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A The Clackamas Print W ednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 sportsed@ clackamas.edu Athletics Notebook: Richardson signs with N W Christian, basketball picks up pair of wins Volleyball Cougar volleyball had both a hello and a goodbye this week as star sophomore Taylor Richardson signed with Northwest Christian University and newcomer Zoey Martin committed to play at Clackamas next fall. Richardson, who celebrated her 20th birthday on Jan. 31, led the NWAACC in total kills (290) her sophomore season and led by a wide margin in the southern region. Named a regional second team all-star as a freshman, Richardson came back the following year and made the southern regions first team and was named a National Vblleyball Coaches Association All. American for her efforts^, -“Everything has just fallen into place and that’s the greatest; feeling,” said Richardson after her signing. Around middle schooU realized that I wanted to playas long as I possibly could, so it’s pretty cool to get spme- thing-that you ve been waiting for for 10 years./ Martin hails from Santiam Christian High School where she played both outside nitter and setter. She was a second team all-league player in her junior,and senior sea sons, and has played on two state championship teams. “I’m just ready to train and play1 volleyball,” said Martin. “It’s my passion.” Zoey M artin, second from left, signed with Clackamas to play next fall, whileTaylor Richardson, center right, signed with Northwest Christian University. Also pictured are Kathie Woods a n d M ike Gaffaney, N W Christian head coach. Men’s Basketball . M atched up against arguably the worst team in the NWAACC, Clackamas easily dispatched the winless Portland Community- College Panthers .73-34 in a contest th at set an oppo nent low for points this season. Sophomore Paul Walter led the home team w ith 16 points and seven rebounds and sophomore Taylor D unn added .15 points and five steals. Sophomores Brett Ball and Alex Loul rounded out the four: Cougars that were in double figures with Ball narrowly missing a double-double (11 points, nine rebounds) and Loul hitting for 10 points on the night. Clackamas picked up another win on Saturday over Umpqua w inning 76-60 for their third consecutive victory. D unn led all scorers in the game w ith 21 points and Ball registered a double-double w ith 12 points and 13 boards. T he w in k e e p s Clackamas (10-9, 4-3 South) a h alf game behind SW Oregon (12-7, 4-2 South) for the fourth and final playoff spot in the southern region. Women’s Basketball Sophomore w ing P aul Walter (32) shoots over the defense in the 7 3 -3 4 victory over P ortland C om m unity College. o u t six weeks, -which puts her return after the cham pionship tournam ent M arch 3-6 in Tri- Playing free an d loose the Clackam as Cities. women fully flexed their offensive muscle Clackamas again emerged victorious over and broke the 100 p o in t barrier for the first U m pqua on Saturday w ith an 84-64 road tim e this season in their 107-59 victory over victory in Roseburg. First year guard Jenny, Portland C om m unity College on Jan. 25. Johnson played all b u t tw o and a h alf m inutes T he Cougars forced Portland in to ' a dismal o f the contest and led all scorers w ith 22 points 4 2 turnovers in the contest scoring 55 points’ and nine assists. Freshman Ashleigh A nderson o ff those turnovers. Sam M cC loud broke o u t continued to improve as she was 6-11 from o f a recent slump and led Clackamas w ith the three p o in t line for 18 points. Sophom ore 22 points, 15 rebounds, five assists and six sharp shooter MaKesha Bizon added 17 points steals while only com m itting four turnovers. in the victory, w hich moves the Cougars to Five other double figure scorers contributed T 7 -2 on the season, w hich is tied for the best to th e blow out, w hich took place w ith o u t overall record in the NW AACC. Also in the one o f their key sophom ores Lindsay Kanalz, win, Clackamas lost guard Alex Howe to a who has been sporting a bright pink cast ever torn ACL. since she broke n e r wrist du rin g the M t. H ood game on Jan. 18. Kanalz says th at she will be Wrestling . Sophom ore Erie Luna, ranked N o. 7 in the n atio n at the N jC A A level has recently been dismissed from the team . “U nfortunately we just couldn’t get Eric to com m it to w hat the goal was here at C lackam as,” said head coach Josh R hoden. “We attem pted several tim es to try and give him an o p p o rtu n ity to get on board. U nfortunately it didn’t w ork out. We have always been in the frame o f m ind th at no one’s bigger th an this program . In this case it hu rts a bunch because you have a person ready to fin ish very high nationals, b u t in the long ru n a program is probably better for it.” S tarting in his .place is freshm an C lin to n M cAlister who redshirted during last year’s n ational cham pionship run. Clackamas split a pair o f m eetings w ith four year u n i versities on Saturday, w inning 28-15 over Sim on Fraiser U niversity (BC) and falling 25-12 to Southern O regon University. T he Cougars will finish up th eir season against Pacific U niversity at hom e on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m . -C om piled by John W illia m H ow ard decision against S W Oregon’s Johnny Campbell in the 133 lb division, adding to Clackamas 4 2 -6 victory.
