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Sports
TM e CL ac I<AMA5 P rìnt
WEdNEsdAy, M ay . 10, 2000
Cougars finish
schedule with two
homestands
Out of the playoffs, baseball team
looks to dent Linn-Benton and Lane's
records before ending spring schedule
MANDY GOOD
Sports Editor
The Clackamas baseball team
has gone back to basics and it
seems to have helped.
The newly implemented Cou
gar strategy is simplicity; which
includes basic (frills in practice.
According to Assistant Coach
Allan Coyle, the strategy has
given the team more confidence
and the team is beginning to win
games again.
The squad has climbed half
way out of its three-week
slump.
Head Coach Robin Robinson’s
team played four games in the
last week and walked away with
two wins.
If the first game of the week
was an indication of the way the
week was going to go, then the
Cougars could have been in for
another long, deflating week.
Aaron Shanks (3-4), left
handed pitcher, ended up pick
ing up the first loss of the week.
“We got down early, we
ended up battling back, but we
just couldn’t catch up and we
ended up losing 7-5,” explained
Coyle.
The team then traveled to Coos
Bay to play Southwestern Or
egon (S WOCC) in a series of three
games. In the first game, Clayton
Scofield injured his shoulder
while pitching and will be unable
to play for the rest of the sea
son.
“We won the first game 9-8,
and we were doing pretty well.
We were up 8-2 for a little while,
and Clayton was cruising along
and doing really well till he in
jured his shoulder; then we did
not do so well, so they ended up
catching up. Then we won it in
the top of the ninth, and Landolt
got the win there.” Colye re
counted. “We had a couple big
hitters in that game— Ryan Oliver
hit 3-4 and he had 2 RBI’s and
Matt Cooksey hit 2-5 and he had
4 RBI’s.”
“In the second game, Palmer
started and he did okay; he was
solid and almost spectacular,
and we ended up winning that
one 7-5; Randall pitched again
in that game and took the
save,” said Coyle. “We had
some big hitters in that game
Ryan Boyle and Cliff Johnson
and each of the guys hit 3-4
with 2 RBI’s.”
According to Coyle, the rea
son the team came out of the
week with two wins is that they
are playing a little bit harder,
the pitching stayed solid and
the team played a lot of big in
nings.
“The key to winning is to have
a shot near the end and to have
your starting pitcher go about six
innings, and we did. We ended
up getting the hits in the first two
games and then the third game
at SWOCC we didn’t and we
ended up losing the game,” said
Coyle.
Despite losing the third and fi
nal game against SWOCC, the
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Ryan Oliver waits for the pitch in a game at home two weeks ago.
team delivered good game per
formances.
“The third and final game of
the series, we did very well.
We probably pitched the best
of the three games,” noted
Coyle. “But we ended up los
ing. Ryan Oliver pitched that
game, he threw a three-hitter
and we lost 2-0.”
The team is looking better then
they have in the prior weeks.
Last week Coyle said that the
team’s morale would need to im
prove in order to win games; then
the team came out of the week
with a couple of wins. So the
team must have their confidence
back. The team is going to need
confidence and plenty of morale
with the week that they have .
ahead.
“We are building a little more
confidence; we are building up
some steam going into this
week, which is good because
we are playing Lane three times
and they are leading the teams
and then we are chasing Linn-
Benton,” explained Coyle.
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