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6 Sports The Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Save your green by going green'",£sx Andrea Simpson Clackamas Print Clackamas P Softball looks to improve record in time for NWAACC Megan Holer I Editor in Chief With an even win-loss record, Cougar softball aims to improve. Clackamas lost this past weekend’s first doub header against Chemeketa Community College 2-7 and 8-10, and tied its doubleheader with Southwestern Community College 5-4 and 0-2. “We didn’t perform offensively like we shoul have,” said Softball Coach Jessica Buel. “We’re in third place, so we’re only going to improve fi where we’re at.” One of the players in the process of improving freshman Mallory Callahan, who led the team wi a two-run home run in last weekend’s doublehea “I was kind of in a hitting slump for a while, felt good to get out of it,” Callahan said. Despite a less-than-stellar offense, Clackamas one of its strongest defensive games, with onlyt errors made the whole weekend. The team is now third in the NWAACC (Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges) standings, below Mt. Hood Communit College in first and Lower Columbia Communit College in second. Only the top four teams will invited to compete in this year’s NWAACC chai onships. “It’s scary because we want to make NWWA1 so bad,” said freshman Kayla Vedaa. “It’s a reps tion we want to withhold here at the school.” The Cougars’ next game is at home this Frida against Mt. Hood at 3 p.m. on the softball field.’ “The pressure is on,” Vedaa said. “Hopefully,| we’ll get things to come together.” 1 Instructor Kate Gray rides away from Roger Rook Hall on her recumbent-style bicycle. Gray bikes from her Sellwood home, which is approximately 12 miles from the college. . the local shop Daddy’s, located on Sandy Boulevard, says that the activity plays a role in maintaining her physical health. “A lot of people wouldn’t think that you get a lot of exercise from it, but when you are using your legs to push yourself, they get pretty strong,” she said. She frequently boards from her place of I Andrea Simpson work, Coastal Farm and Ranch, in the Oregon I | Sports Editor City Shopping Center, to the Oregon City campus. Biking and other less-conventional modes As the weather turns warmer and pants are of transportation are indeed environment traded for shorts, people start to pull their friendly. And with global warming becoming bicycles and skateboards from storage, using a hot topic in politics, the public is begin them as a substitute for driving in the glori ning to question what they can do to slow the ous weather. inevitable monstrosity. Here on campus is a little-known com According to the League of American munity of bicyclists and skateboarders who Bicyclists’ Web site, bikeleague.org, 60 per have many different reasons for cent of the pollution gener employing alternative means of ated by automobile emissions commuting. is released within the first few For English Instructor Kate minutes of functioning, before Gray, it’s a matter of less pol the emission control devices lution. “I am trying to have a chance to work. This “I am trying to lessen the means that short trips to places carbon footprint I leave,” Gray lessen the only a few miles away emit said. more pollution per mile than Gray, who rides her recum carbon longer outings. bent-style bike once every cou The TriMet bus system has ple of weeks, says that even footprint I long been viewed as a positive though it takes five times lon replacement for driving. Some ger for her to bike to Clackamas leave,99 students use a combination of than it does to drive, her efforts longboarding and riding the are well worth it. bus to get to the college. Kate Gray “It’s great exercise,” she Gray says that alternative English Instructor said. “I’m not hardcore about transport, however, does haVe it. I don’t bike in nasty weather its pitfalls. or anything. I started riding as “I bike along (Highway) a training athlete. Now, I’m 213, and that scares me to trying to do more environmental stuff.” death,” she said. “Drivers are so reckless. Gray bikes from her home in Sellwood,-« “It’s funny when I see my students while distance she estimates to be about 12 miles. I’m biking. One time a student stopped next Student Jaynee Lindquist agrees that alter to me near Home Depot, and he told me I native transportation can have multiple ben looked so scared he decided not to honk and efits. ^ay hello.” Lindquist is part of a small group of people So before you fire up the engine to run to who longboard on campus. She began long- the store, think about saving gas and the envi boarding in November of last year, when her ronment by utilizing earth-loving methods of boyfriend and his friends took up the hobby. transportation. Lindquist, who bought her longboard from TO# gas prices hitting record highs at almost $4 per gallon, alternative transportation is becoming more appealing to the masses -— Games This Week I I BASEBALL April 29 - Lane CC (DH) 1 p.m. at HOME May 3 - Mt. Hood CC (DH) 1 p.m. at Gresi May 6 - Chemeketa CC (DH) 1 p.m. at HO SOFTBALL April 29 - Lower Columbia College 3 p.m. Longview, Wash. May 2 - Mt. Hood CC 3 p.m. at HOME May 3 - Chemeketa CC 1 p.m. at HOME May 6 - SW Oregon CC 2 p.m. at Coos Ba TRACK AND FIELD May 2 - Pacific Twilight at Pacific Universi April 26,2008 — Clackamas 2, Chemeketa C April 27,2008 - Clackamas 5, SW Oregon C April 27, 2008 - Clackamas 0, SW Óregon C|
