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Sports
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WEÓNEsdAy, M ay 50, 2001
Injuries to Fredericks, Morse hurt men's chances to win championship
Women’s track second, men’s team third at NWAACC
FRANKJORDAN
Sports Editor
The Clackamas Cougars’ men’s
and women’s track teams finished
third and second respectively at
the NWAACC Championships
held last week in Spokane.
Clackamas’ combined score of 259
points was also good for second
place overall, behind the Commu
nity College of Spokane.
“I was very happy with the over
all performance of both teams, es
pecially on the women’s side,” said
Head Coach Jack Kegg. “We had
some misfortune on the men’s side,
which cost us some points. But
overall, I was very pleased.”
On the men’s side, a couple of
injuries to key people on the first
day of the meet kept the men from
challenging the title. Isaac
Fredericks, who going into the
meet was the conference leader in
the 100 and 200-meter dashes, was
injured in the 100 preliminaries.
This knocked him out of the meet
and cost the Cougars at least a
chance at two wins and 20 points
for the team.
Tim Morse, the conference
leader in the 110 high hurdles go
ing into the NWAACC, pulled a
hamstring while competing in the
pole vault, knocking him out of the
hurdles. Morse gritted out a tough
win in the pole vault, vaulting 15-5
%, defeating teammate Josh
Cummings, who vaulted 15 feet.
Marcus Cooper finished second
in the high jump, leaping 6-9 3A, and
third in the triple jump, jumping 47-
1 Yi, setting a personal best in the
process by over two feet. Cooper
also ran the anchor leg in both re
lays, helping CCC to first place in
the 4x100 relay and a second place
finish in the 4x400 relay.
In the 4x100 relay, Clackamas
was in second place going into the
final leg, but Cooper took the ba
ton and ran down the conference’s
100 meter champion from Mt.
Hood CC, eventually overtaking
him and crossing the finish line in
a team time of 42.25 seconds.
Tyler Anderson rah personal
bests in the preliminary heats on
his way to a fifth place finish in
the 100 meters and a fourth place
finish in the 200 meters.
Travis King finished second in
the 400 meters with a time of 47.69
seconds, which was only .03 sec
onds off of the Clackamas school
record. King’s time also placed him
in the top five in the nation for jun
ior college sprinters.
Cory Loebl capped off an out
standing season with first place
finishes in the discus and the ham
mer throw. Loebl’s throw of 169-7
in the discus was a championship
meet record and only two inches
off the school record. Loebl set a
personal best in the hammer throw
by over 20 feet, heaving the ham
mer 183-9, which is the second-
best throw in NWAACC history.
Loebl also finished second in the
shot put, losing the conference
championship by only Yi inch.
On the women’s side, Becky
Holliday continued her record
breaking season, winning the pole
vault with a new national junior
college record of 14-4. Holliday
also finished second in the 400
meters with a time of 56.23 sec
onds, placing her second in the
nation in that event. She also ran
a personal best of 25.55 seconds
in the 200-meter preliminaries and
finished third in the 200-meter fi
nals.
Jazzmin Reece finished second
in the triple jump, leaping 35-8 %,
and also finished sixth in the 100
meters. Mary Murphy won the
conference championship in the
high jump, clearing 5-7. Murphy
also finished fifth in both the long
jump and the triple jump.
Krystal Schneider won the shot
put on a sprained ankle suffered
in the preliminaries, throwing 39-9
%. Schneider finished third in the
discus with a toss of 126-6 and
fifth in the hammer throw with a
mark of 131-7.
Whitney Bond also picked up
key points for the women, finish
ing fourth in the high jump with a
leap of 5-1 and sixth in the triple
jump, with a jump of 33-514.
“We got the performances that
I thought that we needed to finish
high in the standings,” said Coach
Kegg. “If not for the injuries to
Morse and Fredericks, the men
would have scored much higher.
We showed a lot of improvement
throughout the entire season, and
it all culminated with the perfor
mances in this championship
meet.”
The women’s team loses a lot of
athletes for next season, while the
men only lose sophomores Loebl
and Cummings. Although the two
male athletes represented a lot of
points to the team, Coach Kegg is
optimistic about next year.
“It has been very fortunate for
us that we have had some big-time
athletes compete here, as far as
reputation is concerned. It helps
us a lot in the recruiting battles.
We have had good luck in attract
ing top-caliber athletes to this col
lege, and if our performances this
year are examples of the kind of
athlete coming to this campus, then
we will be all right indeed.”
Driggers and Borde shine at softball all-star game
DAISY BAIN
Staff Writer
Two of Clackamas’ own partici
pated in the Sophomore All-Star
game last Thursday in Linnwood,
Wash, hosted by Edmonds Com
munity College.
Melissa Borde and Julia Driggers
were part of the South/West league
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team who beat the eastern team 6-
0. Borde played left field and was
one for three at the plate and
scored one of the six runs.
Driggers played the designated
hitter and was one for three at the
plate hitting a double and one RBI.
In game two, the South/West
team competed against the North
ern League all-star team losing 2-
1. Driggers, as catcher, hit a sacri-
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fice bunt in the bottom of the fifth
inniiig that scored the only run of
the game. Borde was 0-1 at the
plate.
“Both kids played real well,” said
Coach Paul Fiskum.
Driggers is currently being re
cruited from George Fox University
but is still not sure where she
wants to attend.
Borde has offers from Western
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Oregon and University of North
Carolina in Pembrook.
Darcy Hertel was also chosen
for the all-star game but could not
attend because of academic rea
sons. Homework had to take pri
ority according to Fiskum. Hertel
has offers from Willamette Univer
sity, Salem and Portland State Uni
versity.
The entire 2001 softball team will
be ending the year with a 3.0 or
above grade point average, which
is the highest the softball program
has seen in years.
“It is an outstanding achieve
ment, I am really proud of the girls,”
said Fiskum.
All four sophomores on the
team will be ending their career at
Clackamas with an Associate of
Arts degree.
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Kim Kellogg, CU alumnus, ncib.
Cathy Lawrence batted .400 at
the NWAACC softball tourna
ment last week. She drove in two
runs with her bat and committed
no errors while playing in the out
field. Lawrence is a freshman at
Clackamas and is a graduate of
LaSalle High School.