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WEdNEsdAy, FEbRUARy 25, 2000
TldE ClAckAMAS P r ÌNT
Onceupo
gh road ahead
MANDY GOOD
JOHN THORBURN
The Clackamas basketball play
ers might want to look at swapping
their court shoes for a few sets of
glass slippers.
The teams are going to have to
make a ;Clhderella-like waltz
through this weekend’s playoff
game if they hope to have any
chance at qualifying for the con
ference tournament in two weeks.
Women's Hoops
Headinginto last week’s games,
the Cougars had an opportunity to
finish as high as third place in re
gion standings and help determine
their opponents in the playoffs.
In
both
opportunities,
Clackamas failed to capitalize and
finished in fourth place with a game
■
against the toughest team in the
Northwest on Thursday.
JOHN THORBURN I Clackamas t>rint
If Clackamas loses when it trav Nikki Tilton anticipates enterance into the game.
els to RoSeburg to take on second-
ranked Umpqua tomorrow night,
in second place, and at the end of won will give Wegner's squad first
its season is over. If it wins, it must Saturday night they dropped to seedinNWACC. Ifthe team loses
defeat the winner of the Chemeketa being tied for third with on Thursday, that season will come
vs. Southwestern Oregon game on
Chemekata.
to a close for the Cougars.
Saturday to qualify for a berth in
On both occasions Wegner's
"This is not the playoff spot
the tournament.
squad took the game against that would have been our first
A team that looked to peak at Chemekata on Wenesday and choice; we have the unenviable
the perfect time of the year, the
S WOCC on Saturday into overtime job of playing the best team in
Cougars fell apart in the final week
and lost two tight games.
the league on their floor, they
of league play, starting with last
The final score of the game have not lost on their floor; ifi
week’s home game finale against against Chemekata was 96-92. The two-years," said Wegner. "We
top-ranked Chemeketa.
outcome of the S WOCC game end are going to give it our best
Amanda Lee led a Clackamas
ing in a Cougar loss was 91 -94.
shot again and see what hap
offense that shot only 29% from
"We came within a whisker of pens. We feel like we can win,
the field with 17 points. Trina beating S WOCC last Saturday and and if we didn't we wouldn't
Rogers added 12 whileNikki Tilton
we were missing our point guard waste gas going down there."
scored 10.
for half of the game," explained
So, when the Cougars pack up
Only down by three at halftime,
Wegner.
their gear and climb into their
the Cougars stumbled in the sec
Thursday night the Cougars will magical stagecoaches, err, team
ond half to fall 66-56.
face SWOCC in a playoff game on vans, let’s all hope that there’s
The Storm only shot 36% in
SWOCC's turf. If the team wins some fairy dust left to knock
what turned into being a typical
on Thursday, they will move on down those evil stepsisters, err,
Clackamas-Chemeketa-face off—a to play a game on Saturday that if Timberwomen and Lakers.
defensive battle.
On Saturday, the offense only
managed a 34% shooting perfor
mance in a 69-63 victory for the
Lakers.
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pulled down nine offensive re
bounds for a total of 11 for the
game. Tilton fouled out in the game
which saw Clackamas get
outscored by 10 at the free throw
line.
“Mary had an excellent game for
us,” noted Martineau. “We didn’t
shoot the ball very well again. It
wasn’t as close as it looked by the
final score. We were down by
about nine or 10 the whole game.”
On Monday night, Umpqua de
feated Chemeketa in Salem in a
tiebreaker game that determined play
offseeding. Clackamas, sitting in the
fourth spot, must lace the #1 team wile
#2 faces #3. Umpqua is already guar
anteed a berth in the tournament as
the region’stop finisher.
Wednesday is
Students' Day
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any entree
Men's Hoops
The Co 'gars suffered a tough
couple of losses this last week.
The squad went into the weekend
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JOHN THORBURN / Clackamas Print
AIR BRACY: Kyle Bracy does his best Jordan impression
airwalking towards the basket against Chemeketa last week, the
sophomore point guard will take his squad to Coos Bay tomorrow
night in loser-out playoff action.
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