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March 12,2003
The Clackamas Print
Women swept out of NWAACCs
Tina Tate
The Clackamas Print
Now with more real Cougar!
THE FOLLOWING
GAMES ARE ALL AT
HOME
March 28
Chemeketa CC
2 p.m.
April 1
Mt. Hood CC
2 p.m.
April 11
South Puget Sound CC
3 p.m.
April 12
Lower Columbia CC
2 p.m.
The Lady Cougars ended their
league-winning season with two
straight losses at the Northwest
Athletic
Association
of
Community Colleges postseason
championship on Saturday.
Next up, the team’s four soph
omores will represent Clackamas
on the Southern Region All-Star
team.
Cappie
Smith,
Melissa
Gibson, Regina Joo and Morgan
Hayes have all been- selected to
play in the South vs. North All-
Star game, which will be held at
Mt. Hood CC on March 16 at 7
p.m. Clackamas (11-3 league,
22-8 overall) boasts the most ath
letes selected to the ten-person
All-Star roster from the league’s
eight teams. Smith was also
voted First Team All-League,
while Gibson and Joo were
Honorable Mention All-League
recipients.
Clackamas had been picked
•Cougar baseball
showed strength in
pitching, weakness
in defense
Sports Editor
April 1
Mt. Hood CC
1 p.m.
April 8
Lane CC
1 p.m.
Spokane lead. The score was tied
with just a minute remaining, but
a
defensive
mix-up
by
Clackamas with eight seconds to
go resulted in an easy score and a
free throw, putting Spokane up
by three. Ashley Storms took a
last second shot to try and save
the Cougars’ season, but luck
was not on her side. The Cougars
went down 63-60, and Spokane
went on to win two more games
and fifth place.
“The second one was a little
easier to take,” said Martineau.
“After the first loss we knew we
didn’t have a chance at the cham
pionship, but we played a really
good game against Spokane. It
was a disappointing end to a real
ly, really good season; that was
the sad part of it.”
Joo was Clackamas’ second
most active force as she averaged
11.5 points, four rebounds and
three steals in the tournament.
Storms also contributed a strong
all-around effort as she averaged
6.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.5
assists per game.
CC (13-3, 21-9). The Cougars
entered halftime up 36-20 and
appeared to have their higher-
seeded competition under con
trol, but a 19-7 run by the Trojans
over an eight-minute period
helped Everett close the gap.
Everett’s defense proved to be an
antagonist as two 6’3” players
eradicated Clackamas’ inside
game. Everett scored 17 points
off 14 Clackamas turnovers and
influenced Clackamas into a 6-
for-34 shooting performance
from behind the arc to produce
the 67-66 final outcome.
“I think disbelief is the correct
term,” said Head Coach Jim
Martineau. “It was one of those
things where we waited too long
in the second half...They kept
making shots, and we couldn’t
get stops and we couldn’t score.”
Saturday’s game was do-or-
die for the Cougars as they, fated
off with Spokane CC (8-6, 20-
10), the East’s number four seed.
Clackamas resuscitated its three-
point game with a 40 percent
effort to contest an early 15-point
Baseball survives rough weekend on road
Elena Boryska
THE FOLLOWING
GAMES ARE ALL AT
HOME
by the NWAACC/Horizon Air
Coaches’ Poll to win fifth place
at the tournament. Instead, the
Lady Cougars were eliminated
after losing their first two games.
Somer Erickson, a Second
Team All-League award winner
who scored in double figures for
Clackamas in all but three league
games, averaged nine rebounds
and 18 points at the NWAACC
championship to lead the
Cougars. She had the fourth best
rebounding average in the tour
nament and the fifth best scoring
average.
Clackamas, ranked fourth in
the Southern Region at its lowest
point, bolted into a four-way tie
for first after finishing the league
season on a six game winning
streak. The Cougars became the
South’s third seed entering the
tournament after a one-point loss
to Lane CC in a tournament
seeding game.
Clackamas was victim to
another one-point heartbreaker in
Friday’s battle against the
North’s number two seed, Everett
Clackamas baseball had a
rough weekend on the road, only
fielding one win in the four games
played.
On Saturday, March 1 the
Cougars played Columbia Basin
CC and captured a split. Sunday,
Pierce CC handed them two more
losses to bring their league totals
up to two wins and four losses.
Columbia Basin defeated the
Cougars in the first game by a
final of 1-0. Rick Gonzales and
Josh Gaylord provided some great
pitching, according to Head Coach
Robin Robinson, but a walk and a
run scored was all it took for CCC
to fall.
The second half of that double
header turned out a little different
ly, with Clackamas claiming a 6-2
victory. Mo Burgess had a great
outing, going five innings strong,
while Gaylord once again came in
to provide relief. Nik Mason was
2-3 with an RBI, and Jason Chan
went 1-3 with two runs scored and
an RBI.
On March 9, Clackamas took
on Pierce CC but was unable to
win either of the games they
played against them. The first
game was a lopsided 10-1 loss
with Nik Mason on the mound.
Centerfielder Chris Kosmas was
2-3 with a run, Catcher Barry
Humphrey was 1-3 with an RBI
and first baseman Tyler Smith was
1-3.
development, and it was a good
chance to see players in competi
tion.
Overall, Robinson thought that
pitching was very good, hitting
was great on Saturday but only
okay on Sunday and base running
was good. The defense on the
other hand, was less than stellar.
“Defense at times looked like
we have been in the gym too
much,” Robinson said.
Next up for the Cougars is the
Treasure Valley CC Tournament at
Ontario, Ore. on March 21-23.
The Cougars came back to play
the final game of their weekend,
but were once again shot down to
defeat, 6-L Tim Dumas pitched
six great innings and Brad
Neffendorf came in as the reliever.
Humphrey added some offense
and was 2-2, Jesse Gaylord had an
RBI single and Jake Austin had a
drag bunt base hit.
Despite going 1-4 during the
trip, Robinson was still optimistic
about how the weekend went. He
said it was a weekend filled with
team growth, experience and
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April 12
Chemeketa CC
1 p.m.
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1 p.m.
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