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May 11,2005
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lending a nine-game skid two
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jiesday, Clackamas traveled
|e to take on toe Lane Titans
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unfinished match-up started
k inning, with toe score tied
apiece. The Cougars were
peat out toe Titans in two
[play and won toe contest 4-
Galbraith earned toe win, but
|’t be his last of toe day.
The first game of the doubleheader
was a pitcher’s duel, with Galbraith on
the hill again for the Cougs. Galbraith
allowed Lane two hits throughout die
contest, but the Titan pitchers matched
him inning-for-inning until the top of
toeeighlh.
Mike Veselik led off the Cougars
eighth with a single; he was then
advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt
by Frank Palletta. Following Palletta,
Josh Breslaw was hit by a pitch and
Lucas Pfaller walked. A force play at
home got Veselik out, but die Cougars
still had the bases loaded with two
gone. Robert Badilla stepped into the
box next and fought off a full count
to earn a walk, giving Clackamas a
1- 0 lead.
Galbraith completed the game in
the ninth, earning his second win of
the day. Veselik ended the day going
2- 4 fiom the plate, including a double,
and Badilla went 1-2, with two walks
and that much needed RBI.
“There has been so much pressure
on us to win, that we forgot how to
have fun,” Breslaw said. “We found
that today, and were able to play our
game.”
In game two toe Cougars got on
the board first with a three-run out­
burst in toe top of toe third. In toe
seventh, Clackamas was able to strike
again when Breslaw knocked in DJ
Johnson with an RBI single, giving
toe Cougs a 4-0 lead heading into toe
final half-inning of toe game.
hi toe bottom of toe seventh,
Cougar pitcher Jason Hart found him­
self in trouble for toe first time of day
and was relieved by Brian Goff after
giving up consecutive singles to lead
off toe inning.
Goff was able to come in and pre­
serve toe win for Hart and toe Cougars,
only giving up two unearned runs in
toe 4-2 Clackamas victory. Badilla
was toe big man at toe plate for toe
Cougars, going 2-3 with an RBI.
‘Man, our dugout was so loud—
toe loudest it has been all season,”
Hap Purden said. “It was awesome.”
On Saturday, Mt Hood came
to town and in turn would end toe
Cougars’ winning streak in game one
and start a losing streak for Clackamas
in game two.
The first game of the twinbill was
a nail biter, with the Cougars getting
on the board early with two runs in the
first inning thanks to Tyler Liebelt’s
RBI double and Mike McNally’s run­
scoring single.
Hap Pindén started on the mound
for the Cougars and was able to keep
Hood in check, only allowing one
run through the first five innings of
play. Going into the top of the sixth,
Clackamas held a slim 3-1 lead while
Jack Cole relieved Purden.
Cole allowed the visitors to score
one run in the sixth and seventh
innings, which nodded up the score
at three. In the top of the eighth, Mt
Hood had two outs and no one on.
But Cole gave up a double followed
by a single, giving Hood the lead for
good.
Breslaw and Liebelt were impres­
sive from the plate, going 2-4 and 3-4,
respectively for the Cougars, while
McNally drove in two of the three
Cougar runs in the loss.
Game two was a nightmare for
the home team and the losing pitcher,
Brian Goff. Goffallowed three runs in
the top of the second and was pulled.
Chris Burke relieved the starter, but to
no avail, giving up three runs of his
own in the top half of the third.
The Cougars only got five hits for
the game, with Breslaw getting three
of those. After Hood had jumped to
the 6-0 lead, Clackamas wasn’t able
to put anything together and never
cut the lead to less than four. By file
end, Hood had added four more runs,
while Clackamas chipped away but
still lost 10-5.
“This whole season has been up
and down,” Purden said. “From here
on out we are just going to go out
there and have fun and play some
ball.”
The Cougars currently stand in
fifth place in the Southern Division,
and in order to have a chance for toe
playofls they will need to achieve
third They sit three-and-a-half games
out of that spot with six games remain-
The Cougars
won three
games on
the road
last Tuesday
versus Lane.
However,
on Saturday
Clackamas
was shut
down twice
by league
leader Mt.
Hood. The
Cougs have
six games
remaining in
the season,
including two
at home on
May 17 versus
SWOCC.
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Monday and Tuesday of
ek Clackamas sent four
[athletes to Spokane Falls
kompete in the NWAACC
lion
and
Decathlon
Inships.
I Hoppie and Lucas Ohmes
pond and third in toe decath-
| finished with point totals
I and 5,971; Hoppie also
fine as toe Southern Region
I Sean Jones and Kevin
In placed eighth and 12th,
[ely.
Saturday toe Cougs went
lie to compete in toe Ken
n Invite at Husky Stadium.
| meet went really well for
p Coach Jack Kegg. “Only
[our athletes didn’t record
1 or season best, and one
I still finished first in their
ther Clackamas athlete that
bed extremely well. was
Arndt. Last week Awidt
p two personal bests, and
bk he did it again. Arndt
[the shot-put 50.09 feet,
pg his personal record and
pg the best distance in the
KC this year.
[id [Arndt] has just been
I these past few weeks,”
|gg. “He’s really blowing
I all these personal records
■suit.”
■Nelson was another to
h season best. He ran toe
110-meter hurdles in 16.79 sec­
onds, taking first in the race.
Other Clackamas first-place
finishers were Chris Dilley in the
hammer throw, flight one, and
David Arndt in toe hammer and
discuss throw, both flight two. Kyle
Steele placed first in the shot-put.
Emma Ward took first in section
two of the 100-meter dash, Adam
Miller took first in section three of
the 100-meter dash, and Josh Gehl
did as well in the 200-meter dash.
Tiffany Passi went home in first as
well, competing in section two of
the 800-meter run.
The five Clackamas athletes
that competed in the men’s 100-
meter dash all recorded season’s
best.
“All these personal bests, sea­
son records, and first place fin­
ishes shows this team is really
coming around,” said Kegg. “I
feel that heading into toe Southern
Region Championships we’re in
really good shape and will per­
form strongly, and I feel the
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In the past two weeks,
Cougars thrower David
Arndt (left) has achieved
personal records in both
the shot-put and ham-
- mer throw. Coach Jack
Kegg says that Arndt has
been simply amazing
these past few weeks
as the track post-sea-
son approaches for the
Cougs.
Photo couresty of Keoni McHone
same way about the NWAACC
Championships.”
The next Cougar track event
will be the Southern Region
Championships this weekend at
Lane C.C. in Eugene. Clackamas
looks to do really well and will try
this most recent hot streak.
Two weeks from the Southern
Region Championship toe Cougar
athletes will go to Mt. Hood C.C.
and compete in the NWAACC
championships.
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