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Cougars look to heat up the net BY TR AVI S D A V ID V W H ITTAKER In athletics, there will always be streaks. Some are hot and some are cold. Either way, everyone loves it when their favorite team and player are on fire. They get that feeling like they are in the zone and everything moves at their o w n pace. For the Clackamas Cougars volleyball team, they want to feel that way once again going into league play. Out of the gate, the women's volleyball team started off hot in their non-league schedule. During the month of August they won 6 of the 8 matches contested, including a 5-match winning streak over the weekend of Aug. 27 to Aug. 28. With Septem ber not being as friendly, they only w ere able to win 5 of the 14 total matches for the month. The team endured a 6-match losing streak from Sept. 9 to Sept. 17. The team still feels that they can make the N orthw est A th le tic C on ference tou rn am ent this season. Going into league play they had a 9*10 record. Sophomore Lauren Tennyson, No. 9, who is an outside hitter for the Cougars, mentioned that there is a solid number of Killingbeck, likes the way that the team returners on the team. “ We’re just trying got started this season.“ Non-League was to m ake sure our good days outweigh actually really good. We had a lot o f far our bad days,"she said. According to the away tournaments where we played some Cougars volleyball team roster, six of really good teams, she said. “ The Walla the eleven players are sophomores this Walla tournament is always a good one. They always have super good teams that season. With the team only having two more helped push us and to get us better for scheduled home games for the season league play." With only a handful of league games (Oct. 21 and Nov. 9), they will have to deal with a lot of league road games on played so far the Cougars still have a 12- 13 (2-3 in league) record, and they have the back stretch of the season. Second- year head volleyball coach Sarah Hoeke time to improve. Hoeke added, “ For us to succeed, we actually prefers it this way. need to play to our full potential. Every “ This gives us confidence and helps us feel comfortable as a team before we day in practice that is w hat we work towards and strive for. We have great travel to the rest of the league games,” she said. This way we know our potential athletes who have the capability to do amazing things. ” and we have that mind set as we travel." Last week the Cougars went 1-1 as they Seven of the nine remaining scheduled matches are on the road. The farthest the defeated Mt. Hood Community College in team will have to travel for the rest of the • four sets. CCC def. Mt. Hood 23-25, 29- season is to Coos Bay and Roseburg to play 27,25-15,25-19 and fell to Clark College Southwest Oregon Community College in four sets 25-22,10 -25,19-25,19-25. and Umpqua Community College on Oct. They take the court tonight, Oct. 12, in Salem at Chemeketa Community College. 28 and Oct. 29. If they qualify for the A ll scores, roster inform ation and NW AC tournament, that would be played in Tacoma, Wash, on Nov. 17 to Nov. 20. records w ere taken directly from the team 's page on the NWAC website. Team captain and sophom ore lead defensive specialist, No. 3, Aysia photos by Austin Boltz Left: Ashley Johnson goes for a kill to win a key set. Center: Sophomore Lauren Tennyson bumps the ball in a match during a home game. Right: Clackamas sophomore Aysia Killingbeck celebrates a key point during a match. CldduMn*kfiOnO«fiIi2in6trK^)^iw<<axr,7
