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Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010
Basketball teams begin league pla
Men’s and women’s
basketball start
league play and hope
to compete for con
ference title
By Travis Hardin
The Clackamas Print
It’s official; Cougars basketball
is back.
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As the first week of winter
term came to an end, it was just
the beginning for the Clackamas
Cougars men’s and women’s bas
ketball teams.
Both teams played host to the
Chemeketa Storm on Jan. 9, in
what became their first games of
the 2009-2010 season.
The Lady Cougars walked
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Johnelle Kapua (15) shoots
free throws during a game
against Chemeketa on Jan.
9. Clackamas won 95-53 at
home. The Lady Cougars are
currently 3-0 in league play.
away with a 95-53 victory in their
home opener. First year co-head
coach Kayla Steen said, “To play
at home always means a lot to [the
team] and definitely helps us with
momentum.”
* According to freshmen post
Tessa Stadeli, “Playing at home
means a lot because we haven’t
had many home games.”
The first points of the regular
season came by way of a three-
pointer by sophomore guard Dayle
Powell. The tough defense the
Lady Cougars displayed in the first
half resulted in 17 turnovers being
committed by the visiting Storm.
Steen, after the game, said,
“[The players] are very comfort
able playing with each other. The
freshmen have stepped in; they are
doing a great job with the system
that we run.”
According to their Web site,
the Lady Cougars enter this sea
son with a record of 21-9 and are
lead by coach Jim Martineau, who
enters his 12th season with the
program.
According to Steen, the team
has six new players to the program
and five returning.
Freshmen guard Johnnelle
Kapua, who comes to Clackamas
from Honolulu, Hawaii, said, when
asked about what goals she has
for this season, “Pretty much just
do whatever my teammates need
to do [whether] it’s shooting out,
passing, getting the ball into the
post, defense; whatever my coach
needs me to do.”
When asked if she learned any
thing from the pre-season, Kapula
responded, “We learned that we
are definitely beatable, so we can’t
take any team lightly.”
As the Lady Cougars walk,
away with their first win of the
season, they already are looking at
the future.
According to sophomore guard/
forward McKenzie Ausman-Meyer,
she would like to see the team win
18 games and the championship.
The men’s team entered their
able career coaching the
softball team and is no
to the campus. Accord™
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few.
Returning players inch
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who had a tremendous fl
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Tournament’s Most
Player. He also was nan]
Team All-South Division
2008-2009 season.
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the Cougars led 72-691
Jeff Dorman (21) cuts past defenders on Jan. 9 against
Chemeketa. Dorman led all scorers with 21 points and fin
ished with four rebounds, two assists and two steals in the
74-73 loss.
season as the defending NWAACC
champions. Leading the way is
2009 NWAACC Coach of the Year
Clif Wegner. Wegner enters his
12th year at Clackamas.
New to the coaching staff
this year is Assistant Coach Paul
Fiskum. Fiskum has had a remark
Chemeketa to the foul lin
making both free throws, ■
trailed the Cougars by onel
the game with 2.0 seconl
the half. Chemeketa wel
foul line again and ended!
the 74-73 win over the Col
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and next game, that’s
next game,” said Tapscottl
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goes from here.
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PGE Park prepares for renovations, more seats to be add
Timbers plan to begin Major
League Soccer play in 2011 in reno
vated PGE Park, more seats and
restaurant to be added while still
keeping view from SW 18th Avenue
accessible
Beavers fans sit like motionless cadavers compared to the frat
party atmosphere brought by the Timbers fully possessed fan
base; the lunatic Timbers Army is a spectacle worth watching
in itself and being a part of it breeds a sense of insanity only
felt by.strong drug users and the clinically insane.
America’s favorite pastime is starting to show its age in our
state, and it’s time for the old to die and the young to thrive.
I don’t agree necessarily that we should completely toss out a
franchise which has been in our city in some form or another
for over a hundred years, but if it comes to a showdown
between MLS and minor league basebal 1, baseball si
will unquestionably lose.
Perhaps the best part of the proposed plan for P
has been the decision to keep viewing access from
Avenue outside the stadium. This street has allowed]
lege kids, bums and eighty-sixed fans to keep on
games regardless of if ¿hey had the $12 admission]
viewing socialist idea helps to breed Portland spirit a
Paulson’s promise about the field alive that the stadia
“as unique as they come in the soccer world.”
By John Hurlburt
Co-Editor in Chief
Although no one has been shot in die chest with a crossbow
bolt over match results yet, it is becoming apparent that more
Americans are starting to see what the rest of the world has
been staring at for years, soccer.
Internationally, the U.S. national team has made it to the
2010 World Cup in South Africa, continuing their push to
show that America will become a powerhouse team within
the sport.
Even more importantly, PGE finally announced its plans
for renovation just in time for Christmas, letting Oregonians
all over the state feel secure that we will have a Major League
Soccer team in 2011.
The decision to open up an expansion team has been fought
hard, but Portland’s firm, consisting of wealthy Timbers owner
Merritt Paulson, Portland Mayor Sam Adams and Portland
City Commissioner Randy Leonard, has managed to keep the
world’s most popular sport in our city without having to throw
bricks at opponents.
Stadium renovations have left the Portland Beavers’ future
in limbo. A major argument against promoting the Timbers
and upgrading PGE Park to make it soccer only is it would
destroy this “popular” Portland franchise. But arguments bat
tling the Timbers off the field have been boot-stomped the
same way the Timbers thrashed competition on the field.
The Portland Beavers have never even been abfe to draw
in a crowd the way the Timbers have. As for spirit, Portland
Photo contributed vl
Shown above is the future view of the east side of PGE Park. The new seating will run parallel to
18th Avenue but will not completely obstruct the view from the street.