 2-3 with a pair of singles. highlighted the inning with a three-run homerun. Fel The loss dropped the Cougars to 7-7 in the Southern lows was 3-5 in the game with a double, a triple, a Division and 10-15 overall. Clackamas in top form as championships near JOHN THORBURN Sports Editor Track Records Fall Again The track and field team knows no boundaries. The athletes have no limits. Another week of competition came Personal and went. Another list of records fell. David Lemen: The men and women traveled to Monmouth to compete in the West Javelin, Pole ern Open on Saturday. Vault With less than a month before this Chris Chatfield: year's Northwest Athletic Associa 1500m tion of Community Colleges [NWAACC] championships, the Jaye Wilder: 200m I Cougars look to be in top form. "The women distance runners were Kevin Philbrook: J the highlight of the meet," said Pole Vault i Clackamas Head Coach Jack Kegg, Tristan Sharp: I "Jennifer Réa was awesome while Hammer I Emily Schmierer and Anthea DeJarnette ran fantastic doubles." Jennifer Rea: I All three athletes competed in the 3000,5000 3000m and 5000m race for the double. Rea won the 5000 Season in a time of 18:38.17. The mark Men's 4x400: equaled her season's best. Rea also 3:24.71 | finished fifth in the 3000k in 10:39.86 for a personal best time. Emily Schmierer: With the race, she moved to 10th on jiooo ' the school's all-time list. Schmierer recorded a season's best Anthea time in the 5000 in 20:19.64 while finishing fourth. DeJarnette finished DeJarnette: just behind her in fifth place in a time 5000 of 20:43.93. I "The 3000, 5000 double is as tough a double as there is at our level," noted Kegg. "All three ran season's-best time while completing this double." Tristan Sharp had another succesful meet —competing in both the hammer throw as well as the jav elin. Sharp captured the javelin event with a mark of 150T" while finish ing seventh in the hammer with a throw of 135'. Her mark in the hammer throw was a personal record and also moved her into the second spot on the school's all-time list. The men's team recorded equally impressive scores. "The short relay team and pole vaulters were incredible," said Kegg. The Clackamas 4x100 relay team won the event while setting a meet record, a school record and now leads the league. The team of Ricardo Colon, Phil Elie, Robin Peters and Dante Betha finished in a time of 41.41. Clackamas entered a second relay team in the event. Otto Sanjdr, Jaye Wilder, Ricky Greiner and Tony Butkovich finished fifth in 43.71 to qualify for the cham pionships. David Lemen, Kevin Philbrook, Elie and Sanjdr were the team's four entries into the pole vault event. Lemen finished third with a per sonal best mark of 16'1.25" while Philbrook recorded the same mark for a personal record but in more at tempts to capture fourth. The two athletes lead the NWAACC and moved up to third place on the all-time list. Colon finished second in the 100m with a time of 11.02 while Betha fin ished behind only one runner in the 200m in 22.15. Wilder finished sev enth in the race in a personal best time of 22.92. This weekend, a number of ath letes will be competing in the NWAACC Decathlon Champion ships at Lane Community College in Eugene. The Cougars will then split up the squad to compete in both the University of Oregon Invitational and the Clackamas Invitational on May 2. AIRLINE CAREERS Ticket Agents • Flight Attendants • Travel Agents Jobs Academy Grads Get Them. • Job Placement Assistance • Begin Working In Just 10 Weeks • Over 17,000 Graduates Placed • Financial Aid For Those Who Qualify ^INTERNATIONAL AIR ACADEMY 800-868-1816 Vancouver, WA Wednesday, April 29, 1998
