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
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its women’s
vins third
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¡team placed third in
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and seventh at the
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Maced second in the
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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
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[procure a Southern
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Inst the likes of Clark,
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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.