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4 ¿Spot Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008 Cross Country: Destination NWAAG Matt Garrison Associate Sports Editor The Cougar Cross Country team will attempt to blaze a trail to the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) Championship this Saturday at the Southern Region Championships. This past weekend, the Clackamas Cross Country team competed against nation ally ranked teams from differ ent college divisions. “I feel that they did pretty good,” said Distance Coach Ian Schroeder. “The women did a good job of packing it up with another teammate to push each other to a good performance,” contin ued Schroeder. “The men had a good competitive effort.” The men’s team finished 11th out of 12 teams. The women’s team finished incom plete because two of the ath letes were sick; however, the athletes that finished the race averaged a 52 second improve ment. Robert Deguchi placed the highest out of all the men Cougars for 55th place in the four- mile run, with a time of 21 - minutes and 27 sec onds. Tarra Brown placed the highest out of the entire lady Cougars for 78th place in the five kilometer run, with a time of 20 minutes and 27 seconds. Clackamas runner Luke Correll dropped out of the race after two miles due to extreme stomach pain, Clackamas first runner Ashley Braniff sat out due to illness and Tegan McCarthy dropped out after a mile for the same reason. “(To improve) the men need to be more conservative in the first mile and push a lit tle bit harder in the middle,” Schroeder said. The women need to “con tinue gaining experience.”. “This year we have a tal ented and young group,” said Schroeder. “Numbers are up. We’re working on developing a solid'base.” The team is “slowly getting better,” said Team Captain Grant Lewis. “Our goal is to get a strong healthy team by NWAACCs,” added Lewis. He feels that to get there the team needs to get stronger in their races. On Saturday, Oct. 25, Clackamas will be host ing the Southern Region Championships at 11 a.m. Photo contributed by Tn Ashley Braniff follows closely behind Whitman cross country athlete Sara Levy on Fort Walla Walla Park in Walla Walla, Wash. Final Cross Country Meets Southern Region Championship: Saturday, Oct. 25 at 11 a.m. at Clackamas NWAACC’s: Saturday, Nov. 8 at Lewisville Regional Park, Battle Ground, Wasl Cougars kill opponents this season, focus on future suca Although the team practice is where the team is head said. “We are usually towards ed, with their overall wins at the top so we try to keep this is hard, and play harder, no 11 The Clackamas Print serious injuries have occurred 27 and losses at only nine, up year to year.” Some notable achievements throughout the season. All placing them in third place for the upcoming NWAACC from players include 381 kills team members are in good Athletic and 42 serve aces from Kristel shape and capable of playing. “One dream, one goal, one (Northwest Association of Community Baeckel this season, and 237 The team does their warm up team.” This is the philosophy that Colleges) Championship on kills out of 531 for Shikara exercises together before the White, ranking her percentage games to avoid such injuries. Kathie Woods, head coach of Nov. 20 through 22. The team suffered two “It doesn’t matter that we at 27 percent. the Cougars’ Volleyball team, “We have enough skill and defeats against their main uses to inspire her team to aren’t at the very top, so long as we excel when we get drive to win,” said Kristen rivals, Chemeketa, losing strive for success. three out of five matches And success, it appears, to the championship,” Woods Diehl, assistant coach. . Nick Kornafel HONEST, INDEPENDENT, FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE in both the first am game played again The team, however, in great spirits and i looking forward to them again on Oc Salem, hoping that i third time is the chai Although the N1 are still several w and plenty of obst along the way, the overwhelming c( amongst the team will not only get finals, but that the; the championship. “We’re going said Liz Huntsma sive specialist. Overall, the ! season is looking g spirit is high and moves right along eventual success. “We can do Joanna Abraham, hitter. “Yeah Coug — RON ADAMS CLACKAMAS COUNTY COMMISSIONER POSITION 5 “ There is room for one moderate voice of reason on the expanded, ‘NONPARTISAN’ Clackamas Board of Commissioners ” Ron Adams Paid for by Friends of Ron Adams Congratula to Sabrina Ne Athleti of the Week Sabrina had 1 five assists, blocks, four di a 2.0 serve red 16 passes th weekend for ti gars.volleybal
