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b_______ _ Sports Cougars look to rebound after rough week WtdNEsdAy, ApRil 26, 2000 up six runs on five hits. Vanessa Applegate picked up two of the Editor-in-Chief team’s three hits. In the second game, Melissa The Clackamas softball team is Borde picked up the 5-1 loss. still in second place. “It’s the walks that are scoring It wasn’t a good week, though. runs for the other teams right The Cougars won only two of now,” noted Fiskum. “We’re hit six games in three doublehead ting the ball well and we’re field ers, in a week that Clackamas ing the ball well. The walks are Head Coach Paul Fiskum is call just coming back to haunt us.” ing, “not the best week for us by Melissa Cedillo rattled off two any stretch of the imagination.” hits and one RBI in three at bats. The culmination of the week The Cougars were again outhit was a two-game sweep of the 8-5. team by Lower Columbia last Sat After finishing second to the urday. Red Devils at the Northwest Ath Misty Velke, a transfer student letic Association of Community from a Division-I school in Cali Colleges [NWAACC] Crossover fornia, continued her mastery of Tournament two weekends ago, the entire Northwest earning the squad started the week off both wins, 6-1, 5-1. At the top with a split against Mt. Hood at level of college softball last sea Delta Park in Portland. son, she posted an impressive In the opener, Clackamas 24-5 record. poured on six runs in a 6-2 vic “She’s the best pitcher this tory over the host Saints. conference has ever seen,” noted Jessica Rowley burst onto the Fiskum. “She’s just unbelievable. stat sheets with a 2-for-4 perfor She’s strong, she’s not cocky— mance at the plate. She drove in you just have to admire a player two RBIs. Lori Paradis picked up like that. Facing 60 mile an hour two hits and a RBI while Borde had pitches from 40 feet is like facing two hits as well. All three Cougars Nolan Ryan.” scored in the game. In the fist game, Clackamas On the mound, Warthen faced managed only three hits off of 26 batters giving up eight hits for the sophomore right-hander. The the win. Cougars’ Melanie Warthen gave In the second half of the two- JOHN THORBURN TI he CI ac I camas P rint game afternoon, Laura Casper, a in a doubleheader at home. In the first game, Clackamas recent addition to the team and standout last season, saw her jumped all over the four-year second action of the spring. She school with an 8-0 win in six in faced nine Saint hitters in three nings. Borde picked up a win only innings giving up four runs on four hits and four walks. She en walking one and giving up four tered the game after Darby hits in her first shutout of the Needham reinjured her hip flexor year.. in the first in A slew of Cou IMI gar hitters lit ning. Needham, up the who injured the scoreboard. muscle a month It wasn't our best Paradis, ago, was side week of the season lined all last sea Rowley and Johnson each son due to a back by any stretch of had 2-for-3 injury. the imagination. games with the “I feel really Paul Fiskum bat. Johnson bad for Darby,” Head Coach drove in two said Fiskum. runs while “She’s worked Paradis and really hard com Rowley scored ing off of an in jury last year and now she’s hav twice. Jessica Farnsworth ing a nagging injury that’s totally knocked in one run and scored unrelated. She’s having a great once while picking up a triple. In the second half of the year on the mound.” The redshirt freshman has a 6- doubleheader, Fiskum put Casper on the mound again. She pitched 1 record. The Cougars only mustered four good innings, according to two runs on four hits. Kirsten the head coach, but was out Richards picked up the only RBI there longer than she should with a l-for-3 game at the plate. have been after just returning to Applegate and Sue Johnson each the team a week ago. She faced 19 batters walking only two and scored. Last Thursday, Clackamas took allowing seven hits. Four earned on the Linfield junior varsity team runs were credited to her, as well. As Casper left the game with the bases loaded and one out, Fiskum gave the nod to centerfielder Farnsworth to pick up where her teammate left off. “It was a non-league game,” noted Fiskum with a smile. “We wanted to shake things up and try something new. Jessica pitched up through her junior year in high school.” The sophomore outfielder pitched very well, according to Fiskum. She threw a strikeout to end the inning not allowing a run to score. In her second inning, however, she picked up two- earned runs on three walks, be fore being replaced by Borde. Farnsworth was credited with the 8-7 loss. “Jessica’s college career pitch ing record is now at 0-1,” joked the veteran coach. At the plate, she was l-for-3 with one run scored. Applegate also scored and drove in one run with two hits. As a team, Clackamas is bat ting .321. The squad’s eamed-run average is 2.48. Warthen’s ERA is 1.44 with a 13-2 record in 97.3 innings. Comparatively, Farnsworth is 0-1 with an ERA of 14.00 in one inning pitched. Borde is 1-3 despite an impres sive 2.71 ERA. Team continues to struggle MANDY GOOD Sports Editor The Clackamas baseball team played three games last week win ning only one. On Tuesday, the Cougars played one game against Linn-Benton and were defeated 9-1. Saturday, the team played two tight games against Chemeketa, but walked away with only one win. “At Chemeketa we played pretty well; we ended up splitting—we lost the first one in 14 innings,” said Assistant Coach Allen Coyle. “It was a long game and a tough one. We lost 1 -0 and it was the last to bat for them. It was tough and we played very well; we just didn’t get the breaks that game, but we played with a lot of heart.” According to Coyle, they were both very close games. Chemeketa and Clackamas are only about a game apart in stand ings. The pitching played a large role in the performance against Chemeketa in the first game on Sat urday. “We pitched very well against Chemeketa,” Coyle continued. “It was a nice surprise. Freshman pitcher Aaron Shanks (left hander) pitched the first ten innings of the first game; he struck out nine and walked one, and Ron Landolt came in and picked up the loss but he also pitched very well but had a couple errors. That is how we ended up losing the game, but he pitched very good as well. “Aaron is a good pitcher but he hasn’t been the big game pitcher. He has pitched us some big games but he has not been the big guy. We think that he can be; he contin ues to get better and better and we think that by next year, if not at the end of this season, he will be the best pitcher in the league.” In the second game of the day, the Cougars came back and won af ter losing a tough first game. The team attributed the win to its pitch ing and hitting. “Clayton Scofield started that game and he pitched very well," noted Coyle. "He picked up his first win of the season. He has been kind of the tough luck loser. This time he got the breaks and he got the of fense that we need, which was just two runs, and we did well. He did not give up a run ‘till the last inning. Then again Ron Landolt came in and he shut them down with bases loaded and we won the game. So it was great.” Cliff Johnson, the team’s catcher, was the star hitter of the week. He hit two in the first game and then hit both RBI’s —the only runs—of the second game. According to Coyle, he has been the hottest hitter. “Before the Linn-Benton game, he (Johnson) had a 10-game hitting streak, which is pretty good; and most of the time he has two hits in a game,” explained Coyle. “It really is tough to do—in this league a four game hitting streak is good, so 10 is really good. He has been really solid for us and has continued to improve behind the plate.” Clackamas will have one away game this week at Linn-Benton on Tuesday. Then the squad will re turn to play at home on Saturday against Mt. Hood. MORE MONET Graduate early. Start earning the money you deserve. PSU Summer Session Call (503) 72-LEARN http://www.extended.pdx.edu/summer/ PSU School of Extended Studies .For those of you who hate this newspaper ... too bad.
