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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
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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.
The Cougar team has a home
game on Wednesday, Jan. 19
against Umpqua and a second
home game against Southern Or
egon on Saturday, Jan.22. If
Wegners team wins the next two
games this week they have a
chance to be tied for first place.
“Six out of seven games are at
home and the kids feel really con
fident about playing at home, so
we feel really optimistic about
where we stand right now,” said
Wegner.
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1/22... vs. SWOCC
1/29... vs. Linn-Benton
2/2 ... vs. Portland
2/5 ... vs. Lane
2/9 ... vs. Mt. Hood
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