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PRINT: Sports
Wednesday, Feb. 13,2013
Awards honor
lie s t o f b e s t
Curling:
ding stones
Scottish
style!
A-M.
SPORTS
AndrewMillbrooke
; Sports Editor ’ '
On Sunday 'night-
Oregon Sports Awards were i
held at the Tiger Woods Center tyj
on Nike’s campus in Beaverton,
honoring many o f Oregon’s top
athletes from the prep level up to
professionals. Whale the glitz and
glam affair always brings out the l |
big names — ESPN Sportscenter jg
anchor Neil Everett hosted this
year — it is more about honoring X
those that have dedicated their life
to sports.
While most o f the award
recipients were youngsters, either ,
just starting college or finishing
high school, they all had one thing’
in common when they got to tiie
podium. Almost every recipient
thanked their parents, coaches
and teammates and talked about •
how none o f this would be pos
sible without them. It’s this net
work o f beh ind the scenes ccra-
mitment that leads to greatness
in any endeavor, not only sports.
I would be remiss n o t t q
mention Oregon’s Liz Brenner,
who won an award for the lounh
straight year. A four-sport .nhlete
at Oregon, Brenner won the Biff
Hayward female Amateur Athlete
o f the Year award after winning
three straight Johnny Carpenter ■
Prep Athlete o f the Year awards at
Jesuit High School.
The University o f Oregon
was well represented during the
ceremony as a host o f Ducks past
and present were on hand, inchid- *'
ing host Everett, a 1984 Oregon
grad, former quarterback Joey
Harrington and current Duck \
football players Marcus Mariota
and Kenjon Barner.
Oregon-bound high school .
record setting seniors H a le y " ,
Crouser o f Gresham ;md Thomas
Tyner o f A fS a frodi'took-
multiple Johnny Carpenter tro- .
phies on the night including
6A/5A prep Athlete o f the Yeat
Oshay Dunmore, an Oregon g
freshman from Newport, also'
won two trophies including prep
Athlete o f the Year for classes 3
4A-1A.
But the stars o f ihe show ..
weren’t the kids. It was the par
ents, coaches and teammates who
helped push these stars to new
heights. The time commitment
put in by parents and coaches
cannot be underestimated in
molding thefr children’s suc
cess. The Game Changer Award
was presented to an individual
who had dedicated their lives to
high school sports and positively '
affected their schools and com- .
munities.
The winner ibis year was
former Lakeview teacher, track—
and field and cross
.Bobbie Steninger.,
iger spent
- 50 years at Lake''
J
•multiple Coaches
die IfeaTh,'.
honors and the 2t v . Educator J
o f the Year Award. In 2011,
Lakeview named its new track,,
after Steninger.
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Another similar award was
the coolest one they gave away
on Sunday. The DNA award was
given to “individuals or oigani- ■
zations for their extraordinary -
passion and dedication to sport
in Oregon.” Oregon Instifoie of £
Technology head men’s basket
ball coach Danny Miles is certain- '
ly part o f Oregon's sportsDNA. *- ’
Miles is currently in his 42nd"
season at the helm of the Hustlin’ V ■
Owls, a NAIA Division II school
in Klamath Falls. Miles led OIT
to the 2012 NAIA II National T
Championship. It was his third -
championship in the last nine sea- .•
sons, after also winning in 2004
and 2008.
It’s the dedication put forth by ,
people like Steninger and Miles
that make sports in Oregon that
much better. There are c o u n tle s s *
other coaches out there just like
these two, working behind the
scenes, coaching and teaching . ,
without any hoopla. They are the.
real stars on a night like this.
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David Daly o f Evergreen Curling Club demonstrates curling form and style with a strategic throw.
Daly runs Ihe league.
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Curling consists of sliding
stones across the ice to get close
to the center of the target called
the “button^” each team has eight
-stones. The team with the stone
closest to the button wins the
“end” or round. The winners tally
up one point per rock between the
button and opposing team’s rock.
“Strategy plays a big part,”
said Petsche. The game winner
is the team with the most points
after 10 ends.
The Evergreen Curling Club
opened in 2002 at Mountain View
Ice Arena where it ran for four
years. The club then moved to
the Lloyd Center ice skating rink
and after six years, finally has an
ideal playing surface at their new
location in Beaverton at 10950
SW 5th Street.
“It’s the only dedicated curling
rink on the West Coast besides
Seattle,” said club member
Eugene Caroll. Evergreen wom
en’s and men’s competitive teams
both won at this year’s Mountain
Pacific Curling Association
Regional championships.
The club welcomes newcom
ers and novices with multiple
league types, the friendly atmo
sphere is comfortable and casual.
It seems a splendid idea for a
weekend adventure out and about
with friends.
“There’s no heckling,” said
Caroll. “We don’t have curling
hooligans.” The game is ancient
in origin, as it was devised in the
late middle ages in Scotland and
was recently added to the winter
Olympic Games as an official
sport.
“It’s the other stupid Scottish
game, along with golf,” - said.
Caroll. As with a few other
Scottish games, a congratulatory
drink is often in order for the
winners and losers. This after
game socialization is referred to
as “stacking the brooms.”
“It’s a pub game,” said curl
ing enthusiast and Highland
Stillhouse pub owner Mick Secor.
“It’s a gentlemanly sport, but it
gets pretty heated and exciting if
you watch curling.”
The best way to learn more
about curling is to play with vet
erans of the game. At about two
hours a course, instructors have
led many a session for beginning
curlers. Terminology and basics
were covered, including how to
throw a stone and sweeping tech
nique.
Bundled up for the cooler con
ditions, groups have discovered
the delightful social game of curl
ing. The next winter session will
be held this Saturday at 1 p.m.
and costs $20 with all equipment.
Athletes get spring in step
Grace Viuhklaa, who competes in
steeplechase, 1500 and 5k, some
times practices hurdles.
Denee’ Shelton
The Clackamas Print
Who? The baseball team, the
track and field team and the soft-
ball team. What? Starting spring
sports at Clackamas Community
College! When? Well, they’ve
already
started
practicing, and if weather permits, every NWAACC Champions.
but there is still hope! Where? afternoon for conditioning.
“There’s nothing that I’m not
Baseball’s first home game is
The track and field team is looking forward to this year,”
Sunday, March 3 against Clark also ready for action.
said head coach Jessica Buel.
College. The track and field team
- “I’m looking forward to us “I ’m really excited about this
hosts the Clackamas Open on reaching our true potential,” said group. There’s nothing holding
March 9 at Oregon City High head coach Keoni McHone. “My us back and we’ve got lots of
School’s stadium. Softball’s first goal for this year is 85 percent potential this year.”
home game is Friday, March 1 personal best rate from last sea
There are 19 players on the
against Concordia University. son to this season, I’m looking team, with eight returning play
Why? Because it’s spring and for 85 percent o f them to improve ers and 11 freshmen. Practicing
that’s when these things happen, in the events that they compete is sometimes difficult because of
obviously.
in. That’s how I measure our the typical dreary Oregon weath
“This year we have a whole success. I usually don’t try to er. Outside practice isn’t fun and
bunch o f new guys, pretty much say, ‘We’re going to try to win,’ the softball team has to share the
an entire new team,” said base but this year I think we have the gym with the other teams at CCC.
ball head coach Robin Robinson, potential to, as long as people do
Between going to classes,
“The new guys are like clay. We their part, we’re set.”
practice and working out, the
get a lot of opportunities to mold
There are 72 men and women players on the baseball, track
them. Some of them go from a on the track and field team this and field arid softball teams have
kind o f decent player to a really year. “I don’t want to run in the their work cut out for them. The
good player and from a good rain, but I don’t know how well least the students at Clackamas
player to a great player. That’s that’s going to work out for me,” Community College could do is
what’s rewarding about it. It’s said Tiffany Forbito, a sopho go out and support the teams. So
not about winning and losing, it’s more on the track team.
get on out to the fields to show
about going from good to great
As far as practice time goes, the teams how much support they
and being able to go on to bigger the track team is going above and have here at home! Let’s see that
and better things.”
beyond the recommended prac school spirit!
This season there are 28 play tice time and they are practicing
For coach information, sched
ers on the team but only 24 get their butts off to put their best ules, scores and anything else
to go on the traveling roster. The foot forward.
Cougar sports related, please visit
baseball team is able to work out
The final spring sport is depts.clackamas.edu/athletics.
every morning from 7-10 a.m. softball, the returning 2012