The CkckAMAS
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Wednesday, October 7, 1998
Spirit, hard work leads small squad
Clackamas determined for success as strong competition looms ahead
JOHN THORBURN
Sports Editor
Cougar Football
The first annual Pigskin
Pandemonium is set for Tues
day and Thursday, Oct. 20 and
22 from 12-1 p.m.
The friendly football games
are are open to Clackamas stu
dents and staff. Teams will be
six players, co-ed, and a mini
mum of two players from each
gender must be represented.
High action and low action
levels are offered.
For more information, call
ext. 2298.
This is an official Cougar
Club event.
FCA
Come and learn about the
fun, challenge and adventure
of the Christian life!
The Fellowship of Christian
Athletes meets every Thurs
day from 12-1 p.m. in Randall
012 for fellowship, games,
food and fun.
Everyone is welcome.
Volleyball Tonight
For information and direc
tions for tonight's volleyball
match against Chemeketa at
Salem, call ext. 2298 or stop
in the P.E./Athletic Office in
Randall Hall.
The men's and women's cross
country-teams have had a tough
but succesful start to their season.
The Cougars remain contenders
in the hunt for a Southern Region
title despite having only five com
petitors on the women's side of the
course while the men face strong
competition in the nearby Mt.
Hood Saints.
"The men and women are
steadily improving every week,"
said first-year Head Coach Mike
Hickey. "The men have a good
shot at the Southern Region title
and an outside shot at the north
west title.
"The women have a great team
attitude," added Hickey. "We only
have five runners and all five are
very good, but it makes it tough.
It’s great to watch them, though,
because their spirit really brings
the team together."
At the recent Willamette Uni
versity Invite on Saturday, the
women turned in a hard-fought
performance.
Tyana Moralez was the first
Cougar to cross the finish line
with a season's best time of 19:18.
Coach Hickey's top freshman
recruit, Tiffany Edwards, soon fol
lowed at 20:46.
Emily Schmierer [21:29], Erin
Stapish [22:24] and Jamie Reidy
[22:50] rounded out the Cougars'
competitors.
Stapish, also a starting out
fielder on last year's softball team,
TIM BELL / Clackamas Print
Clackamas Cross Country 1998: The Cougars have been succesful In the team's early going
and look to have a strong showing in the upcoming Southern Region Championships as well
as the 1998 NW A ACC Championships in November.
and Reidy each earned season's
best times.
On the men's side, the Cougars
finished 12th among 32 .schools
competing in at the meet held at
Bush Park in Salem.
Ahrlin Bauman led Clackamas
in the 8150 meters; as he finished
20th in a time of 25:59. Bauman
earned himself an all-star award
for his personal best finish.
Paul Kezes was the second Cou
gar runner to finish as he placed
41st among 298 competitors as he
recorded a time of 26:41.
Tim Winter [27:14], Andy
Monhead [27:45], Jason Bennet
[27:49], Jay Hawkey [28:09] and
Andrew Wall [28:11] also re
corded times for Clackamas.
Winter, Monhead, Bennet and
Hawkey all recorded personal
bests.
This week, Clackamas travels to
Tacoma, Washington to compete
in the Pacific Lutheran Invite.
"Our success will really depend
on the training and conditioning
we do in the next month," noted
Coach Hickey.
• The Clackamas Cross
Country Team is headed up
by a new face this fall.
Former Clackamas runner
Mike Hickey [1992-94] takes
over for Mike Hodges -one
of the most succesful
coaches in league history.
Hickey won two NWAACC
individual championships
as a Cougar.
"As a coach," noted Hickey
"I'm using the same
fundamentals that Mike
Hodges used. It just works.'
Moss: New teammates
support troubled player
Continued from page 7
good kid.
It’s easy to say "once a trouble
maker, always a troublemaker,"
but people can change and clean
up their act, much like cleaning up
a room. Something clicked in his
mind after he was forced out of his
second college. Randy cleaned him
self up. He went back to West Vir
ginia, where Marshall University of
fered him a scholarship. They may
have been a poor team, but a chance
was a chance.
Randy responded quickly to the
chance, catching 78 passes for 1709
yards and 28 touchdowns and aver
aging 34.5 yards pre kickoff return
as a freshman. He broke several of
Jerry Rice’s receiving records that
year. That performance prompted
Marshall to move up to the tough
est Division, Division 1-A. Randy
put up phenomenal numbers the next
year (1997), catching 90 passes for
1647 yards and 25 touchdowns
while breaking his own records and
setting several new ones. He even
finished in the top five in Heisman
Trophy voting (awarded to college
football's Best Player.).
He entered the National Foot
ball League draft last spring where
he was expected to be a Top Five
pick. But reputations follow you,,
and his highly public reputation
caused him to drop to the 21st
overall pick. There the Minnesota
Vikings picked him, seeing a per
son who has been clean of all
problems for two years.
This was the best thing to ever
happen to him. Coach Dennis
Green had a reputation himself. He
was known for cleaning up
troubled people, and Randy has
been clean for two years.
To ensure further progress,
Randy has chosen fellow teammate
Cris Carter (an All-Pro and future
Hall of Famer who used to be abu
sive and Mixed up in Alcohol and
drugs, but has been clean for over
10 years and is now an ordained
minister) as a mentor, buying a
house next door to him.
Living next to Cris both in-season
and off-season, Randy has shown
more improvement, quickly becoming
one of the teams most popular and pro
ductive players. He leads the Vikings
in three out of four receiving catego
ries with 22 catches for 463 yards and
6 touchdowns while averaging 21.0
yards per catch after just five games.
Improving more every day, Randy
has now achieved what he always
wanted-playing on the same NFL team
as his half-brother Eric Moss for team
mates and fans that love him. Randy is
on his way to a Hall of Fame and All-
Pro career, and this time around, noth
ing can stop him.
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