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Sports CI ac I íamas P rint iE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 WedNEsdAy, N oveniòer 14, 2001 Cross Country Volleyball Brad Brolin Sarah Entenman Freshman from Tigard High School, Tigard Sophomore from Crescent Valley High School, Corvallis Sophomore from Oregon City High School, Oregon City -Finished the year as 2001 women's NWAACC Champion, with a time of 19:09. -Was the number one finisher for the CCC men at NWAACCs. -Setter/Outside Hitter. -Finished 19th at Oregon Cross Country Champions(high school) in 2000. -Led the team to a second place finish at the Southern Region Championships. -Great competitor and hard worker. -His time of 26:16 was good enough for 7th out of all NWAACC men. -Quick to the ball, is very demanding of herself and is a hard worker. -Strong in athleticism, leadership, loyalty and dedica tion. omen win NWAACC Championship, men grab third r ELENA BORYSKA Sports Editor d the 2001 Northwest Athletic jciation of Community Colleges /AACC) championships, the - :kamas women’s cross country i was rewarded with a first-place h, while the men landed at third, d Cross Country Coach Keoni lone was also named the ten’s cross country coach of the alleges from all over the North- including rivals Mt. Hood and ■cane, were at the champion- s, which were held on Nov. 10 iwisville Park in Battle Ground, h. Spokane and Mt. Hood fin- 1 ahead of the Cougar men, but : numbers two and three behind ’ougar women. I thought it went really well,” McHone. ‘They were focused knew what they needed to do.” Kari Rissmiller was the 2001 IXACC champion on the inen’s side. Her time of 19:09 was E than 10 seconds faster than the pber two finisher, Holly Saulie- ■nan. Stacy Hopkins’ perfor- le was a lot better than ex- Kd. She finished in the 12th which was a couple places >nt of the girl that she was aim- or. Rebekah Yancoskie rolled nkle and was visibly in pain, ucked it up and kept running, lone compared her persis- tence to that of Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug. Although everything came to gether for the women, it took some strong performances from them to grab the victory. “There were a couple times in there where it looked like it wasn’t going to turn out the way we wanted it,” said McHone. While the men didn’t come out as NWAACC champions, McHone said that was what they were expecting. “We were aiming for second, but it wasn’t quite our day," said McHone. "I think that we went out brave...knowing that’s what we had to do, and we just didn’t have it.” Brad Brolin was the number one finisher for the men’s team; he finished in the 7th spot overall. Russ Pruden finished right behind him in the 8th position. Mike Schwoebel was next for the CCC men in the 16th place. Pat Searing was the 21st finisher, Ben Oakerman was 24th, Matt Solosabal was 27th and Kyle Holland was 33rd. To gether all of these finishes were good enough for third place out of all of the NWAACC men's teams. Besides a 1st and 3rd finish of his teams, McHone was also hon ored as the 2001 women’s coach of the year. He was slightly sur prised that he won, since it’s only his first year as a head coach. But he Turkey Trot is < ming! te Annual Turkey Trot is coining to CCC Nov. 20. Participants meet at lower level ndall parking lot at 12:10p.m. and must ng one canned food item per entry. The 1 is 2.2 miles in length and there are prize keys for the male and female winners. or prizes will also benanded out. with the CCC women's team win- ning the Southern Region Cham pionships and now the NWAACCs, McHone has shown that he is a deserving recipient. His coach of the year title is also a re flection on how well the Cougar women have done this year. “I think it shows their willing ness to cooperate with each other and work as a team,” said McHone. “They did a really good job of bonding together and show ing support for each other.” After such a successful year as this, McHone is ready to go again next year. With the return of some key runners, next year looks to be very bright for Cougar cross coun- try. “With the return of Kari, Holly PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY KEONI MCHONE and Rebekah, we’ll need a couple of other good girls and we’ll be Kari Rissmiller helped her team win the NWAACC championship by finishing first out of all women runners. set to go again,” said McHone.
