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Softball looks to
improve record in
time for NWAACC
Megan Holer
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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.”
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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
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work, Coastal Farm and Ranch, in the Oregon
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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
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Games This Week I
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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|