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Clackamas Print Sports,^7 Wednesday, March 8, 2006 Lady Cougars enter tourney as two seed Frank Jordan [Ife Clackamas Print I The Clackamas women’s Lketball team finished up |e regular season with a con- Incing 85-61 victory over St. Hood CC in Gresham last [ednesday, and now take a jimber-two seed from the [uthern Division into this Weekend’s NWAACC tourna ment. I “We played fairly well. It Elly took us a long time I put Mt. Hood away,” said lead Coach Jim Martineau. Mt. Hood is a really tough lace to play and we usually [n’t score very well in that Ln, so to put up 85 points [ere is a big accomplish- Int.” [Charday Hunt led the lugar offense with 22 points, Id also hauled down nine ■bounds, while sophomore lard Rochelle Reeves tallied 19 points and nine rebounds. Kellie Morey added 19 points, and LaToya Hill had .14 points in the win. Next up for the Cougars will be the Olympic College Lady Rangers in a 10 p.m. first- round match-up. Olympic defeated Clackamas earlier this season at the NWAACC Crossover Tournament, so the Cougars have some idea about the match-ups facing them at the NWAACC cham pionships. “It may have been the turn ing point of our season after Olympic beat us at the cross over; it was a game that really woke us up,” said Martineau. “If there is any such thing as a great loss, then that was it. We have really improved our game since, and it helped us playing in a tough division.” The NWAACC tournament runs tomorrow through Sunday at the Toyota Center (former ly the Tri-Cities Coliseum) in Kennewick; Washington. Clackamas opens tournament play at 10 p.m. on Thursday, a fact not lost on the Clackamas coach. “I don’t see playing so late as an advantage or a disadvan tage, but it is a different sce nario for us, that is for sure,” said Martineau. “We have been pretty fortunate the last few years at the tournament. As long as we play hard and play smart, get a couple of breaks and stay healthy, we will be OK.” First round of NWAACC Tournament: Kennewick, WA. March. 9 vs. Olympic @ 10 p.m. en’s squad confident in abilities latt Olson he Clackamas Print | The Clackamas men’s bas mati team<heads>,up-to-Pasco, [shington, this Thursday through Inday, to compete with 15 other Lus at the NWAACC touma- pt. ■Coming into the tournament h a 19-10 record, the fourth |ded Cougar team goes up against lllevue (23-5) on Thursday. The lugars will be making their tenth consecutive tournament learance, as well as striving to Ike their sixth consecutive plac- l at the tournament |“We know these teams pret- Iwell,” said Clif Wegner, head ■ch of the men’s basketball team, je’ve got scouting on everyone in the NWAACC.” With their homework done, it remains for the team to prepare efficiently. “The thing we do different is spend lcs$, tjpiq. on the court,’’,said Wegner. “We want players with fresh legs.” Less is more for the Cougars, and being physically relaxed and mentally prepared is key. The league itself is split into four divisions corresponding to geologi cal location. Clackamas is in the Southern division, along with Mt. Hood, Chemeketa, Lane, Portland, Linn-Benton, Southwest Oregon and Umpqua. Only Mt. Hood, Lane, Chemeketa and Clackamas will be attending the tournament in Washington. Depending on the outcome of the game against Bellevue, Clackamas will either go on to play Big Bend or Gray’s Harbor. According to Wegner, the tour nament is a great venue for the players, win or lose. “[The tourna ment] has better exposure for the kids because more four-year col lege coaches come.” The five starters, David Cemin, Ervin Sims, Steven Vaughan, Luke Defrees and Jake Kettles, wifi spearhead the Cougars at the tour nament. “We’re just gonna take it game by game,” said player Alex Broch. First round of NWAACC Tournament: Pasco, WA. March 9 vs. Bellevue @ 4 p.m. pc-70 Tournament tips off today Ike Guldlce around game has allowed him to rank second in the conference in scoring, with almost 20 points a game. He was also fourth in the The Pac-10 Tournament begins « =Pac-10 in assists, and ranked in ay in L.A., stocked full of sub- the top 10 in steals and blocked k controversy and an entirely shots. y and improved format, v Ik The Cal Bears come into thsr The tournament now invites all wmeW^sprang Mpe number teams to participate, so even three seen. ¡underachieving Ducks, dis- Their unanimous leader is Beavers and lowly Cougars sophomore forward Leon Powe. e a chance, however slim, Powe was in the running for the pin the tournament and get Pac-lO’s player of the year; many automatic bid to the NCAA people even argued that he and [lament. Roy should have been Co -MVP’s I'CLA, possessing the coach of the conference. Powe’s resume is impr^^K^ [he year Ben Howland and [bman of the year Luc Richard he led the conference in scor |ah a Moute, surpassed the ing by a miniscule margin over [kies by just one game to win Ray,and also ranked number one regular season and end with ¡'.in.. rebounding, with almost 10 ■ | tournament’s number one boards a game. y The biggest disappointment file Huskies arc led by the outside of Oregon is the inconsifc 1-10’s player of the year, tent ArizonaVZildcats-They grQ'h ■don Roy. Roy decided to the tourney as the fourth seed I in school for his senior sea- wftfiln overall record of IfM 1. I and pass up the millions he U qiSlieare were high expectations ■Id have gained had he gonej for this team full of ^lente<|ath- frfterhis junior year. | letes and scoring machines, but fie 6-foot-6-inch guard’s all- they never achieved true team [orfe Editor chemistry and couldn’t regular ly string together a successful stretch of games. The Wildcats leading scorer and all-around superstar player senior Hasaan Adams, will not participate in the tournament due to disciplinary actions handed down from the university. Adams was cited for driving under the influence of alcohol over the weekend and was arrest- ed for having a blood-alcohol level ol 0.12 percent. The legal Inmrm Arizona is 0.08. Without Adams the team will be. • severely handicapped, and with their NCAA Tournament chances already in question, this is a very tough blow. I The rest of the teams com- peting, while seemingly insig nificant, theoretically possess the ability to put a string of four consecutive solid games together to win the tournament and make it to March Madness. Do I see this happening? Not a chance. It is tournament time however, and the games arc played on the court and not on paper, so anything is possible. Harriet Strothers Clackamas Print Guard Rochelle Reeves goes up for a contested shot in the paint during a game in the regular season. 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