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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
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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.
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