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
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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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