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Sports
WedNEsdAy, ApRil 18, 2001
Balance of offense and defense spark CCC
Cougar softball defeats South Puget Sound, rips Grays Harbor
DAISY BAIN
Staff Writer
MIKE POLLOCK I Clackamas Print
Vanessa Holm lets loose with another fastball against Grays Harbor College on Friday, pitching
CCC to a 15-0 win during game one of a doubleheader. The Cougars also won the second game of
the afternoon 15-0.
It was a good day for the Lady
Cougars last Monday with two
wins against South Puget Sound,
bringing the team’s record to 7-3
in league and 9-5 overall.
In game one, the Cougars shut
out SPSCC 3-0. Vanessa Holm
pitched a great game throwing
seven strikeouts, allowing only
five hits and zero walks.
Leading hitters for the game
were catcher Julia Driggers, hitting
two of three with one RBI, infielder
Nicole Staley, also hitting two of
three and outfielder Cheristy
Hargrave hitting two of three with
one RBI.
“ We had a pretty good balance
offensively, defensively and pitch
ing,” said Coach Paul Fiskum.
In game two, freshman pitcher
Casey Lapp threw an outstanding
game allowing one run, throwing
three strikeouts and allowing two
walks. The team had 12 hits total
from players Lindsey O’ Byrne, Tif
fany Lepschat, Darcy Hertel, Lisa
Hickman and Staley. Final score
was 9-1.
On Friday, the Cougars played
Grays Harbor, winning both games
by a score of 15-0.
“We did great, we played really
well and we didn’t play down to
their level,” said Fiskum.
According to Fiskum, the
coaching staff tries to focus their
attention on how well they are
doing rather than if they win or
lose. Winning is an added bonus.
“Everybody did just what they
were supposed to do all day,” said
Fiskum.
Holm pitched well allowing two
hits, three strikeouts and no walks.
Lepschat hit all four times at bat,
bringing in three runs. Hargrave
hit a triple with the bases loaded
producing three RBI’S.
After a brief rain delay, Lapp
pitched four strikeouts and no
walks. “We had excellent pitch
ing,” said Fiskum. “Our offense
was really, really balan'ced.”
In game two, Staley contributed
five RBI’s and hit two of four at
bat. Hargrave was two for three
and hit the first homerun of the
season in the first inning.
Murphy, Holliday set new school records
Men's track first, women second at Mt. Hood Relays
In the men’s 4x 100 and 4x400 re now rated twelfth in the world in
lays, Clackamas set the fastest time women ’ s pole vault.
in the NWAACC for this year. In
Six-time All-American Rachel
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the sprint medley relay, Trevor Austin ran her fastest time this
Clackamas track teams came up Dodge and Travis King both ran year in the hurdles, good enough
big last Saturday at the Mt. Hood smart, taking first.
for second place.
Relays, taking second in the
The women also did a great job
Mary Murphy won the high
women’s division and first in coming in second.
jump and set a new school record,
men’s.
We ended up second, but we _ 5’8”, in the process. In the 4x100
Tim Morse did a great job in the had some pretty big marks,” said relay, Holliday, Austin, Murphy
long jump and pole vault, qualify Track Coach Jack Kegg. Becky
ing for the NWAACC Champion Holliday won the pole vault and
ships in both events.
broke her old national record by
Clackamas won the men’s 4x800 one inch, to a new height of 13'7".
relay for the third year in a row.
This was the second highest
Trevor Dodge ran a great anchor vault in the whole meet for women
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NWAACC leader in 800M to pull higher than her was the winner of
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off the win for his team.
the men’s pole vault. Holliday is
The Clackamas baseball team
only played two of the four games
scheduled last week, splitting a
doubleheader at Lane CC on Sat
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11-6 score, but coming back be
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second game, winning 3-1. The
other two games on the schedule,
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Clackamas couldn’t quite catch
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The second game started out
much better for the Cougars.
ELENA BORYSKA
and Jazzmin Reece set the mark for
the fastest time in the NWAACC
this year. Their time of49.50 was
also the fifth fastest time in CCC
history. In the 4x400, they are sixth
all-time in school history. They
also lead the rest of the
NWAACC by 15 seconds, proof
that they are significantly better
than the competition. As a team,
these four won the 4x 100,4x200
and 4x400.
With their first and second
place finishes, the Cougars are
looking very good right now.
“That’s a good statement
about our depth and our
strength,” said Kegg. “We
thought we had a good team and
we’ve started to show it.”
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Sophomore Matt Cooksey got CCC
on the board in the second, ripping
a double to left, scoring two runs
to put Clackamas in front.
The game however, belonged to
Shanks on the mound. “One of the
better efforts we have had all sea
son;” said Robinson. “He (Shanks)
really had all of his stuff working
for him; it really kept them off bal
ance.”
Jeff Locke, a freshman outfielder
from Gladstone, was an offensive
spark in the second game as well.
He got the Cougars started in the
second-inning rally with a base hit,
eventually com ing around to score
on Cooksey’s double. Locke
scratched out a base hit in the sixth,
sparking another CCC rally, later
scoring the team’s third run.
Robinson went with a different
lineup in the second game, giving
guys who haven’t played a lot a
chance to show what they had.
“I went with the starters in the
first game, and depending on how
we did was how we would look at
the second. The starters did not
play very well, so we approached
the second game with giving some
others a shot. As it turned out, the
strategy worked. We played more
focused and with more enthusiasm
than we have seen in a while.”
The Cougars, whose record
stands at 5-10 on the season, go
on the road to face Linfield Col
lege in a doubleheader at 2 p.m. on
Thursday. CCC then returns home
to face Chemeketa CC on Saturday
and Linn-Benton CC on Tuesday.
Both doubleheaders begin at 1 p.m.
on the Clackamas diamond.