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14______ _ WedNEsdAy, M ay 17, 2000 Sports TI he CL ac I< amas P rínt JOHN THORBURN I Clackamas Print , Clackamas' Mike Armstrong, at bat, stares back at the pitcher in a game at home. Cougars hoping to end season with a win MANDY GOOD Sports Editor Lane. Lane. Lane. Could one Clackamas win against top-ranked-Lane be what it takes for the Cougars to end the season with their heads held a little higher? The Clackamas baseball team will play against Lane, the num ber one school in the league, three times this week. Although the team is finished for the sea son, Assistant Coach Allan Coyle hopes that at least one win against Lane this week will help build confidence for the fresh men who will return to play at Clackamas next year. Head Coach Robin Robinson’s squad played two games against Linn-Benton at home on Tues day. In the first game of the day, freshman Aaron Shanks picked up the first loss. “We didn’t exactly get a lot of defense for him,” explained Coyle. He started to get a little bit tired because the inning was long and he ended up hitting a couple of guys...they were curve The Cougars had another balls so they were soft, but we chance to play Linn-Benton ended up pulling him out. Then that same day. Unfortunately, Jason Farrimond pitched very the team was not able to redeem well and we stayed in the game. themselves. In game one, which Jason doesn’t pitch very much was considered a “disaster”, at so he gets tired faster than the least they had some hitters that other guys, so when he got increased the performance; in pulled out of the game, the guy game two that was not the story. that we put in “Greg Palmer for him started out in the [Clayton The game was game, he pitched Schofield] re okay for a while. ally stunk up shortened because They really hit the yard1.” it was such a him around a lot. According He has really to Coyle, there sound thrashing. never been hit were some Allart Coyle like that all year, good hitters in Assistant Coach it was a weird the game. Ryan thing for that to Oliver was two happen. We gave for three. Oliver up a lot of hits. A continues to hit well and has been a strbng lot of them were weak hits, but hitter for the Cougar team the they were still hits,” Coyle con entire year. Robert McCoy was tinued. “So then we took him out also a strong hitting force with and put Ron Landolt in, and he pitched pretty well.” two for three. Palmer picked up the loss for “Game one was a disaster, we lost 14-2. The game was short the second game of the day. That ened because it was such a sound final score was 9-4. The Cougars will play Lane thrashing,” explained Coyle. on Tuesday and again on Thursday. The Cougars beat all of the teams that are ranked at the top of the league in the be ginning of the season. The team has slowly but surely lost confidence since then; as a re sult, they lost games, then their standing. Coach Coyle is con fident the team has the ability to beat any team in the league, even top-ranked Lane. The confident, winning Cou-. gar team will have to be the team that shows up on the field will ing to play in order to defeat the Road runners. The team will have home field advantage. The question of winning seems to be a matter of confi dence. “It really depends on which team shows up. If the team that shows up wants to win today, I think that we have a good chance of beating anybody. In the be ginning of the year we beat the teams that are ranked one and two in the region. We have the talent to compete with anybody in this league and I am willing to bet we have the talent to com pete against some four-year schools. They have just got themselves down and they don’t know how to build themselves back up,” said Coyle. FULL-TIME STUDENTS, FACULTY, and STAFF... Clackamas Federal Credit Union 270 Warner Milne Road Oregon City 503-656-0671 10400 SE Main Milwaukie 503-653-7788
