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Sports sportsed@clackamas.edu Wednesday, M arch 7 ,2 0 1 2 The Clackamas Print Cougars crush Cardinals Sophomore guard MaKesha Bizon reaches in thecookie ja r after scoring all o f her three p o in t attempts in the fir st h a lf against Skagit Valley Comm unity College. Clackamas 74 Bellevue 65 By John W illiam Howard Sports Editor 'Clackamas Community Clackamas and Bellevue College matched up to start o f th e N W A A C C w o m e n ’s games . at the .NWAACC basketball championships, tournament, taking -fifth tipping things' off first place with a win over Skagit thing Saturday morning. Valley College yesterday. Clackamas came away with Clackamas’ only loss was to the-/74-65 win, and advanced Columbia Basin College, to the second round to take who advanced to the cham on Columbia Basin. For the first several min pionship game last night. utes-, the two teams kept things dosé. After four W S tate U niversity ^VANCOUVER ash in g t o n Learn about— minutes, Clackamas led 7-5 on a Jenny Johnson three- pointer before committing three consecutive turnovers, giving up their lead as they saw Belfevue score four in a row. Clackamas led at halftime behind Johnson’s monster first half. Johnson put up 19. points in the first 20 minutes. Clackamas scored first to start the second half, but Bellevue answered right back. Just over three minutes into- the half, Clackamas’ lead was ' still just two at 43-41. That’s when Clackamas let loose their most potent weapon: the three point shot. Things seemed lost for Bellevue, who found themselves down 68-61 with just one minute remaining after Clackamas’ Johnson hit a pair of free throws. Then Bellevue ran down the floor and netted, a three pointer from guard Kelsey Sparks to get to withirf’ four. A steal and - a made free throw by Brittany Barrington cut the deficit to just" three at 68-65, but Clackamas hit six consecu tive free throw attempts to ice the game 74-65. Columbia Basin 64 Clackamas 55 Clackamas and Columbia Basin, two teams that both spent time at the top of the^coa^e^pw l matched up in the second' round and presented the fans with one of the most excitingfiriishes the women’s tournament yet. Columbia Basin used a run early in the first half to take the game 64-55 and move on to the NWAACC semi finals. Columbia Basin -took a seven point lead after fiye minutes of play on a shot from Lacey Young, but Clackamas reeled- off seven points of their own to tie the game at eleven points apifece. Clackamas broke the tie a few possessions later with a shot from Sam McCloud, and the teams traded baskets, neither gaining an advantage bigger than four.-Clackamas led 25-23 at halftime. Columbia Basin took a. brief lead early in the second half,"‘but-Clackamas fought back, draining consecutive three pointers from MaKesha Bizon and Johnson to go up four ari. 3 L^7.s Columbia Basin then went on a 9-2 run to take a 38-33 lead when Jennifer Noon hit for two , of her game high 20 points. A few minutes later, Young made it a ten point lead for Columbia Basin. Clackamas scored four in a row to cut the lead to 48-42 on a pair of free throws . by Johnson;"- but Columbia.. Basin held strong, stopping the run and pushing the lead back out to nine. With just over a minute remaining in the game, Lindsay Kanalz hit a pair of free throws to bring it to 56-51. Golumbia Basin answered with a jump er from Young and forced Johnson to travel with the basketball, giving Columbia Basin possession with a seven point lead. Columbia Basin would swish ; ,their next six free throw attempts, icing the victory and 'send ing Clackamas to the losers bracket of the double-elimi nation tournament by a final score of 64-55. Clackamas 101 Skagit Valley 88 Bizon was perfect from three point range in the first half and ended shooting 10 of 14 from distance; for 32 points to lead -Clackamas to 'a fifth place finish over Skagit Valley 101-88. Clackamas jumped5' out to a 10-5 lead when Bizon swished her first three point er with 16:29 left in the flrSt half. Skagit Valley pulled to within two point’s," but another pair of three point ers from Bizon and Johnson hit two more three pointers to put Clackamas out by six. Skagit Valley tied the game at 29, -but Johnson answered from distance with another Clackamas 85 three to put the Cougars Blue Mountain 65 back on top. Clackamas Blue M o u n ta in went on a huge run to finish Community .College hung the half, hitting three more around in a tight first half, three-pointers and getting a but eventually fell behind three point play from Kanalz in the second, trailing by to take a ten point lead. as many as 23 points before Clackamas led 55-47-at half losing 85-65 to Clackamas time, as Bizon was perfect to put an end to their first from three point range with NWAACC. . .tournam ent six made three point field goals in the half. appearance. Blue Mountain led early, Clackamas • started off witfi. Nadia Telles hit the second period where ting a two pointer to put they left off in the first, the Timber wolves up 8-3 going up by 20 after five after the first two minutes. minutes of play at 76-56. Clackamas quickly, made up ^ypral,jninutes,. later, Skagit the ground with S ^ a lr^ m ’’ Valley made a TUn tO CUt m e dteficiirf 1 Anderson and McCloud a steal and fast brfeak.field to take a one point lead. goal from Jessica Denmon. Clackamas went on a run, The Cardinals got within 10 oints on a pair of occasions, hitting four, consecutive ut with Clackamas .up- 11 treys to go up by five at 28-23. Clackamas led 36-35 with less than a minute to go, it was too little too late. at halftime. Blue Mountain started The Cougars emptied their the second half slowly and bench and time ran out, giv Clackamas took advantage, ing Clackamas the 101-88 slowly building their lead victory. Clackamas got 32 points until Bizon hit from down town to put the Cougars up from Bizon and 29 from 53-43. The lead grew to 16 Johnson to take fifth place oints when Jordin Feldman overair id The NWAACC Anderson, it a layup in the paint tournam ent. with Just over eight minutes who’s .first game back from surgery was the first regular remaining in the game. Blue Mountain climbed season game for Clackamas, to within eleven at 66-55, said that the four games ih but Clackamas buried the four' days -were difficult on Timberwolves with a 15-3 her knees, but that it was run to go up by 23 at 81-58 good to finish the season with just over two minutes with a win. “I’m especially happy left in the contest. At that point, Clackamas emptied to see [Bizon] go out like their bench, cruising to an that, in her last game J’, said Andersort. 85-64 victory. Bizon was as nonchalant asr Clackamas was led by the near triple double of ever about her performance^ McCloud, who finished with which put her in third pla.ee S 9 points, 12 rebounds, all-time at Clackamas for eight assists, and five steals. made three pointers' in one Johnson also finished with season. 19 points on five of njrie I “It’s just a good way to shooting from three point end the season,’ said Bizon. John W illiam H o w a rd also range. Clackamas moved on to play Skagit Valley for-fifth covered the cham pionships f o r the N W A A C C . place on Monday at 2 p.m. Academic programs Application process Track and Field Baseball Campus life Paying for college Agenda, RSVP, directions » vancouver.wsu.edu/previ Next Up: Pacific NW Relays at Clackamas, 3 p.m. Saturday, April 8. Next Up: Olympic CC at Clackamas, 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 24. Softball Next Up: Clackamas at Bellevue CC, 2 p.m. Saturday, April 2.
