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Wrestlers battle to second place at
regionals; 8 advance to nationals
Staff Writer
Clackamas hosted the Region
18 Wrestling Championship on
Friday and took second place
behind North Idaho College.
North Idaho finished with 115
points. Clackamas scored 66.5.
Southwestern Oregon CC and
Yakima Valley CC tied for. third
with 50.5 points. Highline CC fin
ished with 12.5 points.
Clackamas advanced eight
wrestlers to the national tourna
ment, which will be held the week
end of Feb. 28 in Rochester, Minn.
The Cougars will be represented in
every weight class except 149 and
174 pounds.
The day’s highlighted match
was between Clackamas’ Bridger
Sacher (197) and North Idaho
College’s Tucker Downey for the
championship title. Having lost
twice to Downey this season, this
was a matchup that Sacher was
training to win — and he did it
with a flourish. Countering an
attempted double-leg by Downey,
Sacher threw Downey to his back
and pinned him — in just a minute
and a half. Sacher also won the
tournament’s Outstanding Wrestler
award.
“(Sacher) pinned his way
through the tournament,” said
Head Coach Lloyd Martindale.
“He did today what we knew he
had in him.”
Another crowd-favorite came
when Ben Sevigny (125) rode out
Highline’s Francisco Gonzalez in
double overtime for third place.
“Ben did a great job,” said
Martindale. “Statistically, about
85 percent of the time that you pick
bottom you’re going to win. So the
opponent picked bottom and we
were able to ride him out, which is
an amazing feat. It’s so rare, you
almost never see it.”
Unseeded Jimmy Crisman (133)
secured an unexpected bid to the
national tournament when, after
winning third place, he came back
to capture “true second” in an 8-5
decision
over
Southwestern
Oregon’s James Mitchell. This
round-robin competition took
place because there were only four
TINA TATE Clackamas Print
Ben Sevigny (bottom) overpowered Highline’s Francisco
Conzalez in double overtime to secure a national bid.
TINA TATE Clackamas Print
Bridger Sacher (top) gets the crowd riled up with a dramatic pin over North Idaho’s Tucker
Downey for a first-place victory. Downey was named the tournament’s Outstanding
Wrestler and is one of eight Clackamas wrestlers going to the national tournament.
wrestlers at 133 pounds (instead of
five).
“(Crisman) wrestled better than
he had all year. He was using all
his moves and was hitting every
thing,” said teammate Dan
Pownall.
Sean Bolen (141) took second
after losing by technical fall to
North Idaho’s Chris Nedens, who
Martindale predicts will win the
national title.
“I wrestled him up at North
Idaho and he stuck me up there,
and I was hoping I could get him
here in the finals. I didn’t get off to
a good start,” said Bolen. “[But] I
feel good going into nationals. I
want to be an All-American this
year.”
Third-seeded Michael Fisher
(157) also emerged with a second
place finish after losing a 6-2 deci
sion to North Idaho’s Stryder
Davis.
“It’s always disappointing when
you work so hard and then you
lose, but he was training to beat
me, and I was training to beat
him,” said Fisher.
Derrick Bollier (165) placed
“(Sache#
pinned his way
through the
tournament"
; Lloyd Martindale
Head Wrestling Coach
third by a 6-3 decision over
Southwestern Oregon’s Matt Bray.
“I split the season with him,”
said Bollier. “I won one, then he
beat me, and now I’ve come back
to win. They were all one- or two-
point matches, so I knew it would
be close.”
Heavyweight Chris Henry won
a 2-0 decision over Southwestern
Oregon’s Steve Seratos for third
place.
“I had a couple tough matches,
but I think I did all right,” said
Henry. “I’m feeling pretty good
about going to nationals. It’s kinda
scary wrestling for third and fourth
— you Win the match, you go; you
lose, you don’t. And I won.”
Austin Lawrence (184) took
third by technical fall over Yakima
Valley’s Pat Walsh in a weight
class that automatically qualified
only two for the national tourna
ment. However, he was one of five
wildcard selections chosen by the
coaches and will advance.
“The guys have really had to
buckle down to get where they’re
at right now, and I’m proud that
they did,” said Martindale. “They
earned what they got today — they
did a good job.”
Johnson proposes solutions to decreased budget
• Increasing tuition is
one of many pro
posed strategies to
offset fiscal crisis
News Editor
On top of an $8 per credit hour
tuition increase recommendation, a
number of budget strategy propos
als have been added to compensate
for this year’s projected financial
shortfall.
The first proposal, if passed,
will transfer $200,000 from
Clackamas’
Utility
Training
Alliance funds (a reserve account
to repay the bond funds that were
used
for
construction
in
Wilsonville) into the general col
lege fund as revenue in this “peri
od of fiscal crisis,” according to
President Joe Johnson’s February
2003 Budget Update Proposal.
Secondly, “the three employee
associations have been asked to
begin discussions about achieving
a $200,000 salary savings by
increasing the 2003-04 salary
schedule by 2.5 percent to cover
the 2.1 percent cost of living fig
ures and eliminate the one percent
additional increase for 2003-04,”
according to Johnson’s proposal.
Changes will affect several
open positions, such as eliminating
a vacant custodial position. The
duties of the president’s executive
assistant, the deans’ assistants and
the Human Resources staff will
also all be reorganized to achieve
more savings.
“In addition, one classified sup
port staff will be transferred from
the ELC (Environmental Learning
Center) to cover some of the reor
ganized functions,” according to
the proposal.
For more added help, the
Clackamas Community College
Foundation will fund $44,000 in
tuition waivers that were previous
ly funded by the college.
Finally, in an upcoming Board
meeting this March, President Joe
Johnson said he will recommend
that the cunent number of exempt
staff be reduced by eliminating
four administrative positions.
The four people occupying
these positions are: Director of the
Environmental Learning Center,
John LeCavalier, Director of
Marketing
and
Community
Relations, Geoff Knapp, the Grant
Administrator/Coordinator
for
Customized
Training
and
Development
Services,
Lisa
Tomlin and Director of Software
Development, George Coombes.
Services provided by the affected
areas will be reorganized and
delivered in alternate ways, while
certain duties will be reassigned to
those remaining on staff.
“If there are additional 2002-03
state funding reductions, we will
offset those losses by reducing
maintenance expenditures in the
general fund and paying for them
out of the bond or tapping
Bookstore or Utility Training
Alliance reserves,” Johnson wrote
in the budget proposal. All areas
are encouraged to save and spend
wisely while alternative funding is
sought.