Sports
TklE ClACkAMAS P r ÌNT
WEÓNEsdAy, MARch 1, 2000
[Far left] Ammon Bemis
elevates and shoots over a
Chemeketa defender in the
Cougars' final home game two
weeks ago.
[Left] Michelle Thueson shows
off her skills for the crowd as
she weaves between
Chemeketa players.
Both Cougar basketball teams lose final three games of year
Women's Hoops
Men's Hoops
MANDY GOOD
Sports Editor
According to Wegner, all five of
the starters finished among the top
scorers in North West Athletic
Assosiation Of Community Col
lege (N WACC), making Clackamas
the most balanced team in the
Northwest: Fisher, 15.5 ppg; Block,
12.3 ppg; Lóhrey, 11.9 ppg; Bracy
The Cougar Squad could not
quite bounce back from their back-
to-back double overtime losses last
week. The result brought the
team's season to an early end, leav
ing them tied for third place (9-5) in
11.7 ppg; and Ammon Bemis, 9.1
league with Chemeketa.
PPg-
Block finished sixth in theNWACC
The game that brought the sea
in field goal percentage, at 59%.
son to a close was a 63-76 loss
against Southwestern Oregon. Among the rebounding leaders, Block
According toHeacLCoach-Wegner, was the N WACC champion, with 11.6
the team played with a lot of heart per game. Lohrey finished 15th, with
and character, but came up short 8.4 per game.
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finishing the way
that we finished,” said Wegner. “It year due to a hip injury.
was a very close ball game; it could
“I think that we should be very
have easily swung the other way, I
good next year, I think that we should
mean if it was one of our kids that be better then we were this season.
stepped up and hit three-three’s
We have the core of our post kids are
coming back they have been the best
then it probably would have gone
post kids in the league this year,” said
the other way.”
Wegner.
In the 1999-2000 Southern Division
ALL STAR standing, Nate Block was
“We return Mike Fisher who is our
the only freshman that finished first leading scorer, Tom Lennox is back,
team. Kyle Bracy finished in the sec
we have Casey Kinney who had sur
ond team, Chris Lohrey got honorable gery this year,"he added.
mention, and Lohrey and Mike Fisher "He is going to give us a lot of shoot
ing and leadership. We return two
made All Frosh Team.
“I feel good, we were basically a point guards, so we have ten players
young freshman team, we were picked that are going to return, that is pretty
sixth in the league and ended up in a good. I am excited andoptimisticabout
third place tie, “ explained Wegner.
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JOHN THORBURN
Editor-in-Chief
Clackamas lost to second-
ranked Umpqua last Thursday in
a loser-out playoff game to end the
Cougars' 1999-2000 campaign.
The team, four sophomores and
seven freshmen, finished the year
with a 17-12 overall record.
Umpqua's 89-60 victory over
Clackamas in Roseburg left the
visitors with three losses on their
schedule to close out the season.
Clackamas' Jim Martineau, who
finished his second season as a
head coach, was pleased by the
performance of his players against
the over-sized, heavily-favored
Timberwomen.
"With a few minutes to go in the
first half," said Martineau, "we
were only down by one point but
then Umpqua went on a bit of a
run. In the seond half, there was a
point when I think some of the play
ers kind of felt that they were
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to none other than Umpqua.
All four graduating players
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Michelle Thueson scored 10.3 ppg
and led the team in assists per
game with 6.3.
The graduation of four sopho
mores leaves Martineau with a
huge hole to fill without a point
guard returning to the roster next
year.
This may bode well for the Cou
gars, however, because at the end
of the 1996 season, the squad
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When asked about the South
ern Region's two teams that will
move on to the conference tour
nament this weekend, Martineau
spoke highly of these opponents.
"Talent-wise, Umpqua and
Chemeketa are the best in the
Northwest," noted Martineau. "I
don't mind so much losing to teams
like that. We could have beaten
Southwestern Oregon though. It's
disappointing that they were able
to beat us twice. We're a better team
than, that."
According to the conference's
coaches polls, the Cougars didn't
upset anybody in their region and
they didn't get upset by anybody.
Three Southern Region schools
were ranked in the top eight.
Clackamas finished fourth behind
those three teams.
For the year, freshman Amanda
Lee led Clackamas with an aver
age of 13 points per game, while
freshman Mercedes Juarez aver
aged 11.2 ppg.
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