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wsAZsports Wednesday, Nov. 18th, 2009 the clackamas print 3 ugs race for NWAACC South title responded well physically to the training program. We have many middle distance oriented runners, so the longer distance •takes a while longer to get used to,” said ninth year head coach Keoni McHone. For the women, freshman Melanie Peters placed seventh by recording a season best of 20:17 in the 5k run, this came out to 6:32 a mile. Another freshman, Mary 'arlos Calderon Clackamas Print its women’s vins third |n the South- gion Champi- rs' eason the men’s cross ¡team placed third in [hern region champi- ii and seventh at the |C championships. The Maced second in the | region and fifth in They have done a great job of stay ing positive and focused during the season, LACC. Going into the pf the season, both the women are looking at ¡the season strong. Cougars hosted the untry Southern Region Inships on Oct. 31. lately neither the i women’s team were [procure a Southern I championship, but Keoni McHone ' Cross Country Coach [manage to hold their Inst the likes of Clark, I rival Mt. Hood com- [colleges en route to Ingest performance of ion. The progression But the season is attrib- Ihe team’s acclimation paining program and ce gained during the year’s team has John Petty Clackamas Print Amy Hermansen as she approches the finish line of the Mike Hodges Invitational. Botsford, placed ninth and also posted a season best of 20:38 in the 5k with an average 6:39 a mile. Sophomore Katie Olson ran the 5k in 21:13, 6:50 a mile and placed 13th. • Combined as a team the women averaged 21:10:40 to go along with 63 total points, third place in the Southern Region Championships. Southwestern Oregon Community College failed to field the minimum number of five runners and did not place. “They have done a great job of staying positive and focused during the season,” stated McHone. On the men’s side, freshman Paden Snell placed sixth among the 30 runners and recorded a 27:07 in the 8k run, which was the equivalent of 5:28 a mile. Placing 12th and 13th were freshmen Alex Seigal and Chris Olsen whom finished within seven seconds of each other at 28:38 and 28:45 or 5:46 and 5:47 per mile respectively in the 8k. Combined with Zach Fund’s 17th , Kyle Vuskich’s 19th and Steven Boe’s 24th place finish the Cougar men finished with 67 total points and a combined 28:51:40 aver age, good enough for a third place finish in the Southern Region Championships. The Cougar’s final meet took place on Nov. 14 at Lewisville State Park in Battle Ground, Wash. The Cougars faced off against Clark, Spokane, Everett, Lane, Green River, SW Oregon, Treasure Valley, Skagit Valley and Mt. Hood community colleges. Clackamas took fifth scoring a total of 322 points, both men and women’s scores com bined. ISTRATION: ceases to be convenient for returning students lied from REGISTRATION, Page 1 Phi low, a second term stu- tC, said she did not expect ines on the first day of reg- She tried registering online to avoid the long lines she ed last term when register ing. “I just don’t want to stand in line,” she said. Various speculations were made about the cause of the problems. Some students have said that it was caused by a power outage possibly cause by wind. Others have said that the crash was caused by the amount of students registering at the same time. Chris Clark said he thought it was just that the server was down. William Smith agreed. Lacey Mailer suspected it was because so many students tried to register at the same time. “The network admin doesn’t know what he’s doing?” David Enquist questioned about the cause of the problems. According to Bello, students A knocks out boxing viewers y Mark Foster Clackamas Print facades boxing was a domi- ort, up there with Major F Baseball and the NFL. Now t seen the trouncing mixed arts has put on boxing, tak- r the combat world. There oubt that MMA absolutely s boxing in the popularity is that any surprise? Ultimate Fighting ionship, the leader in MMA, nultiple fights every year, | coming to Portland’s Rose Arena for UFC 102. For /ent held by the UFC there andful of fights in just one For UFC 102 there were a ’ll fights. Although boxing iso have undercard fights, •not have 11. boxing. UFC has a television •n Spike TV called “Ultimate | which follows fighters b their training and as they try to climb the MMA ranks. For boxing, the majority of coverage is on channels such as HBO and Showtime. Seeing as channels such as HBO and Showtime cost more to subscribe to, most people do not have'the option to follow the sport Another MMA promotion com pany, Strikeforce, has also upped their appeal by broadcasting fights on NBC. Qn Nov. 9, Strikefarce broadcast fights on. NBC making it more readily accessible to people seeing as NBC is part of the basic cable package. It has simply become too dif ficult for boxing to compete for media coverage on the same level as’MMA. Some people believe that MMA is also safer than boxing seeing as the majority of shots taken in box ing are to foe head while in MMA it is spread throughout foe whole body. Quite frankly, I do not see how this can be possible. After watch ing a boxing match, you do'not see either of foe competitors stand in foe middle of foe ring bloodied from taking an elbow or forearm to foe face and being taken down. In box ing if you get knocked down, you get a ten count to get up. In MMA, if you get knocked down you better be ready to either get up quick or be ready for foe other fighter to ground and pound you. They might as well just call it human cockfighting. But, it’s entertainment After sit ting around having a few beers with friends do I want to watch two yolked super humans beat each other to a pulp? Absolutely. Boxing is more of an old school sport like baseball. Enthusiasts see foe sport as a purist sport Both are sports that are thought of as pure forms of competition. Pitcher vs. batter, who can beat who with what they have. I’m not saying I like MMA over boxing, I just feel*foat in today’s sports era, it is more accessible to the viewer. I would pick boxing over MMA any day but MMA is dominating foe scene and until another Lennox Lewis, Tyson, or Ali comes around, boxing will have to take the backseat to mixed mar tial arts. whose class ended at 2 am. Monday night went to Shari’s and came back to the college in the morning to reg ister. Athena Folk tried registering at midnight as well. She said the actual server appeared to be fine, but when she tried to register she kept getting “capacity too full” messages. Miko Zhang expressed frustration from the system being down and said she tried registering Tuesday morn ing and was unable to. As a result; she went to Rook to try to register in person. At time of print the server was stiil down and students were unable to register for classes online. In-person registration continued at the Roger Rook building.
