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Sports
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MANDY GOOD
Sports Editor
The Clackamas track teams
competed in thé Clackamas Open
on Saturday On their home track.
Among the contestants were
three other Northwestern Athletic
Association of Community
Colleges(NWAACC) schools:
Southwestern Oregon Community
Coliege(SWOCC), Linn-Benton
and Lane. The meet was open, so
there were other club athletes who
competed at the meet.
“We had a good meet overall,"
explained Head Coach Jack
Kegg. "In the men’s 100, we had
four of the top five finishers al­
though nobody ran particularly
well because of the head wind.
We still dominated the teams that
were here; Same in the men’s
1500. We had the top six plac­
ers—five were Clackamas ath­
letes and the other kid went to
Clackamas last year.”
In women’s events, Rachel Aus­
tin placed first in the long jump
with 16’8”, qualifying for the
NWAACC championships. She
also placed third in thè high jump
with 4’6”,' ninth (with personal
best) in Javelin (92’4), ninth and a
personal best in shot put (30’8 1/
2) and first-with a personal best
that qualified Austin for the
NWAACC championships, put­
ting her on the top ten list for
Clackamas in the 400. Loma
Deifeest placed second with a per­
sonal best 148’71/2” in thé ham­
mer, second in shot (39’7 3/4”);
Krystal Schneider placed fourth
with a personal best 129’4” in the
hammer, first in the shot (40’3 17
2”), and first in the discus (127.3 1/
2); Amanda Lee placed fourth in
shot with 37’8 l/4”and fifth in dis­
cus (108.8); Trina Rogers placed
first in the Javelin (141’1”); Jazzmin
Reece placed third, in the 200
(28.27); Cassie Moorhouse placed
third in the 800 (2Ì37.95); Tyana
Moralez placed third in die 1500
(5:08.89); Kendal White placed first
in the 3k and qualified for the
NWAACC.
championships
(10:48-02); Sarah Block placed third
in the 3k with a personal best
(11:26.92); and Jennie Hardie
placed fifth in the 3k (11:44.97).
In the men’s event, Jared Tip­
pets placed first in Javelin
(181’3”); David Lemen placed
first in the pole vault (16’ 1”), fifth
in the discus (122.4), second in
the 100 (11.63) and third with a
personal best in shot (41’5 1/4);
Shawn Timble placed second in
pole vault (15?); Matt Murtzvez
placed fourth in pole vault '
(13’6”); Mike Wheeler placed
first in the 100 (11.40); Jo’Shawn
Douglas placed fourth in the 100
(11.85); Erik Anderson placed
fifth in the 100 with a personal
best (11.87) and placed first in1
the 400 hurdles (53.77); Ryan
Hoyt placed first iri the 400
(49.44); Ryan Coleman placed
first in the 800 (1:5S.76); Paul
Kezes placed first in the 1500 with
a personal best and placed him­
self at number eight on the
Clackamas list; Trevor Dodge
placed second in the 1500 with a
personal best (4:01.14); Hector
Osuna placed fourth in the 1500
with a personal best (4:05.10);
Andy Monhead placed fifth in
the 1500 (4:06.35) and Ryan
Mastropeitro placed sixth in the
1500 (4:08.35). The Clackamas A
men’s relay team placed first in
the 1600m relay.
The Clackamas team will divide
to compete in three different meets
next week.
Rachel Austin and David Lemen
will travel to Spokane to compete
in the Multi-Event Championships
for NWAACC next Monday and
Tuesday. Austin and Lemen are
placed as the top competitors.
“They have the best qualify­
ing scores going in. Rachel had
an outstanding 400 last weekend
and it was the first time she has
run that this year. She took one
of the fastest times in the con-
ference. She has taken her long
jump to a season’s best of 16.8,
which js an NWAACC qualifier;
she has also had a season's best
in the shotput and javelin, so she
is looking really good,” said
Kegg. “They are both looking
really good. Two years ago,
David was the NWAACC cham­
pion in the decathlon and he is
hoping to win that title back.”
In addition to the meet in Spo­
kane, some of the elite team mem­
bers will compete at Eugene’s Or­
egon Invitational at the Univer­
sity of Oregon; and other mem­
bers will compete at the Western
Oregon
Invitational,
at
Monmouth.