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INVITATIONAL: Women’s basketball
team celebrates near success
Left: Jenny Johnson leaves them in the dust qs she drives the ball fo r a btisket. The team played three games
duringthe tournament. Right: Ashleigh Anderson brushes o ff an opponent, the ball a blur in her hands, asshe
races toward a win fo r the Clackamas Cougars.
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Clackamas players in double fig
ures. Anderson finished with 15
points, while Wilkinson added
13 points and team-highs of
eight rebounds and five assists.
The Cougars are forced to play
only eight players due to inju
ries.
“We’re kind o f injured right
now, so we have to play every
one’’ said Johnson. “We have
eight people, so it’s good for the
freshman to get the kinks out.”
The Cougars nailed 16 o f 33
three-point attempts and out-
Tlie Cougars also snatched 11
steals in the openinghalf, leading
to 21 points. Clackamas made
11 o f 19 three-point attempts on
its way to. a dominating 58-12
halftime lead. The Cougars shot
58 percent from the field and
made nine of 11 foul shots in the
opening half.
“We just all shot very well
and we played together,’’ said
Johnson. ‘T hat is what we try
to do.”
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Anderson added 13 points, mak the game.. Clackamas finished
ing three o f four three-pointers. with 24 assists as a team, while
Freshman Tori Wilkinson had a holding the alumni to four.
great all-around half with seven
Semifinals - Clackamas
points, five rebounds and four 105, Pierce 83
assists..
Clackamas again used some
The second half became a hot shooting from beyond the
mere formality as the Cougars arc to jump on Pierce early in
built a 78-23 lead with just a 105-83 victory on Saturday
over 10 minutes remaining. night at Randall Gym. The
The- Cougars closed out the Cougars built up a 31-F2,lead
win convincingly, 100 to 3^. with 9:41 left in the opening
Johnson finished with a half, as sophomore Sade Elliot
game-high 26 points, leading sis drilled her third three-pointer.
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Clackamas kept the pressure
on the smaller Raiders with great
defense and hot shooting as they
extended to a 52-25- lead. The
Raiders closed the half on an 8-3
run to pull within 55-33 at the
break, but the Cougars were in
full control o f the game.
■ Six-foot-one
sophomore
jordin Feldman was a monster
on both ends o f the court in the
opening half. Feldman scored 19
points, grabbed nine rebounds,
got three blocked shots and gar
nered four steals in less than
15 minutes of great play. Elliot
added 15 points, in the half. |
Feldman said that “hard work,
staying focused and not letting
the little things affect you” have
led to her early season success.
The Cougars got1 to the free
throw line at w ilf as the small
er Raiders were forced to foul.
Clackamas made 16 o f 22 foul
shots in the first half.
Finals - Umpqua 87,
Clackamas 74
In a game filled with runs,
Umpqua GC used the final
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one and Clackamas , could not
answer as the Riverhawks pulled
away to win' theTlijftljisgning
Invitational with, an 87-74 vic
tory over Clackamas in the
Championship on Sunday after
noon at Randall Gym. Umpqua
used a n l 1-2 run to take a 72 to
63 lead with under five minutes
remaining.
“We had a lot o f energy the
first two games,” said sopho
more post Jordin Feldman.
“This game kind o f drained us.
We kind o f let our heads hang,
instead o f staying focused and
running our offense.”
The Cougars did not close
the gap, as die Riverhawks
made six o f eight foul shots
to close out the victory. “ They
were being a lot more aggressive
than we were,” said Cougars
co-head coach Jim Martineau.
“We fouled them way too many
times.”
Martineau was not pleased
with die defensive performance
after giving up over 80 points in
consecutive games. “The press.
was not working real w elt and
defensively we didn’t play good
in the post,” said Martineau.
“We need to play a little better
defensively. We can’t expect to
score 100 every game.”
Clackamas scored over 100
points in each of the first two
gam es,,but poor outside shoot
ing doomed the Cougars against
die Riverhawks. Clackamas
made just six o f 25 three point
attempts and shot just 39 percent
for the game.
Feldman le d the Cougars
with 21 points and 8 rebounds,
but fouled out with over six
minutes remaining. “She brings
so much energy, we need that on
the floor,” said Martineau. “She
has to learn to play with her
energy without fouling.” ■
Ashleigh Anderson added 16
points and Jenny Johnson had
15 points and five assists.
“Jenny had a good tourna
ment, she played very well,”
said Martineau. “Ashleigh had
a good game. She is solid and
shoots the ball well.”