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6 CLACKAMAS PRINT • MAY 20,2015 X NWAC Tourney Recap: Friday vs Everett: W 7-0 Saturday vs Douglas: W 6-0 Sunday vs Mt. Hood: L 4-5 Friday vs Bellevue: W 8-6 Sunday vs Spokane: L 1-4 Above: Infielder Kylie Beilis slides into home as catcher Ashley Culp watches during Sunday's semi-final game vs N t Hood. Story and photos by Blake Thomason and Jack Spencer For th e second year in a ro w th e com bined seven runs in the th ird and played , played center, but I mean every comeback as Spokane w on 4-1. However, the tournam ent was dou Clackamas Cougars softball team was fourth inning. Bellevue rallied late scor one’s here, it’s like a whole different ball ble-elim ination so the Cougars still had elim in a te d by th e Mt. Hood Saints In ing four runs in the seventh, but it wasn’t game. They come and nobody w ants a chance to make th e cham pionship. to lose so everybody’s giving it all they enough to overcome the deficit as Clack the NWAC Championship tournam ent. They w ould just have to find a way to got. I have to [say] hands dow n to my amas held on 8-6. The Cougars ended the season on a get back to th e ir style of play. Day tw o started out similar to day one, defense, couldn’t do it w ith o u t them .” h o t streak, w inning 10 o f th e ir last 11 “ [W e have to ] ju s t be co n fid e n t a t Unfortunately, the roll the team was games, en route to capturing the South w ith Clackamas controlling th e ir game the plate, get up early in the game and on ended on the th ird day o f the tour against Douglas. The Cougar defense, Region title. The strong finish and region score some, g e t back in our groove,” nament. led by pitcher Cassidy Edwards, d o m crown earned the team the No. 2 seed In th e sem i-finals, Clackamas faced said Marchbanks. in the tournament, where they had high inated the game allowing just five hits W ith elim ination staring them in the and zero runs. The Cougar offense had o ff against the No. 1 seed Spokane Sas expectations. face, Clackamas would have to go head quatch. Fielding errors, pitching strug “We have th a t desire every year, so another one-inning eruption w ith four to head w ith th e ir archrival, Mt. Hood. gles and poor hitting did the Cougars runs in th e th ird , w hich proved to be it’s a tra d itio n at Clackamas," said head in. Edwards was subbed out early in the The game w ould be a rematch of last coach Jessica Buel. “We have won the insurm ountable in the 6 -0 win. “ I mean o ur p itch in g s ta ff is killing game fo r pitcher Emily Marchbanks, but year’s championship. most championships in the history of the continued on pg. 7 NWAC, so th a t’s our every year, th a t’s it, eve ryb o d y on th e fie ld is h itting, th e change wasn’t enough to spark a th e re ’s hardly any errors,” w h a t w e’re planning on." In th e te a m ’s first tw o games, they said Gonzales. “Everybody’s certainly seemed ready to live up to th a t d o in g th e ir jo b to g e th e r and th a t’s w h a t makes us tradition. On th e firs t day o f th e to u rn a m e n t unstoppable." Edwards s h u to u t each Clackamas squared off against the No. 15 seed Everett Trojans. Both teams start o p p o n e n t in her firs t tw o ed o ff slow, until the Cougars erupted starts o f th e tournam ent, fo r five runs in th e fo u rth -in n in g lead as w ell as earning a save in by a bases-clearing trip le fro m Cassie the game against Bellevue. Cruz. Cougar pitching kept the Trojans Most pitchers have to take days off, b u t Edwards was in check on th e ir way to a 7-0 victory. “The first gam e w e had a lo t o f jit ready to go fo r each game ters but after th a t we were just kind of at w hatever position. “ I c o u ld h ’t have d o n e on a mission," said th ird baseman Kylie it w ith o u t m y team ," said Gonzales. The mission continued later th a t day Edwards. “ O bviously w e as they were paired up against th e No. played tw o p re tty g o o d 10 seed Bellevue Bulldogs. Clackamas team s th a t I pitched, and ju m p e d o u t to a big lead thanks to a th e o th e r te a m th a t w e Pitcher Cassidy Edwards and catcher Kandace Furlong celebrate after shutting out Douglas In the quarterfinals.
