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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
bftball suffers through setbacks
I Clackamas softball team
about reached the midway
f the 2006 season and despite
L injuries and a pesky flu
fitting in pretty good shape
Lt of the Southern Division
lebegins.
[has been one of the hard-
lofmy career, because of
lies and die illnesses,” said
|oach Paul Fiskum. “Just
think we may have turned
I something else happens,
¡een far worse than I could
have ever imagined.”
The Cougars, are currently 12-
8 on the season, including a 6-2
mark in Southern Division play.
Clackamas is coming off perhaps
their worst outing in several years,
getting shut out twice by perennial
favorite Lower Columbia College
in Longview, Washington last week
by scores of 9-0 and 8-0.
“We only had nine reasonably
healthy players and it really showed.
Lower Columbia may have played
their best softball of the year, and
we just didn’t have it,” said Fiskum.
“(Janelle) Cristofaro is probably our
best pitcher, but we made a mistake
sending her out to pitch She was
very sick and she made a valiant urgent care in the last week than we
attempt to pitch, but we took her out have had on the practice field. It
after three batters.”
was the only decision that we could
The season reached a low point make.”
last weekend as Clackamas had to
Many bright spots have emerged
pull out of the NWAACC Crossover despite the injuries and illness.
Tournament
in
Wenatchee,
Sophomore All-American Casey
The Clackamas
Washington,
Middagh leads the team with a .465
coaching staff made that hard deci
batting average with 33 hits, three
sion because they would have had home runs and 24 RBI. Freshman
only four healthy players to com
Jennah Cowper is batting .444,
pete.
while sophomore Erin Snyder has
“We really were upset that rebounded from an early-season
we had to make that call, and the
injury to bat .414 in her leadoff
NWAACC wasn’t overly thrilled role.
-
with that decision, but we really
The perennially-strong Cougar
had no choice,” said Fiskum. “We ' pitching staff has been devastated
literally have had more players in by injury and illness. Freshman
Cristofaro is 7-2 with a 2.72
earned run average, but has pos
sibly developed bronchitis in the
last week and may have to sit out
until healthy. Freshman Lindsay
Olin has strep throat and freshman
Jamie Toigerson has bronchitis at
present, so time off is of the utmost
importance.
The Cougars will get some valu
able time off this week as they
don’t play again until this Friday,
when they host Chemeketa CC in
a doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m.
at the Cougar Softball complex.
Clackamas hosts Clark College on
Saturday starting at 2 p.m, also at
the Cougar Softball complex.
wball team hot out the gates, struggling in league play
N.P. Delzell
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an first baseman Jake Evans from Clackamas High School goes to
Ls Mt. Hood. Evans also serves as the team’s designated hitter.
The Clackamas base
ball team (3-7 league and
15-11 overall) is off to
an up and down start in
the NWAACC Southern
Division.
Last
Thursday,
the
Cougars split their double
header with Linn Benton
CC.
In game one Clackamas
pulled .out the victory 9-4,
with Chris Hillard pick
ing up the win. Marcos
Quintero
and
Robert
Badilla both went yard in
the cougar victory, ps?
The
Cougars
busted
put with nine runs
¿ff ’13- hits* anti'
committed zero errors.
in game two the Cougars
suffered a 7-5 loss. Jake
Evans was the losing pitch
er as the Cougars only had
six hits to go along with
five errors.
The Cougar diamond
men traveled to Coos Bay
last Tuesday, and split
their double header with
SW Oregon CC. In game
one the Cougars lost 8-5
with Chud Bennett taking
the loss.
In game two, the Cougars
picked up the slack and
delivered and 11-4 rout,
with Jesse Jensen pick
ing up the win. Brandon
Zorando knocked a home
run for the Cougars, giv
ing them some needed
offense.
The Cougars have faired
well this season with their
overall record over .500.
The Cougars opened the
season with four wins,
sweeping Pierce 11-3, 5-4
and 6-4, 6-5.
“An exciting finish to
the (opening) weekend
was an extra inning win
that involved a pinch hit
single by (catcher) Jared
Beeler,”
Head
Coach
Robby Robinson said.
Yesterday, the cougars
played Mt. Hood CC.
Results were not available
at print time.
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