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Clackamas Print
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
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Softball team falls
Frank Jordan
ters in running her season record to
17-4 with the two-hit victory.
With the three home runs in game
two, the 2007 Cougars set a new school
record with 35 homers as a team for the
season, breaking the record of 31 set by
the 2005 and 2006 Clackamas teams.
Saturday, the Cougars traveled to
Salem to take on Chemeketa CC, and
the Chiefs sent Clackamas back home
with two losses by scores of 5-3 and
5-2.
CCC trailed game one 3-0 through
three innings, but fought back with
single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth
innings to get even at 3-3. But the
Chiefs scored two runs in the bottom of
the sixth to pull out the 5-3 win.
Sam Daline led the Cougar offense
with two hits in four at-bats, including
a single and a home run, while Hinds
and Jessica Schell each had a key hit
to help rally the Cougars. Santos struck
out five in the loss, dropping her record
to 17-5.
In game two, Clackamas jumped
out to a 2-0 lead, before Chemeketa
rallied to tie the game at two after four
innings. Chemeketa scored three runs
in the bottom of the sixth to win the
game 5-2.
Heather Rightley led the Cougars at
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The Clackamas Print
The Clackamas softball team fell
ito third place in the NWAACC
touthem Division over the weekend,
sing three out of four to division rivals
it. Hood CC and Chemeketa CC.
Friday, die Cougars traveled to
¡resham to take on the Lady Saints
om Mt. Hood. The Saints jumped out
> a 7-0 lead in game one and held on
ir the 9-3 victory.
Renee Santos took the loss for
lackamas, striking out a season-low
ro hitters in four innings of work,
tnelle Cristofaro relieved Santos in
ie fifth and struck out three in her two
Dings of work.
Game two was a different story,
i the Cougars jumped on Mt. Hood
r seven runs in the second inning
iroute to an 8-1 victory for a split of
e twinbill.
Katie King hit her team-leading sev-
ith and eighth home runs of the season
i the second game, and Kelsey Hinds
id a 4-4 effort from the plate, includ-
g a long home run in the second
ring.
Santos struck out 15 Mt Hood hit
the plate, going 3-4 with three singles,
while Schell and Hinds chipped in two
hits apiece to pace the CCC offense.
Cristofaro took the loss, dropping her
record to 11-4 on the season. Santos
struck out seven in a relief role for
CCC.
Mt Hood now leads the Southern
Division with a 19-5 record in divi
sion play, while Lower Columbia has
slipped into second with an 18-5 mark.
Clackamas is 17-6 in the division for
third place.
The Cougars hoped to make up
some ground on the leaders as they
took on Southwestern Oregon CC in a
doubleheader-yesterday on the Cougar
softball diamond. Results were not
available at press time.
Clackamas
takes on Lower
Columbia in Longview, Wash, on
Friday in a doubleheader that could
have major seeding implications for the
upcoming NWAACC tournament
Clackamas will finish the regu
lar season with a home doubleheader
against Clark College on Saturday.
The games will begin at 1 p.m. on
the Cougar softball diamond behind
Randall Hall. The NWAACC tourna
ment is May 18 through 20 at Delta
Park in north Portland.
Adam J. Manley Clackamas Print
Sophomore pitcher Janelle Christofaro follows
through with her release as she brings the heat.
Cougs can't climb Mt. Hood, lose by slimmest of margins
Mike Guidice
Sports Editor
Contributed by Tracy Swisher
reshman OF Sean Sprauer gets low as he looks
o advance on the bases. Sprauer hails from West
ialem High School.
The Cougar baseball team played a highly com
petitive, nerve-racking doubleheader vs. incumbent
Southern Region leaders Mt. Hood CC this past
weekend.. The results werq^jess than ideal, but
’ ■thVqiraift^ oF basebaFf-^aS’Still Stellar from both
camps.
In game one, Hood jumped out to an early advan
tage, hitting the ball hard and getting up by a score
of 6-2 after two innings. Clackamas battled back,
however, scoring three in the third and
making the game close throughout.
Freshman outfielder Todd McBride
had a huge series, hitting two bombs in
the first game and accounting for five
RBI’s.
“I was just relaxed at the plate and
wasn’t pressing. I was definitely seeing
the ball well,” McBride said. “I hit for
the cycle in a game during the summer,
but I’ve never hit two homeruns in a
game.”
Bryce Roby also homered in the con
test, and catcher Ben Janal had a produc
tive game, going 2-4 and scoring two
runs.
“McBride did a great job stepping
up against the best team in the league,”
Janal said of his teammate’s perfor
mance.
Game two featured Clackamas scor
ing a quick three runs right out the gates;
unfortunately, their offense turned offen
sive for the rest of the contest, putting
up goose eggs. The final score would
indicate their futility: 4-3, in eight innings.
“They capitalized on the mistakes that we made
at inopportune moments. They made some mis
takes, too; we just didn’t capitalize like they did,”
freshman 3B Jim Bray relayed.
McBride was a force again, registering two
more run-scoring base knocks. Janal also continued
swinging a hot bat with two more hits.
The Cougs played at Chemeketa yesterday.
Results were not available at press time.
Next up for the team is a must-win home make
up game vs. Chemeketa, on Thursday. First pitch is
set for 1 p.m.
Are you mechanically inclined?
Stars come out to Hayward Field
The track and field team par
ticipated in the Oregon Twilight
meet this past weekend in
Eugene. The meet was a moot
point in the grand scheme of
things, as the Southern Region
Championships is next, the first
scored meet of the year and
the pre-cursor to the NWAACC
Championships.
Hayward Field was full of
big-name track and field stars,
including top-tier Olympic ath
letes and NCAA record holders,
who all came together to com
pete in the meet
For
Clackamas, Jeeni
Schantin threw the javelin
extremely well, tying her life
time personal record of 45.86
meters, finishing only slightly
behind US record holder Rachel
Yurkovich.
In the 400 meter hurdles,
Allison Body bested her previ
ous P. R. by three seconds.
The men’s 4X100 team
sprinted to a first place finish
with a time of 42.04 seconds.
After winning, the athletes got
to take a customary victory lap
around Hayward Field, throwing
out T-shirts to the crowd.
Clayton Herman (hurdles),
Stan Wester (hurdles), Chris
Dilley (hammer) and Mike
Simmons (javelin) all equaled
or bested their previous P.R’s in
their respective event.
Up next for the Clackamas
track and field squad is the afore-
mentioned Southern Region
Championships at Mt. Hood
CC, in Gresham. The event will
be scored, and the pressure on
the individual athletes will be
heightened.
“There will definitely be a
change in philosophy of how
we compete this weekend,” said
Head Coach Keoni McHone.
- Compiled by Mike Guidice,
The Clackamas Print
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