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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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