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WedNEsdAy, ApRil 24/2002 The ClACkAMAS P rìnt Personal records broken, men win at Invite J J. PEARSON Staff Writer J.J. PEARSON / Clackamas Print Dasha Wakefield set personal records in both the javelin and pole vault Saturday. She tossed the javelin 110feet, 8 inches and vaulted an NWAACC-leading 12 feet, 1 inch. The Cougar Invite was held on campus Saturday, April 20, and the men’s team had a very strong showing against several four-year schools, finishing in the top spot, while the women had good indi vidual efforts but finished last as a team. The track coach, Jack Kegg, said his team isn’t very deep in each event, but they have at least one excellent athlete who consis tently finishes in first or second place, boosting the overall score for the team. The Cougars are more than halfway through the track season and have qualified 19 of 28 men and 12 of 15 women for the upcoming Northwest Athletic As sociation of Community Colleges championships. “Our goal is to qualify 25 men and all 15 of the women,” said Kegg. He added that there has never been a single team to qualify the maximum 25 competitors for the NWAACC championships. “They implemented the maximum 25 rule (several years ago) because pre viously we have qualified more than that.” Isaac Frederick, at 21.70 sec onds, blazed the track in the men’s 200-meter dash and finished first, two-tenths of a second ahead of Portland State’s Anthony Robinson. Clackamas’ Rusty Pruden placed second in the men’s 1500 at 3:58.64, which is the fast est time in the conference this year. In the same event, Matt Solosabal’s time (4:04.34) qualified him for the NWAACC champion ships. In the field events, Paul Etter, who is rated the best freshman and third overall in the nation for jun ior colleges in the hammer throw, finished second with a throw of "Our goal is to qualify 25 men and all 15 of the women (for the NWAACC Championships)." Jack Kegg Head Track Coach 185 feet, 1 inch. Etter also finished second in the shot put and first in the discus. It was a four-inch im provement on his discus throw and a two-inch improvement in the shot put. Dasha Wakefield vaulted a per sonal best of 12-1 in the women’s pole vault, which ties her with team mate Sara Rowse for the highest mark in the conference this sea son. Wakefield improved in the javelin, throwing 110-8. Kegg said she has been working hard to im prove her javelin throw for the up coming heptathlon meet next Mon day and Tuesday at Lane Commu nity College. Kari Rissmiller ran 10 minutes, 34 seconds to first-place in the women’s 3,000, which was her per sonal best time and it placed her eighth on Clackamas’ all-time list. Stacy Hopkins (11:26.50) and Jennie Hardie (11:31.40) had NWAACC qualifying times in the event. Tiana Setser set several high marks in the women’s triple jump, including the third-best leap of all time at Clackamas. In addition, it was an NWAACC qualifier and is the best jump in the conference this year. Because of hardships, it was Setser’s first meet in nearly two years. She just became eli gible to participate on Friday, April 19. The men’s and women’s track teams have several meets to attend this weekend and early next week. Some athletes will be heading to Eugene to participate in the Uni versity of Oregon Invitational, oth ers will go to the Western Oregon Open, and some will simply rest for Monday and Tuesday’s heptathlon and decathlon events at Lane, which are crucial in quali fying for the Southern Region and NWAACC championships. To reach J.J. Pearson e-mail doublejay67@hotmail.com or drop by B-104. Cougar baseball tries to climb out of a slump ELENA BORYSKA for the rainouts of April 16. Jeremiah Beckert went out and pitched a good game, grabbing the win and snap fter several players went ping the losing streak that Clackamas down with injuries, the had fallen into. Beckert only gave baseball team lost three up seven hits, walked two and out of four games on the road, struck with out three, while getting some a one-point margin on each loss. strong offense from Scott Hunter, After the losses, the Cougar men Matt Paulsen and Jesse Gaylord. After coming back from a one-run had a record of 5-11 in league deficit going into the seventh, it games. • To start the road trip, the Cou looked as though the Cougars were gars went to Southwestern Oregon about to sweep the Sunday double Saturday, April 20, to play a regu header as they led 4-2 going into larly scheduled doubleheader. Al the bottom of the seventh. though the Cougars got pretty But somehow Southwestern came good offense. out of J.R. back to retake the game, winning 5- Richardson, who was two-for-four, 4. Jordan Denney pitched a great and Colin Griffin, who was a per six innings, according to Head fect five-for-five with two RBIs, Coach Robin Robinson. Paulsen they left 12 men standing on base, came in to relieve him and ultimately waiting to come home. This in picked up the loss. Dewey Steinmetz ability to score helped Southwest hit a home run as well as a double, ern overtake Clackamas by one but Clackamas still left six men on point, making the final score a very base. For the Cougars, this was their close 5-4. The second half also went 16lh loss of the season, and they are Southwestern’s way. While the now at the basement of the South Cougars had seven hits, they left ern Region of the NWAACC stand eight men on base. Beau Holstad ings. The next baseball games the was two-for-four and Tom men played were on Tuesday, April Henderson was two-for-three with 23, on the home diamond. The Cou two RBIs, but they were unable to gars lost the first game by a score of lead their team over Southwestern, 6-5, but results of the second were unavailable at press time falling again 5-4. To reach Elena Boryska e-mail The Cougars came back the next day to play Southwestern crazyforlance@hotmail.com or once again, this time to make up drop by B-104. Sports Editor A PHOTO BY MIKE POLLOCK Josh Gaylord pitched against the Mt. Hood Saints on April 23, where Clackamas added to their 16 losses with the Saints holding on to the win with a score of 6-5.
