TI h E ClAckAMAS P rìnt
Cougars drop out of playoff race
Clackamas is eliminated from post-season play after losses to Lane, Chemeketa
ADAM CRUM
Staff Writer
The Clackamas baseball team is playing
for nothing but pride.
The Cougars have been eliminated from
the playoffs with a week remaining in the
season.
Clackamas lost to Lane on Tuesday, May
5, ending any hopes for a playoff run.
Lane jumped on the Cougars early with
three runs in the second inning and eight
in the third off sophomore starting pitcher
Robert Kinnee.
The Titans added
-——------------- one in the fifth and five
• Thursday: in the sixth to take a 17-
0 lead.
Chemeketa 9
Clackamas finally got
Clackamas 4 on the board in the bot
• Next up:
tom of the sixth with
three runs. Each team
Thursday at
SWOCC, Noon added another run and
Lane went on to win 18-
4.
Clackamas Head Coach Robin Robinson
used five pitchers in the game, combining
to allow 18 hits.
Kinnee was credited with the loss and
Lane freshman Corky Wray earned the win.
Last Wednesday, Clackamas traveled to
Sophomore Jeromy Brown went 2-4 at
the plate in the Cougars' 14-5 victory
over Linfield last Wednesday.
McMinnville to take on Linfield JV in a non
league contest.
The Cougars’ bats came alive early and of
ten en route to a 14-5 victory.
Clackamas put a.five-spot on the board in
the top of the first inning.
Freshman Ryan Loren singled to start the
game, followed by walks to sophomore Josh
Kelsey and freshman Tim Fellows.
Freshman Kelly Corliss hit a double to
score Loren and Kelsey. Sophomore Ryan
Suyama followed with an RBI single to give
the Cougars a 3-0 lead.
After an RBI ground out from sophomore
Adam Edwards and a strikeout, sophomore
Jeromy Brown delivered with a two-out
single, scoring Suyama to put Clackamas up
5-0, a lead they would never relinquish.
Swearingen pitched four shutout innings,
allowing only one hit while walking two and
fanning four.
Loren led the Cougars’ 16-hit attack, go
ing 4-5 with three singles, a double, three
runs scored and two stolen bases.
Corliss was 3-4 with a double, a homerun,
two runs and three runs batted in and Suyama
was 3-3 with a double and an RBI.
Brown and freshman Jared Kinne had two
hits apiece and combined for four RBI’s.
The following day, Clackamas traveled to
Salem to play Chemeketa in a single nine-
inning game.
The Chiefs scored two runs in the first in
ning to take an early lead.
Clackamas battled back with a run in the
second and a run in the fifth on a homerun
by Edwards. In the bottom of the fifth,
Chemeketa broke the game open with four
runs-and added anotheF-in lhe six-th. Clacka
mas scored a run in the eighth and ninth but
came up short, falling to defeat by a score
of 9-4.
Sophomore Bryan Hostetler pitched 4 2/3
innings in a losing effort. Hostetler allowed
six runs on eight hits with one walk and three
strikeouts.
Freshman Clayton Schofield relieved Hostetler,
going 2 l/3 innings, allowing one run on two hits.
Edwards led a Cougar offense that totaled
eight hits by seven different players, going
2-3 with his sixth homerun of the year and
two runs scored.
Sophomores Jeff Berard and Andy
Ortmayer both had an RBI single and sopho
more Nick Miller contributed with a run
scoring triple. Corliss, Suyama and Kinne
also had one hit apiece.
Chemeketa starting pitcher Scott Zemke
pitched a complete game, walking only one
and fanning four.
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The loss dropped Clackamas’ record to 8-12 in
the Southern Division and 14-20 overall.
The Cougars were scheduled to host a
doubleheader versus Chemeketa on Saturday
and a single nine-inning game against South
ern Division leader Mt. Hood yesterday, but
both were postponcd_due to rain.
The Cougars hope to get those three games
in, along with a doublchcadcr against South
western Oregon Community College
[SWOCC] scheduled for Thursday, by Mon
day, May 18.
The Northwest Athletic Association of
Community Colleges [NWAACC] playoffs
are being played in Walla Walla, Washing
ton, beginning Thursday, May 21.
Team Leaders
I
•Hits:
Ryan Suyama [46]
• Runs:
Ryan Suyama [35]
• Home Runs:
Adam Edwards [6]
•RBI's:
Adam Edwards [32]
•Wins:
Art Salinas [5]
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