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io_____ WedNEsdAy, ApRil 19, 2000 Sports TI h E ClACkAMAS P r ÍNT Softball squad silenced in tournament title game pitcher this league’s ever seen. Based on what she’s done so far, you’d have to say that she prob ably is.” The Clackamas softball team took second place at the annual In five innings, Clackamas only Northwest Athletic Association of mustered three hits. Community Colleges [NWAACC] 13 Cougars struck out. Fiskum’s squad didn’t enter the Crossover Tournament. Despite losing the championship tournament’s final game under nor mal circumstances, according to game to Lower Columbia College, the Cougars played some of their Fiskum. Shortly after the Cougars’ best games of the year against op semifinal win over Walla Walla, ponents last weekend. Winning Assistant Coach Denise Nasuta games, however, is something that was struck in the head by a foul ball. She was then taken to a nearby Clackamas is used to. “We played twenty innings of hospital with Assistant Coach error-free softball up until the cham Louie Nasuta for evaluation before pionship game,” said Clackamas returning to the field. “Denise and Louie were at the Head Coach Paul Fiskum. “It’s real hospital while we were warming up disappointing to everybody to have the gloves go south on us at to play LCC,” noted Fiskum. “That’s a distraction from our nor the same time the bats did.” Fiskum’s squad was shutout 11- mal pregame where we have both 0 in five innings in the tournament of them there. Denise is always talk championship. ing to the pitchers and catchers. Boasting a transfer pitcher that Maybe we just weren’t in the right held a 24-5 record at the Division-I frame of mind; obviously we level last year, the LCC Red Devils weren’t because we didn’t compete very well.” had little trouble handling the Cou gars. In the three wins leading up to “When the bats go south,” the matchup with LCC, however, noted Fiskum,” that’s almost more Fiskum couldn’t ask for better play understandable. You don’t see from his players. pitching like that [in the The squad opened the tourna NWAACC]. Maybe she’s the best ment with a 2-1 victory over JOHN THORBURN Editor-in-Chief JOHN THORBURN / Clackamas Print Melissa Cedillo checks her swing at in a game at home. The sophomore third baseman is hitting .371 with 22 runs scored for the Cougars this season. Bellevue Community College in an eight-inning game. Through six innings, Cougar pitcher Melissa Borde had a shut out. In the seventh, the first two Bellevue hitters reached bases to threaten with nobody out. Fiskum then pulled Borde out of the game and replaced her with Melanie Warthen. Bellevue went on to score a run in the inning to send the game into the extra frame. Melissa Cedillo scored the winning run. In its second game of the after noon, Clackamas scored three runs in the fifth inning to pull out a 3-1 win over Wenatchee Valley. Sum mer Conroy and Jessica Farnsworth were 3-for-4 and 2-for- 4 at the plate, respectively. Julia Driggers was 2-for-3 with the bat as well. Vanessa Applegate, Lori Paradis and Jessica Rowley each picked up RBIs. On Sunday, Warthen had her best game of the year, according to the sophomore right-handed pitcher. In the 8-0 win ova- Walla Walla, she faced 20 batters and struck out five of them. Warthen gave up only five hits. “I just played with a lot of ag gressiveness and intensity in that game,” said Warthen. “I wanted it really bad. The devil just popped out. It was an intense game.” According to Fiskum, not only was Warthen pitching one of her best games of the season, but the bats started heating up as well. Six separate batters had multiple-hit games with Warthen’s catcher, Driggers, turning in the best per formance with three hits and one RBI in four plate appearances. Kirsten Richards hit an in-the-park homerun in the sixth inning to pick up two RBIs. With the impressive outing against Northeastern division-lead ing Walla Walla, the Cougars were thrust into the perilous game against the Red Devils. In the championship game, Laura Casper made her 2000 debut after not pitching since last fall. Casper, who had been nursing a recurring back injury since last season and did not have plans to turn out for this year’s team, made the decision to play last week. According to Fiskum, for not seeing action in half a year, Casper pitched very well. She faced 10 batters striking out three and giv ing up three hits and three walks while allowing three earned runs. Last season, Casper was one of the squad’s top pitchers. 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