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Sports TI he CI ac I camas P rint ___________ il WedNEsdAy, J anuary 26, 2000 Men 's Basketball Cougars beat Umpqua, fall to #1 SWOCC MANDY GOOD Sports Editor After finally returning home to Randall Gym after four straight road games, the Clackamas Cougars fall to 4-2 in the league arid are 13-7 overall. On Jan. 19, Wegner’s squad defeated Umpqua and on Who: Jan. 22, the VS. LBCC squad was de When: Sat., 6 p.m feated by South west Oregon Where: “Against Home Umpqua, I thought that we started out playing very well, we had about a ten-point lead early in the game—we were up 18-8,” said Wegner. “Later in the game, we started rotating kids through and we didn’t play very well together and we wound up being down by two at half time” In the second half of the game, the team pulled their efforts to gether. Nate Block and Chris Lowery combined to be major fac tors in the success of Wednesday night’s game. “In the second half, I though that we played a good half, we took care of business and got the ball inside,” explained Wegner. “We got the ball into Nate Block and Chris Lohrey. Nate finished with seventeen points and eight re bounds. Chris finished with eleven points and seven rebound. Be tween them they were 11-15 from the field. “I thought that Ammon Bemis had a pretty good game. He shot 5-6 from the field, 5-5 from the free throw line, had 15 points and he did a really good job on taking the ball in hard. Either getting the shot himself or creating things for other about getting back in the game. We people,” said Wegner. went back into a press defense and According to Coach Wegner, that helped us get things moving,” Kyle Bracey also had a solid game said Wegner. with 10 points, 7 rebounds and 6 At halftime, the team was able to assists. The Cougars shot 52% bring the points-spread down to from the floor and dominated the five. Wegner’s team brought them boards by a 40-23 tally. The final selves back into the game with the score of the game was 67-56 and score of43-38. In the second half left Wegner’s team with a win at of the game, the team was able to home. take the lead of the game for the The Cougar team played first time. According to Wegner, SWOCC on Saturday in a game that Tom Lennox (11 points) keyed a featured a combined 58 fouls and spirited second half rally as the 88 free throws. Cougars battled back from a “It was an odd game, there was double-digit lead to take a 77-76 almost sixty foul calls. I mean in a lead. However, SWOCC, made all normal game you have maybe 35 of the big plays at a crucial time to fouls and maybe 45 free throws, take the win. between the two teams we shot 88 “In the second half, they got up free throws,” explained Wegner. “It by ten, we made a nice run in the was the kind of end, and we game where there took our first was never any real lead of the I don't feel too flow to it. It didn’t night 77-76. bad... we are still seem like there was Then they ba sically made all ever a time where very much in a of the plays the teams went up playoff hunt. down the and down the court stretch," ex- four or five times Clif Wegner plained and really played Head Coach Wegner. basketball” According to “They played like sopho Wegner, the game was officiated tight and the team mores and we played like freshmen, was never able to adjust to that. which we are and they are." The final score of the game During the game SWOCC had three players that fouled out and two ended in an eight point loss, 82-90. others that had four fouls each. The team shot a 52% from the field The Cougars had one player foul and 63% from the free throw line. out and had five others had four The win would have knotted a league lead; the loss will drop the fouls each. “It seemed like everyone was in Cougars two games behind the foul trouble the whole night, but Lakers. “I don’t feel too bad, in my heart of we could never really capitalize on that,” said Wegner. “We finished hearts, we could have beat Lane, we with a very good run at halftime, it could have beat SWOCC, we could was at the six minute mark when be 6-0, but we are still very much in a we took a time out and I talked playoff hunt, “ said Wegner. UPS offers up j A •I ■ Wrestlers intensify fight MANDY GOOD Sports Editor for EdUC3tronfi Assistance... S We wgnt to help you succeed! Pgrt-time jobs available at UPS. Contact your UPS Representative: Dennis at 503-286-7374 ext. 9037 Jobline: 503-286-7298 www.upsjobs.com JOHN THORBURN I Clackamas Print 6'9” Chris Lohrey elevates over an Umpqua defender en route to two of his 11 points in the Cougars' 67-56 victory against the visiting Timbermen last Wednesday. Clackamas Wrestlers com peted in a two-day series of duel matches and dominated the mats when wrestling three out of the four teams. On Friday Jan. 21 Martindale's team wrestled Lassen, which is an extremely advanced team that is ranked second in the region. Clackamas was defeated in the duel but continues to grow in the intense competition. "Against Lassen on Friday we wrestled very well," ex plained Lloyd Martindale head wrestling coach. According to Martindale his wrestlers made their oppo nents work for every win that they took. James Adams wrestled excellent against Lassen and lost in an overtime match. Jacob Pence also wrestled very well, taking his opponent into double overtime where he was finally defeated. On Friday Jan. 22 the Cougar wrestlers competed in three duel matches. The teams that they competed against were Yakima, Highline, and South West Oregon. Clackamas defeated Yakima 25-6. According to Martindale, all of the weight classes won their matches except for their 197 pound weight class. James Adam, who usually wrestles at 184 pounds, was moved up to the 197 pound class, due to an injury of another teammate. "We did an excellent job against Yakima, we've really been working on our top riding positions and these guys are really doing a great job," said Martindale. In the matches against Highline the Cougars defeated their team 25-12. "We've been working on our feet, their take downs and they are better then I've seen all year," explained Martindale in response to the Highline matches. "This team is peek ing right at the right time, as we are going into our regional tournament. When Martindale's squad wrestled South West Oregon, the Cougars won their third and final team during Saturday's duel competition. According to Martindale, all of the matches were won until the 197 weight class and the heavy weight class. "Chuck Buffington defeated the first ranked guy in our re gion with the score of 8-3 so it was a good solid victory for him," said Martindale. " It should boost his confidence going into the regional tourna ment, this should bump him up into the fist or second rank right now." According tó Coach Martindale, the team will be fine tuning their performances so that they will be prepared for the regional tournament that will take place on Feb. 4. "Between now and regionals we are going to be looking at our bottom escapes and our riding. Mainly we will be work ing on the bottom, we have a little bit of work to do, but we are in good shape," Martindale concluded.
