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March 9, 2005
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jhe Clackamas softball team
led the 2005 season last
■hay with a doublehead-
|oss to Northwest Christian
lege in Eugene by scores of
land 9-5.
Key [NCC] were really good
I itjshowed; they had already
Led four games and we hadn’t
J our play showed. I think that
fcere kind of nervous, being
Kit game action of the year,”
Head Softball Coach Paul
Kn “It also did not help that
Est game umpire had a six-
Hike zone. Holly [Marlow]
had a heckuva time finding it and
she walked the first three hitters
she faced. One error later, and
we were down 2-0. We couldn’t
catch up.”
Clackamas did fight back for
a couple of runs on six base hits
in the game and their defense
settled down after the first two
innings, not committing an error
in the rest of game one of the
doubleheader.
Marlow took
the loss on the mound for the
Cougars.
Game two, unfortunately, was
more of the same as the Cougars
committed four errors in a 9-5
loss. Chelsea Koch was on the
mound for Clackamas in game
two, but threw five walks in her
six innings of work and they
would come back to haunt her
as the Cougar defense showed
some more early season jitters.
Koch only allowed five hits in
the game.
Freshman Lanea Hyland led
the Cougars on the day with
four hits, including two doubles,
while sophomore Cijay Koanui
had three hits. Casey Middagh
also had three hits, including two
doubles, Christina Roberti had
two hits and Caitlin Ooley went
2-3 with two singles in the sec
ond game.
The
Cougars
will take
on Concordia University in a
doubleheader today at 2 p.m.
at Delta Park in north Portland.
The Cougars will take part in the
NWAACC Preseason Tournament
on Saturday and Sunday, March
19-20 in Pasco, Wash. The first
home game is Tues., March 29
against Grays Harbor College
starting at 2 p.m. on the Cougar
softball diamond.
ugars settle in for promising season
iaiah Creel
Utor-in-Chief .
[thapairof splitdouble-headers
past weekend in The Dalles
hen the baseball season, the
jamas Cougars are optimistic
Bing their potential.
le’re a solid team right now,”
ephomore pitcher Bryan Goff,
re this close to being good.”
|ff pitched a solid six innings
k die Cougars* first game
I Skagit Valley on Saturday.
| relieved Goff in tike seventh
pished out the game to get the
win in extra innings. Mike Veselik
hitagrounderin the 10th toput D.J.
Johnson in scoring position after
Johnson walked on four balls. A
single from first baseman Robert
Badilla scored Johnson, giving the
Cougars a 4-3 victory.
“We just scratched and clawed,” i
said Goff. “[We] just fought tooth
and nail.”
The second Skagit Valley
game resulted in a 3-1 loss for the
Cougars, with Jason Hart picking
up the loss.
“We’re an average pitching
team with the ability to be really
good,” remarked Head Coach
Robin Robinson.
On Sunday, an impotent Cougars
team lost its first game against
Centralia by a final score of 6-1,
but came back strong in the second
game, shutting out Centralia 8-0.
Tyler Liebelt had two hits, as did
Mike McNally, who also contributed
anRBL Josh Breslaw had a hit and
two RBIs of his own, while Badilla
had an RBI and a single as well.
“Wehavesomegoodsophomores
this year, but we’re a young team,”
said Robinson. “This is the best
group of gays in terms of character
we’ve had in a long time.”
The Cougars’ next game is
at Lower Columbia this Friday
at 8 p.m.
I_________
ABOVE: Holly Marlow
(Right) and Kavce
Ernst practice base
running. Marlow’s
defense settled down
later in game one, but
the Cougars couldn’t
make a comeback.
RIGHT: Chelsea Koch
allowed only five hits
in game two, but the
Cougars couldn’t
eaten up.
Photos by Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Print
left Sorensen LVrtrJUinias ltrint
Goff (shown here at a recent practice) started on the mound for game one on Saturday
1st Skagit Valley. Goff pitched six straight innings and contributed to one of two wins.
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