November 13, 2002
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Saturday,
November 16
vs. Walla Walla @
1:30 p.m. HOME
Wednesday,
November 13
vs. Linn-Benton @
7 p.m. HOME
Thursday, Friday
and Saturday,
November 21-23
NWAACC
Championships at
Spokane,
Washington
Friday, November
15 Dual with
Yakima Valley CC
@ 5 p.m. Home
Thursday,
November 21
Dual with North
Idaho College @
7:30 p.m. HOME
Saturday,
November 23 at
Southern Oregon
Open in Ashland
Cougar volleyball snatches two
road wins, preps for postseason
Tonight's home match against Linn-Benton marks the end of the 2002
regular season for Clackamas; brings 34-15 record into the match
Sports Editor
After winning a league match
hosted by Umpqua CC on Nov. 9, the
Clackamas volleyball team sat with a
7-4 league record and the eighth
place ranking in the Northwest
Athletic Association of Community
Colleges (NWAACC) coaches poll.
The Cougars won the match by
scores of 30-25,30-25,25-30 and 30-
21, and helped to gain momentum as
the team gears up for the end of the
season. Ashley Cadotte led the
Cougar attack with 15 kills, Hayley
Bentz had 13 kills, Lindsay Shiely
had 10 kills and three aces and Jaime
Herrera had five kills, 15 assists and
10 digs.
The day prior, Clackamas traveled
to Southwestern Oregon CC and
claimed their sixth league victory.
SWOCC went down in four games,
by scores of 34-32, 30-20, 27-30 and
30-22. Some of the statistical leaders
were Sheily with 15 kills, a 34% kill
efficiency and five blocks; Cadotte,
who had 13 kills; Bentz with seven
kills and Tara Andrews, who had 31
assists, 14 digs and four aces. The
Cougars were also really balanced
with their digs, with Abrah Pond,
Ashley Walbridge, Bentz, and
Herrera all racking up 13 apiece.
Getting both wins on the road
against SWOCC and Umpqua was
something that the Cougars haven’t
done in at least three years, and this
time it helped qualify them to go to
the NWAACC Championships on
Nov. 21-23.
“We had a good game after a long
ride down there,” Head Coach Kathie
Woods said. “The girls played with
intensity and it was nice to have two
wins on this road trip.”
Before this game, Clackamas
played a tournament at Shoreline CC
on Nov. 1-2. CCC claimed the con
solation title, which was equal to third
place. On the first day of the tourna
ment, the Cougars beat Skagit Valley
CC and Walla Walla CC, with both
opponents averaging less than 20
points per game. But they hit a road
block on the next day when they fell
to Chemeketa CC, 30-21, 10-30, 21-
30 and 26-30. Though Chemeketa
snapped their streak of wins, the
Cougars went on to defeat Grays
Harbor CC and Skagit Valley again to
finish third behind Shoreline and
Chemeketa.
Some of the big performances
assists and a 100% serve percentage.
Sheily led the offense with 12 kills
and also came up with nine blocks,
Herrara had 26 digs and Abrah Pond
had 18 total digs.
After all of these games were com
pleted, the Cougars were sitting with a
34-15 record overall and were tied for
third place in the Southern Division
with their next opponent, Linn-Benton
CC . These two teams will square off
tonight at 7 p.m. in the Randall Gym.
The winner of this match will go to
the playoffs as the third seed in the
NWAACC tournament, which takes
place Nov. 21-23 in Spokane, WA.
“ThegMs
played with
intensity and it
was nice to-
have two wins
on this road
Wp. Kathie Woods
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Volleyball
Coach
came from Shiely, who had 33 kills
and 19 blocks; Walbridge, who
stepped in as a setter and had 10 kills
with zero errors and a 40 percent set
ting percentage and Lori Free, who
finished with 32 kills.
On Oct.30, the Cougars played a
home game against Chemeketa and
lost in five matches, 30-22,30-25,17-
30,24-30 and 10-15. They dominated
the first two games, but found them
selves in a tight situation on the third
and never quite recovered. The
Cougars have a habit of stumbling as
soon as a team gets them in a tight sit
uation, and they can’t really recover.
Andrews had a nice game with 22
DICK CLOUSER Contributed
Abrah Pond hits the ball back over the net at a game
that the Cougars played in last week. After two big wins
this weekend, Clackamas now has a league record of 7-
4, and will be playing their final game of the 2002 reg
ular season at home tonight against Linn-Benton CC.
Soccer: first playoff game will be at home
Friday, Saturday
and Sunday,
November 29-
December 1
Thanksgiving
Tournament HOME
Friday, November
22
vs. Concordia
University JV @
7 p.m. HOME
continued from page 10
“We just started a little flat, a
little unorganized, and they capi
talized on that,” Nelson said.
“They got two quick goals and
then we started playing our
game, dominating and playing
well, but we couldn’t finish. I
think we just had too many
things to think about. We already
“No matter >
how we end,
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season for a £
first-year
Bam,”
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Tuesday,
November 26
vs. Linfield JV @
6 p.m. HOME
Soccer Coach
knew we were in the playoffs,
and a lot of these girls have
never been in a playoff situation
before; a lot of them have never
been on winning teams. So I
think there was just so much
going on that it was really hard
to stay focused for this game, as
much as we tried not to talk
about the playoffs.”
Now that all of the league
games
are
completed,
the
Cougars are getting ready for the
playoffs by having a solid week
of practices and preparing for the
playoff atmosphere. As the regu
lar season champion of the
Southwestern
Division,
Clackamas will no doubt be feel
ing some extra pressure, but they
certainly won’t be needing some
extra motivation.
“We have a playoff game, and
it’s a ‘you win, you move on, if
you don’t you’re done,’” Nelson
said. “So there’s a lot of motiva
tion right there to do well. I think
we’ll be ready for the game.
“I’m pretty happy with overall
how we’ve done. I think we’ve
gotten a lot farther than anybody,
probably
including
myself
thought we’d do. No matter how
we end, it’s going to be a suc
cessful season for a first-year
team. Yeah, we want to get to
that final game, and yeah, we
want to win it... we’ll see.”
The Cougars will take on
Walla Walla CC in the first round
of the NWAACC soccer playoffs
on Sat., Nov. 16 at 1:30 p.m. on
the Clackamas campus.
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