¡Clackamas Print
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005
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bccer secures spot in semi-finals
|i McDonnell
Bidwnas Print
L Clackamas soccer team went
[e 2005 playofls healthy, con-
|and well-rested, allowing the
Cougars to defeat the Lady
L 2-1 Saturday at the old
L City High School football
jckamas had been fighting
I minor injuries and getting a
Bound bye really gave them
|hey needed to fully recover for
layoff opener against Treasure
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Ickamas entered the game
■record of 14-3-1 and boasted
BWAACC’s fifth-leading goal
I in Hannah Nash (18 goals).
Ire Valley finished second in
■stem Division with a record
12. The Lady Chukars also had
WAACC’s sixth-leading goal
scorer in Jena Ogawa (15 goals).
The Lady Chukars defeated
Edmonds CC in the first round with
an unexpected thriller that went into
overtime, an achievement in itself for
an Edmonds team that won only four
games this season. Treasure Valley
advanced with a 2-1 win, but would
go no further against die Clackamas
Cougars.
The game between Treasure
Valley and Clackamas started out
defensive, with no scoring for over
41 minutes, until Hannah Nash came
through with her 19th goal of the sea
son offan Emily Ingalls assist, giving
the Cougars a 1-0 lead.
Then, in the 71st minute, it was
an Amanda Triller assist to Nash that
gave Clackamas a 2-0 lead, and put
the game out of reach for Treasure
Valley. The Lady Chukars never quit
and made the end interesting after an
Ogawa goal in the 77th minute made
tiie score 2-1. Treasure Valley could
get no closer.
With the vic
tory Clackamas
will move on
to a semifinal
match-up with
Highline CC,
who defeated
Spokane CC 2-1
in the quarterfi
nals.
Highline
was the Western
Division cham
pion
during
the regular sea
son, and is cur
rently 12-2-3.
The semifinal
will be played
at the Starfire
Photo by An
ehrung Clackamas Print
Soccer Complex
in
Tukwila,
Hannah Nash (19) gets down and dirty with Treasure Valley CC while Tianna
Washington
Meduri (7) gets the ball and Amanda Triller (15) looks on.
at 1:30 p.m.
NWAACC championship, while the
Saturday. Hie game follows the first at 11a.m.
The two semifinal winners two semifinal losers will play at 10
semifinal match-up between Walla
a.m. for the third-place trophy.
Walla CC and Shoreline CC, starting will play Sunday at 2 p.m. for the
ross country team takes third Volleyball finishes strong
bnk Jordan
iCIackamas Print
Die Clackamas cross country
I each finished in third place
te NWAACC championships
[weekend in Battle Ground,
Ihington, capping a fairly suc-
pl season.
me Cougars’ Jessica Harper
kicked the competition over
6,000-meter course to win the
pen’s individual title in 19 min-
I and eight seconds. Lyndsey
killup capped a difficult last
[weeks with an eighth place
Bin :20.03, while Kendra Stone
shed strong in :20.39. Luda
Bshova overcame a sprained
le suffered in warm-ups to An
in 17th place in :20.55 and
I Clapp closed out Clackamas
png with a time of :21.20 to
pin24thplace overall.
Lane CC pulled off an upset to
I the women’s team title with
Joints, nipping second-place
Spokane CC, who finished with 47
points. Clackamas was third with
63 points.
“Harper beat her previous per
sonal best overa5,000-meter course
by 30 seconds to win the race,” said
Head Coach Keoni McHone. “She
ran an outstanding race and was
in control the whole way. That
time is one second faster than Kari
Rissmiller’s time when she won the
2001 NWAACC championship on
the same course in Battle Ground.
Just a great effort by Jess.”
Josh Cobb out-kicked two
Spokane runners over the last 200
meters of the men’s-8,000-meter
course to finish as Clackamas’ top
runner in seventh overall with a
time of :26.27. Craig MacLean fin
ished 16th in :27.11, Doug Benson
was 18th in :27.19, Trevor Snook
was 21st in :27.40 and Greg Nakata
was 27th in :28.04. Matt Peterman
ran a non-scoring :28.07 and Justin
Schenck ran a :29.11 in the men’s
race.
David Morgan of Lane CC ran
a :25.26 to win the individual title,
but all five Spokane runners fin
ished in the top 10 to lead the men
to the team title by a 26-52 margin
over Lane. Clackamas scored 89
points as a team to finish third.
“Justin (Schenck) got hurt dur
ing the race so his finish was a
little disappointing, but otherwise
all of our male runners did a good
job overall,” said McHone. “Craig
MacLean ran a particularly out
standing race, capping a great
comeback to his season. Craig was
hurt early in the year and has been
battling to get back into shape.”
Clackamas looks:fairly strong
for next season, with only Cobb
and Snook moving on. Cobb will
actually remain at Clackamas,
but will redshirt the 2006 track
and 2006 cross-country seasons
before returning to run track for
the Cougars in the 2007 season.
Harper will be leaving the women’s
team next term to enrol 1 at Western
Oregon University and run track in
the spring.
after tough season
Frank Jordan
The Clackamas Print
The Clackamas volleyball
team concluded their season
with a four-set loss to Mt.
Hood CC Wednesday, finish
ing last in the tough Southern
Division of the NWAACC.
“We really did have a
great season, but considering
we had such a phenomenal
season last year, it is disap
pointing, that we will not get
a chance to defend our "title
from last year,” said Head
Coach Kathie Woods.
“Our
division is always very tough
and this year was no excep
tion.”
The Cougars lost to the
Lady Saints 29-31, 30-21, 32-
34 and 28-30 in the Randall
Hall gym.
Catie Warren
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f03-657-6958, ext. 3108
led the way for Clackamas
with 14 kills and 23 digs,
while Rachel Gowen had 13
kills and 11 blocks and Sami
Hennessey had 12 kills and
12 digs.
The Cougars finish the 2005
season with a record of 27-21,
2-10 in the Southern Division.
However, Clackamas won
their last two tournaments on
consecutive weekends against
teams that will compete this
weekend in the NWAACC
championships.
“We had nine freshman this
season, which made defend
ing our title an uphill battle to
begin with,” said Woods. “If
we had the chance to go to the
tournament, we would have
done some damage. Yes, it is
disappointing, but this team
could have folded the tent at
the end, [and] they didn’t. It
shows how competitive we
were at the end, and I am very
proud of the effort.”
Hennessey and Gowen were
named to the All-Division
second team, while Jessica
Heidenreich was named to the
third team and Heather Gerke
was named to the honorable
mention list. Hennessey was
also chosen to play in the
annual sophomore All-Star
game, Dec. 3 at Clark College
in Vancouver, Washington.
Heidenreich was chosen as an
alternate to play in the All
Star game.
Gowen led the team for the
season with a 28 percent kill
ratio and 112 blocks, while
Kori Trenholm led the team in
assists at 29 percent. Gerke
led the team in serve recep
tion with a 2.07 average on a
three-point scale.
Woods will be taking the
team to the NWAACC tourna
ment on Friday at Bellevue
CC in Bellevue, Washington,
to. give her team the “overall
tournament experience,” just
to show them what they might
have missed by not playing.
“Most of the freshman will
be coming back next season,
and we need for them to take
the lead in stepping up our
play,” said Woods. “Our goal,
as always, is to get to the tour
nament, and our girls need to
get a feel for what they have
to do to get there.”