The Clackamas print., March 14, 2001, Page 11, Image 11

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Sports
Time runs out for the Lady Cougars
The ClAckAMAs P rìnt
ELENA BORYSKA
Staff Writer
. Heading into the NWAACC
Championships, expectations
for the women’s basketball
team were very high. This was
a good team. Good enough to
win it all. But on a weekend
where only the tough survive,
the Cougars were outlasted.
The first game of the tourna­
ment for Clackamas was played
on Thursday, against Big Bend.
From the beginning to the end,
the Cougars dominated.
Kayla Steen and Mercedes
Juarez each scored 23 in this
hard fought first round victory
over the Vikings, 80-61. Lawly
Redner also contributed with
10 points off the bench.
“We played very, very well,”
said
Head. Coach
Jim
Martineau.
WEdNEsdAy, M arc I h 14, 2001
After such a big win the day second on the clock, they sunk
before, it looked as though the a three-pointer, once again giv­
Cougars were ready for their ing them a two point lead. As
next match up, against South time expired, Lawly Redner took
Puget Sound. Looks proved to one last shot, a three-pointer of
be deceiving.
course, to try and win it for the
The Cougars
Cougars.
had trouble keep­
Even though it
"We were
ing up early on
looked good, and
and found them­
even “should have
three seconds
selves down by
went in” accord­
away from the
ten at the half.
ing to Martineau,
But as the game
it didn’t. Those
semifinals, "
continued, the
Jim Martineau two points were
Cougars were
enough to give
Head Coach
able to gradually
the Cougars their
chip away at the
first loss in the
deficit, finally
tournament and
cutting it to two. With only send them into the consolation
three seconds to go, Jennifer bracket.
Lane made a three pointer to
“It was real tough on the
put Cougars up by one, their girls,” said Martineau.
first lead in the whole game.
The statistical leaders in that
But South Puget Sound game were Kayla Steen with 17,
never gave up. With about one Amanda Lee, with 16 points and
8 rebounds and Kim McBride
who brought 14 points from the
bench.
After that heartbreaker on
Friday, the Cougars got an­
other tough break on Saturday.
Their next opponent was
Highline, one of the better
teams in the Northwest.
Highline usually would not
be in the consolation bracket,
but a loss from the day before
put them head to head with
Clackamas. Much like their last
game, the Cougars dug them­
selves a hole early on. But also
like the day before, the Cougars
made a comeback late in the
game. They got themselves
within two, when a couple of
calls that didn’t go their way
put them out of the game com­
pletely. They lost by four
points..
“We played very good defen-
top but attendance remains fowl
sively,” said Martineau.
So good that their offense
suffered. They struggled so
much to make baskets that the
only player to score in double
figures was Mercedes Juarez
with 17 points.
That loss put the Cougars
out of the tournament and into
the 8th place position overall.
“It was a disappointing end
to a really good season,” said
Martineau. “We played okay,
but we didn’t finish as well as
we would have liked.”
The Cougars played hard
and got some bad breaks, hut
their chances were there.
“We were three seconds
away from the semifinals,” said
Martineau.
Even though they weren’t
able to win it all, this heart­
breaking end by no means di­
minishes the great season by
these Cougar women, who fin­
ished the year with an overall
record of 22-10. It just gives
next year’s team something to
shoot for.
Do you remember
the playoff s and are capable of do- Blazer locker room is taking the at- you
spend
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for forto
to see seethe
th
you
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Blazers
ing some damage.
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the Portland Winter
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Memorial Cup in 1998.
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As of Sunday, the
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Hawks have mounted
DARREL HOBSON
Either no one in come from behind to win this year between 16 and about 20 years old.
a three-game winning
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