Sports
Clackamas Print
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
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Blast off: Softball secures two seed
Frank Jordan
I The Clackamas Print
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The Clackamas softball team
■concluded the regular season
■sith a number two seed from the
Southern Division and will take on
Highline CC in the first round of the
NWAACC softball championship
tournament at 11:30 a.m. on Friday
at Delta Park in north Portland.
“We beat Highline at the
NWAACC crossover a few weeks
ago, so we are familiar with them
and what they try to do,” said Head
Coach Jessica Farnsworth. “We are
tested and ready, so it ought to be an
exciting weekend for us.”
The Cougars finished the regular
season last Saturday with a 19-0 and
19-1 pounding of Clark College.
Clackamas brought out the whiip-
jing stick in both games as five
different Cougars each hit two home
tins on the day, including an almost-
jever-heard-of five homers in one
nning.
Sam Daline, Janelle Cristofaro
aid Renee Santos each hit two
mmers in game one, while Jessica
Slocum hit a solo homer as the
Cougars ended the first game early
¡vith 17 runs in the fourth inning,
highlighted by Cristofaro and Santos.
each hitting two homers in the fourtly
inning.
“Renee only had seven at-bats
all season, but she hit two homers
in one inning,” commented assistant
coach Paul Fiskum. “Both of our
pitchers hit multiple home runs in
the same inning; I never have seen
anything like that in all my years.”
Santos picked up her 20th win
on the season, striking out 12 to
finish her freshman season with a
Clackamas-record 336 strikeouts for
the season, breaking the old record
of 223 by Holly Marlow in 2004.
Cristofaro struck out a career-high
14 in game two in getting her 14th
victory of the season.
Friday, the Cougars took on
Lower Columbia College, and
despite giving up only one run all
day, CCC split a doubleheader with
the Lady Red Devils, losing game
one 1-0 and winning game two 4-0.
The Cougars fought hard all game
long in game one, but just couldn’t
take advantage of the opportuni
ties that they had. Lower Columbia
ended the game as a Red Devil bat
ter sent a long one over the fence in
the bottom of the seventh, ending the
game with LCC winning 1-0.
“We fought and fought all game
long, but we just couldn’t push one
across,” said Farnsworth. “They hit
a walk-off home run to end it, but
we felt confident that we could get it
back in game two, and we did.”
Daline and Lacey Forbito each
went 2-3 at the plate, each hitting a
single and a double to spearhead the
Cougar offense. Cristofaro tossed a
three-hitter while striking out six to
pick up the victory.
The Cougars finished the reg
ular season with a 35-10 overall
record, including 23-7 in divisional
play, two games behind division
champion Mt. Hood CC and two
games ahead of Lower Columbia.
Farnsworth is excited about what
lies ahead this weekend.
“We come into the weekend pret
ty healthy, and our spirits are high,”
die said. “Our pitching is solid, and
our bats are swinging great. We keep
our heads on task, and we can do
some great things at the NWAACC
tournament.”
If Clackamas wins game one at
the tournament, they will take on
the winner of Wenatchee Valley CC-
Peninsula College at 3:30 p.m. on
Friday at Delta Park. Tournament
information is available at www.
nwaacc.org, or by visiting the Cougar
athletic offices in Randall Hall.
Santos winds up for a pitch in the game against
Chemeketa Community College.
PRs put Cougars on track for NWAACC championship
Jesse Dees
The Clackamas Print
This past weekend the track team
ompeted in the Southern Region
’hampionships at Mt Hood CC,
“I really liked how people stepped
ip and competed,” Coach Keoni
IcHone said after his squad racked
p 23 lifetime or seasonal personal
ecords on the day.
For the men, standouts were
ienjamine Jackson, Wesley Keller,
Itan Wester, Joe Gobel, Brandon
Snook, Quinton Baxter, Chris Dilly
and Mike Simmons. Jackson posted
a strong day, taking first in both the
100-meter dash and the 200-meter
dash. Keller took second place in the
100-meter dash, and Tweedy ran for
first in the 400-meter dash.
Wester took second in the men’s
400-meter hurdles, and Snook took
second in the 3000-meter steeple
chase, also achieving a personal
record. Simmons threw for first place
in Javelin. Baxter posted a huge day,
achieving three personal records in
three events. He threw for a four-foot
personal record in shot put, two-foot
in the discuss throw and three-foot in
the hammer throw.
Dilly came up big, taking first
place in both the hammer throw and
javelin. The 4xl00-meter relay team
of Gobel, Keller, Jackson and Wester
took first place and grabbed a personal
record. The 4x400-meter relay team
of Gobel, Jackson, Keller and Tweedy
took first place.
For the women, standouts were
Rachel Hemphill, Andria Scheese,
Lyndsey McKillip, Jamie Burg,
Meaghan Durand, Stefani Dittmar,
Allison Body and Tricia Bolier.
Please see TRACK, Page 8
Baseball team looks to stay alive
Mike Guldice
Sports Editor
Do or die. This is the situation
lat the baseball team is faced with
s they ready themselves for their
hal regular-season games: a twin-
ill vs. Southwestern Oregon CC
morrow.
If they sweep the two games
and Linn-Benton fairs worse in
their match-up with Chemeketa,
then Clack will almost certainly
get into the NWAACC tourney as
a two seed out of the South. If they
flounder, however, they will more
than likely find themselves on the
outside of the playoff bubble look
ing in.
Last week saw the team split two
doubleheaders with Chemeketa,
)ny Stutevoss (Madison HS) snags the double-play to help
lackamas win against Chemeketa.
and most recently, one with Linn-
Benton on Saturday.
In the first game, the Cougars
managed a measly five hits, while
committing three errors en route to
a 5-2 loss. Sophomore Jess Jensen
took the loss.
“We couldn’t get anything going
on offense. We just didn’t come up
big when we needed to,” OF Todd
McBride said.
Game two was a different story,
however, as Clackamas was victo
rious behind a dominant pitching
performance from freshman flame
thrower Nate Reif.
In their 3-1 win, Clack reversed
the rolls as the game saw LBCC
commit four errors and only register
six hits throughout
“I was just trying to keep the ball
down and work at a quick pace. I
wanted to get my defense off the
field as fast as possible,” Reif said.
“They were getting themselves out,
but our D was making some great
plays as well.”
The significance of what is on
the horizon is lost on no one, espe
cially the athletes involved in the
push for the postseason.
“If we play to the best of our
capabilities, we should be fine —
there shouldn’t be any doubts,” Reif
said. “It would be awesome; file
school hasn’t been to the playoffs
for a while, so it would be great to
get back to a winning tradition. That
was our goal at the beginning of the
year.”
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