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N ovember 19,2003
T he C lackamas P rint • 11
CHRISTINE MCHONE contributed
Clackamas Cross Country celebrates their finish at the NWAACC championship. Pictured from left to right: Ashley Adams, Eli Nevarez, Samantha
Cox, Issac Guzman, Lyndsey Bartell, Leslie Bartell, Juanita Curry, Jeremy Branson, Tiffany Passi, Hipolito Gonzalez, John Butkey, Ira LaFontaine and
Ben Dowdy. The Cougar men’s and women’s teams both placed second overall. The Cougar runners also won the co-ed combined title.
Cross Country runs away with combined team title
Nic Delzell
S ports E ditor
A stellar performance at the
Northwest Athletic Association of
Community Colleges (NWAACC)
championships ended the 2003 sea
son for Clackamas Cross Country.
“Overall at the NWAACC’s, we
raced well as a team,” said Head
Coach Keoni McHone.
The championships were held on
Nov. 8 at Spokane Falls Community
College; participating NWAACC
schools were Clark, Lane, Highline,
Spokane, Mt. Hood, Bellevue,
Treasure Valley and Skagit Valley
community colleges.
The Cougar runners took home
second place on the men and
women’s side. The women finished
with a team score of 56, just behind
champion Clark CC. The men fin
ished with a team score of 59 behind
the team champion Spokane CC.
Spokane has won the NWAACC
team title three years in a row.
According to McHone, Spokane’s
cross-country program is not far
behind some of the Division One
schools that Clackamas and Spokane
competed against earlier this year.
The Cougars were able to come
home with the co-ed combined team
title. The men and women’s com
bined team score was 115.
According to www.nwaacc.org,
no other NWAACC team has won
the co-ed combined title without
winning the team title.
Jon Butkey led the men, finishing
5th overall with a time of 25:44.
“Butkey has a winner’s type atti
tude. He’ll do whatever needs to be
done and is really confident under
pressure,” said McHone.
Isaac Guzman and Eli Nevarez
finished 10th and 11th respectively.
Hipolito Gonzales finished 15th with
Ira Lafontaine just behind him in
18th place, Jeremy Branson in 41st
and Ben Dowdy finishing in 43rd
place. Dylan Bailey of Highline CC
took home the men’s individual title.
Butkey, Guzman and Gonzales
will return to help next year’s men’s
team.
Leslie Bartell led the women,
with a 4th place finish and a time of
19:53. Lyndsey Bartell and Tiffany
Passi finished 8th and 9th respec
tively. In 13th place was Ashley,
then Samantha Cox in 27th and
Juanita Curry finished in 29th place.
Highline CC’s Amanda Kamm won
the women’s individual title.
“The women were very competi
tive...even though they didn’t win
the NWAACC’s,” said McHone.
Next year’s women’s team will
be loaded with experience; all of the
women are freshman and will return
to next year’s crew.
McHone is happy with his team’s
chemistry as well the success the
runners had this year.
“They really conducted them
selves well as teammates,” said
McHone. “Everybody did a good
job of respecting each other and
understanding each other as well as
getting a grasp on each other’s dif
ferences. That positive attitude
helped everyone be the best they
could possibly be...they really sup
ported each other.”
The entire Cross Country team
will also participate in track this
year, which takes place during
spring term.
Upcoming Sports:
Women’s Volleyball
NWAACC Championship
Nov. 21-23 in Auburn, WA
Women’s Basketball
Thanksgiving Tourney
Nov. 28-30 @ Mt. Hood CC
Men’s Basketball
Concordia JV
Nov. 22 @ HOME 7:30 p.m.
Wrestling
Southern Oregon Open
Nov. 22 in Ashland,OR
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EARL ENGLAND C lackamas P rint
The women’s soccer team works out in a recent practice. The Cougars lost to North
Idaho College 3-2 in an overtime shootout on Nov. 8, ending the Cougars’ season.
Soccer loses to North Idaho in playoffs
Frank Jordan
T he C lackamas P rint
The Clackamas soccer team suf
fered through a heart-breaking
overtime loss to North Idaho
College on Nov. 8, missing three
shots in the shootout and losing by
a score of 3-2.
Kaitlin: Mitchell of North Idaho
scored just 34 seconds into the
game to give the Cardinals the early
lead. The Cougars’ Ashlee Strahan
scored the equalizer' in the 16th
minute bn a 'feross from Megan
Moore.
The teams went into the halftime
break tied at one, but North Idaho
took a 2-1 lead in the 67th minute Cardinals a 2-0 lead in the shootout.
on a goal by Rebecca Thompson.
After Walker made a save on
Clackamas tied the game at two in Clackamas’ fourth shot in the
the 74th minute on a goal by shootout, the game was over and
Moore, with an assist credited to North Idaho went back to Coeur
D’Alene, Idaho with the 3-2 win.
Cheyenne DeAngelo.
“We had a tough game, but the
Both teams remained scoreless
through the rest of regulation play girls battled the whole game,” said
and the two 15-minute overtime Head Coach Tracy Nelson. “I
periods, which sent the game into a couldn’t be more proud of them.
b.est-of-five penalty kick shootout They came a long way from the
beginning of the season and sur
to decide the winner.
North Idaho goalkeeper Krysti prised a lot of people.”
Last weekend, North. Idaho won
Walker made saves on the Cougars’’
first two shots in the shootout,: their second Northwest Athletic
of
Community
whilé ■ thé Cardinals’ Chelsey Association
Zenner scored on North Idaho’s Colleges . (NWAACC) champi
second shot. Erica Hauck scored on onship in the last three years with a
1-0 win over Highline CC.
North Idaho’s third shot, giving the
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