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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.
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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.