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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.
Clackamas returns to league play
with a rescheduled Mt Hood double
header Ihis afternoon in Gresham.
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