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10* T he C lackamas P rint S ports F ebruary 18, 2004 Three Cougars will wrestle at nationals keep hi- focus.” / Terence Huntley finished in T he C lackamas P rint sixth after getting caught in a pin by his opponent in the third place The Clackamas wrestling team match. Huntley h^a a great tour made the trip to Coeur d’Alene, nament, but made just one mistake Idaho, for the Region 18 and it cost him a chance at nation Championships last weekend and als. qualified three athletes for the Coach Haluska praised true national championships to be held freshman Tim Cook from next week in Rochester, Minn. Reynolds High School, who had Shawn Siefke at 165 pounds, three great matches at the regional Chris Kidby at 184 and Bridger in a tough weight class at* 125 Sacher at 197 all qualified by finish pounds. ing in the top four in their respec “Tim has come a long, long way tive brackets at the regional. Sacher from the beginning of the season.. led the Cougar matmen with a He has improved his conditioning regional championship, while and his technique throughout the Siefke took second, losing a tough year and it almost paid off with a final against a trip to Minnesota,” North Idaho said Haluska. “He College wrestler, was just 10 seconds and Kidby fin “Our wrestlers away from going, ished third in his but his opponent each have a class, coming back escaped on him and great shot at after a tough semi defeated him in the final loss to win end of the fourth being national the third-place place match. This champions.” match to go to kid has an outstand nationals. ing future.” Mike Haluska “Bridger by far Cook beat Ben Head Wrestling Coach was in the tough Sevigny in a wresde- est weight class at off to fill the 125 the tournament, pound bracket, so so tough, that in addition to the Sevigny wrestled up a weight at four wrestlers who qualified on the 136. mat in that class, the tournament “Ben thought he could qualify was allowed two wild card wrestlers at the higher weight, so we gave from any bracket at the tourney to him a shot,” said Haluska. “I think go to nationals, so they took the that the competitors that he was fifth and sixth-place guys from the facing were a tittle too big for him.” 197 lb. class,” said Head Coach Mike Maginn had a good tour Mike Haluska. nament, but the coach thought that “Bridger had a great tourna he may have run out of gas by the ment and he needs to keep it up at time he wrestled for a shot at the national meet. He has an out nationals. Maginn finished fifth in standing chance to become a his class, but could go to nationals national champion; he just needs to as an alternative, because the fourth Frank Jordan SARA ATKESON C lackamas P rint Clackamas wrestlers Luis Cisneros (left) and Shawn Siefkie get ready for regionals dur ing a recent practice. Siefkie, Chris Kidby and Bridger Sacher performed well at region als, qualifying for the national championships next weekend in Rochester, Minn. place wrestler from Lassen College separated his shoulder in the fourth place match and may not be able to go to nationals. If the Lassen wrestler can’t go, then Maginn will take his place. Lucas Buyas moved up in weight to wrestle in the heavy weight bracket, where he met some larger competition. “Lucas lost two matches that he could have won, but his opponent in each match was' considerably heavier than Lucas and that may have been the turning point,” said Haluska. “He made a couple of mistakes that cost him in each match, but Lucas only weighs about 1.95, so' he may have been giving up 60-80 pounds in each match. It was tough, but Lucas never gave up and wrestied tough.” North Idaho College won the team race with 94.5 points, with Lassen College finishing second. Clackamas finished sixth in the team race with 24.5 points. North Idaho qualified all 10 of tits wresders for the national' tourney, while Lassen qualified eight of theirs. Haluska believes that either one of these schools has a legiti mate shot at winning the national championship. “North Idaho is loaded, but Lassen will do all right,” he said. “When it comes to the national tournament, whoever isn’t sick, whoever isn’t sore, whoever trains right that particular day is going to win their match. It is that simple. Our wrestlers each have a great shot at being nation al champions. I think that we will do all right next week.” * All-Star game, A-Rod and Sheed: Just CTC for me, Mr. Editor Frank Jordan T he C lackamas P rint Now that a meaningless argu ment has fueled my outrage at the world in general, I have a few things that I want to get off of my chest, before it explodes and caus es a bloody mess. Sunday, many people around the country watched the spectacle better known as the NBA All-Star game. The game itself is just a way for the Association to celebrate its stars and it does a fine job. It is a nice break from the hum-drum of the long NBA season (except for us Blazer fans). The beef with the All-Stat game is this: Why has the city of Portland, with its long-standing franchise in the Association (33 years and counting), NEVER hosted die NBA All-Star game? This franchise has won an NBA championship, made two other appearances in die NBA Finals, and has a passionate love of the: game and its fans. The biggest knock on P-town has been (1) the current reputation of the franchise, a.k.a. the Jail Blazers, and (2) that there is not enough hotel space in and around the Rose Garden arena.- This is a bunch of B.S. and the NBA knows it. They just want an excuse to leave the game in the big media markets so they can make more money. The association needs to make this happen and soon, or it might inspire a serious letter-writing campaign to the league offices in New York. C’mon, Nic, we need to get going on this. Okay. Time for another chest exploding rant. Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod), the quarter-bilhQn dollar shortstop of the Texas Rangers, "has been traded*'to the New York Yankees for Alfonso Soriano, a few minor leaguers and some cash, I’ll say, some $46 million in cash. If I were a Boston Red Sox fan,- I would be so mad that I might want to take Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig hostage and demand that this man be thrown out of baseball for good. Boston and Texas had a perfecdy good trade worked out two months ago, but the commis sioner’s office turned it down. Why? Because Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has Major League Baseball wrapped around his tittle finger and can get away with anything he wants. New York has all of the tradition and it seems that whatever is good for the Yankees is good for the game. That is a load of crap. The Florida Martins proved that last season, and other clubs are doing well with less. I would go on about this more, but it might turn into profanity, and our little paper has enough problems already. Finally, about the trade. Great trade. Glad to see the Blazers do it. I will admit, I loved Rasheed Wallace and his game. But for $17 mil per season, I would have expected more. When he told the media that all the team had to do was “CTC” or “cut the check” at the end of the day, I lost all respect for him as a person. Rasheed should go out and work for a living tike 99.9 percent of his fans have to do, then maybe he would have a new realization about his life. He plays a game for a living, .something that this writer has dreamed about since he was a wee lad. Unfortunately, the Blazers may have to 'kiss this season goodbye. They are 5 ’A games out of a play off berth with 31 games left. They still have to play the Lakers three times, the T-Wolves twice and the Spurs twice: Another trade may be in the offering before tomorrow’s trade deadline, but it would have to be a good -deal to pull the Blazers up to a 22nd consecutive playoff berth. Good luck to my team and, win or lose, I will be pulling for them. Contraception and General Women’s Care • Routine Gynecological Care • Birth Control Options • STD Screenings • Prenatal Care i^OS Division Street, Suite 2Oj? Oregon City, Oregon 770^7 A-ROD 503-657-1071 • www.whcoo.com
