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_________ 9 WedNEsdAy, J anuary 19, 2000 TldE CL ac I camas P rint Women's Basketball Cougars face top-ranked Umpqua at home Cougars exploded in the first half to take a 42-17 lead at the break before going on to win 78-60. The women’s basketball squad A core of freshmen led the way has been perfect at 4-0 two weeks for Martineau’s team as Kathryn into the league schedule. Kettles and Mary Murphy each That perfect had 12 points while Amanda Lee mark, however, continued to dominate underneath could come to a the basket scoring 11. Kettles halt tonight as grabbed 10 rebounds. Who: the Cougars face Against a less talented squad, Clackamas top-ranked Clackamas players came off the vs. Umpqua Umpqua at bench to outscore Lane’s reserves When: home. 31-8. Tonight The visiting Against the Saints of Mt. Hood, Where: Timberwomen, Lee led all scorers with 21 points Home coming off their while sophomore guards Michelle first loss of the Thueson and Trina Rogers scored year to defending conference cham 14 and 12, respectively. Murphy pion Chemeketa last Saturday, recorded 12 points while getting 10 have been the team to beat over rebounds. As a team, the Cougars the past decade. out-rebounded the Saints 47-21 in “Umpqua has a very good pro the 77-63 victory. gram,” noted Clackamas Head “We’ve been playing great de Coach Jim Martineau. “They’ve fense,” noted Martineau. “Our of had a difficult time playing here fense has been slow to start at these past couple of seasons, times but our though.” : defense has The past two been really years, the team strong. When people from Roseburg has “Against Mt. come into the come here, they Hood, our de Randall Gym top- fense kept us in know that it's a ranked. The past the game be tough place to two years, they fore we finally suffered losses. started making play. “We’re in a some baskets. good position right Jim Martineau Mt. Hood has now,” said Head Coach some good Martineau. “These shooters, they first two weeks, just don’t have we’ve played on the size to the road against teams that we much up to us. should probably beat and we’ve “With Lane, again our defense done that. We haven’t had very was excellent,” added Martineau. many home games ... we haven’t “I was impressed with the five or played here in about a month... but six players that they could play but I’d like to think that we’ve been their roster was a little depleted.” pretty successful at home.” With the two wins, Clackamas Overall, Clackamas is 13-5 and sits in a three-way tie for first place recently picked up wins against in the Southern Region along with Lane on Saturday and Mt. Hood Chemeketa and Southwestern Or last Wednesday. egon. Against the Lane Titans, the With the Timberwomen’s loss to JOHN THORBURN Editor-in-Chief JOHN THORBURN / Clackamas Print Sophomore Kirsten Richards drives past Mt Hood's Annie Hester in a 77-63 victory for the Cougars. Chemeketa, Umpqua is now in sec ond place. Another loss could hurt their chances to repeat as region champion. After the Cougars face Umpqua tonight, they’ 11 regroup for a home game on Saturday against South western Oregon. “This is a big week for us,” noted Martineau. “It would be nice to get two wins this week and then go down and face Chemeketa next week. “Umpqua’s coming off a loss so they’ll be fired up and ready to go. (The Timberwomen) are big and ath letic. They’ve got four or five girls that are six feet or taller. Until last Saturday, they’ve been beating teams by 30 or 40 points each night. “If we can keep them under 70 points, then we’ll win the bailgame,” noted Martineau. “If they score up over 80 then they’ll Mosho and Pepe are two student writers voicing their opinions on various topics surrounding the sports world. While their remarks may be crude, rude or even a little obscene at times, they are strictly for entertainment purposes. This issue is the inaugural printing of their work, and in celebration the two decided to present a 'Kudos, Blows' edition to let the readers know where they stand on certain topics. If we offend anybody in our conversations or cartoons... too bad. Kudos, Biotas PEPE: Kudos to Sean King for taking the Bucs to the playoffs. MOSHO: Kudos to Marshall Faulk on being named NFL . Offensive Player of the Year. PEPE: Blows to WWF for giving Trekkies something else to watch. Mosho off. PEPE: Ditto. PEPE: Blows to Brett Favre... go back to rehab. PEPE: Kudos to John Rocker ... preach it. PEPE: Kudos to the NRA for hanging in there. MOSHO: Ditto. PEPE: Kudos to Kyle Bracy for taking it to the rack. PEPE: Kudos to Chevis... like the name. MOSHO: Kudos to Vince MOSHO: Kudos to Dasha ... nice McMahon of the WWF for being a MOSHO: Blows to OSU football... arms babe, "man among boys." don't get too excited. PEPE: Blows to Dave Lernen ... MOSHO: Blows to Mike PEPE: Blows to Jerry Jones... how YOU doin'? Holmgren for losing 5 of 6 for the you're an idiot. Seahawks. MOSHO: Blows to Jim Jackson ... MOSHO: Kudos to Jason Williams ■ it's called home-court advantage MOSHO: Kudos to OJ for getting ... you're just the man! buddy. win. On defense, we’ve got to hold them to one shot each trip down the floor. If we give up over 20 of fensive rebounds to them, like we’ve done in the past down at their place, then we’ 11 have a tough time.” Coach Martineau feels confident playing at home with the amount of crowd support the team has seen this season. “When people come here, they know that it’s a tough place to play.” FfePE'S MysTic eeu- PHOME >
