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WedNEsdAy, D ecem B er 1, 1999
TldE CI ac I camas P rint
Clackamas gains respect, captures 5th
SALENA DE LA CRUZ
Sports Co-Editor
Clackamas ended the season on
a high note. Though the Volleyball
women placed fifth in NWAACC
(Northwestern Athletics Associa
tion of Community Colleges) Cham
pionships, it was what it took to get
them there that mattered.
“First of all, we concluded our sea
son peaking at the right time. It was
an incredible season. Clackamas did
very well,” said Kathie Woods, head
coach.
Clackamas did very well and ex
ceeded many people’s expectations.
“We exceeded many other’s ex
pectations of ourselves. We met my
expectations and that’s hard to do.
As a coach you set high expecta
tions and we met them. I’m walking
away thinking we did very well; and
we did,” added Woods.
Clackamas felt that during the sea
son they lost a lot of respect from
people.
“We earned a lot of respect back. A
lot of people thought Clackamas
wasn’t the team it had been,” said
Woods.
Clackamas put up a fight through
out the season and was able to main
tain it throughout the NWAACC
Championships.
“This team learned what it was like
to fight and they did fight. It was
incredible because everyone was
rooting for Clackamas because of
how hard we played,” saidWoods.
Clackamas had lost two players
to unavoidable situations leaving
eight people from the original ten.
“You’re talking about eight
people in a tournament situation
fighting for their lives,” said Woods.
Nikki Tilton played the middle
blocker position. Being five feet four
inches Tilton was fighting against
blockers who were six feet and over.
“Nikki had the tournament of her
life,” said Woods.
Clackamas lost to Big Bend in
their first fight of the Championships,
which put them in the losers’
bracket. The final score against Big
Bend was 7-15,10-15,15-11, and 8-
15.
Clackamas then took on Lower
Columbia College and sent them
packing with final scores 15-11,15-
9.
The Cougars went on to play
Pierce on Friday and defeated them
in the second and third games.
Pierce was ranked higher than
Clackamas going into the match.
Final score results were 8-15,15-9,
15-12.
The Cougars then matched up
against the Chemeketa Storm, but
Storm swooped in the second and third
games to blow Clackamas away.
“We went in and beat them the first
game. Then lost the second game be
cause it was a kind of loss of intensity.
The third game picked up again and it
was a lot closer than the score said it
was,’’said Woods.
OnceChemeketaeliminatedClacka-
mas, the Cougars were left in fifth place,
tied with Big Bend. The final score
was 16-14,6-15,and 8-15.
Jessica Rowley, Kimber Yoik and
Tilton will go onto the All-Star Tour
nament to be held Dec. 4,1-3 p.m.
Clackamas ended the season with a
league record of seven wins and five
losses. The overall record for Clacka
mas was 30/18 win/loss.
Cougars Kimber York and Dasha Wakefield battled many top
schools at the NWAACC Championships in Green River, WA on
Nov. 18-20, but were unable to dominate.
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