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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Wednesday, April 29, 1998