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/S ports 5, 2004 T he C lackamas P rint * 9 ackamas baseball nearly sweeps league leader Lane CC Nic Delzell S ports E ditor zkarhas baseball (8-10 12-17 overall) was able to split with division leading '.C last Saturday. Copgars lost a heartbreak amp one against Lane 6-5. rt stop Jason Chan went 4- two runs scored and one □ase. Cougars went into the nning up 5-3 and. gave up uns for the loss. good day that could have ;rcat,” Head Coach Robin on «id. “Playing Lane, the leader, we out-played them here except out closing 1 the ninth.” Cougars were victorious in wo 5-3 as Chan went 2-2 vo puns scored. Catcher Humphrey smacked a two uble. /an Goff picked up the win che®great,” Robinson said. April ¡29 the Cougars split 1 ann-Benton CC. The s won game one 5-4 as mi th went 2-4 with an RBI Iy Combs went 1 -4 with an >uble and Humphrey went 5 two- runs. id Neffendorf pitched a x innings,” Robinson said. Freshman Cougar basebailer Josh Breslaw steps up to the plate and leans in to try and lay down the bunt during the Cougars blow-out loss against Mt. Hood CC on April 27. The Cougars lost by a score of 16-1. Ncffendorf is leading the Cougar pitchers in wins so far this season; he is 4-2 with a 3.59 ERA. In game two the Cougar offense was held to one run off eight hits as they lost 4-1. Chan went 2-4 and Smith went 2-3. “Johnny Bliss pitched okay, but lost,” said Robinson. “Jack Whipple pitched great in one inning of relief.” Mt. Hood CC was able to sweep the Cougars in a make-up double header on April 27, The Cougars were routed in game one 16-1 and lost game two 2-1. Tuesday, the Cougars played Mt. Hood once again but results were not available at press time. ljuries leave Clackamas softball split NIC DELZELL C lackamas P rint imas softballer Cijay Koanui takes a cut during a recent home game. The softballers are now 1 7-5 in the NWAACC South. ?e Clackamas mil hit the road finished up 3-3 vr the week Frank Jordan e C lackamas P rint Clackamas softball team up-and-down week, split- irec doubleheaders and g one to run their record overall and 17-5 in the ■n Division of the LC. I 27, the Cougars traveled os Bay to take on astern Oregon CC and in ic, Holly Marlow tossed a shutout and got a walk / bases loaded from Cijay to force in the only run of e in a CCC 1-0 victory. e two started out well for the Cougars as they got a bascs- loaded walk from Koanui and an Angie Robert! two-RBI single to give CCC an early 3-0 lead. SWOCC came back with two runs in the third,-three runs in the fourth and a single run in. the fifth to take the 6-3 win. “We played tough all day, but in the end it was a split,” said Head Coach Paul Fiskum; “Chelsea Koch took the loss in game two, but She threw pretty well.” Last Friday» the Cougars came home and took on South Puget Sound CC. Clackamas got solid pitching and some timely hitting to sweep the Clippers by identical 6-3 scores in both ends of the twinbill. Koch tossed a solid game in game one» pitching 6 1/3 innings to pick up the victory, while Nicole Winklcy provided the big blow» hitting her first collegiate home run in the second to spark the Cougars to the 6-3 win. Game two was a seesaw affair, with SPSCC getting a run in the son,” said Fiskum. first, then CCC countering with A two-run error in the first two runs of their own. The inning got the ball rolling for the Clippers added a run in the second Storm and they did not let up in to tie the game, but the 5-0 win over Clackamas got an the Cougars. RBI single from Game two was Koanui in the sec completely the “We played ond, an RBI single opposite of game tough all day, from Kaycc Ernst one, as Clackamas but in the end and a bascs-loaded jumped on the walk from Makenzie back of Marlow, it was a Marincau in the who threw anoth split.” third to give the er outstanding Cougars a 5-3 lead. game, allowing Marincau added only three hits in Paul Fiskum another RBI in the the 6-0 Clackamas Head Softball Coach sixth on a single to victory. cap another 6-3 Monday, it was Cougar win. back on the road Saturday, the Cougars traveled for the Cougars as they traveled to down to Salem to take . on Olympia, Wash., to take on South Chcmekcta CC and followed a Puget Sound for the second time in shutout loss in game one with a four days. Unfortunately, SPSCC shutout of their own in game two pounded out 13 hits in game one, to split the doubleheader. outscoring the Cougars 11-9. “It was.probably the best pitch Koanui provided the Cougars an ing performance against us all sea early spark, hitting her first collegiate home run to give (ICC an early lead. But the Clippers scored five runs on seven hits in the bottom of the sixth inning to take an 11-7 lead, and sur vived a two-run home run from Winklcy in the top of the seventh to get the victory. Again, the Cougars sucked it up and bounced back from a tough game one by jumping all over their opponent in game two, scoring eight runs in the first three innings to take an 8-1 lead, then holding on at the end for the 8-6 win. “We arc battling like heck, that is for sure. The team is focused on the task at hand and they sure working hard ” said Fiskum. “Unfortunately, the injury bug continues to haunt us.” Clackamas closes its home schedule this weekend with dou bleheaders Friday against Mt. Hood CC and Saturday against Lower Columbia College. Friday’s first game begins at 3 p.m. and Saturday’s first pitch is 2 p.m. on the Cougar diamond.
