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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
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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.”
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