^Clackamas Print
Sports
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006
ady Cougs maintain first place
rank Jordan
Ite Clackamas Print
rhe Clackamas women’s
ketball team struggled last
ek, but came through with
i wins to maintain their first-
pe standing in the Southern
rision of the NWAACC with
i weeks to play in the regu-
season.
I'he Cougars traveled to
Eland CC Feb. 15 and over-
ke a bad performance to
¡t a 66-61 victory over the
lyPanthers. Clackamas was
[sing freshm’an post Kellyn
jper, who was out with strep
at, and the Cougars’ play
fered as a result. Clackamas
[not play a very good first
f and only led 26-25 at the
feme break. .
[We really struggled offen-
■ely,” said Head Coach Jim
■rtineau.
“Portland played
Hy hard and we did not.
Bellyn’s absence hurt, but
Hshould have picked up the
Hk. We just didn’t.”
But the Cougars came out of
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the halftime with some renewed
energy and quickly took con
trol of the action. Sophomore
point guard LaToya Hill led
the Cougar effort in the sec
ond half by scoring 18 of her
team-high 23 points in the final
half, arid played huge down the
stretch,, hitting some big shots
and making some clutch free
throws to ice the game for the
Cougars.
Charday Hunt had 15 points
and five rebounds and Kellie
Morey scored 14 points in help
ing Clackamas to.the victory.
Last Saturday, Clackamas
jumped out to a big lead early
and held on in the second half
to defeat Linn-Benton CC 71-
56 in the Randall Hall gym.
“We absolutely played a
great first half, but we relaxed
a little bit in the second and it
allowed LBCC to hang around
a little longer than they really
should have,” said Martineau.
“We lost our focus and just kind
of werit through the motions.
It was disappointing, but we
played well enough to defeat
our opponent.”
Hunt hit four three-pointers
and shot 6-9 overall, leading
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the Cougars with 26 points,
including 20 in the first half,
helping Clackamas to a 43-25
halftime lead. Hunt also led
the Cougars off the backboards
with eight rebounds. Rochelle
Reeves had 18 points and six
rebounds, and Hill continued
her outstanding all-around play
with 14 points, six rebounds,
eight assists and seven steals.
The Cougars improved their
division record to 10-1 and
their overall record to 20-4
with the two wins, maintaining
a first-place tie in the division
with Lane CC.
Clackamas
will
host
Chemeketa CC tonight with a
5:30 p.m. tip off in the Randall
Hall gym. Then they will play
Umpqua CC on Saturday at
4 p.m., also in the gym in
Randall Hall.
Reeves, Hill- and Morey,
as well as Kayla Ohlman and
Emma Ward will be playing the
final game of their Clackamas
careers ori Saturday.
The Cougars look to make
a statement heading into the
NWAACC
tournament
in
two weeks, in Kennewick,
Washington.
Linn-
Benton
ladies
attempt
to thwart
the efforts
of sopho
more guard
Kellie
Morey.
The Lady
Cougs go
up against
Chemekata
CC in the
Randall
Gym at
5:30 p.m
tonight.
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[be Clackamas men’s basketball
[overcame a seven point deficit
[e half to beat Linn-Benton’s
[¡Runners 73 - 65 last Saturday
mallgym.
Lugars’ Head Coach Cliff
per was disappointed with the
|’s performance during the first
■but was pleased that his team
I turn things around and finish
K to take the win.
[thought the first half we were
lie flat,” said Wegner. “[Linn-
Bn] came out very jazzed,
|h doesn’t surprise me, but
led to surprise our
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be Cougars - who shot 100
percent from the free throw line
throughout the game — had to find
something other than foul shots to
help them pull ahead of their oppo
nents.
“In 30 years of coaching, I’ve
never seen this happen,” said
Wegner, “ ... perfect free throw
shooting from both teams.”
Help came from point guard
Jake Kettles, who managed nine
points and eight assists for the night.
Kettles shares his coach’s opinion
about his team’s performance.
“It was actually pretty rough
to start off,” said Kettles. “There
wasn’t any intensity with our team
at all, [but] we shot pretty well in the
second half.”
Even more help for the Cougars’
offense came from wingman Steven
Vaughan who led the team with success as of late, both on and off
21 points arid seven defensive the court.
rebounds.
‘It’s been a really fun year just
Vaughn chalks up the Cougars’ because everybody enjoys play
dose-call to a healthy learning expe ing together and everybody really
rience in the team’s fight to make it enjoys each other personally off the
into the NWAACC tournament in ‘ court,” said Kettles, who attributes
less than three weeks.
the team’s camaraderie partly to
“I think we came a long way as a Vaughan’s mother. “We go over to
team,” said Vaughan, “[We’ve] got [Vaughan’s] house and his mom
to be real concerned because there’s cooks us all a big meal before the
always a chance that we don’t make game.”
This technique by Vaughan’s
it, [but] I think this team is defi
nitely good enough [to] get into the mother seems to be working, as the
Cougars have won five of their last
NWAACC tournament”
Kettles - who feels the second six games.
The Cougars will face Umpqua
half of the season has been better
for the Cougar men than the first CC ‘ on Saturday, Feb. 25 at 6
- believes that the way the team has p.m. at home, but first they’ll host
grown together is part of the reason Chemeketa CC tonight at 7:30 p.m
why they’ve been seeing so much in the Randall gym. The Cougars
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have been beaten by Chemeketa
once this season and are anxious for
the chance to play them at home.
‘T think we’re going to come
out with a lot of intensity, [and]
we’ll play harder than we have all
year,” said Kettles. “There’s some
personal rivals from high school
[on Chemeketa’s team] and there’s
really not a lot of love lost there.”
“We’ve got to focus. on
Chemeketa,” he added, “We’re
playing hard, and any time you go
out and play hard things are usually
going to faU into place.” .
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