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Volume 38, Issue 22
Cougars win eighth
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fTTie Clackamas softball team
I defeated Columbia Basin
|X College 8-1 in the second
tonship game last Sunday to win
NWAACC softball championship
k the eighth title in school history.
I win ended the six-year reign of
^Columbia College as NWAACC
tons andre-established Clackamas
be premiere junior college softball
km in the Pacific Northwest
lam so proud of these girls,” said
Want Head Coach Paul Fiskum,
who also picked up the hardware as the
NWAACC Coach of the Year. “We had
an outstanding tournament, from our
great pitching, solid defense and prob
ably the best hitting performance that a
Clackamas team has had in the tourna
ment ever. A great weekend overall.”
The Cougars opened tournament
play on Friday against their old nem
esis from Spokane CC. All-tournament
performer Casey Middagh set the tone
for the weekend with a home run in the
bottom of the first to give the Cougars
a quick 1-0 lead. CCC led 2-0 until the
fifth, when Spokane scored four runs
on three hits and three walks to take a
4-2 lead.
But in a three-hour game that had
three rain delays, the Cougars showed
everyone that there would be no quit
in this team Anna Alcala brought the
Cougars within 5-4 with a two-run homer
in the sixth, then Christina Roberti fol
lowed with a single. Kayce Ernst pinch-
ran for Roberti and scored on a Caitlin
Ooley RBI single to tie the game.
In the seventh, Erin Snyder singled,
was sacrificed to second, then scored
the game-winning run on consecutive
wild pitches. Chelsea Koch recorded
the final three outs on the hill in the sev
enth to pick up the relief victory.
Please see CHAMPS, Page 6
Denise Nasuta Contributed Photo
The softball team gathers around after their championship
victory over Columbia Basin College. Coach Paul Fiskum
(back row, left) was named NWAACC coach of the year.
ASG event prompts
alcohol awareness
I
Isaiah Creel
Editor-in-Chief
n an effort to raise aware
ness of the negative
effects of drinking and
driving, Associated Student
Government is hosting their
annual Alcohol Awareness Day
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in
the courtyard.
The goal of the event is to
provide students with infor
mation and examples of what
happens if they choose to drive
a car after drinking. This event
has been held every spring
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term for approximately six
years.
ABOVE: The two cars sitting
“This year, we decided to
on campus this week are
hold it just before Memorial
products of drunk driving
Day,”
said
Officer
of
accidents.
Community Relations Catrina
BELOW and FAR BELOW: The
Schehen. “The weather is get
outside
and inside views of
ting nice, and a lot of students
I
Laura Cameron Clackamas Print
[endangered Rana aurora, or the Red-legged Frog, has recently made an appearance
the ponds outside of the Pauling Center. This rare species could spread to surrounding
ter bodies and aid in a local comeback for the species. College staff have been leaving
[frogs alone (with the exception of keeping trash and other unnatural and damaging
ngs out of the pond), and encourage others to do the same.
Idigenous rare amphibian in
Ruling pond excites, amazes
frogs.” Bown also stresses
While the frog itself seems
unexceptional, its presence in that the frogs should continue
the Pauling pond is worthy of to be left alone. “Please don’t
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go out there and try to catch
notice. For one thing, it shows
They’re endangered,
that the pond, while small, is them.
ut in the Pauling unpolluted, as frogs are highly
after all!”
While the frogs are still
Center courtyard is
intolerant to impurities in the
a rather unremark-
water. For another thing—and listed as an endangered spe
le little pond. Often over
is tied directly to the first
cies, they are doing very well
this
feed, it is only about the point—it shows that, at least in here at Clackamas; they con
e of two bathtubs and con-
this area, the frogs are making tinue to thrive in the Pauling
pond, and frog
comeback.
ntly crowded by the myriad a
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calls
have
pts growing around it. Yet The red-legged
| tiny body of water has
frog is not only
been
heard
coming from
fcn discovered to be a safe
living in the
the fountain
fen for an endangered spe-
Pauling pond,
in front of
s: Rana aurora, the Red
it is thriving
bed Frog.
Dye, though
there.
it has yet to
Like the pond, red-legged
“We
don’t
be confirmed
es are rather unremark-
know
exact
whether these
le; they are small—around ly how long
are red-legged
been
ee to five inches long—
they’ve
I hard to distinguish from there,”
frogs
or a
says
ire common frogs.
They Biol o g y
more
com
[usually brown or green,
mon species.
instructor
th mottled backs. The only Jennifer Bown.
With
these
two safe spots
ng that would grab your “Four or five
to start from,
ention is the characteristic years,
prob
the frog could
it gives them their name;
ably.
We’ve
Jennifer Bown
{bright brownish-red col- just left them to
spread
out
Biology Instructor
to surround
ng on their legs and sides,
themselves, and
is divided into two sub-
ing bodies of
they’re doing
ecies: the Northern Red-
. .. water, bring
great. The only
tged Frog, R. a. aurora, and help they get
ing R. auro
| larger and slightly rarer from us is that we try to keep
ra that much closer to being
flifomia Red-legged Frog,
trash out of the pond; other removed from the ehdangered
|a draytonii.
than that, it’s all up to the
species list.
aura
Cameron
O
“We don’t
know exactly
how long
they’ve been
there... We’ve
just left them
to themselves,
and they ’re
doing great. ”
are of drinking age.”
Attractions include two
inspirational speakers, a beer
goggle setup designed to give
students an idea of what it’s
like to be under the influence'
of alcohol, a free barbecue and
free t-shirts.
Two wrecked cars are on
display in the courtyard to
show students the results of
drinking and driving.
“If you went out and did a
survey, most people wouldn’t
think they were impaired [after
drinking], but they are,” said
ASG President Teresa Roberts.
“Sometimes we all need to
one of the wrecked cars.
Not a single window was left
intact after the crash.
see the impact of what hap
pens [when one drinks and
drives].”
While ASG acknowledges
that some students will only
attend the free barbecue and
take advantage of free t-shirts,
they are hopeful that the infor
mation regarding alcohol’s ill
effects will reach some stu
dents.
“Just be responsible if
you’re going to choose to
drink,” said Roberts.