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bounce, bounce! Cougars Trisha Little (left) and Kate O’Brien (4) wait for the ball to drop at last Saturday’s NWAACC quarterfinal game,
igars defeated Treasure Valley CC 3-0 as Cougar footballer Vicky Rodríguez scored all three Clackamas goals. This weekend, Nov. 20-21,
gars will participate in the NWAACC Championships held at Tukwila, Wash.
lackamas still making history
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i history was made last
when the women’s
¡am defeated Treasure
'C 3-0, ensuring the
their first trip to the
C semifinal game.
r Head Coach Tracy
was pleased with the
but said|that there is
■ improvement, as the
ids into the semifinal
k weekend.
pdn’t posses the ball as
re have in the past, but
hat we wanted by get
ting the win and the shutout,”
Nelson said.
The game was scoreless until
the 28-minute mark, when
freshman Tianna Medurri was
fouled in the goalie box and the
Cougars were awarded a penal
ty shot. The team’s leading
goal-scorer, Vicky Rodriguez,
fired the free kick into the lower
right comer of the net giving
the Cougars their first goal in
this year’s playoffs.
Moments later, the Cougars
scored again, when Rodriguez
put on a picturesque move on a
Treasure Valley defender and
lobbed the ball into the goal
box. Ashley Webster was able
to put a foot onto the pass from
Rodriguez to give the Cougars a
2-0 lead heading going into
halftime. ’ *
Rodriguez added her second
goal in the second half to give
tiie undefeated Cougars a well-
deserved win.
The Cougars will face
Spokane College in their semi
final game this Saturday. Like
Treasure Valley, Spokane is
from the Northeast Division of
the NWAACC.
“We got a good idea how the
North division plays,” Nelson
said. “They’re big, aggressive
and direct.”
Clackamas will be the No. 1
team out of the four remaining
teams in the postseason.
Northeast Division Champion,
Walia Walla CC, lost in their
quarterfinal game to Tacoma
CC.
Coach Nelson was surprised
to see that Walla Walla lost, but
as she has said before, anything
can happen in the playoffs.
“[This weekend] we have to
come out and play the best we
have played all year. All the lit
tle things become so big, and
one mistake can cost you the
game,” Nelson said.
Heading into the final week
end of the season, the Cougars
are healthy and ready to bring
home their first NWAACC
championship. The only injury
concern comes from Medurri.
Late in the second half of
Saturday’s win, Medurri was
elbowed in the face by an oppo
nent and was forced to leave the
field and head to the hospital.
Medurri should be ready to play
this weekend, despite the stitch
es she received under her left
eye.
The team said they would
like to thank all the fans who
showed up to cheer them on in
their quarterfinal victory. The
team emphasized that the fan
support really meant a lot- to
them.
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losting a takedown tournament
5 on Saturday, Clackamas
made their way to Forrest
rnday for Pacific University’s
mament, where they showed
dividual placement despite an
:am loss.
pen tournament hosted several
is from the area, including
y of Oregon, Oregon State,
Oregon,
and
Pacific
y themselves, as well as a
>f unattached individuals who
p for the tournament just to
right spot for Clackamas this
was 141-pound wrestler Shane
ho wrestled some heavy com-
md finished well into the top
is bracket.
beat a four-time Montana state
1,” said Clackamas Head
ike Haluska, “twice, actually.”
s most surprised by Octavio
i],” said Clackamas Assistant
Coach Lloyd Martindale, “he stepped
up and wrestled well. He can do some
great things for this team.”
Mendoza, according to Martindale,
wrestled six matches on Sunday, which
amounted to a very long day for the
149-pound wrestler.
Following an arguably busy week
end, the coaching staff still has high
hopes for their wrestlers, and they still
have their eyes set on the champi
onships at the end of the year.
“We had some guys out that didn’t
wrestle ‘cause they were beat-up from
Saturday,” said Martindale, “but the
guys that were stepping in and wrestling
wrestled well.”
There’s no official word on when
Tim Cook will be wrestling again after a
shoulder injury last week. Haluska says
he’s butting heads a little with Cook
because Cook wants to wrestle despite
his shoulder, but his injury, according to
Coach Martindale, is one that still needs
some time to heal.
Clackamas will be hosting a dual
meet against North Idaho tomorrow in
Randall Hall at 7 p.m., and will be head
ed to Southern Oregon University on
Saturday.
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The official looks on as Clackamas wrestler Alex Bubb (bottom) grap
ples with his competition at last week’s home match.
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