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6 • LA CK AM A sPritlt Marlow leads way for Cougai Frank Iordan The Clackamas Print Cory Price Clackamas Print The Cougars’ Caitlin Ooley (above) had two three-hit games last week in Clackamas victories. Ooley is just one of many players who have been hitting consistently for the Cougs this season. The Clackamas softball team swept Centralia Junior College and Pierce College and split a doubjeheader with Chemeketa CC in game action last week, solidifying their hold on third place in the NWAACC Southern Division. May 3, the Cougars traveled to Centralia, Wash, and defeated the Trailblazers in two games with scores of 11-0 and 6-0. In game one, sophomore Nikki Winkley led the Cougar offense with two home runs and five RBI, while Caitlin Ooley and Christina Roberti each had three hits. Winkley and Anna Alcala hit back-to-back homers in the sixth inning to highlight a seven-run outburst to put the game away. Holly Marlow tossed a three- hitter, striking out five and allowing no walks on the way to the complete-game victory. Game two was more of the same as Chelsea Koch threw a four-hitter in leading Clackamas to the 6-0 win. The Cougars blew open a close game with five runs in the sixth inning to seal the win. Cijay Koanui had three hits and Ooley had two hits to lead the CCC offense. Friday, the Cougars hosted the second-place Chemeketa Lady Chiefs in a doubleheader and Clackamas got a big two- RBI double from Roberti to help the Cougars to a 4-1 game one victory. “Chemeketa has been one of the hottest teams in the NWAACC lately and we were particularly fired up Friday, because we real ly did play pretty poorly down in Salem earlier in the season,” said Head Coach Paul Fiskum, referring to Chemeketa’s sweep of Clackamas in early April. “We played really well in game one and we came up with some timely hitting.” Marlow threw a seven-hitter, striking out eight Chiefs and only allowing one walk. Erin Snyder had two hits to lead the Cougar offense and Casey Middagh hit her team-leading ninth home run of the year in the third inning, extending her own school record that she set last week. Game two was a real pitch er’s duel, as Koch and Marlow combined to allow 11 hits, but the Chiefs got a run in the elev enth inning to defeat Clackamas 2-1. Chemeketa got a runner on base in the eleventh, then that runner advanced to third on a groundout and a flyout. But the Cougars committed an error to allow the winning run to scorer- CCC’s only run of the game came on a Lanea Hyland RBI single in the first inning, scor ing Ooley, who had singled and stokn second base. “Even though we lost, I feel really good about the effort in game two,” said Fiskum. “We made a lot of clutch play with runners in scoring », throughout the game, J runs we gave up did’ct errors by us.” Saturday, the Cougar on Pierce College in a ( header on the Cougar $ diamond and sent the | back to Tacoma with 4 15-2 losses to Clackamas Marlow tossed a sever with 11 strikeouts, while, hit her third home run of fl son to lead CCC to the4-( one win. Brianna Mon had two base hits to || offense at the plate. In game two, the Con« woke up and took it. Pierce, blowing out the 1 15-2. Ooley led Clar with a 3-3 showing, will runs scored and two RBI Roberti went 2-2 wit runs scored and two R| Mondragon went 2-3 will scored and an RBI. Eight nine starters had at least during the rout. Koch] the first four innings en to the win, striking out fo giving up only two hits, relieved Koch in the fif shut down the Raiders 1- The Cougars have oi doubleheader left in ther season, as they will take Hood CC on Saturday, M on the Cougar softball d with the first pitch at 2 p.i NWAACC tournament i week, with tournament starting on Friday, May 21 tournament will be pla Delta Park in North Porlli First round of NBA playoffs complete Jimi McDonnell The Clackamas Print It’s nice when late April comes around because then the NBA players actually play. No more whining about playing time, bick ering about money, or off-court fiascos. Every player and team still competing has one thing and one thing only on their minds: Kissing that beautiful golden bas ketball and being on top. In the Eastern Conference first round there were some definite lopsided matches. The defend ing champs, the Detroit Pistons, played the Philadelphia ’76ers. Did Philly really think that a playoff run would be the result of acquiring an aging and overrated Chris Webber? The Sixers won one game due to the fact that they got one of the NBA’s best scorers of all time in Allen Iverson, who was averaging 31.2 points per game, but an individual canit beat a team. See ya’ next year, Philly. The Miami Heat were faced up against a hot New Jersey Nets squad, but showed why they are predicted to come out of the East. They murdered New Jersey, sweeping them with ease. Dwayne Wade and Shaquille O’Neal together averaged 41.4 points per game, and with as good role players as the Nets have, these two were just too much for them to handle. The Boston Celtics matched up with the Indiana Pacers and the series went all the way to game seven. With a hot-headed yet defensively dominating Ron Artest suspended for the season, most counted Indiana out of the playoff picture, but the Pacers stepped up to the occasion. Fred Jones, an Oregon native and Barlow High gradu ate, stepped up his play in game seven with a solid 16 points. Reggie Miller, however, was the Not including Nash, the Sims one who really shut the door on had three players combining for the Celtics. an average of over 60 points per The most exciting match-up game, beating the Grizzlies four in the East was the Washington games to one. Wizards against the Chicago The best match-up in the Bulls. Even though Washington West would definitely be the one took the series four games to between the new and improved two, the Bulls amazed many. The Houston Rockets versus the Bulls pulled off one of the most Dallas Mavericks. It went to amazing comebacks in NBA his game seven, after some impres tory. Three-ball after three-ball, sive performances by Houston’s the Bulls kept sinking, quickly .Tracy McGrady. McGrady aver erasing a 22-point deficit, only to aged 30.7 points per game, but it be crushed with a last second shot was just not enough to beat the by Washington’s Gilbert Arenas. star-studded Mavericks. In game In the Western Conference the seven the Mavs were just too San Antonio Spurs played a good much for the Rockets, and elimi Denyer Nuggets team that had nated them by blowing them out just finished the regular season by 40 points. in dominating fashion. But the The second round is full of veteran-led Spurs showed the good match-ups, which should Nuggets that die playoffs are a result in some highly entertain whole different ball game. The ing basketball, so stay tuned or Spurs lost the first game which you might miss out on something brought up some early doubts, incredible. but they then slapped all those doubters in the face by dominating the Second Round Nuggets and winning Match-ups the next four, advancing to the second round. Thfe Seattle Supersonics played a once dominant Eastern Conference Sacramento Kings (1) Pistons (1) Heat squad. Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis com vs. vs. bined for an average of (6) Pacers (5) Wizards 45.1 points per game, which was just too much for a Sacramento team lacking defensive skills. The Sonics elim inated the Kings and moved on to the second Western Conference round. (1) Suns (2) Spurs After a surprise vs. vs. year from MVP Steve Nash, the Phoenix Suns (4) Mavs (3) Sonics matched up against the Memphis Grizzlies. The Suns prevailed, showing that their stel lar season ^as no fluke. 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