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10________ TI h E GlACkAMAS P rìnt WEÓNEsdAy, J anuary 19, 2000 Ammon Bemis drives but gets charged with an offensive foul in the Cougars' 93-67 victory over the Mt. Hood Saints last Wednesday in Gresham. Men 's Basketball Cougars lose heartbreaker time and at the end of the game Wegners team out rebounded their Sports Editor opponents by twelve. The Cougars won their third The final score of the game was away game in a row on Wednes 93-77, the game illustrated their day Jan. 12 against Mt. Hood in strength and growth as a team. Cougars played Lane College in Gresham. “We played a real good game at Eugene on Jan. 15 and the game Mt Hood we started out with a nice brought an end to the three game; winning streak. The loss of the lead of25-12,” said Wegner. Despite the Cougars leading the game left the team placed 3-1 in the game, the squad faced foul trouble, league and 12-6 overall. and Mt. Hood complicated the “When I looked at the schedule game when they changed the before the season started my goal pace, of the game by playing zone was to go 3-1, so we did that. I don’t feel really good now because defense. “We had four different post play we got through the first three legs ers in foul trouble with two fouls and I felt that we should have won each, so we had to switch up our the fourth game,” said Wegner. rotation,” said Wegner “ Then they “But when I look at it overall, win came back and went to zone de ning three of four in the open league fense and slowed down the tempo puts us in good shape.” According to Coach Wegner the of the game a little.” At half time the game was close team did not play up to their abil at 44-40. In the second half, Tony ity. One of the major factors was playing self Edgerton and ishly. Players Ammon Bemis ........ ............ —- were going one played, outstand We learned that on one and tak ing defense to ing shots self stop a high scoring we need to show ishly and not Mt. Hood player. up ready to play running an of “We came out in fense. Another the second half basketball... was and really took Clif Wegner j factor point guards control of the ball Head Coach not getting the game,” said team into an of Wegner. “Tony fense. and Ammon did a “ I t great job in the second half shutting down their seems like we were just out of sink leading scorer who averages about in the whole first half of the game, 23 points a game. He had about 17 we had a miserable first half and at halftime and in the second half we did not defend them very well he had only 7 points. They did a either. They are a team that aver nice job and I felt that was a big ages in the low seventies and we gave them 40 points at half time,” factor.” Defensively the Cougar Squad explained Wegner. At halftime the Cougar squad dominated. Key players Kyle Bracy, Mike Fisher and Tony was down; the score of the game Edgerton were major assets to the was 40-24. Coach Wegner had a very direct half timetalk with his team. "Defensively we clamped down players. The talk motivated the in the second half, we really made players, and in the second half the them work hard for everything. We team stepped back into the game. “We scored the first 15 points in did a good job pressing, we got some turnovers out of our press the second half, we shut them out. and some easy conversions,” ex They did not score for the first eight plained Wegner. “We had a great minutes of the half, so that brought ball game out of Kyle Bracy, I us to 40-39 it's very much a ball thought Fisher played well, I also game now,” said Wegner. “We go felt that Tony gave a big lift off the back and forth they kinda recov ered and hit a few shots and they bench.” According to Wegner, the Cou kept the lead. This is a ball game gars beat Mt. Hood badly on the that we never once led in the entire board; it was close to even at half night.” MANDY GOOD SARAH WELCH I Clackamas Print Lane got up to an eight point lead with about eight minutes left in the game. The Cougars contin ued to rally against their oppo nents but could never make it over their lead. “We had a chance at the end in side a minute, we had two free throws, we made the first and got within one but missed the second,” said Wegner. “It came down with eleven seconds to go and we called a time out, we set up a play. The third and final option was Mike Fisher in the comer for a jump shot that he took and it got partly blocked at the buzzer and the game ended.” The final score of the game was 61 -62 and ended in a Cougar defeat. “We learned that we need to show up ready to play basketball, we played half a ball game so we got half a victory,” Wagner concluded. 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