Sports
The ClAckAMAS P rint
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WEdNEsdAy, ApRil 25, 2001
Fredrick, Vergera qualify for NWAACC Championship meet
Men’s track defeats all comers at CCC Invitational
ELENA BORYSKA
Staff Writer
While hosting the Cougar Invi
tational last Saturday, the CCC
men’s and women’s track teams ran
great relays, finishing in the top
five of the meet. The men took first,
the women fourth.
Clackamas won all four relays,
two each for men and women. The
times are the fastest this year for
Clackamas except for the women’s
4x100, which is, the second fast
est.
According to
Head Track Coach Jack Kegg,
these were solid efforts by the
team.
“We’re starting to find out who
is going to be on those teams and
getting our line up nailed down,”
he said. “So they are starting to
respond to that and run together.”
Both mile relay teams are doing
well with the men’s mile relay un
defeated, and the women 20 sec
onds faster than the rest of the
conference.
Even though the relay is a team
effort, the best runs of the week
end came from the anchor legs of
Becky Holliday for the women, and
Travis King for the men.
“Both anchor legs, men's and
women’s, ran incredible closers,”
said Kegg. “The whole team ran
well, but the anchors were amaz
ing”
Holliday ran the fastest time for
a woman at Clackamas, beating a
former teammate who ran the an
chor leg for Western Oregon.
Travis King ran a 47.1 second re
lay leg, which is the fastest relay
leg that Clackamas has had since
Kegg has coached here. King held
MIKE POLLOCK / Clackamas Print
Long-jumper Nicole Austin comes in for a landing on an attempt during Saturday's Clackamas Invitational track meet. Austin's efforts
helped the Cougar women finish fourth during the annual event.
off Lane Community College, who
was the fastest team in the confer
ence before this weekend.
The relays weren’t the only area
that Clackamas excelled in. In field
events, Krystal Schneider took sec
ond in shot put and won the dis-
cus. Cory Loebl won the shot put
with a new personal best of 50’4”.
This was his first time ever to throw
over 50 feet, and he did it twice
during the weekend. Loebl also
broke the old school record that
he set in discus and beat his per
sonal best in the hammer throw.
. It was a “pretty solid competi
tion for him,” said Kegg. “He had a
great day.”
Isaac Fredrick won the long jump
with an NWAACC qualifying mark
of 22’5”. This was the best long
jump that Clackamas has had this
year. Ned Vergara ran his best time
in the 400 intermediate hurdles,
qualifying for the NWAACC Cham
pionships and placing third in the
race. Trevor Dodge ran a season’s
best in the 15 with a time of 3:59;
the first time under four minutes
for the year.
This was a really good meet for
the Cougars to win, especially be
cause it was at home.
“It’s always good to run strong
at home. We really focused on our
relays this weekend,” said Kegg.
“The thing we started out to try
and do was dominate and not let
someone beat us at home in the
relays.”
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Cougar field athlete Cory Loebl lets the javelin fly during the Clackamas Invitational track meet held
Saturday at the CCC track. Loebl set personal bests in the shot put and hammer throw, and broke
his own school record in the discus, helping the Cougar men finish first in the annual event.
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