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WEdNEsdAy, FEbRUARy 2r 2000
Sports
The CL ac I< amas P rint
Women 's Basketball
Cougars awaken from mid-year slumber
JOHNTHORBURN
Editor-in-Chief
The Clackamas women’s basket
ball team only won one game last
week.
To Head Coach Jim Martineau,
however, his players picked up two
victories.
Heading into last week’s games,
the Cougars dropped two straight
to Umpqua and Southwestern Or
egon, raising questions about the
young team’s defensive skills.
Against first-place Chemeketa
last Wednesday, those questions
were answered.
“We played extremely hard
(against Chemeketa),” said
Martineau, “and defensively, we
played extremely well. We did ev
erything we needed to do defen
sively to win the bailgame. We held
them to only 63 points and they’re
a team that’s used to scoring 85-
plus every night.
“We just didn’t make very many
shots. We didn’t shoot the ball
very well from the three-point line.”
As a team; the Cougars (5-3,14-
8) shot 17.7% from beyond the
three-point line.
Mercedes Juarez led the squad
with 13 points followed up by
Amanda Lee’s 12. Trina Rogers,
last year’s conference scoring
champion from three-point range
was held scoreless after returning
to top form in recent weeks.
The Cougars left Salem with a
heartbreaking 63-57 loss to the
Storm.
With two minutes left, Clacka
mas took a small lead but wasn’t
able to fight off a late push by
Chemeketa.
“We had a chance to win it,"
noted Martineau. "Obviously we
would have loved to win it—we
needed to win it. I was real happy
how the team came back after a
couple of lousy efforts at home.”
On Saturday, Clackamas broke
its three-game losing streak with a
thunderous win over the Linn-
Benton Roadrunners, 78-59.
Rogers was perfect from down
town as she scored 14. Kathryn
Kettles led all scorers with 17
points. Lee put up 16 points on the
scoreboard for the Cougars. -
At halftime, Clackamas had the
game well in hand as it led 44-21 at
the break.
“I was real happy with the effort
(against Linn-Benton),” noted
Martineau. “We were getting after
the ball. The posts are doing a
very good job at working hard.
Offensively in the first half, we
didn’t do much wrong. We made a
lot of shots—we didn’t turn the
ball over a whole lot the entire
game. The second half, we didn’t
do as well offensively and (Linn-
Benton) made a few shots, but it
was pretty much over at halftime.
It was a very good effort.”
Over the next week, the Cougars
will get comfortable as they play
three straight home games starting
with tonight’s matchup against
Portland Community College.
Coach Martineau is confident that
his team will see success over the
next few games.
“Starting with Linn-Benton,”
noted Martineau, “we’re going
to play against four teams that
we should be able to beat. These
are the games that we have to
win so we can make a run at the
playoffs.”
Currently, Clackamas sits alone
in fourth place in the region be
hind Chemeketa, Umpqua and
Southwestern Oregon, respec
tively. After facing Lane this Sat
urday and Mt. Hood a week from
tonight, the Cougars will take the
road again down to Roseburg be
fore returning for their final home
game against Chemeketa.
Clackamas is 4-1 in league play on
the road this season and 1-2 at
home.
Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. following
the men’s game at 6 p.m.
PHOTOS BY JOHN THORBURN / Clackamas Print
[Above] Trina Rogers (bottom right) and Mary Murphy
(middle) scramble for a loose ball last week against
Chemeketa.
[Left] Mary Murphy shoots a long jumper against the
Storm last Wednesday.
BY CHRIS L unm REÑ
This week's installment of
the entertainment column
Mosho & Pepe has been can
celed due to repeated charges
of harassment from students
who have come forward in
protest. The cartoon to the
right should shed some light
on the issue.
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