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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.
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things dosé. After four
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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
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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 .
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