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WedNEsdAy, FebRUARy 2, 2000
Men's Basketball
Clackamas within
striking distance
MANDY GOOD
Sports Editor
The Clackamas men’s basket
ball team is tied for third place,
and is one game outside of sec
ond place, walking into two
home games this week in
Randall Gym.
According to
Head Coach
Clif Wegner,
Who:
the
squad
VS. PCC
plays
very
When:
confident at
Tonight
home and the
Where:
crowd brings a
■ Home
motivating lift
________
to the team's
game and performance.
“I thought that our crowd
gave us a lift, when we were
struggling our crowd stayed
with us,” explained Wegner in
response to the home game
against Linn Benton, last Sat-
urday. “They got so loud that
they had to be told to quiet
down by the officials, which is
great and the way that it should
be.”
The team played in an away
game on Wednesday Jan. 26
against Chemeketa;. the final
score of the game was 68-79
and ended in a Cougar loss.
“We played a good first half,
we were down 43-39 at the half,
I thought that we were running
our stuff and playing very
well,” said Wegner.
According to Wegner, a fac
tor to the team's close and com leading posts in the NWACC,”
petitive game was the fact that said Wegner. “Nate shot 11-18
the team did a great job of con from the field, had 17 points,
trolling three of Chemeketa’s had nine rebounds, blocked
best players.
four shots, three steels, and
“In the second half of the had a really good all around
game they came out and turned game, he played very, very
it up a little, I didn’t think that hard.”
we responded very well, we got
Wegner’s squad played the
a little stagnant on our offense Linn-Benton Roadrunners at
and they got up to about a 15 Randall Gym on Saturday Jan.
point lead,” said Wegner. We 29.
kind of went
“We knew it
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back and fourth, >7-7"
would be a
but we could
tough ghme,
We were a lot
never get close
they
have
enough to put
been
playing
fresher, a lot
the real pres
very
well
deeper, we had a
sure on them in
lately,” said
the end.”
Wegner. “We
lot more energy at
According to
played very
the end of the
Wegner, two
well in the first
game.
players really
half it was 48-
Clif Wegner
stepped up and
31 at the half,
Head Coach
we got them
dominated the
courts with all-
down where we
star playoff per
wanted them;”
formances. Kyle Bracy and
In the remaining half of the
Nate Block are making a name game, the Roadrunners made a
for themselves in the league.
rally in attempt to take over the
“We got a great game out of game. The team saw some spots
Kyle Bracy, he out played Chris where they were able to take
Neal who is one of the top point advantage of the situation.
“In. the second half, they
guards an the league,” ex-:
plained Wegner. “Kyle finished started shooting the ball pretty
with 18 points and 6 assists, well, and taking advantage of
only had one turnover in 37 some things. They were run
minutes, and really defended ning some pick and roll plays,
Chris Neal in good fashion.
that we did not adjust to very
“Nate Block turned in a re well,” explained Wegner.
ally good game at the post, I “They were able to get the
thought that he out played score down to about four, then
Chris Baert, who is one of the we kind of put it away at the
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JOHN THORBURN / Clackamas Print
Freshman Chris Lohery receives a pass from Mike Fisher and
moves toward the hoop.
end. We won the game by 15
points, if we would have had
five more minutes in the game,
we could have won by thirty.
We were a lot fresher and a lot
deeper, we had a lot more en
ergy at the end of the game.”
Mike Fisher led the game in
scoring with 19 points, he had
3 three pointers. Block had an
other good game with 17 points
and 12 rebounds. Bracy,
Ammon Bemis and Dallas
Husak also brought a lift to the
game with 9 points each.
"Ammon Bemis had an in
credible dunk that really got
the crowd going, it was high
light film material,” said
Wegner
The final ¿core of the game
was 88-73 and ended in a Cou
gar victory.
The team is now 5-3 and will
play two home games this week
that will be crucial to the team’s
rankings.
“We need to pick it up and
win some big ball games,” said
Wegner.
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